This one was definitely a bit rushed, hopefully it’s more or less fine. I don’t like drawing comics in one long session as I tend develop blind spots when working on something for a bunch of hours in a row, things out of place you just stop seeing, etc. But I also didn’t want to trail this into the middle of the week, as we really need to get back to at least 2 comics a week.
I don’t think this page… entirely answers the question… who is Arron Kepler? But perhaps more information, if not the most reliable source of it.
I may or may not be able to fix any errors until pretty late tomorrow, so if so I apologize in advance for not getting back to you promptly if you find something 😐
Fair warning, below this point ranting got away from me again…….
I always say things will be better soon, but work and life always conspire against my comic drawing time to make a liar of of me. I suspect that if by some miracle my current work projects stabilized, they’ll just give me a new dumpster fire, but I may have leveled my pessimism recently, and I’m still dealing with moving houses, etc, etc. Bleh. They gave me new developers at work. Don’t worry, they say, these guys are senior level. Have they ever coded before? No? Oh. Senior level. You didn’t mean senior level developers, just “senior level” something. It turns out you can just call non-developers developers and bam you have more developers without having to hire actual developers! Genius! They will save big money now. They are so smart.
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Comic will be delayed, but will be up tomorrow.
…well, it was not up, as it seems. Sorry. The luxury of time backfired on me and I ended up spending too much time weekending and not enough time drawing.
I think we’ll get Monday’s page too tomorrow though, so we should fall too far behind.
My hope would be that you enjoyed the weekending and have few or better still no regrets about it!
Yes, we will remain on the edges of our chairs while we wait, but we would be there a few minutes later after the most recent installment, regardless!
I REGRET NOTHING!
Me, too.
It has always saddened me that there is so much nothing.
Hmm. Odd. My comment is missing. In any case, I reply to Josh with a LOL!
As much as I like seeing the next comic, spending time weekending is quite important. Burnout can be insidious so you’ve gotta’ keep yourself recharged.
I’m not following. Why are they assuming he’s in trouble, or offended Kepler? Nothing in his comments suggests that they even cared about him other than “he was there” and they wanted to get his witness statement. What am I missing that makes his sister and parents think he might’ve done something to get the Kepler’s personally mad at him?
Also, holy crap, his parents must be atrocious to have such an evil brat of a sister actively rooting for his failure.
On one hand his parents don’t assume they are just going to take precautions just in case.
Past is hinting that they live in a world where socity is somewhat broken. Where nepotism and petty bureaucratic retaliation is very common. As for the unhealthy brother sister interaction that is also regrettably somewhat common in some families. Though sister looks to be of an age wear she should be growing out of such attitude.
The sister’s comment about teachers saying “ah…Vicksburg” suggests the brat has a history of trouble with teachers and authority.
If your kid was brought home by the police you’d have questions for them. And if they have a history of trouble with authority you might not easily trust an answer along the lines of “I was just there. I didn’t do anything”.
Apart from the sister, they’ve lived with this boy for all of his life. The sister has lived with him for all of her life. In such a circumstance, it’s common to stop expecting character growth before the character growth actually stops.
My guess is that he didn’t actually stop to think about the authority figure he was saving. He just noted that there was somebody with a gun who was shooting, and decided that the gunman was best taken down before things got too far. If somebody’s going to go so far as to shoot other people, you don’t know who he’ll shoot.
It’s fairly reasonable logic, and I believe a bunch of the troublemakers I went to high school with would have made the same choice. Few people are really radical enough to make an assessment of who is actually being shot at and decide based on that to support the gunman… especially given the sheer amount of trouble that can land one in.
It´s not about the shooting incident.
The sister does not even know about that yet. It´s about her comment that he sort of seems to have a history of creating a negative reputation that she suffers from when the teachers hear her the family Name.
He sort of confirmed he did it again when he advised her to stay clear of Mari.
So basicaly the parents want to make sure him agitating Mari does not end up in Kyle sending him to a “dirt plantation”.
Here’s hoping Mr. Elitist “Monkey” winds up being a radiation farmer himself with the farm being labeled “Ook Ook Eek Eek Village” for a year or two, smack that elitism out of him.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m a video game tester that hasn’t done any testing…yet. Been there almost 3 weeks, and got maybe half an hour on the game I’m supposed to be testing.
I am noting that the reference in panel 6 to Aaron’s sister (perhaps Miko’s mother?) is in past tense. That may be a clue to Miko’s attitude towards the rest of the world.
On the employment front, many small software shops suffer under terrible management because no one in the company actually wants to manage. It is born out of necessity and the managers have had no formal training. And frankly, being a good manager is not easy.
Being a manager is super easy. You just tell someone else to do it.
No, being a *good* manager is knowing who to delegate any given specific task to.
Glider didn’t say “good”.
Also, being a good manager is also knowing when to defend ones employees, how to motivate employees having motivational difficulties, and how to build a team with some redundancy, so that people can take vacations when they need to. It’s knowing who to trust when your employees are having disagreements, and how to track what your employees are doing.
Don’t think Aaron’s sister is dead. She seems to have… left.
http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-april-9th-2018/
Well, on the up side, since he kind of saved Kyle and Mari, or at least sort of helped, Kyle probably won’t have him dumped and forgotten in some hellhole over his craptastic test taking practices.
He may dump him completely unprepared in a high profile diplomacy position, to a volatile area. Like say Malsa.
Nah, Kyle is one of the people trying to make things work out positively.
Kyle’s more likely to just let him fail out on his own (lack of) effort, IMO.
I expect Kyle Kepler to recommend Viksberg for single-handedly and luckily saving his and Mari’s life but not to employ him himself. Because Viksberg is a useful distraction from the role the flying terminal may have played
– especially because he is so convinced of his own importance and merit that he will co-opt and never doubt this version of the story.
Probably someone should take some senior level actual developers and fill their obvious gaps in senior level managers. It’s guaranteed to work!
I am normally loathe to reference other comics here, but this one demands it.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2018-11-23
Well, we are starting to see why the Kepler family name is considered… so impactful.
That Arron Kepler sounds so amazing! Somebody should do a comic series about him…
Oh, wait…
Would that be the minus minus years, or the minus minus minus years? Possibly even the minus minus minus minus years?
Hmm. We may have to come up with a different naming scheme… 🙂 But I totally agree! Definitely more material after this story is done.