November 16th, 2011
16 Nov 2011 · page 14 of 1306
His parents wanted a really English name.
Just to let people know, I'm involved in an awesome project arranged by Kel McDonald, and it's got a Kickstarter page up now! A book of fairytales, with contributions by Kel herself, Kory Bing, Jose Pimenta, Mary Cagle, KC Green, Kate and Steven Shanahan and Lin Visel. And me! An amazing array of astounding artists! ..and me!
Sounds pretty sweet, yeah? Go support the Kickstarter and get yourself a copy!
Ps, the transcript box isn't the comment box! I really hate deleting nice comments just because they went in the wrong box :( I'll look into collapsing the transcript box or something.
Cast: Harriet Barber, Sidney Malik, Thomas Macavity
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King, but for how long?
Wut.
Heh.
Have you ever encountered Esther Freisner's [Druid's Blood](Â0Â "Â1Â"), a novel of someone who closely resembles Sherlock Holmes, in an alternate London where magicworks?
"Brithric Donne" has a sidekick/chronicler/assistant/friend named "Dr John Weston", who is not precisely what he appears to be...
This story has been making me think of it for some reason.
That sounds pretty great, I'll have to have a look! Seems right up my alley.
Twist! :D
Who wants to bet that there are horrible consequences attached to the title 'King of Thieves', somehow?
You say "somehow" as though you can't imagine how horrible consequences could possibly be attached to it.
More like I can't imagine yet how horrible the consequences will be.
A really English name? Lancelot Du Lac was a French knight who came over and had an affair with the Welsh Queen of a Celtic King....
Lancelot is indeed a French name, not an English one.
That works even better, really :) His parents.. well, you'll see them eventually, then their line of thinking will make sense.
Hello from 9 years in the future!
...and yes, the line of thinking really did make sense!
I always thought both Guinevere and Arthur are generally understood to be Britons (likely romanised), the people who today have survived as the "Welsh".
"Welsh" is really just the word that the invading proto-English used to refer to the Britons - I believe it means something like "celtic foreigner".
This smacks of Baal vs Silvador
Harry: Secret Dragon
I mean Macavity reminds me of Baal, and in this strip his attitude particularly reminds me of how he acted when he was shown with Silvador. Harriet is not very similar to Silvador as far as I'm concerned :P
Precisely what I was thinking. I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the characters in the two comics.
Although if you ask me, Harriet seems to act more like Lenore the Head Spymaster.
I'm getting the Baal comparison, but Silvador? Really?
Silly Macavity. You're not living up to your name. You're THERE.
Gotta hand it to you, I thought I'd be too disappointed with Darken's end to be able to appreciate this. However, I am possibly even MORE excited to see this continue.
That is very cool to hear :) Mind if I ask though, was it Darken ending at all that disappointed you, or the ending itself? If it was the ending itself, what did I get wrong?
Hope you don't mind me asking, but I've gotta learn about ending stories properly!
Oh no, the ending was great, it's just the fact that it ended at all that had me down. There's just SO much more I wanted to see of that world, and those characters, etc etc.
Anyway keep up the awesome work! This comic has already found a place in my bookmarks!
And so now they must have a thieves' duel. >:)
I know there's little chance of this ever being confirmed... But was Macavity named after a cat by any chance?
Really English ... except lancelot is french