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– This strip was a chore! My computer died twice while I was working on it, so I had to start over on the coloring once, and then on the lettering once. Really frustrating. I need to solve my computer problem, I guess. That’ll be my goal for later this year (but I think I said that last year.
– I guess I didn’t most this last week, but here’s the August Modest Medusa wallpaper for Patreon backers!
That sounds super bad & risky… Hope next comic involves some good news.
War what is it good for….absolutely nothing…..
I’m tempted to say let the fairies have it. Most of the fairies are cool. Is there a peaceful way to do that?
Having the Fairies take over may be better than the Prince, but a lot of fairies are really shitty. And lots and lots of people live in Yeld besides the Fairies.
Plus the shitty Fairies are the ones that would likely be in charge if they were to go to war and reclaim Yeld for themselves.
As far as a peaceful method… I doubt it. The Fairies that would be interested in a peaceful shift in power are likely the ones who care more about “Is our leader good person or an asshole?” than “Is our leader a Fairy?”
Yeah. I may have overplayed how nice and peaceful people in Yeld are, since we’ve mostly only seen the very best parts of Yeld. Most of it is an absolutely savage horror show, and even normal people just trying to survive can be pretty awful. There’s lots of fueding and outright hostility between towns, lots of small wars between territories, Dragul’s armies are constantly pillaging and occupying, monster just show up and eat entire communities and big parts of the world are just always on fire.
We had no idea!
Any chance you could explain it in a few comics / posters?
We’ll get into more of that eventually. The Yeld RPG book (available this October!) has a huge amount of information about Yeld.
In most (most, not all, there are some almost neutral) of folklore I’ve heard of fairies are one of most evil beings.
“Disney and other Hollywood sanitizers have convinced everybody that fairies are benevolent wish-granters, or maybe environmental champions. But in actual folklore? Fairies are terrifying. They’re more into baby-stealing and murder than pixie dust. ”
(Quote from https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-biggest-reasons-why-fairies-are-evil-510180209)
So I don’t think they would be much better rulers.
One of the most probable thing to happen if fairies’d acquire rule over world is that every other intelligent race would be enslaved.
(I probably should wait longer before sending, or there could be way to edit your own post before it’s accepted)
So if this is still better than Prince that provide important information how very evil he is indeed.
Actually, I don’t think they’re huge on slavery. They certainly do it (Yeld is a shitty place), but I think they’d be much more likely to force everyone to leave, and kill anyone who didn’t.
These Fairies are not actual Fairies, of course. They killed the original Fairies and took their name and land. So who knows what they were like. probably closer to traditional fairies. Anyway, Yeld Fairies are pretty varied individuals, but as a society tend to be pretty brutal and xenophobic.
What is depicted in the Patron wallpaper? I feel like it’s something I should know about, but have no idea.
Judging by the filename of the picture, it’s My Hero Academia. I’ve not read nor watched it, and am entirely unfamiliar with it thus far.
Medusa with characters from My Hero Academia.
Wait, how does an old spell know about the new abolishers?
They’re not a new thing. They’ve been around for a long time. The “New” title makes them sound recent, but its not a descriptor of how recent they are, but actually what they want to abolish.
Oh.
There’s no way for a reader to know any of that yet, of course. Thats too much to infer from the previous strips.
I mean some could assume they’re old enough to have a decent chunk of info on them in the old spell and imply they’ve been around at least a while longer than Modest… I’m glad I dug through the comments to see this though!!! Love this comic!!!!
This is shaping up to be a really cool storyline! Great job, Jake.
Thanks.
So, they want to Make Yeld Great Again?
Yeah. I guess so.
Great, just not particularly non-Fairy-friendly.
I was thinking abolishers were some sort of special monster with abolishing powers. Fanatics can be dealt with.
They’re just super fanatical fairies. Although they tend to be very powerful.
Just sick some sheep on them. It worked for the other guy. XD
War and death sounds fun.
<.< *starts moving away as unobtrusively as possible*
This is really shaping up into one memorable summer vacation.
So, people who ascribe to Abolisher philosophy may be called Abolitionists?
Maybe.
sorry about your computer, hopefully you find the problem