Family is a lot to deal with, especially on a hangover. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Fetch gets a towel from the bathroom sink while Morrigan complains off-panel. MORRIGAN: What time is it? Almost ten?! Where have you been?! I’m going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ch2: Crude and Feckless
Hey, look! It’s Fetch’s mom! Ain’t she sweet? ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Tara at Morrigan’s bedside. Morrigan sleeps under a blanket. A plate of food sits on an overbed table, mostly uneaten, and a cup of cold tea. And a pack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s okay, Molly. We all get confused sometimes. Perhaps not that confused, however. The stereotype of the Irish maid as a fussy, somewhat ridiculous character, goes back to at least the Victorian era. I was reading Life After Life by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We finally arrive at Fetch’s mom’s house. What else but a Banshee would you expect hanging around a sick old woman’s place? My portrayal here deviates a bit from standard representations of the banshee, as noted by Clanagh Design: The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Faerie whiskey sounds pretty potent to me. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Tara pokes Fetch awake. TARA: Time to get up, brother! We’re going to Mam’s. FETCH: Whuu? … Ooaahhh PANEL 2 Fetch clutches his head, Tara looks around behind him. FETCH:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fae know how to get down and party. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 The next morning. Which in the Otherworld looks like a deterioration of morning in the human world. The sun barely shines through a murky clouded sky. Exterior of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now we conclude this scene and soon Fetch will finally get some sleep. This day started at the beginning of last chapter, after all. How often do you see a single day cross more than a chapter? I guess that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here are the rest of the squatters: Brian, Fernis, a horned witch called Mary, and Izzy with delusions of grandeur. Brian is not a Red Cap, but the son of one, a malicious goblin who lives along among castle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crude and Feckless — Page 16
Not even the Otherworld is safe from the forces of gentrification. Or the Catholic Church. But the beer is good. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1: SCOTTY MONROE in a business suit and hard hat stand before a huge crowd, behind him a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I liked drawing this page. The original plan was five panels, but I realized so much detail would be lost or not even provided if I did not give the first panel more room to breathe. So I sacrificed a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…