Comic 534 - A Busy Place
4th Jun 2020, 12:00 AM in Dragon Slayers
A Busy Place
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Microraptor edit delete
Microraptor
If you don't already know whom Kanny is seeing there, it's probably easy to guess...

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Jay042's currently ongoing Cryptida story Return to Atlantis* is also on ComicFury now!
It is supposed to eventually intertwine with his current Kaza's Mate Gwenna story Three Days from Kokotomo.
(I don't know yet how exactly that will play out exactly, but in any case it's an interesting experminent in story-telling!)

Further relevant links:
On Jay042's DeviantArt page, you can have (via suggestions in the comments and polls) direct influence on the Kaza's Mate Gwenna side of the story.
Also, characters from Jay042's old story Mother is Visiting are appearing, so reading that one beforehand can't hurt either!

* BTW, within the in-universe timeline, this story is supposed to happen at roughly the same time as the Cryptida Chapter 15. In fact, the second expedition to Atlantis gets a brief mention here!
User comments:
lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
You'd think Starry Wisdom would be banned by the German government.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
L. Ron Hubbard 's little club isn't banned here either, for example.
However, their legal status as a religion is in dispute, and they are under surveillance by our domestic intelligence service.
lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
oh, roger, for some reason I'd thought Scientology was not allowed in Germany... then yes, Starry Wisdom is probably in that same category. However, I think they'd probably come across as less malicious than Hubbard's nerds.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
BTW, "Starry Wisdom being surveilled by agent from German secret service" is a thought that didn't occur to me until just now...
*makes mental notes*
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
"Es aßen die alten Germanen zu beiden Ufer des Rheins, sie saßen auf Bärenhäuten und...auf zum Rhein, zum deutschen Reim, wird ja nicht der letzte sein."
But honestly darling, I would really like to see good old Moondog here instead, as he said "The Rhine... a magic river in a magic country."
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Oh, there will be some old and well-known Rhine-related lore cropping up very soon...
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
And it's quite likely that Sören might have met old Moondog. Here's an authentic pic of him in Hamburg 1974... (No, he wasn't yet-another-cosplayer born before his time... He really did live his norse-norse dream.)Moondog in Hamburg
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Moondog seems to have been a quite interesting fellow...
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
One of my sidecharacters is based on Moondog (here.)

Strangely enough, a comic that really influenced my own comic style was "Moondog" by George Metzgner, that I read as reprint as a child. It is a reference to the composer only by name, not the character (although he is blind, too.) But, at least the comic Moondog was the very first true steampunk comic, set in a post-apocalyptic world. (Even if the term didn't exist in 1969!)
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
I should have at least added one song as example. Here is the Witch Of Ensor, from his selftitled album from 1969 (he was born in 1916.)
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
This song sounds really neat!

Also, the stylistic influence of the Moondog comic on your work is quite apparent!
Candralar edit delete reply
Candralar
That's quite the contrast in Panel 2 with the modern hotel across from the medieval castle, but people need a place to stay when they come to see the sights...or whatever nefarious things they may be up to...
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Both the castle and the hotel will eventually play into the plot.
And "nefarious things" being involved is quite a good guess...
But also "seeing the sights" - in a way... ;-)