Old One-Eye

From a comic that may or may not come to pass: Hsien K'odan, walker of the branches of the World-Tree.



The mythological inspiration should be fairly obvious...

Apropos of which, the The Shattered Realm blog has come to an end, or rather been reborn as Traditio et Virtus, to coincide with its author's abandonment of neo-paganism and increased friendliness towards Catholicism. The Shattered Realm was a highly interesting blog; I hope for good things from the new enterprise.

In recent months, A Gentle Fuss has also died and risen (from the depths) as The Daily Kraken, where the eponymous sea-beast is blogging about all manner of things. Of particular interest to myself are his posts on the GK Chesterton poem The Ballad of the White Horse, which I am considering doing art related to, should I ever find the time. (A page or two done in the style of a mediaeval manuscript, with accompanying illustrations and heavily-embellished capitals and margins, cries out to be done; I can't think why it hasn't already.)

Other things on the sidebar worth your time include The Man Who Hates Fun, a now-defunct webcomic about a pretentious and bad-tempered (yet somehow admirable) modern Stoic. It's a lot of fun, and the main character being so like myself inspired me to acquire and read Epictetus, much to my benefit. Alas, it's now gone into indefinite hiatus, so a half-finished sketch update with a nervous Christian Union type acting dumb has been its front page for about a year now.

(Incidentally, John C. Wright also has love for the Stoics. I've noticed him lifting the odd argument from Epictetus on occasion.)

The sharp-eyed reader will also notice other pieces of sequential illustration linked for their perusal on the sidebar to the left; these reflect my (perhaps eclectic) tastes, and I may expand on why I like them at some later date.

I still hope to post on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as soon as I have the time, but I don't know when that'll be. I wrote a long, pedantic and frivolous post previously, but decided against posting on the basis of, well, being long, pedantic and frivolous.