Namesake - Admission
Apr. 23rd, 2026 12:00 amNew comic!
Yes! Yes it's the scene from the Oz books where Tip gets changed back to Ozma! I'm so AMPED to draw this!!
If the scene or the characters in it look familiar, this is another point of view of a scene we saw in the Emily Gale chapter. Her twin became Mombi, Mombi held Ozma / Tip prisoner, and now she got caught by Glinda the Good Witch of the South, along with the Glinda guards, that we saw in like....Chapter 8? Wow!
Here are some page references :
https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/stop-right-there -- The Glinda Guards
https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/the-birth-of-mombi
https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/the-messenger
https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/seeing-stars
-- Important bits from Mombi's point of view!
For anybody wondering why Glinda is the Good Witch of the South, and not the Witch of the North, the South is her domain in the Oz books, the iconic 1939 MGM film combined her character with the Good Witch of the North. Book Glinda is a bit more of a wise badass than the northern versions of Glinda we can find in the MGM film or Wicked, but I love all versions of Glinda, personally! I also like that Book Glinda is associated with Red, while alternative Glindas are usually pink. That's so cute.
Search maintenance
Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 amHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.