Comic for Thursday, November 10th
When I write the “script” for pages, the dialog is typically placeholder. It will include things like <Peter is snide> and so forth. The details typically get painted in fairly late in the process. All this is to say that Naomi’s comment at that the end was the originally the placeholder text, but as occasionally happens I got too attached to it replace it 😛
Also…. finally, my salvation from spelling and grammar arrives (Naomi)! Down with Peter and Tyler and their incessant expositioning! 😛 … Least I hope I managed to spell Naomi’s dialog correctly, she does use a full 7 letter word there 🙁
There have been struggles with the buffer as I got a little… distracted. I am not 100% sure we won’t miss an update over thanksgiving at this point when I’m travelling, but I’ll put a doodle or something from my surface if I do. We’ll play it by ear, folks, but I do wanna warn you as I really didn’t want to miss an update in this stretch… 😐
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*snrrk* HA!
“Your place doesn’t seem likely to explode” wasn’t in reference to Avon at all! That’s hilarious!
So what all “stuff” was lost in Peter’s place getting KO’d by Explosion? (And whodunnit this time, anyway? (Wait, is that guy throwing something into the fire?)) And how many spanners does that throw into Peter’s myriad of works?
Also, isn’t “Peter is snide” as a placeholder a little….redundant? He seems to get that worked into non-snide commentary most of the time anyway, heh. (Naomi’s remark is pretty fun though.)
I get the feeling Peter probably has a lot houses and uses them like a shell game.
I think this is pretty likely to be PACT/C.A.. Getting Kally without getting Peter or visa versa seems like a terrible idea, so it makes sense they would aim for a clean sweep.
I almost expect that targeting Kally was to draw away Peter’s resources just for the purpose of this, or at least to prevent her from going all Red Dragon Witch on them when she found them trying to bump off Peter.
Probably why people started to blow them up. After all you can’t hide things under a shell (or not hide things) that doesn’t exist anymore. So people decided to blow up any house they heard Peter might be staying at.
“Vexing wankers” indeed. Now to see if the vexing wankers are waiting around for someone to show up…
Tyler and Peter’s conversation here was pretty enlightening, and I think we have at least some notion of what Peter is doing now and how he hopes to effect the outcome. It is even possible that Peter is Avon’s source of KorTech.
Still not sure what Peter’s endgame is. Is he trying to stop the IDS? Kor’s World? While it seems like it it something, he does not seem all that concerned with Malsa, and only started working with them out of convenience. Still a missing piece or two.
A totally unrelated aside Marshal Tyler needs to be a canon outfit. Somehow I think Naomi would approve.
Well, when the Wild West Rumble arc where Marshal Tyler and his MSB Deputies has to track down interdimensional cattle rustlers and face off against the infamous spellslingin’ outlaw Ruffian McQuickcast* comes along I’m sure it’ll be canon.
*said arc may or may not, but almost certainly may not, exist. 😛
Um. Where do I donate to make this be a thing that exists?
Of course We’d need to figure out who the pretty school marm and widowed grandma in danger of losing the farm would be. Most of the ladies in the comic do not lend themselves to helplessness.
I will definitely go right now on patreon and give all I can spare just to see this arc happen.
It would seem that Peter’s attempt at invisibility proved inadequate. I must admit that I am a bit surprised that he was so easily found. 🙂
I really like the way you’re drawing clothing with natural wrinkles and draping. 🙂
Unfortunately these vexing wankers are pretty good at finding things…
It seems like they sent someone a little more competent than Special Agent Otte (or that Otte found competent backup, maybe PACT?).
It is curious that they blow the house up when no one was there though. It seems like once they found it they would camp out until Peter showed up, unless they know he knew they were after him. While he does know, he likely knows because they blew up his house (which MYM would have told him about).
maybe it’s just me, but the last panel seems like a bit of a metaphor right now.
Well, this was scripted a few weeks ago, so… 😐 We’ll leave that discussion for another day and another comic (maybe I need to start PUP again).
For what it’s worth, I laughed a Naomi’s panel. Especially as I imagine the stuff Naomi had was random trivial items, and she is more phased by losing them than that someone blew up her house. It’s like she would have been fine it with if they just put her stuff on the lawn first like proper arsonists.
I had the exact same mental image, and imagine that in such a context (ludicrous as it would be) she would say something along the lines of “I suppose these things happen.”
(Incidentally, not to be a grammarian, but it’s “fazed” in the context you’re using it; even though it’s trivial, figured I’d offer the remark since it’s probably just a word you’ve heard but not seen, and you seem to use proper spelling/grammar otherwise.)
