This week I am obviously late. I had a hard time drawing this page, mostly due to other commitments last week (preparing for the Fall term at PCC, and sadly a funeral). But also I found drawing itself hard. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ch 5: The Summer Court
Pooka is wrong. The world runs on disinformation. Mostly in the form of Facebook memes. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1: Fetch and Owen come back outside where Pooka is back to rabbit form, rubbing his back. FETCH: Rabbit again? What happened to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now Owen is totally safe. ↓ TranscriptSCENE FOUR PANEL 1: Fetch and Owen on Pooka arrive at the castle gate. The caste rises golden above them. PANEL 2: They stop outside the Fair Folk Visitors Bureau FETCH: We’ll be right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nostalgia is a trap. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1: Fetch and Owen ride on Pooka through the streets of the city. FETCH: What are you doing here, Pooka? Don’t you haunt farms and scare the cattle? POOKA: Hey, more than that. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let a shapeshifter be your guide. Seems legit. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1: Fetch grabs Pooka by the scruff of the neck. He has an evil reddish glow in his eyes. FETCH: Back off, Pooka. Or have you forgotten that I am[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How can you go through the Otherworld without bumping into Pooka? No, seriously, how? Fetch would like to know. Pooka (or Puca, or Pookha, or whatever spelling you want it seems) is a well established figure in Irish folklore. Depending[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could go for a blackbird pie right now. ↓ TranscriptPANEL ONE: Fetch and Owen walk through the streets of the town. Townhouses of a Medieval design give way to those of modern design. They see well-dressed elves and goblins[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Summer Court leans more fairy tale setting than fae setting, in our story anyway. It’s got a Disney appropriating Hans Christian Andersen or Grimm’s Fairy Tales vibe. The sky is gold and blue, not the nearly oppressive red we’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stone age burial mounds (tumulus you would call one; plural would be tumuli? tumuluses?) for Celtic royalty in ancient Ireland and other parts can be pretty impressive. The one Owen and Fetch pass through is rougher than some you might[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a brief trip through the Spring Court as Owen and Fetch make their way to the Summer Court. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1: Owen and Fetch walk across a wooden bridge. Flowers and ivy wrap around its railings. Trees are richly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…