About
What is Near and Far all about, anyway? It’s about friends in distant places. It’s about the way you can feel close to someone you’ve never met in person. It’s about the ways we stay in touch with the people we love when they are miles and miles away.
Near and Far is about a few people sharing the vast experience we call “the internet.” The idea started when, in a rare constellation of events, an artist and a writer began brainstorming, and discovered their common internet experiences and other things in common, including a desire to create a webcomic. The idea flowed from their online friendship and has mused its way through the natural course of things since then. And may go forward to anywhere from here….
Rachel lived a fairly normal life until one night when she decided to take a shortcut through a construction site with a bunch of friends. Some strange lights in the sky and a few aliens later, she was bestowed with the power to morph into any animal she could touch. With that same group of friends, she spent years fighting against parasitic body stealing aliens. At the end of the long war, she was prepared to sacrifice herself for the cause, but at the moment of her death, a British man in a blue Police Box showed up, and they’ve been exploring the universe ever since.
Aaron, as a young boy, began experimenting with different candy flavors. He searched through the land and then through the world to find the greatest and strangest flavors, returning to his native England to start the world’s largest chocolate factory. After some personal attacks by the press, he dismissed all the workers and secluded himself within the walls of the factory. Although no one has seen him or the inside of the factory for years, it still produces the world’s most delicious chocolate, along with many other wonderful candies.
