Twilight Lady – an Urban Fantasy webcomic by Blake Chen

Discussion (7) ¬

1. 
   Void Hamlet

   February 17, 2009 at 12:04 am | #

   Now I am totally expecting the Lady to laugh, or tilt her head and smile, “Are you now?” – Ha!
2. 
   xcal

   February 17, 2009 at 3:26 am | #

   oooh, painting=battling? Fighting has often been compared with dancing and Swordplay compared to calligraphy (I can’t find the exact quote now, so will hit play on ‘crouching tiger hidden dragon’ tonight…after my KungFu training).

   It looks like the Lady is doing a Sword Form(or Kata). In fact, I’ve seen those stances in the Tai-Chi Sword From at my school! AWESOME:-)

   Do we finally get an answer to that question? It’s been on my mind for a while too!
3. 
   Albert

   February 17, 2009 at 3:19 pm | #

   Painting isn’t battling. Painting is an art. I think what the lady is saying is, at their core, the arts of painting and swordplay — at least the way she taught them — require the same mindset, and form the same expression of will and beauty on the world.

   But what she means by ‘painting’ probably isn’t the same as what we do.

   As far as Rona, I’m expecting the Lady to say something like “What you are is not for ME to say, dear.”
4. 
   Docsmith626

   February 17, 2009 at 9:23 pm | #

   As usual, the more the Lady reveals, The more obscure she becomes.
5. 
   xcal

   February 18, 2009 at 12:34 am | #

   Albert: Kung Fu forms (karate kata’s etc) are the Arts side of the Martial world. some practitioners train it as a dance, I learn it as one would learn opening chess moves…use the exact set of moves if applicable, but generally apply the principles behind the set of moves. Either way, Martial or Art, the forms look beautiful….ok, this depends on the individual practitioners skill.

   In this case, I could say that painting=battlling because the hand/wrist motions could look similar whether you wield a paint brush or a sword.

   and I didn’t get a chance to hit that play button:-( my wife put on the brakes…”not THAT movie again!”
6. 
   Mia

   June 19, 2009 at 4:32 am | #

   I think sword-fighting can be an art – it can be creative, you can learn it, but at the same time you need to have some kind of skill with it to become a master. It’s just a different type of art to that which creates. And yet, that which creates can also destroy….

   And now we come to the million dollar question!! Is Rona a Nemsiiki?!
7. 
   Zarafraze

   March 15, 2010 at 1:07 pm | #

   @xcal Indeed swordfigthting style was compared to caligraphy in “Hero” a chinese movie about the union on china under one ruler, and the rebellion against him, starring Jet Li.
   And again yes, her stances look, but are not exactly like the tai chi positions for “horse bows down to drink water”, “birds fly to pass the night” and “rhino looks at moon(holding the moon” There´s a lot of time since I don´t go to class so those names may vary, so http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/sword32.htm