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Silent Coda is the first chapter in a never-to-be-finished graphic novel based on the Dungeons and Dragons TV cartoon. I began it about five years ago, but never got further than the first few pages of what was the story's ending- the Coda. It was only recently, when I got connected to the web and discovered that there were still people out there who shared my fond memories of the cartoon and its characters that I thought about resuming the work.

The Coda is a final section in any piece of music which provides a kind of summing-up of the rest of the piece. In this case my Coda was supposed to provide a glimpse of the Dungeons and Dragons gang years after the period in which the TV show is set. The group are surviving now in a world where their most urgent crises are the need to find food and shelter (I was always curious as to how the gang handled the simple problems of living as they did- itinerantly- like how they got breakfast and where they went to the toilet...). It is a bleak end to what I envisaged being a dark and ultimately sinister story. I'm interested in the reality of the situation as much as the fantasy- what might these people really become after several years lost on an alien, unreal world. I wanted to reflect a sense of these children maturing, becoming adults, and show how their maturing sensibilities might be reflected in the kinds of adventures they experienced in The Realm.

As such the pages here contain some strong, though not explicit, imagery.

There are twelve pages in the Coda, links to move between them all can be found at the bottom of each page. They're largish images (about 240kb each page) and, depending on your connection speed, should take a little less than a minute each to load.