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The Chimney Page 20
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The Chimney Page 20

on August 4, 2019
Chapter: Book 11: The Chimney
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  1. Gyffes
    Gyffes
    August 4, 2019, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    All of your art is unrelentingly spectacular, but the querulous expression on his face in those two panels — even writ small — is just perfect.

  2. Neon Angel
    Neon Angel
    August 4, 2019, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    The look on his face – This is so horrifying. I feel horrible for him.

  3. B0mar
    B0mar
    August 4, 2019, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

    Ok THAT is utterly terrifying! The Surgical Mask, and Magnifying Lenses, are as necessary and sensible as the gloves, given what she is about to attempt, but the combination transforms her into something absolutely inhuman. Even pushing the envelope of this level of technology, what is that? Lanacane?? You use that for numbing the gums to make a Novacain Injection less traumatic, not for Spinal Surgery!!

    • Some Cat
      Some Cat
      August 4, 2019, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s iodine, bro

      Great page, Erin

    • Manabi
      Manabi
      August 4, 2019, 8:31 pm | # | Reply

      It’s most likely a disinfectant of some type, iodine is the most likely as Some Cat noted. She almost certainly sedated him, using something like ether, the comic simply doesn’t show that step for brevity.

      • Essymi
        Essymi
        August 5, 2019, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

        I think there is Ether on the previous page, so I am agreeing with he is already sedated and its something like iodine on his back.

        • Honzinator
          Honzinator
          August 6, 2019, 9:56 am | # | Reply

          You are correct, that’s ether and a mask on the last page’s bottom right-hand corner of the last big image box and in the sub-box floating at the top right of it.

      • B0mar
        B0mar
        August 6, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        His eyes are wide open in the first panel, and closed in the second. So, yes, we appear to be missing something. [Whatever is bubbling in the tu, under the shheet may have something to do with it.]

      • B0mar
        B0mar
        August 6, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

        His eyes are wide open in the first panel, and closed in the second. So, yes, we appear to be missing something. [Whatever is bubbling in the tuc under the sheet may have something to do with it.]

        • JuaSaysHi
          JuaSaysHi
          August 7, 2019, 12:37 am | # | Reply

          Not closed in second panel. There’s blue.

    • Skatie
      Skatie
      August 4, 2019, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

      I think she would have sedated him for the simple expedient of keeping him still while performing what can be assumed to be extremely tricky spinal surgery.

      • Manabi
        Manabi
        August 5, 2019, 11:46 am | # | Reply

        I wanted to point out anyone thinking “He’s paralyzed!” that he won’t stay paralyzed as she replaces his spinal column. Plus, the images here seem to suggest she’s replacing his spinal cord in addition. That would no doubt cause movements as she connects the new nerves. She needs him sedated to avoid his injuring himself during the operation.

        • Honzinator
          Honzinator
          August 6, 2019, 9:54 am | # | Reply

          That was very well put. It was also obvious once you said it, but non-obvious before.

  4. Brother Parvus
    Brother Parvus
    August 4, 2019, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

    Here is where the imagery really crosses to and fro across archetypal boundaries, with the spine and the chimney becoming identified with one another! The gob, she is duly kersmackered!

  5. Anne
    Anne
    August 5, 2019, 6:05 pm | # | Reply

    The storytelling in these images is superb, but the story being told makes the hair on the back on my neck stand up on end.

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