That part in Les Mis. Yeah, /that/ one. Marius, hanging out with his new bestest-best friends in the world, gets a bit too politically uppity. And Combeferre puts the seventeen-year-old fanboy in his place, a bit bluntly. (My boyfriend claims that if this scene actually ever really happened to a teenaged boy, it would scar his masculine self-esteem for life. Notice how Marius never talked to Combeferre for the rest of the book....... )
I amused myself greatly working on this. Which might explain how I finished it so quickly...But yeah. I've wanted to illustrate this scene for, well, forever. I really couldn't decide whether I wanted to do a serious version or a cracked-out version, so maybe I'll eventually end up doing both......(It's just such an entertaining scene...!)
Oh yeah, and don't ask about Combeferre's medical textbooks.......... >.>;;;;
One of my most favourite scenes. Thank you for painting it! My favourite line (I think the Most epic line by Marius) is "Corsica, a small island that made France great"
Ohh, this is amazing! Love that you have pretty much the entire speech there, with the perfect effects- Marius' gradual three-panel transformation into full-on Napoleon uniform, and his starry fanboy eyes, and Combeferre reading about syphilis... Ahaha, wonderful!
Poor Marius, he does the silliest things. My favorite parts with him in the book are this and when he finds Valjean's handkerchief and keeps it because he thinks it belongs to "Ursula"
Oh my goodness, so nice to see scenes from the book, where Marius was a superdork instead of just Romantic Lead #3. XD I miss him fanboying at everything in every adaptation!