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Panel 1 [Overhead shot of Mathews leaning over the bulwarks to speak to the man out on the scaffold over the whale carcass and churning sea. Adelaide and Ezra look on.]

MATHEWS:

That’s all we’re getting off it boys, cut it loose for the sharks.

Panel 2 [Low angle shot under the water showing the whale carcass cut from the ship and sinking into the dark as hungry sharks swarm around it]
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Posted on July 17, 2024 by Silas

This page was an example of script-writing me treating panel-drawing me unkindly in terms of what he expected my drawing capacity to be. WHATEVER...hopefully you get what I'm illustrating here.

8 thoughts on “Page 161”

  1. leslie

    I really like the sharks! …oh it’s been a while since I listened to Seawife but ‘Fins and Teeth’ just started playing in my head lol

  2. Rod

    Wow wow wow that shark shot!

  3. Oldarmourer

    Now I’ve got that ‘baby shark’ song in my head…thanks.

    To paraphrase Josey Wales(pun intended)…”sharks gotta eat”

  4. Cyril

    Whoa… that’s a lot of whale they’re dumping. Is it just cause they don’t have room on board to haul all the extra meat/bones/etc., or just a lack of investment in the rest of the body, or a secret third option/combo of both?

    It’s really neat how much you can convey in a monochromatic story 🙂

    1. Silas

      19th century whalers had no interest in meat or bone! The ‘whalebone’ they harvested in question was actually only baleen (for commercial purposes) and sometimes the jaw bone (for decorative purposes). They only wanted the blubber for the oil. Lotta waste.

  5. draconicrose

    Well… at least they kind of create a whale fall, so it’s not a waste.

    1. Silas

      I think about that a lot. Like, environmentally devastating to whale populations and their specific purpose in the ecological system but also…I feel like the histories told by the bottom feeders of the ocean would talk of a time of unprecedented abundance…

      1. Darquing

        I wonder if some of the bones still lie upon the seabed? I doubt some of the early whale kills are still there, but maybe some of the ones from the end of the whaling ship era.

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