May 20th, 2009
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May one politely inquire if one of your influences is Mononoke-Hime? The anatomy of the salamander (Mocheril?) reminds me greatly of the Forest God. A definite good thing, as I love that movie-and
Hayao Miyazaki’s other works.
Love the comic so far and am eagerly waiting for updates!
Ummm… AFAIK is the Forest God / Deer God a …. deer. And his “true” form something like a giant, translucent Godzilla.
Have a look at this http://images.absoluteanime.com/princess_mononoke/forest_spirit%5B2%5D.jpg
And a look at this http://images.absoluteanime.com/princess_mononoke/forest_spirit.jpg
At least I don’t see the similarity…
Nevertheless, those are great movies from Ghibli / Miyazaki…
Best wishes,
bearmann
Good gosh that came outta left field… or SPACE. He must be very good at holding his breath. =)
Is that CLOTHING I see?
D
I sense flashback.
Or dream sequence.
Either way = awesome.
That’s…..a giant axolotl.
KICK. ASS.
Basicly what I thought.
AXOLOTL POWAH.
Giant Axolotl thing? That’s pretty awesome.
Wow, she’s dressed? Why is that? It seems we’re in her imagination, after all.
Oh well, that’s interesting, but kind of creepy… O.o
I like it! The big panel is just outstanding, great composition, atmosphere and colour! 
Woah! I so did not see that comming!! Is that her ‘grandpa’??? No wonder why she’s mixed up!
They’ve gone plaid!
Holy hellbender Batman, this something newt!
A giant salamander!!! Or something resembling it… Great flashback
A giant newt!… probably…
And a flashback! Great stuff as usual
Giant tree salamander, I like his feet and leafy gills. Is that her grandfather?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! …. Errrrr, or something like that.
I quite like the idea of the white salamander, but it’s a bit confusing – where is her trunk from page 27?! At first I thought that I’ve missed one page…
Nevertheless, great idea! =)
Keep up the good work.
best wishes,
bearmann
Axoltol! o:
Giant Axoltol!
Really hurt giant axoltol! D:
It looks like he/she/it was atacked by a giant… something. o___o
Poor axoltol. D:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS, I love GrandPops.
… That’s her grandfather? ;P Either way, that’s one ginormous salamander… and looks like he’s been on the wrong end of a beat-down. Which makes me wonder who could beat up on the ginormous salamander. O_O
Absolutely incredible.
OMG, she’s wearing clothes ?!?
FUCK YEAH
HER GRANDDAD IS A HUGE AXOLOTL.
Not to be picky (and also because I’m not up on my amphibian anatomy) is the big salamander thing’s foot backward?
And by foot (because now I’m noticing that there is more than one in the picture – oops) I mean the one at the bottom left.
NOW you decide not to say anything.
Awesome
WOAH! HOLEY COW!!!
I WANNA KNOW THE BACK STORY OF THIS STORY!!!!!! GAAH!
Sorry.
Haha, soon, soon XD
At first I thought that this was a flashback, but with everyone’s comments, now I’m starting to wonder… if it’s ‘magic’ inside her head, or just a dream.
And jeebus rice, it *IS* a giant axolotl… o_O
I find it interesting that everyone is commenting that she has CLOTHES and no one is commenting that her hair is a traditional color. We are definitely in flash back, I might even say nightmare, and she looks JUST like she did in the flashback on pg 20 as well.
Hello, grandfather.
I wonder if this dream will be used to tell her something she needs to know as well as reminding her of what she has already heard,
Isn’t that because the panel’s in sepia? I dunno, it might not be.
Na, it’s ’cause the rain washed out her green hairdye. :p
Have some of the previous pages been redone since they were put up? Not to imply that your pages aren’t all freaking amazing (because they are, and the writing’s great, and I love this comic), but today I hit Previous a few too many times and for some reason the page I had seen before looked different and made me go “oooooh, so pretty. And look at that lighting! Was the lighting that awesome before? How could I have missed that when I saw it?” Or maybe I am just crazy and it takes me a few days to fully appreciate the beauty of your artwork ^_^. So…um… anyways, thankee for comic!
Haha, well there have been a few touchups on the faces but not so much with the overall coloring… I guess that means you’re crazy XD XD JK JK You’re awesome
Leaping Lizards Batman!!
