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Diamondback Ridge Page 20
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Diamondback Ridge Page 20

on May 15, 2016
Chapter: Book 8: Diamondback Ridge
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  1. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    May 15, 2016, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Ooooh, he still loves her <3

    Black and Hunter, sitting under a tree…

    K-I-S-S-I-N-G

    • Henry Barrington
      Henry Barrington
      May 15, 2016, 5:38 am | # | Reply

      But the tree is on fire, the ground is scorched, the remnants of a town surround them, bullet riddled burnt corpses litter the ground.

      • ScholarO'Fortune
        ScholarO'Fortune
        May 15, 2016, 11:39 am | # | Reply

        That’s what I call a successful date!

        • Random Spanish Guy
          Random Spanish Guy
          May 15, 2016, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

          Now I wish we could upvote comments.

      • Yalashanda
        Yalashanda
        May 15, 2016, 11:44 am | # | Reply

        How Romantic!

  2. Taijutsu
    Taijutsu
    May 15, 2016, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    Can someone explain to me what happened between frames 1 and 3? No reflection on the artist, I just am not understanding

    • ScholarO'Fortune
      ScholarO'Fortune
      May 15, 2016, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      If you mean the frame where JHH and Emma are reaching out to each other, it is a very awkward seduction witnessed by an undead killing machine.

      You know, romance.

      • Saibot
        Saibot
        May 16, 2016, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        Another flash-back to that fever-dream where she originally caught Hunter in the embrace of another woman. Sort of tearing into this present embace.

        • Sir. Orc
          Sir. Orc
          May 16, 2016, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

          This and that dream makes me think the woman in question was the bookshop owner from Genevieve. The lady in this flashback has the same large pleated sleeves and you can see what looks like some of her hair-bead things.

  3. jsfury
    jsfury
    May 15, 2016, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

    Not Vane in the flash back. I think John Henry knows Vane is watching. It could be why he is saying her name? Vane is remembering something very heart braking. I believe.

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      May 18, 2016, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      Now, if you’re right and he knows, he’s really twisting the knife … of course, she has shot him, repeatedly …

  4. ScholarO'Fortune
    ScholarO'Fortune
    May 15, 2016, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    The woman in the flashback is Boudreaux, the bookstore owner/voodonista from the short story “Genevieve.” I think JHH is muttering “Vane” as a way to derail Emma’s seduction by invoking the memory of his “deceased” wife to kill the mood.

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      May 18, 2016, 8:42 am | # | Reply

      That’d make him a lot more sympathetic.

  5. caribouchat
    caribouchat
    May 15, 2016, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

    The expression of sadness here, both from Hunter and from Vane’s eyes, is just Great.

  6. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    May 15, 2016, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

    Erin, how incredibly hard is it to do these superpositions? Do you do the drawings twice? Every time we get one of these I can’t help but think that you must hate yourself, to force yourself to do so much work for a single page.

    Also, well spotted, jsfury. I didn’t notice that it wasn’t Vane at first. That gives this page a whole new meaning. Hum…

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      May 16, 2016, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      Random, this is why Erin’s minions keep following her work page after page. 😉

      Yeah I saw the hair was not Vane’s in the flash back. Now we are all going to be on needles and pins for the next week or two.

  7. Emanon
    Emanon
    May 16, 2016, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    Man, I thought he was smooth.

    Now he’s got two pissed, jealous women after him!

  8. Dan Bowman
    Dan Bowman
    May 16, 2016, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    Dayum!
    (again…)

  9. l33tninja
    l33tninja
    May 16, 2016, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    I’m seeing a double use for the speech bubble in that last panel. It COULD also be the beginning of this phrase:

    “…Vane. Please, please, please don’t rain fire down on this innocent lass just because she has fallen for me. I mean, it’s pretty obvious why she did. Seriously, look at me. I am a boss. I probably shouldn’t have said that last part, right? Oh boy. Here it comes…”

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      May 18, 2016, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Ha! Good one.

  10. wingsofwrath
    wingsofwrath
    May 18, 2016, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    Oh, I’m sure Vane can control herself and this will just end up with all three of them going on a picnic and having a good time.
    And there’ll also be puppies.
    And ice cream.

    Right? RIGHT?

  11. Karyl
    Karyl
    May 19, 2016, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    I look at this flashback overlap and wonder if he wasn’t in fact almost pushing the woman away as she reaches out to him…it’s really conflicted looking to me. Also, perhaps he is momentarily just as lost in memory as Vane is and can only think of her, which certainly wouldn’t thrill little missy there.

    • Storel
      Storel
      May 22, 2016, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      That’s how it seems to me. Lost in the feeling of romance and love, he tenderly murmurs the name of the woman he last felt that way with — who is not the woman he’s with now. You can get in more trouble that way!

  12. J.H.
    J.H.
    November 21, 2021, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    Oh, that second panel.

    The darkness of the door dividing them.

    Her arm and hand being bare, while his is covered in white.

    Her reach crosses the darkness while he pulls up short.

    His expression of quiet sadness while she has a calm eagerness.

    Immaculate white, pure but cold, and lively green full of life.

    And the scene stealer the simple small bit commanding burning eyes. Looming, inevitable; the coming tragedy of repetition.

    I would love to show this picture to people without context to just get their reads on it.

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