Hey, David Miscarriage [spelling needed] makes bazillions off of too loyal fanatic followers. If only I had a Church of Scapology I could be raking in that kinda’ dough!
My mother would contest that. Her first kill was very easy (coming under fire from a crazed 15 year old with an RPG in africa, do or die). The ramifications of that kill rattled her for months, making her second kill very difficult.
I’m not sure how many kills you need to become desensitized by it. Maybe it all depends on your profession (executioner, chicken farmer, Dr. Kevorkian…ahh, see there? Joke from the 90’s!).
That’s what happens when you have followers that are unable to see you as human/vulnerable and have a need to redeem their worth in your eyes. Best he can do now is approve of the stabbing and send that crazy stabber to the front until she dies from overexposure to danger.
This was gorgeous use of the medium. Using large panels instead of the usual ones made the significance of the moment strike home. For some reason I also felt we were watching this from Scapula’s perspective, every image a slowed down heartbeat as hw slowly realized what happened. And the final moment, leaving no doubt, only awe. Thank you!
Very glad to hear that you enjoyed it! It’s not quite Scap’s perspective (you can see him in the background of panel 6…plus he probably can’t see much of anything at the moment), but I do love it when readers add their own creative theories and insights.
Hah, there was no quashing it! I just noticed how Bone China falls too, arms crossed. Retaining a pose even as she falls -I suspect she does not do this on purpose, but it is telling of who she has been in life.
Hmmm…I notice there’s already blood on the blade. Bone China already cleaned off Vlad’s blood (I think), and didn’t get Scapula with it, so could Nazz have gotten Delilah too?
I’m pretty sure that’s Harkin’s blood. Remember when Nazz went nuts and stabbed him…yesterday? A week ago? (I’m not sure exactly how much time has passed.)
That’s nothin’, I once knew a kid who said his friend could cut off a guy’s head with a samurai sword and I said I wanted to see it but the kid was like, nuh-uh, you can’t see it so I said he was a liar and he hit me when I wasn’t looking and then he got his mom to come out and bitch and me so the next day at school we all called the kid Mama’s Little Bitch Boy.
…I don’t really have any other knife stories (I made up that one).
Stunning page today..really worth coming back to. Well played. I did not see Nazz being the one offing Bone China, that came out of nowhere, even if I did expect China to die this night. I can’t wait ti see what will happen next!
This is why you don’t want to have TOO loyal fanatic followers. I really did NOT see that one coming! Go Nazz, ya bloody loon!
Hey, David Miscarriage [spelling needed] makes bazillions off of too loyal fanatic followers. If only I had a Church of Scapology I could be raking in that kinda’ dough!
As they say in Casino Royale, the first kill is the hardest. The second is easier. Considerably.
My mother would contest that. Her first kill was very easy (coming under fire from a crazed 15 year old with an RPG in africa, do or die). The ramifications of that kill rattled her for months, making her second kill very difficult.
I’m not sure how many kills you need to become desensitized by it. Maybe it all depends on your profession (executioner, chicken farmer, Dr. Kevorkian…ahh, see there? Joke from the 90’s!).
That’s what happens when you have followers that are unable to see you as human/vulnerable and have a need to redeem their worth in your eyes. Best he can do now is approve of the stabbing and send that crazy stabber to the front until she dies from overexposure to danger.
Also true of children who desperately need their parents’ approval, which is infinitely worse when the parent is a criminal peesashit.
Uh, not that I know about that sort of thing…
This was gorgeous use of the medium. Using large panels instead of the usual ones made the significance of the moment strike home. For some reason I also felt we were watching this from Scapula’s perspective, every image a slowed down heartbeat as hw slowly realized what happened. And the final moment, leaving no doubt, only awe. Thank you!
Very glad to hear that you enjoyed it! It’s not quite Scap’s perspective (you can see him in the background of panel 6…plus he probably can’t see much of anything at the moment), but I do love it when readers add their own creative theories and insights.
Yeah, then I went and quashed it. I am a jerk.
Hah, there was no quashing it! I just noticed how Bone China falls too, arms crossed. Retaining a pose even as she falls -I suspect she does not do this on purpose, but it is telling of who she has been in life.
Hmmm…I notice there’s already blood on the blade. Bone China already cleaned off Vlad’s blood (I think), and didn’t get Scapula with it, so could Nazz have gotten Delilah too?
Pretty sure she got Harkin’s blood on it when she killed him.
I’m pretty sure that’s Harkin’s blood. Remember when Nazz went nuts and stabbed him…yesterday? A week ago? (I’m not sure exactly how much time has passed.)
No. The knife fell close by and very recently. She wouldn’t have time unless Delilah was standing right there. It’s probably just stained.
Continuity can get tricky (even for me, and I’m the confused slob who wrote this mess!). Let’s see if we can untangle a few plot lines:
1) Nazz killed Harkin with a switchblade, possibly the one she was given when she first joined the Halloween Gang.
2) Vladislaus was carrying the pronged dagger (which must have been uncomfortable as hell under his coat); this is the one Jemini used to kill him.
3) Bone China took the dagger after she fled from Jemini (whether it was for protection or just a memento is up to you).
4) Bone China drops the dagger and a crazy kid picked it up and stabbed her.
Next week follow the further adventures of the wandering dagger as it gets stuck in a clump of dirt and a dog pees on it!
Beautiful panels. Not really surprised by the outcome here, though.
Thankya kindly, and no surprises around here, dat’s fer sher.
I do believe that Nazz will not survive the night.
Scap will surely snap over this..
How things go from here will be very interesting.
We shall see, my friend. We shall see…
No, really, we shall!
FINALLY! Someone FINALLY DOES that two-faced. two-timing whiny BITCH. Gods you have no idea how much I’ve been hating her.
It was either that or put some Scotch tape over her mouth.
… Oh
…My.
….aaaaaand George Takei sues us for stealing his catchphrase.
Nazz is pretty good to go from an underhand grip to overhead (or visa-versa) without dropping the blade so fast.
That’s nothin’, I once knew a kid who said his friend could cut off a guy’s head with a samurai sword and I said I wanted to see it but the kid was like, nuh-uh, you can’t see it so I said he was a liar and he hit me when I wasn’t looking and then he got his mom to come out and bitch and me so the next day at school we all called the kid Mama’s Little Bitch Boy.
…I don’t really have any other knife stories (I made up that one).
Damn. Had me fooled that this count end well.
*could
So blindsided I forget how to spell.
It could still end well! Look, look, she’s getting up! That was just ketchup in her hands! Everything is going to be okay, you’ll see!
So long you pasty faced, double crossing pain in the ass. I’m just sorry that Trogor didn’t snack on your scrawny bod instead.
Hey, I don’t have a scrawny bod! I consider myself rather ripped, in a middle-aged plumber sort of way.
Stunning page today..really worth coming back to. Well played. I did not see Nazz being the one offing Bone China, that came out of nowhere, even if I did expect China to die this night. I can’t wait ti see what will happen next!
Great to hear that you enjoyed, and definitely follow along to the bitter end. There’s only a month left to go!
Liking the use of complete silence here. Very impactful.
As long as we’re going gothy, let’s all listen to that Depeche Mode club classic ‘Enjoy the Silence’…preferably with the volume turned off. Irony!
Very beautiful page. All the better for the lack of text. Good decision.
So glad I didn’t use the Dr. Seuss-esque poem that would have gone along with the images. That would have been silly!
If the stab didn’t kill her, the landing will. Catching rocks from that height does funny things to bones and such.
Toonces survived much worse, not to mention a certain coyote…
…
snif.