First off, let me just say this is NOT the end of this story! There’s more to come!!
This is a story that I absolutely would not have been able to illustrate today. When I first drew this comic a couple years back, I did not yet have a child. Now that I have my daughter, I don’t think I would be able to handle emotional level this story holds.
You know, this story has no writing, but it really doesn’t need it. Boy those 3 panels really break your heart.
Oh God, no! No!
I thought she’d have to find his cure! Not that he’d die! *sniffles*
I saw this coming from the prior strip, but it still tugs at the heartstrings.
Is this the end? What a sad and crappy story! But I will say, now that I’m a mother-if my daughter ever died, looking in at her bedroom being very quiet and still, and her bed always made…it would kill me more everday until the sadness killed me in the end. I couldn’t imagine!
No, this is not the end. It is only the beginning of this story.
Knowing the story you are telling, and you having a child, I have to say you could not have chosen a more emotional one to draw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2U8yfKM9nY
Aww, what a heartbreaking page. :(
Aw noooo :<
And yeah, I know the feeling. I don't have a child, but I do have a nephew that I adore. Some things have to be experienced before you can create something with them.
This is just like the start of UP!, it needs no words to be emotional.
That was probably the most emotional love story ever.
How long ago did you draw this?
The poem of this is beautiful and heart wrenching. I have two little boys, I may have to skip this one.
The Panels are lovingly rendered, good job. You’re going to have to do a real happy one after this to cheer me up ;)
Oh dear, the child passed, but as it were said by brothers grim, this is not the end.
The further plots will seem like a dim little shroud, which you should’ve shown during the burial scene, but none the less ever present. Please everyone, hold back your tears.
Oh geez! I love how you’re telling this story without words.
Knowing this isn’t the end just makes it worse, now the poor mother will have to deal with his ghost! Though there have been a few tales where the dead are brought back… it usually involves a wrongful death and evil step-mother though.
Gina, I can so empathize with you on that one! I remember reading this so long ago and thinking it had a happy ending overall. But now…
Even now looking at these panels I’m crying, putting my son’s face on this child’s instead. It’s amazing how the emotions of story change for people as we get older and life changes.
As a mother of a sweet little boy, with another child on the way, can I just say how much this comic made me bawl? I know this story, I knew this was coming, but holy waterworks!
Yeah, I cannot deal with bad stuff happening to children now. I’ve had to walk out of a few movies where I didn’t realize that was a plot point.
I bursst into tears. Seriously. I was xitting with my frinds in B & N when I read this. So sad….
I watched my parents bury my sisters in childhood. So far you’ve gotten the emotion pretty well captured, at least the fear of a parent sitting at the bedside of a sick kid as well as the hollow void left after a child’s death.
I’m curious how you’ll pull off the rest of this story, but it’s not as fun as All Fur.
Another parent here whose heart just aches. I don’t know this story, so thanks for letting us know that this isn’t it.
What a Grimm panel…
Meh. Child deaths were pretty much common as muck back then…
But whether the modern rarity of child death or the past relative value of a child counts as the more “tragic”… who knows? Back then they needed them more, but were more desensitised to losing them. These days people breed like rabbits, but a single death is treated like a big deal just because it is unexpected.
Fussing over it is just self-indulgent nonsense either way. A waste of time and wetRAM. Learn, adapt, progress.
I literally had to hold back my tears- best panel I’ve seen in a long while.