As usual, I’m the proverbial day late and dollar short, but here it is! This concludes the first chapter. We’ll do bonus art next Tuesday, and the next page (starting the next chapter) should be out next Friday.
Now I’m off to make pie.
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Image description:
A two-panel, black-and-white comic page.
Panel 1: Inset at the top left. Tomoya, his hair down and blowing in the wind, stands on the deck of a ship, both hands on the rail. Behind him are the slats of a cabin window and a stand bearing a banner and a paper lantern. The banner shows an insignia of a stylized deer’s head repeated three times from top to bottom. He wears a dark kimono that is also blowing.
Caption: “You go with the blessing of the emperor.”
Panel 2: Full-page, behind the previous panel. An airship flies over a dark valley between two landmasses. The ship has a large sail in front, and it has many oars on each side, a membrane stretched from one to the next to form wings. Another banner and lantern stand can be seen on the port side of the ship, and several roofs form the cabin at the center. Below, the landscape is obscured by clouds. On the far side of the valley, a small cluster of buildings can be seen close to the “shore.” In the valley are several smaller landmasses rising above the darkness, including one that appears to be the spine of some enormous creature.
Caption: “The work must continue.”
Title card, bottom right:
Last Watch Before Dawn
Volume I: Night Falls on the Cursed Land
Space Whales Press 
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