November 10th, 2015
11 Nov 2015 · page 538 of 1306
In her element.
I'm off to Thought Bubble this weekend, hope to see some of you there!
Cast: Henry Barber, Isabelle Holt
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These two are a seriously sweet and refreshing couple. Like, I'd probably read five books worth of only them running around and being various degrees of badass and lovey-dovey.
I especially like that last panel.
It's weird, that last panel struck me as almost ominous, what with the heavy face shadow and the dark background. No idea if it's intentional or I'm just in angst mode. But otherwise, agreed on all counts. Can these two get a spin-off series?
Can I second this?
I'm with you, especially with the unanswered question of the text in that panel's source. We've seen that the spirits of the Deadlies can possess people, but did any one of these folks get close enough for something like that? Of course, the text may be commentary from the family as they listen to the story. Still, unanswered questions.
what with the heavy face shadow and the dark background.
It's the position of the lantern that's affecting their shadows. As for the background, I see it as when your vision is dominated by one small light source, such as a campfire, the shadows beyond are naturally all the more darker, compared to if one was approaching the light source from the dark.
Doug Bradley, who played Pinhead in Hellraiser once gave an interview in which he opined a fascinating theory about just what it is that draws people to the horror genre, which is related to telling scary stories around the campfire. In the warm circle of light, all is safe and well, while the shadows beyond it offer, at least in one's psyche, the possibility of the stories just maybe being real.
That would get boring after a story or two.
ooh, nifty.
Almost thought it was morse code, but no, different model.
The story plays about 1830, and Morsecode was developed about 1844.
See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Development_and_history "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Development_and_history")
Well moreso, Morse is (barring a few) on 4 symbols, not 5.
Indeed. The variable length would mean it needed some kind of length indicator, and none is apparent - the obvious thing would be word boundaries, but they don't fit at all.
I understand the third and fourth symbols (short versus long pause,) but what's the fifth?
Oh, of course -- inter-bit, inter-letter, and inter-word.
God, these two are adorable. Kate, you are an amazing writer of interpersonal chemistry - not necessarily in terms of romance, but (when reading about these two), yes, obviously also that.
Also, I love how the code is just a simple "translate numbers to letters", only you first have to crack that it's a base two number system (in set chunks). Very smart.
I love Henry's mobile eyebrows.
What kind of code-cracker's compendium does Isobel have? So much more useful than the etiquette book.
I think it's a narration box. Since they are actually telling this story to their kiddos.
He's talking about the author's comment below the actual comic, I believe.
hahaha I am really an idiot.
Actually, Henry is secretly Deadpool. Those are his yellow boxes.
'S in Leeds. I'm going with my partner and a mate. Usually it's quite good.
Lord Barber is thinking 'wonder if she can cook?'
I like this interpretation. It's cute!
Noooooooooo, I am caught up!!!! Good read, btw.
I'm loving the totally unladylike pose in Panel five. Izzy, you're not going to pass as Eliza Doolittle any time soon.
(Ms. A, did you mean that play on Isabel/Eliza? Please, please tell me you did.)
Thanks for putting it so well. The shadows don't matter to me so much as the look in his eyes (and the tilt of his eyebrows).
is this a real coding method? Like morse but before morse?
It's really a cipher invented by Francis Bacon, yes! Not very morse-like, since the idea is to hide a message within a message rather than just plain code, but i guess the general idea of patterns correlating to letters is similar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher")