Dichotomy

[frameacloud]

Comic for August 27, 2006. Today's comic is actually two pages long, making amends for the missed comics on January 30 and February 20. I've been tinkering with the script on this one for a long time; the first page was made last week, and the second page was made today.

Yay for the first appearance of mister non-stereotypical vampire. Psychic vampire, at that.

Footnotes from the comic pages:
* See examples of human-and-dragon friendships and heroic dragons in Greek and Roman natural histories, such as The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Book viii, Chap. xxii (after Democritus) and Aelianus de Natura Animalium: Book VI, Chap. 63; Book VIII, Chap. 11; Book X, Chap. 48, and others. All are cited in Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters (1886) which was republished as Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents (2002).
** See the chapter on unicorns in Charles Gould's Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents. I don't have to identify specific antiquated sources that he quoted in this case, because virtually all of them ended up saying unicorns are "fierce" or "ferocious." I'd intended to make a tally of it.

[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]

Comments

[forestdweller.livejournal.com]

*grins* I loved this! Especially the line regarding the Fey! I'm most certianly not all glitter and cuteness. Dear gods no.

Quite the opposite quite often.

I suspect that the reducing of the Fey to minute Tinkerbells was an effort to minimise and pacify something that people feared. Before the victorian era, we were forces to be reckoned with. After, we might grant wishes. And we were cute.

Feh.

[frameacloud]

Well said!