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Statue Rentals #9: Restoration Surprise
🕑 Added 2025-08-26 04:00:06 +0000 UTCWhen I first put the dialogue on this comic (and the next one), Stacy's dialogue bubbles were white. I considered making her bubbles slowly become the hot pink they are now. I gave up on the idea because I didn't think it would be necessary.
I realized at this point Stacy is a far more top heavy that I realized before. Putting her in clothes made this painfully obvious. SR#11 and SR#12 still have dialog about her size. The images here are the reduced size images. I ended up fixing SR#05 through SR#19 because they were just too big.
The Little Witch's Wilson family portrait is sideways on the table in the top right panel. Yet another crossover with another story.
There's a bonus pic down below the transcript.
Transcript
Panel 1 – Statue is hidden behind blue screen, Meredith is sitting nearby
Meredith (speaking to statue): I hope you enjoyed the experience. It’s been almost 18 months since you were human.
Meredith (continued): You’ve been well- compensated financially. I’ve explained what caused the delays to you before but had no way to ask how you felt. I hope it was okay.
FX: <snap>
Panel 2 – Magic!
Panel 3
Meredith: There’s some clothes for you on the stool.
Stacy: This is a dress.
Meredith: It’s a jumper. It was all I had. Think of it as a really long shirt.
Stacy: This is not my body. Why do I look like the statue did?
Panel 4 – Puts on shirt
Meredith: The statue was an accurate depiction of you.
Stacy: I'm not a woman.
Meredith: That block of stone I carved definitely held a woman. I just removed all the bits that weren’t you.
Stacy: Are you kidding?
Panel 5 – Puts on pants
Meredith: Am I? Try it out. I can’t change you into a man without the whole block and carving montage. And if you pay for me to do that, you’ll have made no money on this gig.
Stacy: You want to charge me because it’s in the waiver I signed.
Meredith: I don’t want to charge you. There are issues with changing someone to stone and back too frequently. Being a woman for little while won’t be as bad as you think. If you come back here in a few weeks and want me to fix it, I promise I will for free, if I can.
Panel 6 – Steps out
Stacy: Fine.
Meredith: Watch your step getting off the plinth.
Stacy: This outfit is very short.
Meredith: You’ll get used to it.
Meredith: God, how you are so gorgeous? Let me introduce you to Brian. He's dying to meet you.
Stacy: Brian Tellani? I've seen him a lot lately.
Bonus Image
Comments
Magicshoppe
Noriko did ask, in #5, why Meredith didn't just hire a female model to fill the Tellani Restaurant order. And Meredith said the block always contained a woman. One could take that to believe Meredith wasn't getting a lot of work before #8 when Business [Was] Booming and thus she served up the woman statue she had at the time. Or as you say, male statues are in less demand. Although I have queued pages through #24, I keep thinking I should add more statue stuff. (We do see another model in the upcoming #12 and there's a surprise for Christmas Day this year.) I've been considering adding a few others. Like, the partial statue in #8. Where did it end up? How long? Will the model do it again? I've considered slipping pages about that kind of thing along side the Stacy main story. Time will tell.
David Fenger
Well, there's an interesting side effect. Is there more demand for female statues than male, I wonder?
