Of Dragon and Woman page 11: Cave story

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Small complaint: The word "forces" should probably have been "rapes".

Otherwise this is probably the perfect synthesis of my "cave painting" sort of style and subject matter, burdened only by the vast amounts of narration covering up half the damn page. You can almost overlook how the one human character in the comic so far is a woman who's been kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed without even being given a name. Well, her name is Nina, and we haven't seen the last of her. (I mentioned time travel, right?) So I hope you'll give the comic a chance to take those tepid harmful hero origin story stereotypes and turn them around.

Of Dragon and Woman page 8-10: Some go to Heaven, some just go into the sky

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I'm overly fond of the montage on page 9 in the middle here where I wanted to convey the dragon in motion in his almost indiscriminate feeding frenzy and ended up turning him into a brilliant blur of blood and fire and lightning.

He's passionate. He speaks from the heart. He's here to shake things up. He's absolutely going to kill you and worse.

Of Dragon and Woman page 5-7: Fast food

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Let's hurry this along a little. I'm running out of things to say anyway. Only, I think my dedication to never drawing anything framed and posed ideally in favor of a more realistic approach pays off with the big splash page here where the dragon looks just a bit goofy and awkward while actively trying to strike a cool menacing pose

Of Dragon and Woman page 4: In which we find out several things

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I've always been terrible at timing, but I'd like to think these chapter title pages do something to tie the story together. You'll see as we go further, assuming everything works out according to script. (Ha!) They all drift in on page 4, and they all just happen to involve people traveling, and a particular state of traveling at that where showing them small and sort of forlorn against a wide blank background works. Kind of pretty. As long as it works.

Of Dragon and Woman page 2: Zoom

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