Doubling taxes? Is he going to war? Did the soldiers at least explain why? Predating on his own land, especially without justification, will help neither him nor others. Unless of course he is a foreign ruler and considers his control of the land temporary or potentially temporary.
oh good, I knew the education system was a mess but I was having a hard time thinking it was that messed up...still, a minor means you should at least be familiar with the concept the degree of study addresses
SuperJedi224 what does [G,3,1,3](x), [G,2,2,3](x), and [G,2,1,4](x) equal to in your Graham's Sequence? How do you make the 4th entry go up? On your website almost infinite. I'm having trouble understanding the 4th entry.
I have to admit I'm liking this back story. I wonder if the raised in taxes was do to corruption of the lord or do to unseen events like War or Natural disaster.
To the sheepherder, the sheep is there to serve man [or woman in this case] whether as rations or battle assistant, so nothing really odd about the 2 roles. Probably there is some argument that the sheep is merely paying a debt [such as keeping wolves away]. And the peasants may deem themselves sheep for the Duke.
But a doubling of taxes is way out of line. In the normal case, they are already taxed quite high and the double may not be physically possible. Of course, we have to pay both taxes and fees [and the name can be rather arbitrary], so what our peasants deem taxes may be a relatively small percentage of their income. But it still seems very likely that this is caused by some rare event. [On the way home from the Crusades, King Richard got captured and held for a very large ransom, which his brother John paid by squeezing the locals. Despite this being at Richard's orders, he is still deemed a good king, and John gets the blame.]
I don't know, to me it looks more like a defensive stance - in other words: messengers preparing for the inevitable violence when delivering bad/extremely unpopular news - back to back, shields raised and weapons in hands, while being completely surrendered by pissed of folks. Could be both though.
nowadays we've been contitioned into thinking we have to 'tax the rich' never thinking that's where the jobs come from...wasn't 'the goose that laid the golden eggs' originally an Irish story co-opted by some editor that ascribed everything to Aesop to make their book thicker ?
I just noticed the border of the top panel being broken up and smoothing out. Great and subtle way to show her emotions! I also love how you showed her age up in those three shots. Your attention to detail never ceases to amaze me!
15 sheep in not that much less than 15 years means the family only ate 1-2 a year, which does confirm the poor status. Of course there are ways to stretch that, but professional sheepherders were likely to butcher 15 in a year, not a decade.
It might not be the Duke's fault. Perhaps it's the King who's demanding the taxes from the Barons, who have no choice but to squeeze the peasants. Typically senior executives getting middle management to implement unpopular change management, thus protecting themselves from any flak.
Or maybe the Duke's a greedy SB2C.
are the boys pushing an old tree over onto her? that's essentially how my daughter broke her leg at school -- a couple classmates of young age pushing a shelf of books over on her as she passed.
(Here is hope you won't give all the bad guys in this story German sounding names.)
that reminds me, our spring lamb should be ready in a couple of months
But a doubling of taxes is way out of line. In the normal case, they are already taxed quite high and the double may not be physically possible. Of course, we have to pay both taxes and fees [and the name can be rather arbitrary], so what our peasants deem taxes may be a relatively small percentage of their income. But it still seems very likely that this is caused by some rare event. [On the way home from the Crusades, King Richard got captured and held for a very large ransom, which his brother John paid by squeezing the locals. Despite this being at Richard's orders, he is still deemed a good king, and John gets the blame.]
“My lord, if you keep raising taxes to support your army, the peasants will revolt!”
“And when they do, I’ll be ready!”
VIVA EL REVOLUZION!!!
Or maybe the Duke's a greedy SB2C.
looks like a '4:30 on Friday afternoon' memo to me...
Widely used by the Vietkong during the Vietnam war, with sharp sticks on the business-end...!
That's mobbing...!!! :-(
Yup, they're pulling it back to whip her with the branch
Also you really shouldn't tax the poor they hardly have any money.
You did a great job mixing Colleen’s facial features from her parents’. It’s easy to see where her hair and eyes come from.
Kudos.