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Wayward Page 1
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Wayward Page 1

on April 20, 2013
Chapter: Book 5: Wayward
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  1. Roy
    Roy
    April 20, 2013, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Mr. Hunter looks a little worse for wear…

  2. Mumby
    Mumby
    April 20, 2013, 4:29 am | # | Reply

    Are those… hobbit holes?

    More seriously, this looks awesome. I love the steam coming off him.

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Thankye!

    • Zee
      Zee
      April 26, 2013, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Due to a great lack of lumber in the wide open plains of Kansas and other utterly flat areas, more often than not, people would either build sod houses, or create den homes in the side of hills. Sod houses, of course, over time and what with Kansas grass growing the way it does, would BECOME den homes… But no, no hobbits. Just the wide open plains :p

  3. Ricardo Mo
    Ricardo Mo
    April 20, 2013, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    The placeholder comic was awesome, but it’s great to have the main story back. I hope this means you are also finding parenthood to be something that agrees with you? Juggling fatherhood and writing is tough enough, so you have my admiration for managing the tougher, and often more thankless, roles of mother and artist. Keep up the good work.

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks so much!

  4. jsfury
    jsfury
    April 20, 2013, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Welcome back Squidbunny, not that you ever left. Hope all is well and new arrival is doing okay as are the rest of you. First panel looks like a scene from WWI. Nice panel lay outs too. Hunter looks shot to pieces. And Miss Black?

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you kindly for the well-wishings.

  5. 12th
    12th
    April 20, 2013, 10:06 am | # | Reply

    Woo! Back to NTO-prime. Enjoyed the other stories too, but it’s made me hungry to have more Hunter & Black.
    Not looking like the best day for Mr. Hunter here. Expecting it’ll probably get worse.

  6. bla
    bla
    April 20, 2013, 10:47 am | # | Reply

    Does the stone have “quarantine” written on it?

    • Occam
      Occam
      April 22, 2013, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      I had read that as “Quakers”, but I’ll need to take a new look at it 🙂

      • Erin
        Erin
        April 22, 2013, 8:15 am | # | Reply

        I will confirm that it doesn’t say Quakers.

        • Occam
          Occam
          April 23, 2013, 2:04 am | # | Reply

          Oh, I forgot to say I checked and, definitely, it’s not “Quakers”. It might be “Quarantine”, which somehow reminds me of Roland Deschain and the super-flu…

          … and I tremble with fear. I hope –I really, really, REALLY hope– this is not gonna go Dark-Toweresque. I know you can do way better than Mr. King, Erin 🙂

          • My_Little_Annie
            My_Little_Annie
            April 25, 2013, 1:08 pm | #

            Hey hey now Sai, don’t be dissing Dark Tower!

          • Occam
            Occam
            April 26, 2013, 2:16 am | #

            @My_Little_Annie: (For some unknown reason I can’t reply to your comment) To each his own, but I quite disliked Dark Tower’s last 3 books. And that’s a lot of books. Last one was, IMO, a complete waste of time.

            Next Town Over is way much better than these 3 books. But again that’s my opinion and of course you don’t have to agree. 🙂

    • rodgeraj
      rodgeraj
      April 22, 2013, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      I believe you are correct, bla. Seems to be quarantine.

  7. CptNerd
    CptNerd
    April 20, 2013, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

    Aw, and so close to having frog stew…

  8. mindstream
    mindstream
    April 21, 2013, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    The frogpuddlefirehoof image is beautiful.
    Any chance of that becoming available
    as a large downloadable wallpaper?

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 21, 2013, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

      Well the detail level’s hardly up to looking decent that large as it wasn’t intended, and the one with the hoof’d need some reverse engineering as the frog’s jumping off into the gutter, but I dunno. If folks really want it and I have a few minutes I might make that available, sure.

      • SnaleKing
        SnaleKing
        April 21, 2013, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

        it’s pretty cool, actually, and the colors would be nice as a background.
        So if you have time, sure! 🙂

  9. gothold
    gothold
    April 21, 2013, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

    Whoa! Hunter looks pretty ragged here. can’t wait for next week!

  10. Karyl
    Karyl
    April 21, 2013, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

    woooo, so worth the wait and all the in-between adventures, excellent in their own “write” as they were.

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

      Much obliged. 😀

  11. My_Little_Annie
    My_Little_Annie
    April 22, 2013, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    I can imagine the hissing sound as the rain hits the horse’s flames.

    We’re getting another glimpse of JHH’s spine-length scar here too. Cool.

    Don’t hurt the dog JHH or I’ll hate you forever!!

  12. TheFOX
    TheFOX
    April 22, 2013, 8:37 am | # | Reply

    And Vane must be near based on the scroll work on the borders. Just not “at hand” or the scrolls would be larger. And I’d like to think of Genevieve as a Preview of Coming Attraction.

  13. tuco
    tuco
    April 22, 2013, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me or is the art style slightly different? it looks more watercolor-y

    • Occam
      Occam
      April 23, 2013, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      Considering it’s raining pretty hard, that would be understandable.

      /Badum-tiss :O)

  14. Lukeman
    Lukeman
    April 25, 2013, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    Oh man, his arm looks like it’s about ready to pop off. Might not get much help in that town, either.

  15. xsarabellax
    xsarabellax
    April 25, 2013, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

    Welcome back, off to a great start!

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you kindly!

  16. Sulucamas
    Sulucamas
    April 25, 2013, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    I wanna say that’s a pretty sizable graveyard on the hill in the background. Seems fitting for such a ruined-looking place. 😈

    • Erin
      Erin
      April 25, 2013, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

      Nice catch.

  17. Madame Manga
    Madame Manga
    December 10, 2013, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

    I’m late to the party, but I’m adoring just about everything about this comic.

    This scene strongly reminds me of a visit I once made to Rhyolite, Nevada. Rhyolite is a ghost town in the mountains above Death Valley, with the crumbling remains of some once very fine buildings. I happened to be there during an icy February downpour. Some others in my group refused even to get out of the car, but I felt compelled to walk through the whole place. Gray ghost town in the high desert, with the wind speaking through the ruins… I about froze my ass off before saner people dragged me back to the car. 😀

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