It was pure coincidence that last week’s page posted on April Fool’s Day, and pure coincidence that Gogs had a fake-out death on that page. Seriously, I had that planned a while back and I just posted the page the day it was ready to post, which happened to be April 1st. No one seemed to catch that it was a trick… in the alt text I wrote “Gogs RIP”. That really was the only April Fools joke. This little twist was planned and, sad to say, the real deal.
There used to be a Facebook Page called “Save Keller”. I just searched for it and couldn’t find it. It’s sole purpose was to urge me not to kill off Keller. Maybe if the page had persisted she’d still be alive. Who knows. Sorry Keller.
Last night I drew the last page of book 1. That is a good feeling, to come to the end of something. We still need to color the rest of the pages and I need to get the rest of the book’s guts figured out, but we are in a good place. Thanks to everyone who inquired about color flatting!
Just a few more pages to go and we’ll reach the end of this portion. Thanks for your patience and generosity as an audience. Sure there is the occasional entitled whiner who stops by, but for the most part you are as good an audience as anyone could ask for.
Ethan
P.S. I think somewhere it was mentioned that the water is shut off. But everyone knows that garden hoses with nozzles on them usually have some water pressurized in them left over, so that explains that. Also, the car is a four seater… Keller probably would not have fit anyway.
No!!!!
Just curious, but why would the water be off? All the signs point towards people leaving in a hurry (or being eaten), so I don’t think turning off the water would be an immediate concern…
Thanks for the comic!
It’s a spray nozzle. If you’re being eaten by a bear, you stop squeezing the trigger, and it stops squirting.
RIP Keller.
Technically, people tend to tense up and squeeze tighter when in extremely stressful situations (like being eaten by a bear), hence the term “death grip.”
I was referring to Ethan’s postscript, though.
I don’t think you can’t put out a gas fire with water, it just makes the fire worse. Might be different because Gogs just had gas on his clothes, but typically it would just cause the oil to spread around.
It’s not exactly a puddle of gas, it’s soaked in his clothing. All the water needs to do is stop the combustion process, and most of the gasoline in the clothing had probably burned up already.
NOT KELLER!!!
Though her final act makes her the most noble character in the comic as of yet. I can imagine this shaping the other characters substantially.
Thank you for continuing to make this awesome comic. Please keep up the good work!
Nice turn of events 🙂
I was a bit worried that Gogs was going to be killed off–even though you posted that page on April Fools (aside from the alt text being a tad suspicious) , I knew it was legitimate rather than a joke page. I’m not really that surprised about Keller being killed off though. While she was a very likable character, I just knew that somebody had to die sooner or later, and it was most likely going to be her.
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!
Save Keller is still around but if you can’t find it I guess that mig explain why we haven’t had any new views in forever 🙂
Keller may not have been the hero of the story but she died a heroes death. Thank you.
RIP Keller
Do you have a link? I found an old link to it it and it came up as just Facebook. I searched every way I could but couldn’t find it.
It SHOULD be just http://www.facebook.com/savekeller
Should.
By the way, she did not originally in the script die a heroes death. I think Save Keller had some influence on her playing more of a role. In the original script she literally hardly had any lines and was just someone to kill when needed.
That’d explain why originally all we knew about her was that she was an overweight vegan with body odor. Giving people backstory makes the bites hurt more :(.
Just… Wow..
Psych, Keller’s not dead either! She and the bears are just sharing some very juicy strawberries!
And the other guys are like “whoa, wanna share that?” but Keller&Bears go “Nuh-uh.”
The bear mouths in the last frame are ridiculously awesome. Like a first person (water) shooter game death scene. Well done! I would want to play that game!
That’s just…really horrifying.
Glad Gogs is “OK”. And somehow his painted hair isn’t gone. And he isn’t in massive shock trauma. And that Keller was such a great aim from three yards away with a garden hose she was able to put out a moving gas fire after desperately attempting to ward off rampaging bears with her flame thrower, which she put down just out of reach to grab said garden hose. She’s a true hero. Also dead.
Yet Nigel LIVES… Somewhere…
*bows head* To quote “Legends of The Fall”: It was a good death.
Is the “entitled whiner” thing referring to me?
I would imagine the entitled whiner comment i referring to those people who come and bitch about there not being a page up, or who kick off over the notion of old pages being taken down after the book is released. So if you’ve not done any of that, then no.
Look out, now the bears want a drink too!
Ah and yet another dead woman stuffed in a refrigerator.
NOT THE NURSE!!! I kinda figured Gogs was barely going to make it (no pun intended) but not expecting this! Poor “side character” I actually liked her and envisioned her to play another role, albeit, the way she left was a good death. I am curious of her motive or if she possibly had lost hope in surviving though? None the less, I’m anxious to see where this story is going!
Was curious if you had any intention of going back to the initial pages and redoing them when it’s time to put a book together. They are awesome, don’t get my wrong, but you have definitely gotten far better as the pages have progressed.
Now I am picturing Gogs as surving to the end of the comic but somehow losing most of his body parts in the process. 🙂
Time for another bear mutation. Here comes the Kellerbear!