The Autumnlands, Issue #12 starts with one of the Galateans telling Dusty, Learoyd, and Bertie about their creation and their purpose. They are rock-women, androids, built to entertain their master but mostly to gather energy from the lava fields. As their master - and later other masters - gave them less and less work to do, they began reading; they learned that they were slaves. Eventually, the new masters stopped coming, and that's where the trouble started. Some Galateans chose to end their lives, giving off energy and polluting the streams, making the Goat-men sick. And that brings up one other question: do the Galateans have anything to do with there being less magic in the Autumnlands?
The Autumnlands is my favorite fantasy series going on right now in any genre. I'm not a big fantasy guy, but this is really something special. As Learoyd says of the Autumnlands, "I thought it was a dream, at first. It comes off goofy, all badgers and warthogs in fancy robes and shit. Like a kid's story. But there's just as much shit here as there is anywhere, isn't there?" I noted that the cover shows Bertie (the Goat-man) running away from the temple along with Dusty and Learoyd, but the comic shows Bertie in the temple as it is destroyed, supposedly. A deus ex machina?
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