davidrevoy

Episode 38: The Healer

Added 2023-04-26 18:04:44 +0000 UTC

Hey Patrons!

Here is a new Pepper&Carrot episode after a long pause.

Link: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep38_The-Healer.html

About this new story, I had too many "open doors" to close on the Pepper&Carrot series: Pepper's quest to find work, her "wanted" poster, her humiliations with spells not working as she wanted... She wasn't really taking decisions in regard to all of that. When at the end of the last episode Pepper got a big supply of 'Phoenix's tears' I thought it was the perfect opportunity for her to attempt a radical change.

This is something I also feel on my social bubble: the desire to leave everything and start anew (as you probably know, I left Twitter recently https://www.davidrevoy.com/article964/goodbye-blue-bird ). So I thought it could be cathartic to show a story where Pepper actually does that −leaving everything− without any compromise.

It was also fun to show Pepper resisting Cayenne and underline again how rebellious she is against authority. It was also a secret pleasure to draw Cayenne actually caring for Pepper even though she hides it.

This episode is also about the impostor syndrome, It's about new groups of "friends" welcoming you based on interest, and it's about family always reminding you of your roots. It's also announcing the way back home for Pepper after many episodes 'in the wild'.

I personally really needed to hear this final "Welcome back" from Cayenne at the end. I hope you'll like it!

A big thanks to all of you for your continuous support 💜, and for the wonderful team who help me with the proofreading of the speechbubbles, to solve the technical issues, and write new translations. Also thanks to all Free/Libre Software projects I used to make this new episode!