Comic for Monday, March 31st, 2025
Comic. Would you look at that we got two whole comics this month. What a blistering pace.
As we can see, I’m keeping the schedule of ‘post a comic when folks finally reckon I’d given up on it’. We’ll see what the future holds, but few things going on, mostly the shipping woes of my D&D side stuff.
This is a ‘twist’ that I think many commenters saw coming that Peter Kepler has probably not been Peter Kepler. From the reader point of view, he has simply pulled variations of this stunt too many times for readers to take what they see at face value. But, I see readers guessing the ‘reveal’ before it happens as more of a feature than a bug. Speaking of my other hobby of D&D, I don’t really write DM advice, but its something I get asked about a lot due to my job, and a surprisingly common question I get is how to keep players from guessing a twist in a campaign or how to pull off a unexpected reveal… my advice is pretty universally ‘don’t’; not that you shouldn’t have twists, but you should be happy when the players guess the twist before it happens, because it means they are paying attention and you foreshadowed it sufficiently to be justified. Players will be happier figuring something out before it happens than having something they couldn’t have guessed dropped on their lap.
Story writing is slightly different, but I think shares some parallels. I don’t go out of my way to ensure that readers have enough information to guess everything, but I also don’t try to obfuscate things such that it’d be impossible. I reckon it’s already hard enough to follow what’s going on with the stilted update schedule and my tendency to jump around an already somewhat confusing plot.
Anyway… probably two weeks till the next comic, but I’d be a fool to make a promises and you’d be a fool to believe any promises on the schedule at this point. I’ll see what I can do though.
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“Without being able to pull IT into a subspace.”
Hmmmmmmmm ….. Not Peter? That is not guaranteed. Perhaps Peter’s abilities far exceed mere common mortals.
PS – No apoogies for the comic please. You have easily delivered more than two weeks worth in this comic.
Ah, but sometimes the big, obvious mystery is only there to mask the more subtle foreshadowing, so that when the real reveal comes around, it is the “why” rather than the “what” 😀
I see we still don’t have an identification for “little wizard,” but I suppose that is enough of a handle for him for now!
Once LW figured out that this was not Peter he did a pretty good job except he still has no idea *what* he is dealing with, only what he is not dealing with.
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Yes, having veiled events or characters your readers or players can figure out with enough thought is better usually than impermeable secrets, IMO.
Thank you for the comic!