121 – Play
And the Sixth Ranger is back again.
Did you guys notice her cameo last week?
I hope you guys are happy about it. Will she get to tag along? Come on, girls, the party’s full. Do you really want a 7th member joining?
I once complained about how hard drawing the library was, but those board game covers? They’re even worse.
Especially since I drew these in the hottest days of July in the middle of my vacation… Argh. But I’m back to my regular life schedule now, so I should be more available. ;)
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Ah sweet Clementine, that was a very big day for you wasn’t it?
It’s not a day she will forget anytime soon. ^_^
Even less if there was also batteries involved, as it seems.
Oh my, now I’m thinking that M-N wasn’t just trembling.
Don’t worry, batteries weren’t involved.
That’s just something random. ;)
She just wants to ‘play’ again.
She is kinda smiling in that last shot…
She IS smiling.
It was the most important day of her life. For Marie-Neige, it was Tuesday.
Make it S&M Tuesday! :P
Don’t even worry, is a very very obscure reference to a comic by a different Canadian artist ;)
That’s not how you use batteries M-N! :P
Heh, now I’m picturing a battery shaped vibrator :)
Also a vibrator shaped battery.
Also a vibrator shaped battery powered battery shaped vibrator.
Also, is pills time I guess.
So you need to take a chill pill huh?
Did you actually draw all those covers? Are you insane?
Now you know why Dez only releases 1 comic a week.
If only.
Geniuses use to be :)
Stop flattering me so D:
Well, stop being great :P
Man, you even kick posts into coherence, who else do that? ;)
thanks, btw :)
I sure did. And I definitely am. Totally.
“Only the insane have strength enough to prosper.
Only the prosperous may truly judge what is sane.”
What about those with big guns? that help? :P
Judging by the setting I quoted? You’d better believe it.
Daniel the Human here. I know that quote, & I recon Screwball would have a decent chance of survival in that case. He ain’t called Screwball for nothing. That said, I’ll admit I’m not completely sane… :P
There is no innocence, only degrees on guilt? More like “There is no sanity, only degrees of crazy” around here…
Pretty sure he’d be classified as a xenos or an Abominable Intelligence. Either way, he’d be in trouble if he encountered massed military forces, but it’s a big galaxy.
Daniel the Human again. Yeah, he’d be Xenos for sure. Problem is, he’s got this armour suit thing that makes him look Human too. Takes him from 3 feet tall to 5 foot 6 too. Add to that he’s rigged to detect tech (apparently part of his “old job”, he’d slip through well I recon…
Ooo. I’ll bet Imperial radicals would be more than happy to sanction him, then. He’d do well in an Explorator fleet.
At the moment, Frivolesque is ranked #124th in the Top Web Comics 100.
Frivo has risen slightly, now it’s #120th.
Even better now it has gone up to #117th.
Wow!
No, wait, I mean:
WOW!!
When you think that we started with a plain black background…
Heh :) “DEZUCELL”. What their pet is?
Chihuahua, it yaps on and on and on… :P
No.
Awwww! (*´艸`*)
My entire internet life started out with a plain black background.
And it’s probably a chibi bunnygirl in sunglasses, or something.
O.K…apparently Clem and Marie-Neige’s little encounter way back when left a lasting impression. I have to wonder though about Clem’s little stutter in her reply about toys. I can’t tell if she’s afraid of offending Marie-Neige because she’s still interested in her, or if she’s concerned about paying a different price altogether (if you know what I mean).
or….she could just be that shy. (I really need to get my mind out of the gutter)
It’s a bit of everything really. And for us, it’s “way back” but in-universe, only a few months has passed since the beginning of the comic… With the first strips happening somewhere in May, and the current ones being aroung late September, early October.
I agree. It is obvious that Clem is still interested, but obviously was scared off by her intended’s rough treatment. I think she’d sign on with Marie-Neige, she just needs to treat her nice, not rough.
I hope that she has a chance to meet Gaia. I think that could be interesting.
Well, the two of them appear together in the last panel, do they not?
Although I haven’t planned any specific interaction between them…
Pity, that would make for an unusual pairing.
It’ll come.
And then they will come! ^_^
Memories… :)
Fond ones at that xD
I`ll make myself a reminder in my agenda to vote for you every day for two months every time such references are made ;)
I’ll have to make more, then. ;)
I knew you’d like this one.
am i the only one who noticed that M-N boobs look bigger today? :D
You’re right.
The girls’ boob sizes are hardly consistent…
I know Liliane and Clem have big ones, Mimi and Flore have none, and everyone else fluctuates in the middle…
Don’t forget the lovely Roxane ;)
Clem’s are big? Don’t look like so much to me. Also, I would thought that Gaia’s were among the biggest of the gang.
