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Vertically challengedMany apologies for the delay. It's been hard shaking the [whatever-the-heck-it-is-I-had] and its after-effects.




The lawn ornament objects


Helvius (teacher, midnight medic, and philosopher) is reciting lines from the poet Lucan, who wrote goth epics in the court of Nero. Lucan's uncle was the equally goth, Stephen King-esque poet/playwright/makeover-expert Seneca, best known for his grand-guignol version of Medea.

Nero was about as good for their family as Domitian has been for Felix's.

Date: 2007-03-07 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wilypueo.livejournal.com
You've definitely been missed. Is the phrase in the first panel from something in particular ("Through pyres and ashes . . .") or your own creation?

Date: 2007-03-07 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
It's my translation of one of my favourite lines from the poet Lucan, who wrote lots of gothy stuff in the court of Nero. His uncle was the gothy, Stephen King-esque poet/playright/makeover-expert Seneca, best known for his grand-guignol version of "Medea."

Nero was about as good for their family as Domitian has been to Felix's.

Sudsy

Date: 2007-03-07 03:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
oooh-oooh-oooh, more cool Roman stories. With all the bathing going on aren't you afraid the whole thing will turn into a Roman soap-opera? Just wondered. Maybe in the next scene, they'll ALL go the the baths... Good to see you back. DRW.

Re: Sudsy

Date: 2007-03-07 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Funny thing, I was just reading today about the Roman attitude toward soap.

No, really, I was.

And I guess that's not particularly funny.

And of course there'll be a scene at the baths!

Date: 2007-03-07 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com
The double-high panels and the stacked dialogue does a great job of showing the multilevel layers of conversation going on. You have such clever panel arrangements.

Was your cryptic warnings about soap to tell us that suds will play out their inconvenient placements as much as you've covered up your other nekkid scenes? (grin)

Dr. Phil

Date: 2007-03-07 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Thank you, thank you.

The Romans, they didn't do suds. However will I manage? Maybe some strategically placed ferns....

Date: 2007-03-08 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyleen66.livejournal.com
No no... not ferns. It's those potted plants that shuffle in.

Heh.

Date: 2007-03-11 09:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hieran.livejournal.com
::raising my head and looking around::

Ha!

I know you thought you could slip that by me, because I've been all busy and AWOL lately, but ... I saw it! I did!

Or "them," I should say, since shuffling potted plants are always plural. Hawkwing says it takes a lot of plants in his case.

::snicker::

Date: 2007-03-08 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perilousknits.livejournal.com
I like it; things are really starting to happen!

Um . . . Felix's beard grows really fast! Just between the last two panels, he goes from clean shaven to grubby in an instant.

Date: 2007-03-08 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Blame the beard on Photoshop. When I balanced the brightness/contrast for some reason it washed out the top and overemphasised the bottom. I'll get around to correcting the balance eventually....

 

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