The Depths | An Adult Furry Comic

So, wow, what a difference a summer makes! Let’s recap, alright? ^^

In April, we parted ways very amicably with Dark Blue Comics, and Leilani will still be story editing for them now and then when asked. We encourage folks to check in on these beautiful comics ABlueDeer has put together, Moonlace and Bethellium, and do share his website with others.

In May, we created “The Shallows”, an off-beat, zany, and sexy one-page comic strip, featuring the gang from “The Depths”, (and several lucky winning cameo characters) to be published monthly and exclusively for the Patreon and prospective furry-only sites.

In June, we started working on the website, with the help of a wonderful designer known as Mihari, who’s been responsible for several furry sites, including the KatBox, which holds a wealth of other really great webcomics as well.

In July, ABlueDeer and Leilani came to terms on when he could move away from pencil work on “The Depths” and get back to his regular work. Already with one child, and another on the way, it was important he focus on his own projects and Patreon. So naturally Leilani started scrambling for a new pencil artist. She reached out to veteran furry artist “Twinkle“, who immediately agreed to join the team, having already been a fan of “The Depths”, and fond of the main character, Leilani. Twinkle enjoys a huge audience for his masterful illustrations, so we all felt he would make an excellent addition for exposure purposes.

Finally, in August, “The Depths” website was complete, and pages started to move over from Dark Blue to here. In this time, Leilani and Riffraff attended two major conventions and managed to build up an even bigger audience for the webcomic.

And there you go. You’re caught up now, and as you can see, “The Depths” drama is rising steadily. The mood and setting is about to change soon however as we head back to the ocean. Leilani, Kalea, Malana, Jamie, and David are all headed for their individual destinies. We’ll also have a few secondary characters coming on board to help.

Get ready.

It’s about to get very deep, and very dangerous…

Hold your breath…

Just watched Alistair Sim’s “A Christmas Carol” (a.k.a. “Scrooge”) from 1951 (for about the 50th time), and it puzzles me sometimes why this isn’t the most-loved “Christmas Carol” films of all times. Not only did Sim pull off the most foul, most wretched, most cantankerous Ebeneezer Scrooge of the lot, he also does the most memorable, delightful, and tear-jerking turnaround of all time. It is indeed probably the most worthy of Charles Dickens’ classic, and possibly the one he would have adored the most.

I’m reminded of something too, from the film, and it comes courtesy of actor Francis de Wolff as the Spirit of Christmas Present:

“We Spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole three-hundred and sixty-five. So is it true of the Child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men’s hearts one day of the year, but in all days of the year.”

Later on, the spirit tells Scrooge to come with him, so that he can seek the spirit of Jesus Christ in the hearts of those with good will, since he has such a hard time finding it in his own.

There is a truly remarkable, beautiful lesson here. If happiness and contentment are not in our hearts, we can still see it in the hearts of others around us. Whether we witness someone fixing a flat tired for an elderly woman, or we watch two football players from opposite teams giving each other a hug on the field, or allowing someone to go ahead of them in a grocery line…the spirit and love and respect of the man whose birthday we celebrate this time of year is inside. What an incredible world we would have today, if we really did as the Spirit of Christmas Present suggests, and truly live the entire year in this same way.

We really can do it, you know? It just starts with you starting right now, and perhaps going to the store, or a library, or a friend’s house, or even take a walk around the neighborhood, and observe how the true spirit of Christmas is within the people you see. It might take a few tries, but you can see them. They’re smiling, laughing, hugging or kissing, or chatting amiably to others. Christmas for them isn’t just something to celebrate once a year. We might be celebrating the birth of Christ, but…shouldn’t we be celebrating that Christ existed in the first place too? ^^

So think about this message. I’m not even Christian or religious, and even I agree that Christmas should be celebrated every day. That warmth, the giving nature, the feeling of camaraderie, should be inside us every day.

A very blessed Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all – and keep an eye out for a very special “The Depths” Christmas page coming soon! <3

P.M. Amaras, Kino Jaggernov, and Paul Driggere

A few reasons, most importantly, we don’t want to push Kino too hard and this last page, which you’ll see on the 18th, was a doozy to draw. So many figures on the page, and all painstakingly posed and hard to set up, along with the gorgeous underwater scenery.

Another reason, well, the Patreon is a little short this month. As we pay KJ $150 per page and every week for 40 hours of work, the Patreon has to reflect that somehow. We’re not trying to hold pages hostage or anything like that, God no, because we still are keeping the comic going the best we can.

But we still need a little more support out there. We’ve been present on Patreon since April of 2018, and greatly disappointed we only have 51 supporters.

So…we’ll see you back here on the 18th. <3

Thank you all for understanding.

Lani & Riff

We realize people are a little unhappy they have to wait an extra week for a new page, but we felt it might be a great idea to share a side-project we do monthly with an artist called DarkShadow777. It started out as a cute idea for a cameo project and, well, it caught on really quickly and now we do these monthly side-comics as a way to both break up the tension and drama of “The Depths”, and to give our faithful Patreon supporters an extra reward.

So, give it up for “The Shallows”, a funny, zany, mostly erotic alternative to the main webcomic! We’ll try to post these every few weeks or so. Patreon supporters of course get early views. *^^*

Every writer knows it’s never easy to kill off a character. You’ve spent months, sometimes years with it, wrapping it around your finger, making it perform for you, and speak, and think, and act. And then suddenly, it’s gone, and a little part of you dies with it. =(

One of the most hilarious, and sad, moments of writing for me, was when I wrote off a minor, but still beloved character from a novel I was working on. I was so distraught, I picked up the phone and called my best friend.

“I killed Ferrell!” I sobbed into the phone and then had to immediately calm down my friend and assure her I had not actually killed anyone in the real world. 

Jamie McCollough, while well-liked in his own way, needed to go. He was merely a secondary character in this particular story arc, but as you might imagine, an important role all the same. We needed a bad guy. *^^*

But not to worry. In the next page, you’ll find out just how he’s going to be sent off – whether to Hell or purgatory.

And let’s hope you don’t have nightmares…