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Nov. 20th, 2005 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemisdartI'm enjoying the comic book "Polly and the Pirates" from Oni Press (http://www.onipress.com/titles/titles.php?id=POL). The heroine is a sweet model pupil at Mistress Lovejoy's Preparatory School in a vaguely Victorian setting. I identified with her much more than I did with Ted Naifeh's other young-girl heroine, Courtney Crumrin, who is a bitter and curmudgeonly rebel. Polly seems set to live a prim and proper, completely boring life, until she is kidnapped by -- gasp! -- pirates, intent on electing her their new captain because of a mysterious connection in her past...
Dialogue like this makes me giggle:
Pirate: "The Titania ain't been to sea in years. The ol' tart could do with a bit o' spit 'n' polish."
Polly: "Now see here, my good man. I'm relieved that you've no immediate plans to do anything beastly with me. But I must remind you you're in the presence of a lady. I insist that you refrain from such coarse speech."
Pirate: "Oh, bugger. Sorry 'bout that."
Dialogue like this makes me giggle:
Pirate: "The Titania ain't been to sea in years. The ol' tart could do with a bit o' spit 'n' polish."
Polly: "Now see here, my good man. I'm relieved that you've no immediate plans to do anything beastly with me. But I must remind you you're in the presence of a lady. I insist that you refrain from such coarse speech."
Pirate: "Oh, bugger. Sorry 'bout that."
