SPQR Blues part CIX: another row! why not!

[spqrblues]

1) This is not the comic I intended to post for the 24th of August. But I'll keep working on that until I finish or fall over.

2) _w_o_o_d_, who does the spiffy French translation, is so not going to be happy with how much dialogue is crammed into these seven panels....

3) Previously, this.






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Comments

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Bad Domitian! Poor Mus! Poor Spendi + baby!

But oh, most unfortunate Nonius. In Domitian-speak, I suspect that "I won't hold it against you" can be translated as "I'll be looking for an opportunity to skewer you to the wall, any day now."

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing he's not emperor. What with all that unlimited power, who knows what could hap--oh... wait...

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Oh, MUS. Poor kid.

(Today is my birthday. I love that it's Vesuvius Day. XD)

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! I bought you a volcano! I hope you don't mind that I didn't wrap it :D

[oneangryrabbit.livejournal.com]

On the up side, a lot of records are about to go ka-blooey?

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

A lot of records are soon going to require a pickaxe and an X-Ray CT scanner to uncover.

[canuckdownsouth.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Mus - learnlearnlearn *quick*. That baby needs hiding.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Hiding preferably in an entirely different city. Probably not in Pompeii.

[xanath.livejournal.com]

I heard Alexandria was lovely that time of year . . . ::glances anxiously after Mus::

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Mus - Save Spendi & Baby from evil Domitian! ;___;

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Domitian's wickedness cannot possibly withstand Mus's innate goodness. One would hope.

NYARRRGGHHH

[hieran.livejournal.com]

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:-(

Re: NYARRRGGHHH

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I fixed that, just for you! :D

[jdalton.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.

Our only hope now is some sort of tremendous natural disaster.

[pikku-gen.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. Now would it be possible to get one, in those whereabouts? Would the sea be deep enough for a tsunami wave? How about a fire? Even Rome was burnt down several times, if I recall. Or how about some wrath-of-gods thunderstorm that would strike down temples and palaces? Or a plague of dinosaurs? Pleeeeease...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I think I can arrange for all of that.

Er... I'll have to put a call in to find out whether any dinosaurs have been discovered in the streets of Herculaneum, but, other than that, can do.

[pikku-gen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(I'm still hoping for a plague of dinosaurs, someday, somewhere. Maybe not in this comic, though.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_w_o_o_d_/]

Hhnnnnnnnngggggh.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

That's for all the balloons crammed full with text, isn't it? I am thinking it would be fine to cut about 50% of it :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_w_o_o_d_/]

It's just that "Sir, you're awake" translates as "Monsieur, vous êtes réveillé"...

But I'll figure that out once I'm caught up.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting about the "sir" problem. "Caes--" without the "sir" would suffice. As for the rest... I am too sleepy to make a suggestion right now :P

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

"Hebrew groom...good health"
palm/forehead

Ooooohhh Noooooooo... :(

Me and the Mighty Third Cyrenaica boys are kinda stuck out southeast in Egypt...it'll take too long to come help our boy Felix...Ughs! Not fun!

At least the comic looks super ;D