Hey /co/ let's read Beautiful Darkness!

>>85060165
>tfw I have this on my shelf
Feels good man

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>>85060165
How is everyone doing today?

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>>85060251
I love having Kerascoet on the book.

>>85060259
Dan you hackfraud, you promised me Sandman Mystery Theatre a year ago!

Good, how are you?

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>>85060289
Did I do that? Oh......

>>85060165
Oh god no.
I mean it's great, but I really can't stomach it. It's too disturbing.
You guys have fun.

>>85060381

Oh yeah, now I remember what this was. I don't think I'm up for a re-read right now.

What did he mean by this?

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>>85060682
A lot of people, myself included, subscribe to the theory that these tiny humanoids represent different facets of human nature.

>>85060711
>A lot of people, myself included, subscribe to the theory that these tiny humanoids represent different facets of human nature.
OK, what do you mean by this? They're all characters. Do they represent different facets of human nature more than any other comic with a large cast?

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>>85060844
Im saying that each of them, especially the ones that have very little character are literal core aspects of humanity.

Greed, shyness, hunger

You know?

>>85060844
They lived in that dead girl when she was less dead. They were probably personified aspects of her personality rather than just tiny parasite people.

>>85060887
I don't know if I can agree exactly. Those aren't specifically human emotions (they also associate with at least a rat in this), many of the characters aren't so flat or easily templated, and hunger is a universal struggle for most of characters. I think that's only true for this as it's true for like, Lord of the Flies.

>>85060910
Do you think? Like the little impish manipulative guy, and the two princesses, and the useless prince? That seems complex to map to aspects of a child's personality.

I think that maybe these are the stories the girl was told when she was alive, and what happens to them is sort of how these stories and their messages break down in light of her death.

>>85060165
Seriously, Dan, are you trying to kill me tonight?

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>>85061164
You? No. I love you anon.

>>85061297
Jesus christ, so much fucked up on one page.

>>85061297
>I'll pretend to pray

How fucked up is this gonna get before it ends?

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>>85061371
Yes

>>85061371
It has an ending out of The Bride Wore Black or I Spit On Your Grave desu

this is the only good thing drawn and quarterly have ever published, their website is like the definition of hipster garbage when it comes to the trash they sell

>>85061396
At least there's a tiny bit of catharsis at the end.

>>85061396
>hooks in the snail
>>85061534
>small scratches inside
[screaming intensifies]

>>85061579
It's the small details that really accentuate the horror of this comic.

>>85060165
Based Dan!

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>>85061665
I wouldn't go that far.

>>85061748
least favourite page incoming

>>85061895
HAHAHA YES

>>85061687
She want dat whale dick

Yo, Dan. You've introduced me to so many good comics over the past two years or so. Bought this book, and most others you've ST'd.

Got nothing to add to the Beautiful Darkness discussion that hasn't been said before. Just love it, even the nauseating bits.

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>>85061977
I'm glad you like it anon, that's always the goal, this book deserves a lot of love.

>>85061766
You're fucking me.

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Thanks for reading /co/!

Is it implied that the man in the cabin murdered the real girl?

Dan have you storytimed Lady Killer? Thought that might be a good one sometime with the writer signing a DC exclusive recently and people being interested in what her work is like.

>>85062052
Not really. A lot of people assume either that or she was his daughter.

>>85062052
No. The general consensus is that she ate random mushrooms like an idiot and they were poisonous. He might be related to her though.

>>85062075
I've got it on my list, I'll bump it up if you want.

>>85062052
I think it's a reading you can make. The broken doll is significant, also Jane and Aurora's differing reactions to him (Jane appears older, physically, right?) When the man is shown doing anything, it's always destroying something - taking apart a mechanism, skinning a rabbit, burning paper.

The only thing even close to sex in this is >>85061475 which says something too.

Whether or not that is what happened is just a reading though.

>>85062052
that was my thought when he first appeared but nothing actually implies he did it? it seems like hes just a random dude living in a cabin

>>85062052
>>85062092

I'm in the Dad/Daughter camp. I think, as stated, each little person represented part of the girl's personality. Jane (her independence) would innately dislike her father, while Aurora (love) would be innately be drawn to him.

