Comic for Monday, March 13th
Blarg! Sorry for the late comic, this barely made Monday at all.
I won’t get into the details of my bitching and moaning here, but there’s been some a sort of conflux of problems at work – new manager spawn, and there is few things new managers like than disrupting the status quo for shits and giggles… and my job has sort of been precariously balanced on the status quo… ah, well, some of the bitching and moaning escaped. That’s the nature of boxes you can fill with text. They inevitable become bitching and moaning 😛
Anyway, comic! I like drawing comics. I also got to write dialogue for like half my favorite characters all on one page! … I have a lot of favorite characters. Hey, I can, it’s my comic! 😐 I’m fairly tired by now so I’m sure spelling errors abound but I will try to swing by tomorrow morning to catch them, elsewise I’ll get when I get home.
I think Naomi might have won the poll after all… even the losing options has more votes than any other non-Naomi poll option in the past. Still, I think it’s the last day and Monk has a solid lead. We should have the final tally by next comic commentary.
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I want to preface what I am about to say by saying I love this comic. It’s complex, intriguing, capable of nuance and it’s art style has steadily been both improving while also maintaining the same basic aesthetic.
I also want to say that I don’t blame the comic for the upcoming complaint. It is all on me and my faulty mind.
With all of that said… I am so horrible with names that I didn’t know who Miko was until I looked them up in the cast page. XD Made for a very confusing read as I thought the small yellow haired one was Miko.
Great comic! political intrigue, high technology, and magic all in one! keep up the good work!
Seconded. I love the setting of this comic.
Same here! Why it’s one of my favorite comics (and other things too).
I have been slowly rereading but this time reading the commentaries and comments that I skipped on the first read (as I archive binged), and keep getting amazed by how much there is to it.
Nice avatar by the way. Do you happen to remember the page that is from? It makes Peter look like some sort of bad-ass Sherlock Holmes but I don’t remember it.
Then your memory is good, its not from a page. PastUtopia was offering to draw avatars for practice and I asked for one of a pondering Peter.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words, and it always makes me happy that people are reading along and being entertained/intrigued!
“You only threw me off a building, hardly fatal.”
– said by a main wearing a shirt saying “JUMP”
(Now if only he was wearing that when he was thrown off of the building instead of now, that would make this perfect.)
Actually, with a second look, noticing Miko doesn’t actually call Mium anything in that last panel. Naomi she’ll call gorilla, but Mium is just “the…..yeah.”
Details I find curious for no reason I find explicable.
I think the “the… yeah” is Miko about to use an insulting moniker for Ila and then thinking better of it she wants to be un-muted.
I find the fact that Mium is apparently transmitting what Ila is saying to Miko in the first place fairly odd though, but I suppose Mium has a very different view on privacy than humans.
Daw. Mium doesn’t like people insulting his little sister. Even behind her back.
The weird part is just like three pages ago he was the one insulting her. Hell, when he first mentioned her he basically said she was a failed experiment and not worth the circuits she was programmed on.
Sibling privilege. Nobody picks on his sister but him.
Standard sibling behavior. He can insult her but anyone else who does burns. I find it interesting how well hes fallen into the role of older brother. Its almost human, other than how quickly it happened.
His programming can adapt far faster than a human and his “personality” is a lot more mercurial. Even on this page you can sort of see multiple personalities running at the same time. His response to Rovak, Miko and Ila can all be argued to be somewhat different personalities.
Probably the view shifted pretty dramatically at first, and is being fined tuned now as he gets further data.
I think that’s a fair assessment. Though there are definitely limitations to how much his behavior will flex to adapt to new directives, overtime they can have a larger impact they begin to interface with every successive adaptation he makes from there, so it’s fairly common to see a large jump followed by a slow drift when it comes to a SMAI realigning its priorities.
Of course, Mium is somewhat unique in how ubiquitous that is… it’s been noted he is a lot more flexible then most; most SMAI have fewer axis to adapt around.
Gashmeh! (Just that sound, phonetically.)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the accuracy with which AI is portrayed in this comic is one of my favorite things about it. That bit hadn’t quite clicked with me, but in retrospect, yeah, it DOES make sense that it would work that way (thus the expression of… whatever that was.)
Heh, Mium schools Miko on etiquette? We’ve gone from “the pot calling the kettle black”, to “the blind leading the blind”. ^^
Mium runs on the blue-to-orange etiquette skills the same as he runs on blue-to-orange morality I think. We humans would have trouble understanding what he considers polite or rude.
Well. Or he knows full well and just enjoys screwing with people. I think this is more a case of that he seems to have some inclination to take care of her (like when he got her an umbrella).
Seeing Miko explicitly compare this anomalously behavior to his behavior with Naomi makes me wonder what their history was, as it is becoming clear how he interacts with a person has a lot to do with how they are defined in his database.
Miko is still annoyed that she’s no longer on the top of Mium’s priority list–like she needs a reason to be irked. ^^
I empathize with Miko on this, and it is sort of a punch in the gut. Miko seems deeply antisocial and Mium was pretty much her not-so-imaginary (and only) friend, and suddenly she’s third or fourth on the list and she’s pretty bitter about it, which I think is a lot of her resentment toward Naomi and now Ila. It makes a depressing amount of sense.
Well, there is some distinction, as Mium really is multi-present (not quite omnipresent) so paying more attention to other people doesn’t necessarily mean he ignores Miko. That said, Miko definitely seems a little annoyed when Mium acts ‘weird’… which is probably when Mium acts more like most people would call ‘normal’… but I cannot recommend asking Miko’s opinion of ‘normal’ 😉
What’s this about a gorilla?
Miko is referring to Naomi. The purple haired gorilla.
in the last panel, where did the gorilla come from?
It is Miko’s less than affectionate nickname for another character. Miko is not known for excessively politeness 😉
Plot building and character development, like literally on top of each other.
Awesome sauce!
And it’s still Monday where I am. Just got back from trading my labor for food and chillin with comic readin.
I used to do the the same thing, but comic making has largely replaced comic readin’, and it’s harder to do while eating. There are so many comics I haven’t kept up with anymore, which is sort of a bummer. It makes it a lot harder to do guest art/fan art for other comics too, which I used to do a bunch of, and that’s sort of a shame as I need more things I can sort of just doodle mindlessly for when brain isn’t up for full on comic drawing.
Recently that silly labor for food thing has been a little out of control again and needs to get stuffed back in a box. I think I need less labor for less food, but alas these things don’t work on a sliding scale very well 😛