Happy Ninth Anniversary
A bit of history.
In 2010 I graduated from college, moved out of my parents’ house, and used the experience to start actually drawing the original comic I’d been making all these plans for.
In 2016, I thought I’d have the story finished by 2018. In 2018, I figured I’d be through by mid-2019. Now it’s 2020, and I still haven’t quite wrapped my head around the fact that we are finally clocking out for real.
…and since it’s ending after 9 years, same as And Shine Heaven Now did, this means I still haven’t qualified for TVTropes’ Webcomic Long-Runners list. (When it gets to 2024, everyone remind me how I’m not allowed to end Leif & Thorn for at least another year.)
This art, at last, is the full-cast portrait based on the results of the Unnecessarily Long Favorite Character Poll. (Could’ve been more of them, but I made an executive decision to leave out “characters who only appeared on a single page and/or never got real names.)
A special hat tip to whoever-it-was that made a point of checking every box, so every character got at least 1 vote, and they all got to be drawn in the end.
I’ll try to remember. Pity you shouldn’t easily prolong this one :-).
To be honest, there is a very easy way to extend this comic: have Armageddon happen. There were obvious signs that something much bigger was going on, and the fact that all it took to save the world was to defeat Walker and find some OP oracle magic was… sorta dissapointing, to say the least.
Really? Because my understanding was that Walker was hilariously wrong about her assumption that Armageddon was happening, and if anything she was the one who was the main danger to the beings. By trying to eliminate the competition, she’d effectively begun causing her own Armageddon- and by stopping her, any chance of it happening was removed.
There is no in comic explanation of how, or why, she was wrong. Her findings were never debunked in any capacity AFAIK.
I think the closest it came to debunking her thing was when it was explained that Beings are man made and that Walker’s theory was heavily taken from the Christian bible, which was shown to be wildly incorrect via the flashbacks to Jesus
I stopped paying attention for a few months and the comic ends? Bah!
Amazing comic, tho, so thankful to have read this. I know I never posted, but I read it for years now and it’s so nice to see such a big project come to a spectacular end!
Congratulations! Thank you so much for this whole comic.
PS. Thank you so much for including a transcription including names, and tagging all the characters in each comic. It helps so much!