Comments on: A DISTANT SOIL: The Ascendant Chapter 1 Page 14

By: Kari

Kari — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 20:25:43 +0000

It’s funny how Niniri is trying to slowly brainwash Seren into accepting his (horrifying) roll and becoming a puppet to the heirarchy, and Sere just drops him in the middle of the truth of it, traumatizes him for fun, and (likely) plants the seed for his future rebellion. Hm. :/

By: Colleen Doran

Colleen Doran — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 03:27:35 +0000

UPDATED

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:08:46 +0000

Certainly. I have all the Little Nemo hardcovers.

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:42:14 +0000

Y’know, looking at thes pages again, Winsor McCay keeps coming to mind. Perhaps it’s the detail and colourful clothes. Are you a fan?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:44:29 +0000

Thank you, Allan. We’ve got very high traffic today, with about 500 new readers. The newbies are getting a disturbing eyeful.

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:31:53 +0000

Still one of the most powerful and disturbing scenes ever to appear in a comic. The high contrast, Beardsley-influenced art suits the subject matter perfectly.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:59:55 +0000

They are making sure any residual psychic trauma is not leaving the immediate area. They are blocking fear and pain from leaking to others.

There doesn’t tend to be any smell immediately after death. Unless you lose control of your bowels. Which I imagine also happens in this scene.

Someone has to cart the bodies away, but they use telekinesis to move them.

By: Carla Speed McNeil

Carla Speed McNeil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:46:21 +0000

I did wonder, though, what the other adults are doing. Making sure they’re good and dead? Holding down the smell? The one on the left is making a throwing or pushing gesture– are they the attendants who remove the dead ones from their audience with the avatar?

By: Carla Speed McNeil

Carla Speed McNeil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:29:17 +0000

My five-year-old’s fish died last week. Through his tears and self-recriminations, through the sound of the scar forming on his mind, I thought, “Well, that’s the great child’s ritual of the pet funeral. Better to start learning on a fish than on a person.”

Poor baby. Yes, this scene is cold to the bone.

By: scribblerworks

scribblerworks — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:22:04 +0000

It is a creepy scene. Just the thought of it. All those beautiful children treated like refuse.

And in such beautiful detail.