Little Match Vixen

[Mako]

I can just hear Alex's urban British accented "I'll Say!" echoing into silence between my ears

Very, very tasty stuff, I can hardly wait for the rest of this arc, even after being graced with a double strip today. I kinda feel a lot like Cindi right now in fact

Tnx!
Mako

PS: Your hand drawing of McGonagall's dialog is amazingly cool, it adds a lot of ambiance and helps me to "hear" his archaic Scottish accent - Yays again It must take forever to ink that dialog...

[ZOMBIE USER 5169]

The Little Match Girl? I think I know that story. Didn't she strike one of her matches to warm herself, and see in the flame a vision of her grandmother who told her to burn down the Town Hall?

[Mako]

The Little Match Girl? I think I know that story. Didn't she strike one of her matches to warm herself, and see in the flame a vision of her grandmother who told her to burn down the Town Hall?

I think that was the Southpark version of the story, or was it the Hellraiser version, yes I think that was indeed Pinhead playing the part of the matronly Grandmother in the flame...

Mako

[JimRob]

Here's McGonagall's poem. She does indeed strike the match, but unfortunately doesn't get the chance to revenge herself on the society that simultaneously rejected and wrote cloying poems about her. It's still an excellent bit of Victorian melodrama.

But a rather tenuous link. Oh well.

PS: Your hand drawing of McGonagall's dialog is amazingly cool, it adds a lot of ambiance and helps me to "hear" his archaic Scottish accent - Yays again It must take forever to ink that dialog...

Yes. But it's fun to do.

[Mako]

Has anyone else notice that Alex has simple the most dreamy sweater ever? Not to mention the now you see it now you don't dreamscape backgrounds - just where did those mountains go anyways?

CYa!
Mako

[Tek Roo]

The Little Match Girl? I think I know that story. Didn't she strike one of her matches to warm herself, and see in the flame a vision of her grandmother who told her to burn down the Town Hall?

I wish that was how it went! So McGonagall is the one to blame for that story! I was forced to read that in school, and I hated every word of it! I didn't even realize it was supposed to be poetry!

See that? You learn something new every day.....I mean, every few days.... from JimRob!

[JimRob]

Well, I don't know if he actually invented the story. It's fairly characteristic stuff, so he might have done, but it might equally be his idiosyncratic retelling of a folk tale or a newspaper article (he translated the latter into poetry quite frequently).

[W.M.Y.L.G. Joe]

Has anyone else notice that Alex has simple the most dreamy sweater ever?

*takes a second look* Hm, wouldn'ta caught that if you hadn't said anything. That _is_ pretty trippy, no? Nice little detail for people who pay close attention. *cough*obviouslyIdon't*cough*

[ZOMBIE USER 5169]

Well, I don't know if he actually invented the story. It's fairly characteristic stuff, so he might have done, but it might equally be his idiosyncratic retelling of a folk tale or a newspaper article (he translated the latter into poetry quite frequently).

I think it was Hans Christian Anderson. Too soppy for a genuine folk tale, anyway.

[LAGtheNoggin]

Wow... Melodramatic... And pretty awful... I tried to be sad, but, erhhh, ehh, too difficult when the story was put in those words o.O

Mmm, maybe I should just stop reading his poetry. However it is quite refreshing to encounter such poetry after so much modern... Errr, art I suppose is the only word I can think of, modern art.

As for his sweater, man it's kewl. Noticed it the first time but didn't bother commenting... Hummm, haven't a clue why... I seem to do that a lot. Write out a thread or a reply and then just click off somewhere, come back, read over it, close it. Strange that...

Ummm... Ahck! Lift going! AHHHH!

*runs*

[ZOMBIE USER 5169]

Has anyone else notice that Alex has simple the most dreamy sweater ever? Not to mention the now you see it now you don't dreamscape backgrounds - just where did those mountains go anyways?

CYa!
Mako

Reminds me a bit of George Herriman's Krazy Kat. (Thanks for the link, Gloria. ) His backgrounds kept changing wildly from frame to frame.

[Dkinged]

By a curious coincidence, I heard McGonagall's "The Railway Bridge o'er the Silvery Tey" read on National Public Radio here in the states just a couple of weeks before his name appeared in the strip. I'm sure this means something, but I'm not quite sure what.

David King

[ZOMBIE USER 5169]

Actually, I like McGonagall's account of the invention of lithography. I read it a few years back, and it's stuck in my mind. So maybe all that persistence of his wasn't entirely in vain.

[ZOMBIE USER 6611]

Here's McGonagall's poem. She does indeed strike the match, but unfortunately doesn't get the chance to revenge herself on the society that simultaneously rejected and wrote cloying poems about her. It's still an excellent bit of Victorian melodrama.

But a rather tenuous link. Oh well.

Being old fashioned, myself, the syllable counts in "The Little Match Girl" seem atrociously bad. I found myself wondering if the syllable counts were "true random" or "pseudo-random" numbers.

PS: Your hand drawing of McGonagall's dialog is amazingly cool, it adds a lot of ambiance and helps me to "hear" his archaic Scottish accent

I certainly second that -- the sequence and dialog were very nicely done indeed.

[Tek Roo]

Being old fashioned, myself, the syllable counts in "The Little Match Girl" seem atrociously bad. I found myself wondering if the syllable counts were "true random" or "pseudo-random" numbers.

We could certainly find out by coming up with a method of applying a McGonagall poem to a Lottery card and seeing how much we win!

I think it was Hans Christian Anderson. Too soppy for a genuine folk tale, anyway.

True enough it seems! Well, a thoroughly nauseating story regardless of who's telling it...