bad drawing – Page 15 – The Adventures of Vindalf

#184 Reposted 1mar18

He still thinks it was a good trade. He’s a terrible pirate.

#183 Reposted 28feb18

So there we were at Pennsic many moons ago, a conglomerate of Vikings and pirates, inexplicably armed with laser swords, wandering around when we come upon a ship! Someone had an awesome camp gate that looked like a pirate ship. So we begin the raid and the defenders respond with rum. They trade Darth-tagnan’s sword for a bottle of good rum. The still believes it was a good trade. I’m not sure what happened to our other companion, but in the end, we had no ship and fewer swords.

Later, we found out that another camp armed with lightsabers did manage to raid the ship. That comes up again later.

#182 Reposted 22feb18

The first panel used up everything I actually know about pirates. The last panel proves that there is no joke too lame for Vindalf.

Around this time, I think @lledra showed me how to use the colour options in photoshop. It would be some time before I got around to applying it to the main character. I envision Vindalf wearing a Norman style helmet and chainmail. How does one draw chainmail? (spoilers: I figure it out around issue 237.)

#181

Darth-tagnan is technically a privateer. He’s a pirate who pays his taxes. This is totally different from a Pirate who does not. Both raid ships for the treasure and for the fun of it.

#180 reposted 15feb18 Happy Flag Day, Canada!

“So, Sarge, the plan before that was to walk around the inland sea and not like, swim it. Right?”

Toronto is located almost exactly half way along the north shore of lake Ontario. I know this because both border crossings are about the same distance to drive when going to Pennsic. The exact middle is somewhere around Scarorough, as Ajax is slightly closer to the Kingston bridge, and North York closer to Niagara Falls. I used to drive to Pennsylvania a lot, so I found out exactly how long it took either way.

#179 reposted 13feb18

Sometimes the Society for Creative Anachronism can produce some really great Creative Anachronisms. Walking around Pennsic with lanterns and torches is considered a fire hazard, but there are no street lights in the middle ages. So people tend to have a flash light subtly stashed about their person. The more creative may invest in lights that look like candles. And some emphasise the anachronism and carry a lightsabre instead of a sword. A particular pirate in our camp went with the last option.

There were a lot of medieval-jedi walking around that year.

#178 reposted 8feb18

His helmet was better drawn, but still not in colour.

#177 Reposted 6feb18

176 was a very dated joke about Spamalot being in town.

Height is not actually a requirement of being a Dwarf. It’s about culture and attitude. It’s about speaking the language, participating at the Bura’zak-ka and playing a good game of b’tduz. Vindalf’s culture is rather more based on Pratchett than Tolkien, with a smattering of D&D.

#175 reposted 1Feb18

At Pennsic, the teams are shown by wearing either blue or red strips of tape on your helmet. Sometimes we get creative and make stickers in the right colour. See the second photo (credit to http://www.tworavens.org/) I’m the one in the hideous blue thing.

Can you tell what movie came out about the time I made this issue? Man, I am such a lazy writer.

#174 reposted 30jan18

I used to participate in the Pennsic War with the Society for Creative Anachronism. It was the best time of the year, even better than Christmas. 10,000 of my best friends all gathered together in Pennsylvania for learning, shopping, dancing, songs, and armoured combat. The first year I went, I was so busy going to classes and dances, that I didn’t actually see the “war” which was on the far side of the food court.

When I did remember to armour up and get in the line the next year, it was just like being in Braveheart or 300. Nothing quite compares to the feeling of taking a charge on your shield and pushing back the enemy horde. Then we invite the enemy around for drinks after and everyone has a good time.

Some day I’ll get back there; When the kids stop spending my viking budget on food and shelter.