Yay! ’bout darn time!
Well, long time no post. Dunno how it happened, but I was able to draw a whole strip. Let’s hope this becomes a habit.
Anyway, I wanted to do a sequel to melaredblu’s wonderful series and make it canon. So yes, Stephanie did go visit The Refraction of Princess Chroma‘s world (again!). Thank you again, mela, for your awesome work.
And yes, Larry wants to keep Stephanie Rossum happy. He’s not the only one. And yes, he wants the make up frolicking (but not like she imagines it).
Coming up (I promise!): Stephanie’s little jaunt has thrown a mighty big monkey wrench into someone else’s plans. And we’ll get an idea of how she’s taking it, dear.
I think you can guess who it is.
Oh, and the most important feature of today’s comic isn’t that it’s the first one in waaaay too long.
It features Miffy. That’th- I mean, that’s what’s really important here.
Thank you, Charlie! I knew all along you hadn’t lost your touch (artistic or narrative) but I was starting to worry that you’d lost your faith in your own abilities.
Incorporating Stephanie’s misadventure seemlessly into the script is exactly the right move. Larry’s party-hearty moves have got to be smoother than that (and Stephanie should know better) but fun to draw like this. Miffy’s fashion sense hasn’t evolved over the long summer, autumn, and winter of our discontent. And who is this Shimada Alice personage? Research is required.
Hello Pops! Thank you for your faith in my abilities! And your everlasting patience.
I knew this had to be canon once melaredblu started sending me pages. Plus, it’s too good of a tale not to incorporate.
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to put Miffy in, so I just wimped out and gave her her usual striped jumpsuit. I’ll have to draw her again in something more appropriate for the weather.
Alice Shimada is a character in one of my favorite animes, “Girls und Panzer.” It’s a sports anime with WWII tanks. If you’re a history nerd (like me) or you love tanks (like me), you will really dig it.
Welcome back Charlie-have missed you. I love the lower second frame and your “make up frolicking” pun. Hee-hee-he.
Welcome back yourself, Chris! I missed you too.
Thank you. Now that I look at “make up frolicking,” for some reason I see “cake frosting.”
I need a new brain.
And puns? Heaven forbid! Puns? In Groovy, Kinda?
Frolicking *could* involve cake frosting. Theoretically. Not that I would know.
Cake frosting, whipped cream, honey, maple syrup…pudding.
The mind boggles. I wouldn’t put it past any of them.
I must say, I really didn’t expect you to tie in my guest strips into the story. But it was a fun surprise.
Leopold is not a particularly great source of advice or comfort in the best of times, and his times are about as bad as it gets. I can just picture it. “Yeah, I know this relationship drama thing of yours feels like the end of the world, but *this* is what the end of the world actually looks like. So, uh. Chin up or something. I forget where I was going with this.”
Stephanie has. Uh. Quite the imagination in that second-to-last panel, doesn’t she?
You’re story was too good not to make canon. Especially when it illustrates what Rad talked about in a previous strip. You do not want to upset the humachinal.
Never mind that Rad started it all by frolicking with Edison.
I think Leo’s advice is perfect. “Lady Stephanie, let’s look at the big picture. This is the end of the world.”
Stephanie’s mind goes in strange places. I’m sure she wasn’t originally programmed that way.
But considering the company she keeps…
It never ceases to amaze me how you, melaredblu, and Rulo think so much alike. i am reminded of three comic characters who can finish each other’s sentences.
Now. what were their names–oh, yeah (with apologies to Uncle Walt). ^^
You’re not Carl Barking up the wrong tree, my friend.
If you’re referring to whom I think you’re referring to, then, because of my 20 years in library service, I would naturally be Dewey.
Ewwww.