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beastswithoutburdencomic · 2 months

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Case 4, pg21

Not even monsters can escape the horrors of Capitalism.

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There are two floating panels which are popped out from the top panel. In the first, we see a panned shot of Eva opening the door for Martinez, who hunches over with her arms protectively covering her chest. Martinez has no face, while Eva has two little dot eyes.

In the foreground, the Secretary looks over their shoulder at both.

In the second floating panel is a medium close up of Secretary as they raise their arm, calling out a frenzied little, “Wait up!” The opera glove on their raised hand rides down somewhat, revealing the little pinprick of some of the keratin scales covering their forearms.

The top panel shows a wide shot of the three. Martinez stands in the middle, trying to take up as little space as possible, as Secretary places themself between the window and Martinez, two long antennae wiggling out from their hair. As Secretary blocks the window’s light, Martinez glances at them, grateful. Eva, standing at Martinez’s other side, looks down at her curiously and cocks her head with a question mark floating above her.

The second left panel shows a close up of Secretary’s white gloved hand holding her badge up to a card reader with a BEEP. A timer attached to the reader ticks up to one second, showing that it’s timing their time in the breakroom.

The third left panel shows the back of Martinez’s head as she reaches up with one hand to pull down a mug from the cabinet. The cabinet is full of shitty paper cups threatening to spill out and very few mugs, while the mug in her hand has the partial quote of “be a yardstick of quality” written on it. Martinez instead looks at her phone screen, which glows an ever-so-pale blue.

From the bottom left panel, Eva says, “Well, your boss seems… interesting.” She holds a paper cup in one hand and an expression of barely contained incredulity. The umbrella in her hand has the grip of her sword visible.

In the bottom right panel, Martinez says, “That’s one way to put it. She stirs the cup with a wooden spoon as Eva stands behind her, closing the cabinet door after her.

In the foreground, Secretary says flatly, “Not a good way. But a way to put it.”

“Is the pay alright, at least?” Eva asks.

“Barely-” Secretary raises a mug of their own, “I’m part-time, technically.”

Martinez glances at Secretary and asks, “Shouldn’t you be full-time by now?”

“You’d think!” Secretary says, “It’s not as if I’m unqualified. Hell, even without this, I’ve got my own business to worry about!” They continue, growing progressively more sour, “The only reason I’m still here is because I’ve been promised backpay for the past two years of overtime.” END ID.

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 1 year

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Beast Without Burden Chapter Update!

In which an HOA meeting has dire consequences.

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Violeta’s narration reads, “When I went to the girls’ room-”

There are no panels. This page is a panned out shot of the inside of a dark bedroom. In the background, Violeta opens the door, spilling light into the room and revealing the shape of the crib in the center of the panel. Rita rushes into the room before Violeta, unheeding of her mother’s warning, and in the crib little Rosa is visible.

The baby wails, her hands balled into fists against the harsh shadows of the room. Spilling from the darkened corners of the room are the distended, still-living lines of Danilo, now the Scribble, peering into the crib.

In the center of its body, three exclamation points are printed. Throughout its body are shades and strands of gold, and Danilo raises an approximation of its head as it looks at its wife.

“There was a monster.” Violeta says.

One spindly black hand reaches for the baby.

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 1 year

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Update.

Whit didn't come back right.

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IMAGE ID: In the middle panel, Whit vomits speech bubbles. The strings flow through his fingers as he tries to keep it in and populate the rest of the page.

A ring of speech bubbles in the middle read, “... Is he in there?”, “There isn’t much to tell.” “But it was quiet for a long while after.”, “Quiero ver tu cara de nuevo-”, “Right here.”, “He was always so gentle…”, “Is he in pain? Is he angry? Did he tell you what happened to him?”, “But the curse can’t be broken-”, “... but it’s not Danilo, is it?”, and “There was a monster.”

In the center of the ring is a white-outlined sketch of Violeta from the sternum up, raising one hand, worry in every line. It isn’t that Whit is merely echoing what’s being said.

Whit mimics the exact sound of Violeta’s voice.

