AFR #239 – A leaf on the wind

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Away From Reality will soon reach 250 comics, which is about 240 more than I was expecting to create when I first started out. To celebrate this milestone, I am creating a special series of comics that will run twice a week for the next six weeks up to comic #250. This twelve-comic series will follow a continuing storyline with your favorite AFR characters and feature adventure! Action! Drama! Romance! Fencing! Fighting! Torture! Revenge! Giants! Monsters! Chases! Escapes! True love! Miracles! (Or something like that.) Check in every Wednesday and Saturday for new comics.

And before I go, let me say that I wouldn’t have gotten to 250 comics without all of you who keep reading. Thanks for being there, and enjoy!

From Kamalia et alia

Kamalia et alia is a name you should all know, a long-time blogger, artist, and all around interesting person in the world of WoW. Kamalia has very kindly created artwork of my characters. Take a look!

by Kamalia et alia

I absolutely love this. The characters are perfect: there’s Alaxia, Gord, Morgatha, Thizzible, and Hurgon, just as they should be. (Kamalia is so right, Thizzible has really taken over from Targe as the fifth member of the group. I still love Targe, but Thizzible has stolen my heart.) I am delighted to see someone with actual artistic ability do something with my characters, and I am deeply honored to have it come from someone like Kamalia. Thank you so much!
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AFR #238 – Getting leveled

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You gotta feel bad for those trolls stuck in Dun Morogh.  Generation after generation of freshly-rolled dwarves and gnomes keep coming to beat them up and steal their weed.  When they finally decide to stand up for themselves, everybody comes back and kicks their butts all over again.

AFR #237 – The bugs are a feature

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Poor Zhanashkar, he can’t find anywhere in Pandaria to spread death and destruction!

Now, I don’t like bugs.  I’ll make a few exceptions for pretty or useful ones (butterflies, dragon- and damselflies, honeybees) but otherwise I don’t want to have anything to do with them.  I hated even riding through Silithus back in the day and the Nerubians in Northrend creeped me out.  With all of that baggage, I think it’s a great testament to the art and story design work that went into Pandaria that even though I don’t like Dread Wastes, I found it compelling enough to play all the way through and to follow the Klaxxi story up to exalted.  I rag on Blizzard often enough with this comic; now’s the time to stand up and give them a round of applause for a job well done.

Conspiracy

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Ah yes, Titan and the Warcraft movie, the Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster of the WoW fanbase.  Just recently, we got news about some shake-up happening in the development of each one.  It makes you wonder…

Of course, we know they’re not the same.  Titan is a game; the movie is a movie.  Unless, of course, that’s just what they want us to think.  Unless, of course, they want us to think that’s what they want us to think.  Unless, of course…

The truth is out there!