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Chapter Five: Pages 29 - 33
🕑 Added 2025-06-20 18:07:57 +0000 UTCIn last week's post, Vignelli was trying to convince the elderly townsfolk of Archipoli that Uncle Nikos and his sister had conspired with the British Navy to bring doom to their town. When the townsfolk seem disinclined to believe the worst of Nikos, though, Vignelli calls for anyone to bolster his claim. He has also just poured wine for the British naval officers who came to the ball, but that's probably not important…
Some notes for this installment:
Wine glasses are hard to paint. I like how they turned out here, though!
I had a chat with a friend about the use of the word "pervert," and repetition of "perverse/pervert." I think he didn't like the repetition. I argued the repetition makes it funny, so that's where it stands right now.
I'm not fuper confident in my use of olde-timey effs in place of esses on the little note. If anyone has some infight on the matter, please do not hesitate to share.
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PRESCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER
Today is the last day of preschool for Kiddo, and I have not met my goal of finishing colour for Chapter Five before that happens.
You'd think that a self-imposed deadline would be the least psychically-damaging kind of deadline to miss. I set the deadline, it's almost entirely arbitrary, and the stakes are low. Surely, if it passes me by, it should not hurt too much.
And yet. And yet!
Anyway, this shouldn't affect your reading experience. Grandparents have offered their time with Kiddo, and I still have a buffer in terms of finished pages, so the regular updates should continue uninterrupted. Just pour one out for your local/not-local comics-maker and his ambitious goals.
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Stay tuned for the announcement of my new graphic novel, Dawn of the Final Day, about a plucky young cowgirl named Dawn and her adventures in the apocalypse.
(I joke.)
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Happy Summer Solstice everyone in the northern hemisphere! And I guess winter solstice to everyone down south? Is that how it works? It would be weird if it didn't.
In the next update, as mysterious messages fall from the sky, let's ummm see if there's any fall…out from smashing Vignelli in the face with a wine bottle.
Until then,
I remain,
psychically damaging,
TC
Comments
Tony Cliff
🙏🙏🙏 thank you kindly!!! I don’t know how you do it.
Tealin
The rules for the 'long s' (not an f!) as I understand it from looking at a lot of olde inscriptions in churches is: A) when an s appears singly in a word OR B) the first of a double-s (e.g. Sufsex) BUT NEVER C) the terminal s in a word This survives in the German ß (straße for 'strasse' [street]) the long line being a long-s ligature with the short-s to make a bonded pair. The 'long s' looks like an f but usually either lacks the crossbar or only has the rear half of it. I don't know when it came into use – my impression is that it was a means of breaking up blackletter text a bit – but it seems to have dropped out of use, in print at least, by the early 19thC. Most of the examples I see in churches predate the neoclassical movement of the late 18thC. But I'm sure you can find more expert information on that somewhere.
Abrian Curington
I agree, the wine glasses are great! Also the idea of sending messages in snail shells. I've never thought about it, but it's so brilliant and obviously a perfect little message holder. I wasn't thrown by the "pervert" but I did find the semi-sudden appearance of the soldiers to be a mental surprise. The dialogue on panels 6 and 7 of the first page... I'm still not sure I understand, but it wasn't enough of a halt to make the whole scene misunderstood. I always love the giant action words! The green on red was a cool riff on the usual white.
