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Via Dolorosa Page 11
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Via Dolorosa Page 11

on May 21, 2017
Chapter: Book 9: Via Dolorosa
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  1. ScholarOfFortune
    ScholarOfFortune
    May 21, 2017, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

    I suspect the nuns would take umbrage with Vane for wearing bifurcated garments that imply she has legs, aside from the whole “hellfire demon” thing.

  2. Arclayn
    Arclayn
    May 22, 2017, 6:15 am | # | Reply

    I really like how this scene expresses foreboding without the usual suspects — such as a thunderstorm or a red moon. Also, the lighting detail is really good. I has both an awe and an envy. 🙂

  3. Dchil
    Dchil
    May 22, 2017, 7:22 am | # | Reply

    I don’t think these nuns will be able to exorcise something that isn’t from the devil.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      May 22, 2017, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      Again, not being of this planet, the devil may have nothing to do with it, but then, there is that scene in book 7 “Broken Sky” on page 12. We see in panel five Professor Crawford is wearing a ring with satanic symbolism. Hmmm. The devil indeed. Poor Vane. That great big hole in her forehead. She is awake again, even after being shot in the head twice. Arin, how dark this novel is with the living hell she goes through.

  4. Incognitoburrito
    Incognitoburrito
    May 22, 2017, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    Vane looks mildly annoyed and exasperated at the prospect of being hanged over a bottomless well.

  5. Schlump
    Schlump
    May 23, 2017, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    She looks a bit on the irritated side.

    • Dchil
      Dchil
      May 26, 2017, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Well you would be too after you just got shot in the face.

  6. Honzinator
    Honzinator
    May 23, 2017, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    It seems Vane does not care for her time in the Exorcise Yard … not even with that dainty little apron they left her or all the metal parts she is allowed to wear to offset the lead in her head.

    • Some Cat
      Some Cat
      May 23, 2017, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t see any metal (besides the manacles) or an apron. *headscratch*

  7. Some Cat
    Some Cat
    May 23, 2017, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

    So am I crazy or did this page not have text before

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 23, 2017, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, um. About that.

      I dunno if it’s because burnout, or because this page ended up going off the thumbnail rails in terms of how I illustrated it and thereby mentally broke my workflow, or just because NTO has never really had copy outside of characters visibly speaking, but somehow I posted this Sunday without its text, and because I was gone yesterday I managed to not realize it until today.

      Huge apologies, my dudes.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        May 25, 2017, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

        I for one appreciate that. it was like a second post in one week.

  8. Honzinator
    Honzinator
    May 25, 2017, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

    Some Cat was thinkin’ too hard – metal manacles is what I meant.
    Also, speaking of thinkin’ too hard, the cult of the blood God set in a Mexico-like area is hardly without historical precedent, even if one ignores the worst of the lot, the swastika-using (yes, yes, it’s a backwards one, but lots of PRI and La Raza types in the 30s gleefully played up the parallels) Aztecs. Mayas and Olmecs, and Toltecs, oh my. Dine, Chichimex, and Yaqui, how wry! Sorry ’bout that. I’m having therapy and getting injections.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      May 26, 2017, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      O hope it’s helping Honzinator. However, your comments are most interesting. 😉

      • jsfury
        jsfury
        May 26, 2017, 9:30 am | # | Reply

        Sorry, I ment “I” hope it’s helping.

    • Schlump
      Schlump
      May 28, 2017, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      It’s like a first culture set the pattern for those that came after, from the Incas in the south to the Aztecs in the north. The largst sacrificial site I know of had more than a hundred thousand bodies, all killed by obsidian knives. The number of sacrificial sites from the Valley of Mexico through South American is unknown, but it’s not usual to be digging a foundation or road and find more of them.

      Most people today don’t know that the weird ideas of the Spaniards appealed to the peoples of the Americas like a God that loved people and not sacrificing people to this or that god or goddess. For all the modern PC, the Spaniards with all their faults were a massive improvement in how the average person in those cultures lived.

      • Shonkin
        Shonkin
        August 10, 2021, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

        You’re absolutely right. For all his evils — and he was a bastard — Cortez did Mexico a favor by throwing Huitzilopochtli and the other bloodthirsty idols onto the ash heap of history.

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