JP Necromancer is such a creep! But what did I say about him last time? He asserts himself whenever I try to put him into a comic. His love for the ladies continues to go unmatched. All ladies need some lovin’, but none need so much as the dead.
This comic hearkens back to a rich tradition of sleeping princesses in Folk tales, specifically Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. What I’ve crafted here is some strange amalgamation of the two, but the point stands: What’s with all these dudes looking to mack it to sleeping/presumably dead women? Where are they coming from and why are these people royalty? The people of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period really should have expected better from these fellows.
Picking out a single, admittedly innocuous, issue with fairy tales may be a bit silly given that there is so much chauvinistic thinking hidden in them. Despite this, hey are really quite interesting and have formed a strong basis for popular culture in the modern West. The majority of people are keenly aware of stories like The Princess and the Pea, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Hansel and Gretel thanks to a combination of the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney. It’s strange to consider that it took a team separated by a hundred years to bring such powerful tales into our lives today. Without them, a great many of these stories would probably have been forgotten.
While I do wish some aspects had been left behind (weak and ineffectual female characters anyone?) it is, on the whole, rather nice that we have this shared cultural knowledge. How else would we know about the sleep-rape or near-necrophilia our ancestors touted with such pride?
Without that knowledge, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to wake up in the morning.
I’m sure you feel the same.
First! For once!
i hate when that happens.
I love how the art is all dreamy until we get to the joke.
The Necromancer reminds me of Sexy Losers in some way. ^^
Look at that tricksy girl leading on J.P.Necromancer. What a tease :\
I guess the date he had with the other chick was a flop D: Maybe because the conversation was too dead :X
This has just made my top 5 of your comics buddy.
Reminds me of Snow Glass Apple by Neil Gaiman.
Great Comic
Ooo I haven’t read that one but I’m a huge Neil Gaiman fan!
Read it. It’s basically your comic :>
Ah, “Snow, Glass, Apples”. As Gaiman himself put it: “I like to think of this story as a virus. Once you’ve read it, you may never be able to read the original story in the same way again.”
… and he’s right.
Dear god the first panel is impressively beautiful! Excellent job!
Ha ha ha. Fantastic. Best JP Necromancer strip to date.
Great painting in that first panel, as well.
Wow, You really went all out on the art for this one. Also you definitely need to get some sort of shirt or item printed with JP Necromancer on it with an amusing necromancer joke.
I second that! Perhaps it should say “Dead sexy”? hahah Or something along those lines
I third said notion.
I FOURTH!
Yes! That would be awesome! If only I had a job…
Wonderful art, and a hilarious punchline!
Nice twist on a classic, haha.
What does he look without the mask? Does he even have a face?
Despite the fact that I created him, I wonder what lies behind that mask as well haha
If nothing else, there is, at very least, a five o’clock shadow under that mask.
It is another skull mask. Probably covering yet another skull mask.
I recently read a story called White As Snow, by Tanith Lee that looks at all of the aspects of the tale differently. The prince is pretty crazy in it…It concentrates a lot on what drove her mother to want her killed. I totally recommend it!
lol
eeeeeew… THERE’S NO MAGGOTS! where are my so loved worms? by Hades! thou are not dead yet!
This guy is easily my favourite character!
Am I the only one who’s reminded of the Voltaire song ‘Dead Girls‘?
It is surmised that tales of the Sleeping Princess are actually nods to necrophilia… such as you have indicated here. It is further surmised, that necrophilia, itself, is a condition indicating a need for utter control on the part the living individual.