I think I just wrote the last page of “Decrypting Rita”.
I feel weirdly empty. It’s like I’ve been walking around with this story taking up an ever-increasing chunk of my head for the past four years, and now it’s gone.
There’s still stuff to do. My rough layouts need to be turned into finished drawings. First-draft dialogue may change. There may be some gloss shenanigans, and of course there’s those two super-complicated pages to draw. And the epilogue to do.
There is less than I thought there would be to the ending. I’m going to throw together a CBZ of the last volume tomorrow, and see what my Patreon supporters think. They will have questions about the ending; this is intentional. If the questions they have are the ones I want them to have, then it’s a success. There’s a giant hole in the climax this story and it’s crucial that it’s the shape I want it to be.
anyway. I’m gonna go do something simple now. Play an easy video game, read a well-written but shallow book, or maybe just stare off into space for a little while. Something lightweight.