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1. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS.
2. Don't be rude toward the artists, their work, or other readers.
3. Disagreements are fine, insults are not.
4. Joking at the fairy tales silly nature is fine, crude jokes and comments are not. This is an all-ages site. Let's keep it that way.
5. Comments can be removed at moderator's discretion.
The fact that Jane is dead makes the tender scene in the final panel so very depressing. :c
I didn’t realize that she was dead…. I was hoping she was just locked up and is serious danger but that it would maybe turn out in the end :(
Nope, dead. :C
Would have been smarter to make it look like she died in childbirth. Not necessarily as beneficial (in theory) for the eyepatch-daughter, but more likely to succeed.
…How’d he know it’s a boy, anyway?
Presumably they told him when they greeted him at the gate.
Either that or every man in the middle ages only just expects his wife to produce a first born male child.
You guys in the comments keep throwing around the term “Middle Ages” and “Medieval”, but for the love of God, look at their clothing, architechture, technology, etc.! This comic may be from a fairy tale that was told in the middle ages (not even sure about that, since the Brothers Grimm didn’t write it down until well after the Medieval period in Europe had ended), but this is clearly meant to be some time in the 19th century, probably the late 19th century. Jeez, stop with the “hurr hurr medieval peoples were so stooopid hurr hurr hurr” comments.
You’ve got a point. There’s just a tendency for people to set fairy tales in the age of chivalry because that’s something that was also being romanticized when fairy tales like this one were being written down. However, many of these tales don’t include standard medeival staples like knights and mention technology that isn’t usually in medeival stories (like guns, for instance). The truth is that many of these stories just need to be pre-20th century and possibly even pre-industrial. So, that includes a good chunk of European history. Heck, Perrault’s Cinderella had to have happened after people had been to the New World (pumpkins are native to the Americas, dontcha know).
Part of it is that people tend to think any landscape where they can’t see machinery is medieval.
The nurse/maid who is greeting him at the gate when he arrives is telling him of the news.
D’aww, the last panel is still sweet (despite knowing what happened to Jane)
Hey! Long time reader here! As a former student of german literature I really enjoy what you did with the fairy tales of the Grimm bros.
Any chance we might see “the seven swabians”? That is an awfully funny fairy tale and IS in the grimm collection. It’s short and would be perfect for an over-the-top depiction.
So far the stepmother’s plan involves her daughter laying on her side for roughly the rest of her life, the king never opening those curtains, and no one noticing the smoke pouring out of the bathroom (or ever going in there for that matter)
She really didn’t think this one through did she?
This is why it’s called fairy tale logic, for there’s not alot of logic at all lol. Too many plot holes hehe.
I really hope they have a milk maid for that baby.
I think you mean wet nurse. A milkmaid made is a girl or woman who milks cows. And maid implies an unwed woman.
I learned something new today. That is indeed the correct word I was looking for.
Well at least the Baby is safe. (here’s hoping he stays that way)
The last panel is a real tear jerker!
Yes the queen is rather ill–she’s suffering from a disease called “False Bride Syndrome”
Anyhow, the last panel is adorable.
And, hey! She made such an effort in labor that she lost an eye รด_O
I hope she just have taken the real queen to other place or put a sleep spell on her or something like that…
I have been watching too much Downton Abbey ’cause that blonde maid makes me think of Anna.
Also omg the TIMING.
LOL! I see it too!
The king is so happy! But Jane….D: D: D: D: I’m torn between wanting to be happy for the king in this one moment and wanting to sob for him because he doesn’t know the truth, and if he did….
I believe the appropriate Internet expression for this page is ALL MY FEELS.
The maid in the middle long panel looks like Jane to me. Does anyone else see that?
And the poor king doesn’t suspect a thing. The Poor soul.