Chapter V: II
I’m going to redraw that last panel at some point. It didn’t go at all the way I wanted.
Did I post my August goals yet?
Goals for August:
- 12 more installments of CHAPTER V (MWF, but when possible posting on Patreon early)
- 4 Sunday colour comics: I have two planned out, so this should be doable.
- 4 art tools reviews: these are fun and easy, so there might end up being a lot of these
- 8 sketch cards, including patron cards
- 6 sketches-of-the-day
We’ll tally it up in September and see how it went….
A very modern neighborhood? You know, I bet the emperor’s palace is in a very modern neighborhood…it’s not that I don’t trust Titus, but you never know what measures may need to be taken against a dangerous man. And his friends. And kittens.
If you have to choose one of the brothers to trust, better to pick… well… hmm… better to keep your head down and hope neither notices you. But surely they both love kittens!!
The emperor’s palace was on the Palatine hill, which was the Roman Beverly Hills. I doubt that Iusta’s father was that rich. She is probably in one of the other trendy neighborhoods.
Damon should be aware that large cities have their own unique smell, Eau du refuse mixed with Extract of Human Waste is the most common one.
Felix’s comment makes me think that this is not the first time he has visited Rome. Was he there while on the Legions?
Titus sent Felix to Rome for a while in chapter II. It didn’t stick.
Rome! Yay! I remember how surprised I was, years ago, to read that Rome had apartment blocks built “on spec” just like we have today. I don’t know why that should have surprised me, I guess I had a very hazy idea of how far along that civilization thing had gotten by then in that place.
It was pretty completely citified. They constructed (relatively) high-rises for the bursting-at-the-seams population (especially after the convenient conflagrations during Nero’s time cleared a lot of the tenements and other pesky structures out of the way); buildings with insulated glass windows, indoor plumbing, crazy landlords, irritating neighbours, too many stairs, noise, and all those other typical modern-city things ๐ Plus the random outbreaks of fires, periodic plague, chamberpots dumped out of windows, spotty trash collection, spotty law enforcement….
Civilisation!
p.s. – Sometimes you’ll get that “double post” error message. I believe it has to do with a conflict between the comment system and the spam filter from a recent upgrade; other sites have been having issues with it too. So far I haven’t found a fix, alas.
Rome also had insanely expensive rents for a rat hole at the top of an 8 story insula in an age before the invention of the elevator (so you had to climb those 8 stories every single day).
All roads lead to Rome – and Rome smells funny.
It’s all that pee-collecting, because Rome was full of fullers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulling
Fullers ESB is best enjoyed if you don’t think too much about Roman fullers. ๐
There’s a joke in there about drinking Fullers ESB and returning it later to the fullers, but… oh, I guess that’d be the joke ๐
Aye, we don’t buy Fuller’s ESB, we rent it! Hoot, awa!!
Smells funny: Reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s comments concerning Piss Charlie, the wealthy London urine merchant.
I expect to see Marcus Falco slipping around a corner, and a furniture/curio shop labelled “Germinus’ Wares”
Wonderful artwork as usual Klio, so good to have Felix’s story going again!
It feels weird looking at Damon with short hair. Like it’s not really him.
It feels weird drawing him with short hair, too!
Felix isn’t going to let it get much longer than this, though. It just wouldn’t look decent ๐