A Clash of Kings – Ribbing
He waddled out into the lower bailey; his stunted legs complained of the steps. The sun was well up now, and the castle was stirring. Guardsmen walked the walls, and knights and men-at-arms were training with blunted weapons. Nearby, Bronn sat on the lip of a well. A pair of comely serving girls sauntered past carrying a wicker basket of rushes between them, but the sellsword never looked. “Bronn, I despair of you.” Tyrion gestured at the wenches. “With sweet sights like that before you, all you see is a gaggle of louts raising a clangor.”
A Clash of Kings – Chapter 17 – Tyrion
We’re back with Tyrion in King’s Landing with, from my perspective, a difficult chapter. Tyrion starts demonstrating how good he is at the Game of Thrones as he tests Pycelle, Littlefinger, and Varys with carefully placed tidbits of information. It’s a great sequence of events, and the show does it beautifully. It would work fairly well in comic form as well, but your poor illustrator has only one panel to work with, and if he had done it it would have been just another picture of two people talking at a dinner table. So I did a Tyrion ribbing Bronn after his meeting with Pycelle.
It’s a good scene. Bronn is watching knights practice in the Red Keep’s bailey. While doing this, he does not watch two attractive servants walking by. Tyrion on the manic side of his cycle, flush from his success of playing Pycelle trolls him about it. Instead of the argument he’s expecting, Bronn reveals more of his professionalism to him, explaining how he doesn’t mix business with pleasure. This makes Bronn come off even more dangerous than he does in a fight.
After this the only hard part was finding good reference material for how the two servants were dressed. It took an annoying amount of time to get past the “buxom wench” cosplay that Google Images offered.