Jesse Moynihan

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2016.01.20

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God reveals itself to be the Looney Tunes title card.

DoctorWorm

Beautiful. Really hoping for some dialogue exchange here 😀
Daniel

I showed this page to my brother, telling him it was important. He looked at it for a while, then at me, and said nothing.

I feel like celebrating something most don’t understand.
Jesse Moynihan

It’s good to share things with your brother
WormDoctor

this is more than SOME dialogue exchange
Jack Clare

as forming is entering it’s seventh year, i was wondering if writing it now feels like a chore or if you still find it rewarding? i’ve never written anything that’s really long, so the idea of writing one story for seven years is incomprehensible to me.
Ahk-N- Rotten

When Forming III shows up in print, I very much up that these two pages are facing each other (219 on the let, and 220 on the right), rather than being “front and back” of the same page.
Wally

I feel like I usually get the references in Forming and when I don’t there is enough other stuff going on that even if I don’t get it, I don’t worry about it. These last few pages, I get that Noah is seeing or interacting with God and that Noah has changed into a spirit of some kind but I also feel lost. Any basic reading I should do here to feel less clueless?
Jesse Moynihan

I felt like in order to give this sequence the proper climax, it would have to be a mix of esoteric symbolism and intuitive, emotional choices. Some of the symbolism is directly pulled from Paracelsus, Manly P Hall, and Eliphas Levi… some of it is just ideas I had that I thought made sense for Noah’s journey. For someone who isn’t familiar with that source material, I’m hoping it will start to make more narrative sense as the story goes forward. At the same time, I still don’t really understand everything that’s going on in the final act of Kubrick’s 2001.
fotocopiadora

all of this reminds me of that scene in jodorowsky’s “the holy mountain” where the thief meets the alchemist for the first time ♥
Wally

Point taken. Good art doesn’t always make sense right away… Or at least all the layers don’t make sense right away.
Rémi Huang

Dat’s all folks !
Steeven Gaulin

hahahah 😀
Mudita

i want every single panel of this comic each printed on their own t shirt so i can wear this comic chronologically every day for the rest of my life
maththemath

So there’s no place to say this yet, but I just watched the new Adventure Time and wow. Season seven has been kinda not hitting it for me in a way that Adventure Time usually does, with some of Stakes and “Varmints” being the primary exceptions. But wow. This new one was one of the best episodes.

I’m gonna miss you so much from this show, man.
Jesse Moynihan

Hey thanks I was happy with how it came out. I’m glad Sam and I could give you the flavor you needed!
maththemath

It might be a top ten episode for me, honestly. So many details, so many wonderful callbacks that gave the audience exactly what they wanted without ever letting us know what we’d be getting. So many implications for forward motion.

How many more did you board with Sam? What a team.

QUESTION: Who came up with “Prismotion” and who came up with “housekeeping”?
Jesse Moynihan

Maybe three or 4 more with Sam, I forget exactly. Prismotion was me, housekeeping was Sam.
Vjerox

I so wish to see this on paper, on a comic book, on my shelf, and may be, in the bathroom
nonepetrovich

Wait a sec – the door asks who’s Noah himself, and Noah tells the Name – YHWH. Then it opens. Am I getting it right?

I have no idea what this could mean anyway, but man, what if Noah merged with Ain Soph in the moment he entered Da’at?
Joshua Ray Stephens

The Looney Tunes title card may actually be THE God.
Jesse Moynihan

Sorry I didn’t see this comment before. If you’re still curious: yes working on Forming is still rewarding for me because it’s the one thing I do that is completely mine with no input from a boss or corporate money source. I just sit at my desk and write whatever pleases me. This is very satisfying and essential to my life. But no I never thought it would take this long to tell this freaking story! Unfortunately there’s nothing I can do about that except slowly churn out pages till it’s done 🙂
Jack Clare

man i’d forgotten i’d even asked this haha.

thanks for the response.
Magicdreamstarfish

Really love this page here, especially the lion dude, who is supposed to be a fire element/ associated with the wand suit right? Which I thought typically was associated with yod? Idk, either I love the way you conceptualize all the esoteric ideas while still having a emotional connection. I could read a whole book about some of the other side characters.
katie Surprise

would you ever consider making manly as a comic?
Jesse Moynihan

Hm, probably not. Manly was created for animation. I think that’s where it belongs. I have a bunch of other ideas for future comics…
Beau Anthony Champ

Non-dualism right here. God and I are one.

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