Category: Canon

These events have been elaborated upon and edited somewhat for drama; and we do not, of course, know their meaning.

They are, nevertheless, quite real.
— from “The Army (3 of 3)

• What is Hitherby Dragons?
• She Puts on Shows
• Ninja Tathagata
• Creating Reasonable Explanations
• What It’s Like
• Bodhisattvas
• The First History
  • The Monster (I/IV)
  • The Hero (II/IV)
  • The Angels (III/IV)
  • The Shadow (IV/IV)
• Mr. A
• Puppies
• Meredith
• Boxes
• Dragons
• The Second History
  • The Tunnels (I/IV)
  • The Forest (II/IV)
  • The Castle (III/IV)
  • The Stage (IV/IV)
• Liril and Micah
• The Third History
  • Daniel (I/IV)
  • Alan (II/IV)
  • Bob (III/IV)
  • Martin (IV/IV)
• Ants
• Broderick
• Hopping Vampire
• The Fourth History
  • It’s Only Wounds (I/I)
• The Stone
  • Micah (1 of 2)
  • Liril (2 of 2)
• The Fifth History
  • Tantalus (I/IV)
  • Pelops (II/IV)
  • Thyestes (III/IV)
  • Aegisthus (IV/IV)
• Pelopia Visits Martin (1 of 1)
• The Sixth History
  • (Good Friday) Tenebrae (I/I)
• (Easter Sunday) Epilogue
• Siggorts
• The Thorn that Does Not Kill
  • Saturday (1 of 2)
• Sunday (2 of 2)
• Static (1 of 1)
• The Seventh History
  • The Flower (I/IV)
  • Myths and Heroes (II/IV)
  • Remnants (III/IV)
  • People of Salt (IV/IV)
• The Eighth History
  • Mei Ming (I/I)
• The Fire of Coretta
  • Surrender (1 of 2)
  • Tunnel Rat (I/IV)
  • The Show (II/IV)
  • Jane (III/IV)
  • The Stone (IV/IV)
  • Questions and Answers (2 of 2)
• End of Chapter 1
• A Summary of the Metaphysics
• Histories, Legends, and Stories
• Character Profile: Jane
• Character Profile: the Angel Four
• Chapter 2
• The Breaking of the World
• Phantasmagoria
• Undines
• Histories
• Emptiness
  • The Unsubstantiated Assertions Fairy (II/II)
  • Priyanka (I/II)
• Djinn
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • The Summoning of the King (I/?)
• Demons
• Field Notes I
  • The Footsoldiers (I/I)
• Melomids
• Woglies
• Strength
  • At the Temple (II/II)
  • Shame (I/II)
• Random Genealogical Interjection
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • The Dove (II/?)
• Fetches
• Field Notes II
  • The Contemner (I/I)
• Things, on Fire
  • An Answer to Emptiness (II/II)
  • The Rent in the Fullness of the World (I/II)
• Kama
• Scrapbook (Field Notes III)
  • The Place Without Recourse (I/I)
• A Season of Metal
• The Chorus of Definition (1 of 1)
• The Hanging Garden
  • Hero and Monster (I/IV)
  • Mylitta’s Question (II/IV)
  • Belshazzar (III/IV)
  • Nabonidus’ Gods (IV/IV)
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • Devadatta and Various Killers (III/?)
  • The Miracle (IV/?)
• The Thus-It-Happened of Maya
  • The Betrothal (V/?)
• Stories
• Why the Monster Laughs at God (1 of 1)
• Scrapbook (Field Notes IV)
  • Every Log Cabin (I/I)
• Jane Talking
• The Wind is Changing
• The Unburied Child
  • Tina (I/IV)
  • Iphigenia (II/IV)
  • Sacrifice (3 of 4)
  • Rahu (IV/IV)
• Transformation (1 of 1)
• Looking out
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • The Contest (VI/?)
