• I have changed the dialog of San in the first panel of page 25 to: “A well-made forgery, created by Bhaal to deceive Eldor…”
• Page 16 is now finally available in color!
• I have improved the lettering of the pages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 which were published during my Japan vacation.
• I added the missing transcripts to all pages of the current chapter.

After an exciting, eventful and exhausting vacation in Japan I’m now back in Germany. Unfortunately, I immediately caught a cold since it was awfully cold in the airplane on the way back home.

Updates will be irregular in the next weeks since I also have to work on the fulfillment of the Kickstarter campaign regarding the books for our American backers.

As you may know I’ve been on a vacation in Japan for 5 days now and will stay here until 12 April. I will write new Sandra and Woo strips and Gaia pages whenever I find time. Until my return, Powree will create the image files for the website. So please be prepared for minor errors in styling and lettering until I’m back again.

Here is a diagram that shows how often the main and supporting characters of Gaia appeared in each year.

You can click on the images for larger versions.

Number of new pages per year:

• 2011: 27 + 1 cover
• 2012: 95 + 1 cover
• 2013: 84 + 2 covers
• 2014: 99 + 1 cover
• 2015: 101
• 2016: 101 + 1 cover
• 2017: 103 + 1 cover
• 2018: 98

Here is the total number of occurrences:

1. Viviana: 347
2. Ilias: 300
3. Lilith: 215
4. Ryn: 171
5. Alissa: 167
6. Sandril: 103
7. Eldor: 99
8. San: 49
9. Ryker: 37
10. Faye: 35
11. Teglen: 27
12. King Savos: 25
13. Korahan: 24
14. Salacea: 22

I’m sure there’s a good number of readers who just can’t get enough of Gaia. But there’s probably an even larger number of people who are annoyed when long-form comics go on and on and on without an end in sight. For those, I have some good news:

Gaia will end in 2020 or 2021!

I currently don’t see why much more than about 250 pages should be necessary to bring the story to a satisfying conclusion. Maybe even 200 pages will be sufficient, we’ll see about that…

Of course there are always ways to prolong a story. For example, the heroes could explore Ysdar, the land of the elves. I’m sure this would offer many opportunities to introduce interesting characters and exciting adventures. But I fail to see how this would add anything meaningful to the main plot. Gaia is about Lilith and Viviana and their struggles, not about the reunification of humans and elves.

I will rather concentrate on tying up the loose ends of the story, such as Viviana’s visions, and bring it to a conclusion. However, I’ve had some trouble to come up with good ideas for two crucial scenes. This may result in a reduced update schedule or even a short hiatus if I failed to come up with something convincing in time.