Comic for Monday, February 27th
What a world this is, Kally has a ponytail and Naomi does not. While Kally used to frequently wear her hair in a ponytail she hasn’t much recently… Naomi probably will as soon as she can figure out how to do it with one hand, which I bet she can figure out if she doesn’t find someone to help her out.
Anyway, been running a bit behind on comic stuff as I ended up working and running around this weekend, between the two of them my comic drawing time was curtailed a little bit. I am trying to get out more content in general, but can only do what I can do sometimes. Let me know if you have ideas for sketches – sketches are usually the easiest thing for me to put out because they don’t take super long, but it’s been hard for me to think up ideas worth posting recently 😛 … and if anyone needs an updated avatar or the like, just let me know. If you’ve asked and I’ve missed it, ask again!
Will catch back up with Minus Years though, least one will go up this weekend.
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I am not sure Peter is being as “Peter”-ish as usual here. He is admitting knowing something I am pretty sure average citizens should not (a meeting of heads of State) which will alarm Kalli and Tyler. Aside from that he wants to manipulate the afore mentioned HoS and is asking for the assistance of two patriots in doing so. I am not implying Peter did not game out thousands of way to approach this situation before hand just that he may have decided being less opaque than usual is the best approach. That being said I am not sure Kalli and Tyler will be happy about it because, well it’s Peter.
PS Thanks for the new avatar
No problem. Drawing new avatars is fun, because they are small enough that they tend to look okay no matter what 😛
I wonder if “player two” is something Kally reads more into. I can see that being a term of endearment considering it is coming from Peter, and seeing how flustered she looks in the last panel…
Peter has a lot of problems, but he really is a god of conversation-jujitsu. There is no way you can talk to him while staying on balance. He constantly pushes buttons and doles out just enough information to consternate and baffle.
He has weaponized poor social skills.
One does wonder, one does wonder…
Um. Peter? *looks back at page*
I think you just dropped more information in one panel than you have on any other page, while looking totally bummed about everything in existence. (While cracking jokes, while dropping any and all pretenses and just throwing out tons for what looks like free, or possibly after-the-fact (-without-securing-it-beforehand) cooperation.)
“Wham Episode” doesn’t seem to cover it…..except “Did Anyone Catch The Plate Of The Truck That Just Hit Me Episode” seems a little long. Maybe “Wham Episode”?
(It’s just, Peter seems at his most non-Peter here. Though he’s not 100% out of character. 😛 He is still cracking jokes. ^.^ (While switching conversations (but not topics), too! So it’s only like 80% out of character.))
(But you can tell Kally still isn’t used to that since she seems torn between “unsure” or “bewildered” in that last panel.)
(PS: Oh, and hey, Peter’s managing to glare with the only part of his face really visible being one eye. Trophies for all involved. (Like he’s daring Tyler to get them backwards on purpose….HA!)
(And then there’s the Twitter Peter on the sidebar there looking almost gleeful and like he’s about to fly….hilarious contrast to the actual page. I think that should be the trophy awarded for that panel 2 glare.)
I suspect Peter realized that Kally was not going to keep their past a secret anymore, so realized he could get points for playing that card while losing nothing. The more personal information he gives, the more Tyler will trust him, but in this case he could give that out without likely losing anything if he predicted Kally was going to blow that wide open as soon as they ran into her.
I do not think he ever really intended to hide that Mium was his ally, given that Mium showed up with him the first day. Tyler maybe did not already know that, but he would soon.
The last panel… well, that is what I have started to think of as a “Peter Adventure Hook”. Something everyone knows is a bad idea because it is coming from Peter, but it seems so much like you it was what you wanted to do in the first place, you forget that the idea came from the Peter.
The problem with Peter is his ideas tend to become the only option, leaving you with no choice but to ride along no matter how you feel about it.
…Of course it’s only half his fault they end up as the only choice, the rest are because all the good ideas already failed, otherwise Peter wouldn’t even be talking to you.
Peter at least certainly likes people to think it’s the only option. Convincing people of a context is so much more effective than convincing them of an idea.
I love this strip mostly for Peter’s character; he’s a consummate chessmaster (see tvtropes.org if you don’t understand what I mean by “chessmaster”).- As a strategist and tactician, Peter out-Batmans Batman. I mean seriously–in a battle of wits, Batman would be Peter’s “beeyatch” [sorry, all you Bruce Wayne fans… :-)]
It a contest of brooding in the dark though, Peter’d be in trouble. He does more mopey than proper brooding. Needs to step up his ominous brooding game. Mium has perching on the edge of skyscrappers in the middle of the night down, so maybe as a team effort.
I like Kally’s hair, Is a lot like how I wear mine, only mine is a darker blond (either dirty, or a dark ash, has been described as either so I really don’t know) rather than black.
I don’t see any errors in grammar/spelling so maybe is good today.
I try to change the characters hair occasionally, but this is actually Kally’s default hairstyle, just not the one she started the comic with. Not that default means anything beyond that’s just sort of how I draw/think of the character when they aren’t set in any particular point in time.
I am sure that Naomi will meet with a certain blind helpful person who will be helpful in getting her ponytail perched properly.
At which point the one who uses her vocal cords like a harmonica will present us with a wall of text asking about the strange person who likes to sit on top of buildings
There, your next page, very easy to draw*.
* Don’t worry, we will help with the grammer and spelling.
P.S. Goddess I love this page. Kally’s expression and Peter’s running monologue is … just brings tears to my eyes.
“Don’t worry, we will help with the grammer and spelling.” ;-}}
I have a button that says
“Grammer Police”
then in much smaller type
“sorry, ma’am, you want the spelling police.”
It took me a long time to get this joke… 😐
Peter being Peter always makes me smile, even when (as now) he’s being really annoying. ^^
Kally actually looks a little….vulnerable….without her scowl–interesting. 🙂
Kally does not really know how to deal with Peter, of course, the comic could be called “No One (Including Peter) Knows How To Deal With Peter”. Kally does not like problems that cannot be solved by dragons. How someone that just wants to solve problems with dragons ended up here is a long story.
Dragons are to problems like Bacon is to life neither is really good for the situation but we want them everytime.