Katmandu is pretty notorious not only for its romantic moments, but also for its really sad and depressing moments when these happens:
- Perhaps the most shocking moment in the whole comic is undoubtedly Rial's death, since it happens without any warning beforehand, not to mention that it happens both in an anti-climactic way, and at the same time suddenly, since he, at least chronologically speaking, only appears in seven issues. It say something that many fans were really shocked to see that the author really averted Like You Would Really Do It in order to kill a fan-favorite that Carole Curtis, the author, still managed to include tales that feature Rial in an Anachronic Order, even after he canonically died, at expense of confusing new readers along the way.
- This is later topped off with the death of Liska in the Final Battle against Rakon and his tribe, as she stayed behind in order to buy time for her warriors to return. This is even more heart-wrenching, as, besides being she the protagonist, it's really hard to stomach her death after all the adventures she had in her life during all the years the comic lasted, but at least she died in a complete blaze of glory. To make her demise an even bigger tear-jerker, Liska always felt lonely in some degree during her whole life, as having the weight of all the responsabilities rested on her shoulders caused her to became gradually more cynic and jaded than she was in her younger years. And she died alone, in combat, in the middle of the night, as fated by the Goddess in what was basically an entire sub-arc of suffering porn.
- The end of "The Hunt" sub-arc is quite sad as well, since Kress betrayed Liska in order to help Indigo, the foreigner who used both her and her tribe in order to lure the giant monsters, regardless of the damage those monsters, Indigo and Kress herself could had caused to everyone else in their own country. As a result, in a very unnerving way, Liska, with permission of Kress of course, gave her to Indigo as his wife, while Indigo returned to his country, breaking her own rules about giving or buying people in order to punish Kress for endagering the tribe, and also to get rid of her, without the need of either executing her or any other severe punishment. While the story says that there's no family records about Liska's reaction after that event, it does say that Liska kept a pocket of Kress' hair and she kept it for the rest of her life, a fact enforced by an image of Liska's body being completely shadowed, implying that she really regreted doing that afterwards.