In the triangular panels in the top left and right corners of the page, Danilo stretches out, his line art stretching around the middle panel. The top right panel shows the formless gold sewn into abstract, flowing lineart. The top left panel shows Danilo’s shocked face, his white eyes wide with recognition.

Danilo’s body flows into the middle panel and is partially lost among the dark grey of the background and the faint outlines of the mask of Whit’s face embedded into the mudbender’s head from case 1, containing Whit’s soul.

The bottom panel shows a close up of Danilo’s head as several tails from the white speech bubbles wrap around the abstract black lines of his line art, as though attempting to put him back together. The gold color between the lines takes on a metallic sheen as Danilo’s original face is warped within the still-too-thin lines of his skull. End ID.

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 6 months

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Case 4, Page 4!

Hi all! Since we're switching to a page per week schedule for awhile, we're gonna be posting the full pages up here so you can follow along!

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[Image ID: The top left panel shows a medium close up of Xi from the diaphragm up, a Chinese-American young person wearing a sleeveless cheongsam with a high neckline and a shawl around his shoulders. The shawl holsters six brush-like wands, three on each side, making the symmetrical framework of wings on either shoulder. His medium-short dark hair is slicked back and his smile is disarming as he says, “Eva. Dante. You’re doing well, I presume?”

From off-panel, Dante says, “Never been better.”

Xi holds a cloth bag with a mysterious blue glow emanating from the opening in one gloved hand. He asks, “And the honeymoon?”

“Never wanted it to end!” answers Eva cheerily in the top right panel. There is a medium close-up shot of both Eva and Dante as they sit in their respective seats and Dante looks fondly at Eva. Eva is a large Filipino woman with a muscular build, medium-short black hair to the nape of her neck held back by a black headband, and her hands and forearms permanently stained with what appears to be black ink. She sits backwards in her chair, resting her crossed arms over the back of it. As she makes a loose peace sign with her left hand, it’s possible to see her wedding band.

Dante is a chubby black woman of average height, medium-dark skin, and braids pulled partially up into twin-tails on either side of her head. There are white beads scattered throughout the black braids and she holds onto the back of her own chair as she leans ever so slightly into Eva’s space.

Eva laughs, eyes closed and smile wide as she says, “But when the Xings call…”

“Strictly between us,” Xi says in the middle panel, raising a hand to cover his mouth scandalously, “The Xings didn’t call.”

“Oho?” Eva asks from off panel.

Xi leans forward shown from the waist up across the table as he sets the cloth bag on the table. He says, “I did.”

“About the demon you saw,” Dante says, shifting into professional mode. We see her profile from the waist up in the foreground as she sits across from Xi, her eyes directed toward the cloth bag Xi has set precariously close to his still very full cup of coffee. The bag opens more, revealing its contents to be strange, bulbous, and glowing electrically blue.

The bottom left panel shows a close up of the contents of the bag. There is the lightest bit of eyestrain as the contents of the bag take on a strange, bismuth like consistency, though it’s impossible to tell where the sharp lines and angles begin or end. Xi says, “And more besides.” in a speech bubble in between the bottom left and right panels.

Xi continues, “There’s been a certain material I’ve been collecting for personal study…”

The bottom right panel shows a close up of Dante’s eyes, framed by her braids, as the blue glow is reflected partially back. It’s obvious that she can see the colors. End ID.]

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 11 months

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A regular bat out of hell, that Ves💙

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 1 year

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Case 3 Begins.

There is an angel in St. Matthew’s.

Beasts Without Burden’s Case 3 has officially BEGUN! And with Xiyun still kidnapped, Whit better act fast...

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[IMAGE ID: The left panel takes up a full half of the page with an establishing shot of an enormous, intricate Catholic church of gothic architecture. There are trees seen in the background, as well as Whit’s van parked out in front of the steps, though the reader cannot see Whit yet. The church is built symmetrically, with two looming towers framing the centerpiece of the building. The steps lead to a shaded area with three enormous, heavy wooden doors, each door framed by an arch that someone would have to walk through to reach it.

Above the entrance are two additional, slimmer towers of stained glass. Behind them is the enormous face of the rest of the church and an enormous stained glass window depicting indistinguishable saints.

