a 4-panel comic, the first in a series, about a woman's struggle with using a quill to write Very Important Letters. In the first panel, she has a very stressed expression as she thinks, "I need to get the duke to break off the engagement! I'm not the REAL Helga!". We see a furious "scirbble scrib-" that gets interrupted by a "SNAP" noise. The second panel is a close-up on her hand, quill in hand, with a huge gash of ink marking the parchment. She thinks, "--DAHH!! Fuck these stupid quills!!!" In the third panel, we have an even closer close-up on her incredibly distraught and stressed face, her mouth a jagged scribble across her face, and her eyes wide. She thinks, "Aagh!!! Fuck! I'll just go with it!! Quills cost money!!!", and a "screee" is at the bottom of the panel, with the quill mostly off panel somehow making ink splurt up like blood like from a gory 80s movie. The fourth panel, we see a harried blob of a man rushing with a letter in hand, shouting "My lord! A letter has arrived from the Wilhelmsa Estate!". The other person in the panel, a side-profile of a man with one large drooping bang and sharp eyes, responds "Ah, from that dreadful fiancee of mine..."
The primly put-together man with the long drooping bang is opening up a letter, looking like he's looking forward to reading the contents, though his words contradict it: "I wonder what that elegant harpy has penned me--". The second panel, we see the results of writing with a broken quill; a letter that is just large, blotchy and jagged text that takes up the entire page, saying "Break off the engagement or else". Third panel, the man is looking at the letter, confused. "...You say THIS is from the Wilhelmsa estate?" a tearful stressed blob of a man's head is visible, looking worried, who says "That's what the messenger boy said." By the fourth panel, the distinguished man's mood has soured, still looking at the letter. "Well clearly someone paid him to LIE. This must be some sort of prank! Now way that woman would write so crude a message, vain as she is."
4 panel comic again--we've returned to the woman from the first comic as someone approaches her saying, "My lady, a reply from Duke Sossberg." The woman is excited, eyes bugged out and an exclamation point by her face, and she says, "Thank you, Clara!" Panel two, she bears a determined expression as she starts pulling parchment out of the letter, thinking "Surely this is his agreement to cancel the engagement!!" In the third panel, however, we get a close-up of a page full of completely illegible scribbles, the only legible part of the page at the bottom that just says "Scribbly-dee goop-eese". In the fourth panel, she's holding the letter close to her face, frowning. "What is this, the Bill of Rights?"
In the first panel, the woman is going through the letter, her eyes taking up a large portion of her face, saying "skip, skip, skip, skip, where's the part where he cancels the", and "scroll scroll" descriptive text has been added next to the letter. The 2nd panel, she yells "MOTHER-FUCKER!!!", and a zoomed-in cut-out of the letter reads, "Therefore, I will NOT cancel the engagement." 3rd panel, we've returned the duke and his distressed butler, who says "My lord...we received another letter claiming to be from the Wilhelmsa estate..." The lord has snatched the letter from his butler, his eyes narrowed upon the envelope with suspicion as he says "Give it here. Fourth panel, it's a close-up of his hands holding the letter up. There's only one scraggly, messy word written upon the page: "BRUH."
I'm a sucker for the 'oops all villainesses' isekai tropes so I tried my hand at coming up with one once. Do you think ppl'd go for one in mostly yonkama format, cuz that is the extent of my paneling expertise.
#OCsketching