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Michelle’s making decisions! Good decisions? Who knows! But they’re her decisions!
ECCC was great! Thanks to everyone who stopped by!
Michelle’s making decisions! Good decisions? Who knows! But they’re her decisions!
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Seems old Bloody didn’t expect that
I hope she know what she is doing.
This has the possibility of going extremely right, or disastrously wrong.
Hahaha, Bloodcarver’s expression in the bottom left panel – priceless.
Hes learning to use his words and keep his paws to himself.
He’s cute when he’s stunned at something going right.
What I wonder is, in her current frame of mind, after visiting The Father, will Michelle then demand to pay a house call on Darklord?
Honestly I bet she’d be ok with making medallions for dragons, the question is if the dragons are too proud to drop their stupid feud and chill a bit.
I have a feelin’ that they wont.
My feeling is that there may be some internal bickering between the ones with foliage in their rectums, those in the middle and then the realists with a heap more experience and wisdom thinking more of logistics than egos.
Anyone else notice the tail wag in the third panel? That’s the sign of one really annoyed cat.
“At this time, Sir, I am required to inform you that should you cause me any further annoyance I shall be obliged to eat your face….. “
The glowing eyes, bared fangs and claws, snarling, flapping of wings and magic-oozing medallion in the previous pages was not a sign? :)
It made my day. Zoom-in of tail wag required!
An agitated cat’s tail *thrashes* rather than wags.
When the cat is in intense hunting/stalking mode, the tail tends to go motionless except for a twitching tip.
Finally! I was wondering when we would be able to see this father dude.
Me thinks that this father dude will either look like a business man with a black beard with streaks of white in it, or look like my dad who has a military buzz cut hair style and wearing and a collared shirt, blue jeans and clogs.
My bet is that he looks like a dragon.
A Grey Bearded Dragon that has one eye, chewed ears, broken horns, ragged wings, kinked tail than never healed right, bits of weapons from various eras stuck in his scales and more scars and patches than Vash the Stampede. Oh and he would be of GARGANTUAN size.
Mouse you just described about every ten thousand year old dragon that has ever been written in books. Fiction books.
“Is there another name I can call you? Because honestly, that’s ridiculous. ‘The’ makes it a title, not a name. Ralph. I’m going to call you Ralph Wiggum. it’s a very honorific name, where I come from.”
It almost certainly is a title, and the “uhh” makes me think it is no longer his.
The dragon is ‘The’ Bloodcarver. That’s a title, not his name?
Seems that way to me! He also refers to his boss as “The Father,” not simply “Father,” which suggests this may be a theme in dragon society.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/issue-five-page-17/
It’s got a very Time Lord feeling to it.. That could be an interesting aspect to dragon society…
Riding in as a …what shall we call her? Envoy? Chief Envoy? rather than a Captured is a big diff. WTG, Michelle! :D
Also, if she is technically a Sphinx Chief (seeing as how there are so few, it’s sort of a default), then she technically ranks above this dude.
Personally, I would have inserted the question “Is he going to have me executed the moment I show my face?” in between the other two.
So would I. Or just: By the way, why does he want to see me?
Trouble there is Bloodcarver might not know why. He’s an underling, underlings rarely get told more than the bare minimum they need to do whatever task they’re assigned. Why he wants Michelle isn’t relevant to him going out and getting her.
At the same time, I doubt it’s any sort of execution. If it were, Bloodcarver’s orders would be “Kill the sphinx”, not “Bring the sphinx to me”. Capturing a powerful creature and bringing it somewhere against it’s will is far more dangerous than simply killing it where you found it, if that’s the goal. Nah, Bloodcarver’s boss wants her alive for something. Probably medallions.
The Bloodcarver told Gabriel that he was the right hand of the Father, usually the second in command is at least aware of what is happening.
Questions to ask:
“How far away is this Father?”
“Does he have a cell phone? We kinda left without telling everyone we’re safe.”
“Do we need to pack a sack lunch?”
Those Two images at the bottom left only make me love bloodcarver even more….. I might also be biased towards dragonkind so…
For not drawing dragons (in the comic at least) for a few years, Kory’s gotten very good at it. Love the emoting he does.
I definitely agree. I love the design she came up with for Bloodcarver.
Yay! They’re going to actually listen to what the dragons want.
The problem is, what do they want?
Good takeout would be a start. They… don’t get out much.
From what we have seen, I think they want their own medallions. They probably think that sense Michelle is a sphinx she must know how how to make medliions sense the only ones who possesd that kind of knowledge were the sphinxs.
We’re off to see the dragon!
The wonderful dragon of odd!
We’re off to see the Wizard
We hear he is a drag of a dad
If ever a dad there was
If ever, oh ever a drag there was
The Bloodcarver is kind of cute when he’s confused.
Interesting. Going by panels 4 and 5, maybe the Father didn’t send him back out with orders unchanged, but rather he decided on his own to go out and try again, to atone for his original failure.
From what we have seen, I think they want their own medallions. They probably think that sense Michelle is a sphinx she must know how how to make medliions sense the only ones who possesd that kind of knowledge were the sphinxs.
Anyone else notice how he rubs those scars on his neck as he mentions returning without her last time didn’t go over so well? I wasn’t sure, but I don’t think he had those in the first encounter.
Y’know I just realized Bloodcarver’s ear flap thingies changed color in the last couple pages. The backs were red, but now they’re yellow like the front? Which one is the correct coloration?
Oh, you’re right. In previous pages, both O&R and in his first appearance in Orientations, the backs of his ears are red, but on this page his ears are yellow on both sides.
oops.
I’ve NEVER seen those kinds of expressions on a dragon’s face before!