It has been running for more than 70 years, and currently is mainly used for local villagers to connect outside world as well as for travelers to experience a unique steam train experience of 'living fossils of the industrial revolution' and 'out-of-print landscape of the industrial revolution'. Unexpectedly, there is still a steam train operating in Qianwei County whose name is Jiayang Steam Train. In this era of high-speed rail speeding, it is difficult to imagine that there was once such a type of train burning coals, smoking thick white smoke, and crawling on the tracks. Chinese trains were monopolized by steam locomotives for more than a hundred years. By 1988, China stopped producing steam locomotives. In 1856, the British came to China with a steam train. “Giant Days” #50 will be released tomorrow, Wednesday May 1st, by BOOM! Studios.2 Days Leshan Giant Buddha Visit with Jiayang Steam Train Experience Spring/Summer Special DealsĪfter Watt invented the steam engine in 1765, the entire world began to accelerate. Allison’s original webcomics are still available on, although Allison’s last update in October 2018 states that he has no plans to produce new content anytime in the near future. The success of that miniseries (written by Allison with art by Lissa Tremain) led to “Giant Days” continuing as an ongoing series, with art duties shifting to Max Sarin.Īllison is also currently writing “By Night,” also from BOOM! Studios, with artist Christine Larsen. “Giant Days” started in 2011 as a webcomic spin-off of Allison’s other works, “Bobbins” and “Scary Go Round,” before moving to BOOM! Studios’ BOOM! Box imprint for a six-issue miniseries in 2015. I didn’t want to take it past the undergraduate studies, partly because you will sort of enter ever diminishing returns, and I don’t really want to go there, I want to try other things.”

The issue will see the main characters – Esther, Daisy, and Susan – graduate from the third year of university, the life event which Allison has previously stated would be the conclusion to the series.Īllison had this to say about the series ending: “ is when Esther and Daisy will graduate, and at that point ‘Giant Days’ will cease.” He continued to say, “I decided that’s what I wanted to be the end.

On today’s episode of That’s the Issue podcast, John Allison has announced that his long-running slice-of-life comedy “Giant Days” is to end with issue #55.

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