Screen 1
ONE:
Interior of SABRE’S CABIN, looking across the MAP TABLE to the DOOR, with the WEATHER MAP spread out and held down with a couple of pieces of bric-a-brac.
1. DRAKE/door: …for four days, now, and you’ve yet to see fit to share where
you’re taking us.
TWO:
Stet, but SABRE is entering, DRAKE following. He truly is reaching the end of his patience.
SABRE is her merry self.
2. SABRE: I gave you ample opportunity to depart, Marshal.
3. SABRE: You and your deputy insisted on coming along.
THREE:
New angle, SABRE is moving through the Cabin, tying her hair back as she goes. She’s still grinning.
DRAKE is close behind her.
4. DRAKE: In pursuit of a murderer and a villain.
5. SABRE: Oh, was that the reason?
Screen 2
ONE:
SABRE has turned abruptly, so she and DRAKE are face-to-face. It’s rather intimately close.
She’s giving him a look that would turn most folk’s knees to water, though if Drake’s knees are going gooey, he is -as always – doing an admirable job of concealing this.
1. SABRE: I thought it was my irresistible charm.
2. DRAKE: I’m resisting.
TWO:
Stet.
NO COPY.
THREE:
Stet. SABRE grins.
3. SABRE: Well, give it time.
Does anyone else find it a little creepy that she’s basically always smiling?
She’s a happy person.
happiest when she is in her natural element….aether!
plus she’s enjoying messing with Drake.
There is that.
Actually, I find it refreshing. After a while the idiom of grim and gritty anti-heroes gets tired. She and the Marshal provide a nice contrast with each other and work in way that heroic and adventure tales have worked far longer than G&G pseudo-reality. I like it.
Well, my guess is that the pants are tight right where they need to…
Oooh. It’s like Han Solo and Leia.
But she’s Han. 😀
You are right! 🙂
I’d be resisting about four seconds.
turn my knees to water? how ’bout turn all of me into a big puddle!
Drake is definitely my favorite. Love this page.
Hear hear!
That last panel is just classic.
Drake, you’re done for. That minute an exchange like that happens, that’s it. And You don’t even know. I see what you did there, Sabre.
This undoubtedly super-geeky, but the “for four days now” line made me wonder what it is Drake does on a ship for four days (not to geeky yet…) but that lead me to wondering about the daily routine of the entire crew. Coupled with that, I’m curious to know how different, if at all, the maintenance and regular upkeep, even the routine itself, is from a normal sea ship?
Drake has been mostly in the way. Drum has been getting his hands dirty. As of this writing – and remembering that the world is constantly evolving, so what is true tonight may not be true tomorrow – I have imagined much of the duties are similar to that of a late 18th/early 19th century sailing vessel; sailors are expected to hand, reef, and sail; the decks must be swabbed; the watches are called up and relieved; occasionally, Her Ladyship the Captain rolls out the guns for target practice.
Yes, Patrick O’Brian is my master (and commander). 😀
Thanks for answering my question about what Drum had been up to. I had thought he was being not-very-secretly amused by Her Ladyship’s finding new ways to wind Drake up.
BTW, if Sabre and Drake ever become an item, how will Her Ladyship deal with noble peers who feel she’s demeaning her station?
well I’m new here sent here by Felicia Day’s Flog and I’m dang happy I followed her advice 🙂
Curses to Felicia Day and her Flog on Geek and Sundry! Damn her to the furthest reaches of hell and may she hear the screaming banshees of the aether in her dreams and in her waking!
It is because of Lady Day and her thrice cursed programme of yesterday that I was lured into this webcomic, and it is since then, in less than a day’s time, that I have devoured the entire contents of the archives.
NOW I must wait, as a servant…no, a mere beggar!…to receive the drips and drabs of this wonderment on a twice-a-week basis.
CURSE YOU FELICIA DAY!!!!
^ What they said. 🙂