Also known as "The YA dragon books/comics for kids to young to remember what warrior cats was." Well we're here. This is a big one. Darkstalker is something of a big deal as WoF books go. Widely considered the 'best' book of the series with three POVs for a mid-arc prequel dropped before the Talons of power which by some good juggling on the WoF team's part is set to release right after this. The art is by one Jake Parker who was brought in since Mike has his plate full doing the main series. But enough prattling about the Scavengers, this is Darkstalker, and now you get to experience it as a comic.THREE DRAGONS. ONE DESTINY.THIS IS THE BEGINNING... OF THE END...In the SeaWing kingdom, a young prince learns he is an animus capable of wonderful magic that comes with a terrible price.In the mind of a Nightwing dragonet, a thousand futures unfold and almost all of them, she knows, lead to disaster and destruction.And under three full moons and the watchful eyes of his NightWing mother and IceWing father, the most powerful dragon Pyrhhia will ever know is clawing his way out of his egg: Darkstalker, the dragon who will change the world forever.Long before the SandWing war, lifetimes before the Dragonet Prophecy. darkness is born.>-Quote on BackcoverRegular words of introduction do not suffice for...DARKSTALKERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUcrFKHMZ-k>Thread 1: "The dragonet prophecy" https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/129855279/>Thread 2: "The Lost Heir" https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/129890926/>Thread 3: "The Hidden Kingdomhttps://desuarchive.org/co/thread/129925480/>Thread 4: "The Dark Secret"https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/129954043/>Thread 5: "The Brightest Night" https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/129972905/>Thread 6: "Moon Rising"https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/134713773/>Thread 7: "Winter Turning"https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/141669409/>Thread 8: "Escaping peril"https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/146924673/
>>151716861And back cover. I've inadvertantly failed to include the back arts for a lot of these comics over my time hosting the comics so i'll probably do that come the end of this one.Regardless i should lay out my rules.,,namely that i don't care about you guys dropping images in the storytime, this comic will not be long enough to reach image cap
>>151716986Otherwise just try not to spoil stuff if you're already in the know for how Darkstalker goes. Also the main comics to i suppose.
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>>151717023Note that the names of the queens are different. Also the presence of there being a Night kingdom.>>151717108Hell yeah right back at you.
>>151717158And away we go!Say 'Hello Arctic.'
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>>151717254>Queen DiamondGood a reason as any to throw on some Mercyful Fate.
Fuck yeah I've been waiting for this.Don't forget to bump, the previous storytimes tended to die before completing.
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>>151717438>>151717453If you think they're pretty now you'll be blown away soon enough. The new artist was actively improving his game over the course of the comic and it really shows in flexes that are his the background.
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>>151717496>>151717529she is cute. i'm glad they don't have fish faces, unlike the main series
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>>151717438>Mother wants me to Marry her.. Snowflake right? RIGHT?
>>151717688unsanctioned intertribal talon-holdinghow risque
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>>151718198He approaches.
>>151717906That Seagull is the size of a Buick.
>>151718058Glad to see this IP's intercinine generational violence is alive and well.
>>151718198Rest in Power, Really Big Seagull.
>>151718300I was kinda hopping they would squeeze the Runaway Winglet into the graphic novel, because it actually provided some quite important insights between this and the prologue.
>>151718300and for no reason whatsoever, Darkstalker hated his dad.
>>151718300DOOOM DOOOOM >>151718308Sizes and ages of dragons inside wof is really inconsistant over the books. I don't believe in the giant flora/Fauna theories, applied when Tui wrote arc 1, i think that gets canonized late in the game retroactivly to try and smooth it over but tui just writes like that. Bandit a human child(?) is minuscule compared to dragons and easily fits into the palm of Moon's hand, and Moon is only 4 herself, A 1 year old Cliff is larger than a human. Book 15 has a human pick a 2 year old dragonet and still go into an all out sprint beating a dragon and an unencumbered human in a footraceSize pretty much changes every time it's mentioned with TONS of inconsistencies. >>151718338Holy spelling batmen.
