That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 16, 2020

“He may have the looks but I have ‘unseen’ talents.”

Rejected models for the Kings and Jacks of playing cards.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can comment on the shoes, but the beard is off limits!”

These two take the Burger King outing a little too far.

Fred and John’s medieval role play may of gotten a bit out of hand.

Merry Old King Cole calls for his pipe and his bowl, while Gloomy King Gus demonstrates how to be a royal pain.

king of the visigoths explaining exactly how much he really, really likes kinky boots…

Little Boy Blue has a near-great moment in phallic portraiture there…or he broke his staff, one.

“That’s it! No more smart-assed questions about whether I married my wife for her looks!”

“No, no, the country of Visigo has two queens.”

Alric, the king of the little people, and his son, the little prince.

No, we are not interested in buying your fiber optics for the kingdom no matter the what the first year discount is.

Alfred. King of socks.

The Fab King and his Consort….

The original comedy duo, Laurelric and Hardric.

I saw him in line at White Castle. He got six.

The power to say yay or nay finally went to the heads of Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel.

Stay where you are. If you come any closer he will have a Rainman-Quantis breakdown.

Do you think it is time for another manicure?

Portrait of King Fredrich the Fat and Prince Peter the Sexual.

When Caesar was asked that question by Brutus he said “et two, Brute.”

The Dude abides.

I notice many of the featured artists did quite well with faces but seemed to have problems with proportions when it came to depicting bodies. Probably because the face was what was actually sought?

The queen is favoring the side of his face that he has finished plucking.

Hey! They didn’t have cheeseburgers, 1600 years ago! It would’ve been, most likely, Philly cheese steaks…

I am not qualified to render/ my judgment of their royal splendor/ but the one to the right /(perhaps it’s the light)/is of quite indeterminate gender.

Two Kings of Spain or Kings of the Visigoths: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kings_of_the_Visigoths_by_Alonso_Cano.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cano_alonso.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=6052 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/alonzo-cano 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alonso-Cano 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/c/cano/biograph.html 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/alonso-cano.htm 

https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095546435 

https://thebiography.us/en/cano-alonso 

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/artist/cano-alonso/850ee711-716e-4a02-8bda-cb0f3ed3b752 

http://www.all-art.org/history252-23.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2011/12/23?comments=visible 

has the prior (the hyperlink in my one word comment – didn’t have such extensive comments back then – there is inactive; so, I added a slightly longer reply pointing to its title URL.).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2363 (January 15, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Ah, you’re right again as usual, my love. Satin really does make me feel more like a real lady.

The Visigoths were known for their gaudy jewelry and long hair. The two kings felt it was necessary to uphold this tradition above all others. Oh, and the symbolic long staff, of course.

Hold on a sec. I need to hit el bano first.

“Let me rest for five more minutes, Junior. Then we’ll get back to the mock sword fight.”

A more likely question would be: How many flagons of ale?

Though he was inept with his scepter /turns out she was even inepter /That being the case/ with a smile on his face/for her sexual skills,he kept her.

do to the newly passed law the lovers were wed in high style, can’t wait for the honeymoon.

You’re out of jail now, King. You don’t have to raise your hand to ask to go to the bathroom.

This might explain the hand of five: Ramiro III (961 – 26 June 985), king of León (966–984), was the son of Sancho the Fat and his successor at the age of only five.

“Oh Puleeeezzzz!!!”

The king of the five finger discount.