Comic for Monday, February 19th, 2024

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by PastUtopia on February 19, 2024 at 10:38 pm

Chapter: Chapter 18

Location: Far Side of Utopia

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willis

March 5, 2024, 3:54 am | # | Reply

guess the next page is gonna be a bit late huh?
- Jim
  
  March 5, 2024, 7:39 am | # | Reply
  
  Kinda looks like that might be the case. It is 9:35 PM Monday, March 4, 2024 (HST)
  Time on Johnston Island in the Pacific so there is a bit less than 2-1/2 Monday hours left. I wonder the fireworks with Peter and crew are delaying transmission from the Palace Beyond.
The Sidhekin

February 21, 2024, 9:30 pm | # | Reply

“Er … ow?” in Korish? Not quite staresinjapanese.jpg, but … :p
Jim

February 21, 2024, 7:19 am | # | Reply

Just a thought but the Kor’s soldiers in the armored suits may be in short supply. The Kor in charge had to pull a previously wounded soldier from a medical pod to deal with Peter. Did Naomi rip that soldier’s arm off earlier? I don’t remember how he lost the arm. Thanks in advance.
- Seros Senric
  
  February 21, 2024, 11:33 am | # | Reply
  
  It was Kally and Fluffy that removed the arm from that Kor’s world soldier.
  The soldier currently fighting them is very worried since recognizing that fact.
  - Jim
    
    February 21, 2024, 4:14 pm | # | Reply
    
    Thanks for the reply. I didn’t remember how the armored Kor lost his arm. I still wonder why the head Kor in gray activated a wounded soldier instead of using an uninjured soldier. To me, this indicated a shortage of armored soldiers.
    - Tgape
      
      February 22, 2024, 6:21 am | # | Reply
      
      Absolutely. They have a big spaceship here, but not many on board.
      
      They also seem low on mechanicals, or they’d have activated a few of those as well. If there’s a risk to the ship itself without an option to retreat, then it’s logically a ‘use all available resources to the ship that could help’ situation. And a single wounded soldier is what was available?
      
      Kor’s World may be a boogeyman, but it’s a boogeyman that’s low on resources. That said, it’s difficult to say if it’s low on resources because Kor’s World in general is tapped out, or if it’s because Palindra was a remote outpost and they hadn’t actually shipped much in the way of resources here. Like if this is secretly a retirement paradise for some of their people, they might have a watch post to make sure stuff is fine, but otherwise not be too worried about it.
      
      At least, until now.
      
      That said, if it was that case, I’d think they’d have reported the soldier losing his arm and requested backup a few chapters back. Admittedly, if I’m not mistaken, that could mean earlier today, as I don’t recall having seen any reported time skips or other indications of the passage of time.
      - Just_IDD
        
        February 27, 2024, 1:55 am | # | Reply
        
        Another more Grim suggestion would be that they are activating this injured Soldier to go chase down the anomalous people on the off chance they are formidable. This way they don’t end up with another injured Soldier and learn some of the tactics.
    - Bob Kerns
      
      February 29, 2024, 1:40 am | # | Reply
      
      It could also indicate a degree of specialization, different skill levels, or level of decision-making authority. Of course, with any of these possibilities, a shortage of soldiers would aggrevate the problem.
- Rithmatist
  
  February 28, 2024, 8:14 pm | # | Reply
  
  Naomi ripped the arm off of the Orish war mage when Kepler was ambushed.
  https://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-march-5th-2018/
  
  Kally’s stint with arm-ripping is here:
  https://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-april-8th-2019/
Plue

February 20, 2024, 4:33 am | # | Reply

Peter really gets a lot of work out of the illusion.
Jim

February 20, 2024, 3:10 am | # | Reply

Panel 2 has Fluffy fading. Hopefully our nice dragon is okay and survives to eat a Kor’s entity or two.

In panel 6, the Kor’s guy says “It is cautioned that the intruder may be a non-trivial entity.” Translated to English this means “I think we need a bigger boat!” LOL
- Tgape
  
  February 22, 2024, 6:24 am | # | Reply
  
  I’m sure our nice dragon is sufficiently anchored to not lose too much data from this incident. But he may need to be resummoned.
  
  That will be a moment during which Dragon can’t be breathing Dragon fire, and Kally can’t be doing other spell work. But she’s remarkably fast at this spell considering its complexity, so it should be fine.
Just_IDD

February 20, 2024, 2:12 am | # | Reply

I wonder if this is an explody projection like the one that took care of the unamed and presumably deceased goon or the less exploding version that visited his Uncle’s office.
- Jim
  
  February 21, 2024, 7:15 am | # | Reply
  
  I think this is a non-exploding type image since Peter does not want the carrier destroyed. Of course, he may not care if he has the info he needs. The first frame with Peter’s image appeared solid. However, looking closely, the outline of the panel behind him can be seen through the image. My old eyes missed that at first.
  Peter was prepared as usual.
Glider

February 20, 2024, 1:14 am | # | Reply

Comic!

Ich liebe dich, Past.
Nivek

February 19, 2024, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

Ha! Even Kor’s world can’t tell when Peter’s messing with them.
Next page will feature the soldier slowly losing his mind.
- pdk1359
  
  February 21, 2024, 12:10 pm | # | Reply
  
  slowly? alternatively, dude might just be convinced to flee/chase down a figment while the real work is done without their interference
  - Nivek
    
    February 27, 2024, 10:25 pm | # | Reply
    
    Kor’s world is too arrogant to immediately lose their sanity. They’ll take increasingly desperate countermeasures as Peter casually wanders through their best defenses and eventually suffer a breakdown once they’re driven out of their own ship.
    - EmperorArthur
      
      March 3, 2024, 1:15 am | # | Reply
      
      Don’t forget, Miko decided to also join in on the fun. Especially since she foreshadowed Peter actually getting caught for once. So, there’s a decent chance someone actually ends up in trouble.
      
      It may end up in a battle of Naomi vs injured soldier, Mium against control or similar, and Miko vs the guy giving orders. With the funniest part being the soldier going “Wait, you were dead.”