The right tower is bulkier than the one on the left, with a central chamber near the top being surrounded on at least two sides by enormous round windows of stained glass. There are three crosses at the tops of the three highest points.

While the trees, the van, and the building of the church are in greyscale, the windows of the church itself are a myriad of rainbow color. The colors seem to glow from within the glass.

Two grey text boxes identify this as the Church of St. Matthew, 6:43 P.M.

At the bottom of the left side panel are three free floating stained glass windows in the shape of pointed arches. The first window, rendered with a mildly blue border, shows a profile view of a medium-dark skinned man with loosely coily black curls to the nape of his neck. He is a Puerto Rican man of approximately middle-age, and he wears the vestments of a priest. The man is rendered in black and white and his expression is stern.

In the background, the stained glass is rendered in full-color, albeit in tones of saturated blue. It shows the first scene from the story of Abraham and Isaac- Isaac, kneeling to the right of his father, has his head bowed and his hands obscured by the priest in the foreground. Abraham raises the dagger in his hand over the bowed head of his son, preparing to strike. Both father and son have halos of sharp, geometric lines.

The second stained glass window, rendered with a green border, shows the same man in the foreground, but now his face is obscured. He is in motion and is walking from the panel. In the background, the second part of the story is rendered in warmer tones. An angel appears to Abraham, one hand outstretched and the other raised as a motion to halt. Abraham’s back is turned to the viewer as he gazes up at the angel. The angel has indistinct features but has short blond hair and feathery wings, wearing a perfectly round halo. The priest in the foreground obscures Isaac.

The third stained glass window, its border rendered in maroon, shows that the man has mostly gone. In the background, Abraham holds tightly onto his son as Isaac slowly rises, although his head remains bowed. Abraham looks to where the angel points to the right side of the panel, where a ram colored in pink is depicted. The tones of the glass are now more red than blue, and Isaac is revealed to have been bound with his hands tied together.

In the foreground, the priest’s stole, swaying as he walks, makes a cut across the ram’s throat.

The top right panel shows a perspective shot looking up at the priest’s feet as he ascends the stairs with a clak… and the rainbow colors of stained glass are seen through the bars of the railing. Rainbow light spills from above.

The middle right panel shows a shot of the priest’s hand as it rests on the banister. Rainbow light spills over the back of his hand and he wears a rosary around his wrist. Three of the rosary beads have rainbow colors to them, with the middle bead showing a full rainbow sphere while the two beads on either side show slivers, like marbles, or like eyes in the motion of blinking.

The bottom right panel takes up the majority of the right side of the page and shows a perspective shot of the priest ascending a long, spiral staircase. The greyscale of the stairs is a stark contrast to the rainbow color of the stained glass windows reaching floor to ceiling alongside it, depicting the same story of Abraham and Isaac as was described earlier. There is the gentle clak… clak… of his footsteps in the empty room as he ascends toward the higher floor and the enormous circular stained glass windows there.

The background behind the panels begins as the normal white void, but it soon becomes a gradient of grey. END ID.]

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beastswithoutburdencomic · 2 years

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Mississippi Mudbender

(floviomimicus Mississius)

a voice from the riverbed.

ENDANGERED

Classification: River spirit; vocal mimic.

Level of danger posed to humans is minimal.

Mississippi Mudbenders, known colloquially as “mudbenders” or “mudders” (Smith, 1946), are a rare type of water spirit which inhabit the waters of the Mississippi River.

Urban legends hold that if someone wanders too close to the water a mudbender will steal their soul (Wardview Review vol.23, 2021). In doing so, they use the voice of the soul to lure concerned loved ones to the water’s edge to provide ready meals for their children. While these legends are true insofar as the mudbender’s ability to store both souls and voices, almost all recorded mudbender encounters have described the souls of fish being the sole souls found stolen (The Evolution of the Piscine Soul, 2017).

Mudbenders have been known to avoid humans and human civilization as much as they are physically able. Their disposition is naturally shy and avoidant, making it harder to gauge whether conservation efforts have helped replenish the population to any significant degree (Census of Mythical and Otherwise Unnatural Beings in Missouri, 2020).

