Outworlder #1—Pages 24-26

Two-Page Spread Plus One!

I'm making up for last Thursday's post with three, count them, THREE pages!
Don't say I never did anything nice. :)

Oh, and if you ever have trouble reading a page, if you right-click it, you can select view image and see its larger counterpart.

Right. Whatever. Let's See The Rundown

No name hero, looking for Ms. Moreman, former middle school English teacher, who he discovers was kidnapped by orders of Damontroth, a not-so-nice-guy we haven't met yet.

Forest dwelling girl who can feel injuries and illnesses, goes against her father's command and heals our hero after he is unceremoniously blasted from the sky. Now he and she are inseparable. Not physically, though. They're only "soulfully" joined.

Now they're reality hopping across a bridge in hopes of eventually getting to a humongous dome where Ms. Moreman is probably being held. Except things keep happening and even though they're literally soulmates, they're not getting along so great.

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Our intrepid adventurers zapped into an underwater realm just in time to watch a huge tentacle begin to destroy their reality bridge. If they are shaken off of the span, they will be lost in the oceanworld forever! Will they find the portal in time to save themselves?

Well, go ahead. Read it.

I always wondered what these two pages would look like together. I guess I should have found out way sooner than today. Obviously, I have issues lining things up. The bottom stuff was apparently off when I drew it. I could have erased the bridge halves and tried to redraw it in Photoshop, but hey, this is supposed to be for fun, right?

I'm not sure if our male hero should have given up his staff so easily. Maybe he could have crawled with it and poked ahead at the water instead of just tossing it. Oh, well. Hopefully he won't be needing it.

Whoa. That was a close call. Safe to say the ocean bridge isn't going to be there much longer.

Okay. Little known fact. People who can exist in space have really big hair. And wear latex. Oh, and force fields.

So, our pal Damontroth, the villain with a name (but we've yet to meet), may or may not have similar powers. Or an awesome battle suit. Who knows?

_{Outworlder #1 is a graphic novel by Glen Albrethsen. Copyright © Glen Anthony Albrethsen, 1986-2018. All rights reserved.}

Didn't See That Coming

Betrayal. Subterfuge. A villain masquerading as a beloved guardian. Sounds like our hero isn't the only one with Outworlder status. Or behavior issues.

I think that's supposed to be a star around her eye. Or a quasar. Laser eye, maybe?

It's amazing how things that should be so obvious never are until someone walks through the logic. Things that are not supposed to be possible suddenly are, and what you thought was true, or real, abruptly is not.

It's never an easy thing to have your worldview shattered in an instant.

Good thing those two living television screens showed up.

Wait. What?!?

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Is Damontroth the Omni gone bad? Can there ever be enough hair in space? Is Rutheford really in portrait mode, or is he simply floating on the side of his screen head? And who the world is Amanderthan and why does he own a bridge in the middle of, well, space?

More questions. Few answers. Even less of a chance of ever knowing.

Just in case something does get answered, though, you probably should read the next installment of...

...Outworlder #1!

Outworlder now publishes every Tuesday and Thursday.