Comic for Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Not Ila’s fault humans have weird priorities and problems.
Realistically speaking in her defense “talking to the police” probably would not really have gone well for anyone involved. Technically it was Bureau agents, as regular cops wouldn’t get within being exploded distance of the hospital incident, but frankly neither Ash (a member of the families) or Ila (who is Ila) really differentiate on that point, mostly because neither of them deal with the normal cops.
Still sort of sick. Buffer should be back in working order as of tomorrow; I don’t think we’ll go back to full pages quite yet though, not till we have more buffer and everything is more in order. If it starts getting to 3 or 4 or something crazy I’ll go back to full pages. Or I’ll do a full page anyway because I make bad decisions, we’ll see.
Naomi has a clear lead once again it looks like, I am pretty surprised that Kally and Miko are beating Ila though, as she’s the only that’s gotten close to beating Naomi before and was the runner up last year. It seems the “haha I bet the character would hate this” crowd is turning out strong. I mean, given that we have a dragon in the 5th spot…
The Consul gained some ground after being added to the poll, but is still lagging pretty far behind. Guess it wasn’t quite a fair contest thought joining late. We’ll see if she pulls off some ground, will probably run it for about a week more to see if we get many straggler votes as we are still getting a fair number of votes, and I don’t need till draw it till around Christmas time.
Am still sick. 😐 Probably getting better though.
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“Do you… uh… know.. this…young.. Lady? She might be dangero….”
I think the official term is “Not aimed at us”
A term you always want applied when dealing with a grumpy Ila.
Ah, panels 3 and 4. I love those. (7-8 also pretty good. Basically, silly banter Ila is great.)
“Lots of enemies!” “That doesn’t sound like a problem for long….”
How long before people take Ila as dangerously as everyone took Mium? (Actually, how long will Mium be down? Seems like the kind of thing that’s going to have a lot of long-term problems, especially the longer it lasts…)
Hey, can I get signed up with that cell provider? I mean, wow! It went through an Illa/Muim vs Kardus fight and still works!
March 8, 2016: Central was looking at Malsa as an expansion/evacuation destination. Taki/Miko sabotaged the Bridge Point data on Central and teleported to Malsa. I need to do a full readthrough again. /facepalm
Interesting theory, but Miko is from Central; I’m not sure what her motive would be for taking the Bridgepoint data. Acalia meanwhile nicked something off the IDS that got them very riled up.
Oh. I just noticed something that is probably pretty major, now that we have more context for it. On the first related comic, you can see a yellow calculation ring. From the perspective of panel 4, it looks like it is probably from Magnolia, which is basically confirmed if you look at the second to last panel.
The only other characters we have seen use yellow calculation circles are Kor’s Wold (just two pages ago) and Nathan freaking Summers. If we combine what the Kor’s World Soldier said: “direct zone data edit”(emphasis mine) with Magnolia’s known ability to see directly into Eidos? We have a solid theory here. Keep an eye on our Maggy, I am expecting great reveals to come.
You might be on to something there, as it seems that yellow circles are pretty rare. As I looked back at other instances of yellow eidos, and the only ones I could find were constructs. All of which were generated by the normal blue circles.
My guess is that color of the circle might be like the color of the constructs, the closer toward red they are the stronger/more real they are. Alternatively it might not even be related to that at all. I guess we’ll know if we ever see a green circle.
As for the yellow constructs that I found they are at these links:
http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-june-20th/
http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-thursday-july-28th/
The last thing I want to do is make more work for you, but I have to say that I really like the “related comics” section. I know that is not the first time you have done that, but as someone that has just finished yet another archive binge, I am reminded how helpful it is to have the greater context in mind for each page.
I do wander where the bulk of the Family mages are at this point. While we know that Ash is a Registered mage (so probably more powerful than Arkady), Ash and Arkady do not seem like the sort that would be the first line of defense. While it is true that Tyler and the Princess both got wounded, there probably has to be actual army mages out there somewhere, right? I am just worried that Ila and Arkady are going to get caught in the Consul’s counterattack, and given Ila’s ambivalence to humans that have not fed her tasty good…
I realize the folly of asking about characters outside the narrative, as even keeping track of the characters we know and care about is a daunting task, but I cannot help it! I want to know everything that is going on, I went to watch Malsan TV and get the news! It is just too engaging.
Didn’t you hear? The family mages were sent to all of the combat sites to tell the soldiers to fall back, and to cover their retreat. Most of them have successfully accomplished that, and so they’re at the regroup sites. There’s a few who have ran into difficulties, and are delayed. There’s also a few who are now dead because they ran into Rovak or some of the stronger exiled family mages that are still in Arpon’s camp.
Sorry. It’s, um, war out there.
On the bright side, we probably don’t know most of them.
Disclaimer: I don’t actually have any FSoU knowledge that Amaranth doesn’t have access to. The other patrons can probably vouche for the fact that I don’t actually give out details from the Patreon preview. I would kind of like their phone tech, though; if my phone took damage like that, the LCD would at minimum be bleeding into some of the otherwise working cells, as the L does stand for Liquid for a reason…
Having Naomi at the top of the list is hardly fair. That’s sort of like serving the kids chocolate cake first, then wondering why none of them want a vegetable as the second course.
Regarding buffers and half / full comics…. Be careful. Someday you might be ahead of the curve, and decide to post TWO full comics. Addicts that we are, we’ll read them all at once. Post like mad. And you’ll be head responsible for those of us who die, typing madly, and forgetting to eat. Or breathe.
Do “half” comics. It’s safer for all of us.
I mean, the problem is I can see myself voting for almost every character in the list. Even I am not going be unhappy to see Naomi drawn wearing a Santa Hat again, it is just Naomi we have already seen Naomi in Santa Hat. But what other chance are we going to get see Kally wearing a Santa Hat? Or bonus art of Magnolia in general? There is a plethora of good options, but Naomi will always win unless we get organized.
Organization may not be so very important; people who want to see someone else win should just do like I did: vote for everyone they would prefer to see win for once. I only refrained from voting for Naomi, Atter, and Atter’s Monster deliberately, and Query, Saria, and The Consul owing to premature voting.