AWKWARD ZOMBIE

It seems like Duane has this experience every single night.

I wonder if Cutter is going to interfere with this scene. Before this dream sequence, he started fiddling with the line that apparently attaches Duane to the Khert. Two-Toes have their own sort of control over the Khert, from what the Wiki says (if I recall correctly), so maybe there's going to be something involving that. Sette fell directly into it as a complete accident, so...

Yeah, Cutter's probably up to something. He may end up ruining Stockyard's whole plan with whatever things he has afoot, but I feel like that's too cliché for Ashley to do. He may just be watching.

New page. Oh God no please don't do this.

Also, as someone on 4chan's /co/ pointed out, it looks like Murkoph has lines on his face that are eerily similar to the face paint when Duane was doing Ssael stuff back in Alderode. Maybe he's connected to Ssaelism in some way?

Yeah, I noticed those lines. It's made me curious for quite some time.

New page. First thing I notice is that Murkoph probably needs Duane alive/unalive to get the hell out of the Khert, so no severing that string. Unless Duane does something utterly stupid to provoke him (or something completely tame, as Murk is utterly unhinged), he'll get through this okay... maybe. Second thing I notice is that, as Murk said, Duane is becoming more coherent. This may mean that something's happening back in the world of the living to pull him back to his body. I wouldn't be surprised to see if Duane wakes up, the Silver's left him and the rest of the ship alone, and everything's gone to shit as it wreaks havoc in the city. Another thing is that if it does come to blows for real with Murk (might even be next page), Duane's Pymary is useless in the Khert. IIRC he does have some martial arts training to help with that.

Just binge read the whole thing yesterday. Thought it was complete. Now I'm kinda disappointed that I have to wait for updates.

Hopefully it's not even close to done. Waiting is a pain but this comic is fantastic.

I think it's fairly close to being done. The way I see it, the current story arc will probably take another chapter to solve, and then there will probably be another chapter or two to tie up all the loose ends and stuff. It'll still last another year or two though I think.

With the month-long break between chapters, it might have a bit more than your estimate.

The surface of the world lore has barely even been scratched, so far. We've only really gotten to see Cresce and Ulestry, as of yet, with brief glimpses of Sharteshane and Alderode only in flashbacks. We've only even gotten to see two of the Sennet Beasts. Then there's that Weeping Plague that's only been mentioned.
I'm hoping it goes on for a really long time.

Ashley has said before that Murkoph is the main character of the series. He hasn't even gotten up to his tricks yet so we've clearly got a ways to go.

My theory is that all of this with the silver and Duane will serve as Murkoph's release from the khert, if it hasn't already been confirmed by Murkoph trying exactly that in the most recent strip. He doesn't seem like a big deal now, but I'd bet cheddar that when he gets out of the khert he'll be practically unkillable. There must be a reason that the khert has him imprisoned rather than simply obliterating him.

I think it's kinda important to remember that she didn't really say that he was the "main character"

More that he was the first thing she came up with more or less about the story, and that she's had plans for him for a long while. I think he'll end up being very very important, but I don't think that's to say the story will be exclusively about him.

Plot twist: The entire comic is about Murkoph looking at random memories in the Khert to relive past events long after the events of the story come to an end.

We got two pages on Friday, and Monday wasn't skipped because of it. Plot marches forward!

These eels.

They're, like,
so creepy.

These eels.