Page 382 – Kidd Commander!

caribouchat

Aw… Those two pages…
Hey, Brockenspectre, you there? Might need you soon…

Brad

Oh shit.

Amaaré

That’s a little light in a lot of darkness, but hey, it always is 😉

Fantastic pair of pages Aria, nice way to start the battle we’ve all been waiting for.

Aria

Thank you! I’m glad they weren’t a letdown after a little bit of a wait haha

Sandman366

Hey, uh, Raven, you’ve got a little something on your….nevermind, you don’t even have a face right now.

Also, Raven looks kinda pudgy there. (Borderline fat. (Yes I’m telling the guy who alters the will of an Elder God he’s fat. Wouldn’t have to worry about him wanting to kill me. If he wanted me dead I wouldn’t live long enough to worry about it.)

A Wild Bird

I smell a boss battle~! But seriously, how has he kept his face together just long enough for phin to show up?

Nicolumbia

Ooh, I forgot about the double update! This page was a nice surprise today. And I know this is Very Serious and all, but Phineas’ face made me chuckle

Sandman366

‘Kay. Nope. Gotta ask.

What would it feel like to be a hollow shell of a person, like Raven is? (I mean the literal side of it, where he’s got a hole for his face that shows…..an empty void. What the hell would that feel like!?!?!?)

Aria

Well, this particular voidperson is full of tain. Probably feels something like a vase full of bugs.
- Sandman366
  
  I’m not sure which viewpoint is grosser: the being the “empty” person, or feeling what is in theory the “empty” person’s….emptiness.
  
  Hey, if someone calls the Tain “shit”, they could then say that Raven is “literally full of shit”. ^.^ Explains why he feels “like a dead fish”, or “an absence”. Why is he full of Tain though? Because he didn’t get out of his room enough? (Also, if he saw Crow kicking the crap out of shadows for “an unwieldy number of years” (still love that phrasing by the way), what made him think experimenting with it would yield useful results in giving him a hope of killing Crow?)

Oscar Crooks

This page is amazing and i love it, especially the panel transitions. looking forward to the rest of this fight!

Alex Simpson

Raven looks like he cold use a dermatologist… or an exorcist.

Patrick Ralston

This comic kinda feels like a video game so far. You arrive in the town, go through several encounters, and finally get the quest item you need to advance. This leads to a cut scene where you meet the boss and are defeated and dumped in the next area. You go through the next level, fight a mini-boss there, and eventually return to the town, where you receive aid in actually reaching the boss. You then wander through the path leading to the boss, learning a bit about him on the way there, and finally find him. He gives you a speech, and then attacks, starting the boss battle.

Aria

I’m DEFINITELY influenced by video games with regard to story structure! I think games are really interesting vehicles for storytelling because they’re so compartmentalized and, blunt might be the word? You can often point to a thing or event and it’s obvious what it is or what it’s accomplishing, and the limitations of games as a storytelling medium can lead to characters and themes being implemented in new ways. I think it’s really neat, and with something as dense as KC I like to try and keep the story skeletons themselves in recognizable shapes.

A Wild Bird

Happy Turkey Day Aria! Don’t work too hard today, it is a holiday after all c: