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Hidden Glade is a fantasy webcomic about two humans and a "woodsprite," living in the suburbs of a great city, their neighbors and acquaintances, their experiences, concerns and lives, as ancient wonders crash against the shores of reality in various different ways.  You could leave it at that.

 Hidden Glade is also a humor strip.  Often it is quite silly.  This is enough for many people.

 And, Hidden Glade is also a story strip, telling a continuing narrative that connects them all together in order.  That's why it says "To Be Continued..." at the bottom of each installment, even in those instances when each strip doesn't have something directly to do with the previous.  The story is told, in the general case, in "real time," so when there is a week between the release of new installments, the characters are also all a week older, and have known each other for another week.  Whenever this is not true, for some minor story arc, it should be obvious.  Some don't want anything more than this.

 And also, Hidden Glade is symbolic.  Of what, well, I refuse to say!  Several things.  Different people will see different things in it.  There is never an obvious subtext, despite what some might think.  But whatever it is you see in it, if you saw it, it works, even if it isn't what I meant.  It is just the way it is.  And that's all it has to be.

 And additionally, Hidden Glade is a weird kind of art.  Maybe.


There will be more characters, but in general the strip is about these three:

Aaron is an adult male human, living in the suburbs of the city, to which he travels every day as part of his job.  He doesn't like it much, but there are worse things.  (One of the worst lives in his backyard.)  There are things about him that have not been said.

Stella is an adult female human, next-door neighbor to Aaron.  She is a university student, and as yet has had little exposure to what Aaron calls the "real world."  She seems to do some sort of journalism for the school paper.  She also writes for her own enjoyment, and hopes to be published someday.  She has some qualities about which I have not spoken.

And Milen... Milen is a woodsprite.  She is quite indescribable.

 


Hidden Glade updates most weekends.     Support the Electronic Frontier Foundation!     Special thanks to Milen, Joyce and friends.
     Additional thanks to Train Yard Software.     Hidden Glade is a Perpendicular Production.     Copyright 2002 by John William Harris.
Last updated: Wednesday, April 03, 2002.