Comic for Thursday, April 28th
No, Chief Cao, there is pretty much no chance it is not more bad news.
Tyler seems to assume Peter’s comment on the Terms of Service is being flippant, but from what we know… well, you sort of have to wonder… 😉
Sorry about page being so late. It’s been an interesting week. It’s been a bit of a storm of juggling projects at work and have had a few persistent tasks that have taken more their fair share of wrangling both for work and outside of work. And that’s glossing over the part where my job considered relocating me to India (I declined; fortunately it was an optional opportunity. That would really mess with my update schedule…)
That said, I should mention that in our current bufferless world we are pretty close to missed updates if I do end up having to travel for work; while it would only likely be a week or two, it’s a looming possibility. Need to get buffer comics!
With this many words and the fact that I’m pretty tired, I’m sure there are some typos in there. Please let me know if you see any. The cast page is also picture-complete (I think? Let me know if I missed anyone with a name or multiple appearances). Still have some bios to fill out.
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Irregardless isnt a real word and he would know that
There is an argument about this one lower in the comments 😛
I vote we blame Tyler for this one.
I love panel 5. Absolutely adore it. Don’t even know who it is and already know their opinion on him.
Peter really does seem like the type of guy who’d be great to watch in action so long as his machinations don’t affect you personally. (But hey, this is basically that: the comic, isn’t it?)
Haha, thanks for the comment 🙂
Peter is remarkable bad at leaving people happy with him. It’s a toss up if it comes from the scheming or the being-an-asshat, but the combination probably doesn’t help 😉 . Watching dominos fall is one of those universal pleasures though, so as you say, it’s something that can be appreciated from a distance 😛
“They take violations of their terms of service rather personally.”
This may just be Peter’s way of joking without giving anything away. However, it has me wondering…
Was Peter hired by Avon to do something involving an AI (similar to how Miko was) and, while there, did something he was not supposed to do? I guess that could involve a breach of the terms of his contract.
Tyler seems to have taken it as a joke, but from what we know, well, I have my suspicions…
Of course, there may be more then one item on the list, and what exactly is at the top of it… well, who knows yet 😉
“attack-puppet” oooh! Burn! ^^
I’m guessing that the number of people with whom Peter is not popular is rather large. 🙂
I’ll also bet that AVon isn’t too thrilled with voided warranties, either. ^^
Great backgrounds. 🙂
I don’t know if this is considered canon or not…
Peter does seem to go out of his way to ensure that he remains unpopular. I think he needs to hire a PR Manager.
Basically, Tyler lets himself be played here while at the same time informing Peter “I’ve noticed you doing it and am only going along with it because it serves my own agenda right now.”
With a sidedish of “But I could be persuaded of doing more for you in the future if you open up and accept us as actual allies, not just tools.”
It’s a tricky strait to navigate for Tyler, sort of like reeling a particularly flighty fish in. Clamp down too much and who knows what happens, give him too much space and he’ll be content to do his own little thing forever.
“Irregardless” ??? Taking English lessons from President “Shrub” Bush? This is a double negative and not valid. The word is “regardless” please.
Just my $0.02 worth. Otherwise, keep up the good work.
Haha I considered that one; I’m aware that the word itself doesn’t make sense, but I think it’s the more common, at least from what I’ve heard; ‘regardless’ just doesn’t sound right with Tyler’s speech patterns, likely because I don’t typically hear people say it.
If it wasn’t part of a speech bubble, I’d definitely go ‘regardless’, but I try to write them sort of how the character sounds talking to me… if that makes any sense 😉
I see. So, the character is a student of George Bush Jr. He is the one who made that un-word popular, along with Nucular. And he couldn’t pronounce “al qaeda” either which is 4 syllables rather than the 3 that most people use these days. Sorry, my Grandmother was an English teacher and it rubbed off a little too much.
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No worries; I don’t mind corrections, feedback or musings at all.
It’s been interesting to think about; as technically speaking none of the characters are currently speaking ‘English’ the accents/vernacular is largely just arbitrary assigned based on their in-comic nationality and personality.
Most of the Levenworth students speak in vague variations of what I consider ‘default’; using idioms and grammar I think of as typical (as opposed to Kally who tends to speak with a more clipped and precise vocabulary or Peter who tends to use the longer form of any phrase).
