When lecturing your children, be sure to point at them with your cigarette hand. It’s a hallmark of effective communication strategies. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Close-up on Morrigan exhales with a look of relief on her face MORRIGAN: Oh, that’s the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Otherwordly Goods
Molly is gonna give that chamber pot a nice shine. ↓ TranscriptPANEL 1 Fetch pours fresh coffee in a cup on the tray. Molly leans in. TARA: Where’s the breakfast, Fetch! FETCH: OMG, just a minute! MOLLY: There’s oatmeal on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…