One Moment After the End

Comic Archive and Summaries.
A tour of greetings.
The halls of the IH
Where the bodies are made.
From here to history.
A walk in the past.
Meet the bird of Law.
Tour stopped to start story.
The main story starts at strip 7.
Meet the hosts:
Ellen
Erik
And the new resident: Jolan Hechelbaum
Its a busy busy world and if it's not one thing it's another
Second birth
It not all clouds and harps.
All your plans, gone. A new future with no idea what happens next. I'd cry to.
We learn that the Hosts can do a number of 'tricks' and that bureaucracy lives on in the afterlife.
We also meet the Host:
Lance
Bureaucracy, are we cursed forever?
Forgotten and lost, attics are forever.
With Wings Out Erik can do magic.
With friends like these...
Do not rush, you might forget something.
Ellen tells Jolan about the afterlife, telling her about the different types of havens and why there are nursery havens.
Strange comfort
So much time wasted, have to rush to explain.
Time can be so odd
A vocation from life
Suffer the little children. They have to.
Erik takes Jolan to her new home, stopping at the meeting room he had prepared earlier.
We meet the resident:
Gerek Hechelbaum
When you deal with all of time, you deal with all of fashion.
Any chance he might be flying in more than one sense?
Parted by decades and great evil
Not to plan, but Erik wanted some coffee anyways.
After her greeting with Jolan, Ellen feels she needs to talk to her boss. Allyson tells Ellen that she has been working too hard and is in danger of burnout.
We meet the Host:
Allyson Lenton
Meet the boss.
The boss is not happy.
Were there are people, there is hell, even in heaven.
So most of the time Hosts are no different than Residents
face it, its good to be friends with the boss
face it, its good to be friends with the boss (Cont..)
While Erik takes a break to allow the Hechelbaums some privacy, they have some time to talk and get into more trouble.
Meanwhile back in the garden of e...err I mean the old break room.
So how often in the afterglow of love, do you think about paperwork?
Good intentions
Inter Haven Mail, when you need it there NOW!
Eric is back to explain somethings
Some wounds can not be healed, even by death.
No, Erik in his previous life, he was not a real-estate agent.
Erik continues to lead the Hechelbaums to their final destination and run again into Lance. They learn a bit more about what has the Legal department in an uproar.
We meet the mascot: Goshhawk Griffin
Lance is back. Still holding that box.
Legal has some big pets.
Face it, Lance has a big mouth, but Erik should have stopped him.
Looks like Lance really put his wing in his mouth this time.
OK no one start singing about 'deserving breaks today'
Jolan, Gerek are led by Erik into their new home, the Maywater Haven, which is fixed at the simulated year of 1995. A time which seems to the Hechelbaums as very futuristic.
So I can't draw impressive large buildings. Just imagine it is as big as the super dome.
When traveling from one world to another, watch your step!
It's been said that the train station is the modern temple. I don't think this is what they meant.
Maywater, if you lived here, you would be home now.
At home and no chance of the mother law wisting? Sweet Haven!
Ellen meets up with her best friend, Nita, who works in a different department of the Inter Haven. They are going to go together to Allyson's timeshare which is 'world famous' but their greeting on arrival is less than friendly.
The John D. Dinner. A place to eat and talk.
Oh Yes Planning ahead. NOT Nita's strength.
On a dark street far from the Havens.
Customer service, it counts!
You do not want to know the membership dues.
Once they are confirmed as real guests of the spa, the get a taste of the extremely friendly staff.
It not that he talks fast, its he sucks up all the air so no one else can.
Did he really mean what he said?
A short intermission as Jolan and Gerek rush to pick up their children, who they have not seen in decades.
We meet:
Mike Scree who is neigher a Host nor a resident.
Meanwhile back in Maywater.
Catch that train!
Angels cry with a mother's tears
Back at the Spa, Ellen and Nita are trying to enjoy themselves but get interrupted by the unexpected arrival of an old boy fried. Someone that Ellen seems happy to see, but Nita is not so glad.
Guy watching at the pool
Old Boyfriend equals old trouble.
Old Boy friend, old Girl friend, isn't that how all soaps go?
Let's eat already!
Short break from the main story. Filler while I do something very important.
Soppy people like me, might enjoy the poem in strip 65
Big News. So Next few days are fillers.
Filler or is it father.
Filler need sleep
Filler, Say hello to R.M.E.
