September 28th, 2018
28 Sept 2018 · page 838 of 1306
At least Parsley is having a nice afternoon.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Parsley, Vincent Knott
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Parsley, obviously, being the potted plant in panel 2. Very lush, clearly being watered well, what's not to enjoy about such a fine day?
Should we tell him?
...I'm gonna tell him.
I'm really curious why he's even in this line of work. Was he just not able to bring himself not to go with the family business?
Also, gosh, I just noticed my girl has buck teeth and I love it. And PARSLEY! I am legit impressed by this rendering of a feline; I can't put my finger on it but it's capturing something about cats most comic depictions don't. Body language, but also just the whole shape. The catliness of cat.
The cat in "Alice and the Nightmare" is Very Cat, too.
>I'm really curious why he's even in this line of work. Was he just not able to bring himself not to go with the family business?
That seems likely. From what we've seen of Vincent so far, it's clear he's the anxious type and doesn't like confrontation; I can easily imagine him not being able to get up the nerve to tell his dad he didn't want anything to do with the hangman business.
one of my cats was on the chair next to me while i was drawing parsley, so that probably helped!
Good. Please tell the cat I love the cat, they're doing amazing.
Cats always love to help you work.
Hmm... maybe if he brought Parsley along to the hanging, he'd be able to get out of pulling the lever that way.
I would like to disagree with you. My cat actively tries to hinder my work.
Precisely.
I have an image on my Instagram in my "Writing Humor" file. It's a pair of pie-charts describing the chances of a 'writer' having any given thing on their computer. The first includes things like 'reference photos', 'research files', 'tourist info', 'historical costuming' and so on, with various associated percentages.
The second is full and consists of one item: CAT (on the keyboard).
I assumed she just had a gap between her front teeth
Second consecutive page to make it look like Eliza's got a tail in the last panel
Coincidence? I don't think so!
Kitty Kitty Kitty !
The Royal Theatre reopens again, hmm.
I wonder what big harm Envy's show did to the theatre so they need the month to fix it. :)
Verity cutting various ropes in the rigging did them no favors, I'm sure.
She files back issues of the newspapers? That's obsession bordering on insanity. You've got to respect and admire her for that.
As long as they are filed and not in piles all over.
Not only does she have them all carefully arranged in a filing cabinet, I suspect she has a separate card index system that includes all the adverts as well as the articles.
If that's the case she probably has debates with the local librarians over whose cataloguing system is better.
Oh, hers is much better. Not only is it easier to use, it's encrypted to foil the agents of the Illuminati.
But the Gnomes of Zurich have broken the code!
Parsley is one content cat.
Scritches melt cats. It is known. ;)
I think Parsley has the right attitude here.
Likely plot-relevant character's face obscured in newspaper, hm. Definitely not anything to watch out for, oh no!
also don't question which one of Owen cast of friends is likely to be the one on the chopping block as they haven talked about who that person is just yet
I’m guessing the person facing the noose will be the guy in handcuffs on this chapter’s cover, whom we haven’t met yet.
I hope this councilwoman-running-for-mayor is more reasonable than the last one we met!
I like Eliza's sympathetic expression in the last panel. She's obviously heard poor Vincent fretting about this plenty of times before, and she feels for him, but there's not much she can do.
Me too. Running on an “anti-death penalty” platform is something a lot of modern readers can get behind, I think, so I’m hoping she’s a reasonably decent person
It's certainly a better basis for a campaign than an anti-magic platform in a town built on magic!
Ooo, I am already in love with this new chapter! The scenes are so well-drawn, like always, but it seems they have even more detail than usual. I love the decoration on the teacups, the beading on the stool, the hanging plant, the globe... Just everything is so detailed!
Kid, either suck it up and do your job, or stand up to your father and quit. You can't have it both ways.
Unless you subscribe to certain multiversal theories.
To paraphrase the mad god Cyric: "If you try, that leads to all sorts of problems. And I'm not opening up that particular bag of worms again."
D'awww, Parsley.
Comics have stopped updating on Comic Chameleon again! It was working, and then it was not.
I'm suddenly wondering what Eliza and Vincent would look like to Mal.
Parsley seems to be having the time of it's life.
Is there a reason the councilwoman's face is covered? Our last such 'do-gooder' was Councilwoman Fairbairn, so it's a different name. Maybe a relative who married differently?
Parsley approves of 'Knotty', which speaks well of him...