Will and Jane and the Flowers
Feb 23rd 2008
Sabrina JeffriesGoddess Grins
Jane gets some competition!
So tell me, should Will continue in his doomed love? Should Jane try to mend his broken heart (if she can find it in that tiny body)? Should Half-Lady ever speak?
23 Comments »
Margaret Garland on 23 Feb 2008 at 7:33 am #
I don’t know if they should or not, but I’m enjoying the story and waiting with bated (baited?) breath for the next installment.
Keep going, Sabrina, and you’ll soon be able to print your very own comic book.
Personally, I think Half-Lady looks like a slut. Isn’t that the way with a man? A lovely Regency woman is his and goes for the boobs.
Margaret Garland on 23 Feb 2008 at 7:34 am #
BTW, I think you have baited breath only if you’ve been eating sushi.
FreshEChelle on 23 Feb 2008 at 9:05 am #
Is Will’s large flower overcompensating for shortcomings elsewhere? A subject for a future episode W&JEA?
Sabrina Jeffries on 23 Feb 2008 at 9:21 am #
Actually, Will’s large flower was the only one I could find late last night when I was taking the pictures. I had looked for others this week, but never did find any.
So we mustn’t blame poor Will for the size of his flower, I’m afraid.
I should probably explain about Half-Lady. She was made for me by a reader a few years ago. I don’t think the reader is online, since she’s only ever written letters to me, but I’ve used the gift as a pen holder ever since, except for a brief period when I knocked her off the desk and broke the cup (and her poor arm!). Thank heavens for glue.
But yes, she is … busty. And men being what they are, I figured that it was inevitable that Will, newbie to the desk, would fix on the …. well, YOU know.
doglady on 23 Feb 2008 at 9:24 am #
I have to agree with Margaret. What is it about men’s eyesight that gives the majority of them a stigmatism allowing their eyes only to go as high as a nice pair of hooters? Hootermyopathy, that’s what it is! That Will is such a cad!
Can’t wait to find out what happens next, Sabrina. If he goes for a ladder I think Jane should find a nail file to cut it out from under him!
Nicole Jordan on 23 Feb 2008 at 10:37 am #
This comic strip is just delightful, Sabrina! Can’t wait to find out what happens to Will and his Half-Lady. And yes, I think he should pursue a romance a little while longer. Makes for great conflict with Jane, lol.
I think it’s really sweet of your reader to have made HL to you, even if her bosoms make her look like a demi-rep (no pun intended).
And dl, I love the idea of Jane taking a nail file to Will’s ladder, rofl!
Karen Hawkins on 23 Feb 2008 at 11:17 am #
You guys are killing me! Baited breath . . . hootermyopathy . . . flower compensation issues — BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Methinkest Will is short not only in body, but in wit. What DOES Jane see in his foul presence? Methinkest he needs a bit of competition, too! Sabrina, do you have a G.I. Joe? Jane would love you forever if you’d send a hard bodied marine her way! I know I would . . . Hmmm. That just inspired me for FROS!
Karen Hawkins on 23 Feb 2008 at 11:22 am #
Btw, am I the only one who is amazed (and jealous) with how clean Sabrina’s desk is? If Will and Jane lived on my desk, they’d both be sitting on piles of manuscript pages, revision copies, research books and the occasional coffee cup.
Very impressive, Sabrina!
Karen Rose on 23 Feb 2008 at 11:26 am #
GI Joe is a great idea. Give the diminutive Will some competition.
Sabrina, I love the strip. I wonder what would happen if other characters wandered into the strip - like maybe one of your own hunky heroes or Heathcliff or Rochester.
Sabrina Jeffries on 23 Feb 2008 at 12:22 pm #
Ah, but Karen, that’s only my WRITING desk, and you’re only seeing one end of it. My business desk is one big mess. But my writing desk…well, I need room to move, don’t I?
