Comic for Monday, June 10th, 2024

Jun11

by PastUtopia on June 11, 2024 at 8:54 am

Chapter: Chapter 18

Characters: Peter, The Consul, Tyler, Vium

Location: Far Side of Utopia

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Sandman366

June 14, 2024, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

Consul remains a favorite. Especially for how little she apparently cares for “proper” formalities. (She seems perfectly capable of following them, but seems to prefer mocking them. Teehee~)

And poor Weber is just so confused. Half of that conversation is just going to be him still trying to understand it all, isn’t it?
Jindra34

June 14, 2024, 10:27 am | # | Reply

I think apathetic is not the right word for how they keep secrets around Weber. Rationed drip of secrets might be more accurate, considering that if he or his boss the council doesn’t see gain in his outings with them, he’ll stop coming on them.
Just_IDD

June 13, 2024, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

I think Mr Weber is going to need alcohol and a dry erase board to make sense of what happened. Probably because the “spirit realm” alters your perception in ways that affect your ability to recall it. Remember When he and Mium visited the first time, Mium commented that Mr. Weber would not have been able to get out on his own. That is why this time he was paired with Naomi who apparently can and did.
- Jim
  
  June 14, 2024, 11:57 am | # | Reply
  
  In the comic for April 29–> After the carrier explosion, Naomi rejoins Kally and Miko. Naomi comments that “We should probably grab Weber and go” so Kally probably brought them back.
comicfan92

June 12, 2024, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

In Vium’s 5th speech balloon (the 6th one in total, just below the one talking the people making up his personality), I think changing the line to “If you reflected on **how** you bring the average affability down in that list” would look better grammatically.
- SeanR
  
  June 12, 2024, 2:56 pm | # | Reply
  
  I think it works as is. If you reflected on, the fact, that you bring the average affability down, versus, if you reflected on, the manner, how you bring the affability down.
  
  If you reflect on the fact that you’re a rather disagreeable person, who is disagreeable by choice, so you might choose to be less disagreeable, rather than if you reflect on the personality faults you have, so that you can identify them and correct them.
Msdisme

June 12, 2024, 12:13 am | # | Reply

Good stuff! I think the second frame should say ‘You don’t seem *to* like me very much.
- Tgape
  
  June 12, 2024, 2:35 am | # | Reply
  
  He’s lost a lot of data. You should be thankful he had as many of the right words as he did. When I lose that much data, it’s more like “You no li mah?”
Deathbeams

June 11, 2024, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

Yay, always happy to see the Consul!

Guessing the interdimensional criminal is Doc Martin stomping through the planes.

Tyler sounds like someone trying to describe a D&D session.
- Tgape
  
  June 12, 2024, 3:49 am | # | Reply
  
  I suspect he doesn’t understand as much about what happened as that. I feel like it’s more like someone trying to describe a D&D session that they didn’t participate in. Or maybe like their first D&D session.
  
  So, um, we went to this place, it was some kind of a castle, or maybe like a keep? And it was on some borderlands. I don’t know what they were bordering. Also, none of us knew each other. So then we went stumbling into some woods and a lion jumped down on us from a tree and some guy attacked us while we were fighting it, but we managed to kill them somehow. The lion’s skin was better armor than what I was wearing, so I put that on instead. Um, what do you mean, ‘cure it’? The lion was dead. There’s no cure for that. Anyway, then we went through the woods some more, and we found a ravine. with a bunch of caves. We went into the lower cave on the left, and there were a few goblins in there. We fought them and managed to kill them too, but it was pretty close. One of them got away through the other door. We were hurt pretty bad, so we camped there for the night I think. What do you mean “with the goblin corpses?” They were dead, it wasn’t like they were going to attack us. But I’m not sure why we thought that was a safe place to camp, there were probably more goblins. Oh well, I guess we’ll worry about it next session.
  
  P.S. No, the goblins didn’t attack while we were camped. I do remember having read the module after we finished running through it, and it really seemed like those goblins should’ve been organized well enough to deal with us handily, what with our going to sleep in one of their guard rooms.
- Jim
  
  June 12, 2024, 9:56 am | # | Reply
  
  My guess for the interdimensional criminal would be The Pathfinder guy, Dendrin (?), that Tom (Crowbar) and Vium were talking with. Vium wanted to get offworld and followed Tom to find Dendrin. Tom threatened Vium. Vium talked about Killing Tom, stealing his crowbar, using the crowbar to kill Nathan and putting a nuclear bomb through a gate to Central. That cooled Tom down more than a bit.
- Deathbeams
  
  June 12, 2024, 1:41 pm | # | Reply
  
  The part where Vium says, “My behavior models come from…” made me think it might have to do with Mium’s origins, which leads to Dr. Martin who likely used Kor tech to make M.Y.M. I don’t recall if we know he was previously on Central or not, and I don’t know if interplanetary and interdimensional mean the same thing here, or if Dr. Martin is hard to find because he’s been using the ethereal plane via Kor tech. At any rate, if Kally wasn’t in the list of behavior models, then I’m guessing Nathan, Tom, etc… wouldn’t be either. Though Dendrin was a tangent I’d like to see more of someday.
  - PastUtopia
    
    June 13, 2024, 7:03 am | # | Reply
    
    > “Though Dendrin was a tangent I’d like to see more of someday.”
    
    We will probably see Dendrin again, though he is one of those character that more intersects with the story occasionally than is part of it.
    
    Previously I’ve mentioned that Nathan and Tom are sort of the main characters from a different story (in the same setting) that tends to intersect with this one frequently. Dendrin is more of a character of that story than this one.
    
    I guess all of that is to say that he is, indeed, a tangent.
Jim

June 11, 2024, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

Wonderful, amazing comic! It does seem that Vium is “probably” teasing Peter and it is hilarious!