Comic for Thursday, April 27th
I am pretty sure there is only one person on earth that would guess the correct read order of the bubbles in the last panel, and that’d be me. Meh. It seemed like a valid idea at the time.
This page was drawn in one sitting… but least we made it before the day rolls over (by my time!). Took about 7 hours from blank paper to finished comic. Don’t think I have the spare focus available to do most pages like that though anymore. Waste too much on silly things like work.
Anyway… this page is like my word budget for the week. I think I’ve been making a lot of super wordy pages recently. I swear it isn’t just an excuse to get out of drawing things! The words take a long time too (… even if well, you know… grammar).
I have a minus years page drawn, it’ll go up tomorrow on Patreon. Will probably try to wrap it up at 11-12 page mark, as I think that’s more or less what was promised. I think I will use it to take a break at some point (ie; put it up instead of a comic update or something?) I haven’t decided yet – I am having a bit of a rough spot keeping though, and don’t want to leave a content gap, then I gotta come with something for the Patreon peopl.
I don’t know that I am happy with the Minus Years side story now that it’s mostly done, I was not up to the challenge of making a coherent 10 page story 😛 but it’s something (and practice makes perfect, etc, etc). Trying to figure out a new Patreon reward/goal that might work out better. I may try some sillier/fluff stuff, revive some of the ‘behind the scenes with the cast’ silly comics or something. Maybe I will try to do another side story, but definitely wouldn’t be a 1 full page a week as I wasn’t able to keep that up really.
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I’ve decided the “Barney” color scheme is creepy. Just sayin.
I’m the last panel, “Where did you get all this from?”
Possible typo panel 3, 3rd bubble: “the korish” should probably “orish”.
Negative. She’s referring to the people of Kors world. You know, the guys with funky armour who attacked a little while back?
Indeed. Referring to Kor’s World as Korish is something of a Naomi-ism possibly, but considering it is Naomi talking, that makes sense…
And so Naomi proves that she’s more than just a pretty face, and a powerful punch, and a super-fast blur….
I’m guessing that the speech bubble order in Panel 6 goes like this: Naomi’s upper left speech bubble (continuing her thought in Panel 5), Lisa’s speech bubble, Naomi’s lower left, then upper right, and finally lower right. 🙂
Oh, yeah, that fits a conversation flow better. Perhaps move bubble 3 to the right (if possible) and bubble 2 to the middle to make that reading clear, then.
I mostly was okay with it because the read order isn’t super critical in this case, but there was a clear issue with panel layout. I may try to back and fix it, but yeah, it’s it top middle, right, bottom middle, left top, left bottom. It’s probably the most baffling we’ve had in recent time, though this used to crop up a lot more.
I assume you swapped “left” and “right” there?
Looks like it yeah. Guess that doesn’t help clear it much 😛
I assume you’re supposed to read bottom-left -> top left -> top right -> bottom right? Yeah, I read top left -> bottom left.
Might be comprehensible if you just connected the two left speech bubbles (and left the bottom one’s arrow to Naomi’s face). Probably better to swap them though, for ease of readability’s sake, and to make that connection too. (I’m assuming switching speech bubbles is not unreasonably difficult, since they seem added later.)
Not bad for a “purple gorilla”. How much of that did she deduce herself and how much was from Peter, though? (Either way, she still managed to state it quite cleanly. Point for her.)
Though I’m assuming she doesn’t regard Peter as a spy. For some reason I think he’d still take the favorite spot if she did. (At the very least an honorable mention. I do like her last bubble though.)
Sooo many infos lately….just feels kinda weird since this has been so much of a version of “Conspiracies: the Webcomic”.
I’m assuming that most of that info was from Peter. As part of the inner circle, I’m sure Peter keeps her abreast of at least many his plans and goings ons.
That said, I’m not -terribly- surprised to hear Naomi articulate this so well and sound smart. (Not terribly, but a little. It does seem a bit jarring compared to the Naomi we usually see.) While I’m sure Peter values her for her strength, I think he values her more for being both strong and smart. If she wasn’t, then her usefulness to his/their goals would be a bit limited.
Peter’s group seems to consist of himself, Mium, Miko, and Naomi. There’s no question that Peter, Mium and Miko are all genius-level smart. Naomi would need to be pretty smart, herself, just to keep up with them.
If you think about it, it is unlikely the a designer child would be min/maxed. She would be max-maxed. Life is not balanced, being physical weaker does not make you smarter, and being dumber does not make you stronger.
Combine the fact that she is smart with likely unfettered access to what Mium knows (which is more or less everything) and she is probably one of the characters with the best ideas what is going on (outside Peter, Miko, Mium, maybe Kyle).
If you think about it, while Peter and Miko are almost certainly incredibly intelligent on their own, access to Mium is also likely a huge factor. Access to information and being smart are not the same thing exactly, but they are multiplicative forces.
Thinking too much about the underlying root causes of things tends to get in the way of punching them.
Now that sounds like Naomi.
most of this kinda goes with what i was saying on the last page. and what ferrus is saying. i mean in rl theres some ppl that are very smart, but also physicaly in shape. maybe not quite naomi, but able to do some decent damage in a fight. tho its also not neccisaraly true that the 95 pound weakling is the smartest person in the class either.
tho naomi says shes “proof that designer children aren’t always smarter.” this goes to show that while she might not be einstein level smart, she has a better than average level of smarts. even if she doesnt always show them off. and a very good level of comprehension.
also thinking -before- punching at least lets you punch bad guys with confidence.
Peter and Naomi clearly have an odd dynamic. I can see why he would be a villain from a “Naomi point of view”, as Peter’s morality is fairly dubious. May also explain why the veto (if not why Peter would give her the veto).
Now I am really curious how Rovak and kidnapping the Arpon President work out, because it looks like the stakes are higher than I had assumed. It is hard to guess which factions we are aware of are on which side, but Rovak is probably pro-war, so it hard guess why Peter is including him.
Rovak seems less pro-war and more pro-interesting/unusual jobs.
Naimi *could* be talking about Rovak.