October 29th, 2008
The Wings Beneath My Wind
I was missing Vivol, so here he is!
Just a reminder: this is the last week for the T-Shirt Pre-Orders. I’ll be buying extra stock based on the most popular sizes to sell through the store, but I don’t know how long they’ll last, so if you’ve got your eye on a specific size or colour, better grab it now. They’ll be shipping before Christmas.
See you all next week!
-karl
October 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Wow, very nice set up…..
Can not wait to see what is next, you just keep us in the edge, very nice Karl.
BTW, it is nice to see Vivol again
October 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
You really like to tease us, don’t you? Well, maybe it’s just the best to not know what has happen to townsen…
October 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Nice, but short.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Karl, ssshhhh. If my wife catches WIND of this then it’ll ruin xmas. I hope she doesn’t read these comments. that would suck. if so, hi wife. heh. heh.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I hate the movie “The Birds” because it’s based on true events. That last panel reminds me of it. Kinda creepy.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Interesting. I thought the largest bird (a crow?) in the panel was simply closer to the viewer, but I see that some smaller figures are even closer. Assuming that’s not an art mistake, that’s one big bird!
October 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Your artwork is great!
October 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Magnificant…
October 29th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I didn’t see it at first, but the subtle placing of the smaller birds really accentuates the immense scale of the big one. I didn’t think much of that last panel until I noticed that.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Karl – thanks for notice on shirts – just placed my order . Could you ask your friend at “Squidwool” if he will make any more of the TACC item – shows he’s sold out – wanted one to stick to my hat .
Anyways – nice to see Vivol again – and as Tim McCormack noted ” Assuming that’s not an art mistake, that’s one big bird! Looks like the same one that got Townsend – Hmmm – maybe it’s gonna take Vivol to help Townsend – nah that would be to simple – not in your style – then again – what do I know . Thanks again
October 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
are they coming in to feed?
October 29th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
If that’s the bird that took Townsen, then I can see how Charles was fooled.
He must have misjudged the bird’s size, seemingly small and approaching slow and then suddenly growing immensely as it grabbed the Fox and left in a flurry of feathers.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I was right… It was the wind that took townsen…
The lion, who I might add was the wind before, explodes night sky, the wind is really created by giant ravens, what exactly is Moon Bear?, all the characters talk except for TACC, none of the other characters, excepting Vivol, seem to know that something dark and brooding is building, the only signs of humanity we’ve seen so far is a single hunter and the circus long ago…
This is getting very, well, for lack of a better word, odd.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
misterious, i love it, awesome work as always
October 29th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
ya know…. crows have a wing span of nearly 2 feet . . . .
…. that bird is going to give me nightmares now . . .
October 29th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Just looking at that panel I had Flight of the Valkyries running through my head…
October 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
gotta love vivol, cant wait to see more of the old fella’s backstory
October 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yay! Vivol <3 In my head his voice sounds like the voice actor for Capt. Gloval on Robotech in the 80′s. =D
October 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Ah, good old Captain Gloval. I was a HUGE Robotech fan.
And that voice is pretty accurate.
October 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Man, you sure know how to keep us in suspense. And yes, it is great to see Vivol.
Kristen, the movied ‘The Birds’ by Alfred Hitchcock, is based on a short story of the same name, written by Daphne du Maurier and is not based on real events. I don’t know who told you it was, but they are wrong.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I adore this one, and am not really sure why.
Come to think of it, the more I look at it, the more I begin to understand it, and see that the disparate pieces from before are slowly starting to fit together.
Townsen once asked “are you the wind?”
Karl, did you know from the beginning what the wind was, or was this one of those things where you just saw the solution suddenly?
October 30th, 2008 at 8:40 am
wow – was going to write about the third frame, but the whole thing has got me thinking. Beautiful as always!
This may sound wrong, but I enjoy the way the whole CC story is like a surreal children’s moral philosophical fantasy soap opera – I grew up with biblical stories and war comics. This, with it’s constant raising of questions, would have been better primer for the world
October 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am
well if it is the wind and is on the same level as the moon bear, then im guessing that changing size is not a hard task for it. but it could also be that the smaller bird was placed wrongly, but i dont know just like the others tis just simple speculation, i hope his name is Garuda tho lol!! but once again fantastic art and fantastic story keep it up Karl!
October 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
what is that crafty Wind up to? i always knew it was evil…
October 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
@Archivist: I like your hypothesis. Definitely not a layering mistake!
October 30th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Vivol used article. Vivol fake Russian.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:21 am
Okay, smart guy. I fixed it.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:49 am
Yay, Vivol is back again. And the fox-snatching bird really isn’t evil. Townsen always wanted to meet the Wind.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Oh, damn you Fake Vivol. Please change it back, karl, I liked it better before it was “fixed”…
This is a serious comic and there’s no need for the missing article, which only confuses the sentence and distracts from what he’s saying; he doesn’t have to always avoid articles, just sometimes, and this is not a good time.
Vivol has used articles before, for example in “Best Served Cold” (Vivol & Moon Bear part 3) – “sadness must come to AN end”.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Vivol XD Missed him too.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Looks like the crow is holding something in his right claw – Townsen? The plot thickens!!
November 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I dunno what Captain Gloval sounded like…but I hear Zero Mostel when Vivol talks. Like when he was Keehar in Watership Down…but a little deeper and, obviously, without cawing.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I changed it back to the original dialogue. Esn was right – it just didn’t flow.
I’m calling ‘artistic license’ on this one.
@Esn – to answer your question, I’ve had plans for the wind for a little while now, but I didn’t think of this scene until I was drawing it. Originally, it was a much different strip.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I think I need to go back and reread the whole comic… I’m definitely losing track of the characters/plot line…
amazing, as always. You’re eye for detail is astounding.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
Thank you Karl.
I’m sorry if I overreacted a little back there.
I don’t think you have to necessarily resort to “artistic license”, though; it’s not uncommon for non-native speakers to remember or forget the rules of that language depending on their emotional state. Sometimes one has enough “mental room left over” to remember how to say something properly, other times not. That’s been my experience, anyway.
Also, I love how Vivol’s appearance subtly changes depending on how we are meant to see him. In his first appearance he is a scary, powerful bear with scars all over him. In the “bouncer” strip and this one he looks more gentle and noble. Both parts of the same nature.
By the way, I’d be very happy if you took up that suggestion in your recent interview to do Charles more than once a week.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
hahaha, I don’t know it just seems like funny dialogue to me. “I’m on to you now wind!” *shakes fist at sky* “And I’m watching you too clouds.”
So wait, we have the animals. than we have the humans, does nature have it’s own agenda here or something. There is obvious an an obscure and unseen element working and lurking in the shadows here. Can’t wait to see what it’s up to.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Vivol is my favorite character!
November 4th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
so much to be lookin’ fwd to when following this strip
the comic relief to the actual plot line
gold Karl…gold
November 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I hope this story never ends.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
“the only signs of humanity we’ve seen so far is a single hunter and the circus long ago…” AND the city skyline in Nurture vs Nature, Three Things and False Prophet.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
And what is it that makes the wind blow? The trees flapping their branches or the dark birds their wings?
March 6th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I’m not exactly confused.. I just don’t know where I am. You’ve woven a supremely fantastic web.