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The Chimney Page 22
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The Chimney Page 22

on August 18, 2019
Chapter: Book 11: The Chimney
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  1. Manabi
    Manabi
    August 18, 2019, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    You really did a great job showing the operation without making it excessively gory! It’s still horrifying, but that’s because of what she’s doing in the process, not the blood.

  2. Pygment
    Pygment
    August 18, 2019, 11:11 am | # | Reply

    The way you make art continues to astound, amazing and absorb me in your world. Thank you for what you do.

  3. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    August 18, 2019, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    Add me to the list of admirers. This is breathtaking.

  4. jsfury
    jsfury
    August 19, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Indeed an incredible illustration and understanding of human anatomy. What a nightmare for John Henry to be on the receiving end of Vane’s mad work. I can see why he said he’d rather be dead. With just one person doing a complete spinal column replacement that must of took Vane all day and night to do this surgery. I’m surprised there isn’t way more blood soaked sheets, cotton, smocks, hands, you get the picture. This would explain why Vane collapsed on the floor after the surgery. And all that memory by simply looking st sowing needle.

  5. Honzinator
    Honzinator
    August 19, 2019, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    ManabĂ­ is correct. The horror is enhanced by leaving much to our imaginations. I am reminded of Se7en, a truly top notch bit of disturbing film.

  6. arnly
    arnly
    August 23, 2019, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

    I’m just catching up… I think (once again) that you’ve exceeded your previous chapters. The flashbacks AND the Coyote sequences in this chapter are beautiful and credible. I love the way this thread of the story is being woven into the rest.

  7. arnly
    arnly
    August 23, 2019, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

    And I particularly love page 6. I am wondering what his affectionate touch on the human-like figure means. I’m looking forward to getting this entire story someday in book form (I have the first volume on the bookshelves in my studio, right next to a volume of Michelangelo, with Rodin’s drawing and watercolors beside that…) so I can read it over and over to understand all the symbolism, foreshadowing, and veiled references. You’ve put so much detail and thought into all of this.

  8. Robin
    Robin
    September 8, 2019, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    Did she…give him her life energy or something? That aura around her looks suspicious.

  9. Puck
    Puck
    September 14, 2020, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    Is … is she sweating, or crying, down there at the bottom? I also can’t help but wonder what that wheel/crank/tubed thing is for.

    Good LORD this page. My breath has officially been stolen away from me.

    • Scott's Folly
      Scott's Folly
      August 20, 2021, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

      I think the “wheel/crank/tubed thing” is a pneumatic-driven chainsaw. Compressed air comes in through the tube to drive the big wheel, the big wheel drives the toothed chain around the small wheel, the small wheel is applied to the patient. Minimises the size and (mechanical/surgical) complication of the cutting end, by keeping the air line and the drive turbine out of the way. And of course you don’t include a chain guard, because then you can see directly how fast it’s running.

      I don’t know whether it’s something created specifically for NTO’s world, or whether it’s based on something that ours had in the equivalent time and place. The tech is plausible, at a level comparable to what our world could have produced, but that doesn’t mean someone actually came up with the design and made it.

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