February 3rd, 2010
Issue 5: Page 10
I’m not feeling very hot — well, actually I’m feeling a bit too hot, I think I’m running a little fever — so I’ll keep it short today. Back to the trial!
My goodness, is it February already? Today’s incentive shows Diva preparing for her very favorite holiday. ♥
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm
OF COURSE Asmodeus is a southerner (bout as far south as you can get, hurr) and I do declare he is wearing his finest seersucker is he not?
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Brinson Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Why bless his heart, I do believe he is! :D
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taxil Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Oh my Lady Brinson-sama, i do say y’all got me a grinn’ like an ol’ fox in a chickn coop from all reading this. Pardon my question but juzt how much of a Southen Belle are ya now?
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Brinson Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Well, let’s see — born an raised in sunny Florida, schoolin’ in Georgia. :D Of course now I live in California (I’m a total Valley Girl, y’all), but I do miss the South. (Especially its delicious, delicious food. I have yet to find an acceptable BBQ joint out here, and eating at the local seafood shack at home for Christmas reminded me of how much I yearn for a good Grouper sandwich.)
taxil Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
It’s a cryn’ shame that ya live out yonder in Caleefornia. If you lived near yonder over in the next holler, i’d come over and whip up a nice meal for ya. Snap green beans with some fat back in it, collor greens, some REAL North caralina BBQ, some scrapple if ya like that, and my own corn bread too!
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I like to think of Asmodeus as having a bit of a nasely voice with his southern twang, and a bit of exuberance not normally heard in the slow southern drawl. Kinda like in disneys robin hood when robin pretends to be a stork. Totally sounding like that. The incentive is nice. (diva and I can agree to disagree on that particular holiday)
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taxil Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
My dear Miss Tabitha, you should mozy on over to any ol’ movie store and see “O brother, where are thou” to hear the real drawl we southerns.
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Brinson Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Oh lawdy, that is one of my favorite movies. It gets better and better every time I watch it. “I’ve spoken my piece and counted to three” is regularly said in this here apartment.
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Brinson Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Oh gosh, I haven’t seen Robin Hood in so long, and I used to love it so much when I was a kid. I’ll have to go watch it again so I can see what you’re talking about. And thanks re: the incentive! (Yeah, I totally agree. V-Day is for the birds! But at least there’s always yummy chocolate.)
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Tabitha Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Lol agreed!
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February 3rd, 2010 at 4:16 pm
OMG Foghorn Leghorn is the Prosecutor.
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taxil Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 pm
that’ll be funny if it wuz.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
The Space Chicken from Futurama. That’s who came to mind.
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TheGeek Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 12:12 am
That’s the first thing that popped in to my head as well.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Tiny Attorney from Venture Brothers is who I thought of.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Prosecutor Asmodeus looks like a guy I used to work with…
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taxil Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Ya don’t say…
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February 3rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm
…Don’t get the reference, what else is new?
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Brinson Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:37 pm
There is no specific reference here. ^^ He’s just the stereotypical verbose southern prosecutor — I thought of the prosecutor from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil when I read the script, while apparently Joe was thinking of another similar movie character.
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Joe C Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Asmodeus is (very) loosely based on Dean Andrews, Jr., a New Orleans attorney and person of interest in the Warren Commission investigation of the JFK assassination. He’s also based on Colonel Sanders… and Foghorn Leghorn… and Asmodeus. The name’s etymological roots are found in liturgical Zoroastrian texts and the literal translation is is ‘Wrath Demon.’ In some mythologies, Asmodeus is one of the seven Major Princess of Hell, each one representing one of the seven deadly sins, though he is ironically identified as the Prince of Lust rather than Wrath. Other belief systems acknowledge him as the Devil himself.
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Joe C Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Sixteen years of Catholic School can really burn some interesting things into the old noggin.
taxil Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 6:51 am
O’rly?
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:27 pm
OMG its colonel sanders!!
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Brinson Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Evil Colonel Sanders. >:3
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Softspoken Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
He’s always been evil. He’s one of the five people that rule the world! He puts something in the chicken that makes ya crave it fort-nightly!
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xIsamuTM Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:12 am
HEEED, PAPER!!! NOW!!!
xIsamuTM Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!
