The Cast of Spoonyards

Snot & Samson

Snot is a goblin whose curiosity has always been the main driver behind her actions. She spends most of her time outdoors making a living as an independent courier, and due to her being so observant and somewhat reckless by nature she is naturally adept at discovering paths and shortcuts that most wouldn't know or even think to find in the first place. She also has a penchant for animal husbandry, often getting along better with wild animals than those of her own kind - the latter of which she tends to 'cross' by unintentionally foregoing the typical social courtesies they expect from her, being a bit too forward with her opinions and proposals, or just not really realising that there's a time and a place.

Samson is a young polar bear mysteriously separated from any others, thousands of miles from the nearest ice cap. Finding himself hard pressed and hungry trying to hunt the swifter prey in the atypical woodland and congested jungles, a first and nearly fatal encounter with Snot in the woods one dark and cold night led to an eventual bond after a symbiotic hunting and a shared meal by a warm campfire, alongside some much needed first aid. Samson has become Snot's closest companion, and now the two are rarely apart from each other and often rely on one another to survive this strange and sometimes hostile island they share together.

There's also this strange crow that follows them around a lot... probably nothing.

The Spoonyards Citizens: Tim, Holly, Sean and Horton.

Tim and Holly live together with the other goblins native to the 'Spoonyards', with Tim leading the charge in bringing the mysterious 'power from the north' into the hands of goblin-kind through research and development on transmission systems and bio-engineering. Holly experiments more in chemistry and "psuedo-alchemy", and is known to create some of the most lethal concoctions and potent medicinals to come from within the Spoonyards. Their progress is middling until Tim would hit a major breakthrough, setting off a steady unfolding of their chaotic future.

Sean is also a courier, like Snot, but has only ever operated within the confines of the Spoonyards and ever-so-slightly beyond; understandably so with the fears and fables of the world outside that have been recounted by the townsfolk for countless generations. His passing curiousity for the world outside becomes obsessive, starting to eat away at him as he begins to lash his frustrations out on others. Soon, however, a fellow denizens bizarre request twists the dynamic between him and the rest of the Spoonyards that would lead him on a long and vengeful path of self-discovery...

There's also Horton, an old croaker who is still actively running at least 70% of all the long standing businesses operating in the Spoonyards and is believed to be the richest goblin in town. He does also think quite highly of Sean as he has always noticed he's never been late to deliver his parcels and papers, and has run various other errands for him in the past. Strong business relationships, and a strange amount of people genuinely believe that he can see at least into the near future.

And more to come...

Different species, tribes, cults and cabals lie beyond the confines of the Spoonyards where no resident that is sound of mind would risk journeying into. This crazy comic has a lot to cover, meeting lots of characters and communities along the way.