Mar22
Well we know who the REAL boss around here is
on March 22, 2013 at 12:34 am3/24/2013: I edited a couple things. Thanks, kgy121! Readability should hopefully be improved now.
Courtney:
My job interview went well, I think! I’m grateful for all of your well-wishes. And now, the agonizing wait! YAY
SHOUT OUT! My friend Cammi has been trying to get more word out about her comic, Highly Experimental! If you like character-driven story comics, go check it out!
OH ALSO I wanted to say thanks again to Thaumaturge, Chynna, Ribbedebie and Mystrylshada for the wonderful birthday-present fanarts! YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMAN ARE AWESOME. (Go check out the fanart page if you haven’t recently!)
Also, happy beer bike.
The Orange Fury looks more old-timey comic book styled…
Or perhaps like an orange cream soda. Mmm, soda…
Thanks! I’ve grown very fond of halftones recently after seeing them used to pleasing effect in other comics. Victor thinks it looks very pop-artish.
Pop art… pop tart… it’s high time I ate breakfast.
absolutly love the orange fury panel. and cool, ive been subscribed to Highly Experimental on Comic Fury for a while now, and i saw her little skarva shout-out. I was all, hey i know that guy!
It’s a small world after all!
Mmmmm all of this orange rage! They should make a soda called that with skarvas seething face on it
Hahaha. The second-to-last panel would work perfectly, just take out the speech bubble and replace it with “Orange Rage!” I’m actually aware of a soda shop not a few blocks down from where I’m sitting now, where you can custom-order soda with labels of your choosing… (they also have buffalo wing flavored soda)
I can see it now….
PRESENTING THE FOURTHS FIRST SODA!!!
ORANGE RAGE!!!
AVAILABLE INS A POTION SHOP NEAR YOU!
Gods I want that now and I don’t even like orange soda
Well that buffalo wing soda I talked about is also orange! Perhaps a more appropriate flavor for rage, anyway.
Panel three. It took me a few times to read that correctly. Ecta yells “don’t give me that”, and Frozio spends a couple seconds waddling over to her just to try and shake her hand.
Were you really expecting something different Frozio?
Yeah, the not-hand-shaking thing was my own visual-humor addition to the script… sorry if it reads a little confusingly. There might be a better way I can do it, perhaps if I add Skaerva into the third and fourth panels so it doesn’t look like Frozio spent some dead time moving. I’ll mess around with it over the weekend.
On that note, anyone reading this, do point out when something seems weird to you or you can’t understand what’s going on, so that I can fix things and improve myself!
Jeez, Does Victor have something against Ecta or what?
To be fair, nothing bad actually happens to her in this comic; she even gets spared the brunt of Skaerva’s typical high-and-mighty speech. It’s understandable that decades of devotion SHOULD make her deserve the position more than some penguin that Skaerva met once, but I think our Lord’s reasoning is legitimate. Naturally there are going to be complaints about the outsider, but it might be even worse to upset the longstanding order of things by picking the “best” from among his current minions (who love to gossip, you know!)
And if Ecta was in charge of the whole castle, who would keep her boys in line?
Considering how little control she has over her current subordinates, I suspect that the castle would burn down within a half hour of her assuming the role of general manager.
That does make sense. Maybe in due time…
Ecta deserves more respect, being around since before Skarva was ruling!
Ecta: Does he… have any idea of who he’s dealing with?! How could he do this to me? Why, I practically raised him!
I’ve always wanted to draw a picture of Ecta with bebbyskarvs. She was already long dead.
I imagine that when our Lord was born, the Third brought him out in front of all the minions and raised him up Simba-style.
That is a picture that should be drawn. Disney movie references, yay!!
Except I don’t think Ecta will go all Yzma and try to have him turned into a goldfish or something.
Y’know, I actually never saw The Emperor’s New Groove until a few years ago… that movie is GREAT.
Oh I know right? Love that movie.
Hooray for Bubbly-Fury!~ :’D …not hooray for cape abuse.
ASDFGH- I LOVE CAMMI. She’s an AMAZING artist, and I’ve been reading her stuff for a while now. It really is a small world…
…mostly because I’m a deviantart stalker. I’ve been a fan of yours since your Rawk Duck and DementiO’s days… ^^;
Oh really?! Wow! Like, when I uploaded them onto Altermentality, or when I first made them? On my… *shudder* old account. It seems like such a long time ago!
(Some day I’ll have time to do silly Paper Mario stuff again, I hope! It’s a shame Sticker Star didn’t give me anything new to work with >_>)
Your old account, actually…XD So, yeah, I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time!!
Yaaay! Well, the webcomics world is, anyway
I actually have known about Cammi for over a decade… I never would have imagined I’d have a shout-out in her comic! …I never even imagined I’d have my own comic! (I thank Victor for believing in me and telling me I could do what seemed to me impossible.)
