I did not invent those firemen, they come straight from an early 1900s postcard. Don’t you love the idea of wings powered by kicking your feet and swimming through the air?
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I, Mummy
A steampunk mummy in a dress from the future. Comic updates every Mummday.
Interesting–but what’s the glide ratio on those things if you get a leg cramp?
Beautifully done, as always. I really enjoy the way you do flames.
Flappy Bird physics! No. Wait. He crashes into everything. How about glide physics based on the classic arcade game Joust? You’ll sink slowly if you don’t kick your legs.
Joust. Much better. The wings are probably filled with helium to assist in that.
Those are the coolest firefighters. Where do you keep finding all those delightful postcards?
Your ability to draw fire is amazing. Did Jane make it out okay?! I guess we’ll have to wait for the next page to find out.
I’ve been collecting art like that since starting the comic almost a year ago. There are at least 3 artists who specialized in this type of work, a Frenchman, German and Russian–but I cannot recall their names at the moment.
Sooooo cool!
Thanks, Mike!
I love the firefighters, and I love your source material.
That’s a good question-did Jane make it out okay?
Can she jump long distances? As a mummy, are her bones more brittle?
Since she doesn’t breathe, she’s at least immune to smoke inhalation.
My guess is that she defenestrated through the window next to the one the flying fireman is hosing down. She may be hiding in the bushes.
And who is the mysterious “Disheveled Man?”
All questions I cannot answer at this time. Spoilers, man. Spoilers. I did consider having her leap out the window, but I’m not yet decided if her shattered bones would magically heal–neither does Jane.
Just say “nanomachines” and those kick-powered wings can be adapted to a modern setting!
What’s that? Some kind of magic? 😉 Unfortunately, I’m trying to stick with things that people from the late 1800s to early 1900s would have imagined. There were ideas for iPods and podcasts in 1894, but not quite pocket size or nano-sized.
I would certainly not wish to be a flammable cloth-wrapped mummy trapped in a burning building. Those wings are so cool, and it looks like you drew that postcard yourself. I think you a from the past, Andy. Are you acquaintances with Mr. H G Wells, and did he build your time machine for you?
Who told?! Shhhhh!
I read through the archives and I’m pleasantly surprised. This isn’t like anything else I’ve read and it has this nice retro yet new feel. I like that the kids talk like kids (a pet peeve of mine is when shows/books that feature kids don’t take the time to make them sound their age) and the sprinkling of retro-steampunk-esque-weird-Da-Vinci-flying-machine technology in the backgrounds is a cool easter-egg-like detail. Excellent!
🙂 🙂 🙂 I think I might have had more exposure to kids then some folks. It wasn’t a conscious choice, but I know what you mean. There’s also that high pitched voice some adults use when talking to kids–so annoying. I must find a way to use it!
Steampunk is such a loaded word these days, but since that’s what this story would be categorized under I decided to embrace it. Steampunk-lite: more character, less gears. That’s the goal, anyway.
BTW – I’ll try to give Xerxes an honorable cameo death, but not until page 86. 🙂
I have found my way here via Groovy, Kinda, and it has been pretty good. I am a big fan of well-used language, and I like what I see here. I wouldn’t mind visiting a world where bickering kids talked like that.
Welcome, Joseph. I love hearing about how people end up here. Charlie’s comic is great, isn’t it? And, thanks for the ego boost, er … comment.
I love the vintage things like this that seemed like really neat and plausible ideas at the time, only to wind up not being so plausible but still super-neat.
The patented Stool Toss
may involve throwing your shit out the window.
heh