Ok, now we are in need of a bra size chart :)
Yeah, Clem’s attire tends to hide it well, but she’s decently stacked.
bra size or boob size? :D
because clothing size is not that accurate :B
oh snap, now i look like a pervert :O
Yeah, Gaia has the biggest ones out of the main group.
now i can see the size difference :D
Maybe it’s thermal expansion.
Thermal expansion?
YES INDEED!
Thought that was what you meant… X)
Now I wonder, how can Clementine speak with people with her headphones on? She turns music off surreptitioulsy, or she just wears them as an adornment?
I don’t think she even uses them to listen to music… The only place where she seems to actually be listening to music was in Kimoco’s guest comic a while ago.
I think Clem is invoking the Headphones Equals Isolation trope.
She’s even listed under that same trope.
Yep, confirmed, in the Symbolically – Webcomics section. Not gonna bother with a link, it’s in Plasma’s post…
Maybe it’s just me, but Clementine reminds me of Maraaya.
I had to look ’em up…
Why? Because of the headphones? Does the singer always wear ’em?
Yes.
Clémentine should find someone else into such toys if Marie-Neige does ‘t wanna… Even if I’d love that they would do it as friends or other as well. :)
I don’t think the problem is Marie not wanting to use the toys again. It’s about Clementine not being able to tell her she wants to and Marie-Neige having the attention span of a goldfish.
“Marie-Neige having the attention span of a goldfish”
You mean more thanaverage, then :)
I got a weird glitched out image today for some reason. It was fine after I reloaded the page though.
I think it looks kind of cool http://i.imgur.com/M2pruDD.png
I can’t even see your link. It must be haunted.
Some browsers don’t display an image if it has errors. Try it in Google.
I meant in Chrome.
Clem in the last panel is now my phone’s wall paper. >.>”
I knew you’d like it. :)
You know me so well, Dez… ♥
I like to please my readers.
Dez is good in that way. ^_^
Wow, Clem, such dirty mind, I feel scandalized
Surely you realised by now that Clem is a Covert Pervert…
Maybe even worse than Marie-Neige…
OH MY! (Kasumi Tendou not George Takei)
Last strip I forgot to ask: they are in Imaginaire, same store as in Japanophilia, right? :)
No they’re not. L’Imaginaire is at the other side of the city, for starters. And it’s not really a toy store, more like an all around geek store.
It’s actually a fictional store. I wanted to use a real place, but was dumb enough to ask for permission beforehand, and they turned me down. So enjoy the first non real-world location in Frivolesque. :)
“L’Imaginaire is at the other side of the city”
I know, it’s at Laurier mall, but someone told me that Quebec transportation is very good :)
Actually my first guess was Benjo, that is almost around the corner. The reason I went with Imaginaire was just that the ceiling lights look a bit similar to your strip :)
“and they turned me down”
:( Had it something to do with Clem’s imagination?
“So enjoy the first non real-world location in Frivolesque. :)”
And it took like two years and a half ;)
They didn’t outright turn me down, actually, but it was a matter of content. And yeah, I figured out this strip (and some elements in the following two) wouldn’t probably sit well with them.
They’re still awesome. I love them.
And well, no, I lied. Gaia’s Gym, as well as some of the apartments the girls live in are also fictional.
Well, I wasn’t counting them either :)
The gym was a Frank’s initiative that you pay homage.
The apartments are the private space of your characters, they must match their personalities and the plot, thus they likely would need to be your own creation too.
Ok now I start to fear to fear Dez putting so much effort in drawing the backgrounds that it starts to steal the show from the characters XD
Amazing sense of detail, thought ;)
And, wait… they seriously did a Star Trek Settlers of Catan? Oo’
Don’t worry. I should have a few strips where the girls are standing in front of a brick wall soon. :P
And yeah, it exists. I thought it was pretty well known?
Haha, I’m not much of a trekkie, nor did I play SoC for some years. I knew it had quite a success but not to the point it got so many versions.
I’m more fond of roleplaying when it comes to tabletop games. On this subject, it was utter sadness when the french translation of Vampire: The Requiem 2.0 didn’t achieve it’s fundraising goal last month :(
And I highly recommend the Ultimate Friendship Destroyer, aka. the Ultima card game. Try it!
Oh my gosh she is holding Catan! I finally beat my dad and uncle at Catan earlier this week. Great game love the comic!
Thank you!
And I really love Catan too! ^^
There’s toys, and then there’s ‘toys’!