#420 – Bactine

Either it takes less time to make a comic with this snazzy tablet, or I’m more motivated now that everything’s coming to fruition, or a little of both, but comics are coming out way easy lately and I feel a push to get the rest out as fast as possible.

This one made me cry when I drew it :(

I sent out my first wave of donation incentives out this week, a little more than a third of them, and I’ll be sending out another wave in the next few days. I hope to get everything sent out by the end of next week.

Thanks for reading,

-Colby

  • http://lisa.voidcast.ca/ Ayjah

    serious! No no no!!! Say it ain't so… I have to admit I feel a tear myself!!! Magic her back to life PLEASE!!!

  • http://www.nightlyre.com Nightlyre

    Meep… was afraid of that… :(

  • Darth Claire

    Holding my breath on this one.

  • Fhánaí

    Gnngh, I've been dreading this for the last few panels.

  • Fhánaí

    Gnngh, I've been dreading this for the last few panels.

  • yerk

    :*( sangiune looks all bright and happy and then he sees bactinescold and lifeless body. he will be traumitized. this is not funny. sanguine will cry.

  • http://lnilstriaportfolio.yolasite.com/ Lady_Nilstria

    I hold firmly to the belief that the necklace is going to do something at this point.

    If it doesn't, I'm going to cry.

  • http://epicfail.xepher.net amuletts

    NOOOOOOOH! BACTINE!

  • rissriss

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

  • CC

    She's not really dead…is she? Come on, even Fang gets to survive. Surely the good guys will make it through too!

  • Kade

    Gah her pale face is kinda horrifying :( !!!!!!

  • Zypher

    …*sniffle* Awwww!!! I knew it was totally coming but… *cry*

  • Me

    She…..dead?

  • Dani

    She's not looking so hot there…

  • Kirlily

    Nooooooes!! Get up, Bactine! Get up! If Fang get to live, you should toooo!!!

    -Sits and waits for the next update-

  • Noah

    Nooooo!!!! Live, Bactine, live!

    !Noah!

  • Noah

    Oh! Also, where's the ring? He should have at least had it later in the page…

    !Noah!

  • Vueiy

    I love Sanguine's model-on-the-beach pose in the first panel, and his goofy smile, but of course, that last one… :(

  • whimsicalwishing

    NOOOOOOOOO, Bactine, NOOOOOO!! :(
    —-
    Incidentally, I was under the impression that empaths take the wound or whatever upon themselves and then heal/expell the wound from themselves. If I'm correct, then I think Bactine needs to work on the 'ridding oneself of a wound' part.

  • Kenosaki

    I gave a little sob when I saw Bactine. She looks pretty, in a way, lying there…

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Empaths do have limits.

  • stormcloud

    Is it just me, or does Sangwine look ten years younger in the second to last panel? And then he sees Bactine and is going to grow old again :(

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I seriously hope she doesn't die!!!!

  • Ellie

    NOOO!!! She's dead! :( I like the white streak thingy hehe, look's cool :P This comic is so awesome! Love it :) xx

  • http://akamar.deviantart.com Akamar

    :3 I miss the carefree pages of the early comic, but it's nice to see at least this cycle coming to a close.

  • Lime

    This page makes me sad… but optimistically:

    Bactine just healed two incredibly hurt people (well, elves- but still)
    She would be extremely tired even if she managed to rid herself of both injuries…
    Maybe she's sleeping? :(

    But.. I don't really think so. TTATT

  • spas

    me too! healing the mages 'used up' the other healers, or some such, but maybe there will be some kind of miracle here, we don't know yet. i hope she's still alive!

  • LuckyMrph

    ……..!!!!!! O_O OH NO!

  • Crystalgirl

    me too!!! wow i really wanted to know… great job, me… -.-'
    T^T

  • Crystalgirl

    idk… maybe that's just her hair…?
    i'm still wonderin y her hair got all white

  • Crystal

    right… i think i get it…. the wound transfers… she trades off

  • Crystal

    wow… now i see i'm not the first to notice… -.-'

  • Crystal

    whens the next update? I'm about ready to blow up and cry

  • CC

    Tuesdays and Fridays, isn't it?

  • SilverReed

    Hm…how very interesting. I has been a while since I've tried to theorize on anything, so let me try it sans my typical tl;dr fashion.

    Pendant of Truth – no king should be without one
    http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2005/12/05/1205…

    http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2007/02/16/0216… and the page following.

    Specifically the bit about kings, unicorns and fairies:
    http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2007/08/10/0810…

    And of course, the page preceding this.

  • Phenoca

    Haha – the bottom-left strip is great. Reminds me of… Chinese Paladin episode 34. Except with less blood of course.

  • Phenoca

    No… I think Bactine dies like in Chinese Paladin.

  • HelenaHermione

    Well, obviously, Sangwine has to tell the truth as king with t he Pendant…

    The bit about Sangwine's father is promising–the only thing he can do with his blood is to bring back to life the family tree of the Schoeffl line (last name??) and that means Bactine…

    And there was that bit about kings, unicorns, and fairies, which is hopeful in Bactine's case since we remembered what Hope did to save Sangwine in Pixie Pass…

    Yay for magic! And great, great work on the art, Colby!

  • Mad-Dawg

    HAHAHAHAHA. She be dead lookin. HAHA. And sangwine was so hopeful. ^_^

  • CC

    Of course! You're brilliant!

  • Silvara

    “She will give everything up in sacriface, but in the end, she'll have nothing.” right ?
    Now, what does nothing mean ? Nothing of what ? I'd like to believe that it a good omen, but then I remeber than between two people of differents lifespan, love rarely ends well. It hard to imagine her growing into a old hag while dashing wealthy Sang goes on with life. And with the more fowerful mage gone Colby kwos were, it's ahrd to imagine how they can sort that problem.
    Yet, whatever you choose, I think it will be ok ; you makes it so.

  • Crystal

    aw, yeah, but… [-.-'] wow i feel dum….

  • Crystal

    ouch

  • Crystal

    O.O
    U… WILL… DIE…. FOR…. LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!1
    jk jk but still O.o

  • CC

    That happened after she healed Zedwig. From the strain, I guess.

  • Jason

    This is going to sound odd, but I love comics where not ALL the good guys survive. In war there are many casualties, and actually letting a character we love die is showing a level of realism which is rare.

    I am, of course, saddened by Bactine's death, but given how we last saw her I am unsurprised, and therefore not half as strongly affected as most other commenters.

    We will see where it goes from here.

  • LeafyGreenTerrorist

    Meaning…she's….?

    *sobs*

  • Addie

    Nooo!!!! She can't die!!
    Sang is gonna go on some marvelous quest to bring her back to life or something- right???

  • Dani

    This is pretty much my take on it. Comics where everyone we like always lives may be more cheerful, but they don't have the same depth, at least not to me. Bactine's death is (would be, if she's not really dead) a tragedy, but a good one.

  • keLpy

    oh noes. :(
    do not like.

  • LyssaGirl

    Very true, but not only that but Bactine + Sang couldn't really work out. Prince elf can't marry any human. It just couldn't work out. She needed to leave somehow.

    I still assume she isn't dead or something.

  • annalia

    You know, Sangwine always reminded me somewhat of Guybrush, from Monkey Island. It's even worse (in a good way!) in that second to last panel, with his huge grin. He's in for a bad surprise, I'm afraid. :x

  • Falco

    That's the reason I hope she *isn't* dead, though… I was curious to know how how they would work out the problem of their relationship, and to just have one or the other die seems too easy.

  • Jason

    Actually, I was going to add that as well- that it does help Sangwine out as he will no longer have to make an impossible choice.
    BUT. At the end of the day he's probably going to mourn for her longer this way- as they didn't get to have a life together- than if she died of old age, whether they were together or apart. So it's no blessing in disguise for him, really, is it?

  • Wendy

    He looks so young and happy in that second-to-last panel…

  • Phenoca

    No..!

  • Phenoca

    No..!

  • Bob

    Why would you do this to us, Colby? Why?