>>151718300A bit dissapointed that the third moon only gives you an amp and not a third power. Telekinesis or illusory powers would have been cool>>151718382The author confirmed that we will get graphic novel adaptations of the Winglets
>>151718527>Holy spelling batmen.>LouisoixsquintingatBahamut.jpg
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>>151718527THE BOY, THE DOOM, THE KING, THE STRONGEST, THE BAD BOY, THE LEGENDD-D-DDDDAAAAARRRRRKKKKKSSSTAAAAAAALLLKEEERRRR!!! MAYBE VADER SOME DAY LATTER NOW HE"S JUST A SMALLY FRY
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>>151718737If they get Hayden Christensen as the VA of Darkstalker for the Amazon TV show it would be kino of the highest order
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>>151717586Yeah, this is a bit closer to how they're depicted on the covers of the actual novels, the coloring books, and tribe description sheets; my one complaint is that this comic depicts the characters as being bipedal too often, when they're supposed to be primarily quadrupeds. Mike Holmes (the guy who did the mainline comic adaptations) just really seems to struggle with drawing nonhumans, hence the weird faces and wonky proportions.
>>151718737look at it.pure, unfettered evil.
>>151718527>A 1 year old Cliff is larger than a human.He's mentioned as being the size of a Greyhound compared to Leaf in Legends: Dragonslayer.
>>151718867>If Darkstalker had helped his sister then Whiteout would have been an animus like him and even had a chance at stopping his evil plans
>>151718867Dude crawled out of his egg wanting to see his father die and purposefully delaying his sister'shatching so he could have all the power. "This is my world now." Right at hatching. Real standup guy.
>>151718867Back to the stinky fish dragons.
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>>151719392>The headline of the scroll is written in human/latin lettersImmersion ruined
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>>151719499Albatross did nothing wrong
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>>151718300>>151718527>>151718737>>151718778Given what happened in the winglet Runaways Foeslayer is a mega bitch for acting that way
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>>151720553Back again to the fishes.>>151720649252 pages but you can take away some of that in practice from combining the splash panals into single images.
>>151720553Ahem- I said "back t the fishes."
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>>151720966Page 50. Say "Hello skywings."I'm going to take a bit of a break here for you al to digest and chatter amongst yourselves. Will trickle in some posts later tonight at a more narratively satisfactory cliffhanger before retiring to sleep.
>>151717625My man really met a single Nightwing for a handful of minutes and said "You know what? Who needs tribal loyalty, anyways."I mean... I get it. But still. >>151717654>It's yours now... If you want it. Lucky for him he's a smooth talker.Feel like all Icewings are secretly hopeless romantics. But that may be pure projection.
>>151719769Even without Runaways, she's more than a little bit of a cunt.Most the fights throughout are started by her. And she, of all dragons, should be able to see his mental state. If little baby Darkie can see how tortured his mind is, Foe as his mate has no excuses, regardless of mind reading. Snowflake would've been better. Maybe. Possibly. I'm sure they could've at least come to an arrangement.
>>151717289No wonder Snowflake hated him. Dude couldn't even remember her name, let alone the fact that he was supposed to marry her..
>>151721240I always thought it was hilarious how Nightwings are considered the best-looking tribe and are always stealing the hearts of others, without even trying in some cases.>Feel like all Icewings are secretly hopeless romanticsDeep down they just need someone to thaw out and free those icy hearts of theirs.
>>151721442To be fair, she didn't want to marry him in the first place either. She's got a nasty case of the lust for malevolent women, that I can relate to. Though even without it, you're not exactly wrong. Arctic isn't exactly a great catch, beyond prestige, given his attitude.
>>151721339>>151721442Queen Diamond chose her as Arctic’s future wife because she seemed like an obedient, disciplined, and loyal dragoness (and she hoped her son would eventually inherit some of those traits). But it was all an act; she actually hated Arctic for being a royal brat who would never have to worry about the Icewings' social credit system, because he was the queen’s son.Snowfox, Arctic’s cousin, noticed her disdain for him and told her about a plan to get rid of him (and along the way, they fell in love).In Icewing society, there are two ways to become queen: defeating the current queen in a duel to death or her abdicating the throne and naming you as the new queen. Since Snowfox is the only heir, she just needs to wait for Diamond to die of old age. But if Arctic has daughters, Snowfox would have no choice but to challenge the queen and she knew Diamond would tear her apart in a fight, even without magic.Snowfox pretended to support the relationship between Arctic and Foeslayer, and Arctic fell for it.On the last day of the diplomatic visit, Snowfox lied saying that Diamond had discovered them and ordered Foeslayer’s execution so Arctic decided to go after Foeslayer and flee the kingdom together. But Snowfox and Snowflake were an evil lesbian couple who couldn’t let him leave quietly and just as him and Foeslayer were about to escape, they alerted the guards.Arctic desperately casted an spell ordering the weapons of the guards to stop them but the weapons started to mangle the guards and Arctic couldn't stop the spell on time
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>>151720966>>151721024Is that bright redfish/pink one Princess Sunset? She's quite pretty.Also, she's got the same disdain - and solution - for sushi as I do.
