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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.
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Yes ppl, she is breastfeeding him. Fairytale logic lol.
Seriously though this is so touching. I really love her white gown too.
I don’t know if it’s a lack of logic so much as there not being that many rules about what a ghost can and cannot do in folklore. In some stories, it seems that ghosts can do almost anything the living can do and I think people believed that.
Anyway, very good page. Especially for this All Hallows’ Eve.
You know, the art on this page and the last one is really very subtle, especially the way the mother holds her child.
The following morning, the maid dialed 555-2368.
…and then she left without a word…
I don’t know why. I mean I ain’t afraid of no ghost.
Wow… This is hauntingly beautiful. It conveys so much emotion.
You’ve really done an amazing job with this story!
All of it great and all, but how does a ghost go about breastfeeding a living baby? I mean, isn’t that like physically impossible?
But otherwise, beautifully portrayed, you guys do a good job showing off your talents.
Well if you want to go science up in this fairy tale, for the ghost to be visible it has to either create light (from nothing, or manipulating energy, either of which almost certainly imply a physical presence), OR reflect light (the photons) which would again require a physical presence.
If you don’t want to apply science (as you really shouldn’t. I mean, this is a fairy tale) then the laws of physics need not apply, and any super natural creature works as the author suggests that they might.
I really doubt our modern artist and author (or the original authors) will go into any real detail as to how ghosts work in this setting, but I mean… if they imply a ghostly mother can pick up the baby and breast feed a baby, then she gosh well can both pick up as well as breast feed that baby. I wouldn’t worry about the rules beyond that, unless they become a plot point in the story.
Or at least that’s my two cents.
Her touching the deer (her brother) while he was sleeping really hit me. You naturally see babies as innocent, but the sleeping deer just struck me as particularly vulnerable for some reason, making the touch that more heartbreaking. Well done with this, it’s very beautiful.
I like that the author chose to go with no dialogue in this scene, but in the original story, if I recall correctly, the queen says something before she leaves (I’ll leave out what she says in case it could be considered a spoiler). I suspect her dialogue was added in to the verbal telling of the story to add poignancy and a stronger sense of loss, but with the visual aspect portrayed here it truly does become unneccessary.
Perhaps the rhyme will be the first panel of the next page? Pushing it back a page could have been a stylistic choice so this page would be completely silent. If so it was very well thought out because words would only ruin this page.
Actually, that part doesn’t come yet. She will eventually say something before she leaves–but this is only the first visit–so everything is done is silence.
This part is beautifully done–and perfect for halloween.
I’m curious what inspired the author to have this page with no words whatsoever. Because Sister said stuff to both the baby and her brother at this part.
She says nothing on the first visit, and the maid was too afraid to say anything or approach. Below is the excerpt of this scene.
But at midnight, when all slept, the nurse, who was sitting in the nursery by the cradle, and who was the only person awake, saw the door open and the true Queen walk in. She took the child out of the cradle, laid it on her arm, and suckled it. Then she shook up its pillow, laid the child down again, and covered it with the little quilt. And she did not forget the roebuck, but went into the corner where it lay, and stroked its back. Then she went quite silently out of the door again.
Is she feeding her baby Ecto-Cooler?
Ecto-milk. The less said about it, the better.
That sad part is, I totally thought of that too.
Her brother is incredibly oblivious.
First the stream and turning into a deer, then going to the hunt as a deer, now not recognizing that his sister has been replaced by his demented stepsister or that his sister’s ghost is petting him sadly.
Jane is definitely the sibling who has it together.
Is it that she has died and came back for her child and brother
Uh-oh. Wasn’t there something the king said in his initial promise to the girl, regarding the stag’s safety… that it was as long as the *girl* lived?
The eyes on the second panel kind of look like she is crossed eyed then I realized, “wait, they are completely white.”