#angel comic

[ahcoffeebeans2]

self portrait

[transgavin]

One of the scenes from my comic it’s rough and my handwriting sucks but wow he just like me fr

Also I’ve decided to call this story Angel…listen..I know but as if it doesn’t slay

[justmaghookit]

You awaken to the colours of Creation

Comments and reblogs are loved and appreciated!

edit: i completely forgot two of the pages :’) this version has the missing ones

[specialagentartemis]

Would you post your explanation of the Angel comic?

(This comic here)

You, the reader, are looking from the perspective of the angel. The two women are talking to you/the angel, a being of a higher dimension - I'm not sure if the idea is that you, the reader (in the real world), are actually in a higher dimension than they (small, two-dimensional, fictional) are, but it definitely adds a feeling of the hugeness and power that the angel has in relation to the women. The angel cannot be depicted; it's too much, incapable of being fully captured in visual media. You'll notice also that the angel doesn't talk throughout this comic, again giving it a feeling of something huge, otherworldly, uncapturable.

However, because you are looking at the comic through the angel's eyes, you see everything the way the angel does. The angel has met the women for coffee, apparently at an outdoor patio (maybe at their house); so even while the women are talking, the angel also sees the dimensions and compositions of the table and chairs, the passage of a satellite and its transmission overhead, the history and the creation process of the coffee, the mechanics of a bird's flight overhead, the structure and mechanics of a coffeemaker, the structure of a nearby tree, the structure and assembly history of the chair, the structure and operation of the electrical wire providing electricity to the house, the digestive tract of woman IX (maybe she has now drunk her coffee), the sun operating on the Earth and the way it is driving the water cycle, the structure of the bike leaning up against the porch, the composition of the grass beneath their feet, the biology of a squirrel snuffling around nearby... the angel is aware of all of it at once, breaking down everything in the world and understanding how it all works, inside and out, simultaneously.

The women reference this, saying "We argue sometimes about how a higher dimensional being like you might perceive our reality... she assumes you'll be able to see the truth of all things at once, with total clarity. But I was thinking the torrent of information might actually be a little difficult for you to parse."

You, the reader, the eyes of the angel, see all the information in this world all overlapping each other, overlapping the women speaking. You decide. It's up to interpretation.

(It's also interesting that the women are drawn in a similarly simplified, black-and-white lines, almost diagram-like way, that make the angel's perception of them seem like it's on a similar level of its perception of everything else around them. They are part of the information about the world it's taking in.)

And then, now that we've established that the angel has a profound understanding of the whole world... instead of asking profound questions, the women ask personal, bizarre ones. Ones that even an omniscient angel might not be able to answer, or at least, answer satisfyingly. When faced with profundity, they ask weirdly specific and almost mundane questions about 1) a legend that I don't think actually exists (implying, along with their initial cheerful "Thanks for agreeing to meet us for coffee!", that this world itself is weirder than our own, that angels are known or at least widely understood to exist and interact with humans), 2) what angel meat tastes like (what an impertinent and physical question to ask an angel, but one that I imagine many people would be curious about!), and 3) if the angel, higher-dimensional all-seeing being, will do a favor for her, and that favor is killing her boss. I can't entirely explain why "It's ok to say no" cracks me up and is the perfect ending to this slightly surreal comic, but it's so... casual, treating the angel as so familiar, asking it to do something reprehensible but relateable in such a casual complaining-with-your-friends way. The balance between familiarity and unfamiliarity on different levels is what makes it, I think.

I can't entirely capture why this feels like it touches on something amazing and almost numinous, but this all comes close, I think.

[rainforestakiie]

hi all! o know the newest chapter has shook a lot of people, myself included. i wanted to wait until i finished all of the part 3, but thought i’ll release another previow. for the people who don’t know, i started an archangel mika comic. haha. the second chapter should be out soon. anyway, this is basically mika and yuu, after the ‘climax’ of the story. 

yuu is supposed to have scales by the way! ahhh, i’m not sure if it looks like it, but he’s supposed to be smothered in scales TT.TT i hope it looks alright. 

preview of fire soot part 3

[ahcoffeebeans2]

watching the game awards...

resuscitation of a lost passion...

[theshinsun]

idk it was supposed to be a lighting/pose study, feat. my bastard oc Kaspar (photo ref used).