There ends the chapter, up on melancholy hill if you will. Building if you must. I hope you enjoyed reading it as I love writing these two characters together. A little sad to see it over! I’m sure I’ll spend the next few months nitpicking this story to death in my head, as I tend to do. Was it too long, why didn’t I notice how bad that drawing looked, you know the regular stuff. I guess we’ve all got some of that bitter Paul inside of us, haha.
As always I’ll be taking a break for at least a week before getting into the next chapter. I do have a lot of writing to do for for it before I start. It can be tiring work, especially this year. Plus eleven years is a long time to be working on a comic, and it’s been dawning on me how many more it’s going to take to actually finish this massive second story arc. Thank goodness Kyra and her friends are so much fun to write!
I’ll keep you updated on whatever I’m doing and we’ll see each other in the next update. Well, and here. I do so love the comments!
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gadzooks thats beautiful what an emotional roller coaster in three pages
bravo, round of applause, winner of the show
Thank you kindly! Everybody’s getting older and occasionally more mature as the story goes on, so plenty of time for more feels. Keep those seat belts on!
Chapter ends on a positive note and perhaps some personal growth, very sweet!
I enjoyed this chapter, well done!
Glad to hear it! No seriously, very glad to hear it as I’m quite nitpicky of my work as mentioned. I felt good going into this one and am relived it turned out how I envisioned it. It also helps out that it’s an Ann story which are always my favorite ones.
Ann realy is a unit of a charakter. She already showed her depth in Tuesday, but once more she manages to stand up and keep going. We know that Ann was heavily influenced by Kyra, but the other way around is just as pronounced. Thats how a friendship should be. The best of both worlds.
Such good friends I’d make the comic just about them. Luckily there’s plenty of other great characters to show and mix up to keep things interesting. Who will be next in these introduction like chapters …?
This conclusion reminds me of the ending of the 1964 film, Zorba the Greek, after the main characters spent months of work and all their money building a giant contraption, only to watch the whole thing fall to pieces.
Zorba the Greek, Sirtaki dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzpHvLWFUM
“Hey boss, did you ever see a more splendiferous crash?”
―Alexis Zorba
I adore endings like that. The characters are too flabbergasted to know what to day, so they do in a different way. This last page made me very happy and seeing it in that movie makes me happy all over again.
I’m glad you liked it. It’s a classic film, and a great ending. Seeing the same kind of ending in this chapter made me happy all over again. :)
You may also like this quote from the character, Zorba:
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“I had learnt five or six words of Russian, just enough for my work… But I got friendly with a Russian… We had come to an arrangement… He was to speak first. As soon as I couldn’t follow him, I was to shout: ‘Stop!’ Then he’d get up and dance. D’you get me, boss?
He danced what he wanted to tell me. And I did the same. Anything we couldn’t say with our mouths we said with our feet, our hands, our belly or with wild cries: Hi! Hi! Hop-la! Ho-heigh!
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I leapt up, pushed the chairs and tables away and began dancing.
Ah, my poor friend, men have sunk very low, the devil take them!
They’ve let their bodies become mute and they only speak with their mouths. But what d’you expect a mouth to say? What can it tell you? If only you could have seen how the Russian listened to me from head to foot, and how he followed everything! I danced my misfortunes; my travels; how many times I’d been married; the trades I’d learned…
Even he, dense as he was, could understand everything, everything. My feet and my hands spoke, so did my hair and my clothes.
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Are you laughing? Don’t you believe me, boss? You’re saying to yourself: Whatever are these yarns this Sinbad the Sailor is spinning? Is it possible to talk by dancing? And yet I dare swear that’s how the gods and devils must talk to each other.”
―Alexis Zorba, from “Zorba the Greek” by Nikos Kazantzakis
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I think Kyra may have some Zorba in her, and Ann too.
I did like it indeed. The words shall warm my heart the next Ann + Kyra chapter whenever it comes around again.
That’s better! Love to see their perfectly choreographed routine and smiles on everyone’s faces again. Even the Snooties can’t help but enjoy it.
Uhm, is that guy about to put another hole in the painting? Will it increase its value even more?
Please don’t nitpick your stories. Just know that we enjoy them so much, especially when they end on a high note like this.
I am my biggest critic but that’s only because I care so much. Yeah … yeah must be the reason haha
good heavens that dinosaur is naked
Love seeing the dance panels! They remind me a lot of Calvin And Hobbes dance Sunday strips.
People in charge: Kyra needs to wear clothes so people accept her more
Kyra not wearing anything looks weird and naked
People in charge: Shocked Pikachu face
Keep doing your silly comic.
Hopefully that’s a good idea because it’s what I want to do XD
Ann really should try to apply herself as a dancer, or maybe as a fashion designer! Those are things she seems to be good at. Does she exemplify the tragedy of the person who can’t embrace their true talents and languish trying to nurture ones they don’t have? I’m not sure how common that really is.
Sometimes what people love to do are not the same thing as what they’re best at. There’s the extreme movie clichés where the good sports person wants to do something different, or something simple like being good with computers but a job doing that doesn’t sound appealing.
Is that guy winding up to punch the antique painting even more? This gallery is quite lax at the proper handling of art. Proper museums and such will usually mount them out of punching distance, say behind some decent rope barriers or something. Or at the very least, a nice respectable standoffish “hey-don’t-touch-this” position. With the little plaques, of course.
Plus that old guy with the fez has probably made off with the clown painting by now… ????
Ha ha, I put a few things in that panel for some follow up thoughts with Ann’s painting, inspired artists, the punched painting, and Kyra’s “art”. I left them vague as it’s something for the readers to think about but I guess the punched painting is the weird one haha. I’ll just say that two pages ago the owner of the painting was crying, but now he’s happy and holding some green while that other guy is happy about the punched painting.
I put a lot of fun background jokes in this one (maybe I should make a list someday) and am very glad when they’re caught XD
gasp! 3 strips this week AND a chapter finale WITH multi-frame dancing? You spoil us!
I honestly didn’t think I could do it, but shear determination and a good work schedule made it possible. I need that kind of energy every week!
the dancing dino fills you with determination!
Good because I’m going to need it! The week off was quite stressful due to massive TF2 business talk and, (how shall I put this), Phil trying to wrap his head around some of his family being huge Norvill supporters. I’ve finally started putting work on the script but there’s a long way to go. I’m sure I’ll have an update of some sort next week!
But in good news, I finally started a new video game! It is Hades on the switch, and it is very very good.