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I know, King Proteus shouldn’t be afraid of the King and Queen of Elves… but any parent knows that you’d catch a lot of crap from another parent if you sent their kids out to deal with Krakens and such.
🙂
Oh! And we’re getting Book Five in today!
Yay!
So orders from the store and Kickstarter will go out this weekend.
Well…the first BATCH anyways.
I have about 1,000 books to sketch in and ship. So…I have a feeling I’ll be quite busy for the next few weeks.
Thanks for your patience.
Scott
FIRST! heh heh Silly king if you are that worried about it you should go with them. 😀
That last panel is hilarious! He’s so insistent about not mentioning he had anything to do with it!
It took over 1400 pages, but that troublesome fourth wall finally came crashing down.
Disregard my last post. I put it up before I realized that Proteus was talking to Alex and Staj.
Sounds like he knew the King and Queen of Elves went that way huh?
King Proteus on a stick at the banquet then.
At least Nastajia’s parents are spared one ordeal: “Okay, here are the car keys.”
Give her a wwhale, girls love wwhales
Family friendly meme brought to you by Zeed!
I got the email from Kickstarter asking for my shipping info! 😀 Book Five is coming soon!!!
Oh…great page, too. Proteus is funny. 🙂 (I can tell from this page that you re-ordered the panels yesterday. The shift in facial expression is noticeable. I’m sure you’ll find a fabulous solution. You always do! :))
Like!
The last panel had me wondering how sound works underwater.
Would cupping your hands like we “air breathers” do create a megaphone type of effect?
As a mermaid, King Proteus should always be worried about ending up the main course fir a fish feast. *puts on lobster bib* Who’s hungry?
Erm… perhaps when Nick was in charge.
With humanoids, I imagine there is at least as much of a taboo against eating something human-like as Narnians have against eating Talking Beast.
I used to be a mer-man swimming in King Proteus’ court, then I took an arrow to the tail.
Random marine biologist here again! 🙂 Yep, sound works exactly the same way underwater, so this would work.
Basically as long as you have water on your vocal chords, you can vibrate the water just like you would vibrate air. The water is denser so it might take more effort, but the payoff is good — sound travels much further underwater than it would in the air.
This all assumes you aren’t busy drowning while you’re shouting, of course. When we air-breathers holler underwater, we just vibrate the air that we’re yelling out of our lungs, so it doesn’t carry too well.
The theory goes that back before we started noise-polluting the ocean with our engines, whales could hear each other all over the world or at the very least, within the same ocean. Even now, blue whales can hear for thousands of miles!
Bubbles bursting out of shouting Proteus’ mouth is a very good touch.
Good to know–I was wondering the same thing.
And–since sound travels considerably faster underwater, if you time it right at the surface, you can hear some sounds twice–once underwater, and once above water thru the air.
OK, I’ve been looking for the origin of that meme and failed to find it.
It’s from Homestuck, I believe quoting Eridan, but the normal version, if you take it literally, means that female canines love large aquatic mammals.
I find your display picture very fitting for a random psychotically happy marine biologist…
Sound originating underwater only slows down once it reaches the surface and goes into the air.
Anyway, if you can go faster than the speed of sound, you can hear some sounds many times 😉
*Nastajia and Alex finally meet the parents*
*After hours of story-telling*
“Yeah, and then there was the time we wen…. uh, … thought about going to King Proteus, but then decided not to so we could … uh… think about (but not) go to Nivienne. I don’t even know why I keep talking about King Proteus and Nivienne. Ha ha! How silly of me!”
Question: NOt that it REALLY matters, but where is Staj getting these arrows from?
There seems to be a quiverless elf in the water.
Offer fish sticks at a church meal, company picnic, or a soup kitchen. What percentage of the takers will ask “what kind of fish”. The majority of the ones who would ask and/or worry about it are already vegan.
Maybe Scott could tell us if merfolk taste like fish or chicken. Pork? Maybe a hybrid, fishy in the tail and chicken above the waste. The sirloin tip would probably be an expensive delicacy in some markets. Low in saturated fat plus the fish oil omega-3s…
A wizard did it 😀
If I’m comprehending this correctly it appears Acoustic Velocity (aka Speed of sound) in water is roughly 1435 meters per second where as in air is if a wimpy 343 meters per second. I suppose technically speaking this means that shouting in the direction of them just advertised to anything in front of them that they are coming. 😉 I can provide the link I’m getting my info from if needed. The water speed is based on 0c temps so I would imagine it is just a hair slower in more temperate waters (greater distance between molecules and all at higher temps). Keep up the good work. 😀
I think they are quarrels (or bolts). Arrows usually have a straight shaft and glide to extend range. Scott may have used a flechette round or a dart as a model.
The quarrels appear when Nastajia is drawing the bow. I assumed that they were fabricated by either the bow or Nastajia. It is also possible that Nastajia keeps extra quarrels in a concealed pocket like the one Rambo uses to store extra belts of ammo.
…or hidden like the counch shell that calls the mer-people.
I believe it was mentioned that that is an energy bow… which suggests that the arrow might be made of “energy”. (ie, magic)
That King sure is well groomed for an underwater being. He’s got the nice, short modern haircut.
Maybe I’m just stuck on images of like the king from Little Mermaid and portraits of Poseidon. Long, crazy hair and stuff.
ANWYAY, great comic. Been reading for ages. Can’t say I’ve been disappointed yet 🙂
Thank you!
Friday’s page is delayed. It’s a “Meanwhile” page with Felicity, Paddington, and Kiwi.
Problems with the render.
If for ANY reason it gets too late to post…I’ll post on Monday.
I have over 1,000 books to sign and ship…so you know what’s on my mind right now.
🙂
Peanut Butter and Strawberry Preserves sandwiches?
Oh wait, that’s what’s on MY mind…. 🙂
That funny, I was thinking of a bowl of Froot Loops cereal. 8^)
…And I was thinking more like an omelet. :p
Exactly what I was thinking. 😛
And I do love that last panel, so it’s good to know it’s both funny AND technically accurate. ^_^
erm, so what is keeping the King’s adornments on his chest and shoulders?
Quarrels. Bolts are used with crossbows.
Barnacle glue?
Probably the same thing that keeps his beard out of his eyes.
– Be sure to omit my involvement in your journeys!
– But, umm, we’re sporting fish tails and are breathing underwater, remember?
– Oh. Yeah. Nevermind…
Yep, I missed a v though :(.
I can’t even remember why I posted it, makes no sense whatsoever in context.
Reality dawned on me and I know this is but a fantasy but I can’t get out of my head that the real dialog under the water would have been muffled and more like;
“Glub blub gurgle gurg burg…”
So you lived in Searim? I envy you. :O
Hammerspace of course ;P
Last panel = a very Tolkienish moment.
Any post before 9am is not required to make sense.