I admire Jump artists for getting out 19 pages each week every week. I really do.
Moe!Canada basically took over all of this comic.
Original prompt by
panthael_angel 5-page ahou manga for
what_the_fruk's challenge cycle theme ("Birthdays"):
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Another rush job. I didn't have much time to play around with speech bubble placement or experiment with sfx with the net result being: the horror above.
No tones, no blue willow pattern on the Spode tea service, I ran out of patience inking some things, and so many mistakes that I noticed only after scanning OTL|||.
I know, I know, it's not even particularly Fr/UK-y :(
scrapped idea for a panel:
"maybe I will colour this epilogue" :
"My poor, broken teapot..."
"Ma chere Angleterre, I would much prefer it if you had said 'my poor, broken Frenchman'."
There is really a frilly men's nightshirt like the one Arthur is wearing in existence, I saw it on eBay a couple weeks back when I was ref-ing stuff for this comic; but the listing's gone now. D:
I fully intend to explore the screwed-up dynamics of fail!country personification parenting (and yes, Arthur needs to teach the kiddies about how they need to start calling him 'father') when rl is more accommodating ....