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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!
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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!
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This face in panel 2: “Are you f…ing kidding me?”
I like the expressions of the crowd in the background in the last panel.
0: o: D: U: O:
So was the whole wedding organised just for this moment? If so, +10 points for style and commitment to drama, minus several hundred for unnecessarily baroque complexity.
maarvarq, it was the only way to get all of the players and the evidence in the same place at the same time, and where the evidence could be gotten to.
Corus looks surprised, but not nervous. There’s a “gotcha” coming…
WHAT SAY I??? Um … isn’t suppose to be done that way?
Any other way would have taken YEARS!
Here comes his: “I am the Law (err. church)” speech.
delivered as Jack Nickolson in “A Few Good Men”
“What say I? I say: that is not my book!”
Maybe it’s just me, but it looks like one of the people in the audience is reading the book and wondering, “How is that even possible?”
Well, go find his love child, his wife in the country, his wife OUT of the country, his actual bastards, his young boy love partner, and the pile of bodies under his house.
The guests are amazed at what Peonie has on display. It is the book, right?
Plus the king should go into stage magic. There was no visible indication of him hiding that book under his robe.
The King turns to the audience and says “Of course the accused is guilty. He is wearing a monocle. What more proof do you need that he is evil?”
…I’m actually thinking of Vlad Tepes at this point. He might have been demonized by Bram Stoker’s novel, but the historical Tepes was such a great hero to the people of Wallachia that the Romanians WISH he were a vampire, just so he’d come back. I’m thinking about his bloody purges of treacherous nobles and such. In this case the King has found himself a Queen who is truly a fitting partner – an eager collaborator in his schemes to benefit the kingdom and their people. No wonder he’s marrying her; I dare say he’s actually besotted with her at this point. 🙂
Some astounding eyebrow display is going all along this page.
@Archone – that sounds right. I’d want to marry her too!
They also have the best backup in case it really does go south, which is why Typhan-knee wasn’t let in on the plan.
@Doug Um, Typh WAS let in on the plan. Mainly because if he want told he would probably screw things up by acting on his own.
What ever is in that book must be quite eye catching. Because the dear princess’s ample cleavage is clearly visible beneath the book and all eyes are not trained on her.
Typh said she had something to do – ridding Urtica of a troublesome priest may be one.
Good story scene and good art. A nit to pick on spelling. What the lady wants to claim is not to be “authoritive”, but authoritative.
I have a bad feeling about this for some reason. It’s not the usual smooth Urtica scheme…
My guess. Coriander demands a fair and public hearing before an unbiased judge.
He does this because he’s actually not guilty. Either he’s been framed or someone in his entourage is the guilty party.
He doesn’t seem all that worried in the last panel. Either that or the image doesn’t convey his true emotion.
Nah, his expression says it all.. “Didn’t anyone ever teach you it is impolite to point?”
I thought the book was written in a “sacred script” that only the priests (and kings) could read?
The next strip is where he has the perfect response that infuriates everybody with how easily he gets out of this, right?
Is not the book written in Coriander’s very well known hand?
I do agree that simply hauling him off in chains seems anticlimactic. I suspect the real conflict will have to do with Coriander’s magical defense against arrest, possibly a defensive spell protecting the Court or even the Realm that will fail if he doesn’t renew it every few days.
Then there’s the question of how the Royal Wedding will proceed without him….
This is by far the worst scene in this comic. The composition looks awful and it only gets worse as I read on.
I’m too distracted by the awkwardness of these panels to focus on the story…
Hopefully the next page is better.
kadzooks: care to explain what is so awkward and wrong about this page? How is the artist supposed to ‘fix’ it if you don’t actually saw what needs to be fixed
Not going to be this eay.. Mans to proud ..He set them up.
Hopefully Typh has been up to something behind the scenes to bring the creep to justice.
What are the great sins, again?
“What are the great sins, again?”
Pederastry, molesting children, abusing his position for defiling the intents and doctrine of the Church of Rem, ….”that’ll do to go on with.”
“…and singin’ silly songs…”?
Set them up for what? As a test to see if they truly followed the doctrine’s and are willing to stand up to anyone who abuses or breaks them, even the head of the Church itself?
Can’t really see how it would be setting them up for anything
Setting them up to discredit themselves by launching provably false accusations against the head of the Church.
But frankly, that seems a bit too complex.
Now, now, now. Stop pointing your finger at Cardinal Richelieu (as played by Charlton Heston) it is *very* rude.
Coriander doesn’t look terribly concerned, considering what’s SUPPOSED to be in that book, he should be blushing and choking at the very least. Instead he just looks a bit nonplussed. Methinks ye olde bait-and-switch is afoot.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find it cute and funny how quickly theresa moves from the first to second panel. Based on the dialog, she moves from one side of the podium to the other in about a split second.
It’s not a complaint about either the art or writing, I just think it’s a nice comical / cartoony touch.