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This is a longer, expanded comic based on a comic I made like 6 years ago after I quit BuzzFeed. Maybe you remember it!

In 2017 I rented a car and drove around the French countryside, where I came across dozens of tiny stone shacks dotting the landscape. Most of them were way out in fields, and they were all decrepit and abandoned. They were most likely used in the past by field workers or sheep herders, but now they stood empty and forgotten.

I explored a few of them and couldn’t stop thinking about the people who used them ages ago, and what kind of lives they led. I thought about someone coming to stay in one of these huts and performing some sort of secret ritual. Maybe lots of people have done the same ritual before...

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Summer J

oh i remember this one! that got stolen by some indie filmmakers right? i like this new version and expansion

Goobzilla91

I'm so traumatized by this man that I expected this comic to go very differently x) beautiful strip 💖💐

Ronniford

Love the new addition!!!!

Sarah D

I know you tagged this horror, but it feels kind of really sweet somehow?

Ronniford

Makes me wanna take up horticulture

TeaJ

I’m too trained by this author. I read “wh*reticulture”. Now requesting hottie witch alternates 🥲. I apologize in advance.

Sjmme

Amazing 😍 Horror or wholesome 😂

Vasquez

Why did no one tell me I can grow my own friends? The betrayal.

Kev Hamm

What happened to her earring?

Sarah Miller

I love when you make work with themes involving the circle of life and our participation in it, always hauntingly beautiful

Grace 'Gengar' Soria

This is gorgeous. Also, I sense some Ghibli influence in that egg and toast :3

Ronniford

I’m a lover of the tongue in cheek, 😜 (I was typing what you said, but autocorrect is trying to make me less nasty) lol

crowbark!

what is the significance of the leaf on the tree?

Marchmain

Ooh I want to do that ritual.

Racheal

Probably as simple as "new life"

SeraphicSiren

I know you tagged it horror, but aside from the slight morbidity, I actually find a lot of beauty and reassurance in it.

Jeremy Bredeson

Oh my god, this is amazing. I know so very many witches who would lose their shit over this. 💚💚💚

Kyle Rohen

I really, really love this.

Ves

this made me feel things

Nat B

This is beautiful. I love it.

Nandi

This reminded me of the one about the girl and her mom on the island.

Paul Westover

I'm so impressed with how good you have gotten as an artist from style to composition(!) to color and storytelling! I can't wait to read your new book when it comes out

Katy Lees

The backgrounds and the lighting are absolutely gorgeous.

KVLott

I know they are supposed to be two different people- but I like to think it's the same person- just saying goodbye to her old self, thanking her for getting them this far, and moving on ❤️

dvdanno

Aw this actually kind of felt emotional. So freaking happy you gave this comic an ending.

Kelly Broomhall

I sadly don't get this one. Like at all. Sorry :/ totally my problem not yours

Twirl Yuu

Ahhh I do remember the original! Fantastic work, Adam!

Abrilas

This is so beautiful.

Chevanne

Exactly my thoughts.

Amelia Ross

Same!! Very circle of life/renewal

Amelia Ross

That's a Ghibli -level egg right there

Sage Louise

Feels like the birthing of a Witch? In a really cool way obvs

LooseGoose

Looking for the horror but just finding a cute immortal witch doing self care. 😁

Rodrigo Velazco

What a sweet expansion to an old favorite 🥰

Dann Dykas

Wait did she age all at once or did it take years but the other never aged!?

Teela Marie Golden

This makes me think of Little House in the Sea ❤️ 🌊 🏡

Tamara Mendelson

Ooh I do remember the original one, but WOW this one is even more fascinating.

Lauren

I have wanted the ending to that story for so long! Thank you

Shanda

That was beautiful.

Ansixilus

I think it was all just a few minutes. It seems to me like an iterative immortality thing, creating a new clone of yourself to live on, and then letting your true age catch up to you.

Lily Rowan

Came here to say exactly this!

Hemopheliia

Why her feet so fucking big

Astrriis

Perspective. Her feet are closer to the "camera" than the rest of her.

Yuutsu Sketch Book

oh yeah! i remember the original version!! used to be one of my fav comic, still is btw! but this version?!! EVEN MORE INTERESTING

Maria

I know it's marked "horror", but it didn't hit me like that. It was bittersweet.

Elina Sellgren

I looove those outdoor scenes with the house! The colors, shadows, crispness, atmosphere, everything. I would love a landscape painting like that on my wall!

Ikena

The coloring is amazing! I was mesmerized by the fried egg 🙈💖

Armin

Love the story and graphics, then I get hung up on stupid questions like why would there be such a mound after only burying a fingernail clipping?

Emz

because it's based on the size of the hole that was dug, not based on the object that was buried :)

Armin

So if you dig a big hole, put a pebble in and fill it back up you suddenly have a big mound? In my experience the extra size comes mostly from what you bury and a little from the looser earth... 🙂

Reddy

Beautiful!

PlunderBunny

Removed dirt is less compacted than undisturbed ground. Whenever I’ve done digging work there is always “more” dirt than fits back perfectly in your hole when you didn’t bury anything just because it isn’t compacted anymore, more air, expanded, etc

Daniel Carter

Adam, the way you’ve extended this story is absolutely beautiful.

Katlin Kerrison

Isn’t this the comic that got ripped off to make a short film? Or was that a different one?

Andrew Kilcup

So many great Miyazaki references!

Gee El

wow the panel with the hands, original reaching down to the clone, like the Creation of Man is subtle but powerful

Cara

Same ...

Kyle

This is really great

Jeffrey

I work with folks who do a lot of hole digging/hole filling (that's what she said), and when they're doing roadwork or runway repair, one of the steps is to basically hit the material with some kind of vibratory tool (for asphalt roads you see rollers for this a lot) to shake out any air pockets and get everything to lay as flat as possible. They even have to do it when pouring concrete.

Rhonda

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌aw, yisssss, this is the good shit right here.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

Darn It! Workshops

For the last 6 years I think of this comic every time I break off a fingernail. Gorgeous.

Henry Oliver

Yeah! That was wild to see; often, because of the fact of simultaneous invention in art, it's almost impossible to prove when people rip ideas, but that film was basically shot for shot. They really couldn't have made it more obvious.

Jin N Tonic

your mind is so creative!

Pizzacake Comics

F*k those filmmakers who obviously tried to steal your story. You're amazing and so glad you do what you do

Kappathefish

This reminds me of a short manga I read called Mugen Tengoku with a similar (and yet still very different) premise. I'd highly recommend it!

doodlejule

I am aesthetically obsessed with how you draw hands, in every comic I could just look at people's hands for minutes before moving on to the next panel. Wonderful work :)

Kara

Damn wish my hair looked that good 😊

wowwie

I thought I had read something like this from you before! Beautiful creation.

marge

But why does she wants to grow old and die?

Goddess A

Why'd she stay bald at the end? 🤣

Giulia Carvelli

I'm guessing because she's a newborn, and newborn are bald? lol

Flufflestan

Might not want to, just the cycle of life and accepting her time. Like when people are ready to have kids. Kind of the same thing 😅🤣

Denny O

This is gorgeous! There’s a new Salad Fingers episode that follows a similar story

Clare Follmann

Oo can someone tell me where in the French countryside? I'm going to France soon and would love to find some to explore..and maybe leave some fingernails buried in the dirt ;)

A Jupiter

this reminds me of the ending of Vivarium

Hayny

To be fair, they're kind of everywhere

Anissa M

Oooo the split day/night page is gorgeous

Alejandra

The comic of lore