#Into The Midnight City

[zalazny]

Happy Webcomic Day!

To celebrate, I wanted to shout out some webcomics that I really enjoy:

Les Normaux by @theartofknightjj A gorgeous lgbtq+ slice of life comic about citizens of a supernatural Paris, going through their trials, tribulations and triumphs in life and love. The art is beautiful, the characters are engaging, and the stories are wonderfully sweet.

The Youngblood Chronicles comic by @ybcthecomic A comic adaptation of Fall Out Boy's Youngblood Chronicles music videos, adding more story, character and context. It's dark, intense and brilliantly character-driven. It's also unexpectedly funny, mostly from really good dialogue moments.

Dig Them Up by @dig-them-up-comic Another comic based on music! In this case, Bastille's Flaws and the music video for it. This one is only a handful of pages in, but it's already a lot of fun and intrigue. I'm really looking forward to how it unfolds!

Into the Midnight City by @intothemidnightcity Though currently on hiatus, there's a good amount of content to read for ItMC, which follows a detective agency in the eponymous (and extremely supernatural) Midnight City. It's fun, queer, joyous, and just overall delightful! The lore is fascinating, the characters are instantly likeable, and the art is beyond charming.

Nix of Nothing by @mleelunsford It becomes apparent that queer fantasy is really my preferred genre! Nix of Nothing is another really interesting supernatural story, following a mysterious demigod, Nix, on their adventures. The art is fantastic, with really dynamic character designs. I'm super intrigued to see where the story goes.

[cancan-jpg]

Happy holidays, Can!! I hope you have a great end to the year and all the best of luck in the one to come!

HOOOOLY SHIT THANK U SO MUCH ZALAZNY!!!! this is gorgeous, what an amazing crimmus present!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺💛💛💛

Happiest of holidays to you, best of luck for 2024 and for your official publication release of The Ticking!!

[zalaznyart]

Happy birthday @cancan-jpg! Here's a 'lil Wyatt for you!

[intothemidnightcity]

"Everything was fine and nothing weird happened!!"

Aaaaand that wraps up Moon Blood!! Thanks for enjoying this little interstitial chapter where Archie and Wyatt get so Dangerously close to confessing their feelings. Maybe one chapter, Archie will finally get his first kiss :)

Right now, we're ramping up for Chapter 3! More info on the upcoming hiatus plans soon.

Special thanks to my Beta readers, Ian, Wox, and V, for reading this comic from script-to-page, talking about pacing with me, and for pointers on Vampire Bite Sites lmao!

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Cassandra Goth and her husband, Darren Dreamer (ph. little Dirk Dreamer)

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“You know what day it is, Ping?” said Colon.

“Er…25th of May, Sarge.”

“And you know what that means, Ping?”

“Er…”

“It means,” said Nobby, “that anyone important enough to ask where we’re going—”

“—knows where we’ve gone,” said Fred Colon.

The door slammed behind them.

— Sir Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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The TSC girls Clary, Tessa, Cordelia and Emma. This entire series has such a sentimental place in my heart.

Characters by @cassandraclare

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early ! era shu is such a funny guy. hes such a pretentious cunt. and it's even funnier now that we know how his development went its

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Dog Rose ~ Pleasure and Pain 🌹

- a recreation of the Seelie Queen’s flower card -

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

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Part SEVEN of "Clone Danny"

Red Robin, Danny recognizes, steps away from him as he sits up. "My name is Phantom," he signs, blinking the exhaustion out of his eyes. (From Red Robin's perspective, it looks like he has no eyes. There lacks his signature green glow.) "I'm not a gang member, just an out-of-town vigilante."

Red Robin frowns at him, an uncertain grip on the bō in his other hand. "Phantom?" He repeats, no lacking amount of suspicion in his voice. "How can I believe that?"

Right. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Danny shrugs at him, and slumps against the wall. "Google search?" He gestures, he's been out in the daytime before and he's seen the news articles about him.

Red's eyes narrow at him and Danny simply draws his knees up and faceplants into them, half-listening to Red's murmurs into his comm while also trying to get some extra-shut eye.

("Oracle, can you pull up anything on a vigilante named Phantom? The guy here is claiming to be one." Tim says.

"On it."

"Is this Phantom wearing a white mask?" Bruce asks, his voice gruff like an aftershock. "There's a vigilante who shares the same name, but he resides in Illinois."

