What is Gilda And Meek about?
It's about several things at once. It's a story of a Lucky Universe in a Multiverse teeming with Unlucky Ones and how our hero navigates that to her own advantage. It's a funny animal book that bit by bit reveals a huge fantasy and science fiction underpinning, much like Bone. It starts off as an erstwhile comedy until you realize it's actually been a drama the entire time. It's a story that after you read all 90 issues, you'll want to reread them again, as the best reading of The Un-Iverse isn't the first, it's the second. It's a bunch of random and seemingly unrelated characters and stories building and crossing over until they collide in an epic 19-part finale. It's about the antagonistic and loving relationship between the hero Gilda and the kid who looks up to her, Bernadette, and how their feelings for each other prove there is no wrong way to love a person. It's a political satire parodying the ridiculousness of the age we live in made more ridiculous by the fact that real life is crazier than my story's outlandish examples. It's about the fact that evil is uncool and mundane, and it's neat to have heroes to like and root for, and where the heroes are more interesting than the villains. It's about a strong female hero whose gender is irrelevant to the story at hand and is merely a strong hero who happens to be a female. It's about all of these things and none of them at the same time. Mostly, it's a way for me to work through my psychological crap. Which is what I think most writing boils down to for people.
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"The Key to Gilda and Meek's Future Lies in the Past."
Or The Dreaded Un-Iverse Prequel is here!
Set in the year 1189, The Pontue Legacy is the true secret origin story of Mistress Augatha and her unborn sister Gabrielle. The Prologue itself is a tour de force for the Narrator, and his finest moment in the 90 issue saga. We will reveal about as much crucial backstory and mythology to The Un-Iverse's world history and species in 6 issues as it would have taken me 100 Gilda And Meek stories to get to it all. The Pontue Legacy is not just Augatha's origin story, it is damn well the secret history and origin story of The Un-Iverse's Earth itself.
The story, which crosses tropes of fantasy, fairytale, sword and sorcery, and comedy, is centered around Princess Sarah Farrell. Sarah is what would happen if Disney centered a movie around a Disney Princess who was a cynical asshole who rages against the world. Like an actual teenage girl. Some people will find Sarah annoying for this reason. I think the fact that the things she rages against are things one SHOULD be outraged by is the selling point of an asshole Disney Princess.
Don't you dare miss this crucial Un-Iverse detour! The outcomes of both Gilda And Meek AND the Un-Iverse finale "The Terran Wars" will be MUCH more rewarding with its added context, so I wouldn't skip it in disinterest if I were you.