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11 Responses to ““How Mirka Got Her Sword,” page 53”
haha, is it okay that I totally feel bad for the troll in the fourth panel? xD However, the ‘I feel dirty’ comment made me laugh, it’s so cute. xD And I love Mirka’s last line, too. =)
The style seems to have changed so much from even the last page… was there a break in between drawing them?
and I love how Mirkale turned the situation on its head in the last panel. I’ve just got this feeling that it’s not going to turn out good… Like the troll goes back to being nasty in the moonlight, or has the power to move the whole ensemble way for away in the blink of an eye, taking the sword with him.
I wonder how she’s going to deal with missing prayers.
To tell the truth, I’m a little disappointed at this end of the fight. Because in the end Mirka won through force, taking advantage of the (admittedly temporarily) weaker party rather than winning through a contest of skill. Not sure what I expected or wanted, but whatever it was I didn’t quite get it. (Barry: don’t take this criticism too much to heart. I am essentially never satisfied with the end of stories that I like. Some sort of subconcious annoyance that it’s ending, perhaps. Or maybe it’s just very, very difficult to make a climactic scene that fulfills the expectations when they’re this high.)
Dianne,
But Mirka did win with skill– just not knitting skill. She used her cleverness and her ability to debate to overwhelm the troll and take control of the situation, which is really what any contest is truely about. Threatening to unravel him may have been nasty, but do you really think the troll would have been willing to admit defeat otherwise?
I don’t know…I think I was hoping that Mirka would argue the troll into such a confused state that it would end up having a meltdown and being unable to explain why its sweater was better–at which point it would go into an ad hominem attack of Mirka and she would win on the “the first to make an ad hom attack loses” grounds. But maybe I’m taking the troll/internet troll analogy too far.
Plus I was secretly hoping that the troll would in the end agree that her sweater was better and we’d get a drawing of the troll wearing Mirka’s sweater. (Hmm…do you suppose that if I bought another dead tree edition I could convince Barry to do that as my bonus sketch?)
November 19th, 2008 at 1:31 am
haha, is it okay that I totally feel bad for the troll in the fourth panel? xD However, the ‘I feel dirty’ comment made me laugh, it’s so cute. xD And I love Mirka’s last line, too. =)
November 19th, 2008 at 2:15 am
There’s something really cute about that last panel.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Oh HELL! I wanted to see the look on everyone’s face when she brought the sword home!
November 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hahahaha! Oh, that was brilliant. I love the way you showed the differences in light as the sun came up as well, that’s really impressive.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:39 am
The punchline in the last panel had me belly-laughing for like two minutes. Loved it. :D
November 19th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
In the 5th panel, Mirka looks JUST LIKE the witch!! Foreshadowing?
So where is the sword? Will the troll come back to life once the sun sets?
November 20th, 2008 at 6:42 am
The style seems to have changed so much from even the last page… was there a break in between drawing them?
and I love how Mirkale turned the situation on its head in the last panel. I’ve just got this feeling that it’s not going to turn out good… Like the troll goes back to being nasty in the moonlight, or has the power to move the whole ensemble way for away in the blink of an eye, taking the sword with him.
I wonder how she’s going to deal with missing prayers.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
To tell the truth, I’m a little disappointed at this end of the fight. Because in the end Mirka won through force, taking advantage of the (admittedly temporarily) weaker party rather than winning through a contest of skill. Not sure what I expected or wanted, but whatever it was I didn’t quite get it. (Barry: don’t take this criticism too much to heart. I am essentially never satisfied with the end of stories that I like. Some sort of subconcious annoyance that it’s ending, perhaps. Or maybe it’s just very, very difficult to make a climactic scene that fulfills the expectations when they’re this high.)
November 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Wait! That troll…is it actually a sheep?
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Dianne,
But Mirka did win with skill– just not knitting skill. She used her cleverness and her ability to debate to overwhelm the troll and take control of the situation, which is really what any contest is truely about. Threatening to unravel him may have been nasty, but do you really think the troll would have been willing to admit defeat otherwise?
November 24th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I don’t know…I think I was hoping that Mirka would argue the troll into such a confused state that it would end up having a meltdown and being unable to explain why its sweater was better–at which point it would go into an ad hominem attack of Mirka and she would win on the “the first to make an ad hom attack loses” grounds. But maybe I’m taking the troll/internet troll analogy too far.
Plus I was secretly hoping that the troll would in the end agree that her sweater was better and we’d get a drawing of the troll wearing Mirka’s sweater. (Hmm…do you suppose that if I bought another dead tree edition I could convince Barry to do that as my bonus sketch?)