There's a specific kind of excitement that hits when a notification from Kuzacht comes through — and it hasn't worn off yet.
Kuzacht has been behind the vast majority of Afterglow's chapter spread layouts, and the work demands to be experienced up close. We're talking bring-a-microscope levels of fine line detail. Every proof I receive, I can't help myself — I zoom in as far as I can and just sit there. The density of thought packed into every inch is genuinely staggering.
And it's not just technical precision. When tasked with illustrating the Whispercoil — the spine-mounted device central to the Coil-Bound PC — Kuzacht didn't just render my concept. They interrogated it. What would this device actually need to function? How does it interface with the body? How does a Coil-Bound even sleep with this thing on their spine? My original sketch looked like the Hungry Caterpillar. What came back was something phenomenal.
