So this week’s comic has really thrown me into the surreal. It plays on an old folktale about Baba Yaga – the witch who lives in a house on chicken legs and eats small children unless you trade their lives for a blue rose. It’s a bizarre Russian fairy tale that I have loved since I was young enough to still believe in such things. But there was always several questions I never got answered… why did the house have chicken legs? And where did they come from? So I sent Glen to find out….
And the results are in! They come from a giant chicken on wheels. Makes sense. Now what happens after this little show down? I have no idea.
Although this comic wasn’t inspired by music I am however going to add some anyway because I now have two songs on my roster about Baba Yaga – this delightful heavy metal cover sent to me on Twitter last night and of course this steamcrunk favorite. So now you get to see the mixing of three medias – old fashioned story telling, comics, and music. Got to love it! And also love these comics. They are getting seriously complicated to draw… and I almost feel like I am wasting my new illustrating skills on something so frivolous but nah. Glen’s fucking amazing and that’s all there is to that.
Do you have another Baba Yaga song or inspiration? Feel free to tell me about it in the comments!