Im going to be at Further Confusion in San Jose this weekend! the Finn family "curse", although by the start of the comic this has been largely forgotten. Focuses on the turning of Anthony Gillis, as well as the interactions between several of the inhabitants of the Liverpool Avalon. The serpentine, wingless, maned, whiskered and antlered Asian dragons are still around, and are by and large distinct creatures from the Western kind besides being big, intelligent magical reptiles (or part reptiles, in the Asian kind's case) they don't really have much in common with one another. After setting up the main plot line in Missouri, the comic spent nearly three years on the. www.skindeepcomic.com. O: Please advise and keep rockin'! Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series. These are three stories from his. This can't come near to touching the brilliance of Black Hole, however it was an entertaining read. Aww, not in their mouth? Ike Sanford is a solid subversion: His mum may drive him to distraction but he clearly loves his little (half) brothers. Anthony Gillis (Exchanges) - A "human" who seems to be having some trouble maintaining his humanity. So how come she isn't blue? Dripping with style, Skin Deep is as revolting as it is charming. This maxim was first stated by Sir Thomas Overbury in his poem "A Wife" (1613): "All the carnall beauty of my wife is but skin-deep." See also: beauty, deep, skin. Welcome to the Skin Deep dA Group, everybody! External attractiveness has no relation to goodness or essential quality. Skin Deep is a fantasy comic book and webcomic series written and drawn by Missourian Kory Bingaman.. After many many years of noodling about, waiting until the right moment and discovering that the right moment would never come, the first page of Skin Deep was posted on the internet late in 2006 and has been updating semi-steadily ever since. Literature. skindeepcomic. You know I had to do it to ya, its time for another page of SKIN DEEP. Homecoming returns to Michelle as she returns home with Greg to try and explain to her mother what's happened. November 11, 2006 KoryBing 18 Comments. The art's still fantastic, but the themes are getting me all conflicted. Skin Deep was thought up in the early 2000s by a teenager with too much time on her hands and access to the internet. Paulie Finn appears to be aiming for aloofness (at least as far as Jim and family tradition are concerned) but neither Jim nor Colin lets him get away with it for long. In-universe, the term "monster" is used generally for creatures who have no medallions to assume human form (like harpies), more specifically for non-sapient creatures like the nightmare and the Momo, and very specifically for those who prey on other sapients like most manticores. The Bloodcarver (Orientations) - A mysterious member of the also supposedly-extinct race of dragons. Im sick as a dog, so as a kindness to my poor sick ass, how about you read my comic?? Western dragons are large, powerful mythical creatures who waged a disastrous war with the sphinxes centuries in the past that wiped both species off the face of the Earth or so most people think, as it seems both are survived by at least one individual. Still very interested on seeing what happens next, good to see you doing another comic. but his illustrations are wicked enough to make the book worthwhile. Books by Plesiostore - Online Store Powered by Storenvy. Na dal Burnsv seit se tm jak malej Jarda. Podargian harpies are the smallest kind, and are the least humanoid they're essentially birds with human heads. Las historias que recoge son Dog Days, Burn Again y A Marriage Made in Hell; y como nos tiene acostumbrado el autor, todas ellas transcurren bajo una crtica social con ambiente extrao, unos personajes atpicos y unas historias originales. Marshall (Orientations) - A totem raven who is Eustace's best friend. I want to pet those ears. Because of ECCC there will be no update next Tuesday, sorry!! on November 16, 2021. My favourite material of his was the Black Hole series but this ranks in amongst his best work. Group Galleries Featured - Skin Deep panels and pages! It is like three episodes of the twilight zone rolled into one graphic novel. Then the stargate opens and out comes SG1? Happy Tuesday! Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Webcomic Spotlight: Skin Deep And The Hidden World Of Kory Bing's Beloved Monsters", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skin_Deep_(webcomic)&oldid=1079133139. he's gunna explode like a microwaved burrito. This is a big deal for me. They're often treated as innately brutish and dangerous by other mythicals manticores get an especially bad rap in this regard and it's rare for them to be fully accepted within fantastical society without at least some nasty rumors spreading about them. Hello I was wondering why do male Nokk go insane at 50 years of age when females Nixie's do not. If youre in the area you should say hello and maybe buy some stuff!! Not only do we learn that the Sphinxes invented (and made) the medallions, we also find out. They are beautiful and unsettling. This was a great read. :D, Well, she won't be an oracle if she's late to her own ceremony. You'll often wonder how far Charles Burns will go in twisting his already demented stories further. Disturbing, dark, humorous. which was actually the shade of her dead father. A fan group for the comic Skin Deep by Kory Bing. (New readers, start here) Mythological creatures are real, and disguise themselves as human using magical medallions. He also leaped to defend his friends against a monster, a demon, and a dragon without hesitation and he bought Michelle some of Eustace's (implied to be expensive) magic earrings to help keep her safe. Join the club this month and stay subscribed through May to get this little mouthy friend. The other, seen in a flashback, has a whitish coloration, only four limbs two forelegs and two wings a sprawling, lizardlike stance and an elongated, serpentine body, all to an effect reminiscent of medieval depictions of dragons. Ive got NEW THINGS up in my Topatoco store! I'm getting all gushy. Lots of great stuff! Sketchbooks - Two books full of sketches and development of Skin Deep, as drawn by Kory Bingaman, are available for sale in printed form. Not to be confused with the hilarious Blake Edwards comedy movie of the same name starring John Ritter. View the comic strip for Endtown by cartoonist Aaron Neathery created January 05, 2022 available on GoComics.com. Well good news, because its the next pin in the SKIN DEEP PATREON PIN CLUB. The Jubjub Birds of Wonderland are also thought to descend from Wonderlander feathered gryphons. Twitter. Michelle Jocasta (Orientations)- A grecian sphinx who is the focus of Orientations. Submit your writing They werent bad or anything, but they also werent particularly good. . The total number of image files in this archive is 682. Its a hinged pin! My favorite story is Burn Again! All the cliche words apply: weird, funny, beautiful, strange, etc. First Skin Deep page of the new year! Navc opt ta skvl kresba. Music video by The Stranglers performing Skin Deep. Fanart, news posts, updates, and other things related to the. I sat down and read it cover to cover in about 30 minutes, so it's a low-commitment way to discover his pretty uniquely wretched/sublime universe. The arc. Or does that happen at some point in the comic? Ill have TSHIRTS!! They aren't however so distinct that a sphinx of one type can't be born to one of the other, and they generally think of themselves as two sides of a single species. The author repeatedly noted that Michelle is a winged. Borogove, the Wonderland Card Game, Skin Deep graphic novels, charms, stickers, and more! She (I assume it's a "she" based on the name) looks like she's a jackal due to her ears--or at least another canine species--but there is no room for a muzzle behind that mask judging by how close it is to where her ears begin. They physically resemble lions with human faces (although in full form their faces are still very pronounced and muzzle-like), and come in two distinct types: Grecian sphinxes, who have wings, and Egyptian ones, who don't. If I understand correctly, these are some of his older stories from underground magazines, but redone. the stories didn't grab my attention the way his other work does. Ill have TSHIRTS!! This page was a lot of work, so LOOK AT IT. Still, Ill be reading more Burns stuff. Please. ", I have a feeling that the dude is gone and in his body is this bastet person, Of course it's Heart.. Captain planet fucking said so. Los Angeles, CA Prepare to feel. Now it starts to look like a Djinn-making ritual. Grecian sphinxes also tend to be female and Egyptian sphinxes male, although relatively small numbers of male Grecians and female Egyptians also existed. At 13, Scarlett was a gifted and beautiful dancer, popular at school with girls and boys alike. One of my favorite collections from Burns. Things you didn't even know you wanted. Its a webring for long-form, narrative-driven webcomics! Alce, or keythongs, resemble classical gryphons in most respects but do not have any wings; instead, they have pointed horns sprouting from their heads and shoulders. Man she is the mother of all bitches isn't she? The plot often works to establish a theme of different versions of normalcy, promoting acceptance and diversity. Just because angels have to do the right thing doesn't mean Gabe has to be pleasant about it or set a good example otherwise. Merial McMinnus (Orientations)- A nixie who is Michelle's roommate and friend. on the Internet. Finn family members who inherit the Finn curse match whichever element they're attuned to Phineas had a red mane to go with his fire powers, Jim's green hair matches his plant-based