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Let's Get Ready to Grrrrrrrrrrrruuuuumble!
One of my favorite shared running gags with my good buddy Draxenn involves a very mighty, boisterous and forgetful warrior-type character that we dubbed “the Grumbleduke”, after an obscure reference from the “Witchsmeller” episode of the original Black Adder
series.
Among other things, the Grumbleduke is rather fond of biscuits, mistaking anyone with a lute for a Minstrel he once knew named “Sam” (an even older running gag) and making many grand pronouncements that end with “so mote it be” or “and that is the way of things”. (Basically, the goofy sort of thing that you get up to when you stay up all night talking on IM to your friend that works graveyards at a call centre).
Well, at one time we had a grand idea that we’d do a sort of collaboration comic strip, with Draxenn supplying the characters, myself supplying backgrounds and a storyline that we’d both work on. Unfortunately the project never got going, however, Draxenn has just resurrected the dormant Grumbleduke as a new recurring character in his “A Jagged Mind” comic strip! Yay!
And, just for fun, here is an ancient test panel that we created for the Grumbleduke ages ago, character by Draxenn, background by Dylon and dialog stolen from an episode of Father Ted
entitled “Tentacles of Doom”.
Posted by Dylon on November 22, 2006 8:56 PM |
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