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[egypturnash]

I dunno, I just felt like seeing if I could go to the place in my head where Alecto comes from. It doesn't come anywhere near as easily as it used to; this is good.

The 'he' in Alecto's narration is probably the elf who has a fling with her. Maybe. I'm not sure how this fits into the story, or if it does at all. One of these days I'll get Drowning City into shape and start drawing it. Probably not like this, though. Black and white is quick and easy, especially direct in AI like this, but Alecto's tale is grey.

Comments

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Could you put this behind a cut-tag, since it's a very very wide picture?

[coyoteseven.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Blocking images again...

[zeeth_kyrah]

Pushes my browser to 2.1x standard width.

seconded

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting and evocative image. It is also an image that makes everything else on the same page harder to read. That makes me sad.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous! The art really speaks! The lines. The slate blue grey of the water. The writing. I have a friend who's super into comics whom I very much look forward to turning onto Absinthe when it's up and rollin'.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Me, I feel the text is too direct, but, well, in five panels done off the top of my head, what am I gonna expect?

Present chapter 1 status: 12/32 pages complete, 9/32 in varying states of progress, 11/32 are still just thumbnails and need to be drawn once I clean off the space in front of the damn drawing desk. I will be SO happy when I can finally tell people "hey, it's up, start reading!".

[jackfurlong.livejournal.com]

*boggles*
This _works_ on so many levels; it's a story in one illo.
Wish I could pull off something like that, I've _very_ impressed.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

No preplanning, either - I just drew the first panel, drew her, and write the text, then continued.

Well, "no preplanning" unless you count carrying this girl and her story around in my head for nearly a decade...

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

You wusses. Can't use Tabs and Comments to read interesting friend tibits. :P

I'd rather deal with Cannibalistic Doubting Elves on two screen widths for about four hours, then hide the thing from casual passers. Nyah! :)

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Exactly our thoughts on the matter!

[zeeth_kyrah]

That's not the problem. The problem is having to search out the reply link (for those posts which have them) for every post on the page, relying strictly on URLs for identification of post, accidentally bypassing posts which have commenting disabled because we can't see the post's title or content (since it's a full screen-width to the left)...

Much better to have CSS that allows images to pop sideways while keeping the text in its normal space; but LJ doesn't work that way if you leave it alone and don't turn on special stylesheets for your friends page (which incidentally activates them for all the rest of your pages, even when you don't want it to).

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

This only happens with layouts from the era of tables. Ones like mine, based around CSS, are perfectly happy to let large images expand out of the right.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to more of this tale, in a distant someday of course.

Oddly enough, this seems to break on your layout for us (directly viewing the entry). Not sure if it's being caused by the cut or not, but there is a giant empty space on the left, and the image and text are both aligned together on the left edge of where it does finally start.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

That's how large images look in my style, yes.