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Epilogue pages 32-36 (Patreon)

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2025-08-04 03:52:37
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2026-06
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Five pages today! I wrote this scene a VERY long time ago, and it was supremely satisfying to finally draw it and have it more or less look how it had in my head for so many years. I do love a tormented leader of men. I love the raw and demanding hunger of the aroused crowd.

Okay! So! Kickstarter was pushed back one day to TUESDAY. If you are following the campaign page you should get an email as soon as it goes live but I will ALSO update here as soon as I know it's ready to go. I'm excited! It's so soon!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/summer-2025-mystery-project?ref=9u42c1

I wound up not making that sequestered Chapter 1 I had mentioned. With all the payment processor drama, we decided it was safest not to link to the comic at all on the campaign page. Sucks, no? I imagine a lot of people thought this drama had nothing to do with them, they don't read smut, but you see it even chills regular old adult fiction that dares to address sensitive subject matter. So feel free to be mad that payment processors are controlling what media you're allowed to make, sell, and buy. It ain't right, guys.

I'll update here on Tuesday! Eyes peeled!

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Comments

Michael Stakely

Utterly deranged world that we live in these days where art across the entire planet is subject to the whims of a handful of cranks.

Jeremy Ball

You have no idea how angry it makes me that those collective shout stalinists are "australian".

Jag143

DEATH TO THE RED PRINCE! KILL ROGER

Capsandnumbers

This sequence is a triumph. As well as Sonorie's history trouble, and the ongoing debate with Ruck, are we also calling back to Bell's hands-on way of putting people down?

Rifter

It's terrifying seeing us moving at a breakneck pace towards 1984 and Wells is rolling over in his grave right now. I might be out of line in saying this, but call the card brands and file a complaint with them. Do it on the phone. Emails will get filed away and deleted. Make them take time to listen to you voice your concerns. Don't let them just try to wait this whole situation out. It will continue to affect what we're allowed to consume and the information we're forced to provide just to consume media and if we let this lie, they will only continue to expand their overreach. Fantastic pages today. Love that Sonorie faltered a bit there. She really cared for Roger.

Stretch Andrews

The Queen delivers, despite the personal cost. Her perspective shifting to standing in the lines of history is great. She's always been obsessed with how her and her legacy will be viewed. Will it all have been worth it? Hard to say until long after you're dead and gone. Almost makes you want to start digging around in the Khert for memories of the future.

jaaama

Well, Roger died the way he lived. Red. (????)

Cherenkov

Ashley, may we please have the full text of the page of the history book that Sonorie is standing on?

forlornfoe

Very dramatic execution, good job Ufal for turning a potential disaster into Sonorie's triumph. On another note, watching big corporations play proxy wars vying for the spot of "supreme authority" is sickening. That "Collective shout" is nothing but another front for justifying a cause. They somehow earn millions of dollars in donations despite website traffic of a few thousands and no government funding.

Rob N

Wow, what an update! It shows that you thought long and hard about giving each "departing" (dead or alive) character the sendoff they deserved! But now I wonder how much of the shouts from the crowd were real and how much was just in Maha's (if I may refer to Her Majesty in this overly familiar way) head? I'm pretty sure Ruck wasn't really there, and I'm reasonably sure the crowd didn't really shout "FEED US!", so how much of the rest was real? ...but I guess it's meant to be ambiguous, right?

Malik M.L. Williams

Well, that was… horrific. Well done. (No pun intended, seriously.) I love every pixel of these pages. And I think ultimately it would have been so much worse only if Queen Sonorie had NOT hesitated there. That moment shows she really did care and this really was a sacrifice

CD

The full page with Ruck wound through the thirsting crowd is chilling, love it.

Flyfly

Beautiful crowd shot!

