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That’s the last one for this month’s batch. Alas I wasn’t able to get as many pages done as I’d like but…we’re halfway through chapter 5 and we’re getting everyone on this boat now!
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Panel 1 [Wider shot of the docks alongside the Valor. Peter Roxbury is speaking with Barzillai and Adelaide. Peter has a large ledger in his hands, reading off it]
ROXBURY:
Once the fresh provisions run dry you have 120 barrels salt horse. 4000 pounds ships bread. 1200 pounds coffee. 600 bushels of potatoes. 6000 gallons of water. Dried apples, codfish, butter, by the hundreds. It should last you five months before you need to resupply.
Panel 2 [Closer shot of Adelaide as she looks up at the ship masts, her expression a sort of cautious hopefulness. Roxbury’s drawl comes off screen.]
ROXBURY:
200 lances, 20 spades. 4 whaleboats. Spare cords, canvas, yards. Iron hoops, staves.
Panel 3 [Closer shot of the three, with Roxbury wearing a flippant smile as Barzillai looks on amused.
ROXBURY:
Medicine chest is fitted--no doctor to speak of, but I’m sure you’re capable, Captain.
Panel 4 [Roxbury looks to Adelaide with a performative feigned sympathy, closing the book in his hands.]
ROXBURY:
I apologize that we were unable do more to make you feel accommodated on board, Mrs. Waite. If we had been given more notice…
Panel 5 [Adelaide looks unbothered, still holding Barzillai’s arm as he looks over at her with a slight frown.
ADELAIDE:
Place all your blame on me for the short notice, sir. I insisted. And I’m well aware that I can’t expect the same comforts I have on land, thank you.
ROXBURY:
Once the fresh provisions run dry you have 120 barrels salt horse. 4000 pounds ships bread. 1200 pounds coffee. 600 bushels of potatoes. 6000 gallons of water. Dried apples, codfish, butter, by the hundreds. It should last you five months before you need to resupply.
Panel 2 [Closer shot of Adelaide as she looks up at the ship masts, her expression a sort of cautious hopefulness. Roxbury’s drawl comes off screen.]
ROXBURY:
200 lances, 20 spades. 4 whaleboats. Spare cords, canvas, yards. Iron hoops, staves.
Panel 3 [Closer shot of the three, with Roxbury wearing a flippant smile as Barzillai looks on amused.
ROXBURY:
Medicine chest is fitted--no doctor to speak of, but I’m sure you’re capable, Captain.
Panel 4 [Roxbury looks to Adelaide with a performative feigned sympathy, closing the book in his hands.]
ROXBURY:
I apologize that we were unable do more to make you feel accommodated on board, Mrs. Waite. If we had been given more notice…
Panel 5 [Adelaide looks unbothered, still holding Barzillai’s arm as he looks over at her with a slight frown.
ADELAIDE:
Place all your blame on me for the short notice, sir. I insisted. And I’m well aware that I can’t expect the same comforts I have on land, thank you.
This is just such a good comic. The art, the writing, the ambiance… it just feels good to read. The only complaint I could muster is that there isn’t more of it! Always waiting for more 🙂
Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it so far. There are 400 more pages to go, and it’ll take me the length of a whaling voyage to get through them all, so thank you for joining me on this long cruise!
I kept checking the previous version for a long time then eventually found this when I looked again.
The storyline seems to have changed a bit but the art is still very well done and the characters are believable, there aren’t many sea stories from this era that don’t involve ships of the line, as far as I know this is the only one set in the age of whaling and the history is quite detailed indeed.
Thanks for making this and sharing it with us, the only complaint I could possibly have is waiting a month for several pages all at once, any chance of maybe one a week, or whenever the next one is ready ?
Thank you! I will say that this is a very different story from the old one, and the only resemblance it bears to the former is the title. I dropped old GTW several years back when I realized it wasn’t the story I wanted to tell, and didn’t get at the heart of what captivated me about this moment in history. This story instead is fully in line with what I care about and the narratives I want to create, and I’m so excited to share it!
Regarding the update schedule, if you’d like to see pages more frequently, please consider becoming a subscriber on my patreon! It’s pay-what-you-wish and directly supports my creation of this project, and the subscribers perk is early access to the pages as I finish them throughout the month. Otherwise, the next update will be happening tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
Ahh this is exciting, they’re heading out! Hearing the list of provisions is interesting – having no frame of reference for what a ship could actually hold, it seems like they’d hardly have room for the cargo they actually want to make their profit off of!
Whalers were cavernous things! “She has a whole lake’s contents bottled in her ample hold,” quoth Melville.