Kraa! Kraa!

The Rodin scene is almost done. I had to work on the weekend. Not sure it actually made things worse, but I sure do feel more tired.

The Hux-cam sequence is over. I didn't do this one in period voice; instead it is just Penny describing it, including a few quotes from memory. So it is left to just having to describe Rodin's art. Through the voice of a North Carolina-born comic book fan on vacation in Paris. In the cheap mezzanine "cafe" of the Pompidou center, overlooking the Herge exhibit.

In the context of a clue that may or may not be about The Gates of Hell. Or something about flowers, which is a clear quote from the "Birds of the Air" from the Sermon on the Mount -- KJV translation -- and for a moment they think it might be about Van Gogh, but Penny eventually realizes it is actually Degas. Via the grawlixes of Captain Haddock...

I don't know when I'm finally going to get the Pompidou sequence finished. There's an argument with Amelia, and then there's some parkour addicts outside. But one tiny advantage to working like this is I've already thought ahead to ways to make that scene richer. I'm going for a Mutt-and-Jeff. There's this particular depiction where one person is giving the running translation for the other person who is doing all the talking. The "He says... he says..." format.

I am going to broach some of the weirdness of parkour philosophy here. But actually Jeff is having her on. He doesn't care much for the dedicated ascetic school himself. He just likes to do the thing.

And, as usual, Penny escapes the instant expert, just add montage. She picks up just a little, but she fails more than she succeeds because, seriously, things like this take time to learn (in the Japan book, she did actually end up studying martial arts. Kind of. And she used it in the climax...she'd learned how to fall properly.)