It’s still Thursday. Some places.
I spent a long time trying to figure out if it’s “loyalties lie” or “loyalties lay”. Lay looks more correct to me, but the internet did a compelling job of convincing me that it was lie, and if there is one place you can’t ever get wrong information, it’s random results on Google. … … yeah, someone will tell me if it’s wrong I imagine 😛
Specifically I reckon Kally thinks Peter is the third best, when it comes to the spook-ing business. She rates herself the best when it comes to the dragon-ing business. She’s probably [spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers]. She was always content to leaving the plot-ing and the clever-ing to Peter.
I put up a little something I wrote awhile I ago on a lark, you can read it over -> here. It’s about 3 pages of novelization of The Far Side of Utopia’s first three pages. I dunno if that’s something I’d ever do, but it was a fun little project. I’d often thought I’d write The Far Side of Utopia rather than draw it back in the day, but of course I never really expected to publish either version 😛 – this however isn’t any original manuscript, rather I wrote it reading the first three pages into novel format.
I also put up a new sketchbook entry for the first time in awhile where I practice digital painting. This is not known for it’s spectacular results, but it’s something I can do when I want spend some time drawing but lack the brainpower to draw comic pages, as those require some degree of actually thinking while drawing, and lately brain power has been at a premium.
My work still wants to ship me to the other side of the country, because sending your employees to places randomly selected by throwing darts at a map is apparently what bored managers do for fun, so there is the potential for a missed comic or two in the next couple weeks, but I’ll let you guys know what’s up if we come to that.
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That’s an awful lot of dialogue in panel 6. I wonder which part necessitated the blush. (Probably the start of it.)
It is amusing though that Tyler’s reasons why she’s the exact wrong person to send are the exact reasons why she isn’t. (At least partly, according to her view of the situation. Which is probably true, though not for the reasons she thinks. Well, not entirely anyway.) It’s such a pity the next page probably won’t be Peter pausing his current conversation to comment on this one. (Or even the next page involving this room, in case the actual next page jumps back to the other PoV.)
Kally does not like being reminded that her business with Peter is – from an outsiders point of view – not entirely professional. Kally is not very good at dealing with people, and her favorite approach is to raise ‘rules’ sort of like a conversational deflector shield. If she can just follow the rules, the conversation doesn’t require any negotiation (by Kally standards). I’d say she is more flustered than bashful when it’s brought up, but that’s open to some interpretation.
2nd to last panel. He was one the best ->
He was one OF the best.
She could be irish. It is st pats day, one ‘o the best
Fixed, thanks!
Re: Lie vs. Lay
They’re both correct but mean slightly different things in that sentence.
“I’ve never made it a secret where my [current, ongoing] loyalties lie.”
vs
“I’ve never made it a secret where my loyalties [at the time] lay.”
I think Kally meant the first, so good job.
That would explain why I had so much trouble getting the internet to give me a straight answer on which was correct.
Yes, lie is correct. In this usage, lay is the past tense of lie.
Lay as a verb in the current tense usually means to put something down (as in, lay that over there). See http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lay
This is one of those where I just have to as ‘wtf, English, wtf?’ (yes, English is my first language, I just sort of made it to 0.5 languages it seems).
There is this whole series of words, lie, lay, laid, lied each with different meanings. Least we got this one right, so time I’m good with declaring an unearned victory!
I sort of expect there is going to be an inevitable conflict between these two, despite of (or maybe because) they are both the closest to lawful good main characters. A fire breathing ethereal dragon seems like bad news for what we’ve seen of Tyler’s powerset though…
Oh. And here I thought it was because she was powerful enough to get through anything Peter might put between the two of them…
That might be why Arron is willing to send her out, but she wasn’t really sent to arrest Peter. As Tyler notes, she is not a very good spy.
As always, it’s worth noting that characters are not reliable narrators, and regarding Peter, Kally may be the least reliable narrator of all… 😉
The real problem is, with how everyone vilifies or reveres Peter (or the more fun response of both), it’s hard to tell if she’s being an unreliable narrator or not.
Which is just so much more fun. (Though I’d be liable to believe her until it’s obvious. Because that usually seems even more fun. ^.^)
(But I will say that from what we’ve seen so far I don’t think he’d just leave you a note saying “I.O.U 1 spy”, he’d probably confuse the hell out of the guy for fun, assuming he bothered acknowledging the spy being worth doing anything to.)