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malverav

Joined Mar 2019

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Love and War is updating now!

Making comics with swords and shojo melodrama.

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malverav
malverav creator Jan 02, 2022
hi everyone! big news - love and war is coming BACK this thursday 6th!!!!!!!

so as a real update, love and war is 100% finished - i'll tune up pages i finished in july last year before i upload them but otherwise, done. i wanted to avoid missed updates/more hiatuses, so i waited until it was complete before releasing more. i'm sorry for making you wait in relative silence - again - but with my breaks getting longer and longer between pages, it became clear that i couldn't keep up with my weekly update schedule. i thought it was best to just finish the whole thing first then have a stress-free ride to the finish - and we're there now, so i really hope you all enjoy this comic as much as i enjoyed drawing it!

i've read EVERY SINGLE ONE of your comments over the last year and it's just blown me away - even if i haven't responded, i see you. thank you everyone who's commented or lurked and liked. it's kept my focus working on the last 50 pages of the comic. i know there's people out there who are still reading and enjoying it, and i wanted to finish it all for you.

this year has been awful for everyone, including me, and i couldn't make creative work at the pace required for a weekly update between work and pandemic... everything... especially make a comic that i was no longer happy with. but, i've got a major mental health diagnosis over the last year that's changed my life, reconnected with my art process, and stopped looking at my old pages. and i've never stopped drawing this thing.

as always if you want updates on pages or the comic, as well as any illustrations i do, you can follow me on twitter - there you can stay tuned for updates on my next project about queer psychics on the ussr's lunar colony; https://twitter.com/malverav
Grey
Grey Jan 08, 2022
i'm so happy for you mal!! i hope the new edition of l&w goes much smoother for you✨
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carolinapereira57
carolinapereira57 Dec 21, 2021
Will you conyinue the story? Its so good!
malverav
malverav creator Jan 02, 2022
actually yes! if you'd believe it it's been finished since november, and i'm literally logging in to dust off the account now 😖i'm really glad you like it, and i hate making people wait for ages but rest assured - it's done and i will be uploading it! thank you again for reading and commenting, it's so heartening <3
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malverav
malverav creator Feb 01, 2020
hi new subscribers, and old ones too! thanks for subscribing to love and war - i've posted ten new pages to go up weekly for the next little while, starting on tuesday. i hope you enjoy them!
Blue Dragon
Blue Dragon Feb 03, 2020
Yay! Updates! Thank you :D
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SnackBag Studios
SnackBag Studios Jan 15, 2020
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David Perry
David Perry Sep 23, 2019
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malverav
malverav creator Sep 02, 2019
I'm back! I'm still sad but I'm crying and comicking now. Enjoy the new page!
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malverav
malverav creator Jun 29, 2019
Going on a depression hiatus. Love and War should be back in a week or two, when I'm hopefully feeling better.
malverav
malverav creator Jun 29, 2019
I just don't have the joy in me required to make this comic right now.
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Nikscamp
Nikscamp Jun 05, 2019
Thank you for the subscribe, i like your art style.
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malverav
malverav creator May 25, 2019
Thanks everyone for 50 subscribers!
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R. E. Washington
R. E. Washington Apr 13, 2019
Thank you for subscribing to Illusion/Core! I hope you continue to enjoy it.
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