Gally

SONORIE! SONORIE! SONORIE! SONORIE! God, I love her, she's one of my favs chars. I love how many great women you've given us, full complete characters each and every one

squish

I remember feeling kinda anxious over how precarious a lot of characters' fates felt going into the Morstorben arc, but *especially* Maha, given how big of a target she was coupled with how much she has to atone for. She's always been one of my favorites, and it's been such a delight seeing her not only survive but run away with the epilogue, and now bring it home with such an absolute banger of a sequence. I think a lot of what makes Sonorie so compelling is how much of her conflict is internal, and the way you externalize it here is so elegant and powerful. You've given us a lot of gut-punch scenes over the last chapter, but something feels special about this one -- reading these pages reminded me of the way I felt when I first read Watchmen as a teen and got my first glimpse of the power of comics as a medium. The competition is steep, but I think there's a strong case to be made that they're your best ones yet. I really hope you're proud of them, and I'm really grateful to be able to read them <3

Talcon

What do you mean by the "sequestered Chapter 1"? I'm not up-to-date on that

Madison

Great set of pages. I’ve always loved Maha and I’m glad to know we’ll see her more in Book 2! I hope that history she’s imagining continues into something hopeful- especially considering the last few words we SEE are “in spite of”… in spite of her fears? In spite of critics? In spite of doubters? Who knows… really great. Really great pages.

Stephanie Aldrich

Incredible pages, my heart is beating so fast! I love the panels showing her imagining the historical retrospective of her own reign! And using her own hand to light the flame is both an aesthetic banger and carries so much meaning! And Ufal stepping in to support her--perhaps because the same emotional slip that almost cost her the crowd's faith won back his? I love Sonorie so much, I am so excited to see her long game play out!

The Masked Wallaby

At least Roger looks like he’s having a good time.

Alight

This was really well done and still somehow surprising, even though she explained what she would do as and before it happened. Like- I had thought, and this is clearly done as a contrast of Sonorie's values and modern time norms, that symbolic, political, or spiritual executions were a thing of the past (with the sole exception of the twins). I knew she was going to execute whoever it was that she had brought out, but I still figured there'd be some legal justification or thin veneer of an excuse somewhere along the lines. Under the assumption that this is a in-canon deviation from modern norms (as a way of acting according to her ancestor, who watched her first husband wither from famine), it would add to the surprise of it all. Public executions of traitors is one thing, the at-will murder of a lover is very different. [Pauses to go review earlier pages of Roger and the Queen] I never really had the impression that she particularly, genuinely liked him, and I still don’t really think so, rather I think it's the act of barbarity and the idea of being even more alone that hurt Sonorie. She set Roger up to die slowly, her grandma has done much the same, they're the ones who roused the salt lizard and then the snake to put forth this endeavor; he was a sacrifice chosen for his youthful malleability and socioeconomic influence. But he's still a person, and Sonorie has made it really clear that she doesn’t like having a direct hand in pain or suffering. If in some way she is, she colours it as being reactive or that it has been made as gentle as humanly possible. The soldiers of Bell were killed openly for the public's enjoyment, but the conspirators have been allowed in the background. The act of burning Roger's living corpse is against her nature and showcases the blood thirst of those around her as they cheer and jeer so eagerly for more, more, more. Maha's breakdown adds to the spectacle in that it wouldn’t have been seen as a personal sacrifice if she were dispassioned. We see some people in the background cry along with her and it is those who seem to be properly processing what she's actually doing. (As in, ‘This is the first to die, the rest soon follow, I'm a secret badass’ versus ‘I will burn and blooden my hands and sacrifice everything if it means I can better serve you, my people’.) Okay, ramble over, for now.

Josh

That page Sonorie's imagining about the gods' intentions, it reminded me of something. Now that I think of it, one of the ideas of the Second World, that the gods wanted to see creatures struggling to surpass their limitations instead of the unchanging harmony of the First World, reminds me of a pair of comic books by Ezra Claytan Daniels, *The Changers*, that I read 20+ years ago. Two brothers from a human civilization has reached an apex, a peaceful post-scarcity society where everyone lives 300 years and has no diseases, are sent back in time to secrete a chemical to change human evolution, for pretty much the same reason as the Twin Gods', to reset humanity enough to be able to keep evolving, hopefully towards something even better. But then someone travels back from the future they created - humanity is now a warlike, short-lived amphibious race. One brother is horrified, the other is like, "Well... isn't this what we wanted? These people clearly have a lot to overcome." Never thought of that similarity before, huh.