#ghost dust

[arielries]

I have a folder of these

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Interstellar Cantabile

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Lallah

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Thank you! Strange Bedfellows was actually always conceived as a proof of concept / testing ground for my larger project, Ghost Dust. It serves as an intro to the universe, and a lot of the world building alluded to (the Ghost Authority, the Nabopu) will be expanded upon in the main story. Oberon and Kon are central characters but not The Protagonist. I've talked a bit more about this recently in my ghost dust tag.

Something cute about their future? Uhhh they are quite divorced but sleep together when drunk I mean fuck ahhh they live together on a space ship ☺️ (semi against their will) and are raising a teen together (involuntarily and with several other adults and also the teen is possesed) 😊

[arielries]

hi! idk if youll see this, but i just finished reading strange bed fellows and had to have a quiet freak out about it bc it blew me away that much. im still thinking about it hours later. what a great story!!! i was curious if u envisioned it as a stand-alone or if u thought about a sequel? the setting was so lush and that i can feel so many angles to come at it from. thanks for sharing this with us!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Maybe I'm biased but I think you should let yourself have a loud freak out about it.

Strange Bedfellows is what I like to call my "joker's trick" in that it was always intended as a prequel that would be a gentle introduction to a universe that has a larger (and harder to sell) story connected to it called "Ghost Dust".

Ghost Dust happens about 10-15 years after Bedfellows, and follows Oberon and Kon (and some other guys) who work as fixers for the GA. They discover a teen called Lallah when investigating a rogue planet, who has powers akin to "Magical Girl* (*gender neutral) Naruto". The gang bands together to investigate how Lallah came to be because they fall so far out of the realm of what can normally be defined as a "Ghost".

"That doesn't sound so hard to sell"

There's space dinosaurs and cyborg clones in it and it'd be at least a thousand pages long. My ideal career after I finish my current contracted book is just to make Witchy and Ghost Dust side by side as webcomics, but that's not particularly financially viable, unless I get 10x the amount of patreon supporters that I currently have. Likely ETA is 10 years from now, after I finish Witchy, but maybe a miracle will happen.

Here's a Teeth, Lallah's alter-ego:

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forgot i haven't posted timeskip oberkon here... they're doing so fine and normal and not going through it at all. I know kon loses aura when his hair is short but you have to be nice about it because it's narratively compelling.

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after two weeks of mailroom hell strange bedfellows finally came in and i absolutely devoured it, super awesome, and i'm really curious about this greater world that you've been cooking up since 2010, according to your blog. scrolling back through the ghost dust tag and seeing years of visdev on oberon and kon (and friends!) was super fun. you deserve ten billion trillion dollars and i hope you make all the comics you want forever

I'm sorry they punished you like that but I'm glad it finally arrived and you enjoyed it. The ghost dust tag has existed as long as this blog has, but I'd guess that Oberon and Kon and elements of the universe have existed at least as far back as 2008?

Here's some concept art of the Nabopu from 2008:

And here is some art of them from 2009 (white jumpscare)

I hope I get to make comics forever too. If anyone wants to contribute to the ten billion trillion dollar fund so I get to work on ghost dust after my current contracted work ends, may I interest you in my patreon?

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