Filler, something from the heart
Guardian Ange...Hosts.
Ellen spends the day with Mike. Nita is angry, most of it is directed at Mike rather than Ellen.
Best friends always grill.
Can be depended on being undependable.
Since Erik is Ellen's assistent, he has to be assigned to work with someone else while she's away.
We meet: Jessie Drews who is neighter a Host nor a resident.
Monday Morning, No Ellen!
Erik gets a lesson.
Training, First Class.
Learning how to fight
Back in Legal they are still trying to fix their mistake. Lance seems to be stuck in paper work and is not happy about it.
Legal battles
Raceing though the halls of justice.
Saved? A good idea?
Ellen's vacation is over but now she has new responsibilities and Jessie is going to be training both Ellen and Erik for them. But even before Ellen can take her first lesson, they receive a call for help, from Jolan Hechelbaum!
Mail delivery!
Cry for help. Field trip!
Odd meetings
Mixing it up.
Jessie babysitting?
Borsch is cold soup made from beets.
Legal Uniforms.
Jolan and Gerek have to appear before the Judge to find out if they will be able to see their kids again, or will they sequestered for the duration of a long legal trial?
Just a normal school day.
Baby sitter and away from home.
A lie?
Said too much.
Ellen calls in Allyson to help and Jessie gets stuck with the kids for a few days.
The first real story arch ends here, with Jolan realizing she will have to strength to confront her killer and see that he gets justice.
Ellen and Erik will be inconvenienced for a while now, as they will have to live with the Hechelbaums as guardians.
Back in Maywater with the kids
Working it out.
Legal messes up, Greeters clean up.
Trial Date
Some lose ends of the Hechelbaums' story are tidied up and then we move on to the beginning of the next story arch. We get a peek into Gute Villa, a haven gone bad.
Learning how to play a Sega
Moving on.
How bad can a Haven fall? The people who live in the havens are still...people... and though they no longer have many physical needs, that doesn't remove their ability to create new history, new crimes and new passions.
Gute villa stars with the falling of the Brethren, from a peaceful if fanatical religious group, to the terror of thousands.
Praying on the Mountain.
A long way down.
An everyday church service.
Pray for Hell
Meeting of minds.
Holy Lady?
Muddy
Valley Flowers
The Brethren are just a small group in a mature haven of many thousands of people, their actions do not go completely un-noticed. But both Scuro and Brillhante are clever in their own ways and both anticipate and counter any efforts to oppose their new mission.
Terror starts
Strange things happening, goto the police.
Plans and Bibles.
A Horror Story
Makeing Memories.
One reson why Gute Villa was able to fall into such a state is because the Hosts are spread too thin and they have allowed the local reisdents to manage their own business with mininal monitoring. Only six Hosts remain as regulare workers inside Gute Villa, they are a dispirited crew, working against the odds in the small university as tachers.
We Meet the Hosts: Danzel
Essie
George
Martha
Patsy
Dianha We Meet the Resident: Gato
Teachers Office
They are not Students!
School battle
Escape? To the Griffin
Gato has found herself in the Inter Haven halls, not a place that any resident is suppose to be unescorted. She surprises Goshhawk and takes flight. Chance has it that Jolan and Gerek are near Legal's entrance awaiting their escort back to Maywater. They try to help Gato and chase her to the Inter Haven historical research department, where we find that Mike Scree, formally NOT a host, now has a new job as one.
Birds need room to fly.
Send a thief to catch a thief.
War room.
Digging though history
Soap Opera
Gato's plight shocks the Hosts who start to organize a formal field operation to see what's wrong with Gute Villa. Meanwhile with most of their opposition squashed, the Brethren are become more and more bold in their methods. The captured Hosts are tortured.
Personal Business takes a back seat.
Lets clear somethings up.
A "Romantic" walk.
Missing Person Rules.
No idea.
The efforts to raise a field team to find out what's going on in Gute Villa become bogged down. Some force is trying to stop them, they even get an order to stop the subject from an organization called A.L.R.A. which seems to scare Allyson. The decide to continue the project on their own time and in secret.
Introducing the A.L.R.A.
ReMakeing Plans.
Allyson's office
Jessie is the leader of the penetration team and takes Ellen and Erik a round about way into Gute Villa. To their surprise Mike Scree shows up with new swords. Ellen is happy, both both Jessie and Erik are suspicious.
Odd Meetings
Extra...Help?
Wrecked?
