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12 - Cyrene's Odyssey,
Part Two |
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18/06/07 Wait... what? |
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This was one of the earliest strips that I came up with,
and is indicative of how a little research can ruin a
carefully planned joke. You see, I originally wanted to
have the boat stumble upon the Easter Island statues
under construction. So, I went and looked up the history
of the statues, figuring that as long as they dated to
roughly the same era as Cyrene and company, I'd probably
get away with it. It turns out that the buggers weren't
built until the eleventh century AD. A discrepancy of
over one and a half millennia was too much, even for me,
and so I decided to replace the statues with a 'coming
soon' sign, on the basis that, well, builders do tend to
take their time over these things. Which is fair enough,
I suppose. Except that Easter Island almost certainly
wasn't inhabited in the seventh century BC. And even if
it was, I'm guessing the inhabitants wouldn't have
referred to it as 'Easter Island', or spoken modern-day
English. All of these concerns over a strip whose basic
premise - that of a group of non-seafaring Amazons
traversing most of the world's oceans in a small, crappy
Greek boat - is pretty much impossible anyway...
At this point, I'm dangerously close to flat out telling
you that you should dislike this comic, so I'll counter
that with a positive statement: this comic marks the
very first time that I have successfully drawn a horse.
It's not a spectacular horse by any means, but it does
vaguely resemble what it's supposed to be, which is
major progress for my horse-impaired self. You see, I
have never been able to draw horses, and yet for some
reason I decided to produce a comic about Amazons, who
were literally horse mad. I mean, a lot of them were
even named after horses (all of those with
'Hippo-' or ''-ippe' in their names, both of which are
derived from the Greek for 'horse'). You have to be
seriously into horses to start naming your kids after
them.
This will hopefully be the first of many ugly horses to
grace the comic in the coming weeks. Look out for more!
Now that I've proven I can do it, I won't stop... |
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My mouth was a broken
jpeg! I had no choice! |
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