Chapter V: LVIII
ETA: final version.
Notes on WIP version:
I’ll finish all of these WIPs.
I must be tired–the proportions are all over the place. Or maybe my eyes are falling out after all the freelancing this week. This is possible.
These are the previously posted pencils:
Nice to know Mus has ‘brothers’ in all the best places. This strip looks very promising. I’m eager to see it finished. Keep up the good work.
Iphis is a Christian, so he is referring to Mus as a Christian brother.
Iphis is always on the lookout for family.
So Vibia is the spy, is she? Looks like it.
Now Mus is in real peril because I am certain that Domitian reads all the reports about Felix. He is not stupid and will make the connection between the stranger of Herculaneum asking to talk to Felix’s favorite and Mus.
My guess is that Iphis is trying to get Mus to a safe place or to give him an alibi. Like, “I was visiting all my acquaintaces that survived or his families.”
Yes, Iphis is That kind of brother. A member of the Greater Family.
I find it interesting that Mus knows of the code word so if not a Christian then thinking about it.
When Mus left home/was booted out over unspecified philosophical disagreements (which his father wanted to solve by giving Mus a wife, so you can draw your own conclusions), he eventually ended up staying at the bakery. And then, of course, there was Menander. So he’s at the least sympathetic to the movement.
I wonder if Mus’ dad was aware of his true sexual preferences and that was why he was so adamant that he marry.
I remember he pointedly responded to something Must said about his marriage by asking “There will BE children?” So he had suspicions at least.
Good memory! I had to go looking for that conversation!
Probably why he consented to Mus marrying a Roman girl instead of insisting on a pious Jewish one.