Sleepless Domain

It's good! It found its footing around the third chapter, I think.

Edited by Twiddler on Mar 20th 2019 at 11:51:00 AM

Yeah, it's really worth reading! The story is a lot of fun, and you can really see Mary's style mature as the comic goes on. Plus, it's not too short but not overly long either, and it's in the final stretch right now.

I've liked it, too. It also has a thread, though it's far less active that SD's has been.

Edited by sgamer82 on Mar 21st 2019 at 7:26:54 AM

Well I binged it over the course of about an hour and a half, which is easy when it has so many gaps between updates. Can't really complain though. Mary Cagle was working on three webcomics at a time for a while there. It's pretty good and the highlight of the comic is definitely Ben and Steffi's ridiculously adorable romance.

Edited by RodimusMinor on Mar 21st 2019 at 11:49:55 AM

New Comic: http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-11

What is she up to that she has to lie about it?

This girl is not fine.

"Pinched a pack of cigarettes" would be my guess.

Oh nooooo. I really hope her parents manage to catch on to how not okay Tessa is doing.

I don't think they will. Beside the general Adults Are Useless trope that is practically omnipresent in m-girl stories, in this particular instance we see them being happy that she's making new friends. So any chance that they would have discovered what's wrong is, at best, pushed back more than a little because it seems like she's recovering fine without their interference.

The longer I see Tessa's downward spiral, the more I worry that she's going to end up attempting suicide via going out at night...only to run into Goops, who kidnaps her to use against Undine.

Outright attempting suicide seems a little darker than this story would go for, but there is no doubt Goops is working on Tessa.

Could you imagine if Goops is somehow offering Tessa some way to get her powers back and make her a Dark Magical Girl?

Now that you mention it I think that's what will happen.

That's my current expectation, yeah.

x4

I mean the story has already killed off an entire group of magical girls. An attempted suicide turned kidnapping wouldn't be that much darker.

Sure, but that was as an opening twist. To go for suicide all of a sudden seems a bit too much for me.

Maybe, though it occurs to me not two arcs ago we saw the death of HP's mother and said death is now the picture for the Nightmare Fuel page.

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-12

Suspicious references to magical healing, or my imagination-slash-paranoia?

Hm... that news segment continues for a few more panels than irrelevance would normally indicate, but I don't see what relevance it would have just yet. Maybe to Rue's continuing injuries.

Also, I want to see Rue's Magical Girl outfit.

Tessa is hearing news reports about injuries Magical Girls got on the job, indicating this is something that's weighing heavily upon her, and then that's followed up by her seeing Rue all bandaged up after battle. A classic one-two punch of storytelling.

And that's on top of Team Alchemical's fate and losing her own powers in an attempt at healing magic.

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-13

"Dang kids think they're invincible, unlike Tessa who is now 50 years old"

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-14

Worldbuilding!

That's actually really interesting. Well thought out.

So why don't boys get any magical powers, anyway?