Guest Comic Annotations – Jennifer Zyren Smith
Now this one, on the other hand, strikes me as golden. It’s from a time in the ‘Nj sisters’ lives a year or two before “Woodreads,” when they were starting to develop separate interests but were still very much two peas in a pod (har).
Despite how different those interests were and the traditional magic-versus-science feud, I always got the sense that Fr’Nj had no problem with her sister taking the path she did. Syr’Nj had a little more disrespect for Fr’Nj when we first saw them, some big-sisterly condescension that probably carried over from their adolescences (“Oh, the animals ‘talk to you’? That’s… cute”). Despite a couple of bumps, their overall relationship and Syr’Nj’s respect for Fr’Nj gradually improve over the course of the series.
But sometimes all you need is to see kids bein’ cute kids.
Jennifer Zyren Smith has completed an epic-length comic of her own, Lasalle’s Legacy.
Looks like you linked the wrong webcomic. Google tells me that Jennifer’s webcomic is , and doesn’t seem to be associated (except as a guest contributor perhaps?) of Snow By Night, which is still incomplete (on hiatus for over a year, alas — I find it quite charming).
Ugh, I should just avoid HTML. Anyway it’s called Lasalle’s Legacy.
Here you go http://lasalleslegacy.com/
Finally edited this! Some behind-the-scenes stuff I won’t bore you with, but hopefully that’s my last oopsiedoodle for a while.
About 20 years ago I was at a natural history museum with a “evelator” exhibit. Even though it didn’t go anywhere it had closing doors to travel through time, so there was an alarm button next to it in case something/one got stuck. Fully aware of human nature, the button was a good six feed off the ground so even an adult would need to consciously try to press it.
Enter the players in our drama: a parent carrying a small child, putting them right at button height. “Mommy what does this button do?” “Don’t touch that, it’s an alarm.” “Oh.” *push*
BWEEBWEEBWEEBWEEBWEE
exunt omnis
As an aside, I really liked that exhibit. It was placed between main rooms for two different eras so you’d enter through one set of doors, watch a video traveling forward/backward in time showing some stuff along the way, then exit through the other doors, and they had a video for either direction.