Issue 24, Page 5
Transcript
1: Julia is shaking the hand of Agent Everett, a strongly built male cardinal.
Jackson: This is Agent Everett, he worked with Melissa while we were out of commission.
Everett: [Unintelligible avian speak]
Julia: Yeah, that’s not getting old.
Nice to meet you.
2: Melissa peeks in around the corner.
Mel: I thought I heard the soothing tones of trained government assassins.
Jackson: We’re not… Hello, Melissa.
Everett:[Unintelligible avian speak]
3: Everett has approached to playfully punch on Mel’s shoulder, who’s laughing and pushing him back.
Everett:[Unintelligible avian speak]
Mel: Behaving? How dare you, I would never behave.
4: Julia leans to Jackson and speaks discretely.
Julia: When did she learn bird-talk?
Jackson: You were a half-monster for six months, she had time.
Julia: And what did you get done while I was a half-monster?
Jackson: Practiced my juggling.
What do you think I was doing? I was in the hospital.
Julia: Excuses, excuses.
I love the line “the soothing tones of trained government assassins”. That is just a GREAT bit of dialogue and I’m going to have to remember that!
Hmm… have we seen bird-talk before? I feel like I nearly figured it out but some phrases don’t seem to make sense, or I’m missing something (mostly struggling with 1st panel). More of it would be nice for reference.
We saw bird talk in some strips from the very beginning, I’m gonna go back and look for clues.
I made a translation key earlier, all punctuation and capitals are guesswork. It’s:
First Panel
She doesn’t speak Avian does she?
Second Panel
Hey Girl.
Third Panel
You behaving without me around?
Ah thanks, I got a couple letters wrong so it wasn’t working out, partly because I assumed the “t” in “doesn’t” was a separate word meaning it should be an “a” or “I”.
But you are a bird so I call cheating 🙁
😆
I was a bird long before I found this comic!
I don’t think its cheating. A french speaking french doesn’t cheat. So a bird speaking bird wouldn’t!
It’s been a while since the last update. Is everything ok?
Yeah I’m getting worried, no updates
They seem to still be active on Twitter and FA so maybe relatively soon? Fingers crossed 🙂
Hope everything is going alright over there.
I think that Rebecca said on twitter, that-
She’s in the middle of moving, so that means that the Order of the Black Dog comic will be on hold for awhile, or something like that.
That’s my guess about what’s happening. *shrugs*
You are correct. I checked twitter and confirmed that Order of the Black Dog is just on hiatus, not abandoned.
Cool!
😀
Is it Everett who said: “Yeah, that’s not getting old….Nice to meet you.”?
Sometimes I’m easily confused by stuff. *shrugs*
Oh. Julia said that.
I’m so silly, today. 😀
Two months’ hiatus… hopefully soon to continue. This is rather an upgrade from the earlier strip of the ‘spiritually awakened’ black-furred wolf at the theater. :}
I can’t remember if Julia knows avian or not.
I can’t remember if Julia knows avian or not. Does anyone else know?