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WARNING: This description contains spoilers for Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright. The comic is clean, though. It looks like it has spoilers, but I made all of it up. So don't worry about that.

  So, I realize I haven't been doing much traditional art lately. Let's fix that. This is just a PL vs. AA comic I've had floating around my head for a REALLY long time. I'm talking over a year here. In fact, it probably takes the record so far for longest delay between me having the idea and me actually drawing it. I was trying to get this done and post it yesterday (which would be the anniversary of DL-6, one of the most important cases in the Ace Attorney series), but, well, I suck at time management.
  The basic premise of the comic is pretty obvious. The Ace Attorney series isn't afraid to dip into spirit channeling and other magical shenanigans; meanwhile, the Layton series has a habit of setting up huge, seemingly unexplainable mysteries, and then giving them explanations that are completely outlandish yet allow the world to maintain its realistic, every-puzzle-has-a-solution attitude. Obviously, a crossover raised the question of how, exactly, they would deal with Maya being a spirit medium. Personally, I was pretty disappointed that they more or less ignored the whole issue. I mean, it was probably necessary if they didn't want to totally destroy the setting of one of the games, but they barely even mentioned it. I find it hard to believe Professor Layton wouldn't be a little curious about the validity of spirit channeling. So, here's Layton and Maya in the witch forest, coping with how everyone thinks they're dead, when Layton, as usual, springs the truth train on Maya out of nowhere. The explanation wasn't that hard to come up with, it was pretty much just reusing the usual Layton explanation clichés. (Seriously, in not one, not two, but FOUR of the seven games Layton is in, the big solution involves the town the game takes place in being fake in some way. It's like some sort of running joke.)
  Finally, how did Layton figure this out? Once again, as per the standard of Professor Layton games, I'll just not go into that.

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WARNING: This description contains spoilers for Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright. The comic is clean, though. It looks like it has spoilers, but I made all of it up. So don't worry about that.

  So, I realize I haven't been doing much traditional art lately. Let's fix that. This is just a PL vs. AA comic I've had floating around my head for a REALLY long time. I'm talking over a year here. In fact, it probably takes the record so far for longest delay between me having the idea and me actually drawing it. I was trying to get this done and post it yesterday (which would be the anniversary of DL-6, one of the most important cases in the Ace Attorney series), but, well, I suck at time management.
  The basic premise of the comic is pretty obvious. The Ace Attorney series isn't afraid to dip into spirit channeling and other magical shenanigans; meanwhile, the Layton series has a habit of setting up huge, seemingly unexplainable mysteries, and then giving them explanations that are completely outlandish yet allow the world to maintain its realistic, every-puzzle-has-a-solution attitude. Obviously, a crossover raised the question of how, exactly, they would deal with Maya being a spirit medium. Personally, I was pretty disappointed that they more or less ignored the whole issue. I mean, it was probably necessary if they didn't want to totally destroy the setting of one of the games, but they barely even mentioned it. I find it hard to believe Professor Layton wouldn't be a little curious about the validity of spirit channeling. So, here's Layton and Maya in the witch forest, coping with how everyone thinks they're dead, when Layton, as usual, springs the truth train on Maya out of nowhere. The explanation wasn't that hard to come up with, it was pretty much just reusing the usual Layton explanation clichés. (Seriously, in not one, not two, but FOUR of the seven games Layton is in, the big solution involves the town the game takes place in being fake in some way. It's like some sort of running joke.)
  Finally, how did Layton figure this out? Once again, as per the standard of Professor Layton games, I'll just not go into that.