A new week finds us back in the present.
Zona studies a new map that we haven’t seen before. It seems as if all her plans are coming together only to have them shattered when Lye and Basse return with ill news. If you want to know more about what she’s up to, go back and read the last few pages of Chapter 2 and then her conversation with Icari by the fire in Chapter 3.
This week I’ve also added Google AdSense to the website. This is my first attempt at using them. I’ve had Project Wonderful ads up for along time with little return. I’m hopeful that I might find better luck with these. Have any of you used AdSense? If so, what were the results?
We’ve used google adsense for a little while. Thus far there’s been a small trickle in, small from our traffic than from any fault of the program. I’d be curious to hear how yours is doing, since I imagine with such an extraordinary work you’ve got a great many more regular readers than we
I imagine its one of those things you put up and forget about for while until one day there’s a hundred bucks in there. We’ll see. Glad you’re enjoying the comic and thanks for leaving a comment Professor!
“a particular group actively move against one of their own. ”
Notwithstanding the war in Syria, the most lamentable I seen is a video of a coyote family expelling their own father and mother to die alone in the wild, heartbroken…
Worse even are report of most medieval farmer families…after treating their sons and daughters as slaves for decades, the father and mother were often outright killed to settle the inheritance…if and when they survived the severe beatings, they had to compete with the family dogs for table crumbs.
The main reason of the revolts were the canids and primitive humans strict enforcement of sexual abstention…only Alpha males and females copulated.
Any brother mounting a sister was immediately killed or expelled….until the Alpha couple weakened due to old age…then a violent revolt occurred…the most serious crime in Roman times was an attack on the “Pater Familias”,
Romans being totally obsessed by getting killed by their slaves or their sons…
Unfortunately the examples are countless. It seems ingrained in our DNA to act out against one another.
I think the interesting thing is bringing in another species, like Neanderthals into the picture and seeing if they act the same way. In real history, archeologists believe Neanderthals were more than likely guilty of cannibalism. This was probably due to scarce food during the ice age.
In my story, I wanted the Tree People (Neanderthals) to have far more empathy. Acting out against each other is a completely foreign concept to them. That’s one of the reasons it was such a big deal when Basse was willing to let Lye die to get rid of Icari in Chapter 3.
I love the start of the new chapter. The addition of new characters has made me very excited and got a new interest to read. It is also good to know that the new characters interact with the old ones also. But as I am busy now, I have to wait for sometime to read this chapter. Cannot wait to read it.
I like to wait a good while before getting caught up on my webcomics as well. It just feels so much nicer to have a good chunk of pages to read at a time. If only I could get them out sooner.
Hadn’t checked back here in a bit, been swamped, so you have no idea how happy I was to see not one, not two, but three updates! Your artwork is stunning as usual. Love the cover by the way, and Otari and the whole history behind his and Zona’s experiment intrigues me to no end.
I have so many questions!!!
Welcome back Polaris! I hope I end up answering all your questions. There are so many that still need answering I’m sure. The last thing I want to do is pull a ‘Lost’ and bring up all these new mysteries without answering the first ones. I am really excited about this back story.
Well that loose end is tied up, now ( Yes , I’m still paying attention )
Oh good! I’m glad you’re paying attention. There are going to be a lot of loose ends tied up this chapter.
Hey Jordan
Really enjoying the comic. Beautifully drawn and an intriguing setting and story. Thanks for your good work.
Ciao
Persia
Thanks Persia! I hope you keep coming back.
Cant wait to see how this develops! I was confused at first by the sepia, but it makes sense now
gah! i LOVE hominids! X3
Thanks Sarah! Yeah, I didn’t want it to be completely obvious that it was a flashback right away. It’s the one fun thing about posting one page at a time. You get to stump your audience a little bit until the next page explains it. Then you can go back and read the whole thing and see how the pacing all works together.
Love your start to the new chapter! It’s fun to see new characters, and I’m excited to see how their stories will interact with the old characters’ stories. I’m also super excited that we’ll be able to read your summaries to each new page; it’ll add a whole new interactive experience to the comic. Nice work, as always!!
Thanks Charis! I’m excited to. I think there will be some fun twists and turns. Thanks for commenting.
Anticipation, anticipation, . . . is keepin’ me waitin’ . . .
The wait is over my friend!
best series since dinosaurs
Haha. I’ll take it. Thanks
I had not watch the last four chapter of this show, looking forward for this show to release on June 4th, will definitely watch this show.
Thanks Rebecca!
It’s great that you find the mermaids an interesting topic. The show is a true mind opener; which is a rare thing given some of the entertainment these days. Off topic, I have to say that pic of the group is adorable! Keep up the awesome work!
I’ll have to make sure to watch the whole thing. I only caught the last half.
I’m happy you like the teaser. It was a fun little piece.
Looks like they did a follow up documentary. The conclusion isn’t a surprise, but anything that gets your imagination going is well worth watching. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/27/mermaids-the-new-evidence_n_3343773.html
I feel a bit silly for putting that last comment up. Was more than a little bit tired when I wrote it.
sorry
Did you see that “Mermaids: The New Evidence” on Animal Planet? I would understand if you did not, some would find it silly; but I think that it’s something that people could enjoy seeing and talking about afterwords. I know I liked it a lot. Just asking if you did. (You don’t need to answer if you don’t want to.)
Don’t sweet it John. Feel free to throw any inquiry my way. I’m glad you did, because I actually watched that documentary. One of my close illustrator friends was watching it and he immediately thought of Hominids. After I watched it we talked for hours and the fun stories that could come from it. I would love to see warrior mermaids in a movie. That’d be so badass.
hi people…..
Hi Bella.
Just to make a redundant wish official,
hurry , hurry , hurry , hurry
Working as we speak! And I should have a release date in the next day or so.
Skulls, creepy alter, guy in strange robes and a dark atmosphere to suck the reader in. This is going to be a fun chapter.
I think so too!
Not going to lie, kinda missing the updates…
Me too Gingie! I’m hard at work on it and I think it’ll be worth the wait.