Star Cross'd Destiny or SXD is a webcomic written by "Juno" Blair B and based on her novel StarCrossed Destiny. It follows the anti-hero Juno and her friends, outcasts from society forced to band together to survive in mob society New Orleans.
It is set in New Orleans in the near future. Juno and her friends are each gifted with different elemental powers and are outcasts from society. They discovered their powers shortly after the Betaverse attack on planet Earth, an event which only they seem to remember. The story deals in depth with aspects of predestination and fate, with Juno being fated to save a world she hates.
The art style of Star Cross'd Destiny is an unusual blend of Japanese manga and anime, traditional American comic book art, and atmospheric photo-manipulations. The story comes from a lengthy novel that Blair penned in 1999, revised in 2001, and later decided would be better realized in graphic novel form. On the web all illustrations are in full color, but the first volume print version is in grayscale. Star Cross'd Destiny is being released for distribution in color in late 2009 starting with a reprint of Volume 1, The Fated.
In 2005, the comic won the award for 'Outstanding Dramatic Comic' in the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards.
On April 25, 2006 the comic ended, the author citing various reasons in a message on her main comic page. In a news post dated August 22, 2006 she wrote "I tore this site down because I couldn't see. Now that I can I'm rebuilding what I lost." Star Cross'd Destiny resumed on October 24, 2006.
On November 20, 2009 the comic went on hiatus, with the author writing that she would instead focus on her band, Absinthe Junk. In March 2012, the comic returned to occasional updates with an announcement that scheduled updates would return in 2013.
Famous quotes containing the words star and/or destiny:
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire,
Show’d me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)