Comments on: The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon &Co., Chapter Twelve.

By: il biggo

il biggo — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:43:36 +0000

I used to snicker at the bad (VERY bad) Italian in these strips, but the fact it’s quasi-Italian words put together in a sort of fake uppity 19th-century language actually makes it Martian enough, in a Jules Verne steampunkish way. I guess reading Shakespeare when one usually speaks modern English ought to be a similar experience.
For the record, the real Italian should read:
Page 1, panel 1: – Venite con noi, subito!
Page 2, panel 4: – Seguiteci e non vi faremo del male, per ora.
Page 3, panel 1: – Aiutatemi! Aiutatemi!

By: Wrabbit

Wrabbit — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:23:09 +0000

So, the monsters are from Venus, and the women from Mars, huh? Nice reversal of the trope.

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:11:33 +0000

And tropewatching: New in this episode, we’ve got “…that’s my wife”, and an instant-tranquilizer dart, (PS to Madblood!Victorian: Those Congolese blowgunners don’t use tranks….)

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:11:32 +0000

Mars!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:11:31 +0000

Suddenly splitting the cast between two entire planets surely must have seemed, even at the time, to be a slightly overconfident move. Split casts have a strange narrative tendency of resisting the natural forces of gravity that ought to bring them back together!

That's the end of Madblood's hat, it seems.