Today is the 3rd year anniversary of my webcomic The Sword Interval. Above are some panels from the past year of work.
This is a modern-day (well, 1995) supernatural action-adventure comic with elements of horror. Over the last year of updates, our heroes have dealt with a child-snatching dryad, uncovered just a portion of a shadowy organization’s true goals, and taken part in a massive car-chase that’s killing me to draw.
The Sword Interval has been a really great job and I am so happy I have been given this chance to make a comic as my full-time career. Stressful as it can be keeping up with this update schedule, it’s ultimately been a really good experience. Thank you to Webtoon for having me, my wife Aurora for being supportive, my friend Ali for being a good soundboard and for providing a copious amount of guest comics, and my friend Natasha for doing the flat colors and putting up with my work schedule. And of course thanks to everyone that reads the comic and spreads the word about it. Word of mouth is the best way to grow an audience.
Hey y’all! My husband’s comic is pretty spiffy and if you aren’t reading it yet, you should be!!! It’s beautiful and he puts so much work into it, it’s unreal!! <3
Sword Interval is an amazing story, one of my favorite webcomics, and Ben is a super cool dude to match. It’s a story totally worth rereading after you get up to date, just to appreciate the subtle stuff…
… And also the monsters, gotta appreciate the monsters.
Congratulations on Year 3, Ben! Keep on being that cool comics guy!
i love this guy 60% of every video is him rolling around on the floor screaming while his camera guy goes “hey….. u ok?” then 5 minutes later he gets up and is like “ok folks, there u have it, the Satan DeathRay Fire Monster actually does cause pain when it bites u. science is great”
I like to think that at some point Ed got bored and decides to become a professor at some big name Amestrian college.
His specialty is a military funded class called Battle Alchemy, which he starts off by inviting any of his students to beat him in hand to hand for a conditionless passing grade (by the end of the first class, most students walk away sore and horrified).
It takes half the semester before they realize that Ed continues to beat them even when they use alchemy and he does not. They ask to see him use alchemy in battle. The next day, a man who looks almost the same as their professor shows up to class- he’s softspoken and polite, and the students expect a substitute lecture. Ed sits in the stands and laughs as Al proceeds to fight the entire class at once, and beat all of them. The students never ask again.
(And sometimes, in the middle of practicals, students swear they can see the Fuhrer watching from the edge of the field.)
I can also see him causing a hell of a problem when it comes to conventional textbooks-
“This is definitely wrong.”
“Sir, this is the most recently updated textbook for theoretical alchemy-”
“Yea fuck that, I can prove that soul alchemy isn’t unviable- someone hand me some chalk, I’m about to commit a mathematical felony.”
“I’m about to commit a mathematical felony” is probably the most in character Ed line ever, of all time
