He’s So Thick and Syrupy

November 18th, 2006

Filed under: Comics

See if you can spot the difference…

First page of the third Nikolai Dante trade paperback, The Courtship of Jenna Makarov:

Backstory: Nikolai Dante was the bastard offspring of female pirate Katarina Dante and Dmitri Romanov, vicious patriarch of the Romanov Dynasty.

First page of the fourth Nikolai Dante trade paperback, Tsar Wars, Volume 1:

Backstory: Nikolai Dante was the bastard offspring of infamous female pirate Katarina Dante and Dmitri Romanov, viscous patriarch of the Romanov Dynasty.

Typo aside, this remains one of my favorite comic book series. This latest fourth book is darker in tone than the previous volumes (which is appropriate, given the subject matter), but still an excellent read. Recommended.

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2 Responses to “ He’s So Thick and Syrupy ”

  1. David Oakes
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:29 pm

    She becomes infamous, and he becomes viscous. There is a joke there, but not even on a medical blog.

    And did you make your own typo, twice, or is Dmitri really a “patriach”? (There’s a Patriot Act joke in there somewhere, but in this day and age I wo

  2. Scott
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
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    Yep, the “patriach” was my own (now fixed) typo.

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