Aster and the Fire

Actions, meet consequences.

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Aster and the Fire returns with a bang! Thank y’all for your patience while I defended my dissertation (successfully! I’m a doctor now!), move cross-country, and navigate life post-PhD! I’m still applying for jobs at the moment, but hopefully something will turn up soon :’D in the meantime, I’m gonna be doing lots and lots of drawing!!!

While you’re here, please make sure to check out the Cast page and archives…there are some shiny new changes on the website proper. If you can find them all you win 10 Curli points 😀

In other news, SpiderForest has a ton of new comics and creators for the 2024 season! Because there’s so many, the promo for this year is dividing comics up over multiple weeks! Here are the first two weeks down below:

New Member Spotlight – Unlikely Heroes

Pirates and pilots, serpents and sorcery! Jump into adventures and mystery with these comics about taking your destiny into your own hands – whether you’re ready or not!

Thunderstar – Amanda is an adventurous goth girl and a great pilot in the Royal Starfleet. When her boyfriend is kidnapped by a cult for their own nefarious purposes, it’s up to her and her high-strung engineer to defy the odds, cross the galaxy, and save him.

Teague Fagan – A sea serpent in the form of a human hermit is exiled to an island somewhere in the Celtic Sea while mermaids mysteriously, yet ruthlessly, hunt him down. But a new threat may pull him out of hiding…

Saffron Wave – Set 3000 years ago on ancient Crete, Nephele lives in uneventful solitude, until her world is upended by strange sea monsters and an even stranger woman giving her magical girl powers.

Heart of the Storm – Tempest–a wanted pirate with no ship and no attachments–spends her time dancing around the gallows and making a mockery of the law. She takes and does as she pleases, consequences be damned. But that might all change when she saves Callisto’s life.

Yokoka’s Quest – Yokoka is a catgirl on an adventure and winging it, but what could go wrong? Right?

Entropy – Arielle is an impulsive, headstrong blacksmith’s apprentice who comes in contact with a strange magical artifact that seems connected to an otherworldly being. As she experiments with its power, she may have accidentally kickstarted the apocalypse.

New Member Spotlight – Normality and Paranormality

Normal is relative. Enjoy these comics that explore what happens when a touch of the silly, surreal, or supernatural bleeds into the lives of normal people.

The Bright Side – Emily is a prickly and reclusive teenage girl. After a couple of random tragedies, she befriends Death – who turns out to be naive, neurotic, and completely endearing. Despite being eternal, “Dee” has at least as much growing up to do as Emily does.

Monsters & Myriads – A midwestern exploration into the spooky fantastic that haunts closed arcades, moon-frosted cornfields, and shadowed school hallways. Highschoolers band together to uncover a gothic conspiracy that threatens to unravel their school, town, and world.

Prophet of the Sun – A story about a selfish loser who would rather lie to themselves and everyone around them than face discomfort. This would be ok if they weren’t also the unstable vessel of the Sun, a strange new god intent on destorying the world.

Lauren Ipsum – Lauren Ipsum is a professional librarian, part-time writer, and an intellectual culture enthusiast (nerd). Join this looney rabbit and her friends running the esteemed St. Paws Library!

The City Under Saturn – A group of mobsters slowly begin to uncover that the man they’re are working for may not be entirely human and that those contracts they signed may be more than legally binding.

The Organization of Ghost Hunters – After an encounter with a mysterious stranger, Ian Cooper discovers he’s able to see ghosts. The friendly dog spirit that follows him around isn’t so bad, but when dangerous spirits start to show up, he may need a little help.