The Lady Who Loved Lightning: Camilo Cienfuegos Enters, Pages 1 & 2

 

P. 1: Last Day in Cuba

P. 2: Enter the Sailor (Monica's Father).

All artwork, layout & coloring by mohabe art of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in Africa.

When you gotta go, you gotta go. You may as well go in style. 

This part is toward the end of the book, when the action jumps ahead ten years, whereas the moon business is really what little plot there is in the main body of the novel. Aboard Deep Space Probe 187, his parents' old ship, Marshall (the kid in the first panel) works with one other telephone representative (Nathan, his supervisor, one of the C-class [C for cargo] personnel who help get the new moon there and who with his girlfriend decide to stay), selling spots in various pony act-outs (from the third book, a manga actually, titled A World Full of Lobsters) in the various theme parks on the new planet and moon. During this time period, Marshall's parents, Walt & Chely, are on another planet trying to terraform it, but it's very difficult because it's a frozen world (think Europa in Jupiter's orbit) and they're working under the ice sheet, attempting to construct shelters where colonists could live. The latter is the fifth book in this series, Desire and Decision (that's from a line in "Lolita", something like "Desire and decision: the two things that make a live world."), which I set aside so I could do more work on Marci & Rascal. Camilo (who comes in handy as a worker because he's a big guy; on the island [in the South Pacific, where "Paradise Lost" takes place, where Carolyn & John crash-land the space shuttle Lexington at the end of "Paradise Regained"] he was a chicken farmer because their replicator won't do eggs, for some strange reason) & Monica figure prominently in that book also, as They Are On The Wrong Side Of History.

Here is a link to the book online.

The Lady Who Loved Lightning: New Moon Pages 9 & 10

 

P. 9: John & Catty

P. 10: The Scene of the Crime

All artwork, layout & coloring by larienne of dA.

This is one of the subplots of the book, that Carolyn & John's relationship is on the rocks because of all the time Carolyn & Brandy have spent together (notice Arial and Brandy don't say anything when Carolyn & John have their little exchange here because the former know John for what he is). For a while John is quite the ladies' man but then he wises up and realizes that what he and Carolyn have is too intense to just throw away. Also Walt, their son, and later their grandson Marshall, who will appear in a later section of the book currently under construction by another (ahem) artist, so stay tuned.

Here is a link to the book online.

Paradise Regained: Arrival in London pages 5, 6 & 7

P. 5: Doofus Backstory

P. 6: Michael Is Not Amused

P. 7: The Training Facility
All artwork, layout & coloring by Ponymaan of dA.

Reminder: Don's new code name is Harold or Harry. S.B. stands for Sim Baby.

Here is a link to the book online.

The Lady Who Loved Lightning: New Moon pages 7 & 8

 

P. 7: Tom's Favor

P. 8: Catty's Profile

All artwork, layout & coloring by larienne of dA.

The Lady Who Loved Lightning: New Moon pages 5 & 6

 

P. 5: Enter Tom

P. 6: Catty Backstory

All artwork, layout & coloring by larienne of dA.

Yes, another character in this story to keep track of. Wait until they get the moon there; then there'll be even more.

Here is a link to the book online.

Rascal Redux: New Chapter pages 1-4

 

P. 1: Late Night Confessions

P. 2: Marci & Julie Talk

P. 3: Christina Rebukes Her Bodyguards While Natasha Arrives

P. 4: Meanwhile, At the Next Table Over...

All artwork, layout & coloring by mohabe art of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in Africa.

Nothing takes place in a vacuum.

Christina is a princess and future queen in an unnamed European country (I'm thinking Navarre because of Love's Labour's Lost) while Marci & Julie are her bodyguards. She is being trained incognito because her parents, the current king and queen of her country, worry about her and are concerned for her safety (she's an only child and her cousin will ascend the throne if something happens to her). All of them met in the first book (this is the sequel) because Christina was a prisoner (of sorts) in the castle where she had been living and trapped in a bell jar Sylvia Plath-type of existence. Natasha doesn't realize it yet but she's in over her head. She's overlooking Rascal because she's distracted by the princess and her two bodyguards, but she hasn't been told that yet. Sometimes the best place to hide something is in plain sight.

The Lady Who Loved Lightning: New Moon pages 1-4

 

P. 1: A New Moon For A New Planet

P. 2: Chely Likes Them Big

P. 3: Arial Weighs In

P. 4: Arial 'Fesses Up

All artwork, layout & coloring by larienne of dA.

The story here is that all the characters from "Paradise Lost" (or most of them, anyway) have moved out into space and are mapping and cataloging the Milky Way galaxy. Walt & Chely, aboard Deep Space Probe 187 (a small two-- or three--person ship, see first panel of "Enter Camilo" above), find an Earth-like planet beyond Rigel and the crew of Carolyn's J-class start terraforming the new world. But the six-hour days there are throwing off everyone's sleep cycles so Walt & Chely concoct this new scheme to slow down the planet's rotation. Kind of sort of like how our moon (which is so much bigger than other moons, compared to Earth) was supposedly acquired by something the size of Mars coming by at just the right time, hitting the Earth at just the right angle to settle down into orbit.

Anyway, that's my rant for the day; sorry for the soapbox.

P.S. More to come from this artist so stay tuned! Finally, I found someone who can draw Arial. You don't know what a trial it's been. A trial and a trail of broken tears.

Here is a link to the book online.