Gaia

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Note how there's already a little hole through Eldor's illusion to the left of Lilith's forefinger in the first panel. Such details make a comic look less static. In the first draft, the camera [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This scene was inspired by an intriguing Reddit post about a lamp. You can read it at bit.ly/2BMvnuo

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith's subtle glance at Eldor in the sixth panel turned out absolutely perfect. I guess many readers assumed that she's planning something, but not that she's actually doing something, especially not something with such [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The first three panels just didn't look right in the first sketch for this page. The first two panels made it look like a fight between two middle-school girls and the third panel looked [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: If you're of the opinion that a fist fight feels out of place, then just imagine that ten protection spells are cast and destroyed during every second of the fight.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Eldor wouldn't have actually killed Lilith's friends since he would have lost most of his leverage against her this way. He would have put them to sleep in his stasis chambers or something like [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I don't think anything that Eldor said qualifies as a lie. There are some half-truths, for sure, but no plain lies.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: In these two pages, San is finally showing her true intentions. Naturally, that generated a huge number of comments. I was a bit surprised how many readers plainly called San evil" although she doesn't [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree struggled immensely with drawing San's light spell. That also drove me up the wall since I considered it a very simple visual effect and I just couldn't get into my head why she [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: There just wasn't enough space on the page to list the occupations of all participants. Savos of Mainora: King of Midgard San de Vertis: High Priestess of Golnar Ix: Spiritual leader of all imps [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: As shown in The Way Back Home #178, San's interpretation is correct.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Savos' intel is wrong. Eldor already owns all three shards at this point in time.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Before the start of this chapter, I always regarded the scene of Savos showing the (fake) Tear of Gaia to Ryn and Alissa as an important milestone for the plot. In the end, it [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Viviana's line in the fifth panel is taken from Vanessa Carlton's songI Don't Want to Be a Bride. You can listen to it at youtu.be/rshm6hWkxVA

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: On Gaia, marriage proposals are typically made by the women.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Viviana feels a bit lost without her gadgets and the support of the Shadowdancers or her mentors Gradus and Salacea.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Ilias' disguise originally featured a black mustache. But I removed it after a couple of days since I just didn't like how it looked.