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[Because it amuses the hell out of me to upload this. Is it not enough for me to traumatise Abaisse alone, that dA too must suffer?]

LES AMIS DE L'ABC: THE GEEZER EDITION:
A Les Miserables Abomination!

In the beginning, there was The Picture of Les Amis de l'ABC 1. And verily, it did offend the Fans, because it portrayed a group of vivacious young men as a bunch of doddering old fools, and their chief (described many times as angelically beautiful) as a badly-aged, knuckle-walking simian lacking in the head hair department.

Thus, it came to be that ~ColonelDespard redrew the image as how it should have been , and it was good. And the Fans saw it, and lo, the image pleased their eye.

And thus, ~HistoryKnightLS was inspired to make an allegorical version of The Picture (image pending). And lo, a new meme was started to remake The Picture in the artists' own image. And then HistoryKnightLS did ask DarthFar, "Are you planning to do one also?"

And so a seed of evil was sown. For DarthFar, being of Unwholesomely Wicked Disposition, saw fit not to improve upon the original image, but to intentionally murder the picture by making it even worse than it originally was.

And somewhere in the Pantheon, the remains of Victor Hugo are spinning...

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Apologies to all Les Mis fans!

Because I have quite possibly --hopefully-- mangled the picture beyond all recognition, here are some notes. In no particular order:]

Joly - has rheumatism. Real, not imagined.
Feuilly - looks more like a candidate for the Patron-Minette2 than the Friends of the Abaisse. [Blame this on the original illustrator.]
Bahorel - has grown facial hair to hide some of his more obvious scars, but is never too old to play dominoes with
Jehan - an aging Bohemian with questionable fashion sense.
Enjolras - bears a striking resemblance to his distant primate ancestors, and looks as if he's only just come down from the trees. [Again, blame original illustration.]
Lesgles/Bossuet - never had hair to begin with, but now also sports many missing teeth, and quite possibly emphysema and a whole host of other things. Because he's just unlucky that way.
Combeferre - is even shorter than Desmoulins3. [Eat this, Victor Hugo.]
Courfeyrac - show the cumulative effect of overindulgence in alcohol and pastries4.
Grantaire - has similarly gone to seed.

NOTES

1 From the 1862 illustrated edition , translated by Isabel Hapgood.
2 A group of street villains in Les Miserables, consisting of Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and Gueulemer, associated with M. Thenardier.
3 Hugo based Combeferre's character upon Camille Desmoulins, anyway. And in the original draft, he was described as "the furious one"...
4 Not that I don't already draw Courfeyrac fat, to begin with.

0.5mm Medallion technical drawing pen and Caran d'Ache vandyck brown colour pencil.

Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo.
Force knows who the hell drew the original Les Amis picture.

Description
[Because it amuses the hell out of me to upload this. Is it not enough for me to traumatise Abaisse alone, that dA too must suffer?]

LES AMIS DE L'ABC: THE GEEZER EDITION:
A Les Miserables Abomination!

In the beginning, there was The Picture of Les Amis de l'ABC 1. And verily, it did offend the Fans, because it portrayed a group of vivacious young men as a bunch of doddering old fools, and their chief (described many times as angelically beautiful) as a badly-aged, knuckle-walking simian lacking in the head hair department.

Thus, it came to be that ~ColonelDespard redrew the image as how it should have been , and it was good. And the Fans saw it, and lo, the image pleased their eye.

And thus, ~HistoryKnightLS was inspired to make an allegorical version of The Picture (image pending). And lo, a new meme was started to remake The Picture in the artists' own image. And then HistoryKnightLS did ask DarthFar, "Are you planning to do one also?"

And so a seed of evil was sown. For DarthFar, being of Unwholesomely Wicked Disposition, saw fit not to improve upon the original image, but to intentionally murder the picture by making it even worse than it originally was.

And somewhere in the Pantheon, the remains of Victor Hugo are spinning...

----------------------------------------

Apologies to all Les Mis fans!

Because I have quite possibly --hopefully-- mangled the picture beyond all recognition, here are some notes. In no particular order:]

Joly - has rheumatism. Real, not imagined.
Feuilly - looks more like a candidate for the Patron-Minette2 than the Friends of the Abaisse. [Blame this on the original illustrator.]
Bahorel - has grown facial hair to hide some of his more obvious scars, but is never too old to play dominoes with
Jehan - an aging Bohemian with questionable fashion sense.
Enjolras - bears a striking resemblance to his distant primate ancestors, and looks as if he's only just come down from the trees. [Again, blame original illustration.]
Lesgles/Bossuet - never had hair to begin with, but now also sports many missing teeth, and quite possibly emphysema and a whole host of other things. Because he's just unlucky that way.
Combeferre - is even shorter than Desmoulins3. [Eat this, Victor Hugo.]
Courfeyrac - show the cumulative effect of overindulgence in alcohol and pastries4.
Grantaire - has similarly gone to seed.

NOTES

1 From the 1862 illustrated edition , translated by Isabel Hapgood.
2 A group of street villains in Les Miserables, consisting of Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and Gueulemer, associated with M. Thenardier.
3 Hugo based Combeferre's character upon Camille Desmoulins, anyway. And in the original draft, he was described as "the furious one"...
4 Not that I don't already draw Courfeyrac fat, to begin with.

0.5mm Medallion technical drawing pen and Caran d'Ache vandyck brown colour pencil.

Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo.
Force knows who the hell drew the original Les Amis picture.