Page 115 – Lay Down Your Arm
Yikes!
Caution: more blood and violence lies ahead.
There’s a continuity error on this page that I didn’t catch until long after it was too late to fix. Can you spot it? It’s something I’m usually pretty good at tracking, so naturally it bugs me that it slipped in. Hint: a Princess Bride movie quote.
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Hmm. I’m not recognising any Princess Bride quotes.
Does it involved Wrenn’s holster on the fifth panel, or is Nickenberry’s holster on the wrong side on panel 6?
Lay. Down. Your. Sword. 🙂 I think the continuity errors is an art one…but I R nut smarts and done’s sees it.
Man in Black: Oh, there’s something I ought to tell you.
Inigo Montoya: Tell me.
Man in Black: I’m not left-handed either.
Yeah. Sheriff Moustachington cut her with his left hand, while holding his rapier in the right.
Unless he spun around and that outstretched arm is there for the balance! Yeah! That’s the ticket!
Dual-wield swords! Nah, it was supposed to be a backhanded strike, but apparently I can’t decipher my own pencil scratches. This is what happens when I rush the pencil stage.
What? Undersheriff Wrenn is infested with scruples? I certainly never saw THAT coming! O.o
Since I’m on a Princess Bride kick, to paraphrase Miracle Max:
“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY evil. There’s a big difference between mostly evil and all evil. Mostly evil is slightly good. With all evil, well, with all evil there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through their clothes and look for loose change.” 😀
The left hand to right hand switch happens quickly because he is JUST that good of a swordsman.
Technically right to left (didn’t double check prior to posting).
You got it! It wasn’t until I was happily coloring away that the error was noticed. I like your explanation better, he’s just that fast with a blade.
To be honest, I’m not sure which scene is my favorite from that movie. This one ranks way high on the list, you damn betcha, but the choreography of the incredibly brief swordfight in the hall against the guards just before the six-fingered man scarpered away is one of the most beautiful, flowing things I’ve ever seen.
The fight atop the Cliffs of Madness is amazingly true to the book, and it amused me no end later to discover that all that stuff about “Bonetti’s Defense” and “Thibault” and “Capo Ferro” so forth are REAL fencing terms.
Incidentally, googling Princess Bride quotes can cause you to seriously lose track of time….
I only learned a month ago that the whole added commentary in the book about abridging the long meandering original volume by S. Morgenstern is total bull crap. Like the grandpa reading it in the movie, it’s all part of the story. Well played, William Goldman. 😀
Yeah, I had the same issue. I ran across a comment from Goldman about a year ago talking about how hard it was to write the death scene, even though he knew how it was going to go afterwards. Up until then, I genuinely believed the in-book commentary. I’m not sure if I’m admiring or pissed to know it was ALL fake. I guess that’s just another sign of the genius of it?
Ukk. That’s a clean cut on Undersherriff Renn’s hand, meaning it either just grazed or cut it clean off…
High five! Ooh, too soon.
Well, I suppose this is in character for her, after all. She was going to some pretty big extremes to protect the monarchy during her interrogation. Still didn’t quite see this coming, but…
She’s lawful evil. The red-headed lady the unsersheriff pushed overboard was a deserter. This is exactly why the Sheriff didn’t give her full info on his schemes.
Aw dang, I was looking for a six fingered hand…
There might be one around here somewhere. It’s easy to lose count when drawing hands. 🙂
The Undersheriff’s initiative might have been a little off-hand.
You could say she’s lost her grip on the situation.