Ay-yi-yi. Anya’s about to unleash both barrels of monkeys on poor (poor?) Larry. Will she succeed in stealing him away? What will Stephanie do about this? What will Edison do? We’ll find out in our next thrilling installment, called… um… well, actually, I don’t name these strips until just before I post ’em. Anyway, I think you’ll like next week’s. It’s got-ah, but that’d be telling. Just wait for the surprise.
Meanwhile, if you were wondering who all Robespierre’s li’l buddies are, counter-clockwise from Pickles the Dog (with his tongue out)from The M9 Girls, Marquitsune, courtesy of the wonderful comic “Bound by Blood,” which will feature a kewl cameo by someone from Groovy, Kinda, Snuggles the Hippo, Robie himself, Mr. Cuddles the Teddy Bear, the Unburied King (if I have that right, Hjels) from October 20th, and, last but not least, Leopold, aka Spiders, from the magnificent “The Refraction of Princess Chroma.”
Whew. That’s a lot of awesome in one basket.
And, astute readers (you, you, and, of course, you) will notice that the picture behind Larry is from “Utopia, Unlimited #1.”
Don’t love what Anya is doing, but I do love the cameo plushies!
As for the stabby plushie, it’s a bit complicated. The one you refer to as the Unburied King, and mela refers to as the Entombed King, I have never actually given a name in the comic so far. In the script it is referred to as the Hollow King, but I think both of yours might be better.
But then again, the plushie is not the king himself, but rather the creature which does his bidding. That creature has not been given a name either, and has so far only been referred to as “the monster” in the comic, though it is call a draugr in the script.
Told you it was complicated.
Complicated and fascinating. That just makes October 20th an even better comic. I love it when you share bits of the mythos. Thank you for that.
By the way, if you’re not reading October 20th, you’re really missing out.
Obviously though, Stephanie wouldn’t want Robespierre to have a stuffy named “The Monster.” So that particular creature is “Happy Huggymuffins.”
*furiously taking notes for Undisclosed Reasons*
Also, all hail the Cameo King!
Anya isn’t stealing Larry, she’s borrowing him. Probably not for more than, oh, three or four hours. Until dawn, at the latest. I know, she says stealing him is a good idea, but that doesn’t mean she’s doing it, just that she thinks it’s a good idea.
ps: Isn’t there a Halloween joke about the farmers’ draugr?
“Farmer’s draugr?” And the award for The Best Pun of 2020 goes to…
She’s borrowing him for the night, with the hopes of making this a long term check-out.
Remember, she’s had this in mind for a while.
My goodness, how the art has changed.
Still not convinced Larry is totally on board with this. Come on man, if you object, then fight back!
…am I giving him too much credit here?
As Robert Palmer so succinctly put it:
“How can it be permissible?
She compromised my principles, yeah, yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She’s anything but typical
She’s a craze you’d endorse
She’s a powerful force
You’re obliged to conform
When there’s no other course
She used to look good to me
But now I find her
Simply irresistible”
“…what will Stephanie do…what will Edison do…” Much more importantly, what will Prospero do when Larry doesn’t return after Toivo’s smoke break? O.O
You’ll find out very soon!
Lucky Larry, ladies man! To bad his ladies are really possessive of him!
Yep. They all want their piece of Pyenor the Barbarian’s alter ego. What’s a poor boy to do?