Pages like this are why we can’t have nice things like buffers. I just lacked the heart to split it into two pages as it would mess with my (dubious) sense of aesthetic in having the transition panel. And we have to have somewhere to put all dubiously legible spoilers.
The next page is half a page, but it has 13 panels, so that isn’t helping too much.
I did play around a bit with how F-10 looks in the last panel, as its something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, exactly how it would look, in the end, the changes are pretty minor, but it is probably enough. I’m not that tied to the exact details of appearance vs artistic license (as evidence by hair and scarf length everywhere) but also wanted to do as much as I could with just with style and expression.
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While I anticipated the outcome, I did not anticipate the reasoning. The reasoning makes this potentially a much bigger event than I had expected.
A) This is probably the first time Ila has expressed a proper desire for something other than tasty food.
B) Ila’s request was sufficient to tilt the balance of Mium’s priorities.
C) Mium is investing a significant amount of resources into this task. (shutting down most of his distributed processes to do it)
D) According to Rovak, Ila is an artificial human. For Mium to be capable of running on Ila’s F10 body, implies that it may be possible for Mium to run on a properly modified human body.
Edit: Rovak’s conclusion here:
http://pastutopia.com/?comic=comic-for-friday-august-14th
B) She is his “sister” and made a direct request. That seems to have a fairly high priority to Mium. Note he went out of his way to protect Arkady even though Naomi did not ask him to just because of the implication. By being directly asked to by Ila the priority skyrockets.
C) is tied to B. Similarly to how Mium will shut down everything to protect Miko, when given a high-priority order to save someone he will do so at the expense of his other operations.
D) Indeed. And notice he put the AA system in human simulation mode when he did so. I suspect he’s treating Ila’s body the same as he treated Miko, during the assassination attempt.
I like how Mym always nails the ghost-in-the-machine look. First the pale hoded avatar then the wary seasoned warrior look in that last panel.
Wow. Awesome.
Thank you.
I’ll tell you this though. If you’d made us wait until Thursday to see those last 9 panels, I’m pretty sure the forgiveness rate would be 100%.
Run.
It won’t save you, but run.
I doubt this was Mium’s favorite plan, but it is likely within the range of plans he originally formulated.
I am just a simple reader. I see that last panel, I get hyped. Seriously, I almost WOL’d at that last panel (whooped out loud).
I will leave the clue finding and the theory crafting to the specialists, but why do I get the feeling this might ALL still be going according Mium’s plan? He put someone whose request he couldn’t refuse in the position of making a request he couldn’t refuse to bypass who knows how many of his restrictions??
Definitely not going to sell Kardus life insurance here. Can I short sell Kardus Lifespan? Any takers?
It’s brilliant!