Annotated 24-12
Frigg is like parmesan: she goes well with everything. The natural chemistry she showed with E-Merl in the last chapter is back, but she’s also fencing pretty well with Sundar, another black-haired guy who’s been feeling a little down about himself lately.
You see my point, I’m sure. Two wood elves on two consecutive pages have given us giant hurray-for-books speeches, and just like Frigg, Phil and I seemingly can’t get out of that library fast enough. I had my issues with that decision, but it may have been the lesser of two evils. At least these three meandering a bit is guaranteed to be entertaining. Here’s a rejected outline page that shows you what you might’ve seen if we’d kept the camera inside the building:
Four long panels, each showing our heroes dissecting a different aspect of the proposal.
Rendar, Lectrus: Historical/Futurism. Kur’Ik: Current events. Rachel and Gravedust: Morality. Byron: Ethics.
RIVETING.
To quote DBZ Abridged: “I am hilarious and you will quote everything I say.”
“Wait for it….”
Also, is the Library of Gastonia influenced by the New York City Public Library? I got some serious Ghostbusters vibes from panel 1.
Influenced, certainly. But it’s not the New York Library.
Riveting, perhaps not. But a page showing a span of dedicated work? Totally acceptable. Especially if a few Easter Eggs were present.
Even Rocky had a montage…
I gotta side with Frigg on this one. Like, get over it E-merl, that was one of the lightest dumpings ever. Sometimes I wanna shake that boy.
The Alt-Txt got me on a weird path, which I’m going to share now:
In many settings, it’s admitted that conjuring – or more specifically, summoning – is not done out of nowhere. You call forth the thing you want from another place in the multiverse, and it is sent back to its place once you are done with it (or the spell effect ends).
So if you cannot find your bread-slicing knife in its usual kitchen drawer, and five minutes after you do find it, but covered in fresh blood, don’t freak out. It’s just that some mage needed a sharp argument to end a random encounter.
In that context, a ball-conjuring spell… That could lead to some really awkward bedchamber conversations.
“I swear, darling, I had them just two minutes before!”