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Tribute to "Lupin III" by Lancelot de Talancé (France).
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![[CAPTION: Remember, O Princess, the warrior who was so skilled in the arts of fighting that it seemed as a gift bestowed upon her by the Gods...When she was born, her lips seemed stained by the blood of the enemies she would face...and defeat. She is..BABY LIPSTICK!] The first three panels show a baby who looks like it's wearing lipstick, a young girl defeating an older boy in a play sword fight while a crowd looks on, and a young lady with an axe standing in front of a frescoed wall. The last panel is large and shows a mountain village of tents surrounded by a makeshift fence. Baby Lipstick stands in the foreground and says, "Ah, hope yon village has a place to rest my weary head...and if there be a chance to earn some gold, all the better!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ekflsoeohjmcaxcrmz4ha34/bafkreicjiuotybduc434gpeggyx6bs4wtxe5modqh47u25ovgawnxct7we)
![Page three, panel one: A creepy Thing in a black cloak appears on the mountain path. It's screaming "WREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" We can only see that it has three phalanges on both hand and foot and so it is shuffling along. Baby Lipstick says, "Hope that's a prayer to your Gods, golem-" in the next panel she swings her axe and says, "-For your unholy existence ends now!" In the third panel Baby Lipstick looks disgusted and exclaims, "Golden Mother!" (this is an epitaph of Anahita). The fourth panel shows that the golem is a weird animated banana, writhing on the path, cut in half. Baby Lipstick has never seen a banana in life, so she just says, "Truly, this is sorcery most foul!" [CAPTION: And so, Baby Lipstick continues up the Wizard's Mountain.] We have then four panels of Baby Lipstick killing banana golems with her axe. On the right side of the page is a long panel done in a video game style showing her ascent up the mountain to the cave where the wizard lives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ekflsoeohjmcaxcrmz4ha34/bafkreihehfub5b7aug55argm4jftwcdo7mwhszn24tq2lol2kozstsmy54)
![PAGE FOUR: Baby Lipstick appears in the mouth of the cave and points her axe forward, yelling, "Make peace with your Gods, wizard! I'll have your head for the village you've sent your golems against!" In the next panel, the wizard looks unbothered. He is bald but has a goatee that is pointed and many rings, and he is enchanting a goblet of some kind. He says, "Oh? Well, you can probably keep their gold. Doubtful they thought you'd make it up here." In the next panel, Tavga the shepherd pops into the frame, startling Baby Lipstick. He says, "Our elder sent me to follow you and get our gold back! But you lived!" The sorcerer shoots a beam of magic (SFX: FZZZT!). In the fifth panel Tavga has been turned into a kind of weird chicken with bat wings (a Fluganta Rato, if you play Final Outpost). In the next panel the wizard approaches Baby Lipstick, casting an ominous shadow over her. He says, "Well, my dear...I think we should make a little arrangement." The next panel is a profile shot of Baby Lipstick. The sorcerer is touching her forehead with his thumb and saying, "Stay here and protect me from those villagers, and I will put the spark of magic in you-" in the next panel he says, "-as well as increase their little purse tenfold." Baby Lipstick is thinking, "tenfold...", counting on her fingers, and imagining an abacus. The next panel is a half-face shot of Baby Lipstick, smiling with a twinkle in her eye. "Tenfold is enough for a saddle - and a horse! Aye! I'll do it!" [CAPTION: And so, Baby Lipstick learned fire magic...] (she is lighting a fire to cook) [CAPTION: Lightning magic...](She is looking at her hand, glowing with lightning, while the wizard is smoking on the floor behind her and giving a shaky thumbs up)[CAPTION: ...And the most arcane art of cheese magic.] (She stands in front of a cloud of mist.) The last panel is a lady reading out of a book to 4 kids. "The end!" "What's cheese magic?" "Great question! We'll find out in the next story..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ekflsoeohjmcaxcrmz4ha34/bafkreih5df6x6ahmrnmp4mktat7gguqrkhu6mkffh42q44qwtouahis6tm)
![Series Composition: Kamiyama Kenji
Timed By: Killshok [note: this is written in English using Cyrillic symbols]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u5bw5rpq7imwykprkhtyp6qa/bafkreiaina4ue6a7i2agik4fqalavq25z5hsuij5snjkudwymlgaz7bcim)
