Seeker

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oh my god you CANNOT lure me in with a whimsical looking bunny thing and fox thing just to stab me in the chest 72 times what the hell😭this was devastatingly beautiful, emphasis on devastating... and now i have to go about my day like i wasn't emotionally eviscerated at least three times?? 12/10 im gonna go stare at the ceiling now

Someone from Iterum found this little comic, I see! Thank you for reading and enjoying. This is a wonderful review.

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I didn't have the time or energy to draw more or better, but I hope this suffices! Happy belated new year!

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10 yo seekerquest gift: seekerquest but theres ten of her

Dude, we do not need ten more of that fucking maniac in any reality.

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So Seekerquest is 10!

How the flies time, eh?

Retrospection introspection under the cut.

The further away I get from Seeker's start and completion, the more surreal my relationship to this comic becomes to me. The end of this comic's run made me marathon creating updates every single day until we finished this thing, and caused me to dissociate for the first time in my life once I had no more pages to post. People still occasionally find this series here and on ComicFury (where I archived it) and the most common thing I hear is that they wished they were around for when it was actively running, so they could have participated. It's touching that Seeker is still enjoyable all this time later. I really need to go back and read through the whole thing myself, because I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of it, and I'd like to see how my skills in art and story have improved over time.

I say this often to myself (not to friends, who will beat me up for saying it): I got incredibly lucky that Seeker turned out as well as it did. I had the major plot points decided well ahead of time, but every step there, as well as some random beats and shifts in the narrative, was improvised based on little things y'all would suggest to me. I am not great at improv, especially in storytelling, so it was a constant challenge to balance the pacing and humor in a way that responded properly and interestingly to commands or questions while still moving forward to things no one had any idea was coming. The fact that it's an enjoyable read is nothing short of a miracle to me.

I'm grateful to all of you for helping me complete this comic. This was the first non-fanfic story I had started and actually finished, and it's all due to the (gentle) pressure y'all put me under to keep up with commands. I would not have been able to reach the end of Seeker if it hadn't been for you nudging me along to keep going, step by step, until it was six years later and suddenly I didn't have a comic to write and draw anymore. That still feels insane to me.

Honestly, Seeker taught me a lot of important lessons in the vein of storytelling. Reaching the beats I had been dying to get to for years and years (Stargazer's fate, Rul's eyes, the ending in general) and getting a massive reaction that I had dreamed about... it formed a sense of discipline, patience and determination that makes me able to get through months of drawing pages of comics I don't want to draw, or writing chapters of a fic or book I don't want to write, just to finally reach that special point I was so excited to get to. It taught me that the dredge is worth it. That I CAN complete a story, if I just keep at it bit by bit. That keeping a plot to myself is worth it - I don't need to tell my friends how cool it's going to be, I can just make it happen and it'll be cool all on its own! Just put one brick on another, one at a time, and before I know it, there'll be a house. I can do it. I have done it. I'll do it again. Something about that just makes me feel better about myself.

I won't babble any further. I just want to thank you all for reading, participating, enjoying, chatting with me, and loving these characters as much as I do. Seeker, in a way, will always be the most important comic I ever wrote or will write, and it's entirely thanks to y'all.

That's all I gotta say. Happy 10 years, Seeker!

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Happy Happy Birthday for 10 years of Seekerquest!!! ^^

I can’t believe it has already been a decade that Seeker appeared on the Pillar to investigate what had happened in Pax’s world, and yet, here we are.  And while Seekerquest is over, the story itself of this universe is far from over, and I am very excited what else we will learn about this very interesting place :3 

Yours sincerely

Bowler

Thank you kindly for reminding me it was Seeker’s birthday, good lord. How did I forget?

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I just read this comic on ao3 and I just wanted to say how much I ABSOLUTELY adore this story 😭😭 the ending genuinely had me crying like I don't think I'll be able to think about anything else for awhile

Aww, this is a delight to hear. Thank you for reading and telling me you enjoyed it! Seeker's dear to my heart, so it's lovely when someone finds it after all this time and likes it.

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pretty sure it's just that page 8 is also-marked as 78

Oh, thank god. I just edited it. Thanks for finding that.

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there are two pages 78 in the archive, i think

Oh, god, I hope not. Numbering all of those fucking pages kicked my ass, don't tell me I have to do it again.

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Happy late birthday for Seekers 9th Anniversary. Which means that this end of the year we are going to celebrate TEN years of Seekerquest ^^

Jesus fucking Christ. Has it really been almost ten years?

God damn.

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for how little effort this took, youd be shocked how long ive been working on this

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I have not, in fact, forgotten these characters.

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been watching tbfp compilations again and these two are just pat and matt

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can't believe it was JUST confirmed canon that seekerverse jesus was a chihuahua

You don't know what Jesus looks like here.

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Got a sudden burst of inspiration and decided to put together a general "Oh No, Bad Things Are Happening Right Now" @seekerquest fan theme. I let myself experiment a little with this one, aiming for more of a frantic, fast-paced feel where it sounds almost like the music's tripping over itself and your ears struggle to figure out what's going on now and then.

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HOW DID I MISS THIS

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Repostober Day 30

Seeker in Hollow Knight Style - July 2022

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throwback to me and @themissinglynx talking about madworld crossovers and i HAD to draw stargazer as hed appear in that setting

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Completely forgot I sketched this.

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Repostober Day 11

Gris Seeker - January 2021

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I have no idea if we ever showed this, but my buddy did some excellent Seeker crossover art!

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Another different anon here, I do think about the comic from time to time! It's among my favorite webcomics and I used to read a -lot- of them. Seeing that Seeker was updated with an epilogue made my week and I love the comic even more after it. (I'm also enjoying the sequel set in the same universe but it has big shoes to fill. The main trio are adorable though.)

So many wonderful things to be told today... thank you for this.

Can I just say, I never intended to have an epilogue for Seeker - the first or the second. I was content to leave it at the end reveal and let people freak out. But seeing how much love was given to the characters and the story, and how much I came to adore them, I increasingly felt compelled to give some form of closure. I'm super glad I did, too. It was like giving someone a present they really love and getting to watch their delighted reaction when they open it up. Extremely rewarding.