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Where is this, what is this?
You've landed on a webcomic that has been running since 2015, called Year In Hereafter.
The comic borrows from the Finnish Kalevala epic, which is our national mythology.
YIH is a fantasy-adventure tale starting from our modern year 2015. The story will take
you from the sceneries of Lapland, through the death realm of Tuonela, and reaches its
destination in the foreign realm of Kalevala. Specifically its southern half and land
of eternal summer, Väinölä.
Of course, that eternal summer is about to turn into an everglacier.
For a new reader there is a lot of ground to cover.
If you fancy e-books, here's free ones for you to pick up with an option to donate.
Comic status
Updates regularly on Mondays and Fridays!
Any minor changes and abruptions in schedule will be announced in the page comments.
29/12/2023
Website development
14/02/2024
Content add!
• Cast page received new faces
Pending fixes:
• Browsing through the page images still has a problem at the end.
• On the archive the graphic button for Chapter 2 is still fidgety.
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20/12/2023
More fixes!
• About page has life now with a new feature; collection of contexts for words without straight english translation or mythological background
Pending fixes:
• Browsing through the page images still has a problem at the end.
• On the archive the graphic button for Chapter 2 is still fidgety.
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30/09/2022
More fixes!
• 404 is not an ugly white page anymore! And it redirects you back if you stumble upon it.
Pending fixes:
• Browsing through the page images still has a problem at the end.
• About-section is still empty, waiting for a creative stroke to write it.
• On the archive the graphic button for Chapter 2 is still fidgety.
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02/07/2022
Some fixes + adds!
• Fixed the borked logo link which redirects to the front page
• Got feedback on the "latest page" and "starting page" texts on the navigation bar feeling unintuitive, because they weren't clickable. I've made them interactable. In case you're seeing the texts in double, please refresh your cache (ctrl + f5) and it should look nice again. :3
• Added little bobble heads on the archive showing featured cast in each chapter
Pending fixes:
• You can click the page you're reading and go forward, however the latest page still directs to a 404. That's on the list of fixes.
• About-section is still empty, waiting for a creative stroke to write it.
• The RSS links don't quite work, I'm not sure why?
I'm pretty clumsy with RSS. If anyone knows their way around it and has ideas to improve it, I'll be happy to hear feedback. Check the previous website dev update for contact info!
• On the archive the button for Chapter 2 is... fidgety. I have little clue what's bothering it. It's not an urgent fix, but I'd like it working eventually.
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19/06/2022
And the website is back up!
All new, thank you for coming and hope you'll like it here. :D
If you notice mistakes or broken links, please do let me know!
Either comment, poke me on Twitter at @yearinhereafter
or send me an e-mail. mikaelhankonen to gmail.com.
The update brought:
• Cleanups
- Debris from previous builds
- Removed a couple pages from the comic, being sketches and previews.
Figured there's no better time to sort those out. 5 pages removed overall.
• New Graphics
- Went the risky route and tried to create a "homebrewn" look. There's 2 ways that
it tends to go, either it'll stand the test of time really well, or it will look
horrible very soon. Let's hope for the former...
- Don't think I recycled anything from the old layout other than the recap section.
It's all new!
- Especially happy about dusting out the cast-section, I redrew every character as a
smaller version and redid all the chapter banners.
• New hierarchy
- Not sure if it's better, but it's mine. :p
Learned to do the necessary PHP. Earlier layouts were built by a friend who naturally
does a lot more efficient job at web design, but I finally managed to do it myself
and learned new stuff.
• Author comments and dates on old pages are lost.
- This I don't personally mind so much! The pages have a general year of creation written
on them, that's specific enough.
- I hope Disqus migrated your old comments though, it's preserving you guys' penprints that
I care about. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed!
