Comic for Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Eh… so this is maybe a page that shouldn’t exist. Lot of issues… end up trying to do part of it my old Surface tablet for reasons… yeah, was a mess. So if some of the art looks…. meeeeh, well, it’s just a one off thing. I would of just scrapped the page and redone if it I had more time, but this is already the second version of this page, as I originally did it without the flashback… in the end I liked showing the flashback, even if I said this wouldn’t be an intermission of flashbacks… 😉
I hope its obvious it’s a flash back… pretty sure, but yeah.
Someone asked me to put a poll up for making a wiki so other people could update stuff like character info. I put up a pull to gauge interest, but even if its overwhelming I can’t make a promise yet. I’m not going to use something like FANDOM I think because it’s just so ad-garbage last I saw it. If people are interested I’ll see if I can set up some sort of ad-free platform for it, don’t know the options yet for making it so people can edit without or with minimal accounts.
Anyway, sorry for all the delays. Lot of stuff happened. Without getting into #lifeblogging, graphic drivers shit themselves when I updated them, still catching up at work from being sick, at work an offshore resource is leaving my team and decided to cause problems on the way out by just not doing work they were paid for, other hobbies weren’t properly put on hold, I scrapped and redrew a page, had to meet an old friend that was in town for the first time in a few years… yeah, I’m just not very good at life sometimes. I look at this pile of things and think “yeah… I can juggle that, no problem.” Next thing you know, tasks are scattered about the floor… worse yet, comics are late 😉
I can’t get cheating help from Patreons to spell check this one cause I’m late, so… sorry in advance! 😀
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Technically speaking, I’m already working on my own database of notes, but it’s not online or very far along. But I have gotten frustrated enough wondering about when various characters said something to try to start keeping notes about when they said things that I might want to check on later.
I’m right there with you. First thing I would do after working on character descriptions is put in links with everywhere they have shown up or been directly referanced. That is less useful for people like Peter, but would be extremely useful for someone like Sophie or Tyler.
So many ideas, though the feasability may be somewhat wanting at times.
There’s something funny about the phrase “people eating monsters” with a different interpretation, Peter’s response could’ve been: “Then people will eat monsters there.” instead.
A hyphen (“people-eating monsters”) might help.
Ten bucks says M.Y.M., or at least something similar/related. (Oh wait, “updating”, so probably syncing old version in with newer Mium cloud. Twenty bucks.)
Still! Flashback was funny. (And given it was supposed to be present-time intermission, not too hard to figure out. Even later on it jumping back so quickly should make it pretty obvious.) Just about always fun to see how Peter gets along (or doesn’t) with…..anyone. =)
(She does seem like she might be taking the lack of a visit slightly personally, but could also figure he probably thought she didn’t want him visiting. Or maybe was busy. Or something. Dunno.)
Curious to see how (what I expect to be Mium) and her get along.
(Wait, is that panel 1 joke supposed to be a literal interpretation of her supposition, or saying that the monsters will eat other people and he’ll leave himself out of that category? First read it the latter, but now guessing it was just the former. Dang.)
I think it is not really a joke, or at least, not in-comic a joke. That is Peter’s reply, and it’s funny to us because how Peter interacts with the world is occasionally funny. I think to Peter the fact that monsters eat humans is no big deal. Peter doesn’t disassociate himself from that threat because he doesn’t view himself as a person, he disassociates himself because he doesn’t see how monsters eating people really effects him, due his classic brand of extremely low empathy and high confidence.
I am once again impressed by how normal Peter’s sister seems when the rest of that family is like they are. Considering that the rest of her family tree we have seen so far is Arron, Kyle, Miko and Peter… maybe she is adopted. Though she does look like Peter’s sister.
We haven’t seen much of Peter’s sister yet. Let’s see how she reads to meeting Mium before we write her off as normal.
*hugs also* This is still my favorite comic, right along with freefall which is hanging in there also. That long term high quality comic also has a creator who has a full time job, so it can be done.
Haha, yeah, I’ll keep on muddling through. Sorry if the commentary sounded too melodramatic, don’t mean to cast doubt on continuation, just a production hell of a page 😉 . Deciding to try to just do on the surface tablet was not a decision that panned out well, I forgot that last time I worked on that thing for any length of time, the standards of the comic were a lot lower.
Appreciate the support!
> “Then people monsters will eat people there.”
Such a Peter response. Like “Why does that concern me?” it is just monsters eating people. It is not like I can’t plan around a minor thing like that.
Also… Mari seems to have made contact with… dare I say it, that looks like a version of Query? “Miss Mari” sounds a little familiar…
Took me a little while to remember (and find it!): but yes we have met Mari before… http://pastutopia.com/?comic=comic-for-thursday-april-13th
Was nice to reread that bit (3 pages!) Totally forgotten that Kyle had realised Query can hack implants. Also gives context to Mari musing “Is it what Dad said?” (I assume it’s about Kyle’s mutterings about Peter’s dislike of implants etc).
What on earth makes you think that you can handle all of the shit life throws at you any better than the rest of us can? Or worse yet, that you should need to? We’ve all, “Been there, done that.” Occasionally, multiple times. Stop, take a deep breath, start over again. We are all patiently waiting. I, for one, will forego the grammatical checks.
Thanks 😉 – I don’t reckon being bad at time management is a unique problem to me, days just look bigger from the outside, and on offshore time the last few days has not improved my ability to do… well, anything.
Everyone over estimates what can be done in a day and under estimates what can be done in a year. Each day a step towards your long term desires makes an amazing difference.
I think you seem to be accomplishing that fairly well, in so far as this one aspect of your life goes which is visible to me.
If you need more coaching, I’m going to need to know more about your life. I accept PayPal, most major credit cards, cash, and Bitcoin.
*hugs you* I still love the comic anyway.
It was figuring people’d still like a imperfect comic that this page out the door… and what got the comic started for that matter 😉 Always appreciate the support 🙂
Only you really know what constitutes an imperfect comic. We are all operating on the premise that you have put up exactly what you wanted, with some occasional grammatical missteps to give us something to work on. But then in the previous strip, you have bad grammar with a purpose and we didn’t all get it right away. Looking forward to where this is going, but still a lot to be wrapped up in the current threads. As always, eagerly awaiting the next installment.