A barbarian rage doesn't have to be triggered by combat. Emotional damage can do the job.

What's going on here?

• Sassy, the Maid of Honour at this wedding, is a little afraid of the mother of the bride. She's also pretty lonely, and has not had much luck with dating.
• This added pressure, on top of Sassy's thwarted attempts at romance, has pushed her over the edge.
• Meanwhile, the bride, "Kayra", has been struggling to tell her betrothed that she's not actually a human woman, but a changeling made of mud and sticks enchanted to look like the human she had replaced as a baby. Her mother has been getting in the way, and now it's pretty much too late...
• Many of those humans in the crowd are hags in disguise, including Granny Dismal, who created changeling-Kayra. They're there for... moral support, maybe? Or just to see what happens?

Love and Hex started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/existential horror story. It's on Webtoon and other platforms. Also r/LoveAndHex. ^(And Patreon if you like early releases and extra stuff.)

There's also a book! You'll find it on Amazon (just use your country's site).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50267795

Orginally published in my old zine back in 1999.
Redrawn/recolored/sligthly rewritten in 2026
Enjoy!

Hi, folks! I'm a fairweather comic fan. I just started building a library of DRM-free comics, so it's quite small at the moment, and I'm looking to branch out. I was pretty set on 100 Bullets until I found out just today that apparently not everything on Global Comix is DRM-free. Bummer. Anyway, I'm curious what you folks might recommend instead. I'm looking for digital, DRM-free comics.

I've recently read through Invincible and The Boys. Yes, I know, the stuff that gets adapted into TV shows tends to be a form of curation. I enjoyed them both, but I'm looking for something at this point that's not a super hero story. I love crime stories, and I'm a big fan of the movie A History of Violence. It credits a graphic novel for its source material, but the graphic novel doesn't seem to be available for purchase anywhere for some reason; I'd be curious to know why, if anyone here knows and would like to fill me in. So failing that, I read the free first issue of 100 Bullets a long while back, and I was intrigued, but now with the DRM, I'm inclined to flip them the bird and keep looking for something else.

In the past, I've read some Alan Moore like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. I've read stuff like Maus for class (one of my favorite assigned readings for any class) and still have a hard cover version on my shelf. I read most of The Walking Dead and stopped somewhere around the arc with the whisperers. I think my preference would be for either a crime story or for science fiction. Additionally, I'd like a story that has either ended or is definitively heading toward some sort of end, rather than the type of super hero story that gets rebooted ad infinitum; or the type of story that just keeps going on and on with no end in sight, or the end is just arbitrary.

Anything you folks think might be up my alley, available digitally and DRM-free?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68578868

Hey, the changeling is still here! It's her wedding! Don't let the other characters' shenanigans distract you from her story. (This is more a message to myself than to you.)

What's going on?

• This girl is "Kayra", a changeling made of mud and sticks enchanted to look like the human she had replaced as a baby.
• Changelings are supposed to fade and die after a few weeks, but this one did not, and has been living the real Kayra's human life, and grew up hiding her true nature - even from her own parents.
• Now she's an adult, getting married, and has a complicated relationship with her mother.
• She still hasn't told her fiancé the truth about herself, though not for lack of trying.
• Now there are only a few minutes till she's supposed to walk down the aisle.

Love and Hex started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/existential horror story. It's on Webtoon and other platforms.

There's also !LoveAndHex@lemmy.ca. ^(And Patreon if you like early releases and extra stuff.)

There's also a book! You'll find it on Amazon (just use your country's site).

https://programmingpalace.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/story-of-generations-funny-pic/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49811506

Hopefully not based on a true story.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68211717

He'll either have the time of his life, or end up a drained, soulless husk. Or both. Knowing Lester, he'd probably be OK with either result.

Big thanks to Kewkoh for working with me on this and agreeing to my insane comic pitch. (Dude is an amazing artist.) This was a natural follow-up after Lester and Nanny were featured on the cover of Sunday Comix; we thought it'd be fun to show them on an actual date.

More Love and Hex:

• Comics
• Patreon

More Feral Mills:

• Comics
• Patreon

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49724815

Truly a tragic tale.

Based on many true stories.

Can't remember if this is based on a true story.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49566600

Not based on true events.

• More comics
• Patreon
• Book

Of course the bard takes the credit for a successful social check. Our rogue doesn't seem to mind.

What's going on here?

• Tamilda is an orphan teen who was, for a time, part of Singing Cricket's adventuring party.
  • She and the rest of the cast are attending the wedding of a changeling, the strange creature that replaced Kayra as a baby, whom they recently discovered and befriended. (The poor changeling has her own problems, which will probably get addressed soon.)
  • Tamilda has had a few story arcs in the series, and has recently started discovering some things about herself.
• Tamilda had a very awkward introduction to Maki, but they quickly became friends.
• Tobias, the bartender, is not having a good day.
• The wedding day story starts a few episodes back. A lot of storylines have split off at this wedding and will eventually come together.

Love and Hex started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/adventure/occasionally horror story. It's on Webtoon and other platforms. Also r/LoveAndHex. ^(And Patreon if you like early releases and extra stuff. Or get the book!)

by Spud Sedition, 1999