magic and Colin' blue hair symbolizes his water magic. Thanks for all your patience! Table 8! Like. There's a "fan character" section you can submit to! this one is not for all, or even most tastes. These hostilities, driven by the fact that both dragons and sphinxes saw each other as evil and cruel, soon escalated into a war that killed off the vast majority of both species. . Subverted in "Illumination." Madame U (Exchanges) - A gorgon who runs the local shop full of magical items. Okepetian harpies resemble the aellean kind in most respects, but possess distinct arms and wings for a total of six limbs. Stories from the twisted imagination of Charles Burns are always a pleasure to read and look at. guarding the mystical power source of the medallions. Please enjoy something we've never seen before: Vera doing something. This website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. No worries though, I put them in the right place. Three very odd Charles Burns stories in an oversized volume. Horrific characters populate these stories, even the random background characters are disfigured or cruel. Kinda! The plot often works to establish a theme of different versions of normalcy, promoting acceptance and diversity. Blanche just replies "Magic. absolutely original. Messing around with transformation spells is a, the sphinxes' and dragons' mutual genocide, He turns out to be unkillable because he's, the last sphinx, and since the sphinxes apparently shared a mysterious "source of power", it also means that Michelle has inherited, because only the sphinxes knew how to make them, and they went extinct, the female sphinx Jocasta's name had survived. Developed within the @USCCinema MFA program. This was pretty amazing. I need to overhaul this group and update everything anyways! There are no reviews yet. Comics - The first arc, Orientations, as well as a short story, The One-Eyed. This volume is certainly not concerned with the childlike view of the world, as the all-too-familiar lures of the adult world takeover here. EWG's Skin Deep database gives you practical solutions to protect yourself and your family from everyday exposures to chemicals in personal care products. Several variants of European dragons existed, including. He still likes the opposable thumbs. A world of impenetrable retro freaks, slick-haired evangelicals and sales jerks, projected from the 1950s through the Reagan nightmare with a heavy dose of EC horror comix. Definitely worth checking out. Jim's little brother Colin provides amusing reinforcement to Jim's point: he can hardly wait to get his medallion and assume human form but the interval between being thrilled that he can finally wear clothes and dismay that he's now required to can be measured in minutes. Do you like this hellmouth? Skin Deep is back! There are several of them in my gallery X3 Look through the gallery, dude. Borogove, the Wonderland Card Game, Skin Deep graphic novels, charms, stickers, and more! Okay, tech-lines. The story of Skin Deep chronicles around a world where most, if not all, mythical creatures, objects and terminology (e.g magic) exist, but are hidden away from the world of humans. Vadoma Winifred Euryale, also known as Madame U (, This page was last edited on 25 March 2022, at 05:31. Yet Michelle is a sphinx, and dragons aren't quite extinct yet either. He illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The answer is obviously neither. Celean harpies are the most monstrous kind, possessing taloned hands and four wings a birdlike pair and a batlike pair. korybing. Because of ECCC there will be no update next Tuesday, sorry!! Romance gone awry with a wonderful touch, an epic televangelical empire builder tale, and a dopey little circus freak story with a version of Doctor Benway showing up. These stories don't really attempt to be as profound as Black Hole, but I didn't mind. "Pigmy" gryphons are any extremely rare variant that may combine any type of bird and mammal. Also, because of FC this weekend and the last couple days spent sick (I am not sick anymore), there will be NO update next week, sorry! The story follows the lives of various mythical creatures, such as a gryphon, a nixie, a satyr, and a sphinx, as they disguise themselves (using magical medallions) into the world of humans.The story's narrative, which began its twelfth arc in January 2015, presents the point of view of Michelle, a college-aged . He can spin a crazy yarn and illustrate it like no one on earth can. Thanks for waiting, ECCC was a lot of fun but it was exhausting! I'd NEVER want to live in a world that Burns created, but man do I wish there was a lot more work like this! Opt lehce bizarn pbhy jak z mazac hlavy Davida Lynche, kter se mi "pod ki" skuten dostali a o "povrchnosti" m smysl se bavit jen v smantick rovin v poznmce pod arou. New Skin Deep page! Please enjoy something weve never seen before: Vera doing something. Hrm. Like Scappo's stuff? I found Dog Boy a little silly. Does she even realize her mother is a bitch? If anyone is still active in this group, and has not already checked out the newest Skin Deep Kickstarter, please do so, it's cool. Come get your Skin Deep! I'd rather just take his body instead, this Bast, doesn't like to waste *wink*, Don't do drugs kids, because then you end up in situations like this! If you you like my comics, please consider --BECOMING ONE . This is a fan group for the webcomic Skin Deep! It's not that the demonic Grimm Brothers don't want to be evil, they just don't tend to be very good at it. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! I've been looking forward to seeing Tsenaya's story :D. So does the ceremony involve dying your fur black or something? Illumination - Takes place during June 2005, at the Finns residence and focuses on the exploration of the secret of the sphinxes past and how Michelle Jocasta is involved. Love that late 80s/early 90s grotesque style. Merial's medallion provides human disguise only because her actual transformations are all accomplished using her natural shapeshifting. Alec (Exchanges) - A bugbear who seems to be friends with Blanche. Follow. Undeterred, he decides to go through with it. See y'all then! (I couldn't find an exact count) Draconia Relatively long, 346 pages. Published weekly since 2006, Skin Deep is a 500+ page comic about mythical creatures living hidden from the rest of humanity and finding their place in a society that doesn't know they exist. Interactive comic dealing with hope, childhood, body image, food and cats. There is something so fun about an artist taking our own world, and twisting it to suit their fiction. Charles Burns is a giant of the medium. Zech and Elise (Exchanges) - A centaur and pegasus, respectively. Not the first time, and certainly not the last! New Skin Deep comic page! Search the history of over 804 billion Another great book from Burns. well, she certainly has her mother's eyes. u_u. Ike's manticore father disappeared before he was born, which is why his mother Lynn is especially racist toward felines. Speaking of big deals, I have a big update about my TopatoCo store! Much like Greg, Myra's left eye is a permanent. With direct allusions to Burroughs' NAKED LUNCH and the Manson Family as well as satirical indictment of American televangelism, domesticity, and soap operas, there's something a bit John Waters-esque about these three loosely interlocking (and sometimes meta) narratives. Nixies can assume a humanoid form using their natural shapeshifting though they still need medallions to appear human. Music. When Michelle misidentifies Marshall the spirit raven as a crow he replies that "crows are filthy animals". Luckily, time in the webcomic doesnt pass like it does in the real world, or else Michelle would have been in Hell for uhhhhhh four years. etc. They come in four distinct subspecies, representing different depictions of harpies in mythology and heraldry: Aellean harpies resemble human women with bird legs, tails and wings; they only possess four limbs, and their wings double as their arms they still possess taloned, scaly hands, but these are part of their wings and possess limited dexterity; their feet are actually more dextrous and useful than their hands. The URL for this comic is (www.skindeepcomic.com). A mirror of the webcomic Skin Deep. Orientations - Takes place in Missouri, in September 2004. Primary Sidebar Updates Every Tuesday! There's no good place for fanart at the moment. AChillVamp Either the anubian gal i really tall or Tsenaya is short. New Skin Deep page today! Skin Deep is back! Bing has run three Kickstarter campaigns to collect the comic in print, one for each volume.[1]. If he does, that's why Artemis (the purple one) is in the room ;)! Id also like to announce that Skin Deep is now a part of the KNIFE BEETLE WEBRING! Greg Tragos (Orientations)- A satyr, Merial's friend from before college. So, I was trying to submit a picture as a fan character, but only 'fan art' and 'memes' are showing up in my drop-down menu for submissions to Skin Deep. I like strange, so this is great for me. Check it out. This manifests most often in discrimination against "monsters", these being mythical creatures such as harpies or manticores who do not possess medallions or natural shapeshifting and cannot thus adopt human form. The next Skin Deep page will be the first Tuesday of 2023! If he's gonna turn into a woman, I'm out of here. - Online Store Powered by Storenvy No one appreciates the common worker. : ) Also: yay! I'm sorry. start cackling about how much her friendliness had creeped Lynn out, kids of the opposite gender will be the other species, promptly conjuring bees from her cup of mead, her own past tryst with a manticore notwithstanding, she never felt like she fit in back in Japan, When Michelle