#phantomarine comic

[microwave-radiation]

If I had a nickel for every webcomic I've read with a hot-nonbinary-ocean-satan villain, I'd have two nickels

[sophiesplushies]

Cheth from the comic, Phantomarine! He was a lot of fun to work on, and I love how vibrant the printed fabric turned out on him. He is about 15" tall.

[mobi-gg]

Okay so little headcanon of mine is that Male!Cheth sings like Danny Elfman when he was still singing in Oingo Boingo. I can feel it in my bones.

[phantomarine]

Iconoclasm 💀💚

A short webcomic for MicroComicSummer 2024, and a 'response' to my 2022 entry, Anathema

Read it on the main site HERE

[cricketaria]

A few more for the pile.

[papier-ciseaux]

Inspired by @phantomarine 's short comic, Iconoclasm, where we get a little look at the canary :)

[mirasorastone]

@phantomarine I drew one of my favorite chapter openings in a stained glass motif as an artfight attack! - I like to think that the story of this moment will end up in a church window dedicated to Cheth one day…

[catcucumber-salad]

I have become obsessed with Webtoons, Y'ALL HOP ONBOARD THE Lackadaisy, Phantomarine, School Bus Graveyard, Silent Scream, Shiloh and Don't Read This TRAIN!!!

[life-of-eris]

HOOOO BOY Phantomarine has me by the throat rn. I have... hm. Hm.

So like. This is the We Love Girl Crimes website, the Sad Little Meow-Meow Defence Brigade website. Of course we love Cheth and Cheline, these two are laser targeted for an audience who loves morally grey badasses. Both are AMAZING, in terms of both design and characterization.

But I think I like Cheline more?

Which really wasn't the case until This Page. Firstly because, well, we've seen more of Cheth! He's our call to action, he got a KILLER mini comic about his state of mind, the author has shown us what's under his sharp and snarky exterior, and it's a very sad god who feels alone but still desperately loves his charges and wants to help, even if they hate him. Mwah, wonderful.

But Cheline FUCKING HATES humans. At first I thought it was a programming issue, for lack of a better word? Like, some kids just come out fucked up, yanno. Or maybe she really was The Devil. But like, fuck dude, I wouldn't want to be the caretaker of the things that killed my siblings either! Of course she fucking hates people! Of course she has utter contempt for the species that destroyed her family. It's a little weird that Cheth leaves it at fucking with the dead, frankly, he could be So Much Worse than just kinda... Being spooky to people on boats?

Because here's the thing. That kind of bone-deep (heh) hatred comes from a place of love. Cheline loved her siblings. Even Cheth, I think! Six dead, and Cheth was getting too friendly! In a twisted sort of way I can totally see how shattering him seemed like the better option at the time. He won't be around, they can never be as close as they were again, but he's not DEAD. And so what if she has to kill a few meat bags and tell some lies to keep it that way, her brother is orders of magnitude more important than the Odious Fucks she has to keep churning out. They'll make more. It's fine.

It's been heavily implied that Pavel has a spooky resemblance to one of the dead gods, right down to the name. And Cheline is looking for excuses not to hurt him, even though it's in her best interest to Get Rid of That Fucking Thing as soon as possible. She's bantering with his mom, showboating a little, having a smoke break while all of her plans may be falling apart at that very moment to spend time with a mortal she claims to hate. Until a couple of pages ago, she even seemed to be enjoying watching Vanna puzzle things out. Until the half-breed was mentioned.

And even though it WAS a reasonable guess to make, given the info Vanna had, Cheline just UNLOADS all of this fucking, ancient elder lore, things that have been forgotten for five thousand years, things we the audience and presumably the people of that world have no POSSIBLE way to know, because fuck THAT ONE in particular! Fuck her corpse and fuck her memory! And it's such a violent reaction- Cheline, I think, is even more emotional than Cheth, and in a way I think that kind of implies that when she loves, she loves with all she's got, to the point of destruction.

