Drawn using reference pictures of Homo naledi, discovered in 2015, which might have been the first human subspecies to bury their dead.
On a more modern note, check it out, I have one of these now:
Miranda (narrating): So the void kept growing, and diversified its contents.
Chemical reactions! Self-replicating proteins! Things that kept growing and changing on their own — no need for constant infusions of outside creative power.
Which is good, because the Ein Sof finally withdrew so much that the universe had room to be infinite.
The last bits of it filtered in around the edges . . . right before it lost the possibility of edges . . .
. . . and entered a single species, living on a single ball of rock.
Infusing us, and us alone, with the power of creation, self-awareness, and free will.
Which I’m sure we immediately started using to its full world-reshaping potential.
Cavewoman (thinking): I bet I could take these fig leaves and make them . . . stylish.
As a biology student, I truly appreciate how accurate that first panel is. Self-replicating proteins really were world-changing.
Hey, a ko-fi! It’s about time you got one of those things! They’re so much easier for me than Patreons! I’ll buy you a cup of coffee sometime.
So much for the Fermi paradox
Wait. *flips back to previous page* yooooo. the pun on that page’s title was terrible. ugh.
But so appropriate.
I love the technique you’re using with the borders and gutters on this and the previous page. I love when you play with the layout, and the fading borders, the gutter between panels interacting with the panels, and the fact that you’re using the rougher ‘flashback’ style… yooooooo.
Just these two pages so far are shaping up to be a great example of form, function, and content and subtext working together and UGH I LOVE THAT.
(Also, I’d just like to say that the fourth wall is breaking itself.)
(You know that “In this essay I will…” meme? I have started an essay about this stuff and I am so sorry in advance. it’s going to be part analysis and part just plain gushing. And who knows what else – I’m waiting for the next handful of pages before I continue. And a chance to be able to cite pages, because I started it handwritten at work.)
Don’t be sorry, I’m looking forward to it already!