Comic for Monday, July 25
Whew, this one came in close to the line. Decided to drive around all weekend and it played havoc on the production schedule. Car goes back to the shop tomorrow though so it’s best to get it out of the way.
I think Tyler is concerned by the amount of paperwork it would take to have to deputize an Avon blackops agent. That’d be a real headache.
We’ve seen a glimpse of Marc and Mione’s talents, beyond glowering. I was beginning to think Tyler just kept them around for playing bad cop/good cop. Never sure which was which though.
Something pretty cool happened, I got my first piece of guest art! azureXtwilight, author of the comic Re:Set drew Naomi (click for full size):
Known for their gorgeous soft shaded vibrant coloring, this piece is certainly no exception and I couldn’t be more honored to get it. This marks the first piece of fan art we’ve gotten. I’ll have to put up a gallery or something.
Really appreciate everyone that’s been leaving comments with feedback, support, or… er… comments.
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Interestingly enough, this is the first time that we see things from miones perspective, but it is not the first time we have seen her using this ability. Back in the sports ball complex, her eyes looked like they were literally glowing after kalli flashed everyone.(tears, or after-glow from Mana usage?) Mione also stated that she did not realize what spell was being cast in time to keep her her eyes from getting hurt. This means either she can read magic circles that only appear for a second or so with little to no warning at weird angles from 50-80 feet away, OR she was cheating and using a form of what she uses here. …get it? “Form”?
Sorry… Yeah.
Meoi Lass
Also, there is that circle again!
um, where’s the next page?
It’ll hopefully be up tonight 😉
The forms being blown up in panel 2… are they paperwork or people?
I am speculating, but I think it means Eidos Forms. While this means essentially nothing as best I can tell everything has an Eidos form, it would mean that Mione can “see” Eidos probably.
Indeed. She’s talking about the sudden violent dissociation of a data-bodies in the plane of information. Typically also called things exploding.
“Bad cop – bad cop”, perhaps? ^^
So Mione has some form of x-ray vision, and Marc can project a shield that is most likely one-way so Tyler’s team can shoot through it while it blocks incoming fire. Pretty impressive minions, overall. 🙂
Love Tyler’s dry humor in Panel 5, “…It is quite illegal.” ^^
A critical oversight in that case, he’ll really have to bring along a good cop next time. Maybe Amy, she seems fairly reasonable.
We’ll see more of their talents in the future. They are the ones that Tyler decided to drag into a warzone… 😉
I think Mione’s vision is probably “seeing” Eidos. Effectively that is like x-ray vision, but 1) She says “forms” and 2) Tyler is a glowing blue shape which wouldn’t make much sense with x-ray.
Though you were probably not being literal with x-ray and saying the same thing, but now that I’ve already written all that I’m going to hit “post comment” anyway.
Yeah, I was speaking generally in a videogame sense. I also believe that you have nailed what is actually going on with her and her ability. Good work! 🙂
Taylor is definitely showing how to do the job. Might have wanted to bring along a few more people though, to arrest the already taken care of and remove them from the building.
Tyler knows that they’re walking into a very dangerous situation. More people would be helpful. But, could he protect them all? If he brought others to remove suspects from the building, etc, they’d be working separately. As such, he wouldn’t be there to protect them. Maybe with only two or three others he feels that he can cover them adequately without being distracted? He’s only one person and can only be in one place at a time. (As far as we know, anyway…)
That, or maybe he really wants their enemies to woefully underestimate them?
I think despite what he says about priorities, Tyler is extremely unlikely to risk minions much. While he could probably protect a handful, it would limit his abilities to do so. We’ve already seen that he has to be careful when using the freezing around his own minions. Tyler, while effective in his way, is still fairly idealistic. He does not sacrifice pieces, or even risk them more than necessary.
Naturally he picked minions with an emphasis on survivability. Mione and Marc are not actually the most talented mages after him in the MSB, but they are ones with the most defensive skill sets (loosely speaking; Mione’s isn’t strictly defensive, but acts in a similar manner).
If he brought someone that was a good mage but not necessarily as reliable on defense, like Amy, he’d be far more tied down.
i think i see what your saying. marc is more of a defender with his shield. regardless of any other powers he has, thats a fairly useful one.
minoe, is more of a support with her… scan? m-radar? and apperently has at least one offence. tho both she and marc could have guns of one type or another. cant see any, but then they havnt really had to use em.
and tyler… probly a good match for kally. in both ability, number of “known” spells, and magic pool(points).
Plus we already know they both have a pretty high passive resistance to magic through their interference (since they don’t freeze being near Tyler). I don’t think Mione at least could be hiding a gun… 😉 Marc could maybe be carrying a small one in his pocket… but that would probably violate gun safety laws. Maybe one of those autocasters that look like one. Not sure gun safety laws apply to those… 😐
I’ll refrain from speculating on the relative power of characters (as tempting as it might be… that’s basically just writer bait there)… who can say what the future will tell us though… 😉