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Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 18

And that's a wrap, folks! Hope you enjoyed it- both versions, really.

I'd like to thank Kathy Garrison-Kellogg of the hyena-centric webcomic  Carry On for writing this for us. I went off the rails a bit with my version, but I think it came out well.

Let us know what you think! We'd both like to try this again sometime- maybe next time we can make it Roger's dream. :)

Thanks for readi...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes pt 17

Dialogue:

Lestrade: Come on, "Professor!" It's off to gaol with you! (puts cuffs on Moriarty.)

(Moriarty whirls around and butts Lestrade in the stomach, then dives across the floor between Holmes' legs, squirming along like a snake)

Lestrade: Catch him! Get him! Don't let him get away!

Moriarty: (on the windowsill) You think you're so clever, but you're not! You will never capture me! And you had better be sleeping with one eye open, because I swear vengeance against ...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, Pt 16

The plot revealed!

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Dialogue:

(Mrs. Hudson stoops to pick up the pistol.)

Holmes (calmly): Good show, old chap.

Mary Morstan: Thank you, Holmes.

Holmes: Did you get all that, Lestrade?

Lestrade: (entering with some bobbies, writing in his notebook) Every word, Mister Holmes!

Mary Morstan: (pulling off her wig and revealing herself to be Doctor Watson) I confess I can't wait to get this corset off!

Moriarty: (groggy and astonished) W-Wa...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 15

Sorry, I got tied up with other projects and forgot about this! I'm days behind, but we're close to the end, enjoy!

Doc.

Dialogue:

(Note: I left two frames blank because it's Packrat monologing, and my right thumb had gone numb, making drawing difficult. I did the last four pages in reverse. I am also not 100% sure I like Moriarty's speech here. May need some work.)

Text:

(Moriarty holding Holmes and Mrs. Hudson at gunpoint. He had the gun in his clothes. He has ...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 14

The big reveal! 

Dialogue:

Holmes: Good heavens!  Those are the plans to Professor Partington's device!  (pause) Watson--!  Were you the one Kitty Winters saw in the lab that night?  (Behind him, Watson is looking aggrieved and offended.)
Watson: (lunging over their shoulders to snatch at the plans) GIVE ME THOSE PLANS, YOU OLD HAG!

(Watson and Mrs. Hudson are violently struggling over the Plans.  Holmes is trying to pull Watson of...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 13

Dialogue"

(A small paw is surreptitiously reaching for one of the neglected pints on the table)
Watson: Maybe he's waiting for the furore to die down?
Holmes: (scowling in thought) Perhaps, or to get a better price...
(They depart the pub)
Holmes: In any event, we must repair to London posthaste!  (pause) Come, Watson!
Irene Adler, shouting angrily after them: Hey--!  You forgot to pay your bill!

Narration: Back in Baker Street--
Watson: Holmes, you h...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 12

I really wanted to somehow include Jinx as Wiggins, but I just couldn't fit him in my version. (And I was time-limited; I wanted the story to finish up just before Christmas.)

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Dialogue:

(Holmes creeping up on the curtain.  He plunges his free hand into it)
Holmes: AHA!  COME OUT, YOU VILLAIN!
(He drags out a child <Jinx> by the collar, the child is frightened)
Wiggins:  Mister 'Omes!  Mister 'Omes!  It's me--Wiggins!  O' th' ...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 11

Yep, we were supposed to have a scene with Howie and Cassie, too. :)

But who's that behind the curtain?

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Dialogue:

(Holmes and Watson walking along a dirt road in the country. Half-timbered houses. Holmes has a sling made from his cravat. The pub signboard says either "The Hound of the Baskervilles," "The Five Orange Pips," "The Dancing Men," a four-part rose--"The Sign of Four," or "The Three Gables." It might be best to go with the most recognized name.)

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Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 10

Anybody spot the 'twist' yet?

Doc.

Dialogue:

(Watson is cradling Holmes; there is a bloodstain on Holmes' shoulder)

Watson: Holmes! Are you badly hurt?!

Holmes: (softly) 'Tis but a flesh wound...

Watson: Not from where I'm sitting! We need to get you to a doctor!

Holmes: You are a doctor.

Watson: (scowling nervously) So I am...

(Watson is bandaging Holmes' shoulder. Holmes is sitting in his undershirt. The bandage is ...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt 9

Here's where things start to go a little sideways. :)

Dialogue:

Watson: Holmes! Have you gone mad?!

