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Oooo! A walking tour of the fictitious country houses of England. Lovely.
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Oooo! A walking tour of the fictitious country houses of England. Lovely.
Oooo! A walking tour of the fictitious country houses of England. Lovely.
Nice lounge chair in the back of panel 2.
It’s nice I guess, though I can’t honestly image any of the characters in this story (see Prologue) lounging sumptuously in the thing.
Fah! Book Lessons! Who needs ’em? They just teach you about silly things like cavemen and dinosaurs – stuff that has no practical application in real life whatsoever!
In the historical setting of this story, anthropology and archaeology didn’t exist yet, and would only become subjects of scientific study when legions of European aristocrats began exploring the center of the Earth in their giant steam-powered drilling machines.
Of course, it all makes perfect sense now: no wonder she doesn’t like book lessons. Who would want to read a book with no dinosaurs in it? 😀
“This one has giant squids! They’re sort of like dinosaurs…”
“It’s an autobiography, so it’s still boring”
Apparently, no one wants you to hang about in the library. nary a seat to be seen. “Get your book, then GET OUT!”…
also, this just occured to me… without a launch scaffold of some sort, to hold the machine in place, once the drill starts “drilling”, the only thing likely to happen is that everyone in it will go on a crazy spin-cycle ride… (Kind of like the ‘Finnish Fling’ at Worlds of Fun”)
I think that below the window is a seat, actually. Looks like it would hold at the most maybe three people all squished together, though. XD
Honestly, after drawing all those little books on the shelves, I had no desire to draw a bunch of furniture.
There’s only so much time avalable, of course – I can only imagine how much time it took to painstakingly draw frame#4 Alice to be *exactly* the same as frame#1 Alice. 😉 (I think the shadowing on her skirt is a bit different, though)
If only it had occurred to me to make a graphic novel version of Punch & Judy, I could have reused the same 2 drawings over and over again and be done with the thing before breakfast!
Well, it IS the 1820s- modern artists can do marvelous things with P G Stubbins’s Patent “Tracing Paper”.
Tracing paper!!! Why didn’t I think of that?… Wait, did I literally draw this page in the 1820s?
Clearly you did. (or at least sometime in that same century) The author’s blurb on Amazon clearly states that Matthew Van Dinter died nearly a century ago. Amazon would not lie.
I think that Philo was attempting to build a spin-cycle ride and open the first theme park in England (truly a man ahead of his time).
It was only due to an unfortunate miscalculation that he ends up boring into the center of the Earth. (The Unearth, if you will.)
Yes. That is precisely correct. This is also similar to the origin of the leaning tower of Pisa.
Okay, did you do that on purpose? I notice that Alice, who is continuing to harp on about her Fiance, is doing so EXACTLY CENTERED between a Harp, and a Harpsichord. Truly, I didn’t think you would stoop so low as this… Visual Puns????? Really?
Oh, yeah, sure. I definitely did that on purpose alright. No doubt about it. I’m clever like that. I am. I swear. Yep.
Seems legit.
@Thorin Schmidt
I’ll never understand the difference between a harpsichord and a piano.
@Apvogt
If you ever get the chance to hear one, it’ll be obvious. The main difference though, just on the off chance you’re curious, is that a piano has little hammers that hit the strings, and a harpsichord has little “fingers” attached that double-pluck the strings when a key is pressed…
this is why no one in my family will play Trivial Pursuit with me anymore…
Also harpsichords cannot really vary their volume, while pianos were specifically designed to do so; the name “piano” comes from “pianoforte”, a colloquialism for “piano e forte”, meaning “soft and loud”.
This is kind of freaky but I posted that at 6, then went sleep, then went to my music appreciation college class at 9 and we talked about harps and PIANOS AND HARPSICORDS.
Wow. Harpsicords seem to be a popular topic among Unearth readers. I wonder how I can work that into the story line. Any suggestions?
There will be a harpsichord aboard the drilling machine (of course, what proper English gigantic contraption doesn’t contain a sitting room for receiving guests?) – and “Her Highness” will be enthralled and greatly desire it.
Musical instruments in the center of the earth have been limited to dinosaur bone xylophones, skin stretched over frames to make drums, and horns made of hollowed-out stalactites and stalagmites. The harpsichord will be a sensation.
That actually sounds quite reasonable and mundane… for this comic at least.
The Flintstones has a wealth of stone-age-inspired instruments, as well as HiFi audio equipment made out of living dinosaurs. Hmmm…