Comic for Thursday, June 30th
Update: Sorry folks, I’m just going to put the comic on hiatus for a week. I will make up some comics down the road, but I think it’ll be simpler this way; got a lot of stuff to wrap up for work, and don’t really want to be juggling the extra ball. I feel if I try to wrap up production on the next comic before I leave it’ll probably be a fairly weak entry, so I’ll have have to counsel patience and see ya’ in week. We’ll be back going strong Monday, July 10th!
Alright folks, bad news time. I didn’t get as much time as I hoped (though about what I expected) so there will likely only be one comic next week (assuming I finish that one before I leave). It will probably go up on Thursday next week (though it’ll be queued up before I leave). Additionally, I’ll be pretty sparse in the comments for it, and Monday’s comic on the far side of that week may be a little late. I’m travelling out of the country, and sucked at getting the buffer up in time.
That said, I try will make up the comics when I get back, and that counts the one that’s currently owed, so we’ll have a few weeks of extra updates till we get back to even. I will try to approve comments through while I’m gone (though existing commentators don’t need their comments approved) but will be mostly absent till I get back, so be nice, etc. 😛
In happier news (if for me and not for you) I got my car back, so that’s pretty great. It looks fine and seems to work about the same, so I’m pretty happy and that’s a pretty big element of crap to worry about eliminated, though there is still endless insurance papers and whatnot.
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I reread the archive waiting… didnt help now i’m just thinking about what will happen next more now. -.-
Well… update soon, hiatus is over! 😉 Thanks for waiting patiently 😀
I think you mean you’ll be back on Monday the 11th, not the 10th?
Maybe he wont be back till 2023… first year i could find that has a July 10th monday ^^
Indeed, though I suppose I should have said Sunday the 10th, as I’ll update Monday’s comic tomorrow to end the hiatus by being on time for a change 😀
No. Bad artist. you don’t get to burn yourself out for your fans. Don’t push yourself to try to catch up. Drop your updates to 1+ a week. Post them on monday and thursday. If you only get one done, just post it on monday but if you manage to have 2 then you can do monday and thursday. but for gods sake, don’t rush art. if you rush it it looks bad but if you pace yourself then everything looks right. also, if you don’t rush you don’t make as many grammar/spelling errors.
I will pass along the admonishment to the artist 😉
We will see; not aiming to rush too much, but more hoping I’ll have more time in the future to work on the comic. They may just pile work in my inbox while I’m gone and crush those hopes, but for now we’ll be optimistic.
I see this after the hiatus update went up, but yeah. Take your time. We will wait. Maybe a little impatiently, but do what you got to do.
Thank you for the kind words and patience, hiatus will be ending shortly 😉
A hiatus is needed every now and then. An artist should be allowed time to rest and let life happen. I will be here and when you get back I only request that you have rested enough to make sure you are healthy and able to make these comics. I do not want you to get sick because of people who can not wait. If you need more than a week people will understand and the ones who do not, well they should decide what is more important another’s health or their own pleasure. I am sorry about this comment, but you need to know that people, like me, will be here for you.
That life thing is a botherisome nuisance when trying to draw a webcomic, that’s for sure! 😛
Appreciate the comment, and appreciate the patience 😉 I will take breaks where I have to, but hopefully we’ll get to the end without anything longer then a week or two here and there… otherwise I’ll get impatient! 😀
Is it too late to request an avatar? I’d like a Rovak one if possible.
Regarding Miko, while she looks androgynous, hearing her speak would probably make it easier for them to tell?
Looks like Miko is building her own squad. Shame most of them seem incompetent.
PS: Don’t worry about a break. Everyone takes them here and there.
Avatar added!
We’ll see, I think it’s more Miko is collecting a wake of baffled bystanders… but people have made due with worse.
“You defy my expectations by being good? You are stupid and I hate you!” Ah Miko is truly dedicated to her art of being a misanthropic grouch. I guess she has to be pretty extreme to balance out Naomi’s all smile all the time.
It is interesting that Miko was called “her” after it went unremarked so long, but I guess no one has ever really talked around it in the comic, but I wonder if teal hacker girl knows something or if she’s just guessing, or if it’s supposed to be apparent (which I would assume, besides the lack of pronouns involving her).
Seems like teal hacker girl is done panicking now that there is someone else there to panic?
Just a piece of feedback: I think the reading order from panel 4 to 5 looks weird. I would go 3 to 5 if it wasn’t for the words. Maybe just me though.
See my answer to @xspacetrue about Miko’s sex. 🙂
“misanthropic grouch”… that suits Miko pretty well. Should add that to the character page… 😛
Agree on the panel ordering. Looks a bit weird. Admittedly sometimes it ends up a tad random.
I think milo has a personality like mine. I don’t like people who do not know when to be silent and how to do what I want them to do. I should also note that I believe she may have a degree of autism. I say this because she doesn’t care much for people, EQ, but is very intelligent, IQ, which is like me in that regard. EQ is how you show emotion, like anger, sadness, happiness, etc… The standard person with autism that is shown on tv is a person who does not like being touched, does not speak, and is extremely OCD. There are many diffent cases of autism as it affects everyone differently. I believe miko falls under the same category me and Albert Einstein are under, the 170 IQ and up.
Wow, good thing I came back to check. I meant Miko. I need to stop being awake at 4am. Edit: I do not know why it says 11:01 am when this is posted.
The time zones on the comments are something that confuses even me. I suspect I was probably supposed to configure it at some point, but never did 😛
Miko is, as you note, very intelligent and quite good at several things… but indeed, people is not one of them.
Miko, as seen here, does posses a certain sense of sentimentality and empathy (more then we’ve seen from Peter anyway…), but is just… not good at or fond of dealing with people.
Quite simple and does not take a borderline genius – they’re UTC times.
Poor miko! her expectations of evil minions are being crushed! ^^
I think Miko might get too much of her ideas from stories and stereotypes. least she has “stupid sentimentality” ^^
The world is a cruel place to expectations! 😛 How dare evil minions not be evil, it’s just wrong! 😐
Office girl is definitely not an evil minion. A well meaning, highly driven, good natured person who works for an evil company? Yes, maybe without realizing the company is really evil. But personally evil? No.
So bad Miko for making generalizations.
Indeed. I get the feeling Miko is pretty fast with the labeling department, and paints in wide strokes. Though I think her labels might be “Miko”, “annoying people”, and “evil minion”; it seems Saria has just jumped from “evil minion” to “annoying people”.
Are these two siblings, or maybe clones of different ages? This new one seems younger for some reason. Similar hair, eyes, attitudes. Seem to know eachother. If I remember correctly the older teally is the CEOs right hand.
Many pages ago, PastUtopia apoligized when three characters with teal hair appeared on the same page (or was it back-to-back?), admitting that it could be confusing.
Here’s where we first see the two of them on the same page. It explains that “Tealy” is a hired consultant, like Miko:
http://pastutopia.com/?comic=comic-for-monday-february-1st
No, I’m pretty sure the two teal-haired ladies are not related. In fact, now that I think about it, I suspect “Tealy the Hacker-Girl” dyed her hair teal and her natural color is blonde.
Check the Cast page. The lady who just walked in is Saria, “Ryn’s minion/secretary.” Scroll down and, just under Kyle Kepler, is a blonde lady (with teal ends) called “???” and described as, “A hacker of unknown affiliation. Looking for ‘an annoying bastard’.” Looking back now, I believe that was “Tealy” before dying her hair for this job.
I think I know who the “annoying bastard” is she’s looking for. On the Feb. 3rd page, when Miko started hacking their systems, Tealy…
Yeah, I think the teal haired hacker girl is the same girl from THIS page, which would confirm that her hair is not teal and she is the ??? from the cast page. Her eyes are though (which means that she is a mismatched, whatever that means, though teal is probably not a normal eye color?). Her eyes being teal makes me think she’s from Malsa’s world (we need world names), but the hair/skin means probably not Malsa.
And as @xpacetrue says, Saria is Ryn’s secretary, and Ryn isn’t the CEO, more like the CTO or chief spokesperson, seemingly in charge of the not shady part of Avon (or less shady?). This may explain why Saria is not an “evil minion” as she and Ryn may not even be involved in whatever the labs do (if I remember correctly, Ryn referred to them as the “mad science” division or something like that).
It’s unlikely they are related, though not impossible. Teal is not a particularly uncommon hair color among the non-standard hair colors, and teal-hacker-girl (as some have pointed out) may be a teal-impostor.
Having teal hair is actually less remarkable then having blonde hair and teal eyes in Malsa…
Green is the most common hair/eye color among designer children among both genders, but teal is pretty close counting only women.
“Herself”? So, Miko is a she… I think. (That said, for all we know, Miko could be genderfluid or something. Or “Tealy the Hacker-Girl” could have the wrong impression of Miko.)
Not that it matters. But it was sort of bothering me that we couldn’t tell. And PastUtopia seemed to be very careful in pronoun use when talking about her – no doubt to prevent giving it away.
I just did a mini archive bing to find Tealy the Hacker-Girl’s actual name. But, unless I missed a page, it was never given. Though, it made me realize how much PastUtopia has switched scenes this year. Before the last couple of pages, the last we saw of Miko and “Tealy” was back on April 18. And we first saw Tealy on February 1. All in all, I think we’ve seen Tealy on about half a dozen pages, total.
“Miko” is a title, not a name. She’s just using it as an alias. 🙂
Look it up. 🙂
PastUtopia just wanted to leave a little mystery about her for a while. 🙂
isn’t miko translated into shrine maiden? or am i reading it wrong?
Pretty sure it is shrine maiden, and that’s what @Delta-v is saying. The name meant she was almost certainly a girl (or identifies as such).
I don’t think tealy the hacker-girls name as been given, and I doubt she gave her real one to Avon anyway. I should probably make the archives a little easier to search, been thinking about ways to do that. Maybe actual thumbnails for pages? Not sure if it’s feasible or not though.
I do skip around a lot, and we’ve gotten a few too many scenes going in parallel here. That plus the reduced update schedule means we are getting hit by “webcomic time” pretty hard. We’ll get it sorted out though, and hopefully it’ll all make sense as it comes together 😛
Miko is an interesting case; it’s true that I avoid using pronouns when talking from an author point of view in that case, but I didn’t want to extend that into the comic as it’d be out of character. To be honest, I mostly started going out of my way to avoid it once people started speculating, as I prefer to keep my comments strictly quandary neutral (meaning I can answers quandaries as long as I raise new ones 😛 ).