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Darkstalker & Whiteout, proof nothing good comes from breeding outside of your kind.
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>>151724162That bitch deserved itAlso I'm somewhat impressed by the amount of blood shown in this page
>>151724126>>151724162>"I'm surrounded by magic users who have virtually no limits to their power.">"Better make sure to give them every reason to want me dead."Not the brightest idea.
>>151724162Given how bullshit animus magic is, she was really lucky Albatross simply decided to cut her throat, she could have had (and deserved) a much, much worse ending.
>>151724162Albatros:>Remember lads, subscribe to pewdiepie
>>151724162Deserved.What is it with Seawing queens being absurdly self centered bitches, anyways?Then again, I guess most queens weren't that much better.
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>>151724372The worst thing is that Queen Coral retained her position as queen.I wouldn't be surprised if it is revealed in new books that her daughter Orca despite being crazy had a valid reason for wanting to dethrone her.
>>151724503Arc 1 is rather annoying in how family of our party members basically get a free pass for horrible actions. Grandeur, Thorn, Coral, they all seem to conveniently dodge critique. Hell, Thorn and Coral both murder a dragon before our eyes in cold blood, with only the softest of disapproval voiced by the main cast.Maybe it's a dragon thing...
>>151720035Is this one the Millenial Nighwing?
>>151725227It's part of how the dragon world works but with something else added to it being they were in middle of wars and not all tribes were in good conditions with not just each other but also themselves to begin with. So I'm guessing the most realistic thing the dragonets could expect too is that they weren't perfect either...
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>>151723491Realistically, the Queen would be fine with Indigo as a Mistress. But nobody's ready for royal throuples in children's fiction, even if Child Abuse and homicide (dracocide?) can slide by.
>>151725227Starflight's dad gets sent to spend 100 years in the quicksand cuck pit
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>>151724007>Oh that's just Dave.>He does that.
>>151725435Going to bed now, hold down the fort.
>>151725475Thanks for sharing anon, see you later.>picAw shit, he's going to start knifing everyone there, isn't he?
>>151725378>"Dragon of chaos, tangling the web. Too many eyes, too many threads"What a great way to describe Clearsight. Man, I just adore the way these things do 'prophecy' that, strangely, always seems separate from visions. Always left an odd mystery attached to it, too. Like, why are they so different? Is it actually an inherent ability of those with foresight? Is it attached to someone, with the 'voice' for it? Or is it just coincidence, chance, and nothing more?Personal pet theory that has no real backing, but I like to imagine they're pieces Whiteout left. Maybe she has some semblance of abilities, much as Darkstalker, that due to her oddness, never came quite to light, but she used to ensure warnings were made to dragons who need them, or could make use of it. Does certainly fit her odd way of speaking, after all.
>>151725644>Whiteout left.>Maybe she has some semblance of abilities, much as Darkstalker, that due to her oddness, never came quite to light,Actually, that's literally true. Whiteout DOES have the power of Prophecy, but literally everyone overlooks her predictions and dismisses them as her usual weirdness...which is a shame, because every single one of them comes true. Pay close attention throughout this story every time she speaks, and you'll start to notice things...
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>>151725990I'm meaning more in terms of animus abilities. But yes, that too.In general, her way of speaking is far more observant than most realize. I love it. Too bad baby Darkie was too selfish to share the moons with her. Might have changed more than a few things
>>151717625>>151717654>>151717688Darkstalker really takes after his dad a lot, doesn't he
Animus magic seems like the most overpowered magic ever. You just say something and it happens. Is there any limitation?
>>151722839>posting during a storytimeDouchebag
>>151728103>the most overpowered magic ever.Compared to cape stuff? Probably not, but is still pretty OP, in the setting nothing else comes close to it and there is no counter to it.>You just say something and it happens.You don't even need to explicitly announce the spell, Albatross did it many times with just a thought, so it is magical reality warping in all but name.>Is there any limitation?In this panel >>151717955 Albatross said that you can't revive a dead dragon but in later books is shown that you can easily loop hole this rule so is likely that it was just a myth.I'm a bit surprised there was no "House of M" like subplot at some point, that would have been kino.>>151728445>>151723844Sorry, I did it out of habit and later I couldn't erase the file anymore
>>151720736why is there a human couch and why is she laying there like a human
>>151725408Mastermind's fate is honestly a whole lot worse than just being put in a regular prison cell as he would in any other kingdom
>>151729170>why is there a human couch and why is she laying there like a humanThere's an explanation for why they have some human-inspired stuff, but that doesn't come until Book 15.>>151725408>>151729724Glory transfers Mastermind to a proper prison in Book 9 - the comic has already released, i think, so if OP already has the files, maybe they can storytime it after this one finishes?
