Hey! It’s Lyssa! And the Pirates! From The Adventures of Lyssa and the Pirates!
That thing coming through the discombobulationotron is Caliban, a real Green Demon. You may remember how Stephanie feels about Green Demons from this page.
Everybody else will be introduced in the next couple of strips. Stay tuned!
UPDATE: Here’s Allen’s (that pirate guy behind Lyssa) first introduction to Caliban, courtesy of Miranda (with the black hair):
Whoo Hoooo!
Happy Dance
He he hee!
Yes! I called it! Feel free to form an orderly line to shake my hand and tell me how smart I am.
That reveal panel is great, Charlie. It must have taken days to finish. But I love how it works together with the reaction shots of the faces. I can’t wait to see where this goes. At the very least, I’m envisioning a very interesting game of Tunnels and Trolls.
Nice try, partner.
Normally I lie awake at night, dreaming of my chance to form a conga-I mean, orderly line to shake your hand and tell you how smart you are…
…but in this case, if you examine the evidence, you’ll see quite clearly that the mighty Mike, aka Dragonsreach, guessed it a full 32 minutes ahead of you.
And thanks! That panel did take a while. I wanted it to look more like the original comic did (as you can see by the page I posted).
And the Tunnels and Trolls game? I don’t think it’s going to go as expected.
Hey, I can’t compete with that guy. He’s like a comments ninja. While I am a mere comments ashigaru.
Hey UK time and I check in “early doors” at work.
Yeah, bu Hjels is on Norway time, and he still can’t beat you!
It’s TBT!
Appparently green demons DO exist, and Stephanie does not look pleased…
She’s not happy about this. We’ll find out how she feels, and how she’s going to deal with this, soon.
There are two things I especially love about this page–Eleanor’s rare moment of adorable sentimentality and Stephanie’s expression at seeing an actual Green Demon.
I can just imagine the conversation she’ll have with Larry about that.
“See? I TOLD you they were real!”
“Okay, okay. But look, he’s not even trying to eat Robespierre. See, they’re even sharing a doughnut…no wait, he ate that one two. Better split those two up.”
I do love Eleanor in this. Lyssa was her best friend, and she hasn’t seen her in years. She’s just so happy to have her back.
For how long? Ah, well, we’re not out of surprises yet.
Robie and Caliban sharing a doughnut. Okay, somebody has to draw that.
Robespierre Attitude, Caliban Realises he’s outclassed!
I never read the Lyssa stories (drat it – one of these days I WILL try to get my hands on them…) but I’m assuming that this is an alternate reality Toivo and Nelson – since we saw them both pretty recently at the Assemble With Care. So…. can’t wait for them all to meet. Should be … interesting. Yes, indeedy. Really … interesting.
Also, as is to be expected, your art skills have come a long way, baby. 🙂
Whoever is shutting down the discombobulationatron (Eleanor, I believe) is sure cutting the timing awfully close. If Caliban loses a bit of tail, he’s NOT going to be happy.
Re-read your comment above – so, NOT Nelson. Someone named Allen. Looks an amazing amount like Nelson. Hmmm. And Toivo is most definitely Toivo.
Allen needs to get his finger off that trigger…
melaredblu said the same thing. “I don’t remember Toivo having those piercings.”
His name will be revealed on Monday!
Wow, look at the detail on the Lyssa page…
I remember doing that panel. It took days. This was before computers, so everything was done by hand, and then I put some Zipatone shading film over the background.
Drawing ship interiors is crazy. It’s wood, wood, wood, everywhere.
“We’ll be the pirate twins again…”
“With cat-like tread…”
Now that’s a face worthy of the name Caliban!
How now, mooncalf!
Good grief! That nipple ring is big enough to hold a dishtowel. O.o
That’s why Mancanilla gets Galley Duty so often. Lord knows it’s not because of his cooking. That’s something else he shares with Toivo.