SPQR Blues part XXXXIII

[spqrblues]

I must, of course, complain about the hasty drawing and inking and vow to redraw this one some day.

(Is this lj rabbit-hole day? I'd better look into that. Ah well, I'm already living in another time and place....)

Comments

[wilypueo.livejournal.com]

You would think with all the groin kicks over the millennia the males of our species would have evolved some better protection by now . . .

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Nice Felix butt in panel three!

I'd keep em!

Yeah!

[perilousknits.livejournal.com]

Go Felix, Go! Go Felix Go!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

As a member of the more compact gender, I do often find myself wondering about the lack of carapace. Ah well, here's hoping for a helpful mutation sometime in the genetic future.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

So, not too far over he line of propriety? Sometimes when I'm going for realism, my little internal censor takes a nap.

Also . . .

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Also, I was going for a sense of vulnerability. Not just for an excuse to demonstrate how sometimes Romans didn't wear any undies. Really.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

::skipping:: He said "Vae!" hee hee! I am such a nerd.

Glad to see Ninja!Felix appearing sneakily from the ground.
They've got him right where he wants them. Heh heh.

("heh heh" is the Clever Ninja Chuckle, not to be confused
with the Latin Nerd Giggle, which is "hee hee")

I also thought Felix's butt was very discreet. Actually
the whole thing is *beautiful* to look at, all joking aside.

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Over the line of propriety? Not at all. It was very well done and I enjoyed the view of his butt.

And it showed vunerbility.

But I want Felix to kick some serious ass now. No more playing around here mister!

[msilverstar]

As a mother, I'd say that butts are pretty fair game. Actually, in my book, so's nakedness. But I live in the People's Republic of Berkeley, where we have people who think it's their Right to walk around naked. And I dun care.

The age-old question of what a Roman wears under his tunic

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

If the situation calls for no clothes, then I'd as soon draw a nude than conveniently obscuring shadow. Say, if Felix and Mus go to the fancy high-priced Baths down by the bay, and I draw a detailed panorama of the architecture of the Thermae Suburbanae, it would only be realistic to show folks in all manner of disrobing and all manner of body types. In fact, that would be kind of fun to draw, an exercise in showing the natural day-to-day world of a Roman. I think I'll do that in chapter-whatever. But I do seem to have developed an inner voice that peeps up with, "Someone is going to think this is wrong. Everyone should be carefully stationed behind pillars, towel drapes, and leafy potted plants." I need to get over that.

Hurrah for the People's Republic of Berkeley.