Hauntlyre Eternal Prelude
Providing commentary on the first page.
This begins my ongoing commentary on my webcomic I just started, which is not itself the true beginning of my main comic but a Prelude series which lets me set things up and gives opportunities for practice and developing material for people to read in preparation. It is a new advancement in my Prelude work which much more properly puts together the various elements of the series such as drawings, figures, concepts, and more obscured things.
https://mspfa.com/?s=49461&p=1
It begins by discussing the Imaginosphere, which is a place that goes unaffected by humanity due to a certain lack of ambition. Constituting imagined things which yet interface with reality, it can itself be affected by things humans do not know about such as these extrusions.
This first panel is a drawing I made of some kind of rock creature, which made me realize I was ready to begin the comic, fitting with the theme of imagined things.
“Plains" could be red as a typo, but it fits with the creature walking across the plain. A kind of pun which needs to be explained due to the popularity of public school English these days.
The relationship between humanity and these imagined things is defined. It brings to light an unknown relationship between humanity and the Imagined things, which presents the first text of the comic as a theme.
Next it moves on to discussing the Underbeasts, noted to be “faint,” despite constituting a storm, which is another contrast as between real life humans and imagined living things. Both incongruous from the perspective of humans in the current year. Presenting Mysteries to explore, as will become important quickly.
It references the destruction of the earth as in Revelation. In combination with referencing humans being excused for their impact on the imagined things, this defines the comic as based in Catholicism. A big contrast with Homestuck, which is the basis of the website this is made on and which quickly becomes directly referenced. Already the error of Homestuck begins to be Illustrated, as it is not Catholic though it makes fun of Catholics. There is other such illustration but I don't explain everything
the gradual storm stirred through the far plains of the expanses of the Earth, those places known and unknown, as terror lightning struck through at notes dim and flashing.
This begins to Define the horrorterrors, a subsection of the Underbeasts, as beings with life and nature to them. They have their own biology and their own curious interaction with reality nothing else shares. Again it is noted to be difficult to notice: dim, as well as flashing which evokes lightning, which is dramatic but disappears quickly and leaves a little destruction behind.
This is another big contrast with Homestuck, which depicted the “horrorterrors" as lifeless and natureless copies of lovecraftian monsters. They created one of the universes of the webcomic by playing a game, which happens to undermine their scariness as Lovecraft copies. Makes them look like just a different group of kids, and if they are so scary that story should be explored. Never happened, because Andrew did not know how to tell a story properly, and this is an example of his story falling apart like the Tower of Babel without him even knowing about it. Good thing he didn't learn about my artistic philosophy in further detail
This also reveals the reason why I need to tackle Homestuck at Great length, as people have already seen an exceptionally shitty Monster Race referred to as the horrorterrors. Andrew picked up the name by reading my online posts. Even one of his fans who interacted with ipgd, my friend who joined the team, on IRC picked up on it and asked me if I thought the webcomic was terrible.
My posts called things terrible on 4chan which implies that these beasts are already in the world in some way. And again this is established on the first page, their existence noted to be faint. And so someone like me would be necessary to expose them. Possibly people could benefit from my identification of these horrifying and terrifying things, bringing direct benefits to their lives, which is a sort of play with these unknown creatures who do not take humans seriously. But people like Andrew interfered with that and made people miss the point of using the words horrible and terrible so often.
It is also explained how my own creations can affect the world, as a basic principle, as imagined things have relation with the world anyway. They're also outside of time and space, and so can extend from the point in which they begin to exist.
Next in the next paragraph their faint impact on life is defined as the Emanence. Another Catholic reference. They are associated with ochre color. Instead of concerning themselves with reality as we know it, they are depicted as pillaging unrealized corners of the Fallen World greedily, though such vices are unlikely to characterize the unknowable creatures, as the page demonstrates by indicating that they lead directly to the end times and so do their actions. And so already readers learn that they must understand the appearance of evil in such Supernatural life forms in another way.
Next they are noted to see everything, presumably in creation as with the context. This further defines them biologically, as they have much more complex faces than humans do, indicating the capabilities of their faces. It also shows the power of them storming through creation even though their storm is faint. They can already see everything, like Santa or God.
They are also noted just before to be highly individual, suggesting it makes them even more inscrutable. And so this points towards their individual natures and implies that their powers such as sight have different purposes.
Next they are given the character trait of loving treasure and building it up. Treasure glory and Rewards is evocative of Gaming, as will soon be mentioned in the comic.
Next it is said that the beginning point of the comic comes from their unknown dimensions, a mysterious idea to be explored. Providing further topics to explore in the comic. It is also noted that they award themselves simply by existing, which brings in theology as fulfilling one's nature cannot fail to be good, providing further understanding that Greed for them is different than the greed of humans. The comic beginning from their Dimensions suggests that the comic explores their unknown astonishingly evocative treasure-building, and so the readers and other humans are themselves benefiting from exploring The Treasure of these creatures, and this constitutes part of the webcomic experience.
And so in a single page I have already defined the life, nature, character, power, biology, real life impact, and story draw of these creatures. What Andrew and other Homestuck people missed out on if they weren't assholes, things that can be quickly established which they were not allowed to plagiarize. Only being introduced after years after Homestuck was completely busted by Destruction. (Hmmm….)
Next computers are said to start up, perhaps through some Associated effect of beginning the first page. Use of computers is a big deal in Homestuck, and so it indicates that the same elements will still be employed in my own work, even though as is quickly defined Homestuck is very bad.
Now things turn back towards the rock creature at the start in the final line. This helps to Define the dimensions of the story's context, as it is only after very dense lines of writing which establish a lot is the creature pictured at the top of the page finally addressed. “gaity" plays on guy, as my insert character is soon introduced.
All this also shows the power of my artistic philosophy as applied to writing, since there's only one panel not much about artwork can be demonstrated yet. Finally showing what people have missed out on because I was excluded from the animation industry and other art communities and I was plagiarized and tossed out by the homestuck people and their artistically evil relatives. Whether they read this commentary or not, as it is meant to be very easy to grasp and begin developing progression towards the Mysteries of the comic. Bringing in biblical references and other references.
Well analyzing my own work is very satisfying and it contextualizes my tendency to read far into things as that is my whole personal art style. This should be helpful for people who may be curious to find understanding of my work, as can also be gained by reading the Bible and experiencing other things in the bodies of work of artistic mediums.
