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Unaisis (or whatever the heck the lawyer’s name is) will be thrilled. The headache wasn’t for free.
just… Seren’s expression in Panel 3. Oh hell, just Panel 3. That’s all I’m sayin’.
Oh, GIRL. What about that get-outta-jail pass is overdeveloped?
There’s not a thing wrong with Major Kovar or his . . . mmmmmmmmm . . . what was I going to say again?
I love the look on D’mer’s face, but Seren’s expression is the living end.
“Leers from a Kimarian hostage? All in a day’s work (unfortunately). Open appreciation from your Lord and Divinity? F&*#ing priceless.”
I’m glad this page is up on Friday, because we can all just giggle at it for three whole days!
I agree… panel 3 makes the entire Graphic Novel!
anyone else notice in the second last panel that the crystal looks like a phallus?
No. You people have filthy minds.
Really, lots of long pointy crystals, the whole planet is just a dirty joke waiting to happen.
I swear I never noticed it before. Jeez, now I can’t see anything else!
Its the Victorian Age prudish-ism that prevents us from enjoying statues of phallic worship in North America.
Look, your books have opened up the question of “what is sexuality?” for a lot of people over the years. I know that if it wasn’t for the love that D’Mer and Seren share, I would have thought this gay married couple were a sin. Instead, I enjoyed watching the two of them twitter about each other like little lovebirds.
The banter between Kovar, Seren and D’mer in this page show exactly how we should treat people’s sexual orientation – light, carefree and with humor. A huge contrast to how “Glee” has treated Kurt’s sexual assault. I have been wanting to write a fanfic about “Kurt’s Aunt” coming in and telling him that he has to stay in the school, but to keep a diary of what happens and to not spare any detail.
You know… I just might.
Oh, Colleen, as a culture we’re just geared to being more “aware” of phallic imagery. But the reality is that we also respond to what can be called “vaginal” imagery too. Take another look at your cover to vol. 2 of ADS. There’s a reason I say you have, as an artist, a “balanced sexuality” — these compositions come naturally to you. You’re not trying to be coy or cutesy about it, which is why they work!
Pay no attention to us, and continue working as feels right to you! Don’t you EVER start feeling self conscious about it.
I say that mainly because the reality is that humans actually find these images to be beautiful. I did a drawing of Elwing greating Earendil which many find very beautiful — then sometime later realized the design was very phallic & vaginal. Heh.
Argggh! GREETING not “greating”!
@scribblerworks you’re right. Actually, its a double vagina or a vagina and womb. I love it! Good eyes.
All that aside, some of us do not watch “Glee”. So, I am lost.
Kurt is the “only openly gay” boy in school on Glee and was physically assaulted by a bully who he finally confronted when the bully turned out to be possibly a closet dweller who is so terrified of his sexuality he lashes out at that which may just be what he is. Kurt managed to get the bully expelled, but the school board overturned it and so instead of staying at the school and making a stand, he’s running away to a zero tolerance/no bullying school.
Glee is one of my very guilty pleasures. So is M*A*S*H reruns (gotta love Klinger!) and, well, A Distant Soil, of course.
OK, I wrote and drew this thing, and thanks to my noble readers I have NOW realized that between D’mer looking pointedly at Kovar’s assets, and in the next panel poking Seren with a pointy object while shouting “Eat it!” I made another dirty haha.
I can’t believe I miss my own pervy.
Actually, in Panel 3, the one in question, Seren’s expression is soooo much like Pfirstch Marie in an issue I used to have years and years and years ago, that I thought you took inspiration from Donna Barr for that expression.
No, but that’s a great compliment! I love the Desert Peach! It’s one of my favorite comics of all time.
http://www.desert-peach.com/
Well deserved, m’dear.
I don’t watch Glee, but I just ADORE Perry Mason, the double entendres just kill me – Raymond Burr was as dirty-minded as the rest of us!
Poor Kovar, he’s such a Spartan that he can’t digest giggly flirtiness. But I love the contrast between him and everyone else. So far, the Ovanians are mostly disrespectful and/or undignified, I think Kovar ended up will all the respectfulness and dignity allotted to the entire Ovanian race. Most of the other Ovanian characters wear decidedly sexual and provocative clothes. Emeris seems to be trying to wear as little as possible without actually waving his yum-yums in our faces. But the most we usually see of Kovar is his face, his sexiness comes from his obvious musculature and the subdued ambiguity that his clothes provide. It’s not always easy to tell Ovanians apart gender-wise; at first I wasn’t entirely certain they even had separate genders (seriously) because they all look so prettily feminine to me; but Kovar is very manly and handsome in a solid, healthy way – he’s not OVERdeveloped, he’s just fully developed.
I am utterly delighted you came to my blog and wrote about “yum-yums”. That’s just awesomely funny!
I aim to please.
This is another lovely page. Sublime facial expressions, some genuine giggles and an accidental phallus is always fun to find.
Ooo! New game! Instead of “Where’s Waldo?” We can play “Spot the Phallus”!
Or, as in this case, “Spot the Yoni”!
Y’know, it occurs to me the reason past avatars were tougher just might be because, oh say… they were physically fit! Physical discipline assisting with mental discipline blahblahblah. No, seriously.
Good observation.
That’s probably right. Maybe Kovar (and everyone else) has been babying Seren too much.
D’mer’s expression in the last panel is so very interesting. The fact that it is not immediate joy for him says so much about his past — so much of his life has been determined by other people (married off young, then made a slave and passed from one person to another). He may have thought vaguely about what it would be to be free in that culture, but it would seem he never thought it would happen. And I don’t think Seren really has a full grasp of what it means to D’mer.
Nicely done.