• Measured, and Found Wanting
  • The Old Man of the Sea (1 of 2)
  • A Raw Deal for Creepy Handwriting Girl (2 of 2)
• Martin
• The Harrowing of Hell
  • The Fable of the Lamb (1 of 2)
  • Tigers in their Cages (2 of 2)
• Angels
• Sid and Max
• Harvesting Spirits
  • The Birth of Persephone (I/III)
  • The Treasure Wheel (II/III)
  • Hades (III/III)
• Field Notes V
  • Before He Was Cool (I/I)
• The Failing of the Lens
• The Toucan Clock (I/I)
• The Sifter (I/I)
• Monstrous Imaginings
  • “Why Can’t I Fix You?” (I/II)
  • “There are Stars in Your Eyes, Elli” (II/II)
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • The Old Man (VII/?)
• Martin in Darkness
  • Martin and Lisa (I/III)
  • Martin and Thess (II/III)
  • Martin and the Woglies (III/III)
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya
  • The Sick Man (VIII/?)
  • (Maundy Thursday) The Corpse (IX/?)
• (Good Friday – Hitherby Annual #1 – I/I) Tre Ore
• (Holy Saturday) Stories of Deliverance (I/I)
• The Thus-it-Happened of Maya (retrospective)
• Tantalus Looks for Work (1 of 1)
• (End of Chapter 2)
• Chapter 3
• Reinterpreting Bad Milk (I/I)
• Truth is Not Lost (1 of 1)
• Jacob, His Runt, The Angel, and the Maw (1 of 3)
• On the Endings of Stories (2 of 3)
• The Army (3 of 3)
• Regarding Ink’s Intermission (1 of 1)
• Iphigenia’s Story (1 of 1)
• Boisterous Immortal (I/IV)
• Wishing Boy (II/IV)
• The Unrighteous Daughter (III/IV)
• The Water (4 of 4)
• The Thistle (I/IV)
• Never (II/IV)
• The Route to Never (III/IV)
• The Borders of the World (IV/IV)
• (Canon: Boedromion 14) The Growing God
• (History: Boedromion 15) Round Man vs. Manners
• (Boedromion 16: Legend, History, History) Three Short Bits
• (History: Boedromion 17: The Cakkavattisihananda Sutra)
• (Boedromion 18: Static)
• (History: Boedromion 19: Delicious Pomegranate!)
• (History: Boedromion 20: The Only Fruit That Tastes Like Dust)
• (History: Boedromion 21-22: Things and Choices)
• Hard on the Heels of Ink’s Legend (1 of 1)
• The Melomid (I/II)
• Good and True and Noble (II/II)
• “That Was Quick,” The Monster Said (I/III)
• The False Enlightenment (II/III)
• Scattered (III/III)
• The Chimerae (I/I)
• The Ragged Things (1 of 2)
• (Quinquagesima Sunday) The Imago (2 of 2)
• Starfish Men (I/II)
• How Meredith Ran from the Chaos (II/II)
• (Palm Sunday: I/IV) Sid and Max
• (Palm Sunday: II/IV) Jigsawing
• (Palm Sunday: III/IV) Mr. McGruder’s Question
• (Palm Sunday: IV/IV) The Siggort in Exile
• Are Siggorts? (I/I)
• Should Siggorts? (I/I)
• Hitherby Annual #2 – Maundy Thursday (I/I)
• (Good Friday) The Problem of Persephone (I/V)
• (Low Saturday) The Harrowing of Hell (II/V)
• (Easter) That Morning (III/V)
• Hard on the Heels of Ink’s Legend (I/I)
• The Cut (4 of 5)
• The Nest of Mirror Pieces (5 of 5)
• The Isn’t (I/I)
• The LED (1 of 4)
• Feeding Dangerous Things (2 of 4)
• Brick Fishing (3 of 4)
• Newton’s First Law (4 of 4)
• The Immensity of Love (I/IV)
• The Eclipse (II/IV)
• The Looming Cloud (III/IV)
• The Extinguishment of Karma (IV/IV)
• Sid vs. Max (1 of 1)
• Max Sets Forth to Kill God (1 of 4)
• The Chaos Adapts (2 of 4)
• Red Mary (3 of 4)
• The Peculiar Case Of Miss Mu Lung (4 of 4)
• Ink In Re Dyslexic Agnostics (I/IV)
• Ink Indigestible (II/IV)
