Right, so I pulled out of the previous GFX round due to not being able to finish on time. Since then I've been working on the image on-and-off and now it's finished only about a week late.
The picture shown below is half the size, the fullsize one can be found by clicking on the picture.
The full resolution pic (1280xs1024) is low quality...the high quality version is 1.1Mb and doesn't fit on photobucket xD Lame. Except I feel justified with the size...this was hand-drawn from start to finish.
I should have tidied up the sketchlines more, but wasn't actually intending to spend this much effort on it. Meh.
*sips Chai latte* this isn't mah problem. ---- If I was in the MWT. . . . . . . . ------- Alt walked down the street, a chai latte and a scone in his hand. He mercilessly nommed his scone, before stopping and looking at an ornate thread-building; it was called the MWT, and had almost 200 pages! Alt was amazed at this marvel, and his chai latte fell to the floor in shock. He shrugged, said "Whatever," and wa;ked off into the setting Sun.
*flail* I do! Seriously! You can trust me when I say I don't doubt your ability to think up good titles etc.!!!
I only understood the significance of the title when I started thinking about Strop's story, then read your brief. Ordinarily I've been in the habit of thinking up my own titles specific to Strop's context because I felt it would be a bit awkward to have multiple storylines with the same chapter titles, but this one was much too good to pass up.
Couldn't quite manage the same haul, and will slow down now that I've gotten much of the idea down. I also fixed a couple of the pages from earlier.
WARNING, some of the images may be a bit gruesome.
Page 16:
So throughout the course of the MWT, Strop actually got bashed around quite a bit, and picked up a list of injuries to rival Kai's. Well, probably not, but he's had quite a number pulled on him.
Page 17:
Strop actually unmasked! And boy does he look like crap. Nothing for a reality check on your vitals like a good dose of hematemesis! Carlie tells Strop something he told Kai way back in chapter 4.
Page 18:
Strop succumbs to haemorrhagic shock. But permanently?
Page 19:
In a distant tower in the distant ArmorCastle...note that we've now cut to Strop's room, the unfinished concept for which is here. Strop...likes horses.
Page 20:
I am in fact referencing a poem by Kenneth Slessor here, where bells means funeral bells. Strop is feeling a little cathartic.
Page 21:
Strop realises his Zen peace isn't nearly perfect.
Page 22:
Carlie, in her dyspnoeic brevity, inadvertantly provides Strop with the perfect answer to his conundrum.
Page 23:
Woah, it's Orlestat. Right about now a whole lot of things should be making more sense!
By the way, Carlie is covering Strop so that he isn't naked anymore.
That's it for now, stay tuned for the rest of the epilogue!
I am in fact referencing a poem by Kenneth Slessor here, where bells means funeral bells. Strop is feeling a little cathartic.
Hmm, thought you were reffering to John Donne.
Anyways, pretty nice stuff. As I haven't read the whole of this thread, this does seem kinda trippy, but hey. Best page has gotta be 17. Looks like he's had one too many kebabs after a night on the lash.
Haha, maybe I was referencing both. I did have Five Bells in mind when scribbling that page.
It will be next to impossible to make sense of the story unless you somehow manage to catch up 4 months' worth of storywriting...but the short of it is that it's part of the conclusion to a long-running event.