Comic for Monday, October 22nd, 2018

Oct22

by PastUtopia on October 22, 2018 at 5:00 am

Chapter: Chapter 13

Location: Far Side of Utopia

Beep boop I am definitely not a robot.

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Discussion (19) ¬

Magnema

October 22, 2018, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

Why do I also get the sense that this is Peter’s answering machine message?
Westley Roberts

October 22, 2018, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

Yes, run! The man who likes to plan 10+ moves ahead guardians are down. Surely that only means he now gets to crack out the “can-o-whip-arse” he’s been saving for such a possibility!?!

Do I hear you ask, “Why have guardians if you have cans-o-whip-arse?” Because a can-o-whip-arse is probably expensive, and MOST definitely lacking in finesse (a.k.a. overkill!).
- Byzantine
  
  October 22, 2018, 3:04 pm | # | Reply
  
  That and the guardians mean everyone assumes you don’t have said can.
  - Dave Howe
    
    October 22, 2018, 5:15 pm | # | Reply
    
    Or he HAS such a can, but generally is to lazy to use it when he has a god-like AI to whoop ass for him…
Sandman366

October 22, 2018, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

Peter’s bothering to give the advice of “run”….

…do I feel sorry for what’s about to happen to the guy? Or not? :/
- Jindra34
  
  October 22, 2018, 11:47 pm | # | Reply
  
  That depends: Does he take the advice?
BlakkurSverrir

October 22, 2018, 9:46 am | # | Reply

So many implications…
I think we can take the hologram as given fact. Peter is transparent in every panel, not only the last.
We also know that all his “guardians” including Naomi are busy.
So why “doesnt matter” and “time is up”?
It must have bin days since the last time something around Peter blew up. Its kind of a running theme.
So I think the holographic device is also a timed bomb. Not enough to kill the goon (because Peter doesnt kill when there are other options. The goon might be a ressource later) but enough to almost kill him. Enough to carry a certain message:

You might think to have me where you want me, but its the other way round. I am not 10 steps but 10 miles ahead of you. If I wanted you dead, you would have been 10 minutes ago. So if you still want to talk to me, change your pants and make a propper appointment with my office. Otherwise I could send one of my… “guardians”… to your place as soon as they can spare the time. Have a nice day
jtartus

October 22, 2018, 5:36 am | # | Reply

I think he is pulling the hologram trick again? I mean he’s got the magic sparkles and looks just a little transparent in the last panel though it could just be my imagination. The guy who is talking to him is also nicely drawn to be getting damp in the rain, effects that I notice to be lacking on Peter.
Last time he needed Naomi nearby with a device though, hmm.
- Ferrus
  
  October 22, 2018, 5:59 am | # | Reply
  
  Definitely a hologram, looks almost the exact same as last time Peter pulled it.
- Byzantine
  
  October 22, 2018, 5:59 am | # | Reply
  
  Peter intentionally cornering himself in an alley?
  
  Yeah right. Dumb goon is dumb.
  
  Also, this one seems to be a prerecorded message. Notice Peter never replied to what he said.
- Amaranth
  
  October 22, 2018, 6:28 am | # | Reply
  
  Good catch on the rain effects. Normally I’d assume that was just a missing detail, but they are very clearly drawn on the goon. Combined with the slight blur and transparency.
  
  As Byzantine says, this looks prerecorded. You can see that he actually cuts off the goon slightly. Peter probably left a pause for a reply, but the guy talked longer than expected.
  
  Also, notice that he is not wearing his coat, but was wearing it when we last saw Peter, so this was probably recorded before he even left the house.
  
  My guess is he did not actually need Naomi there, he just needed the device there, but Naomi was the device delivery mechanism. Remember that he was probably sending Naomi to protect Arron from an assassination attempt originally, the message part was likely secondary. He needed the Eidos card because I think he was actually controlling that one remotely, while this one is probably just a prerecorded video playback.
  
  This could explain part of Peter’s ability to mislead anyone that tries to follow him. Imagine the ridiculous amount of confusion he could cause with these hologram autocasters + prerecorded messages/movements and maybe a touch of Ellipses to better make the real Peter disappear? No wonder there is no one that can find Peter when he doesn’t want to be found.
Gurst

October 22, 2018, 5:35 am | # | Reply

Peter’s face has a typo right through the nose in the last panel.
- Ferrus
  
  October 22, 2018, 6:00 am | # | Reply
  
  Probably an effect of it being an illusion/hologram.
- Byzantine
  
  October 22, 2018, 6:00 am | # | Reply
  
  Is it a typo? He’s… oddly translucent. Hint hint.
Josh Shaine

October 22, 2018, 5:15 am | # | Reply

Nope, not a robot at all. Otherwise, the built-in Captcha would have stopped you from posting, right?!

Heaven forfend that the guy say what he wants, rather than bothering with the oh-so-clever banter.

And doesn’t he wonder whether Peter is telling the truth or not – or if he is, but it isn’t Mium to which he refers? No, that probably requires too much imagination.
- Segev
  
  October 22, 2018, 2:31 pm | # | Reply
  
  I don’t think suit-man is bantering in lieu of saying what he wants, so much as attempting to establish that he (thinks he) knows Peter is bluffing with any bravado in this encounter, and that they finally have him cornered. Why is this not “clever banter?” Because by establishing this, he thinks he can short circuit a lot of posturing from Peter and make Peter listen to what he wants with the knowledge that Peter knows he knows that Peter is actually cornered.
  
  The fact that Peter is not actually cornered is a given, for those of us following along at home, but in this guy’s position, he thinks the establishment of dominant posture in the immediate sense is actually accelerating the part where he can get to his point and tell Peter what he wants.
  - Dave Howe
    
    October 22, 2018, 5:39 pm | # | Reply
    
    With Peter, you HOPE he is two steps ahead of you – because it’s more likely it’s four and you just haven’t seen the other two yet.
    - SeanR
      
      October 24, 2018, 8:08 pm | # | Reply
      
      If Peter is coming up behind you, it means you’ve been lapped.
      - Byzantine
        
        October 25, 2018, 1:22 am | # | Reply
        
        If you see Peter at all it is probably a hologram. The real Peter is on a different planet enjoying a vacation, since he already beat you and has a few months before you notice.