Holmes: Fret not, dear Watson! These are harmless toys...they use compressed air to fire tiny bladders of paint. A friend of mine uses them to mark his sheep. They're his own invention.

Watson: (grouchily) Have I ever mentioned that you have weird friends?

Holmes: (pulling on steampunk goggles) Masks on!

(Scenes of Holmes and Watson sneaking throug...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt. 8

Here's where the our two versions really started to diverge. :)

Kathy wanted to slip in a paintball scene, since these are, after all, the TWB players. And initially I loved the idea- a sort of steampunk-themed paintball game could be a lot of fun.

But the more I thought about it, and especially given some of the upcoming plot points, the more I thought it kind of out of place. A little too nonsensical even for a TWB parody. :)

Dialogue:

(outside the club)

Holmes...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt. 7

Sorry, forgot to post this last night. :)

Kathy left me the big bubble o' technobabble to fill in, though I was helped by a couple of the CTC regulars. 

Another bit that got left on the proverbial cutting room floor: Originally Mycroft was supposed to be played by Swampy, with a pillow stuffed up under his shirt. :)

Dialogue:

Mary Morstan, looking concerned: John--are you all right? You seem--different.

Watson, looking out window, back to her: Oh, I'm just d...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt. 6

Not much to say here, but the scene will make more sense later. :)

Doc.

Dialogue:

(Watson and Holmes walking along a busy street)

Watson: Did you learn anything from "The Woman," Holmes?

Holmes: Nothing that I did not already know.

Holmes: It is my experience that women are not to be trusted. Watson, you must be so happy to have Mary.

Watson: Who?

Holmes: Mary Morstan--your fiancee?

Watson: (flinching at his absent-mindedness) O...

Happy New Year!

As has become tradition, I have no proper New Year's resolution,  since at the best of times they last maybe a day and a half, anyway.

Except that one year I resolved to finally stop trying to throw myself at Scarlet Johansson, that one's holding up well. :)

This  year's non-resolution, then, is More Of The Same. I hope to try and  manage my time a little better, I hope to get a little further along on  my to-do lists, I hope to learn a lot more on operating my...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt. 5

The second panel, which I turned into a full-width image and went full Don Martin on the stabbery, was based off a famous drawing used in one of the very early Holmes books. Kathy provided me with several such pictures that she'd found online, as well as basing several of her own sketches on them.

Was kind of hoping more people would notice. :)

Also, the 'space' between the two...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt. 4

Not much to say here, except it contains some of the first clues- both to Kathy's original storyline, and the one I eventually wrote. :)

Dialogue:

Holmes, steepling fingers: What was the motive?

Lestrade, consulting notebook: Clearly a robbery. He lived just long enough to say, "A rat..." Clearly a reference to Ballarat, Australia. Oh, he also said something about "gold fields." So it all fits. Robbery for gold.

Lestrade, as Holmes and Watson ...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt.3

Sorry, meant to upload this last night. :)

It was, of course, obvious that Bandit would play the "ferret like" Inspector Lestrade. :)

And, you can see I drew the artwork basicaly directly from Kathy's storyboards.

Dialogue:

Watson: You know, Holmes--that invention could make a man very wealthy...

Holmes, at chemistry set: Or it could kill him.

Watson: Holmes, you horrify me!

Holmes: Making gold is a benign parlour trick. Such a machine could be used t...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes pt. 2

Kathy wasn't sure who should be Blone at the beginning, and I think he was supposed to be a random dog, here. It wasn't 'til a few pages later that we settled on using Jake. :)

And, in the first strip, we see one of the jokes that got left on the proverbial cutting room floor. :)

The text:

Narration: Soon we were rattling along in a hansom cab.

Watson: So what is this new invention, Holmes?

Holmes: He wouldn't say. He called it "revolutionary." *...

Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, pt.1

For the next few weeks, I'll be posting the storyboards and dialogue that Kathy (from Carry On) set me up with, along with a little 'behind the scenes' commentary. 

The origin of this whole thing is that I've wanted to do a Sherlock Holmes storyline for years. I'm a big fan of the original tales, and also of whodunit spoofs, like the old Murder by Death, or Clue.

I've been collecting gags...

Shootin' Video!

Paintball shooting, that is!

Doc.