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In today’s update, we see our hero AGAIN being seduced by a winged woman…something familiar about this…. So what happens now? What about that curse?
What would YOU like to see happen?…
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Hugs & <3
~B
June 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I can never get over how pretty you draw eyes! I just love the close-ups! They are always so beautiful and expressive! Also it adds drama to the scene. ^_^
June 21st, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Claudius needs a wingman to deflect all this unwanted feminine attention. I hereby volunteer.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:56 pm
This time you remember, Claudius. Remember? Use the long wooden spear in your hands. Or pick up your sword. She’s bad news and you know it.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Resist her Claude! Resist! Remember that she has gotten you killed more than once!
June 21st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
E-frickin’-gad…
Tychia is just like “Tiffany”…right down to the mentality of I-can-get-men-to-do-anything-I-want.
Barb…did you ever live in the southern California area – near Disneyland – around 26 years ago? Because I swear we both know this girl…
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
LOVE that last panel, that blank look on Claude’s face is surprisingly hot haha! Not to be over analyzing though, in the second panel Tychia isn’t wearing her necklace, but in the last panel you see her wearing it again. >>
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 am
It’s cool how her red aura sort of makes it seem like she’s steaming lightly. Seems appropriate…
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 am
Be strong, Claudius, be strong!
A swinging sabre is sooo much easier to combat than a slipping top…. Though… Admittedly… Less fun to capture… ^_^
@Lloyd – You’re right; he needs a wingman to jump on that little blonde grenade!
I second the love of the eyes; outstandingly expressive! Poor Claude – that’s a great dawning “deer in the headlights” look… Poor Befuddled Brit.
What would *I* like to see? Hmm…
Claude resists Tychia’s charms.
Claude overpowers.
Claude captures, snubs, turns her in to the Appropriate Fey Authorities For the Improvement of Naughty Azloean Faeries (AFAFINAF).
What else would I like to see?
Not Disney On Ice – how about Disney On Fire?
Okaaay, I think that’s enough caffeine for me today.
:-]
(kidding, BTW, kidding!)
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 am
What should happen next? Hmmm…
Tychia should say The Line– “…nothing personal.” Then, kiss him and either try to magic him or backstab him at the same time.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
I’d like to see Tychia being one-upped/ surprised/ kicked back with a sassy quote by Claudius- as in this time, he is far more prepared than before. Considering that loyalty thing with the pink fairy too…?
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Tychia’s about to get a very controlled “whack” across her cheek with that spear that is still very firmly in his hands. I don’t believe the blank look for a minute.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
The simple fact is that Claud is a player. He knows he’s it, the girls know it.
What would YOU like to see happen?…
My first thought is that a handsome Bard named Albone to take Tychia off of Claud’s hands. Or maybe Xylia shows up with a steel chair to the back of Tychia. Either way, it’s win-win.
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
With that kind of look of course she can be perfectly trust… ahhhhh logic! Must used logic!
Poor Claude, it’s just terrible to constantly have faerie women throw themselves all over him. The horrors he must face so often, truly it is amazing that he still makes it!
What would I like to see here….. A lecture from Livy! And singing ninjas!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
OMG BOOBIES! Run, Claudius, run!
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Love the comic.
I do have one thing that stands out though, Tychia’s necklace vanished in the second panel. It’s in the fourth one and from what I can tell the first. But when it’s the panel with Tychia’s full body, her necklace isn’t there. I’m not sure if that was done for a reason or if it was forgotten.
Just wanted to point it out…
June 24th, 2009 at 12:43 am
meeeeh, I dont think this works on him anymore Tychia…you just threatened him, you were a bullie in his pasts and youve speared him just a few hours ago…. honestly….
CT, your comment is awesome, singing ninjas! bwahahahah!
What I would like to see? hmmm, I really hope he can go search for Xylia now…
June 24th, 2009 at 1:32 am
C’mon…”once bitten, twice shy.” ^_~
Claude’s not gonna be so easily taken in. (Then again, it would seem Tychia’s got some supernatural power over males.) XD
I agree with singing ninjas! *lol*
June 24th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Thank you for the comments, everyone! I will be responding to them in my video broadcast tonight and recording them- it will be at the beginning of the broadcast. One thing regarding the missing poii necklace of Tychia’s- that is a continuity mistake- and I will be fixing it. A few of you caught that and I thank you for pointing it out.
hugs,
~B
June 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Oh, c’mon Claudius… she probably has teeth down there.
I’m starting to get really annoyed by her ‘I’m too sexy for my wings’ attitude.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Excellent merge between the lower panels, the slight translucent effect and perfect, clean blend are great.
I love the expressions and the beautifully-drawn eyes, too, as kyastar already pointed out!
Gotta see what happens next now! Claude’s face in the last panel doesn’t seem completely taken in by Tychia’s act…
Also, I’m wondering if Tychia can ‘feel’ other people’s thoughts or memories somehow – she brought up the mental picture of Xylia earlier to make ol’ Claude upset, now she’s repeating a certain love-struck pink fairy’s exact words!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Claudius definitely has the, “I’m not impressed,” look on his face in the last frame. However the set of the corner of his mouth suggests to me that Tychia *might* recieve a passionate toe-curling kiss before being rather rudely knocked on her bum and having her ride confiscated for a trip back to Epsilon.
Clever young men, well if you can call 900 some-odd years young, who have a true love often put some though and study into what constitutes a really proper kiss, as we’re given to understand that proper kisses are much more appreciated then the sort that cause young ladies to say, “What was that?” If the course of study is a success then it become possible to deliver toe-curling kisses on demand (a VERY useful ablility when in a relationship with a young lady ). Given what I’ve observed of the effects of a truly proper kiss to a true love, if Claudius stoops to unconventional warfare I’d fully expect Tychia to be dazed and crosseyed for at least a week.
Seductresses just aren’t equipped to deal with earnest young men who are genuinely in love with someone else. Of course if you can find a seductress who’s sufficiently reprehensible that you don’t feel qualms about leaving her dazed and crosseyed it makes it awfully fun to be the earnest young man.
Now that I think on more though it would require real concentration on Claude’s part. If you’re giving the right kiss to the wrong girl the mind has an unfortunte tendency to wander to subjects like the horse you’re planning to steal from her, and that tends to cause the kiss’s follow through to suffer.
June 27th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Hi Barb,
Look, I finally caught up! I’m kicking myself for holding off this long, when I could have been following it from the time you started posting this and took it off of Drunk Duck.
Great storytelling and of course STUNNING art. I will be Subscribing to this from here on in.
Thanks for continuing to share your talents with us!
July 11th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Oh Tychia, will you EVER stop being so fun to hate?
I certainly hope not!
January 28th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
What can we say? He’s a chick magnet.
A magnet for chicks.
With wings.