Comic for Monday, September 30th, 2019
I mean, on the sum total, Peter and Arron have more civil and friendly conversations that Miko and Arron. If you set the bar low enough, you see…
Life is almost normal. Work is a pain, as always. Hoping that I will have some free time to do a few October Halloween sketches – they are tradition I’d be disappointed to miss entirely. Not sure how many I will have time to do this year, but if you have a Character Halloween Costume idea shoot me a message or put it in a comment either here or on patreon and I’ll try to pick out and do some if I can.
These last few months pretty much all the drawing I’ve done has been just drawing the panels of the comic, and particularly as they tend to be a bit rush job (more so the last few months than the last few weeks as my life has gotten at least somewhat back to an even keel), it’s probably not the best for improving and polishing art skills.
Loading ...
The animosity between Aaron and Peter (and b/w Aaron and Miko) seems pretty deep and emotional. Like it’s personal started long ago, as opposed to just disagreement about current actions.
Okay, so when talking to your uncle, you’ll call him “Uncle”, but when talking to your uncle, it’s “Kyle”, not “Dad”?
….curious.
(Also I like Peter’s look in the latter half of the page. Smug, bit of sly….but mostly the relaxedness of it makes it look really cool. “Excuse me while I chill and win everything before you even figure out what the game is.”)
No one has claimed that this family is anything other than dysfunctional. In fact the claim is closer to the only families that remain are all dysfunctional.
More to the point, I’ve encountered people who were so focused on their own world-view that they would interpret any usage of a relative family designation like “Dad” as a reference to the person that they referred to with that term.
Me: “I just got off the phone with Dad, and…”
Former roommate: “How do you know Dad? We’re not even from the same state.”
I would like to think that Arron is a bit better off than that. However, I have also encountered a similar phenomenon to a much lesser extent within certain families, especially when some of the members are more unsettled. It’s possible that Peter is thinking that Arron might be very unsettled by the current circumstances. Arron probably has reason to be. Also, his rapid jump to thinking that the IDS would want to temporarily give up their goal of finding room for their people in Malsa if feasible when it wasn’t long ago that had been the priority could suggest such an unsettled state.
Seems like a fun guy to know. You didn’t try to convince him that your mother was one of his father’s out of town girlfriends and that you were half brothers?
Peter doesn’t seem to use the uncle appellate outside of directly speaking to Aaron. That suggests that there is a specific goal. Likely you’re right, and Peter is driving home the family connection.
With how Peter keeps talking my mind is just skipping to who would win in a fight: Peter or Light from deathnote? They’re both MASSIVE schemers but one has an instant kill move and the other just keeps making the inevitable betrayal seem like the better option.
on Panel 5, it looks like Arron’s arm is missing.
It *is* missing.
Good 🙂
Arron’s arm was last seen chapter 12, page 39 It’s easy to forget about that, as Arron has only been in seven strips since then, and half of them it’s been a bit trickier to see. It was made pretty blatant for his next strip, chapter 14, page 14, but in his next three appearances, he’s either appeared in close enough to profile from the other side so his arm could’ve just been held back a bit, or he’s been small panel showing a group picture, or he’s had a backdrop of soldiers in the same armor, so if he had a right arm it would’ve blended in… or some combination of the three. Yeah, it’s always been his right arm.
By signing the application Aron will be admitting de-facto Malsan control over the gates. However that is a bit of political finesse he won’t care about.
I don’t think the de facto control is a topic of debate at the moment. How and for how long perhaps, but most of the players remaining on the field are proven to care more about the reality than the legality.
BUT! Transport issues are RESOLVED! At least for Aaron. The gates aren’t REALLY closed, as long as you’re moving in the direction that Team Peter wants.
It’s “my country” now?
… I thought it was the Consul’s …
That’s not the only, or even the usual, meaning of that phrase.