by Nicholas Killewald

Monday, October 5, 2026

In my not-particularly-well-defined home, I stand before a sink, watching as water fills up a small, cubical, glass aquarium. I say, "Well. That'll teach me not to get fancy with page layouts." As I carry the now-filled aquarium somewhere, I continue: "Fortunately, after the next chapter's intro pages, I should be able to go back to my usual page templates for a while." As an aside in smaller text, I add: "...and looking at the 6-panel template, I have no idea why the horizontal gap is smaller than the 4-panel one." Now at my desk, I set the aquarium down. At the desk is my sketchbook, my usual mechanical pencil, and a small plastic toy boat. "So next up is putting Chapter Ten together. I think I've got a good framework and broad plot elements ready, but the whole thing as a complete story isn't quite there yet." With the aquarium in place, I now hold the plastic boat in my hand. "Though, it's one of those ideas I've had percolating for a long time, so I'm looking forward to at least getting it out into existence for you. Should be good." At this, I toss the boat into the auqarium. It floats. Holding my sketchbook and starting to draw in it, I conclude with "Oh, and it involves the sea, by the way. Just to be clear."
 
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Greetings. Welcome to the Dementia of Magic, a somewhat silly plot-grounded comic, updated MWF (eventually). Sit back, enjoy, read the story, have a look around, just have a nutty good time.

If you're new here, you're best off starting from the beginning. It's quite a bit plot-dependent.

September 4, 2023:

Hey, guess what, it's 2023 and Chapter Nine is finally starting! Finally.

It's been quite the year of, y'know, work and various garden-variety anxieties and such like that, so that's always fun. It's also involved me trying to plan out the visuals of this next chapter, which really started getting slow when I had the idea to make everything in 8½"x11" pages, which means I need to draw more and work out layouts, and then I realized I planned the first part of the chapter to feature changing scenes and crowds and such. It's been slow, is all.

But, the chapter's about to start, I've got at least some idea where these stories are going, and I can hopefully draw said ideas out, so that's good! Technically! I hope you enjoy it! It's really good, seriously you guys!


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