#> kind of. showing that kos is a consort of sorts? not sure when/if i ever realise that before he gives me a ring...🙈☺️🫠

[waloeders]

made another kosmos in picrew,,

(the image is so big eugeheggh 😖)

but this is him after discovering kosmos (the being) + the first proper fight they have against ultima at drakes breath

[woohooligancomics]

Webcomic Whimsy: Darklings

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Title: Darklings

Author: Jonathan Smith, Art by Leiko Burningbear, Stephanie Paul (Cover Artist) • Facebook • Twitter • DeviantArt • Tumblr

Site: DarklingsComic.com • Ko-Fi

Genres: Horror, Suspence, Action, Supernatural, Experimental Art (it reminds me of woodcuts, but with brightly colored dialogue)

Rating: PG13, T for Teen(?) - some language and violence

Updates: Wednesdays

My Starting Point (requested by artist): Chapter 4.

Synopsis: The Consortium is a secret organization that investigates and contains supernatural threats, while also employing supernatural beings like werewolves as agents. (I couldn't find an official synopsis on the site.)

Darklings combines the look of old woodcut art with the plot and story elements of a Special Unit 2 or Warehouse 13. Chapter four features two Consortium agents, the werewolf Alec and the demon(?) Victoria. Whatever she is, she apparently has claws she can hide and she "shifts" in a fashion similar to a werewolf. But she's obviously not a werewolf, because Alec compares his claws to hers during the chapter. The two head out into mountains for a combination camping trip and survival training, surrounded by all the artifacts of a classic Friday the 13th movie. Once at their camp, they discover a large pit full of bodies and decide to rouse the local Sherrif's office and cause themselves more complications before completing their own investigation.

The opening page does a decent job of setting up the story, which is handy because although there's a cast page, I didn't see an "about" page with a setting or plot synopsis. So I can glean from this page that the two in the truck are in some kind of organized group with Gideon and some others (who would be the people putting Gideon in the "hot seat"). My first guess would be some kind of supernatural squad, like ghost/vampire/werewolf hunters, but it would be nice to have that about page ahead of starting the story, like the cover blurb on a movie.

I've never had any problems with the heated seats in my car either, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of malfunction. It only takes one gremlin to make your Gremlin burst into flames.

Friday the 13th movie... kids going camping, check, missing campers, check, obscure location, check, no cell service, check. All that's left is for us to go have sex in that truck!

Hey! Didn't you hear him say "plant idenftification"? I mean, what could be more fun than checking their visas?

The Consortium has strict rules about consorting with consorts! Specifically, it's mandatory.

Maybe it's just me because I've been making comics about Christian mythology, but Archangel Michael, Gideon Bibles... but he kind of looks like your college philosophy teacher -- dressed all in black, pony tail, goatee and sunglasses he never takes off because he's constantly hung-over. "Why is there something instead of nothing?! Why couldn't it be nothing? The something is killing me!"

The secretary's elf-ears do however confirm that this story includes elements of the supernatural. Elves, probably werewolves... I bet the Jersey Devil is on the Consortium's payroll. Convenient for them, that way they never have to send their agents to Jersey.

I'm gonna say Vicky there is a werewolf.

'Cause if he did, we need to check that plant's visa right now.

So you're telling me she's out of the loup?

I was wrong, Alec is a werewolf, Vicky is some kind of supernatural creature that "shifts" and has claws made by Ginsu.

Son of a bitch! This one's visa expired.

Also, sassafras will give you a lot of back-talk. Don't take any lip from them.

I'm not sure I would have used seven examples... I think the reader would have got the idea from three.

Oh, good, Jason found those missing kids.

Do werewolves normally hump corpses? I mean... we've had dogs that wold go to town on a leg, but usually the leg still had a pulse.

Didn't you just do that with the corpses?

Rick's hat's a bit big in that last panel... he reminds me of Dark Helmet. (It's the right size in the silhouette above though.)

County sherrif picking up Jason's bodies, check.

Chinese? In this town? It reminds me of Beetlejuice: "I can't believe I'm eating cantonese, was there no szechuan?!"

Did you check Tobin's Spirit Guide?

I'l cut a lich!... But will that cremation furnace work on internet trolls? Or at least their fingers?

Wait... none of us got color. Why does granny get color?! Is this a seniority thing?

What do we want?! Skin tone! When do we want it? Thursday would be nice, but definitely before the weekend!

So the Consortium is like Hellboy's Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development (BPRD), they run around dealing with supernatural dangers, presumable everywhere in the world.

You might need the wielder of the flame of Anor for that.

Damnit, even on the cell-phone, she's the only one who gets color! Rest of the phone is all green and yellow, brother can't get a little brown on his avatar photo.

Alec and Vicky go back to the site with a troll-compass and when that doesn't work they gather it must be a lich. They're predictably interrupted there by Sherriff Rick, who apparently likes to spend a lot of his time hanging around in the murder pit instead of running down traditional police procedural leads. There's a bit of verbal contention over what they're doing in Rick's murder pit, which is settled by Alec offering inter-departmental cooperation from the department of Homeland Security (which was their cover identity since the Consortium is a secret organization).

Sheriff Rick seems kind of hot and cold. First he's all suspicious of Homeland. All they say is "we can help" and suddenly he's making sure they get an office in the pecinct... and wifi. What's next? Scones?

Roast beef. In retrospect I should have known a country sherrif wouldn't eat scones.

Are we sure that hat isn't a supernatural creature? When it doesn't look like it's melting, it looks like it's eating Rick's head.

Chew, chew, chew... That other sherrif's pretty damned astute. Most people wouldn't even notice a new package, or they would simply write it off as something they hadn't noticed when they sat down.

Anyway, the box is labelled for Alec and contains some mystical artefacts for dealing with a lich. Alec does find the lich pretty quickly and there's a fight that gets pretty bloody pretty quick, in a kind of Evil Dead sort of way. I think the art for the action scenes could use a little more finesse, but the scenes work overall.

Awww! She got her skin tone!

So there's my pitch. If you enjoy shows like Warehouse 13 or Special Unit 2, you should give Darklings a try!

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Thanks to Smith, Burn and Paul, and to all of you reading, for sharing yourselves with us! Sam