Page 106 – The Palace
Et tu Lewis?
The palace is based on Neuschwanstein castle, the same one used by Disney in the design of Cinderella’s castle. Neuschwanstein is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. If you’re in the area you can attend classical music concerts inside.
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C’mon, Lewis is faking it. She’s covering for Jane. Right? Right?
Portable stocks? What, they haven’t invented handcuffs?
That first panel is a knockout, Andy.
Thanks, Charlie. You can’t see it from this angle, but Lewis is in handcuffs. The Sheriff probably had those stocks pulled out of storage and dusted off just to humiliate Marry and her daughter in front of the queen.
It keeps getting worse and worse. A never-ending conga line of Monday Blues.
🙁 Tell me about it. But, we get to meet the queen! I’m really happy with how she turned out. Thanks for sticking it out.
Don’t be daft. We’ve nowhere else to go to satisfy the curiosity you’ve created in us. 🙂
Ouch! Lewis was very shaken by her encounter with Dark Jane apparently.
Jane is in trouble if the queen finds it in her interest to use her for the sake of Royal Science.
Hehe, I’m enjoying working on the upcoming pages with the queen. Soon…
Well, that’s gratitude for you. Lewis has come rather far from, “I cannot accept this (her life) from you” (Vol. 2, P. 95). And if Jane’s, um, ….avatar…. kissing her back has Lewis upset, she started it (Vol. 2, P. 83). And whatever happened to “…the loveliest monster I ever met” (ibid)?
On the other hand, the page is masterfully done with gloomy shadows and brightly lit windows. (Probably boring aside) I once assembled a 3D computer graphic jigsaw puzzle model of Neuschwanstein Castle. It took me two weeks even with the computer snapping the pieces together for me. ^^
Lewis is hurt and lashing out. She trusted Jane enough to share her private personal life only to discover Jane isn’t who she appears. Dark Jane was manipulative and untrustworthy, something Lewis can usually spot a mile away. It was quite a shock. Lewis is scared and feeling alone. Acting the fool for Jane got her shot and arrested and she’s well out of her depth now. 🙂
Neuschwanstein castle is a great location, I couldn’t resist using bits of it for this island palace. The real Crater Lake also gets a ton of snow each winter. The most snow per year of any inhabited place on earth.