PaRARGdox
New chapter – PaRARGdox – begins today!: Welcome to the start of the next chapter! The title and cover will make more sense once the story starts to progress…
I will say though, this is an epic extraterrestrial invasion story!
This chapter takes place in Kaycee’s third year at Magellan (hence the red uniform)… and yes, that’s Charisma with shorter hair right next to her. It also takes place following the events of Legacy.
There’s also a few new first year cadets introduced in this story, with one of them in the cover image. You’ll have to wait a number of pages to meet them though.
Coming soon: For the next Families/Cемьи featuring Red Vlad, Comrade Katya, Epoch, and Charisma will be the next voter incentive story… but probably not kicking off until March. Stay tuned!
Next update: Sunday, January 26, 2020: Page 1! There be dragons!!
Whooo! Bring on the dragons! 🙂
Okay, but dragons are passé now… The new “in” is hostile creepy alien spider thingies 😬
When you say it like that, it sounds like Malice. 😀
I was thinking something similar, “Didn’t we get enough spiders with Malice?” Oh, I get it; this is what hatched out of Malice’s eggs. While most hybrids are have limited fertility, if those are Malice’s offspring, she is very fertile.
Good theory, scary theory. But I kinda feel it is about time for a threat that is not directly linked to a previous one… or maybe the idea is that evil is always born out of evil, never on its own. Hmm… deep. Thought.
Grace, how in the world do you keep your sanity while drawing so much detail? You trying to eventually work to put George Perez to shame?
I like the cover image, but dang that must have been a meticulous thing to draw.
Thanks! I doubt I will ever put George to shame – he is a very skilled, super-detail artist, but yeah, this page has a fair bit of detail. The only way I managed to maintain my sanity was to only spend half an hour at a time on it, and then switch it out with some other chore (or two) before returning to it. Overall, it probably took me 5-6 hours but that was spread over almost as many days!
You do have astonishing output so much of the time. I mean, look at how much you did for Crossoverkill. And your pages do tend to have a great amount of detail. I think you and theRedDeath are both the ones I think of most when I think of webcomic artists who can put a large amount of characters into an image, and you’re able to have more consistently frequent output. Not putting him down, of course, since everyone’s pace is different.
But really it’s interesting to see who can be considered the equivalent of an industry artist here in the webcomic world. The comparisons may not be exact, and shouldn’t be because everyone is their own person, but it’s interesting.
Oh lovely, more alien parasite thingies (I don’t mind at all, but I can easily imagine the cadets are getting mightly sick of them by now)
Lucky for the cadets, these aren’t etheric plane emotion parasites from another dimension… these are just murderous extraterrestrials.
Well, it IS good training for what their live as superheroes will be like, isn’t it?
I’m more worried about everyone being asleep … except Kaycee.
The mojo doesn’t work on her!
…asleep… or dead!!!!??!#@$!!??
If all of those characters are dead, it is 99% certain that it is a temporary death. That 1% chance of the unthinkable does have me worried though, now that you’ve said it… ???
Two years later, O8h7w, and I have to ask: How do you feel about that “1%” now?
Another half a year later, I think I’m finally on track to feeling okay about it. But the story is not yet over.
Welcome back Grace. So, a new crisis is brewing. First order of business : Put something that prevents mind control on The man who can. He’s 3 for 3 at this point, and the last two times he was a massive threat to his allies.
He’s even been mind controlled by freaky spiders before, so preventative measures are in order.
lol – poor Gary!
Wasn’t it just twice? By Malice and by the fluge?
Oh, are you counting Miasma as a mind control incident? It’s not really, although the end result often practically resembles it.
Yes, I was counting Miasma. That same “loop” he was trapped in was used to, for all intents and purposes, control the Hierophant. Miasma just never bothered ordering candyman to do anything.
And while within the magellan-verse there are probably experts who distinguish between the various flavors of mind-fuckery, I’m just gonna go ahead and count it as mind control.
I am remembering one of Fatima’s statements near the end of Locke Down, “Maybe once we have trip without all go to bad?” Does not look like it, young lady. (Remembering poorly, it turns out; I had to re-read that page to get the exact wording.)
So there’s a time skip? Or has there actually been two full years in all this wonderful chaos so far?
Is that Montana-Rose in the bottom-left corner, or someone else?
Indeed it is!
Just trying to get my timeline straight.
Does this story take place in 2012?
Should be 2011, with Kaycee’s class in their 3rd year, Judy and Reuben recently graduated, and Padma and Porgus in their senior year internships.