Loving that orange rage! Even though I’m probably, like, the third person who’s said that. xD
Thanks!
Oh god, ecta is being treated worse than cyril right now…!
IT’S A CONSPIRACY FROM THE GODS!
I dunno. Cyril spent the night in a CLOSET.
The BROOM closet, presumably with the BLEACH and OTHER CHEMICALS to use as a pillow. And then chlorine gas happens.
Ya know, because there’s the whole mixing of modern technologies and magic thing.
Ecta might get some more respect if she didn’t act like such a jerk, lol.
Buuut, maybe she’d act like less of a jerk if she DID get more respect. Catch 22 . . .
I still think she’s awesome, either way though.
And YEAH LORELEI; you go girl. Derk’s face made me laugh.
I realized two things today.
One, Ecta is me at work, but hear me out. We got an influx of new people about a year ago, and to this day a good half still don’t know what they’re doing, leading to many “I’m surrounded by idiots” and “Am I the only one competent here?” moments. Then again I’m an old fart at four years.
Two, this idea kinda came out of nowhere, but being what he is, Skarva has probably never had a significant other. I’m guessing he’s maybe in his twenties or very early thirties, but the idea that he’s been alone in that sense is kinda sad for me for some reason. D:
Also, we hear about the patriarchs of Castle Skarva, but will we ever see or learn of the matriarchs?
Apparently we’re going to hear about Skaerva’s Mom or Grandmother eventually, presumably when it becomes incredibly plot relevant that the fifth key to open the gate to the gods is love for the person going through, and the only place Skaerva can get that is from mummy dearest.
Yeah, you guys will learn about the Ladies Skärva eventually
As for our Skärva’s romantic history, that’s something we’ll leave up to the fans to fill in for now!
*resists urge to comment on Ecta’s leadership*
ORANGE RAGE FTW XD
Oh I want to make a wizard of Oz picture using The Fou4th characters since I am currently a munchkin in the musical, but I’m not sure who should be who.
That would be hard, because genders may have to be bent. XD Blank = Dorothy, Skaerva IV = Witch of West, Lorelei = Flying Monkey or Toto (although the latter would work with Skaerva being “Dorothy”, which would make me laugh to no end).
Others can be usual, like Cyril being Scarecrow, Derk being the Cowardly Lion (he’s so hairy, after all), Princess Veronica being Glinda (OH the pink, she’d HATE it; must do that for laughs), and that wise old man Lomercio being the Wizard of Oz. Minions can be flying monkeys, with maybe Ecta as the Witch who got house-stomped. Or you can have some Lurkins as munchkins.
Blanking on who would be a good Tin Woodsman though . . .
XD I have so many ideas thanks to you now. I think blank might make a good tin woodsman, mainly because he is trying to win princess Veronica’s heart (still making her an annoyed Glinda wearing pink) and actually does live alone in the woods, though if Skarva was Dorothy that might cause a few issues.
Davis can be the doorman of the Emerald City. He can get his stool back
I’ll leave the rest up to you guys though, you’re doing very well ^_^
I just realized you said “Blanking on who would be a good Tin Woodsman” and then Android said Blank would be a good Tin Woodsman
XD oh jeez, I didn’t realize that earlier.
LOL yay unintended puns. I had noticed that after it got posted; got a chuckle out of it. And yeah, he’d make a good woodsman for the reason Android mentioned too.
So, if Skaerva’s Dorothy . . . who’s the Wicked Witch now? His dad the Third? The First?
Wait, shouldn’t the Wizard of Oz be Mr. The Wizard? Oh right nobody cares about him
I suppose the Third could be the “Wicked but not really” Wizard of the West, or it could be the First – but you’d have to get creative, or just represent him as a shadow for now, as one of our fans has already done
The Third being the Wicked Witch of the West makes me think of that Wizard of Oz parody in Futurama, where the “Mom” Witch is just looking to make Dorothy her daughter. In this case, he’d already be the Witche’s . . . uh . . .daug, I mean son . . . I think . . .
Poor Skaerva. XD
Ooo the shadow thing could be fun though. Ultimately its up to Android; I’m just having fun brainstorming.
Rofl Mr. The Wizard as The Wizard; OH the irony. Too bad for him though; Lomercio is too epic to leave out.
But you know you have a good cast when you can do stuff like this; put them in another setting and either have it work, or have a really good laugh.
Lol what if mr wizard was the wicked witch of the west trying to get revenge in everyone who thought his temple sucked.
Am I delusional, or was my comment deleted? I could swear I posted something, but I don’t see it anymore…:P
Oops…I actually posted it on the next page. So yes, I am delusional, but not for what I thought!