>>85062043
That story's so sweet, I like how the cute fairy-girl gets rid of the femboy and all the bitch fairies and gets herself a nice white republican husband.

>>85062356
I imagined this taking place in Europe. So I don't see the republican thing.

>>85061643
>>85061666
>>85061803
The numerous half finished wine bottles and cigarettes strewn throughout the house coupled with the doll/dollhouse clock reinforce the theory that the man is a father coping with the loss of his child.

>>85061587
>>85061961

Additionally he seems to spend his free time fiddling with what may possibly be the clock, especially since it appears to be broken. But then again he never appears to move it so who knows.

>>85062485
Maybe the daughter really liked the clock and he is trying to fix it, like a metaphor for him fixing his life.

>>85062149

I've not been around /co/ long but you're good people Dan, I can tell.


Also yeah put me in the camp of she ate mushrooms and died. The page moves like molasses on mobile but isn't there a page which says "we can't eat mushrooms, we know some of them are poisonous" or something? Implies it heavily I think.

>>85062699
I wouldn't go that far, I'm just some guy.

Also that is a good point if true, I'll have to look for that page.

>>85062485
>>85062568

Wait upon reflection Aurora set up her nest in the clock during the transition from fall to winter, stockpiling it with the battery/coins/a fucking pinecone. So it's most likely been given up on.

>>85062929
Yeah but he's still working on it at the end.

>>85062975
Like the internal mechanism.

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She did everything wrong.

Off topic, but has anyone scanned a comic called Fantasy Sports by Sam Bosma? I got it from the library and could probably knock it out.

I also got a Hitler manga by Shigeru Mizuki, but that's like 200+ pages, so I'll do that some other time when I can get a copy to own.

Oh my, the first time I read this. That sweet sweet ending.

>>85062975
>>85063025

Oh yeah just realized how empty the clock was, especially with the gear on the floor. Thanks senpai.

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>>85061534

>>85062409
A tory then or whatever you frenchies have over there.

>>85063229
I asked for it on 32 pages iirc and haven't seen it yet.

>>85063357
No problem love.

>>85063439
I'm from the Midwest...

>>85063449

Ah cool, I tried looking for it on the win-o threads and couldn't find it, so I've been scanning it. All the images are 4+MB though, so I gotta lower their image quality so it can be storytimed. It has a brown tomboy/reverse trap, if anyone is into that.

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>>85061534

>>85063449
Look I can't be bothered to keep all those mid-european slav lands straight, there's like at least twenty of them, and they all got similar names. The main point is he's definitely an epic beardo whatever your country's tories is called.

>>85063806
I'm from Nebraska anon, I'm an American.

>>85063229
>>85063449
>>85063502

If you guys are talking about issue one with the basketball arena duel I bought it as a digital download a while back. If you guys want it I can pull my email off of it and stick it up on mega

Also uh Dan did you have a link to like some sorta /co/ indiecomic mega or something? I lost track of it.

>>85063778
I would love to see an animated film of any of Kerascoet's work.

>>85063229

Didn't you make other images like this?

>>85063867
I have like 5 media fires, let me get them for you,

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>>85063867
>If you guys want it I can pull my email off of it and stick it up on mega

Yeah, I'll storytime it if you do.

>>85063899

Yeah, I did Zelie, Timothy, Specs, and Jane.

>>85062751

Found it, and I was wrong:

>>85060711

So a bunch of the little people died from eating them, doesn't really implied it killed the girl at all.

>>85063909
not that anon but Dan you are such a sweetie and a hero

>>85063909
Thanks Dan. Love ya.

>>85063961
Okay. Gimme just a second.

>>85064222
I REALLY wouldn't go that far, but thanks.

>>85060945
oh jesus....
I thought this was going to be some cute kiddie comic

>>85064276
Oh, sorry. No it's not.

