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Published: 2011-05-30 10:39:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2912; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 9
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Description A rather humorous take on Wilbur Whateley and Henry Armitage's conversation regarding the Necronomicon.

I swear, no matter how many times I draw Wilbur his hair is always going to vary in length - here he's trying to upstage Rapunzel.

I think I'll draw Mr Armitage more often - that beard must be studied and perfected!

Yup, I have no life.
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goda2002 [2020-03-09 04:42:24 +0000 UTC]

Aka the REAL reason why Wilbur wasn't allowed to have the book and thus had to resort to theft.

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dark-precipice In reply to goda2002 [2020-03-09 12:53:52 +0000 UTC]

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goda2002 In reply to dark-precipice [2020-03-11 04:50:04 +0000 UTC]

Heh, oops?

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goda2002 [2020-03-09 04:40:57 +0000 UTC]

Aka the REAL reason why Wilbur wasn't allowed to have the book and thus had to resort to theft.

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Mageia [2019-08-16 14:01:19 +0000 UTC]

I also really love that Wilbur was actually really polite about all this. Like, Wilbur was an eight foot tall monster with a gun. He could have easily killed or overpowered this 73 year old man and made off with the Necronomicon. Instead he was all like, "It's cool. I'll try the next library over."

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dark-precipice In reply to Mageia [2019-08-18 07:50:58 +0000 UTC]

Maybe he didn't want to attract (even more) unnecessary attention? Because if he attacked the librarian, he'd probably be arrested before he could get to the train station - after all, he is very peculiar-looking, so the authorities wouldn't have any problems locating him.Β 

"It's cool. I'll try the next library over." -> hehehe, I know, right? That was rather stupid of him, though, because Armitage alerted his colleagues. But Wilbur just HAD to make a parting shot, didn't he?

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Mageia In reply to dark-precipice [2019-08-18 22:51:32 +0000 UTC]

I would really like to know how that correspondence went. β€œResearch is going well. Still waiting on that grant. Btw there’s this eight foot tall guy trying to summon Yog-Sathoth. Do NOT lend him the Necronomicon. See you at the yearly picnic.”

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dark-precipice In reply to Mageia [2019-08-19 20:13:39 +0000 UTC]

He probably used the phone, but otherwise yeah. My colleagues and I, whenever we call each other for work-related stuff, always chat for a bit, if possible.

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Mageia In reply to Mageia [2019-08-16 14:06:56 +0000 UTC]

Also, with Armitage freaking out when he sees Wilbur's dead naked body and thinks that a monster that looks like that should be "eradicated" on sight, but apparently trying to summon Yog-Sathoth and wiping out all life only merits a library ban.


I know that Lovecraft monsters do evil things and are a threat to humanity, but when I read about Curtis Whateley raving about how the Twin looks so monstrous and ugly, I can't help but think that he's just being a judgemental a-hole. I mean, the creature already cracked a house open like an egg and ate everyone inside. You telling me that it looks like a giant mass of tentacles with a face won't make me think it's even more monstrous.

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Xenomaster [2018-12-20 23:46:24 +0000 UTC]

"That and you're too young for this. Come back when you're 18"

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dark-precipice In reply to Xenomaster [2018-12-21 18:11:52 +0000 UTC]

Wilbur, a Known 15-year-old: THIS IS BULL$#!7

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Xenomaster In reply to dark-precipice [2018-12-21 21:39:11 +0000 UTC]

Wasn't he 10?

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dark-precipice In reply to Xenomaster [2018-12-21 21:58:46 +0000 UTC]

Nah, I checked the timeline - 'The Dunwich Horror' is very specific about years and days.

That's how I was also figured out that Wilbur is an Aquarius. Β 

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Xenomaster In reply to dark-precipice [2018-12-21 22:05:48 +0000 UTC]

Was the year stated?

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dark-precipice In reply to Xenomaster [2018-12-21 23:32:01 +0000 UTC]

Yup.Β 

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Xenomaster In reply to dark-precipice [2018-12-22 23:05:54 +0000 UTC]

Ah

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Leonca [2014-09-18 22:57:37 +0000 UTC]

I thought that part of the story was kind of funny. β€œHere, I’ll let you read over my shoulder while I look at the part in the book which explains how to identify hybrids. Wait, why are you looking at me like that?”

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dark-precipice In reply to Leonca [2014-09-19 00:46:06 +0000 UTC]

I'm guessing Wilbur didn't have the Evil Overlord List among his books. Sheltered kid...

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Cosmic--Chaos [2013-10-11 22:39:49 +0000 UTC]

Now that is priceless

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dark-precipice In reply to Cosmic--Chaos [2013-10-11 22:44:55 +0000 UTC]

Happy to hear.

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ShadeOvWarlock [2013-07-25 08:00:29 +0000 UTC]

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dark-precipice In reply to ShadeOvWarlock [2013-07-25 08:43:39 +0000 UTC]

...Β it ’ud be a mortal sin to let a red-tape rule hold me up.


Wilbur thinks he's better than the other readers. Β 

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StrixVanAllen [2012-09-27 20:49:00 +0000 UTC]

Letting the library card expire it's one of the most terrible things Wilbur ever did. u.u

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dark-precipice In reply to StrixVanAllen [2012-09-28 10:55:26 +0000 UTC]

Also one of the stupidest - it got him killed.

(I've never had my library card expire - even though I probably would've still got the books I want, since the entire library staff knows me by name and we greet each other when we happen to meet in town)

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StrixVanAllen In reply to dark-precipice [2012-09-28 21:40:52 +0000 UTC]

It's the cuuuuurse of the library caaaaaards. (~0.0)~

(My only library card was the one I got when I entered college. It was reniewed by my college itself every term, after the enrollment process. The other libraries I attended didn't require cards, just a cadastre in the first borrowing and, from then on, an ID. In one of them, I didn't even need to show the ID, because the librarian knew all my family. xD)

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dark-precipice In reply to StrixVanAllen [2012-09-30 12:24:42 +0000 UTC]

Bureaucracy rules all!

Neither do I - like I said, the entire staff knows me, plus I've seen the entire staff gradually change at least three times, only the head librarian is still the same.

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SpikeValance [2011-07-08 12:06:24 +0000 UTC]

The actual reason

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dark-precipice In reply to SpikeValance [2011-07-08 12:17:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah. Those bureaucrats!

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sun-skrit [2011-06-25 13:06:38 +0000 UTC]

Very nice strip
(i sometime have difficulties with right proportions of heroes, too)

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dark-precipice In reply to sun-skrit [2011-06-25 13:56:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!
Wilbur is especially difficult to draw with other characters - he's supposed to be like, 8 feet tall! I need to make a reference sheet someday...

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sun-skrit In reply to dark-precipice [2011-06-26 16:12:47 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, this seems to be useful )

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K-Zlovetch [2011-05-30 11:19:21 +0000 UTC]

That's remenber to me my characters in RPG !

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dark-precipice In reply to K-Zlovetch [2011-05-30 11:24:13 +0000 UTC]

I've always felt that Lovecraft, awesome as he is, could use some humour in his Mythos... Yay for parody!!

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K-Zlovetch In reply to dark-precipice [2011-05-30 11:34:26 +0000 UTC]

Playing a Lovecraft story in RPG with many friends is a great and a very interesting experience

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