Karen Hawkins on 23 Feb 2008 at 1:23 pm #
Sabrina, you have TWO desks? I have one. It’s for writing, business, and personal stuff. Which is why I usually write in a special writing chair in the living room — it’s peaceful and neat and I can’t see The Mess!
Sabrina Jeffries on 23 Feb 2008 at 2:24 pm #
Yes, I discovered that my lovely huge office that doesn’t have a real window was too dark for writing. So I set up a very simple board across two box unit thingies as a desk/bookshelf in the only room upstairs that has a nice window view. That’s where I sit and write.
Suzanne Enoch on 23 Feb 2008 at 2:56 pm #
If Will gets his Half Lady, how will he consummate the deal?
Karen Hawkins on 23 Feb 2008 at 3:41 pm #
Uhm . . . Suzanne, I think that was part of Will’s miscalculation.
Margaret Garland on 23 Feb 2008 at 4:27 pm #
After getting up far too early, Jane inspired me to haul out “Pride & Prejudice” (Colin Firth version) and while away the morning lying bed and thinking lustful thoughts about Colin Baby. One of the things I lustfully noticed was the front of his trousers. I know they button on both sides but can’t for the life of me think of what that’s called. No, not the thing behind it! Way too many names for that.
Yes, Will needs a bit of competiton from GI Joe. Just don’t make it Ken. I always wondered about his orientation. He might go for Will.
LOL, Sabrina. Look what you started.
Margaret in melty, drippy Lancaster Co. PA
DebMarlowe on 23 Feb 2008 at 4:47 pm #
Sabrina, I have a ripped Max Steel doll over here that I am bringing to your house. Jane needs to see what else is out there!
Karen Hawkins on 23 Feb 2008 at 5:52 pm #
WOOHOO! We’re going to have full-fledged Valley of the Dolls theme at Sabrina’s house. Oh, the trouble you all have started now!
PS Sabrina, I finished LET SLEEPING ROGUES LIE early this morning and wow. A wonderful, WONDERFUL book!
Claudia Dain on 23 Feb 2008 at 7:46 pm #
Valley of the Dolls!! What a perfect place for all these plastic people to live!
Yes, yes, we need more people. Will needs to see Jane in a new light and Jane needs to find someone taller.
Half-woman works at Half Hooters. Gets half the tips.
Sabrina Jeffries on 23 Feb 2008 at 8:20 pm #
Hee-hee, Claudia. Yes, clearly I need to get more figures. Oh, wait, I have a Beast figure somewhere from Beauty and the Beast! But somehow I suspect Jane would turn her nose up at HIM. Too rough.
Karen, so glad you liked Sleeping Rogues!
Cookiedough/Kathy on 24 Feb 2008 at 12:13 am #
I can get my hands on about 30 naked Barbie dolls. Why little girls strip their dolls is beyond me!
Sonja Foust on 24 Feb 2008 at 2:00 am #
Well I, personally, TOTALLY see what Will likes in Half Lady. She’s got some SERIOUS junk in the trunk. (And WHERE did you get all those pretty colorful pens?)
Sabrina Jeffries on 24 Feb 2008 at 10:50 am #
Actually, Sonja, the really colorful thing in that picture is a pair of scissors. A few years ago, I found a set of feminine “office tools”–hammer and screwdriver set, scissors, box cutter–at a store and couldn’t resist buying them. I just love my colorful little office tools!
But I do have some cool pens (and a pencil I got from some conference that has a pinwheel attached to it)! Most of them were giveaways at conferences, some of them were given to me by friends as gifts, and some I actually bought. The irony is that I NEVER write anything by hand if I can avoid it. I have horrible handwriting!
Beatrice Young on 08 Mar 2008 at 8:03 pm #
Will should not give his heart to half lady. He should have at least given Jane a flower; out of frienship. And no, half lady should never speak. Or she can, but only finish half the sentence. (ex. “Miss Austen, you are ……..) That would surely rough up Jane’s feathers and have them in fisticuffs.