Kismet: Sun-Cutter - page 16

Kismet: Sun-Cutter is now updating on Mondays. \o/

This is a slightly awkward place for new readers to jump in, because we're right in the middle of a dialogue-heavy exposition scene (which is actually one reason why I stalled out on drawing it for as long as I did). But it's important to the plot later on, so I didn't want to drop it. Once we plow through this, things pick up a bit. :D

For new readers, it's recommended that you begin at the beginning (we're only on page 16; there isn't much to catch up on!). Sun-Cutter is a sequel/parallel story to Hunter's Moon; it doesn't pick up directly where HM leaves off (actually, the timelines of the two stories are more or less concurrent), but HM provides a lot of backstory for the events that will happen in SC, and some of the HM characters will be appearing later on. Sun-Cutter can also be found on its own page at WebcomicsNation, where you may find it more comfortable to follow than on LJ/DW. There is an LJ feed for it, kismet_feed, that someone kindly set up for me a long time ago. I will attempt to get a Dreamwidth feed up and running at some point, though I haven't done that before, so it may take me a bit to figure out how.

And without further ado, on to the comic!

( Sun-Cutter page 16 )

Quick note: If you're reading this on LJ, the next/previous page links go to the Dreamwidth versions of the pages. I started out in the beginning trying to code it differently on each site, but quickly realized that this was way more trouble than it was worth! DW is ad-free for non-members, so I thought it would be a more pleasant browsing experience if I had to pick just one (as opposed to LJ, which uses ads on non-member and free journal pages). I apologize if this is inconvenient for anyone; you can also read the archive on WebcomicsNation if that's easier.

Raven's Children - History - the early Raven Tribe

I'm going to start posting the annotated Raven's Children on Friday. In the meantime, I'll lead up to that with a series of information posts on the background of the series. These are entirely skippable, although they will be helpful when I get around to talking about certain aspects of the comic in the page-by-page commentary. The idea is to organize all my backstory information into manageable chunks, rather than dumping 4000 words of it on you when it becomes relevant.

I realize that this is slightly backwards, because most of you aren't even going to be interested in any of this until I provide context for it (in the form of pages). *apologetic grin* But there's no way I can do this that isn't going to involve infodumping on you at some point. And pulling all of this together has turned out to be very useful for me in getting my thoughts in order before I start posting.

This week's posting schedule:
Monday (today): the history of the Raven Tribe
Tuesday: Fivemoon
Wednesday: putting them together
Thursday: cultural appropriation and borrowing (definitions, etc)
Friday: first RC page

( Day 1: the Raven Tribe )

Tomorrow: Fivemoon!