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They say the future's beginning tonight.

—— Pulp - the Day after the Revolution

For the Barricade's Day! Jehan says hi.

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There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

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Spin the wheel

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drew my triumvirate hcs in honor of barricade dayyyy

[id in alt text!]

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A [suitably miserable greeting] Barricade Day to you all! As you can see, I’m late this time around… but still in time for you lot to swear at me. ;)

What’s that? A Barricade Day comic without any barricade fighting sequences? Well… if you’re M. Mabeuf and you’re the first to die…. LOL. I’ll admit that Mabeuf’s decline and death affected me more than perhaps any other in the book (except maybe the death of all the Amis?), and I’ve always wanted to tell his story, so that’s what you’re getting this year around. [Also I’ve always admired the aesthetics of plain black and white comics, and have been meaning to try my hand at it.]

@pilferingapples, you were wrong about this being Mme. Plutarch’s death, but you were so, so, very close. ;)

[I had initially planned to kill off Joly and Bossuet in a comic for this Barricade Day, but changed said plans at the last minute. Don’t worry, I’ll get around to it… eventually.]

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Death, my friend, so charmed I’m sure!  State your case and tell me straight -  Am I worthy of reward, so Venture I to Heaven’s Gate? 

Death, My Friend, Mark R Slaughter

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Finally ! I’m finally done !

Song is We all go the same, by Radical Face (big big thanks to bro @yahtomingan who sent me this with “do you have a fandom where people die ?” Why yes, I do. Thank you for enabling me !)

I’ve wanted to illustrate it for a long, long time because it just…. fits. But it was a huge project, and I staled, until I finally threw myself in it. I took some inspiration from Tardi’s comics about WWI for the color schemes. 

It’s the first time I’ve ever done something so… ambitious .I’ve never drawn a comic (or comic-like thingie) before, so I was very unsure. Surprisingly, I learnt a lot about building the pages, flow, faces, focuses, color theory and surely a ton of other things on the Bad Webcomics Wiki. 

I know that there are probably a lot of errors, anatomy, weapons, etc…. But eh. I also mixed inspirations a little, between the book, the 2012 movie, etc…. following what fit the best. 

I’m still super happy with the result ! (but it was so painful to do)

(I finally replaced my handwriting with typed text because I just suck at lettering)

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Les Misérables, French Comic by Houy Raymond (1953)

Same energy.

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It's too bad that the musical of Les Mis downplays the parallels between Fantine and Enjolras and between Javert and Éponine. They're so unexpected and easy to miss the first time you read the novel, because the characters occupy such different worlds, but once you realize them, they're so striking!

And in the novel, both of these pairs of characters do seem to "trade" deaths.

Most obviously, Javert expects to die at the barricade, while Éponine contemplates drowning herself in the Seine, but the reverse happens.

More subtly, Fantine's last months seem to be leading toward Valjean reuniting her with Cosette. Even if we think her death is inevitable, we have reason to hope that at least she'll die happy, having seen her daughter, knowing she'll be cared for, and knowing her own sacrifices weren't in vain. But instead she dies in despair, thinking all is lost for herself, Valjean, and Cosette. Later, Enjolras is set up to die bravely but in total defeat and despair. But then Grantaire comes to his side, so he dies with a smile, knowing that at least one person, who once seemed to embody all the cynicism and apathy of Paris, was transformed by his ideals, which undoubtedly gives him hope that those ideals will live on after him and lead to change.

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“He is a man who does good by gunshots.”

The description of Jean Valjean’s marksmanship as “the shot which misses nothing and kills no one” has always stuck out to me as a metaphor for his character as a whole. He’s highly skilled at violence, but chooses to use his skills for pacifism instead. He fires a gun expertly,—but only to hit off soldier’s helmets or knock down furniture for the barricade, and never to kill. It’s similar to how he uses his ‘frightening’ convict strength to save Fauchelevent from under the cart. He’s very “Iron Giant”-like in the sense that he’s been ‘built’ for violence and is in a system that repeatedly tries to force him to be violent, but is determined to remain peaceful at any cost to himself; it’s about all the great “terrifying” power being used only for gentle pacifistic reasons….

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The candles on the candlesticks are burning bright

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Hear me out. Jehan and Feuilly infodumping together

VERY GOOD THOUGHT

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actually I think I'm talking myself into believing his name is Vert Javert

you know

for the Parallels

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Enjoltaire Tangled AU anyone?

(in which instead of becoming a prince in the end, Enjolras decides to become a thief as well and he and Grantaire steal the crown and run away together. ☺️)

Thank you @pumpkinspice-prouvaire for being a co-conspirator on this silly little AU

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Feeling normal about Javert and Eponine today

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inspector ‘no peripheral vision, really needs glasses, face-blind’ javert & jean ‘been on the run from the law for several decades yet still incredibly unsubtle’ valjean

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ask game: original french revolutionaries haunting les amis (canon era)

-For years Grantaire thinks he's the only one who can see or hear them; he is trying very hard to ignore everything about this and sometimes he almost succeeds but also sometimes he gets into huge looping arguments with one or more old Conventionist (however since it is Grantaire, everyone just assumes that these apparently unprompted rambles are par for the course. Classic R. They are not Wrong.)

-They are very opinionated about the other Amis. They admire Feuilly endlessly, they respect Combeferre's philosophy and learning, they are wildly divided on (Grantaire's biggest arguments with them tend to happen when they are, to his mind, trash talking his friends, because how dare they. HE is the one who gets to trash talk his friends!!)

-It takes Grantaire a long time to realize that Bahorel hears them too, at least sometimes . Bahorel at least says that it took him a long time to realize he was hearing them, too. His life is usually full of a whole lot of extremely loud people making what is to him a pleasant background hum; it wasn't until he was trying to stealth his way to little bit of Extrajudicial Resource Management that he realized the voices around him were not tied to corporeal bodies. And then went back to mostly treating it as background noise.

-Prouvaire does NOT see or hear them. He is incensed. He didn't talk to Bahorel or Grantaire, in turn, when he found out they had ghosts and he didn't they hadn't told him immediately. (then he realized he could make them record or recount what the ghosts were saying and started badgering them for word from those Beyond The Veil.

-They know they're dead. They have a BBC Ghosts-level comprehension of the metaphysics, though, to the considerable frustration of many .

-They do not comment on Enjolras. They do not seem to be Present around Enjolras. They just sort of fade away into the glow Grantaire always sees around him. This is one more reason he likes hanging around Enjolras. (He is resolutely refusing to consider any further meanings of this. If Bahorel or Prouvaire try to raise the issue, he will fight them. He will lose. But he will fight them.)