But since ‘default’ or ‘normal’ isn’t actually a thing, it just means they tend to say it more like I probably would if I didn’t think about it much first (and that’s how I intentionally write them, usually).
I’ll be the first to admit I’m learning to write as well learning to draw, and my highly dubious grammar has been on display for awhile now 😉
In the longer run I do hope to distinguish the character dialogue better. For the most part I underemphase that currently, I still work on making brief ‘spoken’ exchanges effectively communicate any plot or character… as this comment may indicate, brevity alone is a challenge for me… 😛
Irregardless is one of those anomalies in the English language. It is, however, a perfectly valid word and it is, in fact, used appropriately here.
Irregardless = Regardless
Much the same way as:
Inflammable = Flammable
English is weird and filled with all kinds of screwy exceptions and anomalies. That’s what happens when you’ve been mugging other languages on a regular basis for centuries.
Offhand, my guess would be that “Irregardless” got taken from one language and “Regardless” got swiped from a second language related to the first. Likely the same goes for “Inflammable” and “Flammable”.
Also, Panel 5 is hilarious – but at least Peter realizes that he’s not the most likeable person.
Yeah; it’s a strange, motley language sometimes. I try to think of this when I complain about trying to learn presumable more logical foreign languages, but complain I still do.
As for Peter, they say that ‘knowing is half the battle’ and all, but somehow I think don’t think he’s halfway to fixing that… 😉
“inflammable” has been deprecated for decades.
Likewise irregardless is simply incorrect English.
Frequent misuse does NOT validate or excuse bastardization of the language.
Just as all too common misuse of “your” and “you’re” does not change “you are” to a possessive.
That is how languages evolve though. And while ‘proper’ dialects like Oxford English might not accept the change, they do keep depreciated terms on the book for our friendly SAT tests, poets, and anyone else who might want a diffrent word. vernacular english as a dialect drops them, but is a lot more accepting and irregardless can pretty safely be considered a ‘correct’ part of it. Your/you’re is more a spelling mistake than anything else. Over time, new proper dialects are codified with new words.
Tyler seems sort of like the protagonist. He’s reasonable, clever, and powerful. He also has the best outfit (or at least snappiest coat). He seems more human.
Plot wise I’m hoping Tyler and Peter team up, but character wise there’d be two chefs in the kitchen then.
I think there is a difference in this case between how you use ‘protagonist’ and ‘main character’ 😉 Tyler is a major character, but I don’t think he’s appeared enough to considered the protagonist.
As far protagonist archetype, that is sort of intentional. The way I tend to think of it is that Tyler is the main character of another story that overlaps with this one a great deal.
“…the main character of another story…”
I seriously doubt this is the case, but: Are you hinting that you may, one day, create a new webcomic with Tyler as the central character? Perhaps after Peter’s story eventually wraps up?
Hmm; I think it’s fairly unlikely that I would make comic in the style of this one focusing on Tyler; while I have a rough outline of what his story is, many of the more interesting points of intersect with the current story. I think it’s more to say that he’s more a character that intersects frequently with this story then a supporting character of this story?
Not sure if that makes sense. Essentially I know what the MSB is doing outside the story as it’s mapped out more or less, and he’s pretty much the main character of that, compared to a character like Jayce who, while he has backstory and the like, I don’t typically account for what he does off screen besides in special cases.
I wouldn’t rule it out, but even if I do another full story in this setting, there are a lot to choose from, and I’d probably do another location or time period.
Keeping in mind that this current on will continue for at least another year, and likely more.
That said, it’s pretty likely that if the bonus comics series (the Patreon goals) ever become a thing he’ll get some; ~10-20 page stories. I’d like to tell some of these; Tyler’s first year at Levenworth could be a few, Peter and Kally back in the IDS have some worth writing – that’s where I originally had planned to start this comic interestingly enough, or maybe even stuff from back during the Incursion.
your motive is does not in the 4th panel
Fixed. Hopefully that’s the last one cause it’s the last one I’m getting tonight!
Appreciate the catches 😉
s/every/ever/ in the first panel, probably.
Assuming I read your comment correctly… fixed. Thanks 😉