“House of Paulus” is set in the world of FVLMINATA, a parallel history of Rome where the empire uses firearms to expand its boundaries.
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Nice move – I see why Venus was so confident
Ah, wonderful! A completely funny and un-edited page!
Well done, Rich.
hmm something seems different
Smooth as volcanic glass. Well-played, liberti Pauli.
The witches have overplayed their hand badly. I’m looking forward to seeing them go down.
I wonder if the “charm person” spell will last that long or will Paulus make his ‘will save’?
Ball is now in the Venificaes court….
Right now i’m just pondering how funny it would be if Lucilia was completely innocent… But poor Paulus, nervous breakdown and now bled, fun stuff.
I love Paulus’ facial expression in panel 4.
DOOO deeee dooo…. nothing to see here… no fixed typos. Just a funny comic! Doo DEEEE doooo…
Wow another blood sucking incident. Boy, Rich,you are into the gory blood and guts . . . .;)
Well…. one of my all-time favorite movies series’ is George Romero’s “Living Dead” films.
Wait, what happened?
Demetrios sure is clever.
what does blood him mean is that like draining blood and why is he physically sick i thought it was mental?
im confused!
great page by the way! (: smiley face!
searingdestiny:
The Romans followed the theory of the humours. It was believed that various bodily fluids had influence over the body and mind. Like blood and phlegm and icky stuff like that. They all had to be kept in balance for a person to be mentally or physically healthy. When someone was sick or had extreme personality issues (like being overly lusty or depressed) it was because of an imbalance in some of these fluids (humours). So a doctor would try to figure out which fluid was out of whack and try to rebalance them. If it was sanguinicus (blood), they would “bleed” the patient by giving them cuts and draining some blood. It coud also be done with leeches, sucking excess blood out.
Pretty gross, hunh?
Vehhry intorestink. I just did a phonetic spelling, if any can’t figure it out.
Can’t tell if Demetrios intended to demonstrate that Paulus has gone a little nuts, but it sure helps his case! If the treatment doesn’t work, everyone’s going to be suspicious.
I’m with Ghost2502: I’d think it’d be hilarious is Lucilia was also a pawn.
Blood? EEEK! Incidentally, I believe the Roman god of healing was Asclepius.
ew ew ew draining blood ew ew ew!
thanks though never new that!
i wonder if I’ll study it this year? hope so!
still a cool strip!
Oh dear.. poor Paulus!!
(Sorry I haven’t been commenting recently.. I was away and had no internet. I was going through webcomic withdrawal!! *shivers*)
Xanderchan:
From the Wikipedia entry on Apollo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
“As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius.”
I went by the rules of the FVLMINATA game which defaults healing through Apollo.
Yup, if any of them weren’t convinced something was up before, NOW they are! Looking forward to the “Too good to refuse” offer…
What was the nonexistant typo that wasn’t fixed, by the way?
I hope this plan delays the marrage enough.
Cleverest Name:
When I first put up the strip, panel 2 had Demetrios saying “Dividius and Lucio with to attend” and promptly 3 comments popped up pointing it out. I corrected the mistake and we decided to delete the comments rather than sparking a lengthy conversation about why there was comments about a typo when there was no typo and so on and so forth.
Unfortunately, I sabotaged this effort by making a remark in response to a remark about the change.
Thanks! (I’ll shut up now)
Asclepius was basically a Greek import, though the mixing of the Greek and Roman panthenons makes it bit fuzzy.
Roman doctors were just about the worst in the world (for the time). Ouside military medicine they were hopeless. The Greeks however had ones like Galen (who later moved to Rome), Hippocrates, Erasistratos and Herophilos’s who had half a clue what they were doing. The greatest medical school of the day was in Ptolemaic Alexandria.
The Greek doctors tended to follow Asclepius, and they usually got better results than the Roman doctors (ie: ocassionally not killing the patient, and sometimes actually curing them).
So the Romans slipped Asclepius into their various prayers as they associated “Greeks good doctors, Greeks worship Asclepius, Asclepius good healer” to cover their bets. Apollo was kept on top however.
Amazing an era where a Doctor would tell you to make a sacrifice to the gods