Pilcrow & The Asterism

A webcomic about the unsettling corridors of a manor where cosmic enigmas and mundane musings collide.

Always assumed the apocalypse would require a hero, not Home Depot.

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20: Moist Predictions - November 1, 2023 (W)

Panel 1

[Pilcrow and the Asterism are standing in the library of the Black Manor, in their bird-headed humanoid forms (as a crow and three-eyed flamingo, respectively). Pilcrow is holding up a book.]

Pilcrow: "I am concerned. These scriptures speak of sweeping seas and submerged sanctuaries, prophesizing a pending deluge that will drown us all."

Panel 2

The Asterism: "Perhaps this prophecy already imperils us. Do you not detect these drips descending down from above?"

Panel 3

Pilcrow: "It is the cataclysm of water, as the ancients warned us! We must flee!"

Panel 4

[The two enter into an upper stairs bathroom, finding water gushing from the toilet and pooling on the floor.]

The Asterism: "Or perhaps, Pilcrow, we must merely pay a plumber."