SPQR Blues 3 part I
Wednesday, 3 January 2007 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Chapter III begins—here it is with its ink on. Perhaps I will decorate the walls more later.Some news: Wowza—Recognition from the very fine website webcomicgeek. I don't just call it a fine website because it gives SPQR Blues the nod for Best Writing of the year. It's a fun site and a great way to discover some extremely cool webcomics. Uhm, I think I just called myself extremely cool. Just for today, I will indulge. Whee!
There's a comments section, if you feel like saying anything. Also: the top comic pick, I Am a Rocket Builder, is quite awesome, and somewhat interactive. I just spent way too much time clicking on the last panel of the one I linked to.
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Date: 2007-01-04 03:02 am (UTC)I think you have be best art too! Lookit felixancestorclone kissing on Justa's shoulder there? That's just HOT.
Oh, and I like the maid being the same maid in her daydream. ::nod nod::
This is all way too much fun for meeeee!!!!!
(looking forward to more great things from you in 2007!)
Kisssies!
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Date: 2007-01-04 02:24 pm (UTC)Your icon is cracking me up. That innocently tilted head... makes me suspect the doggie is actually standing on a half-eaten pizza box, or a cat... :)
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Date: 2007-01-04 03:32 pm (UTC)Shadow would be more likely to be hiding a pizza box. He likes the cats.
That was his portrait along with the ones I had done of Cookie and Al.
I put the caption in, because, he IS such a good boy! Everyone should know it. I was half tempted to use it in the that "other place" as my icon but figured it'd get me banned for using a "furry." LOL.
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Date: 2007-01-04 03:43 am (UTC)And I just love this strip. I love Justa's daydream, from the shoulder-kiss ::shiver!:: to Justa's little upturned nose to her real-life hair. Wonderful!
--Kris
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Date: 2007-01-04 02:28 pm (UTC)And now I know, if the story ever sags, put in a shoulder-kiss >:D
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Date: 2007-01-04 04:20 am (UTC)But that could just be from general lack of sleep!
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Date: 2007-01-04 02:14 pm (UTC)What caused the most confusion? The transition from imaginary to real? Not knowing where the "real" people are yet? Or the weirdness of suddenly starting out with the Queen of the Nile? Or... none of the above? :)
queen of the nile
Date: 2007-01-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Re: queen of the nile
Date: 2007-01-04 06:14 pm (UTC)Hmm. Maybe we'll have a real flashback to way-back-when some day. Or I can turn my failed novel manuscript set during those times into a comic... I tried that once but didn't get past the second page. Maybe, in my enormous amounts of available time, I will try again.
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Date: 2007-01-04 10:48 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I was quite tired when I read it, so it's really no wonder I didn't get it the first time. It was a bit of a "okay, wait a minute, where are we now?" kind of feeling during the first few panels, then a "why is someone calling Cleo Justa?", then a "hold on, what's Justa doing in Cleo's entourage?", followed by "no, she's not really there, I think, maybe" and "hey, Cleo looks a lot like Justa with more eye makeup, and Antony looks a lot like Felix with more ego" and finally "oh, I get it, I think, maybe".
But as I said, you must take sleep deprivation into account.
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Date: 2007-01-04 11:31 pm (UTC)I like the idea of "Felix with more ego." Maybe Chapter III will be good for that ego of his.
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Date: 2007-01-05 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-06 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 03:34 pm (UTC)Sleep is for the dead.
::nod nod::
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Date: 2007-01-04 05:11 am (UTC)Congratulations on some very well-deserved recognition!!!!
(loved the new installment, too...)
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Date: 2007-01-04 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 08:56 pm (UTC)but i like my elfies and dragons....
::sob::
(In all seriousness, you have WAY WAY more readers than I do. So that's a good thing! And that's with dragons. So you are doing something seriously right!)
boozums?
Date: 2007-01-04 09:23 pm (UTC)Re: boozums?
Date: 2007-01-06 02:59 am (UTC)Re: boozums?
Date: 2007-01-07 03:53 pm (UTC)"Boozums is good - *talking* boozums is even better!"
Hmm, I must admit the only things boozums ever said to me was: slow down boy, quit grabbing, we're gonna be her all day. It was a relief to find out they were right. DRW.
