Comments on: “How Mirka Got Her Sword,” Page 43

By: Daran

Daran — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:57:08 +0000

Note the date this was posted on - the same day as the Large Hadron Collider was turned on. The LHC, when it finally gets round to colliding some hadrons, may create particles called strangelets. These have the effect of converting normal matter into more strangelets on contact, eventually gobbleing up the entire world, turning it into strange matter. It is not clear whether wearing a tin-foil hat will protect the user from this strange conversion. Barry promises us that "Next week: Things get weird." "Weird" is of course, a synonym for "strange". Note also that the last panel focuses upon the precise instant that Mirka's fingers contact the strange wool. Coincidence? You be the judge.

By: Yochva

Yochva — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:58:45 +0000

Another hint for the daylight-is-bad rule! Ooh, this is so exciting! I bet the troll IS bluffing, like some people have mentioned, and he doesn’t know the first thing about knitting, so by the fact that Mirka actually gets stitches done, she’ll win.

Or he’s the witch in disguise. Why do I think that? I have no idea. I think the purse had something to do with it.

Or he the witch in disguise, who’s really Fruma in disguise. Why do I think THAT? No idea. Maybe because of the knitting thing. I bet this is all a ruse to get Mirka to appreciate the finer points of knitting (pun only semi intended).

And yes, I’m pulling ideas out of whatever body part you care to think of. It’s fun! (and if you’re thinking of anything other than ‘nose’, you’re weird. ^_~)

Okay, I’ll stop being random and crazy now.

By: Falstaff

Falstaff — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:53:16 +0000

Next week it gets weird? Next week it gets weird?!

Barry, so far we’ve seen the Sabbath at home — that wasn’t weird — kids beating up people, and that wasn’t weird either. The witch was sort of odd. Sister yelling at her brother, definitely not weird.

The six-legged troll who challenges people to death-duels by knitting? That’s pretty goddamn weird, man.

(And I wouldn’t have it any other way. This is fantastic — I particularly like panel two (Mirka seems so much more outraged than afraid there, albeit momentarily) and the matter-of-fact expression on the troll’s face in panel six.)

By: Dianne

Dianne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:46:02 +0000

I’m fond of panel 5. Mirka’s expression and gesture seem to me to echo Zindel’s expression and gesture after Mirka twisted his arm. I’m not quite sure what that means, if anything. Maybe I’m over-interpreting.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:28:47 +0000

Looks to me like the troll has six hands, and just happens to use four of them to walk on. I wonder if s/he’ll have 3 pairs of needles to make the fight unfair…and I second the daylight comment above, so hopefully Mirka will trick the troll into knitting for too long even though the troll will have the better sweater!

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:11:39 +0000

Yarn that’s a ‘collector’s item’?? I’m now deeply curious.

By: warnie

warnie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:27 +0000

This is where the famed yiddshe kop comes into play.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:03:54 +0000

Mirka’s face in the second panel is priceless!

By: Nella

Nella — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:58:16 +0000

Yeah, that’s quite an impressive closeup.

Who else is guessing that the troll can’t deal with daylight?