Comic Transcript: Chapter 1, Page 8
Overview & Visual Setting
A single-panel, full-page watercolor splash depicting complete chaos breaking out inside the “Dog & Frog” pub. As Lady Penelope Peacock aggressively flips a table and brandishes her cane, a wild bar brawl erupts all around them, involving patrons, inspectors, and the bartender.
Panel 1 (Full-Page Splash)
Visual Description: In the foreground, Lady Penelope Peacock violently flips a heavy round wooden table upside down, knocking chairs over while raising her long cane high into the air with a vengeful look.
Professor Genevieve dives toward the floor on the left, desperately clutching the newly bought camera to one side to shield it from the attack. An empty drawstring money bag tumbles off the flipping table.
In the background, complete mayhem breaks out across the tavern:
- To the left: Captain Duco and his tall, feather-hatted officer stand near the bar counter, pointing angrily into the crowd while a blue-uniformed guard looks on.
- At the bar: The bartender in an apron raises a glass bottle overhead, ready to strike someone. Signs behind the bar read “English Professors CASH ONLY” and “Chemists Assure Us Alcohol is a Solution”.
- To the right: Patrons in academic robes and suits engage in a chaotic melee—one hurls a heavy red book over his head, another swings a wooden box, chairs are upended, and a patron cowers beneath a table in the bottom right corner.
Professor Genevieve:
“Not the camera! Not the camera!”