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When I was a kid I used to watch the tv seris "Fame (yes the one with Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, Carlo Imperato, Erica Gimple, Lori Singer, etc.) with my aunt (who was at the high school at that time and had a crush on gene Anthony Ray ). It is probable that many of the younger readers don't know that series, I for one watched each episode twice yet cannot remember it very well. There were, though, two episodes I still remember very well: "the wizard of Oz" adaptation (istant classic! Loved professor Sherwood as the evil witch and Shorofsky as the wizard... ) and one of those "don't use drugs" episodes that were ever present in the teen targeted tv series of the 80s and 90s (dunno if they still do it as I don't watch "teen-targeted" series anymore...) against use of drugs. In that episode there was this girl who befriended Bruno Martelli (the most talented music studend of the school), thing is she had an addiction to cocaine. Bruno tries to make her quit the drugs, but she continues using it, and there was a scene, near the end of the episode, when she is preparing some lines of cocaine on a table, cutting them with a razor balde and he knocked the table over in anger yelling at herr. The thing that really shocked me was her reaction: she started crying and moaning, crawling around the room trying to recover the drug from the floor.
Why have I told you this tale? Because for a boy of seven, learning the degree of self degradation an addiction could lead you to is something that remains branded in your memory. I - of course - have seen even worse scenes in movies, televion and real life, but when I wrote this scene this was the first thing that emerged from my memory, surpassing even the things I caught myself doing when I run out of cigarettes...
Seeing the pathetic show an an addicted person makes to satisfy his addiction makes me feel sick, andEwan's reaction reflects not so much my emotions on the matter but those of a 7 year old boy watching this girl (who would died of an overdose at the end of the episode) crawling around the room licking cocaine from her fingers which she had just picked off the carpet.

I hope I was able to render somehow the intention I had when I started drawing this page.

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This is a fan comic based on the Bioware's videogame "Dragon Age: Origins" and expansions. All characters and characters design except those not fitting the game belongs to Bioware, Ewan is designed on a customizable Player Character so he doesn't belong to anyone but as concept to me, the story is mine so it's not official, no copyright infringement is intended so don't bother me about it.

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First Chapter first page: [link]
Second chapter first Page: [link]
Previous: [link]
Next: [link]

When I was a kid I used to watch the tv seris "Fame (yes the one with Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, Carlo Imperato, Erica Gimple, Lori Singer, etc.) with my aunt (who was at the high school at that time and had a crush on gene Anthony Ray ). It is probable that many of the younger readers don't know that series, I for one watched each episode twice yet cannot remember it very well. There were, though, two episodes I still remember very well: "the wizard of Oz" adaptation (istant classic! Loved professor Sherwood as the evil witch and Shorofsky as the wizard... ) and one of those "don't use drugs" episodes that were ever present in the teen targeted tv series of the 80s and 90s (dunno if they still do it as I don't watch "teen-targeted" series anymore...) against use of drugs. In that episode there was this girl who befriended Bruno Martelli (the most talented music studend of the school), thing is she had an addiction to cocaine. Bruno tries to make her quit the drugs, but she continues using it, and there was a scene, near the end of the episode, when she is preparing some lines of cocaine on a table, cutting them with a razor balde and he knocked the table over in anger yelling at herr. The thing that really shocked me was her reaction: she started crying and moaning, crawling around the room trying to recover the drug from the floor.
Why have I told you this tale? Because for a boy of seven, learning the degree of self degradation an addiction could lead you to is something that remains branded in your memory. I - of course - have seen even worse scenes in movies, televion and real life, but when I wrote this scene this was the first thing that emerged from my memory, surpassing even the things I caught myself doing when I run out of cigarettes...
Seeing the pathetic show an an addicted person makes to satisfy his addiction makes me feel sick, andEwan's reaction reflects not so much my emotions on the matter but those of a 7 year old boy watching this girl (who would died of an overdose at the end of the episode) crawling around the room licking cocaine from her fingers which she had just picked off the carpet.

I hope I was able to render somehow the intention I had when I started drawing this page.

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This is a fan comic based on the Bioware's videogame "Dragon Age: Origins" and expansions. All characters and characters design except those not fitting the game belongs to Bioware, Ewan is designed on a customizable Player Character so he doesn't belong to anyone but as concept to me, the story is mine so it's not official, no copyright infringement is intended so don't bother me about it.