Issue 19, Page 15
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1: They sit in silence a moment. Melissa has sat back down; Rhoda is wiping tears from her eyes.
2: Melissa opens her backpack, pulling out some books, papers, and a small bundle of pale, embroidered cloth.
Melissa: Did Julia ever tell you what happened to me?
Rhoda (off-panel): Hm?
Melissa: The creature that attacked us under the library.
3: As they talk, Melissa is laying out a book, opening it.
Rhoda (off-panel): Sort of. She didn’t go into detail.
Melissa: I was… taken over, I guess, by something.
A creature that got inside me and… used me.
They got it out of me, but it left traces… It was like mold, it was growing until…
4: The page in the book is a wood carving of The Black Dog.
Melissa (off-panel): She got it out of me. She… cleaned me by eating the infection.
5: We watch Rhoda’s face as she studies the book. Melissa slids a large old book – affixed with a small illegible paper note – and the cloth bundle off to the side.
Melissa: Rhoda… Julia is sick with the same thing, and it’s got her worse than it got me.
This hound or ghost or demon or whatever… It can cure her, but I’m at my wit’s end trying to figure out how to summon her… I need your help.
Never summon anything larger than your head…
LOL how true anything larger then your head can eat you…
Interesting.
The dog-thing that ate [the monster-thing that was in Mel], ate that monster thing.
But that monster-thing, I guess, didn’t give Mel physical changes.
If the dog-thing tries to fight + eat Julia’s monster-thing, which is a monster-thing [with Julia’s ph. changes], the dog-thing might have a bigger fight on its hands. Ooooh, this will be fun to watch! 😀
Out of curiosity, whatever became of an earlier story of yours.. involving a spiritually-active fellow and his feline mate? I believe that it was centered at first about the doings of some theater-employees.
That was Concession, it was finished. And then Ballerina Mafia happened for a little while, and now here we are!
And for that matter Joel and Matt sort of transcended into Julia and Mel, along with Roland/Rhoda if I’m not mistaken. Or at least they seem to be the inspirations.
I’m thinking The Black Dog isn’t the kind of spirit (or whatever she is) you can just summon at will, especially now that she has been tamed and is (presumably) loyal to her mysterious master. Her master might already be aware of Julia’s situation, and is purposely not intervening, for now at least.