Comic for Thursday, March 6th
I assure you, reading all the of the TV commentary is entirely unnecessary to your understanding of the comic. Sort of like TV commentaries in general, really.
Unlike the commentary around here ya’ll leave, that contains some of the higher quality discussion, theory-crafting, and general rambling found on the internet 😀
Ah. And the best spell/grammar corrects. Of which I am sure this page will need many 🙁 Too many damn words.
I suspect that it’s one of those things that is not super clear that Avon is based in Arpon, though many of their buildings, branches and labs are in Malsa for reasons. Ryn is a native to Arpon. Arpon has done its best to ride the coattails of neighboring countries success, and tends to provide generous incentives to companies that want to move their headquarters across the border, which is why some speculate Avon has its headquarters there.
Historically it was somewhat more isolationist than Malsa, but it’s been reversing that policy as it tries to shove the throttle forward and catch up in international relevance to it’s neighbor. It also has larger army, spending a fairly large percentage of it’s budget on it, but has historically been kept in check by lacking mages of comparable power to Malsa’s Families.
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Avon researchers: Ryn’s an ignorant moron.
News media: Ryn’s a visionary genius.
Why do I get the strong impression that the truth is somewhere in between? Oh, because both of those possibilities are too extreme to be correct, that’s right.
Page’ll be up sometime during the day tomorrow (Monday), depending on schedule. Unfortunately didn’t get a chance to finish it up tonight.
I do not quite understand Ryn’s use of the red glasses. If he wanted to masquerade as a designer child, it would be a lot more effective to just die his hair green. Green is a pretty common color for designer children. Sure it took me awhile to realize his eyes and hair were mismatched, but if he has a big following, they are bound to have noticed it.
The news casters are also excellently and entertainingly written here, but I somehow get the feeling you are not a big fan of TV news anchors…
I was curious about that as well. Are they the proverbial rose colored glasses, part of his personal style, or both?
Well, there’s gotta be worse jumps from salesman to PR. (Like, anything that doesn’t have to deal with people, to PR.) I mean, step one: have something that sounds good to them, ready to say. Their plumber probably would not have that on hand, hmm? (Oh dear imagine Mir. Threats and shouting as the first approach, and the Media would just tear her to bits.)
Golly, gee, I wonder just WHO leaked Ryn’s name to the press, and whether Avon decided to include him before, or after, the press reported that he’d be there. >>
The question is: Just how does Ryn fit into Peter’s plans?
It is interesting question since I think we have a pretty clear idea that Ryn is not associated with Peter. It is even possible that someone else pulled the strings here, but I do not have leads there.
My guess is that Peter is fairly sure that Ryn will anti-IDS, anti-PACT, and not really have a sinister agenda to further (if he is aware how much of a clueless fluff Ryn actually is, which he almost certainly is). Plus Ryn is sort of media darling, so sending Ryn will bring even more media attention and pressure on the meeting, which would make any clandestine deals the IDS is trying to work a lot harder.
And Ryn keeps getting more work heaped on him. Well the reward for a job well done is more work…
He might not have much time to enjoy the giant yacht. Though to be honest I am not sure he’d planned beyond just getting one to have one.
Thumbs up to colored speech bubbles. Remarkably inobtrusive and easy to follow. They’d be obnoxious if you used them for characters that are part of the narrative flow, but for background noise? They both help set it aside and make it easy to follow.
Thanks. I try to avoid using fonts and colors too much, but it solved a few problems – having the characters on screen have their own speech tails would have been a little silly, and I wanted it to be sort of background noise anyway.
I also somehow think its a little more appropriate for the sort of silly stylized way TV newcasters usually talk (imo, anyway). Colored text is just inherently harder to take seriously.
in panel 2: “it is just a matter of following the proper protocol and making corporate structure the most convenient path.” in panel 3: “what could go WRONG?”
Fixed panel 3. Maybe improved panel 2? She wants the researchers to follow proper protocol… I think it’s a given that she does 😉
I see. other than those 2 panels, I don’t see any other screw ups in the comic.
protocol can be important. but as she said earlier, they have had no oversight, other than possibly martin and the old ceo. who for some reason i see her as a more… steriotypical supervillan.
and ryn should know better than asking what could go wrong… it usually gets worse.
I very much get the idea that he KNOWS what could go wrong, and how it could all go to hell quickly. He’s saying that as a way of pointing it out.
Ryn definitely seems to have a rapidly developing fatalism streak. Probably a healthy reaction considering the recent events of his life.