A new scene! A new location! Some old familiar faces???
Now everybody who’s been wondering where Michelle is during all this knows! She’s complaining at the library.
In order to get this page and the next page done before I leave for ECCC tomorrow, the wonderful Sfé Monster jumped in to flat this page for me! Their help is the reason why this comic isn’t skipping any updates this or next week, so maybe head over to their Patreon and give their work a look? You won’t be disappointed.
I’ll be at ECCC this week! Please come see me at booth 11120 in the Summit building! We’re in a new spot this year, in the basement! Look for my booth under the Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tale branding, as I’ll be tabling with Kel McDonald, Meredith McClaren, and MK Reed!
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GREG! MICHELLE!!!
Finally! We get to see you guys again here! How’s it been going?
YEAAA!!
Old bestiaries, those are fun.
You can find some of them on the Internet, as they’re all long in the public domain.
I recommend “The Historie of Foure Footed Beasts”, by Edward Topsell. Yes, it’s actually spelled like this, it’s from 1607.
thank you for the recommendation
it’s on archive.org and yes of COURSE I’m going to be using the illustrations for tabletop shenanigans
A frogge biþ a smol beaste wiþ foure leggys, whyche liueþ booþ in watyre and on londe. It cuoþ bee broune or grene or yelowe, or be it tropyckal, he may haue dyuers coloures. It haþ longys and guilles booþe. Eet haccheþ from an ey and it þan ys a tadpolle. It groweþ to ben a frogge, if it þan ne be noght aetoen.
It helps to know that the funny-looking letter that resembles a b with the stem of a p, or vice versa, is called a “thorn”and pronounced as “th”. Also, the letter u sometimes functioned as a v, giving such words as liveth and have diverse (colors).
The last sentence seems to say the tadpole will grow to be a frog if it nothing eats it.
Whoa! Greg. Didn’t recognize you there for a moment. Full beard suits you! Very handsome
We stan Beardy Greg
Something tells me the next page will be Michelle complaining about the study she has to do.
I can tell because I am currently writing this avoiding the study I have to do.
I love procrastinating
Ough, Michelle is having to do college studying but Different this time. Poor girl, she can’t escape it haha.
I think these two have transferred to the College of Hard Knocks, and the study is self-imposed.
In this case, the study may have been inspired by a certain conversation overheard in the Underground.
Haha, someone else is trying to put together some history…there’s 800 yrs to uncover!
And none of it is going to be accurate.
And not one word of it is going to be accurate.
Is that our favourite grumbly-gus Pterippi?
Looks like she’s been racking up the luck charms over the years.
Year, singular. It was September 2005 when she went to Hell, it is now October 2006.
Michelle is positively flowering!
Also! Theroif of the Avalon.. o.o Yer boxed in ther, aintcha?
Boxed in virtually rather than physically, since the roof is a magical illusion. It looks like a solid roof from the outside, but it’s visible as open sky from the inside.
Tobias, or whoever that griffin is, can fly straight up through it, but that would be a bad idea in broad daylight. Even a nighttime urban excursion would be chancy for a white-winged flyer.
Meesh! Great to see you again!
holy crap, Greg looks *spectacular* with that beard.
A year and a half later… we finally get to see the best characters! I hope Greg is doing well, poor guy’s been through so much
Mich’s patience is hanging on by Afraid Not
Oh hey Michelle, you’re actually in this comic!
Exactly how much time has passed since Michelle and Blood Carver came back from Dis?
I’m anticipating that’s related to what she’s trying to find out.
13 months. Time card at the start of Obverse and Reverse said it was September 2005, the one at the start of this arc said October 2006
It’s been about 13 months since she and ‘Çarver went to Limbo, but we don’t yet know when they got back. The weather was summerish when they and Vera emerged on the island, so they either got back before fall ’05 turned cold or stormy, or they didn’t get back until ’06 turned warm again.
So, she’s been back either for about a year, or for a few months.
I think it was most likely a day or so at most, assuming hell time is the same as Earth time. Hopefully it was not for a long amount of time due to time dilation or something crazy like that, because then Greg and the rest of the gang would be freaking the hell out, thinking Michelle was just tricked by the Bloodcarver just like that and died or who knows what.
Besides if that were indeed a plot twist, it would have been mentioned at the end of Obverse and Reverse, or here in The Monster’s Loose! as a big elephant in the room. I also think it would be a major impact worth talking about if when Michelle turned back up all of her friends and family were shocked and told her shes been gone for months or a year, like that one episode of Doctor Who.
Flying with your arms limp like that doesn’t seem very aerodynamic
HOLY CRAP!
That library is pretty kick ass, outside and in, love the details!
Is it actually “bigger on the inside than the outside?”
Could be a bit Tardis like I suppose
Oh wow… the relief is palpable.
Greg with a beard is not a look I expacted to see
Kory, I need you to know that every time I look at the title of this section I read it first as “Moose on the Loose” and that seems very in-character for you.
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Oh, I thought her exacerbated grunt was because the additional information she needs (possibly related to medallion creation) is completely useless when it’s as biased as ye old human hands.
pterripi gorl!!!
*Mitch Hedberg voice* Michelle has a lot of cranium accessories
I recognize a certain read-headed faun; and is that Toby up there?
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