Friday, January 31, 2020

Comic 764 -- The Place of Fear

Sharon's off to another mythical landscape...

http://talesfromthevault.com/thunderstruck/comic764.html


Just be glad we still haven't developed a way to send smells over the internet. Yuck.

Some of you guessed where this was going when Bella mentioned the ball game in the last strip. Personally, I remember learning about the whole idea of the sacred ball game years ago, and being fascinated by the concept.

Like many elements of myth, the sacred ball game has many different variations in different cultures and time periods... the tradition may be more than 3000 years old, so that's a lot of time for people to come up with their own versions. As usual, the Thunderstruck version of the game, the city, the gods, etc. isn't meant to be definitive in any way, but rather is inspired by a mythological idea.

But I didn't make up the river of pus. I swear.

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Comic 763 -- The Pilkvist Twins

Next step of the quest...

http://talesfromthevault.com/thunderstruck/comic763.html


Hi everyone! It's 2020! Can't say I was a super fan of 2019, but maybe better luck this turn around the ol' sun, yes? We can all hope.