Poor thing looks like it took a beating and a half >_< what in this graphic novel has paw/claws to leave wounds larger than Angora
Wow I am reply’n to myself…
More of an edit really just to add on…
Well lord if thats her grandpa, which I surmise it is from the amount of people saying such, is she some sort of love child between nature and man :3
Nature says,”We were kids back then, young and we made some mistakes… Someone forgot to take their pills!!” :3
lol…
This would explain what she meant by, “You remind me of my grandfather” to the little lizard.
oh wow… i’m completely awed…. wow…
you’ve seriously got some artistic skills man…
oh… i think i need to go lie down… :O
no…. i think it’s a flashback.
This is such a breathtaking page. Not expecting Grandpa to look like that. He is so cute in his own way. Poor Angora. I can’t wait to find out more about her story.
And no, the page isn’t confusing.
She’s in clothes O_o
I bet that’s her grandfather!
To the Red an Black Salamander: “You remind me a lot of grandfather.”
And the thing called her “child.”
Whoa!!! Awesome. The first thing that comes to mind for me is like a forest spirit or something. It looks like its made of wood and the blood because all the trees were cut down? Anyway I love the big panel. Totally love it!
I’m also thinking “Dream sequence” Because this have all seemed realistic to a point so she’s probably dreaming how the forest has been destroyed since she was just crying on a tree stump… haha now I’m rambling. Keep it up!
Woah…
(intelligent comment, there
)
XD Its good enough for me!
wait, Angora’s hair wasn’t always green? of is it just the lighting?… and CLOTHES!?
I wish i had a giant salamander as a grandpa… so does this make Angora not human?
I actually had to stare at it for awhile to figure out if the “grandfather” was a tree or lizard of sorts O_o
The feet helped out.
Awesomely magnificent page! 8D
sweet its that freakish cave thing from planet earth
friqqin epic dude 
Yes! They did have footage of a similar species on that show
That was exciting, since this its a rare kind of organism.
@Jumarn: Yeah, you’re right. Unless Alexds1 intended it to be backward.
This page….it drives me insane!
An axolotl! Awesome! XD
First of all, giant axolotl = AWESOME.
Second, it took me a second to realize most of those wounds were made by claws, which then made me wonder what the hell was big enough to have claws like that. Aaaaand then I finally noticed something about the title graphic at the top that I had only given maybe three seconds of thought to. To which I went HMMMMMM. And also, AWESOME. This comic just continues to amaze me with all the little details.
(btw, well done claw-wounds! particularly near the end of the tail where you can obviously see the downward motion of the strike and how the wounds get deeper the further down the rake goes. Kudos to detail!)
Hehe, good attention to detail yourself XD
Allow me to refresh the page.
…
Yep, I still see a giant bleeding axolotl.
I think that this comic suddenly got a lot more stranger than it used to be.
Well, hair sprouting flowers aside.
Love it, keep up the good work.
Just noticed this webcomic.
An olm? Her Grandfather is an olm? Shouldn’t he be in a cave or somewhere?
Anyway, I just have to say that the characters in this story look so much like Alessandro Barbucci’s art that is almost scary.
Which is a good thing, Barbucci is one of the best and popular comic artists around right now.
Haha, thats awesome XD I’m trying to emulate the moody and saturated coloring, not so much the drawing (this is my natural style).
So her hair really is moldy? This whole time I assumed green was her natural color, a la anime style, but it makes me smile that there’s a real reason for it. I want to see it grow flowers in spring!
The art on this page is.. Wow. Ha ha, I’m so technical I know. I just love how looking at the lizard you can imagine the whole of it first and then you start picking out details like the flap of skin and general beat-down and such.
As for whats going on, my guess? Grandpa there, cause I do agree thats probably who he is, may not be ‘The’ nature spirit, but you don’t get to be a giant talking lizard for nothing, so he probably does have some more magical stuff going for him, and I predict he done and handed some over to Angora. possibly because he was dying, possibly because he can’t go where he needs her to go, whatever.
I figure its these new added earth attunement or whatever you’d like to call it that turned her hair green (I still want to see the flowers xD) and possibly gave her her distaste for clothes. Or mebbe she just lost ‘em. Who knows.
Also on the whole grandfather thing.. She might not be related to him like, by blood (although she could be) it might’ve been more of an adoption type thing.
Anywho, I lurve this comic, and I lurve how often you update it (no complaints here!) and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out!
Oh, i still think green is her natural color… but not the color she was born with. I think *something* is about to happen. Likely the same *something* that results in her feeling that not wearing clothes is as natural for her as it is for the lizards and squirrels.
I just have no idea what.
Why is everyone accusing that olm of being an axoltol?
lol i completely got that this is a memory! its like the little flash back when she was talking about her grandfather….um ok it that her GRANDFATHER! wow that would be kool XD