Gaia is online!
Our new comic Gaia is online!
The release contains the cover and the first 18 pages of the first chapter “The Red Hall”. Starting on 2 December, Gaia will be updated two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday 0:00 CET.
Gaia is a fantasy comic about the odyssey of Ilias Oter and his friends in the self-created world of Gaia. Ilias is a student at the “Academy for Arcane Studies and Material Arts” which is located close to the capital city of Cania. In recent years, tension has grown between the emerging Cania and Midgard, the leading nation since the two big wars at the end of the First Age. Ilias, though, is much more interested in his classmate, the beautiful and talented wizard Lilith Caillean, than in politics. There is just something magical about her… At the beginning of the story, Ilias and the other students face the first serious test in their life, the final exams of the Academy.
Nice, just read the 18 pages, I like!
However by the looks of it I’m wondering if it’s not “too much for a webcomic”. Looks like you have elaborate characters and scenarios that will lose too much being spread out over months.
I already see myself rather buying the book (hope there will be one!) to read it straight like those 18 pages instead of having to wait 3-4 days between pages, and forgetting the story’s course inbetween… 🙁
Or I’ll wait until the end of the chapter to read in block, and probably won’t be the only one to do that, but that’s not what you need from a website traffic point of view…
From the different webcomics I follow, I found that for me to stay “in” the story, webcomic story arcs should last about 2 weeks at most. More than that and even if I follow I’ll have to re-read it from the start again in one block once it’s over to really enjoy it.
Good job though!
Will there ever be a Gaia video game mod? I would totally mod Skyrim for Gaia!
Reminds me of a finished “webcomic”, called The Phoenix Requiem. Updated mon and thurs while it ran, but it seemed to hold the idea that one should read the whole product and not have every page be action-packed/full-of-story.
Personally, I’d recommend putting quality ahead of output for this comic to keep it in the same line. To clarify, if it’s not up to the standard (art, story, etc) as the other comics here, then don’t put it out. But hey, this is just one random person’s opinion who happens to enjoy your work.