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"The July Monarchy republicans, who suffered numerous defeats, did not expect to succeed in their lifetimes. [...] They saw their generation as transitional figures, caught between what had been and what would be. They were denied both the glory of the first republican martyrs and the peace and plenty of their successors. Republicans might win no immediate victory; they might achieve no personal gain; but they had faith that they made a difference in the ultimate outcome. They believed they could change the world; and finally, the world changed."

A something something something Barricade Day to everyone! Oh, look, another picture with no people, no violence, no nothing! I'd claim artistic license, but the truth is that I simply hadn't had the time: I'd actually drafted and roughed out eight pages filled with people and events (and a fair amount of bodies), before I realised that I wasn't going to be able to perform three-day miracles. So five pages (and one panel) of empty are all that are going up.😬

[Full-sized pic if you click] Sooo.... Back in 2018 I uploaded a series of Barricade Day pictures that somehow did not contain a single person in it. This year, it’s just a single picture that contains.... absolutely no sign of a barricade or fighting or dying WTF did you manage to forget what day it is. I actually did Have Serious Plans for another comic this year, just not the time to render it out fully, alas. So at least one person gets a reprieve, and you all get an incongruously, inexplicably cheery doodle of a bunch of inappropriately under-dressed guys sitting around at a cafe someplace. Or something. Y’know. Happy Barricade Day 2023? ;) [If you’d rather have angst from me anyway, here’s my collection of Barricade Day comics from years past] [Also, the map on the wall is a reference to an old fic by AMarguerite’s, whose link I cannot find, but has to do with finding Enjolras the perfect gift. If anyone can remember this, please tag!]

Far would like to wish you all a miserable Barricade Day 2022. ;) I had a bunch of half-baked ideas for this year, but then @pilferingapples​ went and reblogged this post by @swutol-sang-scopes that translated one of the songs from the Argot chapter (thank you!) -- and then of course this was what my brain latched on to and insisted it would make excellent text for a comic. [Pilferingapples, I hold you responsible. Yet again!] Regarding the last panel: if it seems suspiciously familiar, it’s because I’ve always wanted to redraw the last panel from my Orestes Fasting, Pylades Drunk comic from Way Back When... just with even more drama than it already had. I just really like this perspective ok, and it seemed like a fitting end to this comic. I am not sorry about the context of “meat” in Page 3. (Actually, I’m cheerfully unrepentant about any of this. I don’t know how you could possibly expect differently). Also, because I know that at least one person is going to comment on this (you know who you are): I know I said this comic wasn’t about Bahorel, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to die in it either. BECAUSE. -- Is anyone still even keeping score of Bahorel vs Combeferre? ;) [I will also take any and every opportunity to give as many of Feuilly’s Six cameo appearances in my comics as I can manage.]

[@pilferingapples  -- Sorry, not sorry!]

(It doesn’t feel very much like a Far-comic without excessive use of weird camera angles and a ridiculous amount of background, does it? [scratches head sheepishly])

Earlier (much earlier!) this year, @oilan and I decided to do another Les Miserables lineswap collaboration, where we’d colour in one another’s lineart. .... I am so, so very sorry this took half a year to complete... >.< -- But anyway, this one’s lines by Oilan and colours by me: Joly, Bossuet and Grantaire sharing a meal together. Presumably at the Corinthe, and presumably on 5th June 1832. (And even if Oilan hadn’t meant it to be, well, it is now.... LOL). So... Preliminary Gayeties. Y’know, before everything goes the way of violence and death and a flood of tears. ;) [Oilan, it’s always doing collabs with you, and I hope to do more at some point in the future - assuming you haven’t been scared off by my deplorable ability to procrastinate...]

Commission for @aflamethatneverdies for the Bishop Myriel Emergency Fundraiser @bishopmyrielfundraiser : a Petrus Borel-inspired Bahorel (which is how aflamethatneverdies imagines him) being an intense Romantic nerd. No, I have no idea how one manages to maintain seated like that without tipping over, but I figured that’s his problem, not mine. ;) Also, no, it’s probably not likely that you would need a fire going at a season when you can get fresh flowers for your vases, but I’m going to (irresponsibly) put that down to Romantics doing Ridiculous Things. (It could also be that there were Highly Compromising documents that needed destroying. Y’know). [Also, there may or may not be alcohol in that skull. Because again, Romantics.]