>>85061766
Expecting me to believe that the one small person who was the most competent and who didn't need anyone to survive would be killed or/and robbed by them.
>>85061895
Poor glasses girl. Did was innocent ;_;

I like the idea that they were the stories she had been told as a child who then took on a life of her own when she died. Many of them appear at first literally crawling out of her head and a lot of them seem mappable to character archetypes of more common fables:

>Humble and kind princess
>Vain and horrible fake princess/usurper
>Well-meaning but ultimately useless prince
>Selfish trickster who can't be trusted
>Fools/non-entities whose deaths are meant to educate children about real dangers.

Then the story ends with the good kind princess locking the wicked fake and her evil minions in a fireplace to be burned alive off-screen. The back-page blurb calls it an anti-fairy tale and that sounds about right: "Here's how those stories would play in the real world".

Will look into more stuff the creator has done.

>>85064352
She might have just not thought it was worth the trouble and gave them the robin.

>>85064354

>>85064352

Yeah but in the end she turned away from doing the right thing (comforting or leaving with Aurora) and went to serve the usurper. Fairy-tale morality says she shares the punishment.

>>85063961

Let's see the others then!

>>85064354
>>85056430

This and Beauty are all by the same Artist. Beauty has the same artist and writer.

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>>85064352

Yeah, it's too bad Specs couldn't have been spared, but she was loyal to Zelie and might have fucked up Aurora's plan.

>>85064415

Here is Specs.

>>85064383
I guess. It's unlikely she survived in the winter cold.

>>85061433
ohshitnigga.jpg

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>>85064469

I think she had a better chance than the rest of the other creatures. She'd at least know how to make a fire or forage for food.

>>85064455
>>85064415

And here is Jane.

>>85064469
Oh yeah I honestly think they just killed her.

>>85063229
>>85063961
>>85064455
>>85064571

Thanks!

>>85061534
>small scratches

>>85064290
it's ok, it was still a great read! Thanks for the storytime Dan!

>>85064945
No need to thank me. I just post other people's work on 4chan.

>>85060727
w..w..what am i in for here this is very disturbing i need an adult i think?

I kinda want more but I also understand that more would run out its welcome and get bad real quick.

Kinda sad.

>>85060165
Thanks again, Danny Boy. Is "Beauty" next or are you saving that one for a rainy day?

>>85060803
Every damn time.

I can see Laika doing a film on this.

just for a minute, let's all do the bump

>>85061708
Did this one die in the cold?

>>85062260
If you insert the adjective "childish" in front of each. Childish love... childish obedience... childish superiority... childish glee... childish fear...

>>85071132

>>85062485
>The numerous half finished wine bottles and cigarettes strewn throughout the house coupled with the doll/dollhouse clock reinforce the theory that the man is a father coping with the loss of his child.
Why didn't the child get a proper burial, then? She was lying out in the open, it couldn't be that hard to find.

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>>85061297
>>85061534

>>85068912
As much as I'd love to see more atmospheric horror from Laika, I don't picture them doing something quite this grotesque.

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Well, that was unpleasant. But well done. Not sure how I feel right now. Not great.

Thanks OP.

>>85072898
I can see them get around it. Either them or Cartoon Saloon, even though they would never do something like this.

Holy fuck OP, I had never even heard of this before. Thanks for storytiming...even though it was kinda depressing.

What do you guys think happened to Jane?

>>85075035
Gang violence. We don't know how many of the little bastards were left with Aurora. Jane is competent, but how strong can she be against a group of other people her size that don't feel empathy?

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>>85060165
>This night
>Miss Don't Touch Me
>Beauty
>Beautiful Darkness
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, DAN!

I'M SO FUCKING DEPRESSED NOW!!

>>85075178

She was taller than even Zelie, who sure as hell wasn't going to do any fighting. The only guys were who armed were Pilm and that other little boy with the spikey helmet.

>>85075429
Sorry love, I wanted to story time some beautifully sad comics today.

>>85075035
She was murdered

What the fuck did I just read?

>>85075861
A truly amazing comic.

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What would happen if Aurora met Pelen Purul

>>85075429
I hate to ask but hey Dan do you have a mega or something so I can get these sweet reads? also bumping

>>85077585
>>85077585
Here you go

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>>85077639
Thanks so much!

