Wow, I've been slacking on keeping up with this thread. Barely scratched the surface of the Witch Door. Still need to finish Chirault. Sadly (but fortunately, for backlog purposes) I think I'll have to pass on Root and Branch for NSFW reasons. It sounds interesting, though!
I don't think I have any pitches ready to go, but I'll double check. If not, I'm sure I can come up with something, but the writeup may take a little while.
Meanwhile, Rising Sand is updating again. Vainglorious and Phantomarine are going strong. Suihira's still on indefinite mental-health hiatus. Widdershins is too, as of January.
EDIT: Okay, that didn't take as long as I thought.
Inner Space is a completed comic by Renee LeCompte.
The homepage is the cover; click through to see the first page.Our heroine is Mag, a wingless gryphon-like creature with a lot of fear and not a lot of patience. In her defense, she just woke up with amnesia in an environment filled with danger. She's probably handling it better than I would. But she spends a lot of time in the gray area between terrified and exasperated.
Well, really, all the areas are gray. The comic is pencil-shaded. It's quite lovely in my opinion, even if it could stand a little digital post-processing to improve the contrast. Also, it's kind of an old comic, so you might want to zoom in to read it comfortably at modern screen resolutions. (120% is nice and comfy on my 1080p laptop screen.) But the characters' faces and body language are clear and expressive. Environments vary widely from whimisical to perilous, to whimsical
and perilous, to cozy, to oppressive. You may run into the occasional action scene that's difficult to parse, or lettering that's too small and blurry and gray to read comfortably, but if you can get past that, your eyes are in for a treat.
I still don't have a good place to post excerpts, but here are a few representative pages:
25,
179,
95,
15.
The story follows Mag as she tries to piece together who she is, where she is, and how she got into this mess. And also not die. Helping (and/or "helping") her is the adorable and only slightly obnoxious Id, a hyper little kid who knows her way aroud (somewhat; more than Mag does, at any rate) and has all the confidence Mag lacks, while lacking most of the self-preservation instinct that Mag has.
This has all the makings of a fantasy road-trip buddy comedy, and that is a big part of teh story. But be warned, it also goes to some
dark places. This is ultimately a story about Mag's mental health. The worst of it is, as we learn fairly late:
the reason she's in this situation is because of a failed(?) suicide attempt.
There are scenes of peril that won't faze SSSS readers, but definitely read it through once before handing it to the youg'uns. There's no gore, but I hesitate to say there's no violence given the amount of time Mag and Id spend getting chased by monsters. At least one character gets swallowed whole. There's a case of significant head trauma toward the end, though we don't see anything graphic. No sex or nudity. Well, okay, there's pretty much constant nudity, but it's the no-pants-funny-animal kind, so probably considered SFW in most jurisdictions.
