Homecoming - Episode 22
Added 2024-02-18 23:27:52 +0000 UTCYou can find understanding in the most unexpected places...
EDIT: 5 whole pages were missing in the initial upload - argh! Sorry about that. 😟
Kris has chosen Victor as her "offering" to Bella. Why? Because he was the first man to proposition her. By giving him over, she'll be free of the threats of Bella and "the Cunt" - but will it cost her something else?
So interested to hear what you think! 💖
Comments
Thank you so much, Fin! Honestly your attention to detail and the individual panels means so much to me. I try to put as much effort into each image as possible - including the dialogue AND the art - so it really makes me feel nice when you call them out. 💕
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-25 06:17:21 +0000 UTCbow down, hehe
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 07:20:05 +0000 UTCAwww, thank you so much, Gemma. I honestly really appreciate these comments because I put a lot of effort into the art. I want it to look great for you all!
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 07:16:58 +0000 UTCWOW - thank you so much, Robert! And you're exactly right. I return to that old quote often when I'm working on this comic: "You can't go home again" because the person Chris became while under Bella's control is fundamentally different than who he was. How can you go back to your life after all that? Should you even try? I like Victor a lot... Do you think Kris should go through with her plan?
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 07:11:13 +0000 UTC😂 standard precaution -- although DAMN those are big windows lol
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 07:02:17 +0000 UTCAw, thank you so much, Jade!!! Yeah, my goal is always to make my comics feels as cinematic as possible. I really want readers to be drawn in, like they're watching their favorite (binge-worthy) show. Kris COULD deny... but that backside is pretty distinctive, and on the high-resolution version you can make out her tattoo. 😉
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 07:01:57 +0000 UTCThank you, Gemma! Yeah, this is probably the only time in years that Chris / Kris hasn't been on the "receiver" side of things. They were expecting one thing based on Victor's demeanor but got something totally different.
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 06:54:36 +0000 UTCWe shall soon see, Tiki... Is Bella and 'the cunt' that all-seeing? Hehe.
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 06:51:36 +0000 UTCSeems like he has no idea - and doesn't care! He's following Chris simply because he was paid to do so, but definitely seems to have a (nasty) opinion about him.
Emory Ahlberg
2024-02-24 06:50:46 +0000 UTCPages #7, #8, #9 and #14...spectacular. I always praise your graphic excellence, however the dialogue and story pacing in this issue stole the show! Page #4...between that sincerely pitiful, pleading look in his eyes and the dialogue, I think that it may be the most powerful example of your complete mastery of this art-form to date. Sublime.
findesiecle
2024-02-22 21:25:04 +0000 UTCSorry about the delay on comments. I read it right away, but I have been having some severe knee pain, and the meds sort of interfere with coherent typing.
Elrod W
2024-02-22 05:14:33 +0000 UTCThe most interesting thing is "camera guy". That film will get to Ben - now Ben and/or Kayla might have a conversation with Chris/Kris demanding an explanation. It would be poetic justice for the Cunt to be watching the guy following Kris, and give HIM the knockout. And 'submissive guy' doesn't get a remodel because Bella and the Cunt have 'camera guy' as a victim. Lots of possibilities, including potentially tying up a couple of loose threads, while adding potential complications to Ben's and Kayla's lives, and Kris and Kayla's relationship. Well done, Emory - as always.
Elrod W
2024-02-22 04:16:43 +0000 UTCoh is she a mistress hahaha
Stormfries
2024-02-21 18:09:36 +0000 UTCI have a hard time imagining the morality of _this_ story is going to be so straightforward. But simply for calling Kris “it”, the photographer needs to be smote by karma. Very hard.
Jade Diaz
2024-02-20 15:56:51 +0000 UTCOh Emory, I forgot to comment on your art work which is so beautiful and at such an incredible level. The images of Kris's breasts, particularly the close ups (12,13 and 14) are so real life and amazing.
Gemma
2024-02-19 21:32:46 +0000 UTCOk, ok, ok, so here's how it goes from now on.... (I mean I'd like to see it this way, but if Emory has another way, of course I'll appreciate her way too). Kayla can't see the pictures... explaining this will be as difficult as defending OJ Simpson... Something tells me that the guy who is with Kris is actually a nice guy and of course Kris is being watched by Bella's people, even our little pervert with his camera... and I think our cameraman will end up in a retrofit institution, not our "please, fuck me hard, my goddess, I beg you" guy.... ❣️❣️❣️
Maggie Heels
2024-02-19 08:15:33 +0000 UTCWhat Kris says in the 3rd render encapsulates absolutely everything, EVERYTHING, about Kris and her despairing dilemma. It’s exquisitely worded, Emory, a brilliant piece of writing by any standard. And what I noticed about the art this time was how inscrutable and unknowable Kris’ expression was throughout. Whether that matched her internal emotions is impossible to say. Great twist with Victor’s character too. When we first met him it seemed amazing that he would turn out as he did - and therefore, in one sense at least, if not morally, very well-suited to what Bella has waiting for him. Or not. Her twisted mind seems to prefer unwilling and defiant subjects. Complicated, isn’t it? 😉
Robertlouis
2024-02-19 03:51:30 +0000 UTCMemo to future self: Close the blinds when pegging men for money. 0F in bio.
Jade Diaz
2024-02-19 02:50:16 +0000 UTCEmory, that last panel is chef's kiss, frs, frs. The camera detail, letting the viewer see what the long lens captured... it makes me feel like you're showing us this image because the image on the camera will be manipulated and presented as truth in the future. (Also conveniently, Kris has her back to the lens, so she _could_ deny deny deny it was her.) 🤔🤔
Jade Diaz
2024-02-19 02:46:32 +0000 UTCIt occurred to me that the fiancée the photographer is speaking of might not be Kayla.
Jade Diaz
2024-02-19 02:45:13 +0000 UTC“Moment of Nostalgia”- her hands not only on strap on but also how she is holding him when they are engaged in intercourse. In relation to Ben’s friend, I would expect Kris’s fiancée what she sees would I expect open the way for a deeper conversation and fuller disclosure by Kris. Love your insights Emory into the complexity of the human psyche that you explore through Victor so sensitively and respectfully in this chapter.
Gemma
2024-02-19 02:38:07 +0000 UTCI wonder how Kayla would react to the pictures?
Tiki D
2024-02-19 02:28:02 +0000 UTCWhy do I have a feeling that Ben's Friend who took the picture is going to be capture and the evidence erased.
Tiki D
2024-02-19 02:27:00 +0000 UTCDoesn't that paparazzo perv have ANY idea what Kris and so many others went through. Does he really think Kris did this willingly to herself? And why is he following Kris? As for the cost, it'll be a small piece of her soul, like it was and is with Holly.
Alex From the Tri-Cities
2024-02-19 01:26:18 +0000 UTC
