Chapter 18 | Page 11
on April 22, 2021
at 12:00 am
Ibrahim is referring to Humorism, which was a pretty popular medical ideology for hundreds of years. It involved the balancing of “humors” which were associated with different body fluids. Aggression was attributed to too much yellow bile in the system. Fun!
Yeah. Traces of Humorism linger today in our speech. The ones I know about most is about personalities. Like phlegmatic and choleric. Those were attributed to humors too. I remember those ones especially since they are my dominant personality traits. With some melancholic and sanguinism thrown in for confusion. It’s that sanguine part that really fucks with me. And those who know me. Since me becoming friendly and open with ppl I don’t know is bizarre, and when it happens it’s almost like I’m a completely different person when that part surfaces. Mostly when I’m in my cups or other intoxicants.
Yeah. I’m the friendly drunk. Comes as quite the shock to those used to my taciturn facade that is usually dominant.
And in no small part why this got posted. Cause I’m ‘in my cups’.
Then I hope you are also a happy drunk!
I hope you were having a nice evening lol.
If Ibrahim were right, wouldn’t the best way to treat Coal be to drain the excess yellow bile? So should they poke holes in his liver?
I’m sure they’d be more concerned about the lack of blood if they did that.
Love the heroic silhouette in that third panel. Would love to know more about Coal’s dad.
Yes! We haven’t heard anything about him before, have we, or am I forgetting something?
I think all that’s been said is that he was a berserker like Coal (Coal inherited that from him). We’ll certainly learn more about him in time!
Hmm…Coal’s hair is bile-colored. That confirms it, us blondes are just angrier than everyone else!
Not chill and innocent at all!
Coal’s dad is certainly intriguing, but Arne getting a surge of yellow in the last panel and his little ‘gross’ in the first are fun. (Not in the bile context, for sure, but I can see major trouble if that boy *does* get angry.)
Technical trivia: I can’t help noticing panel 5 has all black linework instead of the colours you often use. I get that Ibrahim’s face certainly needs that to distinguish from the background.
It’s not black-black, but like a dark brown. Sometimes I leave a darker color because the lines are too small to spend the time coloring them (considering people look at pages for one second to get the info they need), or…I just didn’t feel like coloring them that day, lol.
I went to high school in the ‘70s, and we had this old priest who insisted on teaching the four humours. I remember him going around the classroom and making each of us stare into his eyes so we could see that he was choleric. What we could actually see was that he was crazy.
Wow that must have been a fun class.