Backup saved, but project still crashed?
Police State?
Jessie and Mike are captured! Erik and Ellen now are on their own.
Lost Sheep
Two Fronts
While Jessie, Ellen, Erik and now Mike, are in Gute Villa, Nita, Allyson and Lance head to a place called V.N.Y.C. to confront Mrs Stonecut, a head of A.L.R.A. and find out why she is trying to keep them from helping the people of Gute Villa.
Saying More than You mean.
Planning in the dark.
So it was them.
Getting serious.
Escape or out of the frying pan and...
Fighting in the afterlife!
The hosts battle to escape the Brethren's slaves.
Battle in haven.
Unexpected light.
Dropped Arrow
They got Mike away but now Jessie is in trouble. Ellen tries to call for help, this is too serious to worry about loosing a job. But the communications have been cut. They are truly on their own.
Your Service has been disconnected.
Brillhante and Scrio have a direct link to Heaven? Someone is helping them!
Meanwhile Brilhante and Scuro are busy.
Choir Songs
Lance and Nita have run out of patience and are not going to wait any longer for a message from the others. They break into Stonecuts office to get a look at her books.
Break In
Fine Art.
Friendly Greeting.
Assembly line
Took too Long
Strange Mercy
Hide and seek.
Street fight.
Traped Slave
A change of mind.
Flying away or towards danger?
When hidding in a world of slaves, you have to chose, hide as a master or hide as a ...
Makeshift Disguise.
Dressing down.
Meeting at the gate.
Descent into darkness.
For the first time the Hosts realize the stakes.
Hell Scape.
Digging for hope.
Back to the Wild.
Early morning work.
Brillhante brings 'gifts' from the holy 'Angel' far from Holy gifts.
The evil of the Brethren has also peeked as show they are capable of hurting Jessie even without burring her in mud.
A very serious hurt.
Packages in the mail.
Debriefing
Planning pain.
Asking for help
The Mummy is alive!
Erik,Ellen and Mike try to rescue Jessie, but chance has it that end up freeing Lucia the former slave in Stonecut's harem.
Freeded Slave
Regrouping
Serious.
Danger with Toys.
Recruted for trouble.
Not looking forward very far.
With Lucia's help then enter the main Brethren compound and soon get into hot water.
Not the normal distract the guard method.
Ellen the spy
Mike won, or did he?
Mike faces an old friend.
Ellen Returns
Scout Report
Ellen teaches a self help class.
Mike's possessed.
Keeping her eye on the prize
Groups join up, and Ellen takes out half the guards with one suggestion.
They will be waiting a long time.
Prison Talk
Prison Visitors.
Jail Break
Two meetings.
Not so soft spoken now.
If you think about it, fighting in the after life is more like playing a full body video game than real fighting.
Beep! Bop! Beep!
Shooting ducks.
Things become more serious when you only have swords and the bad guys have guns.
Catch a falling angel.
Battle wounded
Trapped forever!? (Also start of serious effort to bring color to the strips)
Ever and ever...and ever.
Gathering on the Hill
Who goes, who stays?
Flying south and north.
After all the fighting and running for their own lives, the Hosts are reminded about their original reason to go to Gute Villa.
Did they forget someones?
Going for help.
Stonecut shows herself and joins the team.
Stonecut shows herself.
Evil flight
Nita Ellen and Erik are going to try to get Jessies' lost d-pad and stop to re-gather their city clothing. Too bad they only have two sets to split between three of them.
Stopping for supplies.
Farm hands missing.
Meet the general.
Revolution
They meet (for the 2nd time but they didn't stop for introductions before) Liberdade, the leader of the resitane movement.
They Meet the resident:
Livre Liberdade
Liberdade's war.
The General Joins in.
Nita's new dress.
While Ellen, Erik and Nita are on one take, the calm, sensible, stick in the mud Lance is doing... WHAT!?
Mice at play.
Oh? Where did they go?
Word gets back to the Brethren.
Escape plans.
Mike had told the others about his walk in the fields of horror with Ellen and Erik, but Jessie has more than one reason to check out Mike's stories.
Check out Mike's story
Foundling.
Followed me home.
Hard choices.
Liberdade had led the three Hosts to the city, and is helping them, but there are more than just Bounders and slaves looking for them now.
Looked for by friends and foes.
Pick up swords.
Going visiting.
Trade goods.
What are they fighting about?
