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This started out as a webcomic that was published in 2007, although people who put through the orders didn't get their copies until 2010--and then the website became defunct.
One of the only reviews out there for 9th Elsewhere is absolutely scathing, which is fair but too bad because I personally thought it was cute, with an animesque style, classic orphaned hero's journey, and whimsy tempered by a mellow sort of melancholy. It's basically about a struggling artistic soul who's been shuffled around foster homes and feels too bad about it to create anything, and is then sent a muse to help her but he just makes things worse and they both end up locked in her dreamland. They've planned an ending, which is that she wakes up a few moments after she's supposed to have gone to sleep, no matter how long they spend in dreamland--but until they figure out how to wake the main character up, she has to explore her psyche and learn more about her incompetent though well-meaning new muse friend. For a main character so miserable, the dreamland does not get particularly dark.
Does anyone know what happened to (or in--please do spoil me) this comic? Or to the creator, Caroline Curtis?
One of the only reviews out there for 9th Elsewhere is absolutely scathing, which is fair but too bad because I personally thought it was cute, with an animesque style, classic orphaned hero's journey, and whimsy tempered by a mellow sort of melancholy. It's basically about a struggling artistic soul who's been shuffled around foster homes and feels too bad about it to create anything, and is then sent a muse to help her but he just makes things worse and they both end up locked in her dreamland. They've planned an ending, which is that she wakes up a few moments after she's supposed to have gone to sleep, no matter how long they spend in dreamland--but until they figure out how to wake the main character up, she has to explore her psyche and learn more about her incompetent though well-meaning new muse friend. For a main character so miserable, the dreamland does not get particularly dark.
Does anyone know what happened to (or in--please do spoil me) this comic? Or to the creator, Caroline Curtis?
