In an effort to scare an old woman into kicking it, another old woman tells a spooky story about the devil and then tries to act it out herself. This plan actually works, thus proving that people in the 19th century were morons. Personally, I wondered what would happen if the Devil actually showed up in the flesh, hence the comic.
On a character note, I intentionally made the Devil’s broom in the second panel look decidedly more modern and plastic than the old woman’s broom in the first panel, in keeping with Satan’s anachronistic nature.
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… you don’t actually know what real broom (made of real broom corn) looks like, do you? (In other words, the broom in the first panel looks suspiciously like a recolored plastic broom.)
So, because the author is French the strip automatically get the Baguette tag? =)
Every country gets a silly tag, except for the UK, since that’s the “default” country/countries for Lit Brick.
I get why someone trying to scare someone else to death might be headed for the Slide That Leads To The Furnace Below… but what did her intended victim do? ^^;
The story is 19th century French, so there aere certain cultural biases in play.
‘All old women are evil’…?
Oui!
Well, I’ve seen movies that involved the French Revolution. There were always a lot of little old ladies cackling evilly on the front row while Madame La Guilloutine reaped her bloody harvest…
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They are essentially derived from Madame Defarge, Dickens’s character from A Tale of Two Cities.
Funnily, that’s also the moral of Sleepy Hollow.
God, I love your Devil.