Liberdade has been so helpful up to now, so what is he playing at?
Betrayed?
But Liberdade is not the only problem, not even the worse one. Nita forgets to look up.
Forgot to look up.
Clue the Benny Hill music.
Erik makes a tough choice.
Choice and reward.
Ellen breaks the team.
Flight then fight.
Package delivery.
Ellen tries to catch up, but Stonecut can afford upgraded wings. Ellen falls behind. But Scuro is also now getting into the picture and that can't be good news on any front.
Falling Behind
Bird from the sky.
Ellen tells her story as she recovers but they have very little time, even as they are talking Nita is paying a price.
Not good news on all fronts.
Scuro Attacks.
A dismal battle.
Not so damaged.
Scuro gets a mouth-full and the rest prepare to leave, but they aren't sure where to go now.
Falling from grace.
Side track over, but in time?
Flying off, but to where?
Some 'Luck' at last.
Nita is braindead?! Lance takes the news the worst.
Digging up the dead.
Seeking and finding.
Star Trek 2. 3d thinks.
Lance tries to confront Stonecut, but she still has the gun. But our groups split up, which means there can be surprises coming from multiple directions.
Crash landing.
Back at the pits
Nita was just stunned! Now awake she outlines their options, they have to find Stonecut's gateway.
Techno Babel but important
Depends on point of view.
Quick after her!
Never trust a hacker. Stonecut gives Erik and lance a strong message and a new set of clothes. Whether they want to wear them or not.
Falling for you.
Searching in the wrong spot.
Nita realizes that Stonecut's gate must be inside one of the shared parks. But Brillhante has already sent the Slaves to guard that entrance, slaves armed with the stolon Host swords. And our group of Hosts have no swords left. Empty handed they have to confront the only weapons that really work in havens.
Forces gathering.
Fight to the Entrance.
Bird Flies though.
Stonecut flys right through the crowd of fighting slaves and Hosts and destroys the park entrance behind her. Everything is lost...execpt where is Nita?
Ducking the fireball.
Falling feathers.
Hard head.
Nita tried to fight Stonecut, but she's a thinker not a fighter, Stonecut easily trounces Nita and now its a race of time. Seconds until Stonecut steps through her gate and closes it behind her, while Nita reaches for her d-pad which is just nearly out of her reach.
Reach of it!
Hacking for dear life. or death.
Where your scattered bodies go...
This longest (so far) story arc is at its end. The haven of Gute Villa has fallen to ruin, but has it taken the Hosts and their friends with it?
Core dump. What does it mean?
Night Operator.
A reversal of rolls.
Who's hiding?
Counting up
A long time to think about it.
Nice digs.
Needed break.
One left behind.
Get him!
Clue Benny Hill Music
Oh this is serious.
Hidden meanings
Allyson Returns
Shades of fear.
Life unfair but at least 'got chicken'
Morning coffee
Ellen's ruff day.
Daily Pickup of the Heckelbaums
Meeting Nita at the dinner again
On Vacation
Meet the competition
Meet more players.
Wisia type A personality.
Nita is for it.
Challange Issued
Erik in the middle. Lucky guy?
Meeting in hall
Nita and Ellen, bed hopscotch?
Mike and Jessie still on walkabout?
Slip in, or just a slip?
Surprise from the sky
Ellen, your on a rescue mission! Forget the car!
High flying chase.
Nice shot.
Falling Package.
In Search Of Jessie.
Dodge and roll
Leaving your problems in the woods.
You worked for who?
Vacation.
You can tell Mike lives alone.
Back at John's Dinner.
Jessie has plans
Jessie chews E&E out
More briefing.
Erik and the deep blue sea.
First practice.
Game Starts
Back in play
Ellen's Spike
Ellen scores!
Where had Erik aimed?
Yaking with Nita.
Nita leaves them with wake up pills
Wasted time.
Ellen makes a move.
Teasing or not.
Class games.
Clothing class
Welcom to Winehills
History lesson.
All alone and trouble.
All alone and trouble.
No help from authority.
No help from authority.
A door shuts
Meet the father.
Eva and Adonia, twins across the generations.
Complex past.
Eva Tells how she met Petros.
Grandma's no slouch.
Aged wine?
Petros
Complications.
Vist father
Guarding the tent.
Shadow Play.
Guess they just gave in.
My big fat Greek Wedding.
Sudden departure.
Switch
Pitstop.

Comic Archive and Summaries.