Top Artist Alex Ortiz talks It Is A Haven With You - BentBox Comics

February 10, 2026·52 min·2 clips

A skyship mechanic dies and comes back bonded to something ancient.

The show opens with noise. After some unrelated ad copy, the host settles into loose comics-room mode, welcomes Chris O'Hara back, and greets Alex Ortiz with clear excitement. Ortiz's art gets the early push. The host calls the Kickstarter dope, says the artwork looked good before the livestream even started, and treats the campaign like something worth clicking through together. The best part comes when they stop talking around the book and look at the material. The visuals give Ortiz room to explain the world without draining the mystery out of it. Studio Ghibli comes up as a reference, and Ortiz says he likes that feeling of not fully knowing what is going on while still caring about the characters. That lines up neatly with this project. The host keeps the energy warm, then asks Ortiz to walk through the cast without giving away too much. General Saw and a younger captain sit at the center of the conversation, though the younger captain's name stays hidden for story reasons. The setting expands quickly: outside the city is a huge military structure built to protect the last city that survived a plague. The wall is not just a backdrop. Ortiz talks about people giving up their livelihoods for everyone inside it, which gives the book its bite. He wants the first chapter to deal with honor and duty at any cost, including the ugly kind. General Saw becomes the person showing the younger captain what life on the wall really asks of people. Chris ties it back to BentBox, saying the book fits a library where titles do not blur together in theme or art style. The episode ends where it has been pointing all along: the Kickstarter link, a direct ask to back it, and a friendly comics-shop sendoff.

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