SPQR Blues 3 part XXIV

[spqrblues]

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







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.

Comments

[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?

Sudsy

[(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.

[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

[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.