>>85077799
No need to thank me, I just post other people's work on 4chan.

>>85077639
Dan, could you do some weird Vertigo series that people forgot about/didn't read
like some one-shots or graphic novels and Milligans stuff or Vertigo Vérité and all that strange shit that was kinda beautiful
if you have any favorites or links that'd be coolio

>>85077890
I'll give it some serious thought!

>>85064596

I find it very hard to believe that they COULD.

>>85063229

Why do people obey her? It doesn't have any logic to it. She contributes nothing and demands everything.

>>85080068
Because she's beautiful and mother-like in appearence, Anon.

>>85080048
They're psychopaths and outnumbered her. Besides, given the tone of this, her death is the most likely outcome.

>>85080714

Yeah, but it'd be like fighting children.

You can beat a small army of kids by picking up a stick.

>>85080754
>implying

>>85080068
Because she's beautiful. To kids, beauty means goodness, so they think she is good no matter what.
Compare her to the slightly plainer Aurora and the more adult Jane, its a wonder why they prefer Zelie.

>>85061766
>>85075035
>>85075178
>>85075435

I'm thinking they might have gotten her by surprise. I picture her trying to warn them to stop and the others looking bored or something while one of them (the guy in the beetle armor, maybe? I can't recall his name at the moment) sneaks around to her back and then runs her through with his spear. Maybe he noticed Zelie admiring the bird and took it upon himself to get it for his "princess" to earn her praise or maybe she whispered/gestured to him that she wanted it.

I just imagine that the whole ordeal was a complete surprise to Jane and that the worst of it was over quickly. Otherwise she could have easily escaped them.

>>85060165

>>85081767
cha cha cha

>>85083779

>>85060165
Bumping because this is one of my favorites.

>>85075035
There's no evidence of a struggle, no minor details like blood on the spears or ruffed up people. I Jane faded away instantly just like how Timothy's body disappeared in the bag. Remember that the bag was empty except for some scratches.

>>85089295
Plim says he emptied it out. As in Tim's body.

Good read

Always love your storytimes Dan.

Was it you or kind storyteller who did Jack Knight Starman a few months back? Can't find it in my folders anymore and was wondering.

>>85060381
...

Well then.

>>85089295
They weren't the smartest bunch,, so I just assume she got fed up with trying to warn them and fucked off to somewhere else and left the bird behind. It's not like she never ran out on Aurora before.

>>85093516
>suddenly disappearing without Aurora, the steed she worked to tame, and the shelter that she had established for the winter
Sadly I think the implications are less than pleasant...

>>85093949
Well if they were all going to barge on and ruin things anyway, there was really no point in staying. Besides, none of them had anything to kill with, and the only murders they committed were due to negligence, since the MC was the one who actually killed Mr. Mouse

>>85060981
>this is my schlicking arm

>>85094578
>Besides, none of them had anything to kill with

Pilm and that other boy had spears. >>85061766

But like someone else said, there wasn't any blood on the weapon. They might not even be able to use them properly.

It's possible Jane left because she couldn't force them to leave, and she figured they'd just act like idiots and attract the attention of the giant.

>>85063419
That's clearly a Mononoke reference, right?

>>85094578
>>85094890
I think Plim denying ever having known her was a red flag.

Plus if Jane was going to leave I think she simply would have left with the bird.

>>85094578
She dead, anon

>>85061708
It's sad, for as grotesque as everyone thought her to be, the one living off of maggots in a rotted out corpse is one of the few characters who never hurts anyone.

>>85096511
She sure hurt those maggots. You're making Papa Nurgle sad.

>>85064455
Specs was a coward, but I don't know if she really deserved what happened...

>>85096642
>really deserved
I think half the point of this comic is its amorality. In the end Aurora survives by going full psycho.

>>85096391
Makes more sense. They probably killed her, took her bird and denied ever seeing her.

>>85096474
Let the ambiguity grant them a small chance of hope.

>>85063961
Best girl.

