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Hi all!
Thanks so much for the feedback on “to blood…or not to blood”.
I’m definitely going to come back to these pages and consider some extra touches at some point before we go to print.
My apologies for being a bit out of touch. It’s been very hectic here.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
For those of you who are going to Heroes Con…say hi to everyone for me.
I’m sorry I’ll be missing it this year.
Does “I serve many” mean that he serves a conglomerate of leaders, or that he’s a mercenary?
ooh, hope theres at least some sort of explanation coming 😛
Mordred? or worse?0.o
He, he, he… Nick is involved. I bet on it. Especially if a certain lady named Morgana is with them…
Congrats with a great comic.
This is the first time I post a comment but I today I had one minor remark.
I find Arthurs buttons (the ones for his cape) like two circles put on the frame (especially the last frame). Maybe they need some more depth/shade. I hope i don’t offend you this way, because I really like this comic.
Knave: Because you’re powerful, rich, live a great lifestyle…. You don’t like our form of government and no one becomes a leader by a lady throwing a sword at you!
Arthur: What? I’m the King of the Britons!
Knave: Help! I’m being opressed!
Yeah, they do kinda look like Dreamland buttons rather than Earthland buttons. Or maybe they’re Moonland buttons. I like the way they glow. OH OH! It means there are goblins about! Oh wait, they would have to be glowing blue for that! ^^
Omygosh! Are those pink jewels in his crown?
Merc: “We live to see Camelot fall…because strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”
Just because some watery tart threw a sword at you..!
I’m missing out on Heroes this year too. We can be lonely outcasts together. 🙂
Scott!! Look at this!
For the heart whose woes are legion
‘Tis a peaceful, soothing region-
For the spirit that walks in shadow
‘Tis- oh, ’tis an Eldorado!
But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not- dare not openly view it!
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
– from Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe
O_o
The buttons on Arthur don’t seem to fit, it’s as if they were pasted onto the image. Great comic, keep up the good…great work!
AHAHAHA XD
oooh, pointing his sword right at the guy’s eye–nice. personally i would have had it at the guy’s throat, but the eye is pretty effective too O_<
Haters gonna hate.
Nice….
yeah i have to agree the buttons on his cloak really look like there not fitting as there clunky and really big as if he took the light caps and pasted them on his cloak,
i understand why there big but they really don’t look they fit there scott, otherwise its really wonderful. and good idea to point the sword at the guy eye instead of his throat since he impale his self on the sword and kill himself if he didn’t want to answer his questions
blood is okay but please.. not so much i really dont think children should be seeing it unless they are with parent since this comic is aimed at the family age
I must say, I LOVE that grass. This page will be awesome in winter when I’m buried in snow.
“Tell me who you serve?” pretty please? with a cherry on top? because I’m a pansy (pretty white flower) and really hope you’ll just waffle.
Or: “Tell me who you serve!” because I’m the king and demand an explanation!
Hmmm… Nic’s involvement crossed my mind as well..
AMAZING!!
I know. Kinda makes me cringe…
Yeah, the exclamation point would be more effective than the question mark…
Despite any good one does, their success will cause some to hate them…
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” Salvador Dalí
How cool!
Agh. What was I thinking?
I’ll fix that.
Thanks
*HUGS*
same here, LOL
I only hope the answer to that last question is better than the first :p
Whom.
You guys get snow!!! *pout, not me I have cacti.
oops! ^^ I mean REpressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA&feature=related
No, “who” is correct here. This is a common mistake made by well-meaning but misinformed amateur grammarians … 😉
Who vs. Whom
Often if you can reword the scentence to fit he or him (or she or her) then he=who, him=whom.
Also Scott ment this as a statement rather than a question.
Tell me who you serve!
vs the appropriate question version.
Whom do you serve?
“Tell me who you serve” is incorrect.
If we look at just the last clause, we get “who you serve”, which may be reordered to “you serve whom?” The person we want to know is the object of the verb “serve”, so it should be whom.
Even by Megadorkynerdgoddess’s rule, we get: “Tell me him you serve!” which is better than “Tell me he you serve!” That second one is just wrong; the first is odd but works.