express reluctance to tell her mother her secret as a mythical creature, "Check it out. If you've never read a Charles burns comic start out with this one. Its a hinged pin! *twins argg*. Inverted gryphons, as their name suggests, have their bird and lion bits in the inverse of the usual order, with leonine heads and forepaws and avian wings, hind legs and tails. Also, because of FC this weekend and the last couple days spent sick (I am not sick anymore), there will be NO update next week, sorry! They often live in or near "Avalons", hidden places for them to act as themselves. Pedevm oblieje zvld Burns bravurn a nikoliv nadarmo je jich na pedsdce cel galerie. Skin Deep is a cycle of three essentially unrelated comics, though they are connected via a device whereby the initial pages of each comic feature an aspect from the one that precedes it (the collection's first comic also being connected to Burns's Big Baby comics in this way). It's a beautiful, well-written, fun comic that both breaks and heals my heart. Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a series of three volumes collecting his acclaimed oeuvre up to Black Hole. http://growlybeast.com/webcomics/longform/skin-deep-kory-bing/, http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2010/02/podcast-episode/rppr-episode-41-the-smoking-d20/, http://webcomicbeacon.com/2009/11/17/episode-98/, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkinDeep, http://korybing.bigcartel.com/product/set-of-three-medallions, https://en.wikifur.com/w/index.php?title=Skin_Deep&oldid=379113. Lots of great stuff! Iv seen enough hentai to know where this is goign, Ohhh so THAT'S the answer of "do you know who she is" from the previous comic, she's this chick's daughter. The Grimm Brothers (Orientations) - Three demons sent from Dis to retrieve the lost shade of Michelle's father, who end up targeting the newly-turned sphinx. Is he gonna turn into some godly creature or something? Check it out! However, after surviving a fire as a result of a dreadful car accident she is . Must be Bastet looking through into him. D: Then again, they might swallow it.. and Bastet don't want their pot bellies D: Hmm, i saw this device before, but forgive where. Skin Deep is a fantasy comic book and webcomic series written and drawn by Missourian Kory Bingaman. Both groups tend to resemble specific species or breeds of caprines and equines; donkey and zebra-based horse satyrs are known to exist, although they're rare. Every sick, twisted and well-executed thing you could ever want in a graphic novel. Like Scappo's stuff? Heheh I've been making comics for a long time! Skin deep was a deeply meaningful book, however it crosses themes that may be confronting for readers. Contrast Merial, who seems quite comfortable nude in her full Nixie form, with Michelle, who insists on wearing a shirt even though she just has to cope with her butt being on full display. His illustrations, ability to tell a story, and morbid sense of humor/irony combine to create the ultimate book. Oh good idea haha. Tumblr Skin Deep is back! It's nowhere near as polished and profound as Black Hole, but this will do just fine as an introduction to Charles Burns. 2022-12-13 19:07:05 3 attachments Bad Medicine - Week 8 (71-80) 2022-12-10 23:09:27 3 attachments Skin Deep 2 - Week 24 (231-240) 2022-12-10 20:50:04 3 attachments Bad Medicine - Week 7 (61-70) 2022-12-03 17:29:33 3 attachments . Anthony is something of an odd case he transformed into an aellean harpy after being exposed to the magic of an Avalon, despite harpies being. Skin Deep: Page 1. posted 7 years ago Degenerate pixel-slinger | Support me with Shinies! Hey hey I doodled my friends and me as skin deep characters for fun but I'm not sure how to submit it to the group! There is some absolutely ancient and semi-embarrassing artwork here, but if you're interested in seeing the development of the . Sooo Kaila is just a femboy with a boob job? These include purushamrigas, also called Indian sphinxes, which are thought to be related to true sphinxes; shedus, who have lion bodies, wings and human heads but are unrelated creatures; hawk-headed hieracosphinxes, which are essentially just a type of, On two occasions, Michelle is also shown in completely human form save for her. Blanche Noir (Exchanges) - A white stag who introduces his best friend, Anthony, to his hidden life in the Avalon. Skin Deep Development - For old sketches, doodles, and illustrations I made while creating Skin Deep! Jon Lyon likewise appears to be trying to play it the straightest but his anger management issues won't let him get away with it either. It was like three comic books bound together, with the first and last being shorter than the middle section. Jim implies that there is an explanation for how the medallions work, but it's been lost to history, and is over the heads of most of the people who use them in