April 7th, 2023
7 Apr 2023 · page 1162 of 1306
Yes I know she legally counts as queen already but I am pretty sure you can roll with me on this one, right? Right. We're cool, you and I.
Cast: Blake Thackerey, Bryony Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Queen Victoria, Sidney Malik
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Good to see Harry’s pipe again but is it correct etiquette to make the Queen’s dress stink of stale tobacco?
Mandatory
The pipe'll do that no matter whether it's in Harrys face or one of her pockets, and throwing it out of HM coach would break form as well.
Yo, magpie! Hex it into one of the twins' underwear, will ya?
Hope Harry remembers to share her tobacco. But the Queen may prefer cigars.
I doubt she'll need to share. After all, Vicky already has a place for Prince Albert in her plan.
I created an account purely to praise this excellent pun. 10/10
This is the 1800's, tobacco is probably one of the nicer things people smelled of at this time.
Glad to see Harry still has her pipe too. But no smoke coming out of it. Maybe she's in the process of quitting but hasn't quite ditched it entirely yet?
Harry is getting a situation. As a treat.
"For England, Harriet?"
"For England, Sidney."
"No. For me."
"Can we stop at a jeweler on the way?"
Whoa Sid, you even got the soon-to-be queen in on your proposal! I never would have guessed you were the extravagant type! I'm happy to see it's all going according to plan!
sid throws himself despairingly in front of the still horses and asks them politely if they would trample him and save him from this week
[horses pull a Coldstream and refuse to even snort at him]
Cue dramatic music!
Hmmm... a one-day story? It's gonna be quite the day, isn't it?
Kind of like how Hangman's Knot was technically over the span of 8 hours (at least the main, race-against-time, not-including-the-finale plot). I hope this chapter's as good as that one—definitely one of my favorites
...Albert did not do too badly for himself, did he?
Odd, she doesn't look like Jenna Colman!
Tagline: Queen Victoria
"Still not quite yet."
I'm impressed -- Victoria's eyes are drawn as blue in a comic where almost everyone else's eyes are just black dots. Great attention to detail.
You can usually see the color of the characters' eyes when they're drawn from close up. Mal has blue eyes too.
ngl being able to check everyone's eye-colour easily without having to search for a page where it's visible is a big reason i started the wiki XD
Now I want to write parody lyrics to "One Short Day" from "Wicked" about this conversation.
Just one day
For the fate of the city.
Just one day
Before you can go.
Your holiday
Will include detectiveness
By request of the princess
To save us from woe!
I love you.
"But if I put off proposing to Harry for one day, it might not happen until the end of the series!"
You're a monster.
No pressure.
Well, she's better looking than the original Victoria...
Actually, the drawing is reasonably faithful to Victoria's coronation portrait painted by George Hayter. (Which it should be, given that she's about to be coronated.)
Ms. Ashwin has done her homework.
This is why I can't be the protagonist of a story. my answer would be "go get ganked. I am going on vacation with my scruffy scarecrow" and the story would then be 40 chapters of my tropical vacation with my lovely wizardly man.
Wait, I'm confused, is that not what's about to happen? Because I am going to be incredibly disappointed if we aren't getting our slice of life vacation. For even better icing on the top, they come back and literally nothing went wrong and the soon-to-be queen was overreacting.
man i wish! i am just saying i would make a terrible protagonist cause i would turn down the queens request so i could enjoy my vacation with my beloved.
"Oh, is that all."
BBC radio is doing a series on everyone who tried to murder Queen Victoria. Coincidence? I don’t think so!
BBC Sounds - Killing Victoria - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Killing Victoria on BBC Sounds BBCAh. There's the pipe.
So I looked up the comic the "Not quite yet" line calls back to, and it's nice to see how the art has evolved. It's a solid improvement, but subtle enough that they're still recognizable as the same style. I like it.
Oooh, which strip was it?
This one: https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-15th-2013
Ooh...and the text in this one
Widdershins A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins! KateDrawsComics
definitely foreshadows the text in this one:
Widdershins A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins! KateDrawsComics
In panel 3, I would have adjusted the placement of the speech balloons, to more clearly show the chronological order. As it is, Harry's line appears to come after both of Victoria's, rather than between them.
the intention is that your eye follows on from sid's speech bubble to harry's, it seems to work pretty okay imo.
Yes, I see what you mean. Possibly I've spent too much time reading manga (right-to-left) and so ordered them vertically. I was thinking that Victoria's "A pleasure..." bubble came before the "Not quite yet", with Harry saying "Your Majesty" in between. After all, you don't speak to royalty until they speak to you first... not that Harry would give that bit of protocol any thought, of course
I had the same problem as sshipway, honestly. I think seeing the connected speech bubbles subconsciously primed me to read top-to-bottom, so I was confused for a split second when I first read it. But quite a minor problem overall.
I had the same problem- I think moving the tail to the "Still not quite yet" bubble would make it clear without having to rearrange anything
Why! It's Lady McLadyFace, from the parade!
I've seen her for five seconds and I would already die for her.