Episode 10.11
Welcome back to Ghost Kiss! its been SOOOOOOO long. The last episode was posted in the first few days of last year. I started this episode almost immediately afterwards, but wasn’t able to get much past scripting and layouts before I got busy with other work. Managed to pencil the comic over the summer, and I stated inking at the beginning of THIS year. I wasn’t able to manage the colors and letters until just the last few weeks. So this marks the longest gap between Ghost Kiss episodes so far, a whole 18 months!
– sigh-
As always, the big problem is that most of teh time I’d LIKE to be spending on this comic is instead spent doing freelance work and commissions to pay my bills. If you’d like to see more Ghost Kiss the best way to help is by backing my Patreon. I really appreciate the support!
Happy Pride month! Hopefully the next Ghost Kiss episode will come before the end of the year.
And we always do what Chester says, right?
I doubt I operate the language with enough proficiency to accurately describe how I love this series. I am so happy that you’ve commited a new one that’s not just a short story about contemporary politics (not that I am against episodes like that, they simply cannot sate my need for MOAR Ghost Kiss).
I can’t believe Mya is so likeable and relatable character for me even if I am not a woman, nor a gay, nor a useful member of the society. I adore both episodes when she’s struggling (and yet – eventually – prevailing) in superhero duties and the ones when she’s trying to live a normal life. I think you’ve hit that golden spot of balance between them.
Ghost Kiss is – definitely – a postmodern approach to superhero comic books, but also a refreshing one. It’s not a usual doom’n’gloom, nor hero-villain reversal trope (so popular in contemporary comics). If I would compare Ghost Kiss to a big franchise, I would say she’s reverse Amazing Spiderman: where Peter is quite competent superhero, yet struggling in private life, Ghost Kiss is all about healthy and quite successful private life, yet struggling with her superhero duties. Her successes in the latter are, in my opinion, mainly achieved because she can enpower herself with the former.
I hope you’ll publish another story this year!
Thanks! I’m so glad you liked it.
Oh no! They touched. And as far as I know Ghost Kiss can’t turn off her power.
Welcome back. You were missed.
Thanks!
Did Ghost Kiss just accidentally zap the love of her life with her power?
They can touch. Mya’s powers are only activated when she kisses someone, or someone kisses her on the lips. So a kiss on the cheek is just fine.
I remember her getting paranoid about a drinking straw, so I assumed sweat and saliva contained her power too.
She is (or was) paranoid about it, but we’ve only ever seen her power work through direct lip contact. In this case she’s been with enough people that she knows its safe to let someone kiss her as long as its not on the mouth.
This would probably be more clear and easy to remember if I could find time to do this comic more than once a year.
Oh, yeah, that’s the bad news, Nina. You’re kinda moving in with Chester, too.