Release #1 - High Stakes (SMA22)
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Issue 1
High Stakes (SMA22)
615 views • Jul 22, 2025
In a town that persecutes
witches, a girl is stuck
between a rock and a hard
place when she finds her
sister practicing sorcery.
What will she do, when
the guards discover this
so-called transgression?
TLDR: My Silent Manga Audition 21 submission, reposted here.
RUBYVANCE101 3 weeks ago
This comic feels like a quiet story that speaks directly to the heart and every line carries a truth that words alone could never say What inspired you to bring this emotion to life?
Vynru 2 weeks ago
@RUBYVANCE101 Thank you sm!! This is such high praise!! This was a practice project I made for a competition called the "Silent Manga Audition." They gave me a theme to work with and it was "seized with rage." I tried to think what would make me most angry, and I thought of this impossible situation. One the one hand, the MC tries and fails to get through to her sister, and her sister keeps doing witchery despite the very obvious danger. On the other hand, the townspeople are just so mean. The idea makes me positively frustrated.
RUBYVANCE101 2 weeks ago
That makes so much sense you can really feel that specific kind of frustration in the story where everyone is in the wrong in different ways and there’s no clean choice or easy outlet for the MC’s emotions. It’s a very human kind of anger not just rage at a villain but that helpless, conflicted fury when love and fear and responsibility all clash at once. For a silent piece it communicated all of that incredibly clearly. You captured the theme perfectly.
Btw you writer and draw this comic by yourself or commission someone for it? And but I would really loved to draw the comic for you within my good price. If you are interested