"Is this guy from that Amity city you visited ages ago?" Says Tim, before shaking his head. "Don't answer that. Yes, he's wearing some freaky mask. I said it reminded me of Hood's helmet for a reason."

"I've got something," Oracle interrupts, "Bats' right. as usual. The Phantom of Amity Park, not much stuff of this guy but he's only been out for over a year. Apparently, his rogues' gallery consists of ghosts."

"Oh great.")

"Look tell the Batman that I'm sorry for trespassing on his turf," He signs irritably when Red Robin eventually starts talking to (re: interrogating) him again. "It's not like I want to be here."

"How did you get in Gotham anyways?" Red Robin questions, batman was on his way to help deal with the situation but Tim doubted he wouldn't get caught up on the way with dealing with petty crime. "Your turf is nearly a thousand miles away from here."

"Two words." Danny deadpans, "Teleport ghost." (Red Robin winces sympathetically.) "I'm keeping this bastard in the thermos for a month for this alone."

(Danny was ignoring the slow-choking anxiety growing in his lungs over how he was gonna get home. He never takes his phone when he goes out, the risk of breaking it was too high. He had no way of contacting anyone to get him home.)

(He swallows the growing lump in his throat, and buries the feeling in the back of his mind.)

"Thermos?"

Danny unclips his Fenton Phantom Thermos off from his belt loop and shows it to Red Robin. "My ghost-catching device," He says with one hand, tilting it carefully for Red to inspect. "I wish I could say I made it, but its a FentonWorks invention."

(He wasn't sure if it was a smart idea to say who it belonged to, but saying it wasn't his probably loosened up any tracks on him, right?)

"Do you work with these Fentons, then?" Red asks, and something dark and shadowy flickers from the corner of Danny's eye. He glances over, and sees nothing, and his hackles raise.

(Either that was Batman, or a ghost, or Danny's mind playing tricks on him. He couldn't feel his ghost sense building in his throat, so he decided it was either the latter of the former.)

Danny snorts, quiet and gruff. "No." He clips his thermos to his belt again, stifling a smile on his face. "The Fentons hate me actually, I prevent them from catching ghosts themselves. Their son gives me their tech."

He had a cover story, so he might as well stick with it, right?

Batman shows up at that moment, appearing atop the little roof where the door is, and giving Danny a heart attack when he speaks in his low, rumbly voice like thunder rolling in, "Why would they hate you for that?"

Danny shoots up to his feet with a startled yell in his throat, clutching his chest as he whirls around and looks up. He nearly runs into Red Robin, and signs a few choice swears at the Bat.

"wow you're scarier in person, asshole."

"you didn't answer my question."

"Of course I didn't, you scared me." and Danny takes a trembling step back when the Batman jumps down and lands on the roof in front of him. He's faced ghosts before, but somehow the living is always scarier.

"But, um, the reason is a bit.. complicated, I guess." He says, fingers beginning to shake as his adrenaline wears off. God is he tired. He wants to go home. "The Fentons are the local ghost hunters and local crazies. I don't know if I can call them mad scientists because they're harmless to the living."

"But they're extremely anti-ghost. I've heard from their son multiple times the very unethical things they would do to ghosts if they got their hands on one."

Danny 'talks' a little more before calling it quits, even telling Batman that he can't tell him more without putting his identity at risk.

Plus, its getting harder and harder to hide his bone-deep exhaustion and his growing fear of being stranded in the most dangerous city in America with no way home.

"I would love to tell you more, believe me I'm dying to." Danny signs, shaky sarcasm dripping from his fingers. His hands are visibly trembling and he's withholding a slowly growing panic attack. "But I would like nothing more than to figure out a way to get home."

"Do you have no one to contact?"

"Sort of. But only one of them could probably come get me and get me back to Amity by sunrise. And I have no phone."

That one person being Ellie.

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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 4.5 (Dani interlude) Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 7.5 (Dan Interlude) Part 8

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tfw Into the Midnight City is so obscure it didn't even make the @/obscurewebcomictournament brackets 🤘😔

[zalaznyart]

Happy birthday @cancan-jpg! Please enjoy this Circe from @intothemidnightcity :)

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In which Circe draws Ace Attorney fanart as a hobby.

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