Comic for Monday, June 29th
So off the bat let me say this page’s art is a little different, and probably a little rougher. With the start of the next chapter I’d intended to switch the lineart and inking into Manga Studio 5 from photoshop. You can see from the current vote incentive and this page the new lineart, which, while still a very much work in progress, is a good bit smoother than the old stuff.
That said, as I am prone to do, I did the jumping of the gun and decided to switch a page early, but ran into some complications with this page. Anyway, I think the sum total of this process will be positive (and is another of the art updates I mentioned coming, with the new magic circles being the other that’s made it in so far… I think that transition went a little better!).
The To Be Continued signifies that this is indeed the end of Chapter 3! … Yes, these chapters are 100% completely arbitrary. Shut up 😡
Anyway it seems that this first contratation has boiled over and steamed off… but the show has just begun! Though I think Peter has learned an important lesson on live performances. He probably spilled his popcorn 🙁
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“Even if you survive… I can assure you, you won’t.”
I’m reading this as a simple contradiction; “you survive -> you won’t survive”. Is it meant to say “even if *I* survive, *you* won’t”, ie, ‘I’ll drop rubble on you whether you die or not’?
I think what he means is “even if you survive the rubble, I’ll kill you.”
has to a -> has to be a
Does Otte really have so little self preservation that he would shoot the person that was keeping rubble from crushing them all to death? Or did he have a back up plan to not die in that situation? Maybe the IDS needs to start screening for common sense in their recruits…
He probably would be capable of extracting himself. Or at least he was thinking he could. Realistically it for him it would depend on exactly how much would collapse if it were let to fall. I’ll resist the technical details of it all here as that’d take awhile! 😀
Otte is fairly aware that the situation will probably escalate from here if he has to withdraw, and there is a fair amount of pride involved, both his and that of IDS headquarters. He’d rather live and complete the assignment, but if he thought risking his life would complete it, it’d be a tough decision. Here he’s concluding that risking his own life further probably won’t help.
The IDS has some issues – we’ll see a lot more of that down the road 🙂
From Peter’s expression, it looks as if he was one contingency level short in his calculations, and survived solely on Naomi’s brute strength and presence of mind. ^^
Speaking of Naomi, love the voting incentive. What age did you sway she was? Twenty, going on twelve, something like that? 😀
And as far as then artwork is concerned, rubble is pretty rough itself, soooooo……
Well, I figure one of his contingencies is always “hid behind Naomi” (or Mium, as appropriate). The event wandered a little off script there though, didn’t it? :p
I don’t think I’ve stated their ages. It’ll probably come up at some point. Levinworth is sort of like a university though, so I reckon most are in the young adult range – what they act like though… well, that varies quite a bit.
Lots of details to work out as far as the art goes. I was too impatient deciding to switch on this page as I as I hadn’t figured many of them out yet. Will stick with it for now though.
I think it shows promise. Looking forward to the next chapter.
I wasn’t sure how this one would end! After all that everyone walks just walks away?! Well. Not the guys that were knocked out I guess ^^
Thanks! Hopefully I’ll have a few quirks worked out by the next chapter’s start.