Shadowchild: A small supernatural creature, unsure of what it is and wanting to know.

This led to his expulsion from the tribe. A later strip reveals he was in an abusive relationship with a hyena known as Blood-Eyes, whom he killed after realizing that she was also abusing their daughter. Both his broken language and philosophical outlook are most likely the result of having spent seventeen years in exile. Ed insists upon referring to Digger as 'Digger-mousie' and has a rather shaky grasp of whatever language is spoken by the other main characters – although he is otherwise highly intelligent and capable of complicated philosophical conversations. His people (who, like real hyenas, are fiercely matriarchal) consider him a pariah. His actual name is unknown, having been 'eaten', but Digger named him 'Ed' shortly after their first meeting.

Once a famous skin-painter ( tattoo artist), in his isolation he has turned his skills to cave-wall painting. 'Ed': A hyena, outcast from his tribe.She has an extreme dislike of all things magical, and by extension of all things divine, though she increasingly tolerates the Statue and what it represents, as he has shown himself to be trustworthy. She comes from a mining background, and speaks with unironic delight about the digging of ditches and cellars. A young hard-headed wombat, lost far from home after tunnelling into a miasma of unknown magic. Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels, the title character, 'Digger' for short.The comic describes her experiences and encounters in the temple, nearby village and surrounding area as she seeks information on the whereabouts of her warren, how she came from there to her present location, and how she might get back. Here she finds that something or someone has 'magicked up' her tunnel, cutting off her route home. Digging to the surface, she emerges in a temple, where she meets the Statue of Ganesh. In the opening pages, Digger is tunneling alone through the ground, lost and dazed after being intoxicated by a pocket of bad air.

Digger won the Hugo and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, and was nominated for an Eisner Award. It has drawn comparisons to Bone, Cerebus, and Discworld. Digger is a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon, and published in print form by Sofawolf Press.

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