#digital copy

Good news and bad news guys...

Bad news first, our main provider for our comic works still doesn’t have the proper paper to print our work (Their current material is way too thin and makes for a very poor product.) and we have no idea when we’ll acquire our physical copy. Now for the good news. Paper Crane’s comic is now available as a digital copy on the Loading Crew Craft!

If you want to see some exclusive content or just encourage an independent artist you can! We’ll update you whenever the physical copy is available !

Good news everyone! For all of you who are unable to purchase a physical copy of Reflector due to distribution issues, or simply out of a preference for a more convenient digital copy, I will soon be releasing a digital version of my debut novel!

In the first season we follow three characters who wake up in a bare cell with no idea who they are, each with a unique power.  Standard You Wake Up in a Room scenario.  After escaping the room they discover a series a challenges and puzzles they need to solve, each with a distinct theme.  Eventually they (And we) discover that they are playing an immersive video game, but instead of reassuring them that there’s no danger they learn the game is crashing so the threat is real even though the fantastical dangers they face aren’t.

Season two, however, shows them mysteriously still in the game after having escaped at the end of the season one, except this time the game mechanics aren’t responding to them as if they were the players the game.  Eventually, they discover that they are digital copies of the players from the first season who were scanned and imported into another version of the game as NPCs, and who weren’t supposed to have their real identities.  They must now find a way to get themselves out of the Game part of the game so that they aren’t killed by the hazards or by the game itself when it turns off.

Surprisingly, once they learn what had happened to them in season two the show very firmly stomps on them getting back to their “real” bodies.  Their bodies aren’t empty husks waiting for their minds to return.  They left the game in season one, went home, and that’s it.    The originals have no idea that anything happened and aren’t missing any part of their mind or soul.  The ones in the game are copies.  There’s no going “back” for them.  For them, this digital world is all they have.

It’s actually very similar to the episode “USS Callister” in Black Mirror (Without the torture and psychosis, of course).  Once they learn what’s happening their only goal is make this existence better, because there’s no going back to the existence they knew before.

Like I said, a very unique twist.

My biggest criticism would have to be the game concept itself, because “Your real-life memories will be erased while in the game” is actually really fucked up.  I’d be terrified to play that for fear of what I or others may do if I’m in what I think is a deadly scenario and don’t have any information.  Especially since it’s apparently a spectator event and other people watch the game live.  We see people try to betray/kill other players in the course of the game when they think it’s all real, and once they wake up will need to deal with the fact that they tried to kill somebody.  Or what about revealing personal secrets?  We see one character try to kiss another because she’s forgotten that he’s gay in real life, and that might have outed him.  It’s seriously messed up.

THE ELDERS ARE GOING TO AN!ME EXPO?

 Take a gander at Mark, Barry and David’s lives outside Elder Rock and join them for the thrilling sweaty adventure that is an anime convention! The Elders must take on the challenges of every con-goer like dreaded lines and sharing a tiny hotel room.

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72(ish)-page, mostly B/W containing the comic and sketches/illustrations pages “What If We Kissed @ AN!ME EXPO?” is a non-canon Craig of the Creek zine featuring the characters Mark, Barry, and David AKA the Elders of the Creek. 

Rude n Crude teens that cuss so 13+!

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This is a fanzine and is not endorsed by Cartoon Network or their parent companies.

 Any additional profits will be donated to the Trevor Project; The world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth! 

Please check them out! https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ 

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It took a while but I finally got the PDF to be up! Inside you’ll get some silly stories and a whole section of elder doodles that haven’t been seen before!

Thank you for being patient and enjoy my three brain cells at work!