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Via Dolorosa Page 27
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Via Dolorosa Page 27

on September 17, 2017
Chapter: Book 9: Via Dolorosa
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  1. Schlump
    Schlump
    September 17, 2017, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

    That answers a few questions about Vane. Something else was in there besides Vane.

    • JuaSaysHi
      JuaSaysHi
      September 17, 2017, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      “Preacher”: I toldja. Sin. Purge. Toldja.

      • Schlump
        Schlump
        September 17, 2017, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

        It looks like the preacher lady did some good.

        One wonders what Vane will be like now.

        • Omnipotent Rodent
          Omnipotent Rodent
          September 18, 2017, 7:09 am | # | Reply

          I assume…dead. I presume this is what was keeping her “undead”, really.

          Speaking of, daaaaaayumn!

          • Honzinator
            Honzinator
            September 21, 2017, 9:43 am | #

            Literally damned … and how did that creature of shadow subsume(consume?!?) nearly all of the creature of light it had been living within?

    • Mike
      Mike
      September 18, 2017, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      Unless that is Vane (or what’s left of her).

  2. ScholarOfFortune
    ScholarOfFortune
    September 17, 2017, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

    I love how the close up of Vane’s eyes looks like the voodoo demon from Genevieve drawing parallels with Hunter’s magic that (we think) turned her into an undead revenant, but then the exorcism under goes a digitalesque transformation revealing the Tron-like futuristic essence that permeates Vane’s soul.

    • Schlump
      Schlump
      September 18, 2017, 5:09 am | # | Reply

      Maybe Genevieve can arrive and take out the demon.

    • Phil
      Phil
      September 18, 2017, 6:59 am | # | Reply

      These seem distinct:
      1) Vane’s body
      2) A body of light
      3) A covering of dark
      Only the 3rd seems capable of action at this point.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        September 19, 2017, 8:47 am | # | Reply

        Kudos ScholarOfFortune (and Mark – I mark thee, Mark) for noting the techy reference in the dark, seemingly vengeful, entity. Note also the pixillations dripping off her like so much extra ichor. She’s a fantasy/sci-fi borg. ‘at’s wot she is, guv’nah.
        Also, Phil, thanks for counting them off – though the cross/scaffold many be meaningful too, as may the serpentine chains a dangling.
        JuaSaysHi made a punny, below, with “ominous”. I like it.
        I wonder, will Mother Superior shall return with more firepower? If she does, shall it all end tragically?

        • ScholarofFortune
          ScholarofFortune
          September 24, 2017, 7:41 am | # | Reply

          The final line of the exorcism is the Mother Superior yelling: “sudo rm -rf /”

    • :p
      :p
      September 20, 2017, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      @ScholarOfFortune

      i tink the ritual did made vane return to her original form

      is mostly because the simbol vane has on her butt is the same as the horse hunter placed the same mark on

      https://www.nexttownover.net/?p=563
      https://www.nexttownover.net/?p=564

  3. JuaSaysHi
    JuaSaysHi
    September 17, 2017, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

    Nope, not omenous at all, lookin’ good, yup. *hides*

    • Keith
      Keith
      September 19, 2017, 6:49 am | # | Reply

      Yep, going great…find your own hiding spot, this one is mine due to prior hiding behind this very substantial bit of terrain with a most expeditious escape route (not that I’ll need it, I hope).

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      September 25, 2017, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      “Omenous” is either brilliant by design, or a happy accident.

  4. Sam Chisholm
    Sam Chisholm
    September 18, 2017, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. Well, this explains…a little. Not a lot, but something. Though that makes me wonder: was Vane ever really brought back from the dead? Or was it always that…thing?

  5. Dchil
    Dchil
    September 18, 2017, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    I think the thing is all of vane’s evil and hatred.

    It consumed her very being at the point of death and lead the corpse to walk the earth seeking it’s revenge.

  6. okwari
    okwari
    September 18, 2017, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    Beautiful and horrifying at the same time. Wow.

  7. jsfury
    jsfury
    September 18, 2017, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Erin, it’s amazing what you can do without writing a single word. Your drawings speak volumes. So, is Vane free of the hell? Is John scard of his loss of control? That last panel of John eyes, a cross between fear and sorrow. Or is it hope?

  8. Karyl
    Karyl
    September 18, 2017, 10:23 am | # | Reply

    What does Hunter know that we don’t know yet? did he expect this separation? was he confused too? Does he expect the extracted or freed being to be friend or foe?? what about VANE?? what will she know, do, or is she left blank, if not dead???

  9. Teh Gerg
    Teh Gerg
    September 18, 2017, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Well, that explains a lot . . . * heh *.

  10. Mark
    Mark
    September 18, 2017, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

    Huh, interesting. The black/purple squares and lines put me in mind of something digital, which almost makes this seem like a “glitch in the matrix” sort of thing. NTO has been a simulation all along! :p

    • Dchil
      Dchil
      September 19, 2017, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Might NTO be westworld?

  11. Carcharadon
    Carcharadon
    September 18, 2017, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    I think I’ve had the same overwhelmed “wow” reaction to each new page for a while now, and I’m too much in awe to know at this point how many weeks in a row it is anymore. Just… wow.

  12. Somebody Someone
    Somebody Someone
    September 18, 2017, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

    OH. MY. GAWD.

  13. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    September 19, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    I… don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. I… well, don’t know what to say.

  14. Eonknight
    Eonknight
    September 19, 2017, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    Hunter did say it was no angel fire they were using… maybe whatever ritual they used made things worse?

  15. Stormsinger
    Stormsinger
    September 19, 2017, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

    What if the preacher put something else in Vanity. Like the old woman who swallowed the spider!

  16. Teh Gerg
    Teh Gerg
    September 19, 2017, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

    Now two questions: was Vane dead; will she die or return to death now? I don’t want her to die, but . . .

  17. Dchil
    Dchil
    September 20, 2017, 7:28 am | # | Reply

    On looking at this again, I fear we may be nearing the close of our tale here.

  18. Rhee
    Rhee
    September 20, 2017, 11:51 am | # | Reply

    Prediction: vengeful spirit that has been trapped in Vane is exorcised, but because the nun was interrupted the spirit will instead possess the young brother of the blood instead of being cast out like it was supposed to. Vane, restored to her loving former self, teams up with Hunter and a whole squad of other mages (the wind guy from Broken Sky for example) plus the string of lynchers and bounty hunters on their trail for an epic final battle against the newly formed Supreme BloodMage

  19. Norman
    Norman
    September 21, 2017, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    Wonder how effective that sword of flame will be.

  20. Norman
    Norman
    September 21, 2017, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Wonder how effective Hunter’s sword of flame will be.

  21. AftrBrnr
    AftrBrnr
    September 24, 2017, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    On page 22, Hunter made it a point point out to Vane how much he missed his wife. The “tone” – or so it seems to me – is that he seems to hold her responsible.

    I think Vane may be a being that’s inhabited Mrs. Hunter’s body (or what’s left of it). That could explain why Hunter looks so concerned on page 25 when he pulls Vane down from the post / cross.

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