Comic 546 - Ring of Fire
30th Jul 2020, 12:00 AM in Dragon Slayers
Ring of Fire
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Microraptor edit delete
Microraptor
I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire...
User comments:
lirvilas edit delete reply
lirvilas
I think a vehicle-mounted .50 cal--not an ornamental lance--would be the minimum price of admission to this circus!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Oh... As we'll see very soon, vehicle-mounted happens to be the keyword here... ;-)
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
I hope the flokatihead bollock devotchka gets at least scales when she takes that bath.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
I see you have solved the riddle about what exactly Lena's plan is here! ;-D
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
Siegfried Schaumbad, rightie-right? I hope she forgets about that mint leaf...
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Oh, Lena is well aware of Siegfried's blunder with the leaf... ;-)
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
But as a prude-prude bollock devotchka, she'll wear a bathing suit and there'll be plenty of place to stick the spears in.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Oh, you will be surprised in this regard...
Because Lena may be many things, (many bad things), but... she is not a prude... ;-)
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
Reminds me of an old Jeff Jones comic once printed in the german Vampirella (second edition, never saw a first on in life) about a treacherous servant who murdered his knight master after he killed the dragon because he wanted to benefit himself from the... I don't want to spoil what happens (if anyone hasn't guessed yet what she's after!), but this is a possible problem that lena might not have heard of yet... So SPOILER ALERT for the link.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Haha! :-D

For now I'll just say that there will be a twist in the end (two even!) - but not this one. ;-)

BTW, the way the dark-haired woman in the lower right corner (Vampirella?) is commenting the story in a snarky way seems very "Ariane-ish" to me...
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
It is Vampirella. She is exactly in the tradition that starts with the EC Horrorcomic hosts in the early 1950ies that made snarky introductions and comments to each horror story. Vampirella was the sexy Warren update (the first in comic, as far as I know, predated by Vampira in movies of course, who was modeled after Morticia Addams from the world war two era.) Ariane is not gothic, as often thought, but belongs to that older tradition: First Beautiful witch, turned to preraffelite beauty, then silent era vamp, transforming into later femme fatale, influencing the dark examples of first generation female heroines like Vampirella, Pantha, Valentina, Phoebe Zeitgeist and fumetti women.
Lee Lines edit delete reply
Lee Lines
Wilhelm Scream
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
If only there were an easy way to integrate audio files into webcomic pages... :-D
(Though I could easily imagine that many people would find the idea of a webcomic with actual sound rather annoying...)
Ariane Eldar edit delete reply
Ariane Eldar
If you insert emily-songs as audiofiles, this would be much worse-worse then annoying, spank me!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
If her music can even repel a dragon, how might my readers react...? 0.o