Chp6 Page 13
This page turned out super christmassy colors. Which, I guess is appropriate since ol’ Herv is visiting some relatives here for the first time in… YEARS. I mean what else are holidays for. Except it’s actually summertime in the comic. whoops.
yeah that’s just a thin windbreaker he’s wearing btw, it’s not leather or nothin’. Probably still sweating up a storm under it and that gasmask, though. Surprised he hasn’t drowned yet. Don’t forget how canon sweaty Doc is.
I love the expression on Doc’s face in the third panel. Beautiful.
Yikes.
Looks like Grandpa has a bit of a “Red Queen” complex. Either way, things look up shit creek.
Guten Abend Opa Schtein, wie geht’s? Cute, er, mushroom-ridden zombies you’ve got there. *giggles nervously*
I just noticed the similarities between Orville’s costume and Herv’s future look, despite neither of those being secret for ages. I wonder if it’s a uniform, or a case of inspiration.
The white pseudo-labcoat jacket with the side row of buttons is actually the standard “Mad Scientist” outfit, don’t ask me why, ever since Dr. No in James Bond. Maybe even goes back to the 1931 Frankenstein movie (although no buttons on that white outfit). Doctor Horrible wore one. Even the Medic of Team Fortress 2 game wears a trenchcoat-length variation of it.
it’s called a Howie coat and it used to be pretty standard doctor garb back in THE DAY so it got used for a lot of mad scientist movies because they were all period pieces. NOWADAYS you really only see them on dentists and basically only in the UK I think. At least all the sites I can find that sell them are UK shipping only sites! Which is annoying because it would be cool to own one. >:/
Like this? http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/004477.php?gclid=CNjfpsiF8LcCFYSf4Aodv1sALA
N’abend Opa! Na, alles fit?
Well shit. This is going to be interesting.
GOD THIS PAGE IS INCREDIBLE. BECKEYYYY. Your art is astounding
Aww sheet D:
You can’t go and say you have plot armor. If it turns out you are just a random red shirt, you were just tempting fate.
plot armor only takes you so far in a horror movie, and that is a kindly old grandfatherly figure they are dealing with.
true, but I don’t think he’s actually watched very many horror movies.
Shit’s about to get real!
Opa Schtein doesn’t look remotely remorseful for the shroom zombie plague.
Now that is an entrance.
I wonder if Orville Schtein is immune to the fungal zombie infection he created, or if he experimented with his own DNA, too.
I’ve got plot armor.
I’m sure that’s what all the Game of Thrones characters said before they were killed off.
Okay I tried to say “N’abend” in a threatening manor… it’s impossible.
Suave zombie on the right of panel 4 looks like he knows something.
Those last three shots. Doc’s eyes. The almost-reveal. And then the pitch-perfect German way to say good evening! <3
Jesus, I didn’t expect to meet him out in the open
So much wonders in this page! These colors! The interior! Absolutely wonderful!
The 4th panel remembers me a LOT of the Guanajuato mummies in Mexico, there are several hallways at the museum with mummies in groups with those expressions, were you inspired by something like it?
that is one of the many groups of mummies and corpses I was looking at for reference, yes. God, they are depressing. Especially that one that had been buried alive.
SuperHappy fungus zombie on the right of panel one is cracking me up.
I don’t care how far mutated they are from their original human forms, that boy in the bottom left panel was obviously originally an alien!
Panel 4: The grinning blonde guy on the right looks exactly like a mutant version of this meth addict in my neighborhood (veiny hands and everything). Zombification is apparently an improvement.
Shirtless Groovy zombie in panel 2 to the right keeps making me laugh.
whyyyyyy didn’t you make him say “Hallöchen!” XD
also: artgasm, as always. (:
certainly not because I didn’t know that word until just now. :O
I think his accent might make him say it weird anyway.
Aw man, Doc’s self awareness is making me worried. I really hope he doesn’t ironically die in the next few pages…
Something about the way he’s holding that cane makes me feel like he’s about to break into a musical number.