Haunted 1-7
on February 27, 2021
at 10:00 pm
GAYYYYYNGST
To clarify the character-introduction rule, I’m not counting Yuan’s third-eye dream ghosts as character introductions. Let’s pretend for a while longer that everyone reading this doesn’t know exactly who these are and exactly what happened.
(And if you’re used to leaving comments on every post, don’t worry if you don’t have anything to say sometimes! There’s way less content here than in CT, and not a whole lot’s happening in this one anyway.)
Wow! That last frame! I love your art. You express perspective as a narrative tool!
Thanks! I’m excited to see what you make when you start your comics!
Is this a normal amount of fire for Xiyuan’s inner monologue?
It is not not a normal amount of fire. But like, you know the drill, element-wise.
First of all, GAYYYNGST needs to be word immediately. The art continued to be friggen lovely as hell. I mean, yeah, I know what happened in CT but even if I didn’t, these three panels give me some feels! Also reminded me that XiYuan did not spring into this world a fully formed adult with excellent taste in musicals.
Sadly, it only has one ‘y.’
I’m laughing at the good taste in musicals comment because you know already that he HATES most musicals (see: La La Land, Starlight Express), but he’s at the theater most nights anyway.
Damn, I really gotta step up my TV tropes game. Umm, Xi-Yuan and I are of the same opinion that the BEST way to enjoy musical theater is to go most nights and loathe 95% of it, primly.
hahahahahaha
I WILL NOT call La La Land a musical. I mean fine. It is. But I hate it.
Ahahaha—you’re so on the same page, it’s nuts. Who hates theater more than hardcore theater people??
Be grateful your husband doesn’t have a searing crush on both Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, at least I don’t think he does.
Ooh this is great. Haven’t we all had a moment (or several) when the whole world felt like it imploded? As someone who is mildly claustrophobic I also kind of appreciate that it happened in the lift, though I know the lift probably didn’t have anything to do with it. But the pain is really tangible here. It’s really feels like my browser window is screaming.
Bahahaha, it’s the lift’s fault! I’ll take “screaming browser window”—that’s high praise.
I like the elevator perspective. The reader looks down on Yuan. His body language is stiff, almost as though he doesn’t appear to be bothered.
And then you have the last scene and his thoughts/memories are projected in what looks like fire, with its yellows, oranges and reds, and how it just shoots from him in this jagged, untamed motion. It starts with these beautiful and innocent images of him learning to walk and playing the violin, and then WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS THAT FACELESS TERRIFYING IMAGE?!?!?!
Also, Yuan looks like he’s in pain the way he’s squint-pooping those fire-images out. Like he needs a mental laxative. Maybe it was spicy going in?
The fire may be related to the symbolism. Ahahaha, what counts as a mental laxative? Match-3 games?
I assume that the person yelling at him is Aileen (from the hair and lips).
I like the things about it being too quiet. We talk about the calm before a storm a lot, but less about the uncomfortable and empty silence after the storm has destroyed everything and you’re catching your breath and wondering where to go from here.
It is totally Aileen. And yes, it is totally the calm after the storm where he has no idea what to do.