I love that second strip. It's like Songween is going, "Eh screw da rules, I want some great great grand babies dammit!"

(reads last pannel) Well, at least she's an honest old kook.

im pictureing the bugs life queen charactors voice actor saying her lines XD

I have in my head the voice of Mary Wickes, who played Laverne the Gargoyle in Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

yes, perfect!

Yes! That's perfect! I will now picture that voice. X3

Thanks--I do a pretty good impression of her, myself. One of these days I might get up the gumption to do a narrated short story, playing all the parts...

That was always my dream, too. I do several different voices and accents. (That's how I got a lot of my roles in stage productions.) I always wanted to see what my range of voices really is. I know I'm no Mel Blanc but, I am pretty good.

I talk to myself in the voices of the different characters when I'm composing their dialog lines. It helps. I can ensure that Fred's manner of speech is very different from Koz's, or that there are some phrases that Songween would not use because she isn't as high falutin' as a person in her position should be.

One description I came up with, regarding Fred and Jinjur's English accents, is that "while Fred's sounded natural, Jinjur's sounded forced and affected, like poisoned water running over gravel." I've based Jinjur's voice on that of Zira from "The Lion Guard." (Zira in the sequel "Simba's Pride" was voiced by a different actress. The one in "Lions of the Outlands" has more of an arrogant sneer in her voice.)

Lucretia Kruger's voice is a cross between Bebe Neuwirth's "Lilith Sternin" and Carol Burnet's "Queen Elizabeth"--staccato and emotionless with a nasal, snobbish accent. Not quite British because she's South African, but desperately trying not to sound South African.

Trader Horn sounds like Paul Hogan, sort of, at least in his Crocodile Dundee incarnation.

Fred's voice is smooth, soft, and smoky. I had a lot of trouble finding a good match, but I'm using Richard Hammond from "Top Gear" as a base--when he's in his narrator mode--with a dash of Ferb from "Phineas and Ferb."

Kathy, of course, is me, but for your intents, she sounds like Wendy Corduroy from "Gravity Falls." Sandy sounds like Penny from "The Big Bang Theory."

I guess all writers do that. In my "Marooned on Tashoo" story I've posted to my page, one character, Mu-Naka, sounds like James Earl Jones in my head whenever I write his lines. Of course, the male protagonist sounds like me since we're both from south Georgia. But, most of the voices are voices I created in my head, even the female voices.

lol

Rules are made to be broken -- especially when you make 'em.

And of course the throne folds out into a bed. She already had a dining table handy.

Fred probably has ulcers too

If Songween doesn't give someone like Fred ulcers, she ain't doing her job right. LOL.

Fred's wealthy enough to hire people to have ulcers for him.

ROFLMAO.

Songween is a force of nature. Like a Category Five hurricane.

Methinks you don't do her justice. I'm thinking more like a Category 5 hurricane, a volcanic eruption, two earthquakes, a tsunami, AND an F5 tornado all rolled up into one person.

I know I've said it before but, I absolutely ADORE Songween. She's such a refreshing change of pace from most women her age.

She's the crazy old bat I hope I get a chance to be.

If your sense of humor is any indication, you've got the crazy part down already. Now, we just have to wait for the old part. LOL.

I'll be one year closer in a week or two...

Yeah. I saw that on DA. I was gonna wait a couple of days to wish you an early Happy Birthday but, since you brought it up, I'll go ahead and do it now. A very Happy early birthday to you. (I'll probably do it again on DA closer to your birthday but, what the hay. The earlier the better. Right?)

Thank you very much! :)

You're more than a little welcome.

happy Pre-Birthday

but you have about 10 decades before you can be a sassy old lady like Bibikubwa

No, only about four more decades.

so you are saying that she's only 60?

wow, I didn't think she was that young!

I think we're talking about two different things.

I'm 53. A decade is ten years. In four decades I'll be 93. Songween is 95.

I was trying to be gallant in saying that you were 20-ish

I appreciate that. Not bright enough to catch the compliment, but I appreciate it!

"I keep pitchin' 'em in, son, an' you keep missin' 'em!" -- Foghorn Leghorn

"your grandfather was conceived on it"