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C05P07 – History
I’m just going to keep teasing you with little hints of back story for these three. Someday, I’ll give you the whole tale. For now, I’ll leave it to your ingenious guess-work. 
As part of the Spider Forest collective, we’re doing weekly features! This week’s comic is Riven Sol! Science fiction romance meets Lovecraftian horror! Something is wrong on Danforth Research Station. Orphaned children disappear from the slum-like “lowers,” while fearsome masked guards prowl the corridors. Death lurks around every corner, waiting to swallow the unwary. When a mysterious girl named Carter comes to Danforth, it’s up to a boy known only as “Silence” to teach her to survive. But Carter has secrets of her own, and the horror within may be far greater than the horror without.
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Yikes. This is shaping up to be nasty and complicated and I like it very much.
You know me. Always ready to pile on more complication. One day I’ll make an exceptionally simple character, just to keep you on your toes.
And I will be very confused and love you all the more for it.
Oh geez, getting a scar in some sort of battle or even a bar fight is one thing, but to get it from Tama, and then have to protect him, that must really burn.
I’m continuing to have a blast with Leylines! Looking forward to July’s store opening.
Yeah. There’s a reason they don’t get along very well. And Tama, being a dope, just cannot quit poking an injured bear with a stick when he sees one. I think it’s in his nature to see how far he can push people. I like to imagine this earned him the losing end of many bar fights when he was off at “university”.
Wow…definitely a complicated situation with this family!
I’ve met few families that AREN’T complicated once you start digging into them, but the va Naza household is worse than many.
I LOVE the background!
I’m so glad you noticed!! I’m very proud of how the background turned out. I was trying to play with color and focus and light. I think it came out pretty well!!
Dear Robin,
I love you. And I love this page.
Love, Liz
Dear Liz,
I love you too. And your comic. Even if I now have to plot your demise with the rest of Michael fan-club.
Love, Robin
Man, your pages just keep getting better and better! I love the background on this page, and the texture you use around the edges is just lovely!
Thank you!! I was so proud of this page when I finished it!! I’m so excited to see how far I’ve come in art quality since I started just a year ago! I hope to keep getting even better!
Oh, Tama. You irrational, wonderful boy. Every time you start annoying me, you do something like this.
…even though it was probably really stupid. It looks noble!
Tama usually likes to multi-task. So he does things that are stupidly noble, and noblely stupid.
Hey hey! I’m back! And oooh, I see me some Favorite Character being awesomeness!
I think I got some of this culture down. A whole lot of “propriety” and “keeping up appearances”, something Tama seems to hate, altogether. He claims he’s a bully, yet here he is, obviously protecting Zhiro. Well, maybe not obviously, but you know what I mean. I didn’t like the guard, but after this page, I like to see how well he’s looking at himself, realizing how little he actually tried to do his duty.
You’ve definitely struck on things that are very important to the society, and you’re completely correct that Tama hates all of it. And it could be argued that Tama still IS a bully. He’s just changed his targets.