Giant robots and flying through the air and-
I had to take several passes at that big panel. A lot going on. I am satisfied that I got it right. Unfortunately, my delight at the correctness of the final panel led to a sort of disease spreading through the remaining pages, where every day I seemed to have to redraw a panel in its entirety after I’d inked it. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Additional note: I looked at a lot of photos of posed Japanese sentai TV show rosters during the drawing of this page. If we were all so dedicated to symmetrical standing, I think the world wouldn’t be subject to half the trouble it’s in.
In panel two, the poor belt buckle seems to be redoubling its efforts to get someone’s attention with all the sparkles.
Pity it didn’t save those efforts for panel three, when the Sentai would be actually standing behind Billie.
Billie knowing about Sentai is nice. And terribles too.
Symmetrical standing and its mobile counterpart, choreographed dancing, are still humanity’s best chance to reverse global climate change.
How do you say, “Uh… guys?” in Japanese?
“anooooooooooooooo…..”
If Google can be believed:
“Ē…to?”
🙂
Ē…to, Brute?
Then fall, Cæsar.
Finally I get it.
“Ooh, Charades! First word! Sounds like, uh…”Run”? “Run away”? “Run on the bank”! “It’s a Wonderful Life”! No, no, “run in your…Christmas stocking”! No, wait…”
I love that the Sentai snaps into a pose when Billie does. Also Maggie doubting the existence of Sentai tropes after everything she’s seen? That sounds as improbable as…as…improbable as a GAP store in Cornwall!
She’s not doubting that they exist, just claiming that they don’t exist in Cornwall.
But they do have The Gap in London, right? You’re always hearing those announcements on the tube to “Mind the Gap.” Clever subliminal advertising!
It was actually industrial sabotage by Next, paying TfL to raise a generation of teens who’s response to “Let’s go into Gap” would be hysterical screaming a fleeing.
Sadly, it didn’t work.
I like that Billie’s glasses catch the light and hide her eyes when she goes into symmetrical-standing Sentai pose.
The fanny pack doubles as her sentai belt, too!
Everything about today’s page is perfect.
Hey, that tentacle is very familiar. It looks like the “grabber” from a Tully Monster! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum)
I grinned with delight when I saw the last panel.
I’m just going to go ahead and assume there’s already a sentai series called “Futuristic Teenage Japanese Policemen”.
Yeah, SABAN called it “Power Rangers SPD” 5 primary coloured teens fought space crime…? Super crime? Well, “Crimes commited by people who definitely aren’t just men in rubber suits” anyway.
Their boss was humanoid blue doggo called Doggo Kruger.
Nice “Mr X” glasses in panel 3
er…, maybe be careful searching for “Mr X comic” if you don’t have Safe Search on and there’s anyone else within about half a mile of your screen.
Use Wikipedia. Safe as houses. 🙂
Wait, John Allison Universe Reality Check:
Did Billie already know that Sentai are “real” (along with werewolves, mermen, and any other such beings appearing in “Steeple” so far), or is she automatically applying knowledge derived from science fiction to [her] reality without stopping to think that, “Wait, Sentai only exist in TV and the movies, though, how can there be one standing behind me in real-life”?
My head hurts.
Given the things Billie’s encountered since coming to Tredregyn, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s simply become open-minded about the possibility that things she used to think were purely fictional are in fact real.
That’s where I’ve settled on this.
Did Tom know Billie would go to the cliffs with Penrose or just really hope?
The word “Sentai” literally means “task force” or “fighting squadron,” though (customarily a pack of five: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green (or Black), and Pink, unless I’m wrong), so I’m not sure what the precedent is in referring to a member of such a group as an individual “Sentai.” Nor do I think it matters, of course. 😉
If Panel Three is any indication, we at least have a two-member Sentai here.
When you see how they got “Mobile Suit” for Gundam, you will also wonder.
A teacher from Cornwall asked his class “what is the distance between London
and Cornwall?”
The answer 400 years.
Panel 3 is a real winner. Worth the re-drawings!
We have The Gap! I’m sure there’s one in Truro! Or there was when they still had shops.