"Namtar" is a name I give to any number of current projects. This is for no other reason than that I own namtar.com and feel it is, at present, a waste of a perfectly good six-letter domain name. And should one of my projects pan out, I'd have a URL ready and waiting.Namtar was an ancient Mesopotamian god of death and pestilence. Also it spells "rat man" backwards. This is mostly irrelevant.
In years past, I worked on a short-lived webcomic called- what else? -Namtar. It wasn't well received, because people expect a webcomic to be funny and here I was trying to tell a story. The only positive comments I ever got on the comics was that they were pretty.
And so my new plan is to tell a story through pretty pictures, alone. I'm a bit out of practice with the whole art thing, but I'm fairly happy with how Namtar #1 (see above) turned out. I started on it around 2:30am and finished not twenty minutes ago. Insomnia has a use after all!
If this should turn out to be an ongoing thing, I will start posting these images on namtar.com. Until the then, the domain remains in a sad state of disuse.
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