Comic for Thursday, August 17th
So… how many of you just read this page twice, once for Peter’s panels, once for Mium/Naomi/Nathans? How many people just read them in order? 😀 Pfff, Narrative flow is for chumps!
I don’t think either Naomi or Mium have any discernible fear of heights. Or really acknowledgement of their existence.
Poor Naomi, no one else seems to be out there just to fight for the fun of it. How strange. I mean some could point to Rovak, but realistically he’s tried harder than most to talk his way out of fights. Sometimes. He’s just not very good at it. And usually in the middle of committing rather large scale crimes (you know, abduction, terrorism, arson…). Hmm, does blowing buildings up count as arson? Probably not. The house did seem be smoking a bit by the time he was finished with it at least.
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So, if I’m reading this right, Nathan thinks Peter deliberately went out of his way to get his attention, while Peter isn’t sure why Nathan’s poking around, but assumes that there’s good enough reason to go and ask.
I wonder if a third party has been very clever in manipulating these two. And how badly he’ll realize he outsmarted himself when they realize what happened.
Oh great, they’re both worried about dealing with each other. In such….convolutedly complimenting ways, too. Hee~
I love these guys.
I think they both have similar feelings on that the amount they like the other one has a great deal to do with the current distance between the them, inversely proportional of course.
Ummm, Peter has a chip on his shoulder… like literally. Maybe figuratively, but we haven’t had enough angsty flashbacks yet to know.
And about the anti-fear of heights thing, Rovak summed it up nicely, “That’s hardly fatal at the best of times.”
Some people just don’t have enough attitude problems, so they need to get an artificial chip installed for their shoulder to make sure they are permanently grumpy.
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The curious part is that Arron seemed to think Peter wanted to talk to Nathan, but that seems to be not quite true. Quite the opposite it seems. Definitely seems like the mails gotten mixed up… or this is all part of someone else’s plot…
Also “…but is all like ‘don’t hit me, I’m all morally ambiguous and stuff'” may be newest favorite line out of Naomi.
Naomi prefers her evil to be evil and her good to be good. None of this silly grey area. Ironic considering that some would put her in the grey area due to her affiliations.
I honestly found the transition between the second and third panel (the ones with Peter in them, second and fourth if you count the third one as the one with Naomi and MIUM in them) to be a bit confusing. Peter isn’t one to really spill out his thoughts outloud unless there is a point. The first and the third and other Peter panels make sense, pointing out how they are approaching the current situation with Nathan specifically so that at least he and MIUM can be on the same page, but that second Peter panel just seems to be a divergence toward Tom that comes out of no-where. I kept looking for whatever it was that got Peter sidetracked to the topic of Tom or why Peter was wasting time talking about him when he wasn’t around, isn’t an issue, and there are bigger issues to focus on. A three word “Perhaps Tom did?” or something similar from MIUM would really clarify the situation.
In literary terms, the inclusion of that reference makes sense. It gives Tom background that goes beyond “Nathan’s Lackey” and serves as the necessary foreshadowing to whatever talent and ability that Tom has so that when he finally shows it the audience can go, “ok, so now it makes sense that Nathan keeps him around” rather than having the audience go “he has been a powerless lackey the entire time, and now he *ss-pulls this talent out of no-where?!?”
So yeah, the panel is good but it just confused me a bit when reading it. I might be the only one, though. I don’t know how other people read it.
I mean, Peter does say at the end of the last panel “perhaps tom or Arron passed along a message [about Kors world]”. Talking about Tom there makes sense since Naomi told tom about kors world. At least sort of makes sense to me.
yeah, it might have just been me, I don’t know.
I’ll chalk it to Peter being a having just woken up and still sorting through his thoughts. He’s sort of in the space between thinking outloud and talking to Mium. I don’t like showing Peter’s thought bubbles, though I have a few times before. How much I stick to that varies I guess.
Referencing Tom is a bit of an odd dodge, but it’s the obvious reason that Nathan would be coming to see him, but from the audience’s point of view we know it’s not.
There is an “interesting” typo in both Peter and Nathan’s lines.
Also, it looks like they’re both a bit confused.
Interesting…
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Pages like this are why I love the writing in this comic. You can see the schemers trying to account for each others’ plans, and, well, when you have more than one plotter and more than one plan…
Huh. Speaking of which, the writing of this comic reminds me of HPMOR quite a bit, in all the best ways (minus the focus on pedagogy, of course – more lore-oriented). Smart characters playing carefully with extremely powerful resources and all that. [Perhaps a bit more like its unofficial sequel, Significant Digits.]
I will take it as a compliment (I take most things as a compliment for simplicity’s sake 😀 ), but what’s HPMOR?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (hpmor.com). It’s a Harry Potter fanfiction, technically, based around the idea of “if Harry were smart,” but basically has a life of its own.
It’s hard to do intelligent characters in a way that is simultaneously “genuinely intelligent” and “not simply omniscient,” but I think this comic pulls that off really well, as comics like this illustrate.
First panel: “Mium can be pretty good at message passing”
Second panel: “She seems at least somewhat placated”
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Panel 6 (under some quantification): “a sniper” (first bubble) and “and then” (beginning of second bubble)
Haha then/than the most classic of all PastUtopia writing errors. Back in the ol’ days barely a page went by with the the wrong than. 😉
Fixed, thanks 😀