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT

These spirits are known to inhabit the freshwater Mississippi River. It was originally thought that Mudbenders solely inhabited the temperate waters of the Mississippi River running through the states of Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. However, due to the discovery of a mudbender specimen in the Tennessee River Basin, it is suspected that a small population may also reside in the rivers of the southern Appalachian Mountains (Appalachian Aquatic Cryptozoological Society, 2021).

Mudbenders primarily prefer shade to sun when out of the water. They rest by burrowing under the mud along riverbanks and leaving the topmost part of their skin exposed to take in oxygen. Mothers will burrow in the stretch of river near where their tadpoles swim. Juvenile mudbenders will burrow in the riverbed of the shallow waters to complete their metamorphosis from tadpole to adult.

During the first frost, adult mudbenders will burrow into the riverbed of the Mississippi River and enter a hibernation state wherein they will magically freeze, regardless of the state of the river itself. At the spring equinox they will thaw and rise from the silt, mimicking voices from any human or other creature that approaches the water. In areas where mudbenders are suspected to gather for purposes of reproduction, it has been said that the air is filled with "the voices of the dead" (Folktales: how the Disadvantaged Survive Where the Supernatural Thrive, 1989).

CHARACTERISTICS

Adult mudbenders generally reach a length of about 6-9ft, with the largest specimen found measuring at a length of 18ft (Wardview Review vol.23, 2021). Their dark, wrinkled skin acts as camouflage which allows them to hide beneath mud. Their naturally avoidant dispositions have led to a few rare encounters wherein a human mistakes its exposed back for a stone and steps on it, causing it to burrow deeper under the mud. Its broad, flat head is thought to assist with camouflage as well (Camille & Jefferys, 2003). Its wide mouth has been known to hold a dislocating jaw, which allows the river spirit to swallow prey up to two times its size when biting with its blunt teeth are not enough to strip the flesh.

Its large eyes hold rudimentary sight, so it primarily hunts by feeling differences in the water around its body. Its porous skin is outfitted with nerve endings which allow it to sense electromagnetic fields, meaning that they are capable of sensing displacement in the water. Their skin, additionally, is able to take in oxygen from both the air and water. Its claws are often blunt, as the majority of its hunting is done via biting, swallowing, or by stunning prey with a hit from its powerful tail.

The Mississippi Mudbender is distinct from other species in its genus in that the souls that it acquires are stored within bony protrusions which grow through the skin along its spine. These bony protrusions take the form of the face of the animal or human whose soul is contained within, and can be removed without incident (Wardview Review vol.23, 2021).

It is also capable of minor terraforming magic, allowing it to turn any dry land it comes into contact with into swampland. In cases where it is in danger of death, it will summon floodwaters which will flood the immediate area and drown any land bound creature in its path. It is also capable of forming silt into muddy decoys of itself to confuse potential enemies and escape.

It is unknown how long a mudbender is capable of living as they are so rare that it is almost impossible to find the same specimen that has been tagged, even through magical means.

All attempts to take a mudbender specimen into captivity have ended in disaster (Vieira et. al, 1987). As such, no further attempts have been made.

DIET

Mississippi Mudbenders primarily eat insects, shrimp, and fish. The mudbender’s main hunting strategy involves making sounds which mimic the noise that the movement of much smaller fish make, opening its mouth wide, and luring prey into its jaws. When faced with larger prey, such as the blue catfish, mudbenders have been known to actively pursue prey (Wardview Review vol.20, 2018). They have been known to target larger prey when stranded on land, such as small rodents, deer, or foxes.

The souls of its prey are stored within the bony protrusions which grow along its spine, providing a unique opportunity to ecologists, as their dietary records are displayed on their backs.

When feeding its young, female mudbenders will strike their backs against the rocks to dislodge some of the souls within, which she will then take to her children. Tadpole mudbenders feed primarily upon the souls of the meals their mothers have previously eaten.

