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22/02/2025-The Beetle Collie Beckons

Hello! I had been meaning to set up a blog page for the God Animal subsection for quite a while now, so here it is.

It has been over a year since Episode 1 was completed, but at this point Episode 2, with the title Lament of a Beetle Collie, is now (finally) very much underway at this point. I had initially began some form of production on the it in the weeks after I uploaded the last pages of Our Friend Rebirth Horse at the very end of 2023, though due to a lot of factors affecting me in 2024 (namely health issues), I wasn't able to touch Episode 2 until several months ago. I'm thankfully doing a fair amount better than I was last year, though still processing and working through a lot.

That said, I'm very happy to be working on continuing the story of God Animal now, and as we should all remember and heed: our health, mental and physical, should always be prioritised, after all. That goes for all of us with projects of any variety, especially if they're labour of love passion projects, much as it can be frustrating to not be able to work on them, even when you know you can't for any reason.

So, Episode 2. I'm getting quite a few pages fully inked at this stage, and whilst there is a fair amount of work still ahead of me, it's a fraction of the length of Episode 1. Whilst I won't spoiler too much about the premise of the upcoming Episode in the God Animal story, it involves the introduction of a new pair of characters (whom of which some of you may have already seen in some of the more general art related to God Animal, much of which is not actually canon to the story of the comic): Act, a forlorn but brave border collie dog and Dhh, their mysterious rhinoceros beetle companion. I'm very excited to introduce them to the story and expand the scope of the Post-Silence World.

I don't have a specific timeframe for the completion of Episode 2, but I hope to have it up in the next few months or so, health, work and life stuff permitting. Regardless, here is a sneak preview of a panel, which indeed does include Act:

Until next time, see you all around.

Yip! -SC