Comic for Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Work has developed a ravenous hunger for my free time once… hopefully this sort of a short term thing this time. Sort of like how a cat will drop a dead bird in your house, work decided to drop a dead project on my lap Monday and tell me it needed to be flying again by Thursday. I have maybe one wing flapping in a grotesque parody of working code from the unsalvagable morass of necrotic codebase they sent me.
I may be switching job roles in the near future – same company, different role. Not sure if that will be better or worse, but I think it’s worse well… full time webcomic artist it is (until I find a new job, anyway). Anyway, this is all a long way of saying that there is no buffer again, but I figure if I complain a lot of first it’s not my fault………. (this is the flawless tools of logic I learned in my schooling for smart people).
As for the comic… not too much to say there. We’ve seen Kally change various properties of matter before, though less dramatically when she changed the airball to more dense/brittle consistency – in this case it’s a combination of magic and the physics of pressure. She seems to have decided that simply burying him in rubble was not quite enough (probably right there), so she appears to be in the process of melting the rubble to make a more proper entombment – the metal pieces of the rubble go molten a lot more easy than rock, but if you give her enough time… Unfortunately it seems she was distracted before finishing the job. I’ve mentioned before that handling multiple things at once is not really her strong suit. I should note that due to the way magical resistance works, the changes would effect the outer layers of rock more than the inner layers of rock to an extent, as only physics would have any real effect on inner layers of rock near the Kor’s World Soldier, though pressure and thermodynamics might get the job done…
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Panel 7, Fluffy is breathing fire again.
I point this out because a half dozen viewings on my cell phone still masked from me what was obvious the moment I loaded the comic on a laptop.
Where can I find the first books in the series? I’ve extrapolated back a bit, but don’t know enough about this universe to be certain of my musings.
This comic is (mostly) all there is as far as I know. Minus Years shows a few small fragments of Peter & Kally before the comic, but those are part of the archive, so if you’ve read up to here you’ve already seen them (they are two of the intermissions).
The only other thing I am aware of is a couple chapters of a webnovel that features Tyler Weber as the main character that is sort of a prequel as it will run up until Tyler’s appearance on the TV at the start of the comic I believe and seems to have started ~1 year before the comic, but it hasn’t been updated for awhile and is only on patreon.
The Wiki has some more information, but most of what is there is from the comic, so not much of it is new information.
I think the solution is to pester PastUtopia to write more webnovels to fill out more of the content. That’s my vote anyway.
Thanks Ferrus, much obliged.
The artwork is really becoming top notch. Love Kally’s faces and the action in her hair.
While PastUtopia will never admit it, the art to this comic long ago blew right past “acceptable” and into “actually good”. Particularly ridiculously good for a twice weekly publishing schedule of someone that doesn’t do art for a living.
So, we know that the different colours of constructs is symptomatic of their different natures, I wonder if the smaller differences within the same class of construct is indicative of subtler variations in their properties.
Reviewing all 17 of Fluffy’s prior appearances, he really seems to be getting more real over time. That certainly could be due to the artist gaining experience, but I note that up until chapter 11, Fluffy was translucent, which required intention on Past Utopia’s part, and having green eyes was new this chapter. Previously, Fluffy’s eyes were a darker shade of red.
I also note that three pages ago, Atter’s pieces included bits that were almost as dark as Fluffy mostly is now. But today, not so much.
So I think the color variation is significant, and I’m suspecting more that the Korish armor is at least partially constructed of magic.
So more like fluffy becoming more “real”. And in a way the kor armor is a “real” magic armor thats had enough power put into it that is less virtual and more permanant construct.
Adder having parts of his contructs being partialy “real” and partialy virtual construct. Well honestly that would fit his rather chaotic demon persona.
And Kally situational awarness… 2 enemies that are also enemies of eachother… basic tatics 101 get them to weaken eachother then kill both…
Except Kor’s World saw both enemies and deliberately picked on Kally first. Which makes sense; attack the weak human with the more powerful red construct. Basic sniping 101. 🙂
And the ‘Atter vs Tank’ incident is a solid indication that Atter has flunked basic tactics 101. Repeatedly. Maybe Atter would care if he stopped for a moment and noticed the Kor’s World soldier? Maybe?
I suppose it wouldn’t hurt Kally if she tossed the solider into an Atter construct. Actually, that could work. Ok, you’ve convinced me. 🙂 Kally needs to take up solder tossing as a hobby.
The thing is, Kally is fundamentally arrogant. I don’t think she really would think she needs tactics. This might be warranted to an extent, but her entire combat strategy is “apply overwhelming force”, usually by dragon. Even faced with two of the most powerful adversaries in the comic, she never really seems to have considered she might lose.
She didn’t even bother changing out of her school uniform before flying off to engage a demon in the middle of a war zone. Even Tyler wore armor when he was deliberately going off to a fight.
That said, I think both enemies are sort of focused on her anyway. The Kor’s World Soldier is targeting her because she is the summoner of the dragon, and seems to know that killing Atter without his summoner would be quite hard (as Kally is currently proving), and Atter already stated his plans to kill Kally awhile ago, and Kally is definitely the more apparent threat to him (he may or may not even have been aware of the Kor’s World Soldier.
The one time Kally actually looked worried:
http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-thursday-december-29th/
It seems like nothing short of a Null Caster actually worries her, and even then they need to catch her by surprise. In fact, being surprised seems to be her primary weakness (hence her “bad record with sniper fire”).
That there comic remains epic. An excellent chapter ending indeed.