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.

Paradise Regained: Carolyn's Fan Fiction: Arrival in London Pages 1-4

P. 1: First Glimpse.

P.2: Bathroom Detail

P. 3: And Here is Michael! 

P.4: Don & the Car; And Here's Doofus!

All artwork, layout & coloring by Ponymaan of dA.

Carolyn is going through a very stressful time in her life so she writes this to escape from her shuttle training (actually she just had a bad dream about Francois, her family's chef whom she had a crush on and never really got over, that she's trying to forget) so she sits down to pen this. I guess therapy does take many different forms.

I realize the projection here is complex, but no more so that Chaucer making himself a character who goes on the pilgrimage along with all the other funky pilgrims to Canterbury in his Tales. 

Oh, and about the names: Sim and Don are getting new identities (Sarah & Harold, the latter sometimes Harry). Kind of sort of like the Barbra Streisand character in What's Up, Doc? who keeps calling the Ryan O'Neal character Steve when his name is really Howard. I know, really obscure, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Here is a link to the book online.

Rascal Redux: The Sequel pages 6 & 7

 

P. 6: Confrontation Diffused

P. 7: Christina & Julie Take A Shower While Marci & Natasha...?

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

Rascal Redux: The Sequel Pages 4 & 5

 

P. 4: Marci X Natasha

P. 5: Confrontation

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

Rascal Redux: The Sequel Pages 1-3 (In Medias Res)

 

P. 1: After Party Epilog

P. 2: Complications

P. 3: The Next Day.

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

For all of you diehard Marci & Rascal fans, obviously much has happened since we last left our intrepid heroes at last twilight, ill met by moonlight, but not in that movie (Henry V, dir. by Sir Kenneth Branagh) thank Christ, by jolly and by Jove, by folly and by queen's cove consort! The three former private detectives, Christina, Julie & Marci, are now FBI cadets in training at Quantico, VA. The new girl, Natasha, doesn't yet know about the true natures of either Rascal or Christina, either fairies or mortal, but she is beginning to suspect that all is not as it appears to be. She will soon receive more than she bargained for when the truth about the 'dog' and the princess is revealed, in tongues both swollen and seductive. Marci is trying her best to maintain Rascal's perfunctory prosaic domestic status but it's getting more and more difficult, as time goes by. As you see, when two lovers woo, they still say, "I love you." The fundamental things apply; no matter what the future brings.

                                           P.S. More to come so stay tuned!

Ten Little Ponies page 13

 P. 13: Game Time

All artwork, layout & coloring courtesy of Julie of France.