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taxil Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Now ya’ll probably haven’t heard the truth about Ol’ Sanders. He never was in the army, but that ol’ govener of Kentucky at the time took a mighty fine shine to him cuz of all his hard work. He gave him that “Colonel” rank as a nick name and it stuck.
Tabitha Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:27 am
The colonel didn’t even open his first store in kentucky. It was in georgia.
Brinson Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Well I’ll be darned. Learn something new every day!
Joe C Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Q: Do you know what they call ‘Brazil Nuts’ in Brazil? A: Nuts.
I expect if the Colonel opened his first store in Kentucky, he would have had to call it ‘Fried Chicken.’. Not very catchy.
Tabitha Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Lol well said Joe!
taxil Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
O’ cotten pickn’! i plum forgot to say that colonel’s resipe is real and it’s still around. either his family or his company still hast it in a littl’ fort knocks. funny all that, it’s a little 5 by 3 slip of paper that’s worth 6 million dollars!
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I imagine the way Diva was able to get Mom to defend Angela was something along the lines of… “I bet not even you could get her off.”
But then again, is Diva smart enough for that?
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Lu Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
It mighta been a complete accident. That seems to be how she rolls.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 8:01 pm
…the angel standing guard looks like he is wearing a bucket. XD This amuses me way more than it should, can’t wait to see the rest of the trial!
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Softspoken Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I love that he’s totally an army guy, but has only a single lance to show for it. I also love that Mrs. Beelze is STILL holding that martini glass.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 pm
I’m in love with the fact that the Simple Country Lawyer trope has made an appearance here. Well played, well played indeed.
Now all this arc needs is some sort of reference to ‘The Devils Advocate’. Maybe Al Pacino slipped into a shot of the courtroom’s audience?
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:18 pm
(Been too busy to comment) OMG! A real, genuine, certified, magnified, electrified (chicken fried!) Southern lawyer! He just ooooozes evil in that polite Southern way (usually reserved for charactures of small-town sheriffs). And Diva’s mom is good (as a lawyer). I can’t wait! Draw faster!
Oh, and by the way (from a few pages back), I love love love Angela’s parents. they are everything I could hope for. An uptight, pretentious, snobbish (young) Mr and Mrs Howell (from the Hamptons, naturally).
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Well! Devil prosecutor, devil defense attorney, judge straight out of Greek metamythology…
…this is BETTER than Phoenix Wright!
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xIsamuTM Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:09 am
I’m hoping for at least one Harvey Birdman joke at some point.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Now that’s either the biggest gap I’ve ever seen between his front teeth or… he’s only got two really wide teeth.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:24 am
I love how Mrs Beelze is still drinking in the court room. I would so become a lawyer if I could drink while doing so.
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RSquared Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
You can drink while doing so you just have to hide it in a water bottle with a cap, you can’t have an open glass. Too much spillage.
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Oh geez, I’m sorry but I think you should edit the incentive…namely the unfinished Valentine in Diva’s hand. It gives the minds of the overly-corrupt (me) a rather impure image for something intended to be completely innocent. Seriously, if I cock my head at a certain angle, the Valentine looks like a certain…”wand”.
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xIsamuTM Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:10 am
booo….
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Why does the judge look so much like mr. virgil?
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Tabitha Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Uhhhhh
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geekunmow Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Lol.
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:13 am
The trial hasn’t even started yet and Mr virgil is already probally thinking why did I agree to do this again…..
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xIsamuTM Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Virgil: I should have listened to Stamos and not got involved with these two families.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Now Miss Lady Brinson-sama, you juz hit on a new winna in my book with this new rogueish Prosecutor Asmodeus gent. he jusz moeszed into yar comic and i already like the fella! Now i can’t even hide my own real life southern drawl from my own scribbleing here. naa, i’m wrong, this is worse than avage. First ya handed us all Hypno-Bishie, now ya dropped in our lap Mr. Azzmoe. I’m plum sure she’s still looking for his golden fiddle…
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
OH MAH LORD wouldja look at all these here fine comments? Now y’all did a fine job here, a mighty fine page, if I say so m’self……
I’m horrible at a southern accent. Great page, even better comments!
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February 5th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Wow. I fail. I read the prosecutor’s lines in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice at first and then marveled at how much he looked like Drew Carey. D: Liking the southerner angle much, much better. Sorry!
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