>>85096391
Did anyone actually know her? I don't remember her in any scenes with other characters

>>85096942
Knew her long enough to get her bird.

I have nothing but questions.

I know it's supposed to be surreal, but goddamn. Now I've got all sorts of wonderings about how their societies operate, why they're sociopaths, all sorts of things.

>>85097255
They're "sociopaths" because they're in some unexplained way part of the psyche of a child. Children aren't naturally moral, they have to be taught that shit. Innocence goes both way.

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>>85097255
>how their societies operate
Not well apparently.

>>85061433

Fuck me, man.

>>85061456

Okay, I spoke too soon. NOW, fuck me.

At first I actually felt bad for these character, and as the story progressed I was actively rooting for their deserved deaths (asides from Timothy and Jane.) Thanks for the great storytime Dan.

>>85061456

A rat would have killed and eaten them all.

>>85097255

I think they're based on old school fairies.

The fey of legend are actually very cruel, capricious things.

>>85062117

Perhaps. But >>85061131 maybe-implies that she died with a scream. That could have been a fall or something, but this book does have a theme of thoughtless, meaningless cruelty.

I find it interesting, too, that >>85061961 doesn't seem to show enough space in the cabin for both a man and his daughter.

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>>85061895
>>85061917

excellent

>>85062929

It's not clear when in fall and winter these scenes take place. Theoretically, they could even be just before and just after the first snowfall.

And if he is making progress, what's going to happen when he tried to put the mechanism back in its housing?

>>85098261

A blind mouse?

>>85061523
Prince Charming's offed by a frog. Ironic.

>>85060998
>>85061068
I kind of expected these two to destroy each other...

>>85060165
Dan, seriously
fuck off

who had the worst death? for me it's a toss up between the bird beak, the ant hill and the boiler

>>85100982
Timothy left buried alive is pretty brutal

>>85075429
i dont like the end of Miss Don't Touch Me, but i dont think is depressing

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>>85101779
>Timothy probably died suffocating while listening to the baby left above her grave

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>>85102698

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>>85061534
>shy girl burried alive
>crazy pretty girl killing people left and right
>nice girl has gone full tribal and is wearing the pelt of the mouse who she once called friend

The worst part is that in a sense, this is the story of a little girl dying over and over again, since they're all part of her.

>>85097255
They're sociopaths because they're the product of a child's imagination. Children tend not to be empathetic towards other living things or eachother until adolescence.

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>>85102698
easily the worst, and she got buried willingly because she thought it was the right thing to do.

>>85103547
>adolescence
And even then they get better at a slow pace.

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>>85060165

Oh shit beautiful darkness I love this

why am I getting excited for this dark storytime

>>85103383
Well it's more like the remaining parts are dying off but by bit rather than repeated dying.
Turns out this was all just the process of decay.

>>85103904
I got that vibe too. They're disappearing in the middle of nowhere because nature is doing its thing, or because they turn on each other. Same as when your gut flora starts eating at you.

>>85063229
>>85063961
>>85064455
>>85064571

Thx for the reference sheets misha

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>>85104480

No problem, always nice to get more BD fanart.

>>85103785
Yeah, but that's the point where you start to think about what other people are thinking about, if only so that you can get your dick wet.

last bumpity-boo

make France great again

After last night I need a break from the emotional roller-coaster. Will check this out another time.

>>85105253
What happened last night?

>>85060381
Whoa.

>>85105253

Greentext

>>85060381
The thing is, she has no wounds or obvious signs of struggle. Considering her proximity to that tree, I think it's likely that she climbed it and fell, breaking her neck, rather than any sort of foul play.

>>85060711
Fuck Dan, this is dark.

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>>85060803
I wasn't expecting this.

My last bump before bed

/co/ is loev

>>85105562
She seems to have a skull fracture, we see this one >>85060945 slip back into her head before her flesh has fully decomposed.

>>85102698
>>85101779

Glad I found this after reading Beauty.
The page with Timothy's ceremony got me. Laid back and rubbed my eyes for a full minute until I was able to force out a laugh, because if I didn't laugh I'd start crying.

