Skin Deep is back! I hope you’re excited for the last chapter of ILLUMINATION! I sure am!
I am going to be a EMERALD CITY COMICON THIS WEEKEND! Come see me! I’m on a panel!!
Skin Deep is back! I hope you’re excited for the last chapter of ILLUMINATION! I sure am!
I am going to be a EMERALD CITY COMICON THIS WEEKEND! Come see me! I’m on a panel!!
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Dinner, or the smell of Michelle’s brain cooking?
If it’s the smell of Michelle’s brain having been cooking, then I think it will have been somewhat overdone in its cooking time and temperature, and will smell somewhat burned.
This is your brain, and this is your brain on magic.
Not so fun fact: In Mexico, you can eat beef brain tacos.
… And no, I’ve never had them and never will. Ew.
I take it you’ve never heard of brains and eggs? There’s a bar in Montana (US) that specializes in them.
And, no, I wouldn’t eat that either. ><
Crumbed fried brains are delicious. Just make sure they’re well cooked. I admit I’ve never had cow brains, we eat sheep in Australia though.
…Frankly I prefer kidneys fried in their own suet, and fried strips of lamb heart with tomatoes and onions, but liver paté is delicious too. Organ meat is healthy, environmentally friendly, and often cheaper than muscle meat.
This discussion is making me sick. Can we stop please.
One word. Prions.
It’s bound to be tender. It’s not like cow brains get a lot of exercise :P
Offal is great! I mean, brain I haven’t had. Just tongue and heart. Actually, I think there may have been some brain in a paté that was put on a banh mi I’ve had. Good eats.
Priorities, Ravi :I Keeping Michelle’s brain from melting, *then* food.
Classy Ravi.
Arrg so many questions. Will she be ok? Are there more dragons? Are there more sphinxs? Why can’t I see alt text on mobile? Arrrrg
partial answer there is not alt text on this page
Yup, excited! Also: imagining what would happen if Mary was able to see that chapter title…
Mary: What’s this?! First you’re almost late for dinner, and now this appears, floating over my fine spread without so much as a by-your-leave! *starts lifting up and stacking the letters* I won’t stand for it! And if it leaves any of that drop shadow stuck to anything, I am going to be really cross!
>:=)>
I don’t think the table is properly set. No salt and pepper shakers, no butter, no bread rolls, no jugs of anything to fill the glasses to drink.
This isn’t thanksgiving dinner this is just dinner.
Yes, but it’s in the UK, so it must be ~fancy~
Indeed.
But it’s ordinary stuff that is missing.
And none of what I listed is fancy stuff.
I don’t have salt and pepper shakers on my table. At breakfast, maybe, complete with a pot of vegemite, but not on the dinner table. I’m more concerned about the table being too narrow to put the pot of food down, and no heat mat for same.
Perhaps the serving table is next to the eating table, and they have the food and condiments, and the drinks, on that sideboard instead of the main eating table? That would mean that they can then sit all around the same table, if they’re not used to having this many people at their table at once.
My family often has a serving table like that. More specifically, we usually stick the food on the kitchen island and serve from there, then sit down and eat.
It doesn’t have to be fancy it just needs to look good.
Ravi doesn’t precisely know what happened down in the Caverns, and it shows no regard for Michelle’s condition. When it DOES finally show something other than its lack of concern, what it shows is surprise that Michelle has fainted, but it still shows no concern or caring.
Mary is clearly shocked by Michelle fainting, and it’s Greg who shows the most care and concern for Michelle.
Well… Greg is in love with.
Oh god I read that as “last chapter of Skin Deep” for a moment and had a mini heart attack
Will someone hit Ravi already?
Ravi urgently needs an unscheduled appointment with a clue-by-four.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/clue-by-four.html
That reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/kEPnkVfNA1A
A useful tool.
I can’t tell which face I love the most here, Paul’s or Toby’s.
At this point I honest to god can’t tell when Ravi looks mildly desperate or when he looks ridiculously ecstatic.
I’m going to say, based on his face in the second panel, he’s ecstatic.
How about ridiculously ecstatic covering for mildly desperate?