You WILL be missed at Heroes Con !
Maybe we’ll come up to Nashville one day this next year so Emilee can take you to lunch to make up for missing out on Hereos Con this time … Hang in there Buddy.
“Tell me who you serve.”
“Sarumaaaaaan!”
I can’t be the only one who thought of that.
You weren’t. 🙂
“You will taste man-flesh!”
“AAARGH!!”
I think Megadork was saying reword it to a proper sentence – that is, “Tell me who he serves,” rather than “Tell me who him serves.” You gotta fix the tense to match.
In any case, grammatical correctness matters less in dialogue than it does in prose; for a comic, where almost all text is spoken, grammar is more situational than a hard-fast rule. Spoken English is different from written English; it’s less about what technically is right than what sounds right.
It’s still whom.
“Why? Why do you hate us so?”
Uhmmm… I have no idea… Not enough has been established to clearly represent the situation besides your constant, vague comments to the fact… If readers were fully versed in Arthurian legend, they might have a clue, but as a standalone series, the author has probably got some explaining and exposition to do… And then put it back before this scene possibly… And then explain the nightmare world treaty too since it is handled as a known when it was never fleshed out…
*Both guy and Arthur look into the camera and break the fourth wall.*
Seriously, I am more confused then a goat being seduced by a kobold here.
No, in this particular context, “who” is the more correct. Remember that all of the speech bubbles are things that are meant to be spoken and in spoken English, it is both awkward and inappropriately formal to use “whom” outside of a very select few cases. “Whom” would also disrupt the flow of the sentence given the context in which it’s spoken; in other words Arthur demanding of the man “Tell me who you serve!” has the “sound” of a spoken demand from someone who’s just overthrown an enemy and is demanding answers where “Tell me whom do you serve!” (which is the correct way to use “whom” in that sentence) sounds awkward for the context, more like a formal request from King Arthur within the well-manner setting of a court. Scott made the correct call in both the story and the properly-grammatical sense.
….Maybe pink colored enamel. Melting colored glass onto jewelry goes back hundreds of years.
Who is correct but your link is so extremely vague and double talking that it perfectly exemplifies why the Merriam-Webster dictionary is so heavily disdained.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/595/02/
This very succinctly explains why who is correct here.
In this situation the pronoun who is being used in the subjective case.
Sentence: Tell me who you serve!
Tell: verb
Object: me
subjective pronoun: who
Subject: you
Rewritten: You tell me who you serve!
Which is passive voice and therefore not an imperative statement.
The only reason whom could be used is because it is the formal subjective form of the pronoun who; and since most bad Arthurian works require use of formal pronouns in all situations.
In summation, “WHOM” is not incorrect here, but “WHO” certainly is more correct.
ugg i wish there was an edit. since should be because. I merged two sentences together and missed changing it.
I’m not sure if you’re arguing the point or defending the author, but neither of those are necessary. I don’t know if Scott intended to use the wrong word and neither do you. I’m just pointing out that he did.
Thanks; I admit I was a bit rushed and just included the first link that I found that had any authority behind it at all. Your Purdue OWL link is a better supporting research.
(The fact that Bese still can’t admit he/she is wrong in the face of this is kind of sad, but I’m not going to waste any more time arguing the point … )
😉
Ugh!
The sentence “Your Purdue OWL link is a better supporting research” should read “Your Purdue OWL link is a better supporting resource.”
😕
You know; I was going to drop this, but I just can’t yet.
Support your assertion? Links from recognized grammar experts or institutions?
(Didn’t think so … )
😉
That’s really cool.
So Shakespeare wrote about Dreamland?
Some people are truly ignorant. Do not waste your time with them tekserver.
The only reason i even responded was because no one should ever consider Webster to be any sort of verified source. I would use wikipedia long before i sourced Webster.
O.o thats one confused goat…thats one confused KOBOLD? a dragon kind and a goat? wow
i ment ‘KOBOLD!’
*grin* It looks much better, Mr. Scott 🙂
We’ll fix this Settlers of Catan style. I’ll trade you four feet of fine Chicago windblown for 2 fields of cacti.