Last page for my battle vs for [link] I wanted this to end vaguely to keep the audience wanting more, I will hopefully get the Beyond Battle up soon.

Anyways, since someone had asked me why all my comics are depressing, I figured I'd explain in detail why here. There's several reasons behind why all my comics are horrendously depressing and why I torture Angie so.

-All of my favorite movies and shows are extremely depressing and tragic. The ending was originally an homage to one of my favorites, Requiem for a Dream. Angie was supposed to cry as the camera slowly panned up and she'd roll to the side. But I thought that was just a bit much haha Another of my favorites is a shoujo anime called Brother Dear Brother/Oniisama E, and I kid you not, something terrible and dramatic and depressing happens like every 10 minutes. So yeah, all my favorite things ever are depressing, I just love and thrive on tragedy what can I say.

-Art is my therapy. It's no secret that I have been battling depression since elementary school and have been on anti depressants equally as long. I have always used art as a way to vent my problems and frustrations with life. And when it comes to my comics, it really shows. I suppose tormenting the crap out of my characters gives me some emotional release and helps me cope. It's better that I get it out through my art than sit and write in my livejournal and dye my hair black or something.

During the course of this battle I was honestly dealing with a lot so of course this wasn't going to be all sunshine and roses. I inked much of this battle over the course of one weekend after learning that my grandmother is dying from liver cancer and there's really nothing they can do. That on top of losing 6 people at work at the start of the holiday season while working at the mall and being tossed more hours than I can handle.

So yeah, I was pretty depressed while working on this battle and working on it really helped me keep my mind focused. It's difficult times like this that I am thankful I have an outlet to vent instead of having to keep it bottled up.