Grandma
Arriving at a nice little coastal town and meeting the grandparents.
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I just love their energy in this page. Great job, Robin!
They’ve made it home, they’ve made it back
a Grandma awaits, putting hugs in their track.
A village comes out, in the sun.
Now their holidays have begun.
They’re in their home of heart’s heritage;
embracing the family, wise and sage.
Meeting relatives in Italian heat
not, for them, that is any great feat)
The picturesque coast of two thousand years
beats with the hearts of a million dears.
Now four more rejoin its tune
(I wonder if they’ll get our Kaya to croon?)
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
I love the energy, scenery, and the family reunion.
That’s a very lovely locale the Romero family’s main branch is living in. I’m glad to see that Grandma Romero loves her little cruise missile dragons, though who wouldn’t? Besides Larissa… The twins are still energetic kids at heart, probably because being part (mythical) reptile might partially slow down their aging, I wonder how this would affect Kai and Kaya’s interactions with their cousins. I have a feeling the twins and their parents can’t wait to tell stories of what’s been happening to them since last year’s visit.
Maybe if the twins are well behaved, they can help uncle Emilio work on the boat and join along for his tours…
well, we know that none of their cousins are hybrids, since they hadn’t seen another until they moved to hybrid city, yet we know that the family tries to visit italy every year.
Nice coastal town is right…that looks gorgeous. Well, with how things have gone thus far, I’m sure this will be a normal vacation.
(With the twins? NO WAY!)
Yeah, nice coastal town … it would be a shame if someone happened to it …
True! Great job, Robin and Tylus. 🙂
This was cute. Are we going to see their cousins next?
Dawww. A sweet grandma is the best. My grandma was always a sweetheart. And the scenery is so pretty here.
She actually reminded me of an old lady I used to know; one with Italian ancestry. 🙂
Maybe it’s just me, but in panel 3, that looks like quite a random house.
Maybe.
Or its one of those cases where the house have been expanded on a couple of times.
I’ve seen houses in real life looking similar.
Originally it may only gave had 1 floor.
Then you add a floor (or 2) but because there was no place for the stairway, you add a small annex so you can have one central stairway.
I’m not sure why you put the floor of the annex at different level than the main building, but I’ve seen it on more than one occasion – at least once because you used to have an outside basement entrance that ended in the annex.
Agreed. The house I live in now was built by Great-Grandparent in 1936; 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen. NO plumbing, NO central heat. Heat was from a coal stove in the living room. Water was a well on the back porch. Bathroom was an outhouse. Maybe 3 blocks from the county courthouse.
One story, but it has now been added onto on all four sides over the years. All done at different times by different people. Is now 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, plus sunroom, 2nd eating area, and 2 original bedrooms have each been doubled in size, plus plumbing and central heat & a/c added. Floors do not match, nor are they flat or level. Two more entrances added. One large porch and two small ones. Originally with no heating ducts or plumbing, no large crawl space was needed, so that’s less than two feet, and a lot of that taken up by heating ducts and plumbing. Even a skinny person can -not- crawl under the ductwork. To add a furnace, a door was cut in the back of the house and a hole for steps and a furnace dug.
I was thinking the house looked a bit modern for a small Italian village house. But I’ve seen that in Italy – a bunch of stone houses in 17th to 19th century style with their ancient walls and gardens, and then some modern concrete brutalist house in the middle. Putting a brutalist modern house in the middle of – you choose the word: quaint, dilapidated, or historical – Italian houses is striking at least, or based on what the locals said to me, “unseemly”. Or a world close to “unseemly” in Northern Italian, which I barely speak, and what I barely speak is the Venetian/Triestine dialect, leading to endless confusion, especially about roads.
I would have expected the house in the comic to be some decaying Italian villa in the Palladio style, with half the roof covered by tarps to stop leaks and a wall covered by scaffolding so old that it has vines growing on it.
Just to be clear, the “random house” reference was to the publishing company’s logo, which appears slightly similar.
Ah yes, grandparents, time to become spoiled.
“So easy even a child can operate them!”
When we (my twin and I) were young we also would spend a month in summer with both of our grandmothers who lived in the same house. We had a vacation out in the country and our parents had the home without us. 🙂
One was a country person with a short and broad built while the other one was a city person with a slender build.
A thought occurs: When they went for previous visits, did the townsfolk throw a massive celebration, like in that one episode of Malcolm In The Middle?
Not gonna lie: When he said dragon-0shaped cruise missiles, I half expected the twins to either bowl over granma, or try to bowl over grandma only to bounce off her.
I guess we’re going to see a lot more green bubbles from this page onwards.
First color on the Italian flag! 🙂
Sabrina: “And can we have all of our heads inside the car? I’m getting nauseous!”
Marco: “Don’t look at me, I didn’t teach them the dullahan trick! Hey, Emilio, ease a little over to the right, you don’t want to clock your head on that lightpost.”
Emilio: “Got it. Oh, say, I thought that only the President could authorize the use of dragon-shaped cruise missiles.”
Kai: “The ‘Dragon’ is an antitank missile.”