February 14, 2022
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Breeding Dragons
Vimes arrives at Ramkin Hall to get information about dragons. The first thing he sees is Lady Ramkin towering over him in full gear in...
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Guards! Guards! Plainclothes
Vimes had hoped to have his men do some undercover work but he forgot what Colon and Nobby might regard as "plainclothes" This scene is one...
Guards! Guards! Ankh Morpork
The Patrician inspects his city. Perhaps I should have only shown Ankh Morpork but this scene is as much a character study of Lord Vetinari...
Guards! Guards! The Stick
The Grandmaster can't have the Elucidated Brethren get too happy about their success. It's time to break out the metaphorical stick. First the carrot, he thought, ...
Guards! Guards! The Shades
In the middle of their drunken celebration, the rank finds themselves in the Shades, the most dangerous neighborhood in Ankh Morpork! In hindsight, it might have...
Guards! Guards! Still Learning The Ropes
Carrot is still learning to be a guard. Despite this he still gets into a fight at the Broken Drum, beating the troll, Detritus. He's...
Guards! Guards! Inspecting the Damage
The patrician inspects the damage caused by the last "wading bird" attack. He stared at the stricken wall for a long time, while the rain dripped...
Guards! Guards! The Dwarf Bar
The scene in the dwarf bar remains one of my favorite scenes in Guards! Guards! It's the way Carrot is shocked by the way dwarves...
Guards! Guards! Nobby
In today's Guards! Guards! we meet Corporal Cecil Wormsborough St. John "Nobby" Nobbs. Like a lot of the characters in this book, Pratchett hasn't completely...
Guards! Guards! The Patrician
In today's Discworld illustration we meet the Patrician of Ankh Morpork, Havelock Vetinari. While Vetenari appears in other books, before this he is just a...