Chapter 2: Page 91
There had been a bit of speculation last week about whether Kenosh planned to try and bring Dakkan and Quinlan along with the Sratha-din. Kenosh, clearly, thinks that would be a bad idea. Either path brings up a great number of complexities, to be sure. I’m sure you all can identify the obvious pros and cons of each approach.
Boston Comic Con is a mere TWO WEEKS AWAY! I know, I can hardly believe it myself. Rachel and I will be seated at table D328, which probably doesn’t mean anything to you, but to ME it’s right around where I was tabling last year for our inaugural show! Last year, my first time tabling a convention solo, I was at D320. So the same neighborhood! MEMORIES! NOSTALGIA!
Anyway, if you’re going to be anywhere in the area, I do recommend swinging by! Boston Comic Con is a fantastic show, and it’s getting bigger and more awesome every year!
This week, we’ve got some fun guest art from regular reader/commenter Jakub, all the way from Poland! A few pages ago, Dakkan clonked Bevan with his staff. We saw it. It happened! Or did it? What if it was just a movie stunt?
Okay, well, maybe it was supposed to be a bit of Hollywood-style movie magic, but something went terribly wrong. You see, Dakkan is actually a really intense method actor, and when he gets in the moment like this, it’s possible things can go awry.
Don’t worry, though! That isn’t really Bevan. Because his role was so physically demanding, the guy’s actually got three or four different stunt doubles depending on how visible he is in the scene. That’s why he’s got the hood — makes it easier to conceal. This particular double, who really earned his paycheck in this scene, is actually a pretty swell guy from Lincolnshire named Wesley.
Actually I made all that up just now.
But thanks, Jakub for the fun guest art! I love the vivid colors and of course the hilarious concept behind it :)
No joke, my heart literally choked up for a few seconds after reading this. I’m stunned to be honest, it’s amazing how strong the emotions you see in this page. From Dakkan’s spaced out/shocked eyes (which hilariously translates to Jakub’s piece here) to Kenosh’s penitent words. I feel so bad for Dakkan and Kenosh though, it just begs me to wonder what’s going to happen to our two heroes from here on out. Really though It might not seem like a big deal but Rachel’s portrayal of scenes like this are so well done.
Thankfully Jakub’s art lifted my spirits. The whole “movie” idea is brilliant and Dakkan’s crazy eye look got me laughing so hard.
Thanks Veigue ^^ :)
I am glad that you like it, and nice to read it ^^, but I did not know that these funny eyes suprised Dakkan from my graphics will be such a great contrast with Dakkan eyes from toady’d page …
Hi, Jakub. Really nice art; I like the idea of BWD as a movie and particularly the letters BWD on the shirt of the microphone operator. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it and the result is definitely worth it.
Thanks Fourth ^^ :D
I’m really glad that you like it too ^^, I tried to draw it as best I can, and I am very pleased with this funny face effect Dakkan, Quin and Poor Bevan XD :D
I have an idea for another one or two graphics of this type, but this draw how to end this second chapter – as actors “on holiday” or break in the making of this movie BWD ;) XD
Jakub is credit to team!
And yes, those giant eyes of shock are hilarious.
Yeah ^^ XD I love this eyes too :)
But unfortuaently I don’t know what you mean “credit to team” :( O.o (I’m sorry) … What Team – you mean that I joined to some team ? O.o Please, if you can –
explain this to me ;)
It’s a reference to the multiplayer shooter “Team Fortress 2” Jakub :)
But I do not know anything about this, for the first time I hear about this game XD – And you mean that am I in this game, in the sense of I has an account XD O.o ?
Just pretend the Western Deep fans are a team, and that is why you are a credit to it.
And now, I will go eat some Western Deep Fried Potatoes.
Awww :D That is cool taht you say that
I’m already legitimately in the Western deep team ^^ :D I’m so happy :D
(And potatoes are delicious ^^ – but I prefer
boiled potatoes, with fresh butter and fragrant and fresh parsley dill ^^ – And potatoes is my/our the basic component of every dinner (like rice in China) – we eat it almost every day :3 ; Boiled Potatoes, Pork chop and pickled cucumber or pickled cabbage – ordinary Polish lunch XD :3 Yum ^^ )
Wait, what? Kenosh isn’t taking them with him?
These are my possible answers to that last quote:
1) Shut up, dad, I’ll stop following you when I wanna.
2) Fine by me.
3)You are not going to blind, are you?
Having just returned from Anthrocon, and having spent huge amounts of time there looking at art, that second panel close-up of a downcast Kenosh really speaks to me in my present frame of mind. I know Alex (and perhaps Rach too) might not appreciate invoking this phrase, but it’s just so wonderfully … furry!
Erhem. But anyway, yes, that last line might just be the biggest bombshell in “BWD” so far. Do we get our Required Exposition here? Or does Lutren Sr. just take off now with minimal explanation, leaving Quin, Dak and the readers to thrash in frustration? Tune in next week to find out!
Ouch. Not exactly the most expected or pleasant goodbye. Now Dakkan will likely spend the rest of the story chasing his father for an answer–and to get the Din–but whether or how he’ll catch up with him is another story. If worst comes to worst, he may end up having to fight him.
