I love the level of detail and forethought you’ve given to this comic. We saw the “horns” from those monsters as part of the landscape on page 67 when Nadia escaped from her bug-eaten room. This was before the frooms got her. The “horns” also show up in her nightmare flashback in page 80 which may be the work of the frooms and her imagination together.

Which makes me agree with Odo that Nadia has somehow had a previous experience with the inbetween as a young child. I first thought that the frooms were taking her ideas and causing them to exist in the inbetween, but because the “horns” were already there, it seems the rock-bugs are also already there and just need her as a, dare I say it, “Key” to unlock their animated existence.

I’m definately going back and re-reading all of these. Slowly. Just to absorb all the tiny details you’ve added like things that people stand on that actually have faces!! This is a wonderful world you’ve created. At first i loved it because it’s so visually stunning. And now i’m totally hooked on the story-line!! Also, the flash-backs add a whole new level to Nadia.

In short- Am utterly in love with Kukuburi!!

Fabulous, and i have something to look forward to every week now ^_^

~Lucid

Not sure what I did to deserve quotemarks around my name, but I’ll be glad to oblige. Here goes:

I’m pretty sure that at least some of the flashbacks are true history – they are forming a consistent story. I am pretty sure that something (quite possibly a traffic accident) killed Nadia’s parents and that by the time she is a teenager she has been living with her grandmother/aunt for some time. If she is being spoiled by said person, that would account for her somewhat cavalier attitude as a nominal adult.

I support this with Leonard’s comments about getting her out of the grip of the frooms before they get her ideas. He does not seem to be worried about them putting ideas into her head, though they do seem to put emotions in (viz. the change to fear at the end of the car-crash).

We know from comments made by Mr. Skull and by Rendo that Nadia has a special relationship to the Inbetween. (The bluebird produced by the “BANG!” reinforces that impression.) We know from the first flashback that the sketches she made when she was a child included the Meep brothers. That implies to me that she could see into the Inbetween or that it impressed itself somehow on her mind. That the monsters appearing now resemble the ones in her sketches as a teen (full of violence as many teens are) tells me that the frooms took that image to give form to the fear-based monsters. Whether this is foretelling or not, I am not sure. I suspect that time works differently in the Inbetween.

Bottom line, I think we can trust the *mundane* parts of flashbacks.

— Odo

P.S. Ramon, thanks for the reassurance with respect to updates.

krisitna, your comment is kinda funny cause that was the original dialogue on this page for leonard the snail! but at the last minute i removed it as i wanted the page to have a darker feel, sans comic relief. i might add it within the next few pages!

as for the hiatus to get ahead on large chucks. not gonna happen. my schedule just can’t support that. this way it dictates an alloted amount of pages every week that i have to adhere to plus gives readers something to return to. with the internet i have found that lack of updates breeds forgetfulness….