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Date: 2007-01-04 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 06:25 pm (UTC)I might not snag any awards for art unless I go full-colour, but this is unlikely to happen. I will remain a champion of b&w! Probably! :D
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Date: 2007-01-04 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 11:41 pm (UTC)The comic webcomicgeek chose for best art, Unity Rising (http://www.rdcomicsonline.com/comics/comics-001.html), is interesting—a very free, loose line, and good use of layers of colour, and what I'd consider a step away from "typical" webcomic colour work. Well, I think there's such a thing as typical webcomic colour work.
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Date: 2007-01-04 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 06:22 pm (UTC)Scary 50s (?) clapping people. It's like getting the approval of an entourage of ghosts. The woman in the third row back whose head swings back and forth is bopping to her own beat. I like that.
Congrats!
Date: 2007-01-04 08:10 pm (UTC)Re: Congrats!
Date: 2007-01-04 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 11:43 pm (UTC)(More Whee!)
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Date: 2007-01-05 06:56 pm (UTC)PS -
Date: 2007-01-05 07:00 pm (UTC)Re: PS -
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Date: 2007-01-05 04:17 pm (UTC)Funny, I've never thought of the goddess being just a dream to Felix. Take that as a compliment to the fine writing!
As for the writing award -- Mega Conga Rats! It's nice to know that a little plot is not only good for the soul, but that it gets recognized, too.
Of course, they could just be responding to bears and camelopards. (double-grin)
Dr. Phil
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Date: 2007-01-05 06:53 pm (UTC)The goddess... is she real or is she Memorex? Who can say?
More bears in chapter III! But probably no camelopards! Maybe!
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Date: 2007-01-06 04:31 am (UTC)I'm in love! This is the webcomic of my dreams!
And, I have to say, having come cold to today's strip? No problem following it, and I was totally charmed and hooked.
Congratulations on the award!
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Date: 2007-01-06 01:55 pm (UTC)You should have the link to the ComicGenesis archive from webcomicgeek, but just in case: you can catch up on the whole story in sequence more easily on CG than on LJ: Chapter I (http://spqrblues.comicgenesis.com/d/20051120.html), Chapter II (http://spqrblues.comicgenesis.com/d/20060301.html).
And now, back to Chapter III... it's drawing those Flavian hairdos that's slowing me down... yes, that's it....
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Date: 2007-01-06 11:50 pm (UTC)I stayed up late last night reading *everything* - I'm absolutely blown away (and addicted!).
SPQR Blues is absolutely the best historical fiction I've ever read (and I've read a good bit!). I love the characters, the storytelling style, the story - my only complaint is that I WANT A WHOLE LOT MORE RIGHT NOW!!!!
I'm completely in awe, and completely hooked!
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Date: 2007-01-07 01:52 am (UTC)I am literally surrounded by historical reference books and might soon make a project of re-reading some, to re-absorb whatever information has gotten buried in disused brain cells and cut off by broken neural connections. Massive info input is always inspiring. Plus I want to get the little details of ordinary life right, or at least plausible, in case any Classics professors challenge me to a duel :)
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Date: 2007-01-07 02:16 am (UTC)I was speculating on your Isis priestess - she looks *so* much like the Rider-Waite High Priestess that I dove into deep syncretism, going quickly to the Masons, Mozart's Queen of the Night, and of, course, it always comes round to the Templars! :p
Seriously, though, I am curious as to your source for her - I see hours of intellectual tail-chasing ahead!
And yeah, I hear a lot of Classics profs are pretty handy with a gladius! *g*
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Date: 2007-01-07 03:21 am (UTC)Formula for priestess:
1) take an Egyptian woman
2) Hellenise
3) Romanise
There might be some residual Rider-Waite memories getting in the way. Alas, this explanation is not very intellectually exciting. I prefer your version!
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Date: 2007-01-07 03:31 am (UTC)Of course, it didn't help that I read that as
a) Hollandaise...
Must be dinnertime!
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Date: 2007-01-07 02:03 pm (UTC)Nah, maybe skip the garum.
Love the icon, btw. I know that's what I do when I'm leaning on a wall, bored with fluttering around....
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Date: 2007-01-07 10:59 pm (UTC)A little Parthian sounds delightful - and I confess to long curiosity about garum... :P