I was thinking the same thing. Could you imagine if it eventually comes down to that though? It would be pretty tragic.
So you’re saying we can expect something like this next week?
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html
(Warning: Spoilery).
OMG, It would be horrible Saraa :O ; The son picks up the sword of his father… On the one hand, it would be very interesting and epic, but it would have been probably too great excitement. The fight of the son with the father…
But now when I seeing on his face, I am not able to Dakkan what he now feels exactly and what it can do – or he may throw at Kenosh, or hate it, or nothing to do, or even something else :p
Huh.. So what now for Injured Quinlan and Sad Dakkan?
Do they seek the aid of the canid even after Kenosh murdered their leader and a whole heap of their brothers and sisters?
Do they flee into the wilderness as fast as they can hobble?
Do they hide under a pile of coats until this thing blows over?
They’ll flee in the wilderness, because the Canid will most definitely think of them as collaborators in the murder of their general.
Wow. I know we’ve been speculating what Kenosh plans to do with his son and fellow captain, but this page shuts that speculation down hard. HARD. Dakkan doesn’t look too terribly upset in this page, but believe me, this is going to be another addition to the list of the deep psychological scars that he’s going to take away from today. Now our dynamic duo are on their own, and we’ll have to see what they can do without “strong-leader-older-Lutren” in the picture.
(Oh, and I absolutely agree that Kenosh is going to buy the farm before the end of the story).
Hmmm … It would be combined into one if now Dakkan and Quin (if he alive) they will go to, Narvan, to Nessie – to Janik…
Yup, he’s totally gonna bite the dust in this story.
“Yo son, I know you’re still in shock from seeing your father betray everything you thought he stood for, saw your best friend possibly die, and are still recovering from having your windpipe crushed… but let me just tell you now that this will be the last time we’ll ever see each other again. Have fun with all those angry Canid who are going to suspect you of murdering their general!”
Honestly, Kenosh just should have used this to say goodbye:
I don’t know, but that make me great laught, and I fell from the Chair… XD Heheh XD
Okay this made me laugh; thanks for summing up this page in a way that wasn’t seeped in tragedy. :p
better not to be able to sum up Saraa XD
Wow… Honestly I am very surprised… Kenosh leaves Dakkan… And leave the leave him in a total emotional/psychological kink, leaving it now when literally the whole world, everything in what he believed and what he know about this world and his beliefs are turned to rubble… Hard decision. But in those Kenosh eyes , I see only the father’s love for his son with “I’m sorry son for all what you did wrong”, through these eyes you can see from the harsh, cold and stone Kenosh coating, true fatherly love and pain that his son so suffer that mostly suffers by himself. Oh, now it’s really useful to be motherly embrace to Dakkan could cuddle up to his mom, authentically me in tears today gathered, almost started to cry – such emotions in me calls this scene a quick farewell… :( Awww… Poor Dakkan :'(
Ufffff… but taht was really interesting another twist, as always masterfully drawn, I especially love the close-ups on the faces of Dakkan and Kenosh, and the drama of their face – fantastic it is drawn ^^ I love it ^^ :D
Ah, and finaly my graphics is in guest art ^^ heheh :D – I’m glad you liked, and the biggest reward for me is that my graphic is on the side of my favorite comic :D ^^
Oh, and Alex – your development with Bevan and his doublers – all in all it is a puzzle, which will put the original actor who plays Bevan (yet knowing the Dakkan actor likes too much equate with true Dakkan XD ) XD for me a fantastic complement to my graphics, really healthy I laughed XD ^^ Thank you for everything Alex and rachel :D :D :D
And for the next month whenende this second chapter, I have a plan to draw another of this type of graphic ^^ ;)
Yay :D And literally yesterday when I draw new graphic and of course make on computer my photos from my travel to my door knocked courier with the thing for which I waited probably 1.5 months – straight from you from America, arrived finaly of the real original book the first part of the BWD :D :D :D ^^ it was a beautiful moment, my heart was beating like a hammer, I’m so happy ^^ :D ;)
So your comic book is literally at the other end of the world ^^ :) Greetings from Kraków for all friends ;) ^^ https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11737892_404070223114978_8964939079100912313_n.jpg?oh=66854345d5edbd6d8cb9f2b133bcf56b&oe=564BB724
Awesome news, Jakub! My first copy just showed up in the mail today and already has a treasured place on my shelf.
The differences in dialogue between the online comic nd the printed version, though 8O.
It’s also great Fourth ^^ – I now with impatience wait for the book second chapter ^^ :D
And one more interesting thing, a little outside on BWD topic.:
I think that are you all remember a few weeks ago, was some discussion of brilliant graphics of Mr Jeromie – to “Song of Eastern sands” – graphic shows the market, and a lot of us including expect of pole from the booth, with a wooden prosthesis, one of the one character from this graphic.