modern times. Nothing is really known about his father (except that he. or as a means of expression as exemplified by the music scene in the Liverpool Avalon. She was named after a Harry Chapin song but her parents made up the spelling because they liked the letter K more than the letter C. X3. There are three stories and all of them are pretty strange. Jim Finn - A maned gryphon who appears in both arcs. The Joining ceremony continues with a slightly overconfident Joshua getting one more chance to back down before the Waystone comes out. Share your thoughts, experiences, and stories behind the art. Hieracosphinxes wingless, hawk-headed lions are considered by other sphinxes to be just a gryphon variant with pretensions. Despite this, most mythicals do wear clothes in human and mid-form, either due to practicality (pockets!) This chick is totally not wearing any pants. They can alternate between being fully human, many-headed snakes or lamia-like creatures with additional snake heads sprouting from their shoulders. :D. Oh, interesting! Ill be at ECCC this weekend! You answer a bunch of questions to find out what you are and then you customize the look and tada. Worse, his own mother Lynn is a snobbish bigot with no filter, and is very open about her disdain for non-bugganes and her disapproval of Ike being romantically involved with a "feline" . Skin Deep is a fantasy webcomic series written and drawn by Missourian Kory Bing.. Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog, which was turned into a live action segment on MTV's Liquid Television . is pretty long-running. Opinici, or maned gryphons as they're usually known, have lion forepaws, lion ears and in the case of males leonine manes; they are also the only type of griffon to give live birth instead of laying eggs. Myra sates her bugbear's inherent need to mess with people by working in a Halloween corn maze. Skin Deep is a collection of three stories told in the macabre style of the 1950s horror cartoons that so outraged the red-blooded Americans. His books never disappoint and this one is no exception. 2.1M subscribers in the comics community. Well good news, because its the next pin in the SKIN DEEP PATREON PIN CLUB. Accidentally got the Spanish edition from the library -- pretty great, though I'm sure the translation and my slackass understanding of the King's Castellano detracted from the writing a tad. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Alec's bugbear abilities and inclinations make him an ideal volunteer doorman (guard, actually) for the Liverpool Avalon. The story, as of February 2018, mostly takes place in the year 2004, though one story takes place in the year 2000 and two of latest stories take place in 2005. Phineas' blue-haired daughter, presumably, also controlled water. (New readers, start here) Mythological creatures are real, and disguise themselves as human using magical medallions. How weird is THAT?Lexi seems nervous after hearing this. Dem ears, so pointy she could stab things with them. Thanks for waiting, ECCC was a lot of fun but it was exhausting! When Tony's asked about his family, all he can say about his father is that he was a sailor who left a long time ago. a little more sprawling, if no less twisted, than his other work. Nagas come from India, come in the full sexual spectrum and are both highly magical and innate shapeshifters. Please enjoy something weve never seen before: Vera doing something. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters. March 26, 2022. They just look like freaky aliens and it's cool, but unsettling. Fauns resemble deer instead; they possess full-body, mottled fur, deer tails and antlers. This time using his name to burn a story skin deep into our skulls. Skin Deep Skin Deep Orientations. --CLICK HERE to grab this content in HD--. Thanks for putting the pictures where they belong. Kind of hoping this stays more story and less porn for a while longer. Luckily, time in the webcomic doesn't pass like it does in the real world, or else Michelle would have been in Hell for uhhhhhh four years. "Burn Again" felt a little long for me, but then, it was a big story, so I'm not sure what I would have changed. Happy Tuesday! There's a link to both the Webcomics Nation and Girlamatic Skin Deep sites, but the Girlamatic site doesn't look like it's working very well, and there's no link to Skin Deep's current home (Whatever site host that may be)! Its narrative, so far in one completed arc and one in-progress arc, presents the point of view of Michelle, a college-aged Sphinx who has only recently learned that she is not a human, and the various points of view of the citizens of Liverpool's Avalon, an entire magically-hidden city. Mikhail in particular is so hapless he almost crosses over into. Do you like this hellmouth? Man I still have no idea why it does that! 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