>>85061422
>Bride Wore Black
These movies look cool. Are they like gory Kill Bills? Realizing I have a penchant for revenge stories.

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>recognize art style from Miss.Don't Touch me
>this can't be what it seems
>shit starts going down

>>85061432
>I genuinely believe Marvel and DC publish anything with any merit.

>>85112468
I honestly believe that

>>85072718
You'd be surprised how long bodies in the woods go unnoticed.
The setting seems rural too. I grew up in woods that stretches between at least three states. When we were looking for someone or the dog, we checked around the house, any 'landmarks' and just end up wandering.

>>85061587
What is he Building?

>>85062052
>>85062204
Why Else does he ingnore the Body and does not bury it?

>>85112815
Yeah this is what cements for me that he killed her. The man lives very near to where she died. The smell of rot would not go unnoticed.

>>85096511
she's one of the few that survives, huh? or is it implied her corpse house didn't have enough heating?

meh

>>85061154
I saw them as competing desires. The less they were satisfied, the more powerful they became by being forced to think outside their programming and use their environment. When she stopped being a child, many of them simply died, and more obscure ones rose in prominence. The ones who took competition seriously owned the end game, the desires for love, adoration and independence. Adoration had a really strong game by promising to satisfy other desires by proxy, but couldn't stand up to both independence and love, especially since the latter is what the girl named as her self.

>>85062167
>taking apart a mechanism, skinning a rabbit, burning paper
Repairing a mechanism, preparing food he acquired himself, maintaining a warm shelter. He is always providing something, in such abundance he can house guests and not even notice it.

>>85061895
Burninating the townspeople. Burninating the town.

>>85112815
When does he even discover the body? Aurora is far from the camp bathing during their first encounter.

>>85080068
At first because Plim serves her, and then out of habit. Plim is Hank Hill.

>>85094578
She still would have tried to keep the robin, and would succeed with it's speed if she stayed mounted. She would also have returned for the scissor.

>>85112971
She'll die when the maggots finish off the corpse if not. She won't give up childhood.

>>85105117
It's at age 22. The last bit of brain grows in.

>>85098202
Timothy and Jane had their own sins. Nobody got through this cleanly and alive.

beautiful bumpness

What did the fly mean? Why did Aurora cry when she saw it?

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>>85115144

Remember that she is very small. "Far from the camp" could just be a stone's throw away for a regular sized person.

>>85080068

Zelie is basically like a douchey kid from middle school. The kind that would pick on and make fun of lamer students. To other kids seeing this, they find the bully kid entertaining to be with to be with. At this point, the bully has his own little gang, and can use them to more effectively bully people.

Also, she's noticeably larger than the other people, who are pretty childlike, so they might look at her as a mother or big sister figure.

>>85115550

What sins did Timothy have? All we see her doing is hiding because she was rightly afraid of others' reactions to her, and take care of an abandoned babby. Timothy did nothing wrong.

>>85060165
On phone with shitty work wifi but image instantly makes me think of Over The Garden Wall

I think that if you subscribe to the father daughter and the little people being aspects of the child's personality/nature theories it's important to note the significance of Aurora being the last alive and with the father.

Even though Aurora (love) has become hardened, bitter, and jaded she still retains her core quality. Her being the last one alive could be some kind of symbolism for the father coming to terms with the death of his daughter. Even if he's become hardened and bitter his love for his daughter will always remain, even after memories of her quirks and faults may have faded.

>>85061666
>>85061687
>>85061787
>>85061864
Those mouse ears seem mighty familiar, and Aurora the princess, eh?

>>85118809
Death and decay. She's sad that she lost her host or her life, if one intepret the tiny ones as the remnants of the girl's soul.

>>85060381
....wtf?

>>85118809
I agree with >>85122678 considering how heavy handed they are with the visual imagery of decay. I'd guess she's reached her breaking point and the fly being a symbol of everything happening around her she finally gets overwhelmed. Or it could be the fly prompts a realization of the true nature of her situation, and that's why she goes full Rambo to stay ahead of the game

>>85060605
Wait, so is she the dead girl?

