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New character! No punchline, but BELLS! 🙂
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The sound of bells clanged out from a church in a town in New Mexico. Audri, a black woman in her early twenties, was at rehearsal again, practicing the six-in-hand technique of handbells. (No punchline today)
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I’ve done four in hand, and that was confusing enough, up down for this bell, side to side for the other and… dang I just played a different melody than I meant to.
Oh oh. 🙂
Good. Punching with bells in your hands would hurt.
The one detail that fascinated me was the pews in the background, going up the dais. Not a mistake, as it looks like it’s based on an actual church’s interior, but confusing all the same. My guess is that it’s where the choir sits during the readings and the sermon?
My knowledge of churches is shaky as I grew up Catholic and saw only few Protestant churches on the inside. I also moved to Germany, where more traditional architecture is common.
My point?
I love these little details. Just enough, but not too much to detract from Audri.
Yes, it would pretty much be a standard protestant church in the U.S. The symbols on the windows look like the cross and flame of the Methodist church. If anything the dais seems a little plain. Usually there is a podium for the minister, although it could be just to Audri’s right. The choir often sits behind or to one side of the podium and depending on whether or not the church dunks or sprinkles there may be a baptismal on the back wall. That said, I agree it is a lot of nice detail to introduce us to Audri.
I was about to make a comment that this is the most classic small-town Protestant church interior I’ve ever seen. I mean, it brought me right back to my childhood traveling to various churches in small-town Oregon to perform. The folding chairs, the cheap drum set — man this is good.
The dais *is* a little plain, yet there are pews on it. I think that’s probably enough to guess the denomination. I grew up Baptist, so most of the churches I was in were even plainer: that exterior architecture is almost fancy. I would guess Presbyterian, maybe?
Largest hand bell I ever saw was at a Kennedy Center performance. Thing was the size of a lobster pot. Gotta use the .5 in hand technique for that bad boy.
This is definitely not what I expected for the next strip. I know nothing about Audri but I hope she kicks butt.
Chris, if you haven’t read Digger, I highly recommend it. And please put it on your webcomics list. I believe it got an award, tho many years ago.
Without that webcomic, I’d never have read yours, or bought a piece of your art (from Little Dee), nor ~any of your books!
You might call it my entryway drug to The World of Webcomics! Let’s get others addicted to comics!!
It got a Hugo at the World Science Fiction convention. Ursula Vernon is pretty fabulous.
Four in hand was no problem. When I had five or more bells (I think the most I ever had assigned to me was twelve) I had to use a table.
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
–Edgar Allan Poe
Ding! Fries are done
Ding! Fries are done
Ding! Fries are done
Ding! Fries are done
I gotta run
I gotta run
I gotta run
I gotta run
I work at?Burger?King
Making flame broiled?Whoppers
I wear paper hats
Would you like?an apple pie with that?
Would you like an apple pie with that?
Dunno what happened with the formatting.
I’m not expert enough in html to fix mine, either. Forget it.