Comic for Thursday, April 14th
Once again it appears Mium attempts to solve his problem things by poking them. This time it seems fairly effective.
Should get some more of the cast page done this weekend, and hopefully at least some other sort of thing, hopefully a new patreon drawing this time since I did a vote incentive last weekend.
I apologize that the comic once again comes in a little late; see below whining for relevant weekly excuses.
//Whining (feel free to skip)…
I’ve been at a tech conference thing this week for work;it involves commuting into a city with lots of traffic, running around wearing a suit, and so forth. All in all not conductive to plentiful comic drawing time.
I’ve been trying to buy a car. I’ve had the same car for about 10 years now, and it was… not exactly a shiny new chariot when I got it, shall we say; it is the better part of a decade older then me, and continues to run only by sheer inertia; pretty much everything that is not the engine has long since fallen apart (and in more then a few cases, off).
The end result of this is that I have little idea how to buy cars and have found that I despise the process thoroughly. I look forward to the day I can buy a car off Amazon, car dealerships are rapidly joining entities such as the IRS in their positioning on the list titled ‘my favorite people to have to bicker with’.
//End whining.
I think Rovak and his friends need to redesign their approach. Somehow it always seems like his minions find trouble before he does. Blowing things up just doesn’t draw agro like it used to these days!
Yes, it occurs to me that by bizarre coincidence all three characters with some shade of teal hair have appeared on the same page. It is purely coincidence.
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Ah, a minion. I spoke too soon. ^^
Mika’s luck hasn’t changed very much for the better–she’s unconscious again. ><
I agree with Miko–she'll be safer with Mium than staying there.
At least she got taken out ‘on screen’ this time? That’s moving up in the ladder, right? 😛
To be fair to her though, she might be a pretty decent mage, but she’s gotten a pretty rough hand so far 😉
I suspect Peter teamed up with Miko to always have someone more annoying than himself around. There can’t be that many around.
It’s a distinct possibility… 😀
Earlier comments suggested otherwise, but now I’m thinking Miko is a boy. Maybe it’s the way Miko is drawn on this page? I think Miko seems very slightly old and taller here. (Gender is sometimes hard to tell with certain people, esp. when they’re quite young.)
Green-haired lady is a human mage, right? (I don’t see an autocaster…) She talks and acts human. And I doubt Mir has been able to build anything better than Ila. But, it’s funny how Mium shut her consciousness down, almost like she was an android. Then again, electrical shocks can stun. And the brain works on minute electrical impulses. Also, Mium can use magic.
I’m assuming she’s part of Avon’s security, rather than an average employee or someone unconnected with Avon.
The lady in question is part of Rovak’s team LINK HERE.
Mium can DISRUPT magic, but PastUtopia is being coy about the whole “doing magic” part. ^^
She is indeed. Having a Mika and a Miko on the same page is confusing… Mika is short for her real name though, while Miko isn’t a real name at all.
As for magic… well, it all depends on who you ask and where the line between technology and magic exists in the comic… if it exists at all… after all… “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“..Mika is short for her real name though, while Miko isn’t a real name at all.”
Not her real name? Aha! In that case, I’m pretty sure that I know who she really is.
I like how you always seem to reply to comments. And, in the past, you’ve said that you can’t say too much without giving spoilers. Either way, it doesn’t bother me. Though, I would remind you of this. 😉
It’s a tricky balance; I do give information out in comments, but only usually peripheral things or explanations.
I don’t mind if people guess or figure things out based on the comments, but try not to spoil what people can guess or figure out, if that makes sense 😉
I also try say less much about the plot than the characters.
As for the “…being coy about the whole ‘doing magic’ part”, perhaps he was referring to how confusing this “Eidos” business can seem (particularly how Ila can get around that problem)?
I know that I’m confused as to what Eidos means and what the implications are. Perhaps, if you have the time, you could add a brief explanation to your Setting > Lore page?
I will write something about Eidos on the setting page at some point.
As for Ila… that falls in the spoiler realm talked about above… (it’ll be covered in the comic eventually, rest assured 😛 )
We know that, at very least, he can generate psionic energy/mana and use it to disrupt ‘Eidos’ forms.
We also Eidos forms and physical objects effect each other.
That said, if you look carefully his finger is burned from his own shock, so whatever it is, it’s not purely ethereal/psionic in nature.
When I finally decided to get a new car after driving the same car for nearly two decades (still in better shape that yours), it literally took me years of car shopping before I got a new car. I hope your shopping goes more smoothly!
Well, I bought one so at least phase one is complete. It’s pretty nice having a shiny new car after all the years of having one that neither turned on or turned off on command…