Digger (comic)

Digger is a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon. It updates every Tuesday and Thursday, and is hosted at Graphic Smash, one of the Modern Tales family of webcomic syndication sites.

Characters

• Digger-Of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels The title character. An young hard-headed wombat, lost far from home after tunnelling into unknown magic. She comes from a mining background, and talks with unironic delight about the digging of ditches and cellars.
• "Ed" A hyena, outcast from his tribe. Once a skin-painter, in his isolation he has turned his skills to cave-wall painting.
• Shadowchild A small supernatural creature, unsure of what it is and wanting to know. It has some disturbing powers and is suspected of being a demon, but it seems friendly.
• The Statue A living statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, located in the temple where Digger surfaces after first getting lost underground. Friendly, and generous with the temple food-offerings. The priests and staff at his temple are human, as are the local villagers.
• The Veiled The local theocratic police force, human, not entirely friendly. One of their number is troubled in her mind for reasons as yet unexplained.
• The Hag The local healer and witch. Human. Young for the job and sensitive about her age.
• Oracular Slug A slug gifted with knowledge of the future thanks to an old sad incident at a small brewery.

Other characters encountered include the hyenas of Ed's tribe, human villagers and farmers, and human bandits. Dwarves exist in Digger's world, but none have appeared in the comic as yet.

Story

We first see Digger tunnelling alone through the ground, lost after being intoxicated by bad air. Digging to the surface she emerges in a temple where she meets the Statue of Ganesh. Here she finds that something or someone has put magic on her tunnel, cutting off her route home. The comic describes her experiences and encounters in the area of the temple and nearby village as she seeks information on the whereabouts of her warren.

External links

• Digger
• Metal and Magic Ursula Vernon's home site, including galleries of her other work.
• Interview with Ursula Vernon