• Tep vs. Sukaynah (III/IV)
• That Moldless Legacy of Hell (IV/IV)
• Ink Indestructible (I/I)
• The Broken Island (1 of 4)
• The Loneliness of the World (2 of 4)
• Pumpkin Sickness (3 of 4)
• Happy Endings (4 of 4)
• The Aftermath of Heaven (1 of 2)
• The Latter Days of the Law (2 of 2)
• The Uncanny Valley (I/IV)
• The Pirate (II/IV)
• The Heaps (III/IV)
• The Skandhas of Head Island (IV/IV)
• Ink and Abandonment (I/IV)
• Ink Inappropriate (II/IV)
• Ink and Annihilation (III/IV)
• Ink Infallible (IV/IV)
• Ink Immeasurable (I/XVI)
• Ink Asymmetric (II/XVI)
• Ink Interrupted (III/XVI)
• Ink Invaluable (IV/XVI)
• “The Lord of Misrule” – From the Journals of Ink Catherly (V/XVI)
• Ink Inapplicable (VI/XVI)
• The Treason of Minister Jof (VII/XVI)
• Ink Incurable (VIII/XVI)
• “The Test Defends Itself from Life”- From the Journals of Ink Catherly (IX/XVI)
• Ink and Anarchy (X/XVI)
• “The Golden Age” – From the Journals of Ink Catherly (XI/XVI)
• Ink Unwrappable (XII/XVI)
• Ink Unrepeatable (XIII/XVI)
• Ink Entomological (XIV/XVI)
• That Even the Least of These May Know Joy (XV/XVI)
• Ink Ascending (XVI/XVI)
• The Beginning (I/I)
• This Blasphemous Thing (I/V)
• Transience (II/V)
• “You Dirty Skandhas!” (III/V)
• The Sword of Love (IV/V)
• Siggort (V/V)
• Between the Panels of the Day – Piracy (I/I)
• (Thanksgiving) The Metal That Longs to Move (1 of 5)
• Max is Dead (2 of 5)
• The Matter of Zheng’s Son (3 of 5)
• On The Nature of Judgment (4 of 5)
• (Parousia) To Light a Candle (5 of 5)
• To Serve the String (I/I)
• The Elephant in the Room
  • The Soot-Web (II/VII)
  • Why is Six Afraid of Seven? (VI/VII)
  • Anatman (I/VII)
  • What’s Purple and Incarnated in Human Form to Save Us All From Suffering? (III/VII)
  • A Study in Entanglement (VII/VII)
  • Free (V/VII)
  • What’s Gray and Hurts More than You Can Imagine? (IV/VII)
• Lament for Amiel
  • Stupid Words and their Stupid Power, Anyway (I/III)
  • There is a King (Ia/III)
  • Forsaken of their Gods (II/III)
  • Bam (IIa/III)
  • Haunted (IIb/III)
  • And Sometimes You Just Slip (III/III)
• The No-Good Bird (I/I)
• In a Time of Cages
  • Anthropomorphizing the Crucible (I/VII)
  • Eliza and the Frog (II/VII)
  • Formica (III/VII)
  • And the Birds Fall Dead (IV/VII)
  • Exposition Answers Emptiness with Digressions (V/VII)
  • “And Break.” (VI/VII)
  • Little Faces (VII/VII)
• Oh, Harold Dear (I/I)
• The Rabbit and the Wolf (I/I)
• How Micah Fought the Monster
  • The Shepherdess (I/VII)
  • Later . . . (Ia/VII)
  • The Boundary Between Liril and the World (II/VII)
  • The Measure of a Monster (III/VII)
  • Sympathetic Magic (IV/VIII)
  • The Lion (V/VII)
  • “I will make you cry” (VI/VII)
  • What Do You Do with a One-Winged Cherub? (VII/VII)
• Whoever Can Bear the Weight
• Wicked Children (I/I)
• Shattered
  • Harold’s Head Gets Underfoot (I/IV)
  • The Incredible Leap of the Sinless Man (II/IV)
  • The Sting (III/IV)
  • “If I Go Crazy Then Will You Still Call Me Superman?” (IV/IV)
• Down the Rabbit Hole
  • Vincent and the Devil (I/V)
  • And Three Points is the Game (II/V)
  • Green (III/V)
  • A Digression Concerning the Performance of the Confessional (IV/V)
  • A Feast of Kin (V/V)
• Scarab All-a-Fulminatin’, Explody & Oh Shi— (I/I)
• Intermission (I/I)