The Specialists

When I was young, I used to love crafting my own fantasy worlds for stories and games. I still have notes from my favorite creation, which I began working on in my early teens. Now that I’m in my twilight years, I still like the idea of building fictional realms, but it turns out that it’s a ton of work, and I’ve grown lazy. These days, my fantasies mostly consist of a nice nap.

But the spark of creation still burns in fellow Webcomic Pioneer Robin Dempsey. Her comic LeyLines is set in a lovingly-detailed world, with its own societies, religions, legends, and even languages. It’s a lavish backdrop to her story of three siblings investigating their mother’s death and the conspiracy surrounding it. It’s clear that a lot of work and thought has gone into the setting.
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