Chapter IV: CCLX

[spqrblues]

ETA: I forgot to change the "next comic Saturday" to "next comic Monday," so I'll move Monday's to Saturday rather than miss the promised update!

Friday's comic below the cut...



Damon has named the kitten, but, in an uncharacteristic display of tact, doesn't feel that now is the time for an introduction.

An extra comic is scheduled for Saturday (noon, Eastern time).
 

Comments

They look so good together.

[zeus67.livejournal.com]

I believe that this is how things should be: Iusta and Felix. Unfortunately she is married but one can hope.

Re: They look so good together.

[fractalwolf.livejournal.com]

I think she's actually widowed now. At least she certainly believes herself to be.

We last saw Mus http://spqrblues.com/IV/?comic=chapter-iv-getting-restarted-2

Then we went to Iusta, then back to this comic (http://spqrblues.com/IV/?comic=chapter-iv-cciii-this-ones-a-rerun) where I think Mus is the not-dead-yet man found and taken away in a cart. After that, this (http://spqrblues.com/IV/?comic=chapter-iv-ccxxxxiv) might or might not be a reference to him.

But in the clean-up Felix found an urn marked with his coin, and the person was identified as "Male. Child or youth. Dark hair." He may or may not actually be dead since he wasn't carrying the coin (http://spqrblues.com/IV/?comic=so-you-dont-have-to-go-hunting), but it's enough to convince Felix, which is enough to put him on the rolls of the dead.

Re: They look so good together.

[zeus67.livejournal.com]

Yes. At this moment Iusta is officially a widow.

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[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Team Felix?

Re: They look so good together.

[zeus67.livejournal.com]

Always. Felix has had his share of happiness and loss. I always believed that he deserved a wife that would be a partner for him. I never believed that Spendusa was the woman for him. It was either Elisa or Iusta. Elisa is dead and that leaves only Iusta, but then Iusta is married even if she is believed to be a widow.

Also Iusta is grieving. I do not believe that she loved Mus in a romantic way, too soon for that, but I do believe that she cared for him a lot.

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

This doesn't look like a fair trade to me. Maybe throw in the kitten too?

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Kittens provide much solace and distraction!

[zeus67.livejournal.com]

That urn looks a lot bigger than initially depicted.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

It's all wrapped up.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought, it still fits in Damon's bag.

Justa seems very short beside Felix. Quite possibly she isn't actually fully grown yet, she's so young.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Felix is quite tall... And Justa is very short. And wearing flats.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

They put the first urn in a bigger urn.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Iusta's hands are very small.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Foreshortening.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Damon stole another person.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Nid fi yn siarad Saesneg.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I was feeling a little punchy yesterday :)

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Iusta has grown up over the course of this story. Really remarkable.

Dr. Phil

[amedia.livejournal.com]

The second panel is so melancholy.

As Whittier said, For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

Damon is looking very serious for once. It appears that he has grown a sense of occasion.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

It's hard even for Damon to be a smug and/or nasty little creature when handing a young lady her husband.