And there was a discussion on this, and I found that it would be interesting to do something like this, someone with a wooden prosthesis;
So, I just finished a sketch of my new graphic, and the main hero of my graphics I gave just such wooden prothesis of left leg (Rasław is old experienced in fight/many battles Warrior, tells the kids to Slavic legends, fairy tails and war adventures from his life ;) )
Please, Mr Jeromie, Alex and Rachel, don’t be angry for me – I just think about such graphic after this discusion, and this my graphic (in style, culture, art, buildings, weapon, etc.)It has nothing to do with BWD world and culture and heroes ;) – That’s what I draw this type of graphics, my native culture (Slavs) of the early Middle Ages the Slavs from Central Europe, and the denture gave out of curiosity, what will be the final result – and I think that he looks great with this wooden protsthesis ;)
http://cracowpoland2013.deviantart.com/art/Tales-of-the-old-warrior-sketch-547192733
I wonder if Dakkan has really processed yet what’s happened in those short moments. He doesn’t look upset at his dad. Could he have seen this coming?
Could this be more evidence of supervillain Dakkan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAf0QnLFS7Q
(Apparently I’m stuck on linking youtube videos today)
Poor dude is still in shock I think.
He IS in shock Saraa :p XD
Oh he’ll get whiny in a page or two, mark my words.
I’m wondering if the next page is going to be Dak punching Kenosh in the face. Or if not on the next page, than sometime in the future.
I also with the same thought, that Dakkan can in the best case to hit Kenosh in face, and if will continue to be erratic with a some weapon/sword could throw at Kenosh (as Saraa mentioned above)
That quote was hilariously Canid; I can just picture one of the background characters saying it.
This was a little less than what I thought was going to happen… but still horrible.
Well. This is not unexpected, but sad nonetheless. . . If you go look at the map, there is a place at the map’s southern edge called “The Below.” So what’s down there, anyway?
Wine rack, unused exercise bike covered by a sheet, couple of storage heaters, tins of leftover housepaint, poorly galvanised gardening tools, step ladder, fire lighters, rope, phillips head screwdrivers but no flathead, imperfectly sorted National Geographic back issues, drawer full of candles and electric torches, box of Christmas decorations.
Y’know, just some stuff.
Some random Felis is totally hoarding all that National Geographic.
Hmmm…. But in this month’s Geopraphic Natinal, has nothing baout this topics… O.o Strange…
Pardon* * National Geographic ;)
I prefer Nautical Geoggraphic, starring Jaques Costeau and Captain Nemo.
heh XD
I found Beyond he Western Deep last week, via the Lackadaisy post, and have got to say that I am blown away by how awesome it is. The world, the fascinating politics, the amazing characters; it all makes for a wonderful yarn. Not to mention the art! This comic is so visually compelling, it’s almost like watching a movie.
In a week I have managed to become thoroughly engrossed in this story and completely emotionally invested in the characters. I love Quinlan and Dakkan, particularly their friendship, and am fascinated by Hardin. They are all, in one way or another, relatable, despite being so different from each other. Quinlan is definitely making me want to take up archery again. (And Hardin…ah, leading a revolution?)
The fact that the morality of the story is so complex, with no clear ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’, makes for a very rewarding read. I like that it is challenging the audience to think. It’s difficult to find a book or tv show that is entertaining as well as deep and thought provoking, but Beyond the Western Deep hits that mark perfectly.
So thanks for the great story. I’ll definitely be following this one; I can’t wait to see what happens!
Hi, Kate! Welcome to the salmon party and I hope to see you around here again!
(And you’re absolutely right about the thought-provoking side of BWD adding to how awesome it is).
Hello Kate on Salmon Party :D; and nice to meet you ^^ :D
I hope that you will often here – when us is more is merrier ^^
(And yes – you have great right/Holy words – honestly I would have better epitomized this whole story ;) ^^ )
Instead of good guys and bad guys this story has ‘people getting punched’ and ‘people doing the punching’ as sides.
I would add that, violence begets violence – unfortunately, both side are to blame, but more are guilty and are real war – Canid, because it’s all their fault, that they started this war – and Ermehn, unfortunately, had to defend… Violence begets violence…
That is certainly true from the Ermehn perspective, yes. :B
. . . whereas the Canid see the land of Aisling as their rightful territory (rightfully stolen, heh) and the Ermehn as nothing more than a group of troublemakers long past their time, but still numerous enough to be dangerous.
Honestly, this entire comic is a lesson from the Obi-Wan Kenobi school of the Importance of Perspective.
Yes, Exactly ;) (And don’t remember that
I feel and integrate in 100% with Ermehn ;) (I say taht I’m “Polish Ermehn” XD ) )
But despite all the wrongs and the terrible things, what Canid did to us, I wish peace and forgiveness on both sides – we need to forgive and ask for forgiveness with Canid ;)
…And I add one ore thing; that we all want and need this reconciliation and forgiveness and life in friendship and peace, but historical truth (who is the main guilty) cannot be lie…
A bit of a late hello from me, but welcome to the fandom! Glad you’re enjoying the comic. We’re happy to have you. c:
WHATTT?? OMG!!! my mind is blow im literally crying.,….
Interesting story, definitely will look at getting book in future, and will come back to in future, as have a lot of furry comics to currently read so went through pretty quick and its 2am in UK so falling azzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Anyway, keep up the good work and look forward to seeing more.