Soooo, is Sam floating in the last panel? He appears to be in the middle of the glowing ball thing, which is floating in the second to last panel, so one would assume he is therefore floating in the last panel despite looking more like he's lying on the ground. If he is, in fact, floating, i think that could have been avoided had you drawn him in a position that makes it more clear he is being held up by some magical force.

Aside from that, since Jamal seems to have an amazing habit of jumping to conclusions, I assume that he thinks Sam is the only one left alive, meaning "the kid" would thus refer to Sam and therefore SAM HAS A SISTER?!

THE PLOT THICKENS.

"The kid" is meant to refer to the same person as "our master's prodigy," as it is a response to Jenya's question on the previous page.

Sam is meant to be floating but really it's not particularly important at this point so much as "he is in the ball"

Sooooo, Haren? A person we haven't been introduced to yet?

I had to check back a page when it started with "The kid", thinking I'd missing out on something, but then I realised Jamal meant Haren, in response to Jenya saying they would report to their master's progidy at the end of the previous page. So he meant Haren and Haren's dead sister would be Hiaté. That makes more sense :D.

I'm a tad embarrassed to say I'm at a bit of a loss for what to say to this page XD, like at any length. It looks damned good, it flows on from the previous page great, the dialogue is a tad fillery in that it doesn't really add a lot that wasn't already out there plainly, perhaps it got drawn out a bit to last long enough for the pretty stuffs going on to happen, but it's hardly a damning matter. Really, most of all I get such a feeling of neat and sound closure from this page that it doesn't inspire me to say anything more in response so much as lie back and think about everything that led up to this moment and how it's all come together and to a sound finish. It's like the satisfying feeling when you finish a book, close it and put it down, and just sit back and quietly bask in the afterglow of the adventure you've had. That's not to say it's made me lose interest in seeing what happens next, but the page itself gives me a strong sense of closure and resolution, so if that was the aim, then nice job. I think I've stretched saying as much out as much as I reasonably can so... Yeah :explod.

And they all lived happily ever...

...


And they all lived miserable boiling in oil and forced to kill one another to survive the desolate wasteland that is their lives

...

:D

Hey look, I'm back from Canada!
And it does appear that Sam has turned into an old burnt-out shell.
Really excited to see how it's going to go from here.
Do our hero's unexpectedly survive?
Or is this the end as the world falls into darkness to set up the plot for Shadows over Trelldain (Which turns out to be a new comic instead of just a re-name and a change of direction)?

And with that I inform you that I am leaving for Gen Con Indianapolis Thursday and probably won't be back until Tuesday :D