That depends on the crime, Cadugan. Anyone can do a highway robbery. It takes skill to make yourself come off as a dashing rogue, rather than a common thug (or in some cases, people romanticising things)
Aldwin work with an specialist in gather information, a skilled fighter, Laura Holt and a skilled and charismatic bard specialized in cheating everyone includes herself and who has a strange relationship with Aldwin.
Because they have all the power and used to making people go away. Then, the people was suffering under an enormous weight. Aldwin’s group provided… leverage
Ok, T-Chall, get out of my head. Just before reading your comment, I literally just reviewed polyhedrons, including buckyballs, named for Fuller. Talk about synchronicity or weird!!! 8-}
> I never expected to see a Remington Steele reference here!
Guest co-writer!
My wife, after not having seen the opening for decades, could still recite the opening, on beat, from memory.
"Follow… "
> YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE PAST ME!
Wasn’t trying, I promise.
Honestly? I thought you’d recognise that one.
This is the less-elegant reference I was telling T-Chall about. But dammit, I just HAD to have her name in here. Not "Laura Colt," not "Laura Zimbalist," Laura friggin’ *Holt*.
Brosnan’s star rose higher than hers afterward, but Stephanie Zimbalist was the *real* star of that show.
And, y’know, how many female TV sleuths were there in the 80s? Laura, Jessica, Christine & Mary Beth… and… ?
Cagney and Lacey, and Mrs Amanda King of scarecrow and mrs king tv show, jemima shore, and PD James’s detective were all in the 1980s in movies ot tv too, and books with female detectives were becoming more numerous. I didn’t see most of them then, but as i got more into murder mysteries, i read many and saw older shows. Marplecwill always be a fave, regardless of who lkayed her 🙂
Growing up in North America in the 80s, female detectives on the Beeb were not something we knew about. The few English shows that did make it to our shores were shunted onto Public Broadcasting, and virtually ignored by entertainment press. (CBC might have had Doctor Who for a while. Maybe.) That’s why they didn’t make my list of female TV sleuths in the 80s – for all intents and purposes, they didn’t exist to me at all.
I’ll happily give you the wonderful Mrs King.
(even though my wife, the Steele-memoriser, loathes the way the opening title music portrayed her as a joke)
My apologies if it came across as such, but this wasn’t meant to be a contest btw, just adding feul to the fire of more puns and allusions 🙂
i grew up in upstate ny, 4 channels till the mid 80s when my friend’s parents got cable, so i get you on the not knowing a lot of them, especially british. Only reason ik the pd james is that my mom was into her books, and knew about the movie. She was a huge fan of murder mystery books, although not of tv, except public broadcasting. Probably _because_ they showed the british stuff lol
What’s the beeb? Not a phrase i know
And speaking of marple, i went back and re-re-re-read murder at the vicarage juuusssst to make sure i recalled the ending to get your reference (yeah, right. I often dip into the marples as i think they are the more creative and better written, especially compared to the poirots). One of these days, i’d love to chat about books in detail 🙂
Hey, once things are old enough to be historical/mythical, it’s natural to have a romanticized view of things. The legend of her cleverness endures, the pain of her victims doesn’t.
I mean, look at pop culture characters like Robin Hood, Arsene Lupin, or Jack Sparrow. All criminals!
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That depends on the crime, Cadugan. Anyone can do a highway robbery. It takes skill to make yourself come off as a dashing rogue, rather than a common thug (or in some cases, people romanticising things)
Parker would be the first to say: Theft is *work*.
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By which I mean Richard Stark’s Parker, of course.
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I think I need to start keeping notes on this story so I don’t get confused.
Me, too!
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Cadugan is especially cute on this page, I’m not sure why.
He is!! Maybe because he isn’t scowling as much lol
Ok, unrelated, but you got away with killing Arachne, please don’t kill Cadugan or Lucas T_T
Yeah, killing one or both of them off would be seriously dangerous to myself.
Some of us were VERY frightened when they got stoned.
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Don’t say more.
Aldwin work with an specialist in gather information, a skilled fighter, Laura Holt and a skilled and charismatic bard specialized in cheating everyone includes herself and who has a strange relationship with Aldwin.
Because they have all the power and used to making people go away. Then, the people was suffering under an enormous weight. Aldwin’s group provided… leverage
PD: Sorry, i haven’t able to resist XD
Oh, you sneaky so-and-so…
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Awesome O.O
Or i hit the mark (and i doubt really) or you are ver faster with your inks.
Awesome
I drew that in response to your comment. 🙂
Like i said.
It’s incredible and awesome your hability and speed with pencil and inks
Humiliate me before your greatest lord.
What game did he use? Did he cheat at russian roulette?
This is a heck of an abbey.
It sounds rather abbey-normal to me. 😉
We thought about setting the murder in a yurt, but figured an abbey would give us more options.
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I did fight for the igloo idea, though.
The Magic Bubble could be in the shape of a Geodesic Dome. The monks nicknamed it, "Bucky."
That one took me longer to puzzle out than it should have…
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Yeah, sorry. I’m missing something.
Rich: "Bucky" would be Buckminster Fuller, the genius behind the geodesic dome … including the one out on Ile Ste-Helene.
Ok, T-Chall, get out of my head. Just before reading your comment, I literally just reviewed polyhedrons, including buckyballs, named for Fuller. Talk about synchronicity or weird!!! 8-}
*gives P!enapple a sly, foxy grin*
I never warmed to the igloo idea.
