Comic for Friday, July 15th
This is one of those pages where some time at some point ago I thought “Eh, I’ll be able to figure out to draw that”. Then, facing the reality of having to draw that now, I can only curse the bastard who thought that was a good idea.
Maybe I’ll write a book instead. 😐
Anyway…
It’ll be back to 2 comics next week unfortunately, having only made up one so far. I’ll see if I can find something to make up the other two eventually 😉 .
Mione and Marc were picked to follow Tyler because they both have high enough interference to not be effected by his magic here. Not that they are heating themselves up, but they their personal Eidos interference is high enough that the magic doesn’t directly effect them. They are still standing in the sudden hail / slush, unfortunately, thus Mione’s grumbling. This is why I mentioned earlier that they were not picked necessarily for their combat strength, but something that highly correlates to it. Obviously having a high interference strength is very useful in when two mages are fighting. Think of it this way – Tyler sends out a magic missive telling Eidos “you should be a lot colder”; without anyone to nay-say that, things become a lot colder; interference is telling Eidos “no, that’s wrong”. A glorious explanation, I know… 😉
Additionally, this more or less confirms that Tyler is an Innate Mage as well as a Natural Mage, and his Innate Ability has to do freezing things. It’s not ‘making ice’ though it tends to have that side effect, even when it’s not raining.
I imagine the segment of you that read the comic and the segment that read the blog are fairly small, but I did recently update it concerning advertising in the webcomic market. Short version is it’s really pretty bad right now.
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Ice only needs to be 10-15 cm to be on a bike, maybe 150% more for a vehicle. Frozen down to 10m and you could probably land a plane on it. As for making it not tippy maybe 7m wide and a bicycle will be fine up to about a meter from the edge.
Don’t know how I missed this one. I’ll trust your maths on this one if the need ever arises 😛
I imagine Tyler would generally have more efficient ways to cross a body of water, but I could see it coming in handy 😛
Uuhhhh…. How big of a plane? Because I would say less.
Interestingly enough…:
https://www.almanac.com/sites/default/files/d6/258_icethickness.pdf
Not very scientific, but I would agree.
Meoi Lass
Soooo, this is where I man up and admit I thought Tyler was “meh” at best. Ummm, now not so much. I mean we (the readers of various states of coolitude) can’t be sure his minions needing to make sure they don’t freeze is something Tyler can’t do something about or is he not concerned by it? Also that is a fairly lethal power if understood the explanation, the air isn’t colder everything is becoming colder and hypothermia sets in pretty quick.
Tyler would have a hard time keeping someone in the general area from being affected entirely, though things he targets are affected far more then things he doesn’t.
Plus, Tyler probably wants to save his concentration for going on the offensive then trying to not freeze his allies. Most of the MSB mages could stand in the aura for a bit, but wouldn’t have a hard time doing much else.
The power is certainly lethal if someone gets frozen too long, humans are a good bit more resistant to magic then inanimate objects; even if he hits someone full on the water in the air will freeze before the do, though they’d follow soon after. Medical technology is also a good bit better, people can be recovered from things that would be pretty fatal to us, though if your blood got frozen you’d probably die (for a lot a reasons).
Tyler has some confidence there. clearly used to being the biggest fish around. we’ll see if this works out for what comes next. -.-
Mayhap, mayhap is a little genre savvy when it comes to minion rankings, and the ones putting up caution tape in the rain are probably not the ones you have to worry about… 😉
That goes some distance to seeing why Tyler is a Registered Mage. I don’t see any magic circles, so I’m guessing that’s the sign of “Innate” magic? Naomi doesn’t use them either.
Some nice touches. Tyler’s breath in panel 3. The snapping caution tape. I think the later sort of hints that things Tyler is focusing on or annoyed by get more frozen, so he can probably focus it at least somewhat.
Now that Tyler is finally going inside I have to start theorizing what will happen. Lots of magic action? That’s not a very bold guess. At this point there is, in the same building (ranked in order of most pyscho to least because why not), Mir, Orish lady with sword, Rovak, Don, Gate, Mir’s Minions, IDS Solider(x4), F5, Jayce, Miko(&tag along “friends”) and Tyler. Fireworks for days.
Don’t forget M.Y.M. ^^ We don’t know at this point exactly WHAT Miko did to AVon’s mainframe, but unleashing M.Y.M. should be a pretty safe guess. 🙂
I reckon they’ll all just hold a massive tea party, compare grievances, and write up a binding document of cooperation.
… Right.
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NOW would be an excellent time for that magic umbrella. 🙂
Running on wet ice isn’t the best idea. ><
Are you doing a Venn diagram for us comic/blog readers? I'm in the shaded area, because that's where a lot of the hints are. ^^
Was one of the other mages who was making the umbrella 😛 But yeah, that’d be a good idea. Tyler could totally do it, but he’s probably too busy being all ‘I am super scary mage so scary’ to be practical.
I don’t really have good data on who reads what to be honest 😛 I do know from the numbers that most of our traffic is returning readers, which is pretty cool, a good number of people seem to follow along these days. People who are super cool, if not quite as cool as commentators… 😉
Wow. I get the feeling tyler would be amazing during an ice age or a severe drought. Can he freeze a small area or can he freeze something larger like a lake? Also I want to see him ride a bike over the water while only freezing a small section if he can…
Zone magic like Tyler’s is fairly short range. The further away things are, the less effected they are by the mage. Still he can probably easily do 10+meters (~60 feet) for inanimate objects.
Riding a bike over water? That would be tricky, since you’d have to freeze it deep enough it doesn’t just instantly capsize, and pretty fast to keep up with a bike.
Then again, that’s probably a One Piece reference… and that means physics shouldn’t apply 😀 (Admittedly One Piece is a bit out of my area of expertise in anime, but there is character that rides a bike over the ocean in such a manner I’m pretty sure).
Umm … 10 meters is approximately 33 feet, or 18 meters is approximately 60 feet. So not quite sure how to read that comment.
Ah, haha, it seems I’ve given inadvertent spoilers in my conversion rates… 😉
I’d originally “typed 10-20 meters(~60 feet)”, but then changed that to 10+ meters but apparently forgot to update feet. Make of that what you will 😉
I typically just call a meter and a yard a rough equivalent, though I’m aware that’s the sort of math that crashes space ships and all 😀
Very BADLY crashes ships. Still interesting to see what everyone can do when they start trying (imma gonna assume no one is really cutting loose right now).