 | 21/1/2004 Gong Xi Fa Cai and Happy Chinese New Year! Firstly, there are new vote pictures for both Buzzcomix and TWC. They're both taken from the comic pages, but without the speech bubbles. I lot of the detail I put into the backgrounds tends to get covered by the speech bubbles. These two I particularly like, so it makes me feel better to know people will actually see them! It's been a busy week for me; but one nice thing is that I finally got my hands on a copy of Sherlock Holmes; The Original Strand Edition. I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes; I've read every single book and short story written by Doyle. (Yes, even the entire Flower of Utah part in A Study in Scarlet which most people skip). So getting my hands on a reproduction of the Sherlock Holmes as it was produced in the Strand magazine (complete with illustrations by Sidney Paget) is a big deal for me. The stories become so much more enjoyable when you know the places that are mentioned in the book, from Tottenham Court Road, Edgeware Road and especially Baker Street... I've been to the real 221B Baker Street, which is the site of the Sherlock Holmes Museum. I've also seen the giant statue of Holmes which towers over the pedestrians near the London Planetarium and Madame Tussaud's. On any given day, you're bound to see a number of Holmes impersonators, complete with pipe and deerstalker hat, lounging around. It might interesting to the readers of The Jaded to note that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson draw interesting parallels to Jacob 'Jade' Lanner and Isaac 'Ice' Freyton. This wasn't intentional; I didn't even notice this until MosHunter pointed it out to me. But now she has, I am surprised at the similarities. Jade has the physique of John Watson, but mind-wise is closer to Sherlock Holmes. Ice, other than the curious parallel of being a doctor, is built more like Holmes, tall, sparse and thin. Hmm... I wonder how he'd look like in a deerstalker hat? ;) Talk about food for thought. |
