Gaia

[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 [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Nothing is lamer than a story in which the heroes get saved by outside forces again and again. But a group of heroes showing so much courage and determination over almost a thousand pages [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The sound you just heard was the piercing scream of the director of Heyselfall's National Museum.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: How often have you encountered complicated mechanisms in other stories that the heroes ultimately did not have to solve? It's surprising elements like these that make Gaia stand out despite the more or less [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I didn't have a clear idea what the ghosts should look like. I'm not entirely happy with their final design. It's adequate, but I believe it could have been better with the right idea.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Of course Viviana is quick to forgive any insult that was part of a cunning, mischievous plan. She lives for those, after all.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Viviana has a lot of trouble clearing her mind and recognizing the wall's true nature.