But first...

Dancing with the Dead is for Adults Only. If you're under the age of 18, turn tail NOW! No ifs or buts, move along!

As for those of you of age, this project depicts bizarre, disgusting and unsettling topics such as...

• Animal death
• Bigotry normal for the time. This is a 1970s' period piece and several of the undead originate from times when you could legally own people.
• Drug use
• Depictions of abuse, mental illness and trauma
• Depictions of homelessness
• Politics both human and inhuman
• Strong and outdated language. This is a 1970s' period piece.
• Sporadic scenes of torture. This is largely for episode 19.
• XXX rated themes and scenes. While sexual violence is implied as a part of character backstories, it is not shown outright and all sexual scenes are consensual. Fetishistic scenes are to be expected and manifest however my brain torments me that evening.
• Violence and gore. More realistic depictions use medical sources exclusively.

Schedule

This comic spits out whole chapters at once, followed by a round of extra strips. We call these Post Mortems. However, as of late I am experimenting with the possibility of written ones which will be hosted on a separate stories page. Note that this is a completely unprofitable passion project, and thus we owe eachother nothing. Things happen when things happen, so don't go refreshing that tab every night. Pick it up, drop it and come back when you feel like it.

Regarding Robots

No generative AI was used for Dancing with the Dead's concepts, visuals or ideas. All reference models used for the drawings originate from human sources and posable 3D models. How else would you be able to guess had I not said that one? The suspense would have probably killed you.

As with Pearlnight's Lair, AI is at most used for generating mass-quantities of boilerplate. No, I do NOT do all of this coding by hand! I bully Claude into doing that for me, after I'm done bullying it into making me various BeautifulSoup and Playwright scripts to scrape old websites en-masse. If my method displeases you, that's fine, you're entitled to your feelings and if you'd like to learn more, consult my FAQ.

While this comic is drawn by yours truly, I also want to issue a loving thanks to my best friend Astroplasm for proofreading, tangent spotting and general artistic mentorship. His involvement started around episode 10, and this comic wouldn't be the same without him. He serves peer-review, the real stuff, the kind of stuff that makes you squirm in your seat and nod along because this isn't just an extra-wordy compliment you asked for on some forum. He is serious about the craft!

Copyright policy

Dancing with the Dead has been released into the Public Domain. Do whatever the devil you feel like with it. If for some reason you are compelled to commit crimes with this information, I ask is for you to commit fun crimes like running a shadow library from a raspberry pi. In all seriousness, I would like you to link back to me so other people can see what's going on. The characters, while belonging to me, can be interpreted however one likes. The setting is by far the most open of all, and I encourage you to take whatever you like and re-interpret it. There will be writings provided on a later page elaborating the overall worldbuilding, but you're of course free to deviate.

Closing regards

This is the first and only warning you'll be getting. From here, things are completely uncensored and to be browsed at your peril. I don't feel the need to tell you how I "don't endorse" whatever my little freaks get up to, though, that'd be silly; I endorse absolutely everything they do. Anyway, I'd rather not insult your intelligence and let you go about this how you see fit. You're free to leave any time you like, but save your browsing for after work, no matter the page. You're not sneaking on the internet at work, are you? Some of you do have jobs, right?...Or are...considering them? Well, I hope my readers are employed!

By reading all of this, you're ready to start reading my way of enduring this mortal coil we call...