Let sleeping gods lie. As Pooka should know from his Mythopedia entry he’s a heavier player than one you can summon merely for a warding spell. ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Pooka hands Owen a coin. POOKA: Here, I’ll show ya. Owen,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pooka, here in horse form (recall we first meet him in rabbit mode back in Chapter 5), revives his complaints about human gentrification of the Otherworld. Everyone has their pet peeve.
The side of the bus reads “Liath Macha” – which is the name of one of two legendary horses from Celtic mythology. You can read a bit more about that on Wikipedia. It just amused me to make it the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finvarra is the High King of the Daoine Sidhe in Celtic folklore (but not the only one), and Oonagh is the High Queen, and his wife. We’ll meet them in a few chapters — but don’t expect a faithful to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You might know “the Golden Ones” as mysterious figures from early David Bowie lyrics (or maybe like Bowie you read too much Aleister Crowley in a haze of cocaine). But in any case, the Golden Ones here are actually the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These are the people in your neighborhood: Selkie, Nessie, Leprechaun (being devoured), Dullahan (or to Americans, the Headless Horseman), a drunken goblin, and a vampiric elven woman enjoying leg of human. The Unseelie Court is a strange and creepy place.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The River Clyde in Scotland takes its name from the goddess Clodagh, also known as Clwyd, Clut, and Clota, depending on which Gaelic language you speak or if you’re Welsh. The river was important to the early Celts as a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy New Year! I had fun drawing the station agent. Whether we’ll see him again, I have no idea. Plan a story well in advance of writing or drawing it? Hahaha. That’s silly. Anyway, next week you’ll meet Fetch’s sister,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so finally we arrive at entrance of the Unseelie Courts. Looks fun, don’t it? As with my treatment of Ancient Greek mythology, I will be taking some liberties with the myths and folklore of Ireland and Scotland. So don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cat Sith, or Sidhe, is a mythological creature of the Scottish Highlands and parts of Ireland. Some say cats (or Caits) are faeries, others that they are witches who can transform into cats until after they have spent all nine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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