This is the last installment in the series. Digger the wombat, Murai the monk, and Grim Eyes the hyena make the trip back to the temple of the Ganesha statue. Digger must then head underground to complete their mission of destroying the heart of a god that is being kept alive by artificial means by a demon. The ostracized hyena, Ed joins Digger on the mission leaving the injured Murai to delay Captain Jhalm and his monks from stopping them. Eventually Grim Eyes' hyena clan joins in to stop Jhalm. In the end, Digger returns to the surface to tell the statue goodbye. She then heads for the town but along the way again meets up with the mysterious traveling merchant who agrees to take her home. I'm sorry to see this series end. There is an afterword by Ursula Vernon about the creation and publishing of Digger in its original form as an online comic. What was originally planned to be about 100 pages long eventually grew to over 800 pages and won a Hugo award and other recognition.
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