>>151725475 New day new session.>>151725500You were right!
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>>151730900Short break. Be back soon.
>>151730929I lied.
>>151730964"now' I take a break. will probably be back in about 2 hours.
>>151731009Thanks for posting all these anon. Do you by chance have A Guide to the Dragon World? Thought I'd try my luck, I can't seem to find it anywhere.
>>151720736that first panel makes me feel funny
Darkstalker would have never turned evil if dragons had clothes so Arctic belted him as a child.
>>151731009>>151731147Here you go. Guide is on this page of my pirate site of choice. Last year's storytime had me talk about doing Guide in the storytimes however frankly Guide is a lot more attathed at the hips with the Novels, there is a lot of pages that are purely words on page so it'd be a bit awkward to run a /co/ storytime out of it.https://annas-archive.org/md5/7380e11dd79affa1cb1a202aa5bc7d24>>151731412You're going to feel funny a lot going forward then. These dragons are all going to be talking about making babies rather soon.
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>>151732569He's just doing this so she touches him.
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>>151732539>These dragons are all going to be talking about making babies rather soon.I mean, that's where every conversation with every woman ever eventually leads regardless of age, so...
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>>151730418Quite possible I'm completely off, but, I don't remember the Skywings dying in the book.I thought they got away to rat on the whole situation. Or at least one of them. Though it's been so very long since I've read them... Maybe I should again.
>>151733182One escaped. Princess Sunset definitely died, though - this is the event that led to the bad blood still present between the Skywings and Seawings by the time of The Dragonet Prophecy, and part of the reason why the former were all too happy to firebomb the Seawing Summer Palace the moment they learned of its location in Book 2.
>>151730813>>151730860Man, I love Whiteout's design here.Subtle, and yet obvious. The eyes especially are an interesting touch.
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>>151732539The formatting seems borked but thank you anyway. I caught up with your storytime threads in the archives but this is the first one I'm catching live. Thanks again for doing these.
>>151733691>>151733713It's not format failure its's just me manually trimming the blank spaces off every image in photoshop that has blank space i'll show an example of the most standar type of page layout unetited the next time it comes up to show you.I do this with every wof comic i've post here for these couple of years.
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>>151733822Oh sorry, I meant the pdf you linked. I'll try to keep the thread bumped if I'm around and things are quiet so you can finish this one without it falling off the board. Ty story anon.
>>151733995>>151734006You could also try Scribd and Zlibhttps://en.z-library.sk/book/29943331/8df5f4/wings-of-fire-a-guide-to-the-dragon-world.html
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>>151733176The thumbnail for this looks rather...sus. But given the next scene is them lying next to each other on a bed mat, I think it's safe to say we know what they were up to.
>>151719191Speaking in aquatic indicated with the colored bubbly effect. Cute.>>151720378Dragon apartments. Same kind of construction as they used on the volcano island in the main comic.It's not all the time and a pretty egigious oversight if he 'did' fuck it up but people do sometimes forget Darkie having ice scales along the side. >>151720736>>151720751>>151720783This is a bit wonkly. They're still underwater here so they should be speaking in aquatic. I thought there might have been a pocket of air inside the house. royalty gets the fancy dragon house with a soft couch and bottles of stuff to polish her claws and stuff after all but no i don't think that was the intention at all with how the whole place is filled with water in the outside shot. Just a big pile of wierdness going on there.>>151720872Stunning. Best page(s) of the whole book so far.>>151725378>>151732999Much more commendable is that Jake is 'really' on point for teardrops. Listener gets a silver teardrop but 'not' clearsight or any of the seer power dragons. The Teardrop scale is specifically tied to the mind reading. He clearly did the homework...or proably had tui reminding him along the way.
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>>151735998It's not the last time we'll be seeing that earring, methinks.
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>>151736448Taking a break. Will probably give the thread a couple more posts later tonight...ormaybe not. Tomorrow we'll keep chewing through it for sure and this is a nice page to cliffhang you all.
>>151736323Dude's already traumatized, spinning a bunch of plates to keep himself intact, and now his ex is threatening to perform a political assassination on his behalf. Poor Fathom, he looks like he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
>>151736604To be fair, she had a point.My man really just doesn't see the issue with enchanting someone to forget about things or otherwise hide a pain of a major event like that.Wouldn't surprise me if Arctic was right and not putting the eggs in some ice messed them up a little on hatching.