>>85123098
If you choose to believe the emotion/soul theory, then yes.

>>85060945
>>85060981
Wait, why did he(?) take that berry when he was offered some a while back?

>>85123493
He's probably trying to look tough to impress her. Plus he'a kid, kids don't know what they want.

>>85119407
>What sins did Timothy have?
He was obliged to love himself enough to defend his own life. He promised the baby. But he didn't even try.

>>85121173
Aurora was always going to survive. She's not a simple desire like the others. She's the superego. The girl named her after herself because she is what she imagined a woman ought to be. If any of them is love it's Zelie: a child's notion of love is acquiring caregivers.

>>85124395
She's definitely the core aspect of the girl. The super ego is most likely Jane since she was the one that knew how to be responsible and survive on her own.

>>85124689
Jane was the ego. She took care of herself while trying to make moral decisions. She dragged Aurora into the real world, and did everything practical to escape or at least temper Zelie's mad unchecked greed, but wasn't up to the task on her own.

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I haven't read this but I do read the threads
What's so awful about this comic?

>>85124988
Read it and find out. It doesn't take long.

>>85111694
>>85105562
Well I'll be, a big fan of the comic but this is entirely new to me. I remember all the speculation over the girl's death, but I never saw falling from a tree as the reason.

>>85124813
It's been long since I read about Freud theory but isn't the super ego suppose to be the driving force of an individual's ideals that was taught from a parental figure/techer in the subconcious? Aurora seems to rely on Jane when ever she's in a pin. Jane seems like a mother figure to her and she's the oldest of the creatures.

>>85124264
Yup. Timothy just rolled over and died when told to despite having another life dependent on him.
Jane just fucked off immediately and made no attempts to prevent things from escalating the way they did.
Everyone fucked up at least a little.

>>85124988
It's, uh, in the thread. The thread you supposedly read.

Voyage en Satanie, T.1, written by Fabien Vehlmann, Dargaud, 2011.

Hm, has anyone heard of this?

>>85125792
Nope. Is it good?

ARGH WHAT IS THIS

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>>85125841
I have no idea. It seems to be sci-fi?

http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Voyage-en-Satanie-Tome-1-tome-1-2-132900.html

Thanks for the storytime Dan, never even heard of this book until now.

You're one of the few reasons I still bother checking up on /co/.

>>85125135
The superego represents the highest ideals, while the id represents base desires. The ego works to reconcile them, or chooses sides against a third. Which is what happened to Jane.

>>85126000
A better question, is it in English and in a torrent somewhere?

>>85124395
I dont buy that Aurora was that much more special then the others, let alone the super ego. At best I'll wager the original Aurora's most defining trait was love, which tiny Aurora clearly shows the most out of everyone before going nuclear. I doubt there even is a super ego, their all varying parts of a whole. And Zelie certainly isnt love even by a childs standards, shes much more likely adoration, greed, or vanity.

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>>85127153
I disagree. Little Aurora isn't after love. She's following a script.

Anyone got a download of This Night

>>85126231
Seems not

Does /co/ still have those french scanlation threads? This would be a good title to suggest.

>>85127638
I handnt interpreted that page that way, to me it seemed like her plans for a nice tea party with Hector got ruined by the room they where in becoming mush. You might be right however, but Im more for the tiny people are personality/human nature fragments then characters big Aurora made up

>>85077639
Oh gosh where do I start.
Any recs from here?

>>85060165
how 'bout no

>>85076838
>ryan armand is homeless now

;__;

>>85129803
Seconding this

>>85129922
too late dipshit

>>85130884
>>85129803
If you haven't heard of it, it is probably awesome. Also search the archive for threads Dan has made in the last year. Those are probably good.

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>>85129803
>>85130884

Out of the ones I've read, I recommend:

>Kairos
>Anya's Ghost
>Beautiful Darkness
>Beauty
>Miss Don't Touch Me
>Sabertooth Swordsman
>Darkwing Duck
>D&D
>Ghostopolis
>JtHM
>Orc Stain

I recommend starting with Orc Stain. The artwork is awesome, pic related.