This and that dream makes me think the woman in question was the bookshop owner from Genevieve. The lady in this flashback has the same large pleated sleeves and you can see what looks like some of her hair-bead things.
Not Vane in the flash back. I think John Henry knows Vane is watching. It could be why he is saying her name? Vane is remembering something very heart braking. I believe.
The woman in the flashback is Boudreaux, the bookstore owner/voodonista from the short story “Genevieve.” I think JHH is muttering “Vane” as a way to derail Emma’s seduction by invoking the memory of his “deceased” wife to kill the mood.
Erin, how incredibly hard is it to do these superpositions? Do you do the drawings twice? Every time we get one of these I can’t help but think that you must hate yourself, to force yourself to do so much work for a single page.
Also, well spotted, jsfury. I didn’t notice that it wasn’t Vane at first. That gives this page a whole new meaning. Hum…
I’m seeing a double use for the speech bubble in that last panel. It COULD also be the beginning of this phrase:
“…Vane. Please, please, please don’t rain fire down on this innocent lass just because she has fallen for me. I mean, it’s pretty obvious why she did. Seriously, look at me. I am a boss. I probably shouldn’t have said that last part, right? Oh boy. Here it comes…”
Oh, I’m sure Vane can control herself and this will just end up with all three of them going on a picnic and having a good time. And there’ll also be puppies. And ice cream.
I look at this flashback overlap and wonder if he wasn’t in fact almost pushing the woman away as she reaches out to him…it’s really conflicted looking to me. Also, perhaps he is momentarily just as lost in memory as Vane is and can only think of her, which certainly wouldn’t thrill little missy there.
That’s how it seems to me. Lost in the feeling of romance and love, he tenderly murmurs the name of the woman he last felt that way with — who is not the woman he’s with now. You can get in more trouble that way!
Ooooh, he still loves her <3
Black and Hunter, sitting under a tree…
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
But the tree is on fire, the ground is scorched, the remnants of a town surround them, bullet riddled burnt corpses litter the ground.
That’s what I call a successful date!
Now I wish we could upvote comments.
How Romantic!
Can someone explain to me what happened between frames 1 and 3? No reflection on the artist, I just am not understanding
If you mean the frame where JHH and Emma are reaching out to each other, it is a very awkward seduction witnessed by an undead killing machine.
You know, romance.
Another flash-back to that fever-dream where she originally caught Hunter in the embrace of another woman. Sort of tearing into this present embace.
This and that dream makes me think the woman in question was the bookshop owner from Genevieve. The lady in this flashback has the same large pleated sleeves and you can see what looks like some of her hair-bead things.
Not Vane in the flash back. I think John Henry knows Vane is watching. It could be why he is saying her name? Vane is remembering something very heart braking. I believe.
Now, if you’re right and he knows, he’s really twisting the knife … of course, she has shot him, repeatedly …
The woman in the flashback is Boudreaux, the bookstore owner/voodonista from the short story “Genevieve.” I think JHH is muttering “Vane” as a way to derail Emma’s seduction by invoking the memory of his “deceased” wife to kill the mood.
That’d make him a lot more sympathetic.
The expression of sadness here, both from Hunter and from Vane’s eyes, is just Great.
Erin, how incredibly hard is it to do these superpositions? Do you do the drawings twice? Every time we get one of these I can’t help but think that you must hate yourself, to force yourself to do so much work for a single page.
Also, well spotted, jsfury. I didn’t notice that it wasn’t Vane at first. That gives this page a whole new meaning. Hum…
Random, this is why Erin’s minions keep following her work page after page. 😉
Yeah I saw the hair was not Vane’s in the flash back. Now we are all going to be on needles and pins for the next week or two.
Man, I thought he was smooth.
Now he’s got two pissed, jealous women after him!
Dayum!
(again…)
I’m seeing a double use for the speech bubble in that last panel. It COULD also be the beginning of this phrase:
“…Vane. Please, please, please don’t rain fire down on this innocent lass just because she has fallen for me. I mean, it’s pretty obvious why she did. Seriously, look at me. I am a boss. I probably shouldn’t have said that last part, right? Oh boy. Here it comes…”
Ha! Good one.
Oh, I’m sure Vane can control herself and this will just end up with all three of them going on a picnic and having a good time.
And there’ll also be puppies.
And ice cream.
Right? RIGHT?
I look at this flashback overlap and wonder if he wasn’t in fact almost pushing the woman away as she reaches out to him…it’s really conflicted looking to me. Also, perhaps he is momentarily just as lost in memory as Vane is and can only think of her, which certainly wouldn’t thrill little missy there.
That’s how it seems to me. Lost in the feeling of romance and love, he tenderly murmurs the name of the woman he last felt that way with — who is not the woman he’s with now. You can get in more trouble that way!
Oh, that second panel.
The darkness of the door dividing them.
Her arm and hand being bare, while his is covered in white.
Her reach crosses the darkness while he pulls up short.
His expression of quiet sadness while she has a calm eagerness.
Immaculate white, pure but cold, and lively green full of life.
And the scene stealer the simple small bit commanding burning eyes. Looming, inevitable; the coming tragedy of repetition.
I would love to show this picture to people without context to just get their reads on it.