And that officially marks the end of Chapter 4.
I’d like to thank you all for sticking with me through a chapter that marks a turning point in this story, but as a result was occasionally very difficult for me to write and execute. I’m really looking forward to moving on to a chapter that will make up the final bit of Volume 2 and which I’m pretty sure will break some hearts. Let’s keep going.
“Bears are only in a zoo or a circus.”
…………………………………….O u c h.
Admittedly I forgot about comments but I just wanted to let you know that I have been DYING to read this. I read the entirety of Volume 1 in two nights after seeing it rec’d as a “non-traditional family structure” (yeah… I’ll bet), immediately knew I had to keep going, and then just binged the entirety of Chapter 4 today… which marks Day 3 of reading your work. It’s just incredible; absolutely amazing.
And I just looked up this quote and that story was also amazing! Thank you so much for bringing your work out into the world; it’s unbelievably valuable. Definitely following this story, both online and in print. Best of luck with further writing + publishing!
Now, to go do my own writing and hopefully leave this as a reward for when I’m done with edits…
I like your comic a lot. I like how you change the colour styling according to the era. A bit disappointed because of no new page, but you were building towards a cliffhanger so this page serves that purpose. These pages are more difficult to experience in web comics because they feel like incomplete contents. In a printed comic, they would not be problematic at all. But then, maybe you needed the buffer for the next chapter! Again, great work.
Oh gosh, I’m excited to see what happens next, this was an amazing chapter!
But also: “which I’m pretty sure will break some hearts.” Oh no. I’m buckled into this roller-coaster but suddenly I’m not sure I want to be on it anymore!!! I just hope there is a lot of heart-healing afterwards, oh gosh.
I love your comic
After going back to the very first panel, I have to ask…
Is it set in Philadelphia?
I am really enjoying this, thanks!
I believe it is set in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
“Thank you for showing me,” the public said. “You can’t be a girl. Girls stay on the ground. They never soar through the air and that’s where you are, in the air. So how can you be a girl?”
Or is it:
“Thank you for showing me,” her friends said. “You can’t be a robot. Robots socialize with robots. They never hang out with teenage girls and that’s where you are, hanging out with teenage girls. So how can you be a robot?”
Because when you think about it… The bear secretly integrated into human society—and when he wanted people to see where he came from and what he was they couldn’t believe it.
I love The Bear That Wasn’t! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Always look forward to reading new updates. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this comic!
Oh no, Sulla! I hope she learns what the bear does in the story, and finds her nice warm cave (er, in this case meaning her way of accepting who she is; she shouldn’t hide in a cave!). (And as my heart breaks in the next segment; I’ll just keep reminding myself of how Ty picked up Sulla’s things.)
“The truth is he was not a silly man…and he was not a silly bear, either.”
Originally I thought this was going to a story that contrasts classic SF-worldbuilding with a low-key story of a family reforming and finding their identities.
I feel like the last few pages are going “hahahaha low-key, nope!”.
Looking forward to what you have planned.
Oooh what a roller coaster of a chapter this was :) looking forward to the next !