Gaia

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith's line Magic is physics through will." is the English translation of one of the most famous quotes by Dr. Axel Stoll, an infamous German conspiracy nut. May he rest in peace! His Best [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree accidentally drew stars in the night sky and I only noticed the error after readers commented on them. So we had to publish a fixed page as soon as possible.

I plan to publish the first page of my new comic The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer on 29 January. Just like Gaia, it will be a serious, long adventure story with some humorous scenes here and there. However, Scarlet will also differ from Gaia in several aspects. In order to [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This page generated lots of comments by readers who wondered what Lilith will say to Ilias. Some of the suggestions were really outlandish, making the comment section a lot of fun to read. The [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Those sketches weren't drawn by Viviana. They were drawn by another Shadowdancer based on Viviana's descriptions.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I wonder what the hidden photographs may be showing since I didn't give Powree any instructions about their content. The best photograph in my opinion is the one with Lilith and Viviana giving each [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I was surprised that the meat plants were poorly received by some readers. I still think that it was a clever idea. There's no way the inhabitants of Gaia would approve of hunting animals [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I initially planned to let Ilias talk about the history of the Avaril in more detail. But I didn't find a way to make the dialog sound natural with regard to the limited amount [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Writing English that sounds old-fashioned is really hard for a non-native speaker. There aren't any manuals how to do it and you just don't get a feeling whether it sounds good or weird.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I had a lot of trouble putting the chapter title beneath the illustration. Whatever I tried, it just didn't look good. But then I had the idea to increase the space between the individual [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Xarlaxe is informing San about Lilith's jailbreak.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I spent at least an hour optimizing the blending of the firework effect after Powree sent me the colored page. My work really paid off if you compare it with the initial version where [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith sings a few lines from Autumn by Fools Garden again.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I believed the special power of Lilith's staff would become important later in the story. But in the end, no such situation arose. It's always a sign of good story-crafting if details introduced early [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: In the third panel, Korahan is trying to make sure that Ilias acts natural in presence of police.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is adorable in this page! It's a tragedy how she'll lose her childlike enthusiasm over the course of the story. In general, the page shows well what being a wizard means on Gaia. [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith's deadpan delivery in the last panel may seem a bit out-of-character for her, but if you never do something like this, a character becomes stale and predictable.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The characters used for Lilith's spell are taken from the alphabet used to encrypt the Book of Woo which was published as 500th Sandra and Woo strip. In this case, they don't spell anything [...]

The satellite video allegedly showing the abduction of flight MH370 by three spherical UFOs, which was the subject of strip [1340] MH370 until proven otherwise, has been proven fake! The original photographs of the clouds have been found. Jonas De Ro, a concept artist and illustrator, took them from a plane near Mt. Fuji in [...]