Unlucky Friday the 13th and times up for the girls…and I guess we can now see why Áine takes them so seriously….but are they ready?
Next week, the final page of this chapter…
In the meantime…an interesting personal first in my cartooning life just happened….
Nao had recently uploaded last year’s Coffee Party manga onto Pixiv as a free-to-read webcomic. What is interesting here is that Nao separated the English and Japanese versions (we usually just print one version with both languages in the speech-bubbles).
Although this is probably no big deal to most others, for me this is the very first time that comic pages I’ve made have appeared entirely in another language. Added to that is the fact that this in Japanese, which for a brief moment makes it feel like I’ve made some “real” manga pages. It’s a wonderful feeling, and I’m really glad Nao did this. If you are curious, click the link above to reach the manga (the English version is up there too).
Time for some battle witches to put the smack down… I hope. Atliest Aine looks ready.
Um, did Friday the 13th fall on a Wednesday this month? O.o
Umm, Rawr, is your updater working right? It looks like you skipped a few pages here…
Sorry all! I auto-derped an update to the wrong month, resulting in a spoiler preview for all who were fast enough to catch it. It has since been rescheduled to the correct month.
Well gosh, Ashling, it’s just a monster out of myth and legend. I mean you’ve already dealt with a magical staff, a ghost girl, a girl who’s been frozen for a millennium or two, an unstoppable cybor… err, a unique coach, It’s not as if this is anything out of the ordinary.
@Kessy: True…but so far none of them looked like creepy shadow skeletons with a massive mouth 😀
Holy Hand Grenade time. Just remember, the count shall be three.
I don’t recall Aine telling Ashing WHICH attack to use. That’s one of the problems with a multi-purpose weapon–there are more wrong choices than right.
@Azrael: If any cute little bunnies show up it’s officially time to run for your lives.
Talk of the Holy Hand-Grenade (and subsequent Bunny) have sorta brought back flash-backs of my short gig as an extra on the 2004 “King Arthur” movie. It was shot in Ireland and my long-haired self was part of the evil Saxon horde. Fun times were had by me and my fictional army buddies (including some gags which we hope survived the cuts), but the whole time between battle scenes was filled with calls of “Pass the Holy Hand-Grenade!”, “I thought we were an autonomous collective!!” and of course, “Let’s not go there….it is a silly place….”
I guess we kind I wished that we were playing in that King Arther-based film, instead of the Clive Owen snooze-fest we found ourself in. Still…it was fun to actually play a baddie 😀
That sounds like a tremendous amount of fun, but the Saxons were Germans, not Celts, and….
…and…
Bad Kes!! Oh, wicked, bad, evil naughty Kes! Applying real history to a King Arthur movie…
@Kessy: Don’t be too hard on yourself Kessy! That’s actually what they were “trying” to do in the King Arthur movie…they wanted to make a movie about the “real-life” inspiration for the Arthurian legend. If you’ve ever seen it you’ll know they did a fairly crappy job of that 😀
The direction we got was that as “Saxons” we were an evil invader landing in Scotland and attacking south into England via Hadrian’s Wall (a replica was made for the movie). Arthur and his followers were supposed to beat us in an over the top Lord-of-the-Rings-on-a-budget battle scene. It was a mess of a battle scene, but if you do watch you might enjoy the idea that myself & my buddies were in the middle of all that pulling off pretend “kung-fu” moves and silly pratfalls.
They never caught us do this, so some of our silliness might have survived into the movie. However there are so many people in the scene that I have yet to actually spot myself and any of my buddies. It’s like a gigantic game of Where’s Waldo built into a very “meh” battle scene.
There are so many King Arthur movies I can’t keep track of them all. Seriously, the only ones I remember are Monty Python and Disney’s The Sword in the Stone. It’s the same with Robin Hood movies. and Superman movies. And Batman and Spiderman. Seriously, how many times can they make movies of the same story about the same heroes?
As long as they keep making money. 😛
Poor Ashling I bet she is thinking at this moment “first I’m learning to fly with my magic staff and my two thousand plus year old friend, and now giant rock monsters just pope out the ground… where did my life get so strange” ha ha