I suppose when you embark on the course of ‘saving the world’ you just sort of assume your house will explode somewhere along the line. Well, that or you just assume being near Peter increases the volatility of houses.
Speaking of Naomi losing her “random trivial items”, I wonder if Naomi had a collection of boy-boy romance comics (assuming their world has an equivalent to Yaoi manga). Or is she not into that? For some reason, she reminded me of certain anime characters, so it seemed kind of fitting in my mind. If not, perhaps regular romance novels, then? Issues of some sort of magazine? Some sort of collectables? Exercise equipment?
I’m just curious what she most laments losing. I don’t recall seeing her in fancy clothes and us readers don’t have much to go on…
It is an interesting question if Naomi needs to actually workout to stay that fit or it is a side effect of her magic. She seemed pretty familiar with the Airball sport, so I think it is a good guess she plays that (sports fit with her very competitive challenge oriented personality). She plays some form of video game against Mium (that he apparently lets her win), so she had a computer/console or the like.
As for her tastes, well… she does like to play dress up with Mium and she is not overtly a flirt despite the way she dresses (though I suppose we have not seen that many people in normal Malsan clothes, so what passes for normal there is debatable). Do not think we have enough to go on. I could see her liking manga, sports, bands, pretty much anything really. Well. Less so books with lots of words, but you never know I guess.
Miko had pictures of magic girls on her walls, so I going to guess anime and manga and whatever it may entail is a thing in that world to some extent.
Not that my nieces are superpowered (I think) but I had the disturbing image of Ila and Naomi engaging in a kitsch binge at the equivalent of a Hot Topic and returning to festoon a tolerant Muim and irritated Peter with plastic costume jewelry as has happened to me on occasion.
Nooooo! Naomi, don’t just stand there. MYM is still inside.
I doubt it.* MYM’s computer core (if this is even a physical thing) is almost certainly not sitting some house that Peter was using. Peter seems only marginally surprised that his house was exploded.
If it is anywhere, I am guessing it would be Miko’s place. More likely, it’s somewhere much higher security or less conspicuous. If it was just on a rack at a server farm no one would ever know.
*probably just got wooshed by a joke.
Yep, pretty much
Peter and MYM were already moving data (and other things) earlier.
MYM can already run on multiple servers in different locations (as seen with Miko)
I don’t know if Kepler anticipated the exploding, or did the exploding.
But, I am pretty sure the MYM-human interface that was in that building is still in there.
So, I was being tongue in cheek explicative for the humour.
MYM seems to have a little bit of a struggle with identity when it comes to where he is at even given time… the concept is a little weird to him… ;p
I doubt he is happy that someone destroyed pieces of his network though, whatever they might have gotten. He does not like downsizing.
Downsizing does seems very much against MYM’s programmed goals.
Maybe he’s fireproof? 😛
Fireproof? Possibly. Explosionproof? Seems less likely…
No real spelling or grammar issues I can see. Minor critiques, though, in terms of how the punctuation matches the dialogue (at least as I hear it in my own head). First, in panel 5, you might want a comma before “Peter” (it reads more naturally to me that way, at least). Second, similarly, as I’m trying to enunciate Peter’s last bubble of dialogue in panel 4, I think it might make sense to italicize “looking” and remove the ellipsis after it; in my mental mode of Peter’s speaking, I don’t naturally hear that pause (only possibly hearing it if I also insert an ellipsis after the “for me,” making it him speaking haltingly rather than pausing to choose euphemisms for certain parts of the sentence).
Obviously, my mental audial realizations of the characters might not match yours, though.
I think PastUtopia got that use of ellipses from me. That particular format indicates a verbal pause to signal an ironic euphemism that should be treated as if the actual word had been used. It wasn’t used in quite this way here, but one of the most frequent uses of this little construction is heard from cinematic villains amusing themselves at the victim’s expense (e.g. “I believe we can find a way to….encourage….you to talk.”) I like the effect, so I use it quite a bit.
That was what I gathered, and makes sense in your example, but I would use a different speaking rhythm if I was doing it twice in one sentence.
I see what you’re saying. Will have to puzzle through how make it sound correct, may update this later. I determined over the course of writing this comic that how I read text is fairly abnormal 😛
Probably because usually has little to do with what is actually written and more to do with what my brain assumes is written.
I think that method of reading text is universal when it comes someone reading something that they themself wrote.
Especially if you just wrote it.
It really, really helps to set it aside for a day and then proofread it. (But that means being ahead of the game and not being rushed, doesn’t it?)