Heart Of Darkness

Wow, this one is really moving.

I have struggled with depression my whole life, including thinking about ending it. But I will never do that, because I have seen how devastated my friends have been after a friend or relative ends their life early. Faye's pain and lifelong suffering is so brilliantly represented by Jeph. QC adds to my resolve never to make that terrible choice. I would like to think that someone's life might be saved by this story.

I just realized.... her death anniversary just passed and you post this. How long now since my Misty been dead. 4/5/2005. I will miss her forever. How true it is. I can't remember her voice anymore. I can see her blonde hair wet with rain smiling at me but I don't remember her voice.

So very, very true. The gaps in our memories can be very strange and aching. I recently was given a bunch of stuff from my elementary school days. I don't remember the carefree child I was then. Nearly fifty years of time and all the trauma along the way, it makes sense, but I feel I *should* remember. A strange sensation, indeed...

Wonderful comic! I am crying while i write this.

waaaaaaaah!

Damn you, Jacques!!!

Ouch. Right in the Feels.

...fade out to the chorus of Passenger - Holes...

I was only nineteen / Redgum <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw</a>

Heh just clicked your link to see how the kickstarter was going. 24 days to go and you're already 14k over the goal. Congrats.

That is a great explanation of what happened. And I am sure a human soldier may have found themselves in the same situation: shock caused them to not be able to remember the names or faces of their squad, but they know that they were there at their sides and still feels the loss of them no longer being there.

Rereading the street for the third or fourth time. I just realised how much I liked that first line of Bubbles.' What prompted this?' is such a very Bubbles answer. Not quite guarded. Or even wary. Then the word came to me. Tactical. Observer, evaluate, consider, deal with. So very her, I think.

Jeeps, that final frame is the best writing you've ever done. And wonderful art.

Thank you. I've been waiting for this to come up. Thank you for handling it like this. Works for the audience and fits the Bubbles we're coming to know and like.

Thank you, Jeph.

I don't know if this is building up to a romantic relationship or a solid friendship without the romance, and honestly, I'm good either way. I'd like to see Faybles come true, but if not, that's okay, too. The relationship Jeph has built here is a thing of beauty on so many levels.

I love that last line.

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Bubbles must be lightweight to not be crushing the bed like she's The Thing (FF)!

This reminded me of something I had papered over from long ago. Fuck. Two friends died.

Is it wrong that my second thought was "that's going to be murder on the bed springs"?

MY SHIP IS COMING IN AND IT IS LOADED WITH FEELS

Every now and again you write something that really hits home. And with the beautiful art! Ugh. Scuse me while I go sob in a corner now. xP

If Claire could see them, she would explode from both her ship appearing to come true and feeling sorry for both of them.

Also: Jeph, did you forget Faye's scar, or her top too high?

*squees, but quietly, out of respect*

Nice perspective work on panel 5. That can't have been easy.