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<title>Chapter 7, Page 9</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hey, gang.  Just a quick heads-up.  Abby did a guest comic in [url=http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/d/20091109.html]Zebra Girl[/url] last week.

Also, we wanted to thank [url=http://www.fleen.com/archives/2009/11/13/friday-at-last/]Fleen[/url] for giving us a mention last week.  We appreciate it, as it was a pretty big week for us.

~Neil

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[b]Remus' Commentary[/b]

Whether she's winning or losing, I just think Debbie is plain fun to draw. I like that she recognizes what's important, too. Her first thought isn't for her own sake, because, hey -- why bother, what's to save? No, Debbie's concerns are for her team. It's amazing how being a zombie can help someone be a hero.

-Remus]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/?p=634707</link>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 8</title>
<description><![CDATA[Third and last page this week, boys and girls.  With things heating up between Mindmistress and Lightbringer, it's time to cool things off with Dasien. ...for the most part.  I mean, you don't[b][i] really [/i][/b]think that these two goofballs are going to stop making fun of each other, do you?

Notice that Mindmistress is doing Lorelei's hair sweep from [url=http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/index.php?p=547041]the Armory chapter[/url].  Do you suppose Mindmistress knows that she's getting sympathy points from Das by doing that?  I suspect she does.

We had this idea of doing torture sequences for all of the heroes, but we each, one-by-one, backed out of that, leaving Mindmistress the only character to endure it at length.  I think it just became difficult to do the same sort of scenes for the other characters.  In particular, we had issues with Debbie, since she's always happy.  How do you torture the happy zombie?  So, individual torture scenes were out.

One such scene involving Dasien, which I had mentioned in my commentary for page 5, was to factor into her emotional state in this scene.  It works perfectly fine without it, but there is a vestigial influence here, which you may be able to detect now that I've pointed it out.

By the way, I don't know what kind of success rate I hit here, but this page, more than any other, I was really trying to emulate Al's writing style for Mindmistress.  He didn't tell me to change anything, so I think I did it right.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 7</title>
<description><![CDATA[This is the last place Mindmistress visited on her brief tour of some of the most horrifying places in the multiverse. There were ten places not shown, and maybe we'll touch on them later. But to me, this had to end up here.

[url=http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5]JACK[/url] is a powerfully-written, pull-no-punches, very NSFW, extremely violent and often savagely sexual webcomic. You ever read Dante's INFERNO? This is Dante with furries. The main character, Jack, is the grim reaper of his world--also the sin of Wrath--and, also, before he died, he wiped out the human race in his reality.  He's the green rabbit with the scythe in the second and third panels.

JACK's stories are jarring, and not for the squeamish. (But then, neither is Dante.) They are also extremely thought-provoking. If the Smiling Man is sending Mindmistress to the more horrifying places in the multiverse, Jack's realm has to be the stopping place. There's no place that's more horrifying.

Obviously, this segment happened BEFORE the recent segment in Jack when he learned what he did to the human race--when he was alive.

We want to thank Jack's creator, David Hopkins, for his kind permission to have his creation be the horror-to-end-all-horror of Mindmistress' little tour.

Remember the fact that Mindmistress can't forget anything that ever happened to her? That she has a perfect, infallible memory?

That can be a weakness, too.

There will be a follow-up by Neil tomorrow.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 6</title>
<description><![CDATA[First of THREE updates this week. There will be another one by myself (already finished) tomorrow, and a third (also already finished) by Neil on Thursday.

Part of the fun of doing this comic is that the dimensional "crossover" idea is that it allows us to spotlight the breadth and diversity of the visions many individual webcomic authors are doing. Earlier in this series we showed GIRL GENIUS' Mechanicsburg. 

This is something similar. I want to think Tom Slidell for permission to have [url=http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php]GUNNERKRIGG COURT[/url] show up in a brief cameo. Readers familiar with that strip will know of the spooky Gillitie Woods, across the bridge from the Court, and its many strange inhabitants--especially Coyote and Muut of Native American myths. (Nevertheless, the Court appears to be in Europe.) GUNNERKRIGG COURT is a webcomic about a school that straddles the mystical and the super-scientific, with a moody atmosphere that is very appealing. It's the story of Antimony Carver and her many classmates and teachers and the entities they encounter. It's Neil Gaiman's favorite webcomic, with reason.

Mindmistress is being taken on a brief tour of some of more irrational and frightening places in the multiverse. Perhaps most scary to her is that there are places where rationality is NOT the wisest course. This is just the first place she ended up---briefly. The Smiling Man is giving her a progressive dip into the mystical and irrational.

Tomorrow, you'll see the last, most frightening place.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 5</title>
<description><![CDATA[Well, in an impromptu collaboration page, we have Abby Lehrke on art and Remus Shepherd on colors!  Seems that Abby is having some Wacom issues and wasn't able to provide colors for this week.

This page is kind of a last minute addition to the story.  We didn't have a lot of pages with the Green Avenger between September and December, so we added a few.

We kind of retrofitted it into the story, as well.  We were always going to have Io escape, but the other way was to have Io escape following her presumed death.  Smiling Man was to take over Dasien's body and literally punch Io out of the air.  Poor Das would have had such a guilty conscience about that, you know.

Just another story fluctuation.  We're always moving things around.  It makes you wonder if even[b][i] we [/i][/b]know how this thing ends, right?  Hahahaha!

I'm just kidding, folks.  We know how it ends.

Sort of.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/?p=632802</link>
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