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*ba-dum-tish*
*wonders how long i can resist making a temperature pun….*
I never expected to see a Remington Steele reference here!
YES…!!! Only checked the forum to see if anyone made a Remington Steele comment…!!!
I barely remember that show, but I liked it. And it solidified my idea that Pierce Brosnan should one day play James Bond. And lo and behold!
OH AND WHOAH! t! YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE PAST ME!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH!
> I never expected to see a Remington Steele reference here!
Guest co-writer!
My wife, after not having seen the opening for decades, could still recite the opening, on beat, from memory.
"Follow… "
> YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE PAST ME!
Wasn’t trying, I promise.
Honestly? I thought you’d recognise that one.
This is the less-elegant reference I was telling T-Chall about. But dammit, I just HAD to have her name in here. Not "Laura Colt," not "Laura Zimbalist," Laura friggin’ *Holt*.
Brosnan’s star rose higher than hers afterward, but Stephanie Zimbalist was the *real* star of that show.
And, y’know, how many female TV sleuths were there in the 80s? Laura, Jessica, Christine & Mary Beth… and… ?
t!
Miss Jane Marple.
Fair enough, although if that production wound up on our side of the pond, it wouldn’t have been on a channel my family’s TV could receive.
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Cagney and Lacey, and Mrs Amanda King of scarecrow and mrs king tv show, jemima shore, and PD James’s detective were all in the 1980s in movies ot tv too, and books with female detectives were becoming more numerous. I didn’t see most of them then, but as i got more into murder mysteries, i read many and saw older shows. Marplecwill always be a fave, regardless of who lkayed her 🙂
Growing up in North America in the 80s, female detectives on the Beeb were not something we knew about. The few English shows that did make it to our shores were shunted onto Public Broadcasting, and virtually ignored by entertainment press. (CBC might have had Doctor Who for a while. Maybe.) That’s why they didn’t make my list of female TV sleuths in the 80s – for all intents and purposes, they didn’t exist to me at all.
I’ll happily give you the wonderful Mrs King.
(even though my wife, the Steele-memoriser, loathes the way the opening title music portrayed her as a joke)
And I already mentioned Cagney & Lacey!
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Gak!!! You did mention c&l, and i forgot!!
My apologies if it came across as such, but this wasn’t meant to be a contest btw, just adding feul to the fire of more puns and allusions 🙂
i grew up in upstate ny, 4 channels till the mid 80s when my friend’s parents got cable, so i get you on the not knowing a lot of them, especially british. Only reason ik the pd james is that my mom was into her books, and knew about the movie. She was a huge fan of murder mystery books, although not of tv, except public broadcasting. Probably _because_ they showed the british stuff lol
What’s the beeb? Not a phrase i know
And speaking of marple, i went back and re-re-re-read murder at the vicarage juuusssst to make sure i recalled the ending to get your reference (yeah, right. I often dip into the marples as i think they are the more creative and better written, especially compared to the poirots). One of these days, i’d love to chat about books in detail 🙂
Slangy shortened talk for "The BBC". From whence come all the famous British TV shows.
> My apologies if it came across as such, but this wasn’t meant to be a contest btw
You didn’t come across like that at all!
I just felt I should clarify the perspective from which I’d said what I did, is all.
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P!enapple, where in upstate NY did you grow up? I’m from, and still live in, Rochester.
Would Laura’s alternate identity get usurped by an Irish con-man trying to hide in plain sight?
I like to think her alternate identity WAS the Irish con man.
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I get the feeling there’s a lot of inside information/references here that are going right over my head!
A lot of pop-culture references that don’t impact the story. Some of them went over my head too and I drew them.
There are several references, which will tail off as the story gets rolling, but as Rich pointed out, they’re only aesthetic.
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I definitely prefer the pencil art style over the inked.
I find it weird a Duke (and such a law-abiding one at that) being so enthusiastic about a successful crime lord…
Also, the sword of said crime lord becoming a holy relic… I guess she had a change of heart and converted…?
Hey, once things are old enough to be historical/mythical, it’s natural to have a romanticized view of things. The legend of her cleverness endures, the pain of her victims doesn’t.
I mean, look at pop culture characters like Robin Hood, Arsene Lupin, or Jack Sparrow. All criminals!
Yes but Robin Hood stole from the government. How evil could he really be?
Laura Holt?!!!! *gg* As in "Remington Steele"???? Oh, yes, please!!!!
Honestly, I prefer having this style back, even though the inks were definitely getting better with more degrees of shading.
Lexa Dumas? That confirms it. These ass-kicking Kingswords are the Three Assketeers.
I know this page is a few years old, but for my own sake, I'll say why I prefer this style. I don't know whether it's because of my poor eyesight or my increased sensitivity to bright lights after I became epileptic, but the sharp contrast of black on clear white irritates my eyes. As in, I can feel my eyes itch just from looking at my own comment as I'm writing it. The old artstyle, with all its shades of grey and sketchy outlines is considerably more comfortable to look at.
This is of course purely subjective, as it has nothing to do with the quality of the style and is based solely on my own personal senses. If at some point you find the time to return to a different style, that is your prerogative and I will support it. Experimentation and change, temporarily or permanently, is vital for any content creator to keep the momentum going and avoid burnout.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS PAGE IS A FEW YEARS OLD