I know that I am not supposed to play favorites, but I do not very much like Sophie. I should note that I stylized it as Sophie rather than Sophia intentionally, though let’s not get into my etymology for naming now…
She is not evil, stupid, or incompetent, but these are why I do not like her, not points in her favor.
May I remind you that Arron is not known for his graceful metaphors. Blame him, not me.
Yeah, I’m not even touching what language that is at the end. Be lucky that I translated it all!
Alright. So this is my last live update for the month. Fortunately we are not going on hiatus! Instead, in a giant sacrificial fire we will burn our whole buffer to appease the comic gods (…otherwise known as the readers).
Now I only have till the 26th buffered, and I come back on the 30th. This means the 30th’s update will be late. Probably will update Feb 2nd, and then do an IOU at some point. I will be scheduling the updates to post automatically, so hopefully nothing is amiss besides I will not be very active in the commenting. Please be nice to each other! There will be a moderator but they are only there to approve new commenters or if something gets out of hand (or get ahold of me for whatever reason). I will be around some as I will have internet, but just my phone probably.
This also means that spelling fixes and stuff will have to wait till I am back. Many sorrys in advance! (<like that!).
Patreon is also going to suffer a bit for this. They will still have their early updates until the buffer runs dry, but then the buffer will be dry. There is some special updates over there as filler, but it’s mostly an IOU month 😐
See you all in a month! Enjoy the comic!
(Will probably be in the comment section still for this update 😉 )
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You know, re-reading this after the latest comic (9/28/2017), substantial damage if detected is one way to put it…
Even thinking that Arron would stop at anything but hospitalization if something happened to his people or Peter is ridiculously stupid.
Hey all. Sorry I’ve been a little more busy than I expected, and haven’t gotten back to all comments. Packing and last minute work in stuff. Comic buffer will run till 1/26; I’ll be back the week after that, so one update will be late. I’ve left someone
responsiblein charge. Sorry, my options were limited.There was a bit of a mad scramble at the end, so grammar will probably be a little rough, but I will fix it all when I get back. I like to fiddle incessantly with the dialogue until the last minute. Is going to be weird to not be able to do that… 🙁
Enjoy the comic, and I’ll see you all in February (I’ll be around intermittently, I’m sure. It’s not I am going to lands without internet; will just be busy).
bwahahaha.
“We would need to make sure his special agent was out of the way, as well as that vagrant thief”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t them trying to do that in the first place the very thing that caused the wheels to come off their plan? ^^
Yeah, this sounds like it will probably go horribly wrong. Though this guy has a sort of bad news vibe, between the unknown language and the weird blue tattoos.
I actually suspect “his special agent” = Nathan, not Kally, and “that vagrant thief” = Tom. It could refer to Kally, but she is a special officer, and was specifically activated because he did not have his special agent available (Nathan). Tom has several times been referred to as looking like a hobo, but the thief part is new. It could be Peter, but his moniker is usually “annoying bastard” or some variant of that. He does not really fit vagrant.
Those thoughts did cross my mind, but “vagrant” can mean “homeless”, and that currently fits Peter, and also they certainly consider him “shady” (“light-fingered” even), and I think Sophia wasn’t trying to be a stickler for accuracy on job descriptions.
My other thought concerning Nathan, is that he is already out of the picture, since he seems “too busy” to help Arron. And I dunno about Tom being much of a threat since Naomi took him out so handily.
Whichever pair Sophia was talking about, I’m pretty sure that “…goes horribly wrong…” is the proper descriptive phrase, here–in fact, I’m counting on it. ^^
About 80% of the comic so far could probably described as “Don’t even think about trying to screw Peter Kepler”. About 30% of the comic also says “don’t take Kally Summers lightly”.
And your plan has an absolute requirement to “keep that ‘vagrant thief‘ and that special agent out of the way”?
I’m torn on if I want to try starting a betting pool on how badly it fails, how quickly it fails, or if I should just assume within the next few pages they find some sense and give up. (Throw a quarter at the wall on if it’s on Peter’s advice.)
I mean, for maybe 5% it veered into “Tyler is a badass”. I look forward to more of that. And not just because I want to see Magnolia again (my avatar…).
My bet is on that it will fail, but in the process really screw things up badly.
Here’s the thing: They’ve already not only thought about screwing with Peter; intentionally or not, they have screwed with him. Now to see the extent of what he does for revenge.
I do not feel that Peter will do anything for revenge.
He is not that type of guy. He also seems to have a very big plan that is far more important than killer alien robots dropping out of the sky or his home being blown up.
I do not see him stopping his plans to work on revenge.
However, he is extremely loyal to his family and will make things happen to keep them protected.
Nah, he won’t screw them over for revenge.
He’ll screw them over, he’ll just have a laundry, grocery, and like, six other lists worth of reasons to screw them over. Revenge will just be a tacked-on side-note as “Oh, and by the way, screw you.”
Hmm they do realize if Aron is such a old hand he’d likely be prepared for attempts to ‘ease’ him into retirement or kill him right?
This seems like the thing that could majorly backfire on them and it might even have been why they chosen as sacrificial pawns.
Biana… and Sophia. People I suspect are on Peter’s naught list.
I dub this group, “The Unhappy Group”.
They will henceforth, in all my comments, be known as The Unhappy Group.
This is probably why Peter left and formed his own group.
And I condone his actions. It is very important for one’s life to seek out happy people to save the world with.
Well this seems like a plan that only has the ‘best’ of intentions. Here’s hoping that the plotters don’t try to go with the unspecific persistent cough poison.
So I was wrong about who the woman was. Poison or magic?
panel 1: “I’m afraid you overestimate me Sophie.” Panel 5: “unfortunately he is involved.” panel 6: “yeah. she had operational command of the whole thing.”
Fixed* Thanks!
*The second one was intentional in that Sophie speaks oddly. I did modify it so perhaps it’s not so odd though?
Probably also want a period after Arron’s last speech bubble. Especially relevant since you probably want a tone of finality.