Comic for Monday, May 11th, 2021
It might not be entirely clear from the comic, but Mium isn’t directly answering her last spoke comment, but rather commenting on her gathering mana to use magic.
I’ve noted before that Mium does not actually catch bullets, he just sometimes gives the appearence of doing so… almost certainly intentionally as we’ve seen he can just destroy something like a bullet at short range. He does it to obscure what he is doing, at least while he’s in a prototype he can move rapidly without harm and isn’t particularly worried if a bullet hits him (compared to Miko, where he had a much lower tolerance for risk).
Ila can move very fast, as long as she is moving in a straight line. In terms of raw speed in a straight line, she is easily the fastest character we’ve seen (I mean, short of Acalia depending on the distance, but that’s sort of cheating). But she’s relying on accelerating herself to do that, compared to someone like Naomi who is boosting her natural movement. Ila seems to be able to do that too, but using that alone wouldn’t be nearly as fast as she can reach with the acceleration magic, but it’s more limited in a way as well.
Ila’s preference for using said power to get up close and personal… well, that’s something of a character defect according to Mium.
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Has anyone clicked reply only to experience what looks like a click hijack?
I’m having it happen, only here that I can tell, about once or twice a week recently.
Mind you, I don’t post many other places, so I can’t swear it isn’t just me.
The first time I click reply I get something like a reload page that sends me to bottom of the discussion. When I click reply again, the reply box opens in the correct position.
Yes, if you want reply to work, you need to click twice.
PastUtopia:
About that last panel–DC Comics called. They want their Green Lantern ring back!
I think Eliana started to do something and Mium nullified it. Given what he says to Miss Sister I doubt Eliana was making a shield. Demon summoning probably – demons are also good for blocking bullets.
It looked to me like Eliana was gathering power, but hadn’t committed it yet.
Thank you for the tags, Past, they really help.
I looked for examples of reader modifiable tags but could not find any. I know at one time they existed but it has been so long that I have no clue as to which comic. Too bad as it would have been really nice to crowd source the tags for old comics.
Um, odd question…
But if individual circles are vague representations of individual calculations…
Am I the only one counting Miss sister using 8 of them?
4 per ‘hand’. I thought she topped out at 7.
Or was it 9?
Or do they kinda fade over a few seconds, after a calculation has been made and the spell cast, like a sort of afterimage of the mana impression becoming further away in the 4th dimension, relitive to it’s position and strength in relationships to the edos data edited?
Not really sure. I commit the sin of reading on a mobbing device.
I’ll day this. Ila had been learning from her brother. And I believe any limits of calculations were taken previous to the mind meld with Mium, and her flight protecting the hustle back to the city. Both of which may have expanded her skills.
I believe it is canon that she appears young because she is designed to grow, mature, and learn.
The the calculation circle sometimes have multiple circles in it; which is the case here. That’s still just 2 calculations here, but somewhat complicated ones (which is intentional, as this is a somewhat complicated magic).
In retrospect not particularly clear though.
Originally, when she fought Mium, her limitation was six calculations . It would appear she has improved (see ).
Certainly the calculation rings for her “magic hand of grasping & other stuff” is different: Originally it looked like one big ring with 5 rings embedded within it (so 6 rings limitation in-place). NOW each hand looks like it controlled by one big ring with three rings on the edge (i.e. four rings a hand): so yes, I count 8 as well.
So not only has her calculation limitation increased: she has also become a more efficient caster!!
Or perhaps the missing ring on each hand is the one to limit action/reaction physics (and thus now the ground is cracking)? So maybe not more efficient: just more gung-ho?? Now THAT does sound like an Ila-thing: especially since she now has (in her opinion) an omnificence SMAI for a big brother.
Both of them are a little slow on the uptake. Not that being faster on the uptake would probably be better for their health, unless they had realized it last page.
Pretty sure both Mium and Ila knew exactly what was going to happen as soon as the two (guards?) looked at each other. I wouldn’t put it past Mium to know about those two (guards?) before they got within a hundred feet… this is Mium after all and he is half way to omniscient.
That reminds me of the Fred Hembeck parody version where a dinner for the Fantastic Four was attacked by a gigantic indestructible monster made of ice cream. Ready to take on any task, Ben Grimm picked up a spoon and attacked the monster, yelling “It’s slobbering time”. Having arrived late and missed the dinner, he attacked with a good appetite, and those involved received their just deserts (or desserts as the case may be).
With that saying it is always with two S’s desserts — the sweet ones.
A single S, deserts, is the dry one. Not necessarily Hot & sandy, but always low in water content.
I can’t find the original of this PBF comic Classic, but it will help you remember.
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“Why? They were aimed at you.”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Best laugh I had this week!
With all these colors going around, I suddenly lowered my life expectancy for little sister, what with the shooting, and WEARING A RED SHIRT.
It really does hide bloodstains better though.
Pink isn’t nearly as good with the bloodstains as red. Or, after they’re dried, brown. Though, I suspect Mium may have a cantrip to clean dried bloodstains. The white band on that shirt will also not be very good at hiding bloodstains.
Sure, she’s wearing red. But she’s also rocking that scarf. You see that? Might not quite be Mium scarf or Naomi hair quality yet, but I think she’s got everyone else beat!
I wish these comments would get fixed.
The Human Torch from Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer: To quote a friend of mine, “It’s Clobbering Time.”
Alternatively, just “Ben Grimm from Fantastic 4 just about everything prior to Rise of the Silver Surfer: It’s clobbering time”. Not quite something said in every issue, but many of them, more or less all the way back. I’m pretty sure I’ve even seen one where he said that back in the ancient days when he was going by the name The Incredible Hulk, and generating all of the legal issues that entailed.
To be clear, I’m not iffy on the subject of whether he said that in the original comics, but whether I actually saw one of those, as that issue got resolved relatively quickly compared to the lifespan of the franchise. It’s possible that all I saw was one frame from that time with Ben Grimm giving the quote, in an article about the lawsuit. But I think I also later got to see the exact comic from which that frame was taken.
Kids these days.