I’ll be at Rose City Comic Con this weekend! Come see me at the Helioscope group of tables, in Booth 911! I’ll hopefully have some new merch for y’all! See you there!
I’ll be at Rose City Comic Con this weekend! Come see me at the Helioscope group of tables, in Booth 911! I’ll hopefully have some new merch for y’all! See you there!
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Damn, I’m a sucker for Indian architecture.
Ooooh, are those snake-y looking thingees in the first panel basilisks?
More likely Nagas, considering Ravi based it on India.
Based on a lot of the statues of Nagas you see in India it doesn’t make sense why these ones would be hiding their heads, considering it’s one of their most prominent features.
You can totally see that those hooded statues have beaks.
Okay… don’t know what it has to do with the naga/basilisks..
I’m saying it doesn’t and that the statues are of Griffins and Mid-form Griffins done in an Indian style.
Alright, but what does that have to do with what me and Joseph were talking about?
On the pillars, most visible in the first panel. these are not hooded gryphons.
I think they look like iguanas, and are probably basilisks.
Those are not ‘mid-form griffins’. That’s Ravi.
…Probably.
Sure, we have all this exciting stuff happening, but the one question I wanna have the answer to is…
What does Ravi’s alternate form(s) look like?!
I imagine him looking like one of those Organians from Star Trek: The Original Series. (Those guys in the first episode with the Klingons)
“What happened to the Klingons?
Remember in the day,
they looked like Puerto Ricans
and dressed in gold lamé?
Now they look like heavy metal
rockers from the dead,
with leather pants and frizzy hair
and lobsters on their heads!”
— from “U.S.S. Make Sh*t Up”, Voltaire.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
Oh. My. God. I have been trying to remember the name of that song for like 3 years! THANK YOU!
Hahaha, you’re welcome! Voltaire’s got three other Star Trek songs, including the “Sexy Data Tango”, “Worf’s Revenge (Klingon Rap)”, and “Screw the Ocampa! (I Wanna Go Home)”.
Though my favorite Voltaire song (next to the U.S.S. Make Shit Up) is still The Vampire Club. xD
You see those birds on the corners of the pillars in the first panel? I think those are some kind of mynah. That family of bird is well represented in India. I’m guessing that Ravi’s alternate form, or at least the one he used during his visit to medieval Liverpool, is one such.
They carved a small city down there.
They’ll be ready when global warming forces them underground for a million billion years
I really love the carvings of the dancing gryphon and the hooded, still gryphon. Life and death? That’s how I’d read it. As for the snaky things, I don’t think they’re Nagas– they have legs. I did a bit of searching and looked at a LOT of carved Nagas on temple walls (and not the D&D stuff, gods there’s a lot of that!) and not one had legs. So, considering the hidden faces, I’d say that they’re likely Basilisks myself, hiding their destroying gazes in a holy place.
IT’S SO PRETTY AAAAAA
I still wonder just how large the entire complex is.
Yes, that kinda is the selling point of labirinthian catacombs (whoa, that’s a mouthfull).
I’m looking at James’ reply to Michelle in the last panel and wondering if James is actively considering leaving Ravi behind, in the caves.
Smug gryphon is almost as cute as floofy angry gryphon.
Regarding the snakey-things: to me tey don’t seem like _hiding_ their heads. More like eating or drinking from a large bowl or goblet or somesuch.
Ravi “I didn’t want to add so much detail but I guess I’m just THAT good at everything [but communication]” Nolastname
“Must be easy to get lost down here.”
Same idea as a dragons lair. ^,,^
Check it out: an “all-fours” door. Two-leggers have to duck.
actually that used to be a common feature in buildings by some cultures.. a defensive feature. if an intruder/invader has to duck to enter, it makes their necks and head very vulnerable to a defender with a sword or axe inside..
…or even just an aggressive cat perched on the ledge built for it over the door.
Or worst of all, a ledge where some practical joker propped a bucket of honey.
Someday, I wish to have the power to turn my pants into wings as well.
Either you’re misinterpreting two separate but simultaneous changes as one process, or you’re being a smart-aleck.
(Of course, >I’ve< never done anything that might get me accused of being a smart-aleck.)
I’m waiting for a Lara Croft/Indiana Jones cameo.
In other news, booth 911? Am I the only one who’s finding it hard to resist making a dark joke at that?
I’m surprised that booth number wasn’t reserved for con emergency services, considering that 911 is the standard emergency services phone number in the USA, same as 000 is the standard emergency services phone number here in Australia.
Since the first Indiana Jones movie came out some time around 1980, there’s been plenty of time for some jokester in the family to carve the likeness in some spot where he hopes his elders will overlook it.
Ravi is congratulating himself on those high-poly models, meanwhile John “TB” Finn is admiring the texture work.
you should go to steel city con i would like buy out your booth (heres a link to info) http://www.steelcitycon.com/
I’m a little surprised that Michelle transformed into a sphinx without seemingly noticing, but I’m more surprised that nobody but Flaming Squirrel commented on it. (Not even James.) Why did she do it, or was it pushed on her by the tomb or the room? I suppose I could just look ahead, but I’m trying to make the archive-reading last.
I think she just didn’t want to have to duck through the door.