Looks like we are on for A-kon, it’s going to be fun!
Today at Top Web Comics we have a sketch of a Lavender illustration I’m working on.
Would have liked to put a background in that bottom panel, but I’m working on The Wrong Secret (new stuff) for Filthy Figments plus a bunch of commissions, and didn’t have all the time I wanted this week. I’ll probably edit it when it goes to print.
Hmm… is that diagonal line in panel 3 over Amaranth’s face intentional, or an artifact of the drawing program?
From a broader, less nit-picky perspective, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about these recent strips. When I started reading this series, I loved Lavender’s spitfire interactions with Felicia, and I eventually became very engaged with how the latter’s quest for revenge dovetailed so nicely with the former’s quest for the truth, and in many ways how both quests served each other. Felicia’s quest to avenge his family would be a hollow, Senecan tragedy were it not for Lavender’s need to reveal to the world and themselves the shroud thrown over both of their lives, and similarly Lavender’s thirst for knowledge would only come across as a whimsical expression of gross naiveté without Felicia’s deadly seriousness to ground her in the dangerous reality of their situation.
Felicia and Lavender are strongest, most entertain and most engaging when they are together. Ever since the two have become separated in the palace, I have seen them revert to their respective, flawed quests: Felicia is waging his own little battle against Argotta to no real philosophical end, and Lavender is groping around for the truth with her mother while remaining ignorant of the larger political contexts involved.
In short: GET THESE TWO BACK TOGETHER! …please? If nothing else, I need my vicarious gender-bent smoochies!
Thank you again for bringing us this story! I know that we’re currently in an action-packed and panel-dense crisis scene and that it’ll take some time to get our two protagonists back together again, but I’m all impatient-like.
With love and affection,
-R
Haha. Thanks! I am glad you can see how they were created to compliment/contrast each other. I separated them mainly so that you can see their respective sides of the coin individually. Of course they’ll get back together soon. XD This scene with Lavender and her mother is important because it sets up the next arc of the story, Lavender needs a crumb to follow on her quest.
It was a stray line in the drawing program, I didn’t notice it until I uploaded it. ^^;