Comic for Monday, December 14th, 2020
Not going to always color the comic bubbles, just needed to use it for the 4th panel, and figured I’d just do it for the whole page this time.
The poll seems to be a fierce contest this year. I’ll give it a few more days, will close soon though as I need time to draw the winner. I wonder if it is a coincidence that the two people currently being followed by the comic are the top picks in the poll? I suppose they’ve both gotten pretty high every year.
The top few don’t surprise me too much… The Consul’s done pretty well this year, I think she was added to the poll late last year if I’m remembering correctly. I think I find voting patters outside of the more expected top few more interesting – the Kor’s World Soldier gets 15 votes? Only 5 characters have no votes, and while I’m not surprised by any of them, I am surprised by some of the ones that have some votes aren’t among them… Biana has more votes that Sophie? That surprises me; I wouldn’t expect either to be high, but surprised Biana has nearly double Sophie’s. Ashvalt is crushing most of the Family Heads, though is unsurprisingly losing handily to Camilla. Magnolia comes in a bit lower than I’d expect give her popularity among some theorists, but is perhaps appropriately tied with her oft-present companion Maia. In another interesting tie is Tyler and Nathan, both coming in moderately high in their hero-of-another-story roles. Ryn has come in quite high and is currently tied with Camilla, doing quite a bit better than most of his peers.
Peter himself is doing better than usual, though after him the votes jump a lot to the front runners. I am not surprised and not surprised the Naomi’s sister has managed to jump straight to front runner status.
Going to be a short ramble here… it’s fairly late and I have a few other things I need to do before the morning… my schedules gotten a little weird again. World’s a weird place.
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I almost feel like there should be “hup hup hup…” in the second to last panel…
A question occurs to me – how even does the vote have to be for a shared first place?
Panel 3: “…a bit more seriously.” – adding the “r” into “seiously.”
I finally recalled what this exchange reminded me of. Girl Genius, 2016-02-22:
Aldin: I can’t believe this! People have been looking for … for centuries – and you –
Agatha: Well, I don’t have a lot of time.
Aldin: I think there is a fundamental flaw in your logic …
Agatha: Yet, here we are.
Agatha and Naomi would get along great, don’t you think?
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160222#.X9tqdS1h1pQ
My little obsession. When somebody mentions something on the internet, I like to provide a hyperlink.
You deserve a medal. And then I’d like to chain you to me as I delve into weeb comment sections where people post images from manga all the time and never provide links or the title…
:/
Little Miss Very-Little-Impulse-Control strikes again. This is why we love her. ^^
What do you mean? Naomi is very good at controlling her impulses. She just takes enough time at them she can’t string enough together to really fly anywhere.
Thanks. I read through that twice before I caught the pun.
Even now I’m not entirely sure the two of you are discussing the same person.
2nd Panel, Kally’s 1st bubble, probably*: “Not impressive enough to beat you.” That first “enough” between “Not” and “impressive” might confuse some readers.
4th Panel, Kally’s 1st bubble, probably*: “They seem to [be] shooting it, but [it isn’t] shooting back.”
*It is Kally, so she may not speak Malsan very well.
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Kally does mess up in Malsan occasionally, but usually idioms or conjugation.
Bah! Physics!
I love the idea that Naomi’s lack of understanding of physics means she runs up the wall faster than she runs along the ground. Or more correctly Naomi’s lack of understanding of her innate magic: she probably boosts to run up the wall AND to run along the ground: but in her head she needs to run faster up the wall so as to not fall off… so her innate boost is stronger when running up the wall!
Kally on the other hand needs to think things through… but perhaps she does a little too much thinking? (Don’t we all as fragile meat popsicles?!?)
GO TEAM KALLY!
Not really, Naomi is applying more force while running up the wall, because when she hasn’t, in the past, she falls off the wall, and with uneven application of force she passes through the wall. Naomi is using scientific 100% empirical studies. For her, running faster is the only method for applying more force.
What method would you use?
Oh, I would totally deny the existence of gravity, and base my movement on whatever speed provides the most dramatic tension.
What I’m hearing is that there’s a few more days for Team Kally to Rally!
Thanks for the color coding. Panel 4 is interesting to try to follow even as it stands now. Lots of pronouns are in Flux.
Nathan and Tyler are heros of other stories? Sometimes it feels like Peter is as well!