Anyway this has been a very long and rambling way to say that Cheline tickles the same part of my brain that Lucretia Taz did, and I cannot WAIT to find out of her expression in that last panel is "ah shit I may have gotten away from myself" or "that's right worm you fucked up!" Both are FUCKING AWESOME, I LOVE CHELINE SO MUCH

[greenbloodedskink]

Tracked the influx of comments for each new Phantomarine page and made a graph! As you can see, some page had big impacts and lots to be discussed!

And then there's the... incident.

Yeah.

Reference if you don't get it.

[fablegate]

Wow I just saw you read Phantomarine! What was your fave thing

aw man where to start!! I can't pick just one! There's so much good stuff in this comic to munch on!

Edit: so I kind of totally just start rambling about this comic but if yall haven't read it I highly recommend reading PHANTOMARINE

Absolutely gorgeous use of color and lighting. A lot of my favorite pages are with the ocean just filled to the brim with souls

like all of these screenshots are just from the prologue and first chapter and my artist brain is just vibrating over the lovely details and perfect balance between the blues and reds

And the CHARACTERS!!! I-listen I could be here all day and this post would get very long over me gushing over the characters so I'm gonna keep short and sweet

Love me a badass lady in blue who is trying her best for the sake of her people and friends. Lovely character already and can't wait to see how she grows and develops.

Perfect boy, best boy, I am so scared of what this child has had to go through and continue to go through. I will happily fight god to protect this boy. Speaking of god!

Now, straight up, I fully expected for Cheth to annoy me when first meeting. I have never been so happy to be wrong and adore this god who desperately needs a hug and some therapy. And just...friends.

Best mother ever 10/10, boy howdy really hope she doesn't die(if you're caught up then you know)

Legit there are other characters in this series that are incredibly good (don't get me started on Cheline)

The WORLD BUILDING as well!! I'm-okay listen, ever since starting Falling to Far, I have gained such an appreciation for clever designs for vehicles and architecture and yall please look at how cool this boat it

I mean HOW CLEVER IS THAT AS WELL AS JUST GORGEOUS

anyway this became a bit of a ramble but hopefully this answers your question well enough???

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

Phaedra's Loose in the Candlelight Sea

There’s a dead manta princess loose in the Candlelight Sea. I think eventually everything’s going to be okay, but I have no idea what’s going to happen next. And neither do any of you, and neither do your parents, because there’s a dead manta princess loose in the Candlelight Sea. It’s never happened before, no one knows what the princess is going to do next, least of all the princess. She’s never been a seaghost before, she’s as confused as you are.

There’s no experts. They try to find experts in the Red Tide. They’re like, “We’re joined now by a King-Admiral that once got murdered by the Fata Morgana.” Get out of here with that shit! We’ve all seen a murdered King-Admiral. This is a seaghost princess!

When a dead manta princess is loose in the Candlelight Sea, you got to stay updated. So all day long you float around, “What’d the princess do?” The updates, they’re not always bad. Sometimes they’re just odd. It’ll be like, “The princess saved some sailors?” I didn’t know she knew how to do that.

The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the princess at all. You’re down at the bottom of the sea like, “Hey, has anyone…Has anyone heard–” [imitates stabbing noises] Those are those quiet days when the Bonefish is like, “It looks like the princess has finally calmed down.” And then ten seconds later the princess is like, “I’m gonna run towards the ghost plesiosaur and decapitate it with my sword. I’ve got a nice sword and a knife, I’m Phaedra Philemon!”

That’s what I thought you’d say, you dumb fucking princess.

[zapiarty]

My Phantomarine backer bundle came in and I am beyond happy. So Normal About Cheth and now everyone who sees my office will know too.

[phantomarine]

See you all again soon 💜

[eialyne]

I mean...the webcomic involves curses so it's on point that my first entry for Phantomarine in my birthday project was kinda cursed throughout, right? Flour explosions...emergency butter...failed proving...forgetting you have actual merch you could have used in the photos...I'd almost think Cheth was griping about my choice to not go the cocktail route like I originaly was thinking.

Seriously, even if I still post failed entries I admit I'm kinda ashamed to tag these as kolaches ">> I've got to redeem myself for the next time a nostalgic craving hits.

[cricketaria]

I thought I was done for the night, but after dinner I was not. (My night has become just hitting the random button on the softer world site until an idea hits me, lol.)