I’m back from ECCC, thank you to everyone who came by and said hello! That was my last convention of 2022, so now I’m going to focus on my commission list and, you guessed it, MORE COMIC PAGES.
I’m back from ECCC, thank you to everyone who came by and said hello! That was my last convention of 2022, so now I’m going to focus on my commission list and, you guessed it, MORE COMIC PAGES.
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A boat? In the middle of the desert? This is gonna be interesting.
A poleboat, specifically. Is the next circle the river Styx?
I wonder if the boat will play “Come Sail Away” or “Mr. Roboto”. It probably only has “Boat On The River” though.
Maybe “Misery’s the River of the World.” I can already hear it O_O
But this won’t be the River Tom Waits.
It would be pretty funny if the center was named Tranquility Base.
My guess is that the boat is on a river (styx ?) they are just on the wrong side of the border to see it as a river.
that or a mine shaft
It s too early for the frozen lake, is it not ?
Correct. Circle Five is the Wrathful and Sullen. Souls condemned to a swamp formed by the Styx.
The wrathful, treading through the muck, forever fighting. The sullen, submerged in the swamp, blowing bubbles, only to come up once in a while to take a peek, before sinking back to their little lairs.
The frozen lake is the ninth circle. Frozen because of the constant beating of Satan’s wings, and as far from God’s light (and heat) as possible.
on reread, i notice that the boat is moving horizontally, which means it is not a mine shaft.
I wonder why there is only one boat, for that matter
What makes you think that there’s only one boat? There could be multiple in other locations.
This is just the one you see at ‘this’ point in Hell.
Dat you, Charon?
Phlegyas.
Charon was earlier in the Inferno, crossing the Acheron.
Charon, in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the deceased who had received the rites of burial.
This isn’t a direct correlation to Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno. It’s not any one hell it’s all hells and afterlives from various cultures.
Might I point out that the last 3 circles have been lifted straight from the Inferno?
The second was the winds of the always yearning.
The third was the muck of the gluttons.
The fourth was the boulders of the greedy.
I don’t see those in Buddhist afterlife beliefs. And it’s not even from the root religion, Judaism.
Something new and deeply unpleasant will now happen.
It looks like the boat has the proper size to accomodate Bloodcarver.
I wonder whether any party member but him, if he has enough dexterity to do so, will be able to use that pole and punt it, though …