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That last panel is just sickening. Especially when you see the sincerity of the last few panels.
Oh no, the stepsister read my comment about the 1940′s! I’ve doomed us all!
Wait, why is the stepmother getting pampered? She was posing as a maid. I am sure Jane mentioned to her husband that either she ran away from her stepmother or at least that she is an orphan, so it is not like “Evil Jane” could have randomly brought her mother to court without bringing up any questions?
Probably not, actually. In these times, and especially in these kinds of stories, you keep that stuff to yourself or the king won’t want to marry you!
But she would have to have given some explanation to why she was living by herself in an abandoned cottage with a talking deer, otherwise the king would have thought she was a witch or something…especially if she could make good soup.
I see the maid is not so scared anymore.
And Ugh!!! Those bitches!!!
Come on maid save the day! it is all up to you!
I love how the maid’s all like “Hey, ghost! Here to see your kid again?” Like this is all normal now.
We’re rapidly approaching the finale and I’m on tenterhooks!
I had to go look again, she is! I love it now too.
Well, this HAS apparently been going on for weeks. Presumably, the nurse has watched this ghost walk in, tend the baby, pet the deer, and leave, without ever once doing some horrific ghostly thing like pulling its own face off to reveal a screaming bloody skull. I’d personally feel kind of stupid being curtain-climbing terrified of a ghost who’s just been doing the mom thing for weeks on end.
Especially if Jane’s ghost gives off the same aura “in person” that every panel she’s in conveys to me, at least–sorrow and maternal love, no sense of menace or malevolence.
Suspicious chambermaid is getting suspicious
Huh, look at that! In english it even rhymes. It doesn’t in the German version!
The translators may have done that on purpose to make the phrase a bit more lyrical.
The version I found doesn’t quite rhyme either.
How fares my child? How fares my roe.
Twice will I come, then nevermore.
Looked it up, the last line was “Twice shall I come, then never more.” I was slightly off.
I suppose it might if you pronounce it “never mo”. :p
I haven’t checked my edition yet, so I don’t know if it rhymes or not. There is a new English version of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales out, though. So, who knows what different translations there are.
Damn, beaten to the punch.
My edition reads exactly like the comic.
I read a version that read: How fares my child? How fares my roe? Twice more I’ll come then forever I’ll go”
That version rhymes, but I like the rhyme they use here better.
Especially since, to the best of my knowledge, roe is fish eggs.
Haha. I love how the maid has either become accustomed to the ghostly visitor or else COMPLETELY lost it and just accepts this as some kind of trick of her mind. Either way <3
It’s time for someone to take action. Go maid!
It looks like the maid is getting used to her ghostly visitor–then again the ghost never meant harm in the first place. It makes sense.
I like the detail of the maid’s little smile in the first two panels, hinting that she’s figured out that the spirit is benevolent and she’s no longer frightened. It made me smile for some reason.
ringing inside the maid’s head, “SUSPICIOUSSSSS!!!”
I thought there was a tiny pizza in the last panel, but then I realized finally it was a hair brush. haha
Now I have a mental image of a woman getting her hair brush with a pizza.
“My lady, I know you enjoy the pizza, but perhaps you should maybe try not to get it in your hair? It’s just that it’s kind of hard to clean up, is all.”
So sad! It is painful to see as I’m a new mother and I can’t imagine how this little baby is going to thrive without its mother.
I also saw the pizza image before I realized it was a hair brush, lol!
Mee too Dragonblossom! This is so sad to have the ghost mama holding her new baby! Too much!
Wouldn’t the brother be curious as to why he hasn’t seen his sister for so long?
In the versions I read she says she’ll be coming three more times, not two o.O
I absolutely love the art in this story, its beautiful :)
Do something, random maid! Speak up!
#ThatMomentWhen you read through the archives and hit the most recent update… I’m so glad it updates tomorrow! :D