There have been few documented cases of a mudbender being found which had a human soul trapped in its back (Folktales: how the Disadvantaged…, 1989). These cases are incredibly rare, as Mississippi Mudbenders tend to avoid humans and, in fact, mimic human voices to scare other predators away. For a mudbender to attack a human, the animal in question would need to be actively starving and/or desperate to return to the main river.

Mudbender offspring appear to prefer the souls of blue catfish to any other animal (Wardview Review vol.7, 2005).

LIFE CYCLE

Not much is known about the mating process of the Mississippi Mudbender as only female specimens have been found. What is known is that once the spring equinox arrives, mudbenders will thaw themselves from the river bottom and rise from the silt to migrate toward an unknown breeding ground. Efforts to find the location of the grounds themselves have been fruitless (Vieira et. al, 1987).

After mating, the mudbender will carry the fertilized eggs within the empty pockets where souls have been dislodged from its back to their own territories. Once there, the mother will bury the eggs along the riverbank and guard them fiercely until the day of their hatching, around the months of May-June.

When the larval mudbenders hatch, the area around where the mudbender created her nest will become wholly devoid of sound for an indeterminate amount of time. This is because the larval mudbenders are absorbing the first sounds that they hear for later use. After sound is restored to the area, the mudbender mother will stand over the larval offspring until they grow into proper tadpoles, feeding them pieces of the souls leftover from previous meals.

Once its offspring enter the tadpole stage, the mother will artificially flood the area and sweep her children into the river, where she will teach them how to hunt and use their mimicked sounds. Tadpoles will slowly grow limbs over time and generally reach a juvenile, in between stage once they are able to independently flex the muscles in their arms.

The approximate timeline of development is unknown, but it is known that juvenile mudbenders will be taught how to hibernate, and that by the next spring equinox, they will emerge as newly matured adults. It is unknown if this aligns with reproductive maturity or not. Once the Mississippi Mudbender becomes an adult, they leave the territory of their mother in search of their own (Wardview Review vol.7, 2005).

The exact length of the Mudbender’s natural lifespan is unknown.

ENDANGERED STATUS

Their numbers have dwindled considerably over the previous 70 years due to a Midwest-wide extermination campaign led by hunters who had mistaken the creatures for the invasive siltscreamer (floviomimicus Cruciatus), an enchanted animal with a similar penchant for vocal mimicry. While efforts to educate hunters about the difference between the delivery of mimicry between these two spirits appear to have been moderately successful, the number of mudbenders has dropped to the point where many hunters will never encounter one (Census of Mythical and Otherwise Unnatural Beings, 2020).

In addition, hunter-led efforts to circumvent conservation efforts via reclassifying any supernatural creature (directly or indirectly) related to the human soul as an inherent public hazard have increased due to misinformation funded by the Gatling family. This misinformation is in light of a now-debunked study completed by Mr. William Valentine. Said study purported to prove definitively that humans required souls of a certain ‘vitality level’ in life, and that contact with certain supernatural creatures- such as mimics, perception-alterers, or cognitiers- would cause near irreversible damage to the soul, leading to increased risk of diseases such as “an incredible amount of cancer, various schizophrenias, and leaky gut” (Valentine, 2001). This would, in turn, affect the possibility of a human soul remaining as a ghost after death.

It comes as little surprise that Mr. Valentine had his PhD revoked shortly after Dr. Amona El-Idrissi revealed evidence of both unreliable testing and wholly falsified data. While Dr. El-Idrissi’s methods leave a little to be desired in terms of depth, the reliability of his findings are incredibly strong, and his work ethic in uncovering the scandal is rather admirable.

Unfortunately, despite evidence to the contrary, a large subset of the hunter community still perpetuate the harmful ideas of the soul expressed in Mr. Valentine’s paper, putting soul-affecting species such as the Mississippi Mudbender at greater risk of eradication. It is my hope that in writing this, I might highlight the beauty of these creatures’ existence and encourage others to protect that which at first seems alien, frightening, or, perhaps, even antithetical to human existence.

These that are termed ‘monsters’ are trying to live their lives, just as we do.