Is it just me or did all the color literally drain from Ravi’s face in that last panel?
It’s the smoke trailing from Michelle’s eyes.
It’s not smoke it is the ancient gryphon power that is making her eyes glow like that.
I meant Spinx
Well, on the plus side, she made it out of the caverns before collapsing.
Alright, now that we’re all caught up, let’s see where we go from here… feels like I’ve been waiting forever for this!
Nothing has ever reminded more that this is all taking place circa early 2000s than that gradient perspective all caps Wordart.
Great first page though. So well composed establishing the setting and characters in scene. Despite how crowded the room must be the page certainly isn’t. Nice job.
You should have read the archives before posting. If you had, you’d have seen page 1 of chapter 2, and known why and how the title on this page is illuminated as it is in the dining room.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/illumination-ch2-page-1/
I almost forgot that Chapter 2 was basically a flashback…
Chapter 2 wasn’t a flashback.
It was what one group were busy doing, whilst dinner was being prepared.
Good point. Was using the wrong term, but we ended Chapter 1 with Michelle arriving at dinner, and started Chapter 3 at the same point. I’m sure there’s a proper term for a “meanwhile, back at the ranch” scene.
Is it weird that I imagine Ravi is voiced by Mel Brooks?
I always think of Ravi’s human form as having the same voice as Apu from the Simpsons, Hank Azaria.
Agreed. Though of course Azaria also does Moe among others.
I love the new more obvious goat pupils
I actually preferred him having human blue eyes in full form.
Since the goat eyes mean that Greg is getting more comfortable with himself, I consider them a good thing.
Finally!! Been stalking this comic waiting for the new chapter and my wait has been answered. Woohoo love this comic.
It’s a great return to the story.
And, Happy Scouse Day!
What is scouse day?
Scouse is a slow-cooked, thick-bodied stew made with mutton, carrots, potatoes and onions. Part or all of the meat may be beef, but purists reject that idea. A vegetarian version is called “blind scouse”. The dish is so firmly associated with the city of Liverpool that their dialect of English is also called scouse.
It just so happens that 28 February is promoted in some circles as Scouse Day, encouraging the preparation of the stew.
Thank you for that brain food. I think I am full for now.
Interesting that no-one mentioned Scouse Day when we were discussing Scouse in Reunion.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/reunion-page-20-several-hours-later/#comment-148975
I’m imagining what transpired between “interesting times’ and this. Oh, the excitement of looking at the colors and smoke and getting progressively more bored and hungry. I do not blame Ravi.
Ravi actually looks…nervous? I dunno, desperate even? Strange, never thought I’d see such an expression on him
You know in all the excitement we forgot to ask ” where are the worst’s?”
Oh my gosh Mary’s ears are so fluffy!
Oh yes, Michelle fainting like that quite thoroughly startled Mary in the last panel.
YAY! thank you Kory ^^
I might be poking the hornets nest here but I still want to ask this. Hey Jim did you ever consider trying to describe the place where your true form goes as like a magical version of the transformers g1 subspace?
Man, I’m finally caught up once again. I loved the heck out of this comic once I started reading it, but I lost the bookmark I made, and I soon forgot the name. I was so upset. Until I remembered my *favorite* creature in this comic, the bug bear. I looked up the medallions, and I found the comic once again! I’m so happy! I should consider buying one soon! ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ っ
Need to have multiple copies of your bookmarks, on more than one device, AND keep them in sync.
Priorities, Ravi, priorities!
…well, unless it smells *really* good and he’s *really* hungry, then that might actually be the priority. :D
But question here is: does a immortal earth-spirit like Ravi really NEED food?
I feel like he more enjoys eating and the taste is fun for him, rather than he actually needs food. I mean the guy did sleep for several centuries, so unless he bulked up like a bear does before hibernation, he probably doesn’t actually need to eat like the rest of us.
I wonder if it could be possible to translate this Comic in German?
But the question here is: Does a immortal earth-spirt like him really NEED to eat?
Everyone is o.o at Michelle. Except for Lorne, who apparently only has eyes for Jim.