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[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The identity of Viviana's parents is finally revealed! Until then, many readers had speculated that Viviana could be an Ileasaarian princess.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The Tower in the Sky. This page is among those whose draft had to be revised the most often. First, we had to decide on the final design of the tower, and then I [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: A lot of suspense is generated in the last panel. You really want to know what Viviana is looking up to. I tried to end as many pages as possible on small cliffhangers to [...]

[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 color composition with the dark brown cave, the light blue ghost, the purple word bubbles, Viviana's blond hair, and her red pajamas.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The meaning of the scene and the dialog was finally revealed seven years later in The Door #59 and The Bipartite Mind #8. Viviana's vision shows the last minutes of San's life, mixed together [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The ring's color indicates how many seconds are left before the hole collapses. Lilith's lyrics are taken from the song Autumn by the German pop rock band Fools Garden. It's one of my ten [...]

I've been working hard on my new comic The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer. I have now written the dialog for almost 200 pages and will soon be ready to hire an artist to draw the comic. However, I will need the rest of October to understand better how many pages [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The box contains only a couple of real metal plates. The bottom contains the Lilith golem in disassembled form. It's hidden behind a mirage that makes it look like the entire box is filled [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I guess most readers expected that there's a traitor amid the Shadowdancers, with Chereck being the most obvious candidate due to his rough looks. But I deliberately decided against that, since traitors are ubiquitous [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Sometimes you have to spend some time to come up with dialog that conveys neither too much nor too little information. In this case, I struggled with Viviana's line in the last panel. It [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: If you do it too often, your story loses its focus, but once in a while it's a good idea to show a scene that doesn't have an immediate impact on the plot. Such [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Sandril clearly doesn't approve of his father's lifestyle.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: And Arty succeeded as we can see in The Way Back Home #184.

[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, Eldor is putting the logo of the Disciples of the Two Heavens on Elea's forehead to lead San on the right track. In the fourth panel, it would have been [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I introduced Kali mainly to serve as Eldor's conversational partner in this scene. Without one, the reason for Eldor's attack would have been completely incomprehensible, and I couldn't have shown the scene this way.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Gaia doesn't have many fight scenes. First, it's very difficult to describe the course of action in a comic script. You often have to wait for the first sketch and then try to make [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Eldor wants to check Lilith's progress in person. He wears the mask mainly for the subsequent attack on Elea. The mask will hide his facial features should anyone notice the attack. The masks also [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The names of the following members of the Shadowdancers are based on nicknames used by members of the computer game development group Feline Fuelled Games: Chereck, Colette, Edwyn, Eike, Federico, Gradus, Hilajon, Korahan, and [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: On this page, we get the first glimpse of Viviana's great skills as a speaker, which may even surpass those as a thief. The map was initially supposed to feature rivers as well, but [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Even though Xarlaxe looks very relaxed, he's still extremely intimidating. Nonetheless, Faye approaches him with confidence. It appears to be a meeting between equals, which makes you wonder about Faye's role in the story. [...]

My commentary for the comic pages from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est is now hidden by default. New readers no longer may inadvertently encounter story SPOILERs this way.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Showing a metropolis from far away is always tough in a comic since a realistic depiction would require countless hours of mind-numbing work. Working so long on a single page isn't an efficient use [...]