[ William “Whit” Valencia (he/him) is a former graduate of the Valencia Veterinary Clinic’s cryptozoology care internship and a former PhD candidate in the Cryptozoological Studies program of Wardview University. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

If you would like to support the Wardview Scrivener’s Guild in its ongoing commitment to preserving records of all things supernatural, please read our webcomic. ]

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Case 4, pg12

Nora shows their expertise.

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Image ID: The top left panel shows a medium shot of Nora and Eva from the waist up. Nora stands just behind Eva, one arm crossed over their chest and one hand raised contemplatively to her chin. Eva turns her head partially to look at Nora and asks, “And the Guild hasn’t been doing anything about it?”

“Can’t,” Nora says in the top part of the top middle panel. Now the view is a slightly more panned-out shot of Eva and Nora, now including Dante in the foreground. Eva and Dante look to where Nora speaks in the background as they continue, “They agreed to go missing.”

In the second part of the top middle panel, the camera zooms in slightly. Nora now takes up the foreground as she walks past Eva and Dante, a little mischievous smile on their face as they glance back at Eva. Nora says, “Technically, we’re the ones infringing on their contracts now.”

The third part of the top middle panel shows a close up of Eva and Dante’s faces as they both look with raised eyebrows.

The top right panel shows a medium close up of both Eva and Dante as Dante leans closer to Eva. Dante asks Nora, “So, how do we chase her out?” and Eva smiles down at her proudly.

The middle left panel shows an isometric view of an inside hallway in the building with wide windows, showing where Eva, Dante, Nora and Xi stand in the entranceway outside. Nora says, “The old girl’s cunning,” as Dante and Eva turn toward her to listen to them speak. Nora continues, “She knows things. She’d speak your sins ‘tween the spaces in the wires easier than she’d let herself be known.”

Xi, who possibly isn’t listening, peers into the windows with a lightly blue monocle held to his eye. He peers up at a security camera inside, which is pointed toward the window. The lens and the wires hooked up to the camera glow lightly blue.

The middle right panel shows a medium close up of Nora from the knees up, partially superimposed over the front of the middle left panel. They raise their hands and gesture as she says, “We need something that’ll run ‘er out if she tries any mind games.”

The bottom panel shows a close-up of Dante and Xi from the shoulders up, with Dante looking over her shoulder at where Nora stands in the middle right panel. Dante says, “Cutting off any power supplies might give us some time. Hell’s mostly digital, nowadays.”

Xi slowly lowers his monocle and frowns, brows furrowing.

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New Beasts Without Burden!

Everyone makes it back to reality.

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A black and white digital comic with two panels. The top panel shows a slightly panned in view of the Merritt house dining room, showing the stillness of the house before the big rip. There is the gentle shaaaaahhh… of rain outside the newly shattered window as a doll’s hand sticks out from between four stacked tables. To the right of the panel, we see the head of another doll as it reclines amongst the tables.

The middle panel shows the dining room of the Merritt house, now inundated with copies of the same tables and Xiyun decoy dolls. Outside the window, lightning still flashes.

Running down the page vertically is a thin line of opening, showing the white background behind the comic panels. Everyone is spat out of the portal with a delayed …. CRASH!!!A black and white digital comic with two panels. The top panel shows a slightly panned in view of the Merritt house dining room, showing the stillness of the house before the big rip. There is the gentle shaaaaahhh… of rain outside the newly shattered window as a doll’s hand sticks out from between four stacked tables. To the right of the panel, we see the head of another doll as it reclines amongst the tables.The middle panel shows the dining room of the Merritt house, now inundated with copies of the same tables and Xiyun decoy dolls. Outside the window, lightning still flashes. Running down the page vertically is a thin line of opening, showing the white background behind the comic panels. Everyone is spat out of the portal with a delayed …. CRASH!!!From left to right we see Xiyun’s top half as they’re spat out, tumbling into Whit with a disoriented look. While Whit’s legs are still partially in the portal, he has mostly tumbled out onto his back and now tries to hold himself up with one arm. One of his eyes is closed against Xiyun’s hand, which is stuck in his face. Whit’s other hand holds the fabric sling full of the golden paint that used to be Danilo’s body. Xiyun’s other arm cradles a tin holding the same gold color. The beads on Whit’s wrist still glow gold. His visible eye and the tendrils slowly flaking away from under his bandage still glow pink.In the foreground we see Carmen from the chest up as he tumbles out, knocked out of the way by Whit with a wide-eyed look. In the background we see Violeta crash into the back of the panel, her eyes screwed shut. One hand still holds one of the tins filled with gold. The other clutches Danilo’s thin and rapidly deteriorating body, yanking him out alongside everyone.

