In the Light of a New Day!
It’s a scary world we live in! Our parents raise us and try to protect us from all the ills of the world. Mothers and Fathers take all that is frightening and unjust in the world and break it down into something their children can understand. They call it the Bogeyman; something that can be scared off when the lights are turned on, something that cannot stand in the full light of day. On my journey to adulthood I have learned that the Bogeyman wears many masks. The frightening part is, these masks allow the Bogeyman to look just like you or I, allowing him to exist in shadowy crevices just slightly out of the illuminating brightness. How can you fight something that can mimic you? How do you hide from yourself? In light of all that has been happening in the world as of late, sad and unforgivable as it all is, one good thing has come from it. Light is being shone on them and they are scurrying out of the woodwork, one by one to be squashed by the heel of humanity like the cockroaches they are. There isn’t more evil in the world than in past years, there are just less places for them to hide. People have a voice…and one voice can make a difference. We just need resolve and the bright light of love to keep the Bogeyman at bay. Turns out our parents were right. So, shine on people, shine on 🙂
Ah, a blue fur outfit! Evidently, the Outcast of Assuria has had some wardrobe changes over the years.
Sorry, that should of course be Asurria. Sonya fanboys would point and laugh at such a nerd-fu failure.
Fanboys keep the comic creators honest. Chances are I wouldn’t have noticed the spelling error and when I next dealt with that aspect of the story, I would have spelled it incorrectly and been vilified by all those Sonya fanboys 😉 Do you recognize the reference to the blue outfit, khelatar?
Sure, a certain Hyrkanian She-Devil wore it for a few years. To the grief of *her* fanboys…
BTW, I like how she and Sonya — as in, the fictional character that Agnes cosplays — are similar enough that one can see it right away (I guess the name has a lot to do with that) but are still clearly not identical. If you ever feel like doing a spinoff of Oddly Aroused I’d love to see some excerpts from the in-universe Sonya Crimson comics. As long as it’s not the “updated” version. 😉
That’s an intriguing thought Khelatar. In the few times that we have seen into Agnes Porter’s head and witnessed her rich fantasy life as Sonya Crimson, I suppose those could be considered as excerpts from the “real” Sonya Crimson’s adventures. I like the idea. But that being said, I have plans for this Sonya that will propel her into adventures of her own that would rival her idols comicbook adventures.
P.S. I like the Sonya blue look, but it’s no replacement for the classic chain mail bikini 😉
I’m with you Jim. The world may seem scary, but really we are living in possibly the most peaceful time ever. Global crime rates are lower then ever before, and the odds of dying in a war, whether as a soldier or a civilian have dropped by orders of magnitude since the end of WW2. That’s not to say that bad scary things don’t still happen, it’s just that they happen alot less, and the odds of anything happening to you specificly are far smaller then they used to be.
So take heart, we’re winning the war against the darkness, and evil cannot stand before us. We just have to keep being the best “us” we can be, and burn bright against the dark when we find it.
Well said, baltahazar! You’ve seen the rallies all over the world after Charlie Hebdo. It seems the terrorists are accomplishing the exact OPPOSITE of what they’re hoping to. In some weird way, they are actually uniting us and making us stronger with every one of their desperate, cowardly attacks.
Absolutely; as I write this, aside from the “Je suis Charlie” campaign having gone totally viral, the new issue of Charlie Hebdu has sold over 5 MILLION copies against a regular print run of 6 thousand. 😀
I’d love to get a copy paws4thot. I put the word out to my friends on Facebook that I would give an original drawing of their choice if they could get me a copy, but I think its next to impossible.
Admitedly, it’s just a PDF, and in it’s native french, but it should tide you over until you can get your hands on a dead tree copy.
http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2015/01/14/charlie-hebdo-hits-stands-sells-out-if-you-cant-find-a-copy-i-have-a-downloadable-pdf-version/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyCartoonist+%28The+Daily+Cartoonist%29
That’s awesome balthazar…Thanks for sending me the link!
An entire world of darkness is not able to extinguish the light of a single candle. Where there is a spark of light there is hope. I learned this as a child and it is something I have carried with me my entire life. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…
And one light can become a million…