Gaia

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This looks like one of those faucets that turn off automatically after a few seconds. This confirms again that only three things are eternal: death, taxes, and shitty faucets in public bathrooms.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I considered showing the friends' struggle for survival in more detail. But I came to the conclusion that Lilith had no reason to let her friends suffer more than necessary and so I let [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is stealing the pages containing the spell Niko's Strict Order, which she'll use later on her friends. The spell's target has to carry out the order given to him to the best of [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: As a thief, Viviana doesn't take being trapped well. Of course, Lilith only pretends to try opening the door.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is close to a mental breakdown after she's seen what she must do to her friends in order to save their lives. She must make sure that Eldor doesn't double-check the calculation again [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Finally reconnected with her entrapped soul, Lilith is suddenly able to see the future in a much clearer way. Getting her hands on the Soul Sphere before Eldor was therefore an essential part of [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Ryn's fall through the Source in the fourth panel would have been a perfect cliffhanger at the end of the page. But that would have required adding unnecessary filler panels before it. Like many [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: On the previous page, a reader commented that it would have been smarter to enchant Ilias' left hand. So I quickly rewrote this page accordingly, which made the scene feel even more realistic.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: For Viviana's vision in The Tower in the Sky #48, I used only the essential parts of this page's dialog to make the conversation sound more mysterious.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I'm very fond of the way Powree drew the Source. I thought that multiple revisions would be necessary until it looked like I envisioned it, but Powree got it right on first try. It [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith lost the mental connection to her clone in Viviana's shadow realm due to the special properties of Viviana's soul. If Lilith had only to concentrate on Viviana's realm, she would likely have managed [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The iconography with the maze inside the chapter title was inspired by the mind maze from the TV series Westworld. The maze contains a secret: The number 13 is shown in form of a [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Readers overwhelmingly assumed that San had nefarious intentions or that she was one of Eldor's clones. In particular, San's facial expression in the last panel fueled speculations. But it was just a determined look [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: My initial script for this sequence consisted of only two pages. But I came to the conclusion that three pages are necessary to really show the duration of Viviana's ordeal.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: It was important to me that the wavy floor doesn't look too much like the ocean, so I asked Powree to draw the waves without foam and droplets. Ultimately, the scene turned out even [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree had the clever idea to illustrate the passage of time between pages with the dividers in the first panel. We re-used the idea several times in the next pages.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: You may wonder why they have so much time before impact. But remember that they're in Vis where gravity works differently and their acceleration is probably significantly lower than on the surface.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree had to redraw parts of the fourth panel since the characters were drawn partially rotated and partially mirror-inverted instead of only rotated. Neither Powree nor I noticed the error before publication. Fortunately, the [...]