Comic for Monday, February 2nd, 2019
Feb04
Sorry this is a bit late, and I’m a bit scatter brained right now, and there’s a lot of words, so… well, we’ll see. Probably some errors in there. I am not going to be able to get the buffer repaired before Thursday (though I expect that comic on time) but will really try to get it repaired for Mondays comic so it goes up for early access and is scheduled and everything is back to happy times and sunshine and roses and puppies and what not.
There’s a lot of moving pieces here, and if things don’t make too much immediate sense… well, some more of it will make sense soon probably.
I don’t think we’ll know why Mari needed an alibi so bad till the last page of this chapter though… 😉
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There is a lot going on in this comic, I missed the most important thing for several days. Miko is at Avon. What could Mikio be doing at Avon.There is only one thing that i can think of that Mikio might be doing at Avon. Mikio is going to give Mir VI-Mium!!!
I know that your are worried about what Kors world is afraid of but By the Burned Books of Babylon there is dangerous, very very dangerous, insanely dangerous, and you are definitively insane dangerous. Then there is this, this is how you get Evil Twin Mium.
Yeah, I was sort of surprised no one was talking about that little piece of information. I am pretty curious what will go down there, as last we saw Miko and Mir, they were not exactly getting along. Miko also seems to know something about Mir that we don’t yet, as Peter and Miko have talked about Mir a couple times, but we have never seen the full conversation.
I doubt Miko trusts Mir all that much though.
Since @PastUtopia is doing pretty well using the “half-page” posts, but the buffer is still suffering. I think it’s time to introduce him to the joys of the “Splash Page”. ^^
What say you all?
Nooooo! Not the splash page!
Wait, actually that’s a really good idea.
I assume it is a really good idea. I have no idea how modern drawing works, but it SOUNDS like a really good idea.
Now if only there were some sort of globally connected information sharing service that we could use to provide splash page tutorials….
Okay, I think I’m out of snark.
Good idea, do what Delta-V says!
I mean, lets face it, the problem is that PastUtopia isn’t doing half pages, he is just shoving a page into half the previous space.
If you convince him to do a splash page, somehow he’d still try to shove a page worth of plot on it via background details and foreshadowing.
Since most splash pages are light on dialog, that would save that much time, at least. ^^
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating that EVERY page be a splash page, just the occasional one….say, for emergencies.
THIS. So much.
Utopia and the rest of the world have two different ideas of what a “full page” includes, though this is likely through drift. Over time his pages have gotten more and more stuff on them till his “half pages” have as much on them as most other comics “normal pages”.
As for splash pages, I’m not against it, but I’m not sure how much Utopia himself would like the idea. Or, for that matter, how much more work the detail of a splash page would take compared to a dialogue heavy, low deatailed background, normal page would be.
Start of chapter 1, start of chapter 2. Past Utopia knows about splash pages… or knew at one time. Though it’s possible a reminder might be in order.
As far as the other stuff goes – I think sometimes he makes a full page and cuts it in half, but it seems like much of the time you’re right, he just makes due with fewer panels.
“Malasans appear unaware of..” Could Blue-Beard have noticed this mystery? (Jan 17, panel 5)
Grr! Where are the monologing villains and overly chatty heroes when you need them? (mostly kidding)
They are about to bring Kor’s world down on their heads by using Tactical scale magic. They don’t realize just what the monster hanging over their heads will react to.
Refresh me, please, as I am awful at keeping names and faces straight, and worse with faceless names.
Arkady is not Malsan; what side is he? Who is Mium implying the Malsans are unaware of? This Eliana person? Was Mium aware of her prior to now? Were we, as the audience, and I just forgot? Frankly, I can’t even tell what Peter’s goal is, anymore, though he seems more aligned with Malsa than not at the moment, if only because Tyler managed to maneuver him into having too many assets he feels somewhat responsible for by making him Tyler’s replacement.
Is that correct?
I may need to reread, but I have no idea if that will help me keep things straight. x_x
Arkady is Malsan, he’s a member of the Malsan Aristocratic Families, as is Camilla and Ash.
I don’t think we know who Eliana is, but it sounds like she is Malsa’s tactical mage. This is the first time it has been confirmed Malsa has a tactical mage, but it makes sense they would have at least one or two given the Families MO.
Peter’s goal is unclear, but it seems like he prefers Malsa continues to exist. He does not really care about the war between Malsa and Arpon and views it as the Consul’s problem. Peter was reluctant to get involved in the war directly, and does not seem to like war in general.
I think if we read between the lines, Mium’s problem is that Arkady would probably die (and maybe Ila would be in danger) if whatever bad thing that is about to happen happens.
The commander here says Arkady won’t be needed on the front lines. Muim specifies “assets at Malsan Border”, so Arkady probably isn’t the problem. I am guessing that in fact this tactical mage Eliana and the other family members going out will be slaughtered by something, crippling Malsa’s military (which Peter still needs).
My guess is that Atter will be sent to the front lines of the battle, and that the missile taking out Nathan’s hovercraft was to keep him from getting to Atter in time to stop the damage.
The Masla-Apron border may not be the frontline of the war. For all we know someone has already put a bomb in the very base that will completely destroy it murdering almost everyone present.
Panel 4: “Causality of vital assets…”? Did you perhaps mean “Casualty of vital assets” or “Loss of vital assets”?
Not necessarily: “causality” makes sense alongside “probabilistic events”. The assets could have too much causality, whether that means that they have too much influence on subsequent events, are oversensitive to other factors, or otherwise undermine the carefully planned cause-and-effect chain.
The plan is derailing in real time, and likely to require extraordinary measures to salvage. Kally is probably getting an unusual request this scene.
Fixed, thanks 🙂
While Magtei is right and it could be either, I think casualty is one I was going for in this case.
This is one where I know those are different words, and I know what they mean, but it took me like three reads to even see what you changed, I think I just read whichever one makes sense to me in context rather than actually reading them as different words.
Aww. I was rooting for causality. Oh well. 🙂
I couldn’t even tell the difference after three reads, I had to read the reply to figure it out. Those words are REALLY close.