I actually did imagine a sitcom cheer and applause.
"Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic is drawn before a live studio audience." (In other words, Rich occasionally has pets venture through the room he is drawing this in, which we will graciously call a studio.)
Yikes! That pompadour does NOT suit her! Perhaps that is the point though, and it is her silent (and scary!) form of protest against the new fashions. Leave it to her to be able to be terrifying on ANY battlefield, including a social and fashion one. It could also be a ploy to distract her oponents in the tournament. Given Lucas’s expression, I think it is working.
The word I think we are all looking for today is "frazzled". Lady Bloodhand is holding it in, but the tension in how she opened the door and how her hair is not really cooperating any more. But being accused of a murder and having to play along with new social mores that do not allow for older habits can leave even the most sanguine person short-tempered.
Knowing Lady Bloodhand like we do, though, she is probably leaning into the role, because it also keeps unwanted visitors from knocking on her door. And were she truly innocent, then custom demands that the real killer try to silence her as well, to avoid any loose ends. So best be prepared for violence, and to keep all others at bay.
As for the pompadour, I think the YAFGC is still new to the fashion, so most will be wearing their own hair and not the powdered wigs famed from European history. Give it a few more years, though, and as King Runtherd gets older, much like Louis XIII, courtiers will move to wigs as well when their own hairs grow thin.
So yes, I think that’s her own hair… and her own teeth, fangs for asking. No need to wig.
There must be very glad to all who love her. Nobody thinks (she the first) that she lived so many times (and more important, with joy. She have two magnificent boys and they have ever more magnificent families)
– River, how do you keep escaping from your maximum security cell?
– Oh, I talked with this lovely lady named Maula. She told me a lot of things and I worked out the rest. So now, your so-called maximum security just slows me down a bit.
Maula was getting old even during the War, walking a bit slower, with a bit of a bend in her back after the Mountain blew up. It stings a little to see that she’s no longer the elegant sexpot she once was, but – who among us is?
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*audience cheers*
I actually did imagine a sitcom cheer and applause.
"Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic is drawn before a live studio audience." (In other words, Rich occasionally has pets venture through the room he is drawing this in, which we will graciously call a studio.)
With some sax jazz on the background, and then cut to ads.
"Hi, maternal-in-a-realllly-complicated-way figure!"
"Hello, Maula… You’re looking terrifying today!"
Yikes! That pompadour does NOT suit her! Perhaps that is the point though, and it is her silent (and scary!) form of protest against the new fashions. Leave it to her to be able to be terrifying on ANY battlefield, including a social and fashion one. It could also be a ploy to distract her oponents in the tournament. Given Lucas’s expression, I think it is working.
Maura, dear, the years are being cruel with you
The word I think we are all looking for today is "frazzled". Lady Bloodhand is holding it in, but the tension in how she opened the door and how her hair is not really cooperating any more. But being accused of a murder and having to play along with new social mores that do not allow for older habits can leave even the most sanguine person short-tempered.
Knowing Lady Bloodhand like we do, though, she is probably leaning into the role, because it also keeps unwanted visitors from knocking on her door. And were she truly innocent, then custom demands that the real killer try to silence her as well, to avoid any loose ends. So best be prepared for violence, and to keep all others at bay.
As for the pompadour, I think the YAFGC is still new to the fashion, so most will be wearing their own hair and not the powdered wigs famed from European history. Give it a few more years, though, and as King Runtherd gets older, much like Louis XIII, courtiers will move to wigs as well when their own hairs grow thin.
So yes, I think that’s her own hair… and her own teeth, fangs for asking. No need to wig.
Nice to see the scar over her left eye’s gone. 😉
I see traces of it with the shading pencil. Most likely it has faded, but I think it can be explained as simply being powdered over.
It’s impressive how you guys can notice something like that in a comic where so many pencil lines can be seen in the finished pages.
Years o practice. 😉
Ah, Frivolesque, I miss it still. Sigh.
Me too, bro, me too.
Maula is looking very… ¿old?
There must be very glad to all who love her. Nobody thinks (she the first) that she lived so many times (and more important, with joy. She have two magnificent boys and they have ever more magnificent families)
– River, how do you keep escaping from your maximum security cell?
– Oh, I talked with this lovely lady named Maula. She told me a lot of things and I worked out the rest. So now, your so-called maximum security just slows me down a bit.
River Song or River Tam? 😀
Yes, both. 😀
Gods help us if they do a jailbreak *together*.
I was not even considering Firefly, so just the one that has multiple ways to go anywhere, anywhen.
Incarceration does not suit her well, either that or her hair stylist and makeup artist didn’t make it onto the visitor’s list 😉
Maula was getting old even during the War, walking a bit slower, with a bit of a bend in her back after the Mountain blew up. It stings a little to see that she’s no longer the elegant sexpot she once was, but – who among us is?
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Just because we’re not seeing her at her best right now doesn’t mean she doesn’t still got it going on!
Fair point!
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It could be a ruse or dress code at the tournament and that she dresses in her own things when back home
Enter the obvious yet innocent suspect.
This conversation should be fun.
"Lucas! Cadugan! How are my boys doing?"
"Sent here to investigate the murder."
"Sounds wonderful. Want some tea?"
Not, you are wrong.
The last line must be "Well, i’m glad they put this case in the best hands"
You really think she’d be so obvious as to say that out loud?
Well, We are talking of mom’s pride.
Shouting will be more exactly
Maula! I’m so happy to finally see her again x3 she looks… unusual.
Also, I wonder if a displacer beast gnawed at that door handle.
I love Lucas’s expression in panel 2, compared to Carruthers’s obvious exasperation–amused and tolerant at the same time:
"Oh, Mum. That’s just so–YOU."
If Maula Bloodhand tells you all the ways she can brutally murder you, you know it’s not an idle threat but a promise. A genuine, honest promise.
Also, I did not expect Maula to dress herself up for this occassion. She looks much scarier than usual.