The Final(e) Countdown - 9 days.

They’ve spent millennia under someone else’s plan. Not anymore.

Single digits, here we goooo!

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Marianne Dashwood, living a plot perfect for a tragic death by illness to preserve the beauty of her first attachment and disappointment? Nope, she lives and loves with her whole heart again. Maria Rushworth, the fallen woman who cheated on her husband does not die for her crimes or even fall into poverty or prostitution, her father and Aunt Norris will provide for her. She is punished, but she's protected. Lydia Bennet? Her two sisters will provide for her for the rest of her life. Her husband's debt will not destroy her. Miss Bates? There is an entire community around her no matter what happens and her newly rich niece will provide. No woman is even left as a governess, Miss Taylor is Mrs. Weston, Jane Fairfax becomes Mrs. Churchill instead. Mrs. Smith is pulled out of her indigent state by Anne and Wentworth.

The only woman Jane Austen allows to suffer a terrible fate is off-page and dead long before the novel begins: Eliza Brandon. Eliza Williams, her mother's affair baby, is ruined by Willoughby. Colonel Brandon could easily have washed his hands of her and her affair child, but he doesn't. Eliza Williams is going to be okay. Her child will be okay.

Antagonist women never fall into poverty or die for their crimes, most of them are even in loving marriages. Fanny Dashwood is cruel to her mother and sisters-in-law, one could imagine her falling low in karmic retribution, but no, she's fine. Lady Susan, the delightful anti-heroine, marries a baronet at the end of her novel. No punishment looms on the horizon for her promiscuity and deception. Caroline Bingley has a loving family that will never turn her away and an independent fortune. Mary Crawford has a loving sister. Isabella Thorpe may have lost the big prize, but she has her mother. Never is a woman thrown to abuse or poverty, even when they have attacked other women. The only punishment would come from their own conscience or regret for the goodness they have thrown away.

Let’s go back in time, to August 2023.

Season 2 ended with the Ineffable Divorce and I started drawing through my heartbreak. A comic that would give a satisfying ending to the gut wrenching cliffhanger. Somewhere around page 30 I realised this wasn’t a comic anymore. This was a Magnum Opus.

I’ve been working on a six-chapter Good Omens Season 3 comic for exactly 2.5 years. Chapter 1 and 2 are already done and I’m currently well into Chapter 3.

It’s called “Of Transformation And Liberation” (OTAL for short) and starts right where S2 left us. Aziraphale becomes Supreme Archangel. Crowley is left behind. The Secind Coming is imminent.

No one outside Patreon has seen it. Until now. With #GO3 dropping May 13th, I wanted to give something back to the fandom. So I’m posting all of Chapter 1 (77 pages) on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/83734606

If you want to keep reading after that, Chapters 2 (44 pages) and 3 (ongoing) are on Patreon. $1/month to read along as I post (new page drops every Tuesday), or grab Chapters 1-2 as a PDF for $10 if you just want the story without a subscription. Chapter 3 will be for sale as a pdf too once it’s done.

I like to imagine Spock getting advice from some alien if the week character about if he has a crush or a fever (cos he can't tell) and she, very helpfully, goes, "try giving him a blow job and you'll find out" and Spock's just like. Sigh. You don't know how unhelpful that is.

Halo💫