From left to right we see Xiyun’s top half as they’re spat out, tumbling into Whit with a disoriented look. While Whit’s legs are still partially in the portal, he has mostly tumbled out onto his back and now tries to hold himself up with one arm.

One of his eyes is closed against Xiyun’s hand, which is stuck in his face. Whit’s other hand holds the fabric sling full of the golden paint that used to be Danilo’s body. Xiyun’s other arm cradles a tin holding the same gold color. The beads on Whit’s wrist still glow gold. His visible eye and the tendrils slowly flaking away from under his bandage still glow pink.

In the foreground we see Carmen from the chest up as he tumbles out, knocked out of the way by Whit with a wide-eyed look. In the background we see Violeta crash into the back of the panel, her eyes screwed shut. One hand still holds one of the tins filled with gold. The other clutches Danilo’s thin and rapidly deteriorating body, yanking him out alongside everyone.

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Case 4, pg11

A demon appears.

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Blue wires from the top of the page cross into the top left panel, which shows the same top-down view of the party following the wires, with Xi still bringing up the rear, Nora striding in front of him, and Eva and Dante bringing up the front.

Nora says, “She’s been making deals ‘round here lately. Have you heard the Hexley leak yet?”

“Yeah-” Eva says, “pretty damning stuff.”

“Literally.” Nora quips.

The blue telephone wires suddenly curve around Nora, as though cutting Xi off from the rest of the group, before traveling through the rest of the panel. It speeds past where Dante stands in the right middle of the page and disappears into the phone lines above a large building in the bottom left panel.

The middle top panel shows only a round geometric shape of a wheel, like wires and nodes, or like twelve equally spaced sewing pins with round tops. All glows faintly blue against a dark navy background as a second, smaller circle, like the pupil of an eye, looks down toward the right middle of the page.

The top right panel of the page shows a medium close-up of Dante as she looks on in mild shock and awe, two faint blue lights reflected off of her eyes. She holds the umbrella against her chest. In the background outside the panel, there is another flash of Sir Puff Puff’s cat body as he darts behind the panels.

The middle right of the page shows Eva and Dante from the knees up as they stand free-floating from any panel, looking on as the telephone lines cause Dante’s braids to sway in the wind. With one hand, Dante holds onto her messenger back, and with the other, she slowly lowers the umbrella to her side. She says, “Think we found ground zero.”

We see Eva in profile as she looks to Dante, still mildly concerned. To the left side of the bottom left panel, Sir Puff Puff’s body contorts and disappears back behind the panels.

The bottom left panel shows a large strip-mall esque building of several stories. A sign out front displays the various shops and stores inside; the most prominent name at the top reading “FuzzBee”. The building itself is labeled with the sign, “beework”. There are blue lights on the security cameras mounted high up on nearby telephone poles, pointed towards the entrance, as well as on the peaks of telephone towers. The round geometric wheel from the top middle panel is seen in full above the entrance, and in the sky, the monochrome sun becomes the pupil of the giant blue eye in the sky staring down the protagonists.

In the foreground, we see all four from the back. Dante reaches a hand back to hand the umbrella off to Eva. Eva raises a hand to shield her eyes against the bright sun and Xi takes out a small blue device. Nora stands indifferent to the scene.

The bottom right panel shows Xi from the thighs up as he holds a blue-rimmed monocle to his eye, looking up at the celestial sight. Nora stands in the background with their hand on her chin, musing, “Makes sense.” Behind them, there are two blue points shining on nearby telephone poles.

“There’s been more disappearances, lately,” Nora says, “Lots of interns.”

In the white space between the bottom right and top right panels, we see Sir Puff Puff push down the top of the bottom right panel and peek his little kitty face out to look at the viewer.

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