Summary to date:
Prologue:
Reinzfeld, an android doctor on the run, sends his assistant's child to another dimension shortly before his primary assistant was assassinated by Segred, a government op. Segred and his two assistants inadvertently cross into the other dimension, where they lost their memories and reverted to one-fifth their age.
Chapter 1
Drave is now Reinzfeld's primary assistant. When she was promoted, Reinzfeld did a lot of Laj's work to help her out. Lately, however, he's been dumping more and more on her. The past couple years have been spent searching for new assistants and training them. At present, Drave spends a great deal of time monitoring Laj's kid in the other dimension.
Chapter 2
Frazlek is the dictator of the world, or most of it. Actually, though he does have ultimate power, much of what he says is 'interpreted' by his higher-ranking officials. It's not that bad a government, really. Except when he gets petty whims. Like that one about digging up the Reinzfeld case. Peijen, the clever, resourceful head of the science department, was selected to be in charge of the mission. However, when she inadvertently turns up evidence that Frazlek is not only more intelligent than anyone suspected but also planning to reinvent his own rule into a far stricter and more bloody regime, Jesser--whom she may or may not have some sort of relationship withe--catches her in the act and does his job as head of security by placing her under arrest. Note to self: fewer absurdly long sentences, for the good of humanity.
Chapter 3
Rhyethae, a teenage girl with a big sword and a long braid, is hanging out at the local tavern when a Cloaked Stranger shows up and tries to rob the tavern. They have a fight which culminates in him running off and her following. Marlane, the bartender, is left to pick up the pieces when a blonde named Myral shows up.

Boring Version

One day, Amber decided to improve her skillz. Ashley had written a novella the year before, and Amber thought it would be a good idea to illustrate it. Naturally, her thoughts turned to webcomics. After all, even the most famous developed their skills phenomenally through sequential art. Ashley agreed, on the condition that she be allowed to freely criticize Amber's work. As this would happen anyway, Amber agreed. Both knew the script could do with some revision, and Amber decided to wing it.

Hawk's Eye Hill, the novella, is about 300 pages and twenty-five chapters long. At the current webcomic-page-per-text-page rate, updating 2-5 times a week on average, Hawk's Eye Hill should finish in early June-ish 2007, coinciding with Amber's departure from the wonderful world of high school. At present, it updates once a week; however, Amber hopes that she can increase the frequency fairly soon. Probably after the first or second chapter.

I am an avid reader of webcomics, and have been for more than two years. I read over a hundred comics every week. I'm also an amateur artist obligatory gallery plug. Thus, a webcomic was pretty much as inevitable as you can get. However, this webcomic is not meant to entertain you.

That's right. It is not done with you in mind. Shock, and awe.

Hawk's Eye Hill was written in novel form by Ashley, my younger sister, during the school year of 03-04. I first thought of recreating it in webcomic form during Summer 04. We talked it over, and as she really wanted to see her work on the web and I wanted to improve my art, we agreed that this would be a Good Idea. Pandering to the masses never came into it at all, and we don't desperately want to have part of the magic, even for a moment, shared by Milholland and Abrams and McConville and Ota and Gallagher and all those other amazing deities of the Funny that have actual fans. Honest.

At two to five pages a week, HEH (I told Ashley we should rename it Hawkeye Hill, but nooo. Blah blah writer's integrity blah core of the story it's the goddamn title blah.) is scheduled to finish around the start of 07. But things might change. You never know. Afterwards...who knows? I'll be in college, and if I have time I'd like to start a comic for real, not just for practice. Maybe one of the two people who will be following this by then will like it enough to go check it out. I will have a fanbase. A fanbase. I am so awesome.

Amber

Ashley's Version

I started to write Hawk's Eye Hill in Fall 2003, although I began prewriting in the middle of 2002. Motivated by a desire to write something of length, I wrote a novella with 200-something pages, crazy character names, and a twisted rubber band sort of plot. Amber approached me with the collaboration idea 2004, and I thought this was a great opportunity (I can't draw on demand, and Amber is far too lazy to write anything longer than twenty pages).

While Amber maintains that this comic is merely to improve her drawing, my own motivation is mostly to force my writing upon the world. As for renaming my story... if I had a gun, I would have shot Amber. And that's all there is to that.

You will probably not see too much of me around, aside from occasional comments. However, every so often, I may post pages of character notes and funny things about the characters that aren't relevant to the story and were cut.