9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Adah’s last comment makes me think of George Stewart’s “Earth Abides”, a classic After-Plague novel. At one point the main character goes to the San Francisco zoo, releasing some animals and shooting the more dangerous ones.
That was actually inspired by a real incident. I was gaming at some friends house back in ’99 in Northern Indiana, and I was outside on the front porch talking to someone and saw a pack of coyotes go walking right down the center of the street late one night. They weren’t dogs, I guarantee it.
Two other literary inspirations for it:
1) A section of the Uncut version of The Stand where Tom Cullen and Nick Andros are sitting on bikes and they see a herd of bison that have kicked down their fences and are crossing the road and
Plenty of coyotes out here in the area west of Austin. I have seen one just stand in my road at 9am and look at me.
Yes, there are roadrunners too, but I have never seen them interact.
Every once in a while I can hear the coyotes on the north side of the river get all in a fury about something, possibly a whitetail. (Three walked across my “yard” at dusk today.)
This just made my day – being right I mean.
That explains why she survived, it raises other questions of course, like:
How did she get exposed?
Was she exposed before she lost her memory or during the plague or somewhen in between?
It`s more likely she had already been changed before she lost her memory (or she would have noticed the eye change), this leads to:
Did she loose her memory because of the exposure?
Or did she belong to a community of exposed people who live in secret and cast her out for some reason?
So many questions.
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That was actually inspired by a real incident. I was gaming at some friends house back in ’99 in Northern Indiana, and I was outside on the front porch talking to someone and saw a pack of coyotes go walking right down the center of the street late one night. They weren’t dogs, I guarantee it.
Two other literary inspirations for it:
1) A section of the Uncut version of The Stand where Tom Cullen and Nick Andros are sitting on bikes and they see a herd of bison that have kicked down their fences and are crossing the road and
2) and a book called The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/the-city-not-long-after-pat-murphy/
Yes, there are roadrunners too, but I have never seen them interact.
Every once in a while I can hear the coyotes on the north side of the river get all in a fury about something, possibly a whitetail. (Three walked across my “yard” at dusk today.)
Wether I´m right or not: Her eyes look intense in the middle panel!
You people have no idea how long I have been waiting for somebody to notice that….
That explains why she survived, it raises other questions of course, like:
How did she get exposed?
Was she exposed before she lost her memory or during the plague or somewhen in between?
It`s more likely she had already been changed before she lost her memory (or she would have noticed the eye change), this leads to:
Did she loose her memory because of the exposure?
Or did she belong to a community of exposed people who live in secret and cast her out for some reason?
So many questions.