The chapter’s name is fallout, and I wanted to show a little of the fallout of Mori writing her own life story. Heh.
There’ll be even more in the next page. Thanks for being patient with me, guys. If athletes shouldn’t force themselves to run, then I guess you were right, and people recovering from a mental disaster also shouldn’t strain themselves. That said, you keep me going. All of you.
Wasn’t quite expecting so many people to come out on page 28, either. That’s a level of trust you usually don’t get. My readers are amazing.
…my head is swimming with questions, now.
Heh. Sorry. Ask away.
They’re pretty inchoate – and I’m guessing Mori is going to answer a lot of them on the next page, too. 🙂
it was an odd reaction about the applepie. I Wonder if she also lost some of her… traits?
People are dynamic over the course of their lives. Your favorite food when you were a kid may not be your favorite when you grow up. It’s part of the troubles of rewriting your own history (and may be a difficulty for any author).
In response to the last sentence of your author’s comment above: No you! 😉
Yay, colors!
God dammit, now I want apple pie. Is there cinnamon in that one? What type of apple?
What kind of apple? Whatever kind they can import to Cyrstalia. What else?
Hey, you can only have amazing readers if your comic is amazing, and you can only have an amazing comic if you’re an amazing person! 🙂
(…Please don’t try to shoot this argument full of holes, just take it at face value and don’t question it. 😛 It seems like a very “Dragon Doctors” type of logic to use, anyway.)
Also, yeah, as someone who suffers from their own mental issues, I can say, it’s not something you can suddenly say, “I’m gonna get better!” and then magically there you are, better. I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and it’s something I’ll have to live with my entire life: weekly therapy and daily medication to help mitigate my problems.
They never go away entirely. One of the best metaphors is it being a roller-coaster: there’s gonna be a bunch of moments where you feel great, a bunch of moments where you feel okay, but also a lot where you feel like you want to die. No matter how much you want to, those lows won’t go away. You just have to do the best you can to manage them as they come up.
In my case, I try to do what I can to channel it productively, since it can be useful for achieving tasks that I can’t do in a “normal” mindset, but when it gets REALLY bad, I try to call on a support network of friends to help me get through the worst of it. And that’s what we’re here for. We love your story, yes, but we’re also here because of YOU; you are a great source of inspiration that gives people like me hope, so you frankly have earned a right to rest as often as you need.
Speedball, is the crystal person in panel two, one that indentifies more closely with masculinity? As you said they exists?
I’m saying it because of the hat, obviously. Besides, is that a coat? Cape? Shoulder pads?
Lots of CPs have had shoulder pad crystals. This particular one… I haven’t decided yet. There’s another one, though, that might or might not show up depending on how things go.
Awesome art and story as always. I hope you feel now better, Speedball.
Hm, interesting. Mori seems to be cool guy… girl… MAN IT’S SO CONFUSING. Not as confusing as space travels or EU politics but still!
So I guess they still remember some things.