Annotated 28-7
So after we realized killing Karmakat wasn’t on the menu, Phil came back with this ending for him, instead. Sometimes working under unexpected restrictions makes your work awkward and discordant, and sometimes it actually makes it better.
Thankfully, this was the latter case. While an epic death scene might’ve been wrenching and maybe foreshadowed Harky’s own end, the unease and uncertainty of this sequence makes the gnolls a lot more sympathetic. Not an easy task, given that they’re the winning side of a genocidal war.
Phil and I never considered bringing the character back after this (except for one highly ambiguous moment in Chapter 42). No reappearance he could make would be as powerful as the way his people’s shadow haunts the gnoll culture. The unanswered question. The lingering doubt. The unspoken guilt.
That said, he still makes appearances, albeit in very different contexts, in his creator/namesake’s own comics, last I checked. Glad he made it to 2020.
Not sure where that link is supposed to take us, it ends in the front page of webtoons.
Also look at that handsome last panel. Look at it. Dang that would make one sick profile picture, amirite?
Do you not have a Webtoons account? There’s a NSFW advisory, that may be why it’s pushing you to the front page.
When I click it, there’s a brief “Parental advisory” to click through and then it takes me straight to Karmakat’s latest appearance. Tested it on phone and mobile, but maybe there’s a browser issue? Other than that, I dunno. I don’t think I have a Webtoons account myself, so it shouldn’t be that.
Probably Ublock Origin or something to that effect. Since it blocks the parental warning, you get redirected to the front page. Try disabling it.
I’ve no idea what was up. I just tried again and it opened just fine!
Ah, you’re making me miss Harky all over again. He is/was a very good listener.
Took me all this time to realize that the crowns of the leading gnolls are actually the jaws of (I presume) some enemy felled by them.
If the catfolk use their desert landscape as a huge litterbox, I have a pretty good idea why crops never grew…