Page 13 – Fifteen seconds of fame
“Come at me, bro!”
“Please speak clearly into the dildo”. Damn, now I can’t unsee it! Is it worth fixing?
Oh, don’t use spammy words like viagra, xanax or ツ (this site used to get a LOT of Japanese spam). The comment section is monitored by Ammit and she will gleefully devour any suspicious messages.
If you’re wondering why Jane’s hair is so short, as a mummy she was mostly bald and wore that black wig to hide it. But, as her health and vigor have improved her naturally curly hair has started growing back. Here’s what she might have looked like with long hair, from an early concept sketch.
Still trying to find a way to slip that barber robot into the story.
Original Script
NEWSPERSON Looking up A truly horrifying experience. Plummeting from such elevation with death staring you in the eye. NEWSPERSON Back to Jane, who is looking up with her mouth agape. Your short life rushing before you all the way down. NEWSPERSON As Harriet glides to Jane’s shoulder. But, like a winged angel, you landed with scarcely a graze. Any insights on today’s miracle? Switch view to televised version of the broadcast being watched by citizens crowded around a projection set. JANE Since my coma I’ve become practically indestructible. When those democrats attacked my mother … NEWSPERSON … Mrs. Marry Webb, who survived a brutal assassination attempt last fall… JANE Absent mindedly touching her necklace Yeah. Well, they won’t try that again. Because I can…
Finally catching up with the second chapter. Nice to see Jane without the bands.
Thanks, Gual. I liked letting her stretch in the sun for a bit, but the mummy will return at some point.
I didn’t see it until you mentioned it, so I wouldn’t fix it. I thought it just looked like an Electrical Speaking Trumpet.
The “like a winged angel” with Harriet landing is sweet.
But Jane, you silly young person! Do not bring politics into your interview! Yes, you’ll make points with the People In Power. But you’ll also make enemies. Especially enemies who like answering challenges.
Perhaps you could involve the Tonsorial Machinal during an audience scene, listening to Jane’s interview, set in a chic Barbering Emporium.
The audience could all sing “Bar bar bar…bar barber on…”
Perhaps one such device could be placed in an upscale Crater Lake City salon to the strains of “Shorn in the CLC”.
I personally believe you are accessing a higher class of clown here (and some non-clowns) than comment on many webcomics. For the rest, delete the boorish japes.
Eh, I really have to make an effort to see a dildo there.
Good to know I’m the only one. Um, nevermind.
I had to look up “tonsorial”, Charlie. A good word I don’t believe I’d heard before.
Drat it all! I’ve been meaning to mention your Top Web Comic “Voting incentive” for a while now, but I keep getting distracted. That is the most effective gif work I’ve seen in an incentive, and so funny, too. Kudos, sir.
(Full disclosure: I would have voted anyway, but this is an unexpectedly nice reward)
🙂 Thanks, Delta-V. For everyone else, click here and vote for this comic to see the monstrosity for yourself.
I’ve browsed through every now and then, but not until now have I sat down and really read through. So many good months wasted, without this wonderful comic in my life. Woe is indeed me. I’m pretty sure I’ve praised your visuals, and the amazing follow-through of the turn of the century, futuristic style to high heaven before, but I never realised how well the narrative follows the same threads.
The language, the flow, it is just so thuroughly well done. You have something truly unique here.
🙂 Sorry for the late replay. Just saw this and you’ve made my day!
‘They won’t try that again!’ Fate just grinned and said ‘heh, wanna bet?’
At least it’s not raining.
(And thanks for reading!)
Nice comic! Just found you via Daddy’s Girl. About the barber robot, maybe you and LoneStarNorth (http://willsaveworldforgold.com) should do a crossover? (See http://willsaveworldforgold.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34&sid=d0640e31d29c58b44029cdc91d059331&start=300#p3993; scroll down until you see it, just above the giant scorpion.)