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Inspired by the song "Jig of Life" by Kate Bush, in which a woman lost at sea sees her future self in her dream, telling her to hold on because if she drowns, her older self won't exist and her children won't be born, I asked Apri Kusbiantoro to make this version of a scene from "The Hounds of Marduk", album 14 of Don Lawrence's "Storm". Although Storm was able to save Ember (or "Roodhaar" in Dutch) from drowning, she has fallen prey to an intoxicating effect caused by the waste products of a living sewer. The only thing that can save her life, is "Pandarve's Breath", a vapour coming from the inside of the planet. So while the unconscious Ember is tied to a crane and her legs lowered into the pit with the vapour, and a worried Storm is watching her at night, Ember sees in her dream the spirit of her future daughter Cerina (an OC by Apri and me - as you can see in earlier artwork), telling her to not give up, because if Ember would die now, Cerina will never be born.
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Ak 2022
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About Apri Kusbiantoro
Apriyadi Kusbiantoro was born on the Indonesian island of Lombok in 1976. He graduated from the Indonesian Art Institute in Jogjakarta and now works as 2D and 3D animator. He is a founder member of Urak-Urek Studio which is specialized in advertising. He draws comics in his sparetime, and has published a variety of works in Indonesia through Balai Pustaka and Harian Jogja since 1995. In the US, his art has appeared in Dark Horse Presents and he has also worked with Dutch writer Sytze Algera on 'Close Call', a comic story inspired by Don Lawrence's 'Trigian Empire', for the Flemish magazine P@per. The first book of Kusbiantoro and Algera's sword & sorcery series 'De verloren jaren van Lemuria' was published by Dark Dragon Books in 2014. Api Kusbiantoro and writer Willem Ritstier launched their fantasy comic 'Saul' in StripGlossy in March 2017.
