Annotated 15-8
When we expanded Byron and Syr’Nj’s section to accomodate the bear fight, I made up my mind to shrink this one, partly because I wanted to keep within 24 pages. But it was also because it’s such a simple idea, I think it’s better served by the rule of threes.
Then I realized that it should go in the middle of the feeding-the-hungry scene so that Rachel could drop some exposition that would lead us into it, meaning that the scene as a whole could remain wordless.
Is there a sexual dimension to Frigg’s aggression with Scipio? Well, on the one hand, definitely yes. Absolutely. Uh-huh. You bet. But on the other hand, saying that tends to invoke the Freudian idea that sexual drives underlie everything else about us, and I think there are other things at the core of Frigg. I think it’s more accurate to say that there’s an aggressive dimension to everything she does, including all her sexual relationships or attempts at same.
Did the intelligence of kobolds ever get touched on? They are treated as mildly annoying vermin for the entirety of the comic but they are clearly sentient to some degree. They wear clothes and use tools! Tools they presumably made for themselves, even. Humans eating/wearing them is weird.
Have you somehow ignored all the previous comments on this from writers and readers?
I recommend checking out the comments on this page. T discusses the kobold issue in more depth.
http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-1-9/
Quite a party! Bring along your “plus one.”
Just chalked up Figg’s competitive nature to her ego: she needs to be the toughest person in the room. As for Freud, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. If you’re mind goes somewhere else; well, I guess it is more than that to you but that’s your clock work buddy.
All this talk about sex made me notice the phallic imagery in the peenultimate penal… I mean panel.
I think “Frigg has green eyes” is clearly the root of… sexual dimension… something? Umm…. I’ll be in my bunk.