July 21st, 2015
22 Jul 2015 · page 508 of 1306
Yes, it's a real place, and yes, I am definitely taking liberties with the timing and layout, because it's more exciting that way.
I'm about to upload a timelapse video of me making this page to Patreon in just a little while, so now's a good time to check it out and perhaps support the comic! There's a couple of little extras there, and if you donate just $3 a month there's a ton of sketches and process/design stuff to flip through.
Cast: Henry Barber, Isabelle Holt
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Hmmm. Time for a little geographic research...
Not Doctor Dee?
Maybe if Liz was a wiz herself she didn't need Doctor Dee?
Or maybe he was just busy in Manchester in 1599 - he wasn't close at court by that point, at any rate.
Henry appears to be a fellow who enjoys watching a woman who knows how to properly open a book cabinet. ...Well, don't we all.
Seriously, I like Panel 3.
I love that frame.
I don't think that Izzie's needed any etiquette books: Harry's totally smitten already.
Well, she wanted them so her ideas would be taken seriously. She plainly doesn't need the help charming this dashing rogue.
Turns out she doesn't need the help getting him to take her ideas seriously, either.
Mount St Michael? (Only sizable Cornish Island i could find reference to that might sort of resemble that map.)
Or a fictitious island?
That's a French island just off the coast of France.
Unless you mean St Michales Mount?
Yeah - my fingers just automatically typed the French name, because i don't think i'd heard of the Cornish one before.
S'all right, carry on.
[Lundy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy"). There had better be puffins is all I say.
Yep. That definitely be it. My problem is that i was doing my research looking for islands off Cornwall...
Googling "North Lighthouse" "South Lighthouse" does the trick :)
Obviously. In retrospect.
And look who owned it...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma... "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bushell_(mining_engineer)")
Lundy!
Fastnet, Irish Sea... northeast veering southwest 2, turning tempestuous later.
Now there's a magical incantation.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/e...](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25553004 "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25553004")
looks right, and there is a pub!
But it's more off the coast of Devon than Cornwall.
Pub!
Woohoo!
I totally, redundantly ship these two! They're both so adorable ;D
... Can one even 'ship a confirmed canonical couple? 🤔
Hence the "redundantly." ^^
He does seem to enjoy a drink or two
Verily, he is the chair man of the river.
Ok, but why would you assume it's still there? I mean, didn't she just show you a bunch of pictures of people wearing it after Kent was killed?
No -- If you check out all of them, they are prior to Elizabeth I ...
Sir Francis Bacon, eh? I suspect they're about to...
shades
...jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Ham it up, why don't you?
Waaaaaaaaaait- They're going south?! Don't Yorkshiremen melt when they reach anywhere further south then the Fens?
I think it's only the Home Counties they're allergic to. Oh, and Lancashire, of course. Cornwall has its own headstrong culture, they should be fine there.
Ah Lancashire, another place I'm supposed to hate for reasons I don't understand :)
What, the murder of Good King Richard isn't reason enough for you?
(Guess what my R stands for...)
Nope, it's Londoners who melt any time they have to leave the safety of the "Home Counties"
The bad part of me is going 'it's funny cos it's true'
I think you mean "where you can see people coming", not vice versa, given that "you" is the person trying to hide the Heart.
Meanwhile, Envy is taking notes outside, grumbling about how they need to do all the work..
Sark possibly? Kinda looks like it. This should be good.
Doesn't have Sark's characteristic wasp waist, and Sark's a bit far from Cornwall. Could be Great Ganilly in the Scilly Isles, though...
Those two lighthouses are a killer though.
Scratch that, Phlebas is right - Lundy is the right shape AND was owned by one of Bacon's cronies:
Oh man Lundy. I own a book on the history of Lundy. It's a fascinating place. (My favourite anecdote is the two treaties England signed with Scotland which promised that if any man from England made war with any man from scotland that would breach the treaty and then there's little disclaimer saying apart from the men of Lundy who couldn't be counted as being controlled by the english crown).
Sir Francis Bacon keeps making me hungry ._.
Why not put it in a lead-lined box and drop it overboard in the middle of the Atlantic? Perhaps it's possible to use magic to detect it wherever it is and then summon something to retrieve it, even from the deep ocean. That would mean the safest way to keep it safe is to hide it in a place you can guard and keep an eye on it.
Didn't they suggest doing that to the One Ring at the Council of Elrond? IIRC Gandalf shot that one down pretty convincingly, and I think the same reason would work for the Heart.
Is it really a good idea to go after it? Wouldn't it be advantageous to let it stay hidden? Or at the very least keep it hidden until after Mr. Luxuria has been dealt with?
Is that St. George's Island? I'm looking at a map and most of the other "islands" seem to be nothing more than tiny, unnamed spits of land.
Dunno the shape is wrong and it seems too small for two lighthouses.
Panel 5 reminds me of this:
[http://freefall.purrsia.com...](http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01374.htm "http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01374.htm")
A SAFE place? You'd think the bloke wanted the thing stolen. Mercy me! The Marisco family, Sir John Pennington, Barbary pirates, and then FRENCH pirates no less? I cannot believe it hasn't gone missing. The question is, which pirates do we interview first?
I am presuming, of course, that all pirates (who survive) retire, settle down and eventually have grandkids, and make sure that their best exploits become family stories by telling them to the children by the fire.
And the Dread Pirate Roberts.
I believe the Island is actually off the Coast of Devon, just a tad north of Cornwall...
Doesn't look like any of the Scilly Isles... Hmmm...