Comic for Thursday, October 5th
So, I’ll not beat the dead horse too much regarding the issues of the last few days, you can go read the comments from the last update if you’re interesting and didn’t see them already. Long story short, site was hacked, lots of hassle. I’ve upgraded various things and paid for proper hosting so I’m not handling this myself anymore. I’d like to take a moment to really thank all the folks that support this on Patreon that make that a viable option! That made a big difference in the options I had in getting this resolved and not a problem for the future. An additional thanks to the people that offered to pitch in and help with data recovery or getting things sorted out.
Unfortunately all this means I haven’t made a lot of progress in getting the buffer going, bonus drawings (it’s freaking October, the prime month for costume themed drawings!) and Minus Years, etc, but we should be getting back to all that on track now (I say that every time, don’t I… but this time I had a really good excuse 🙂 )
Have costume ideas? You know the drill! Comment or email Character from the Comic + Costume, and there’s a decent chance it’ll get drawn. Better chance if you do it on Patreon, obviously, but frankly I usually get around to most of the suggestions (least I did last year… we do have more people than we used to…).
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Hey all – just a heads up, page for Monday will be late. I’m not going to be able to finish it tonight. Sorry; ended up being really busy this weekend and stuff. I am going to take a day off soon; won’t be Monday’s but will be soon coming up, I really need to get back to buffered updates for my own sanity.
Dropping out of school already, Weber? Don’t think that’ll look very good on your resume…(:P)
These two chatting never ceases to be amusing. (And the phone conversation is fun, too. “You’re such a jerk!” ‘Yup.’ So nonchalant. Hee~)
(Almost curious if Weber’s going to try pulling Peter into that job. I don’t think he would, but that would be an interesting twist.)
As for costumes…all I can think of is Mium as a Terminator with a nerf gun. His lethality, and his temperament, just more blatant than usual. (Well, lethality and temperament apparent, at least.)
I’ve always gotten the feeling that there was originally a larger Levenworth arc that was aborted. There’s a lot of set up around a school that no one actually goes to. As far as I can tell there has been maybe one or two days where they actually went to school so far unless more time is skipped we don’t see.
I think it may have been 4 school days. But as Peter has stated, the other players started moving much faster than he would have liked. Likely pushing him to something like Plan 32F.
Also for costumes… Kaly dressed up as a dragon.
Actually wait I think we already did that one, so if we did: Peter as the Riddler. And if we did that one…
Btw about the hack: i noticed a lot of wordpress sites get taken down lately. They may have been compromised or targeted.
It seems like someone is about to truly genuinely surprise Peter. He seems like the “argue back, without necessarily having a reason” type of person (IE: are you dumb/out of your mind/that is a stupid idea) when he is surprised rather than the “stop dead and think about it” (ie: “um…..”/ “hu?”) or the “babble incoherently” (ie: you, wait! what? why? really???).
It should be entertaining either way.
PS: i am of the opinion that this was probably not Peter’s idea. Peter tends to be a “behind the scenes” guy and that position would have entirely too much paperwork for his liking.
Put Peter in a Playboy Bunnygirl costume…just because…
Somemany people just want to watch the world burn, huh? 😉Oh god if you do that pls at least draw like Naomi in one as well to keep the world in balance.
Yeah! For… balance.
Soooo…. Naomi will be in a bunny costume as well, right?
4thed.
Peter in a schoolgirl outfit, mainly because he wouldn’t be caught DEAD like that otherwise.
You realize @PastUtopia can just troll you by drawing a picture of Peter wearing his usual Levenworth outfit, right? Technically it’s a school uniform, and boys and girls wear the same thing there (though the girls occasionally wear skirts).
Would you prefer I said “Peter in his school uniform and a kilt?”
Some people just want to watch the burn, huh? 😉
Your D of “Damned” in panel 4 isn’t bolded. Also, panel 3 is missing an angle bracket.
Have to admit, I’m as blindsided by this as Peter is. Wasn’t expecting that side-effect at all.
I’d also be curious as to whether Tyler left any standing orders for any of his lieutenants, of the “learn how Peter operates while I’m gone” variety. [Followed by “assume he knows you’re doing it, but only tell him if he asks – otherwise, he’ll be insulted that you think you have to tell him.”]
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Panel 1: “Vrrt, vvrrt…”
No fancy ringtone for Peter Kepler. If his phone was set to anything other than the factory default I would have been shocked. If someone brought it up, he would probably say, “Why bother?” He might also point out that, given how he’s a target, he doesn’t want to draw attention.
Typo in panel 5:
“<You… are… such a bastard Peter. A Do you have any idea…”
You have an extra “A” in front of “Do”.
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Panel 7 We promised not to arrest her
And I really hate dickwads. I am glad you got your site back up. There are two other artists who have hacked sites right now. It is very sad.
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Yeah, it’s an arms race that a solo-webmaster is sort of doomed in, which is why I threw in the towel on that one. The internet is still in many ways the wild west, vandalism, theft, etc, that are just sort of rampant when people can get away with it.
Anyway, at least I had the resources (thanks in no small part to the people here that’d helped out) to get help fixing and get it turned around and back up, so frankly I’m pretty lucky.
“Has made my concerned” -> “has made me concerned” in panel 7
Fixed, thanks 🙂
It may be the Jimmy John’s ( https://www.jimmyjohns.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1l4-q47Nc ) commercials I’ve been hearing on the radio, but is anyone else reading both Peter and Tyler in Joe Friday-style cadences?
Is… Tyler in mid bamboozle of Peter? Sweet, sweet karma? I am pretty sure that Tyler is implying he is going to leave Peter in charge of the M.S.B. and that, that is very interesting. Tyler knows he cannot beat Peter, and thus far he has failed to properly recruit him, but this? Next level.
Now the real question is how is Tyler going to get Peter to agree to that. Does Peter want the extra resources? Or does Tyler have something he can use to leverage Peter into it. Interesting… very interesting.
Also, Tamara’s name, finally confirmed. 🙂
Mid bamboozle attempt. How well it works depends on how well a functioning M.S.B. is to Peter’s plans. Which I guess really means Peter probably isn’t going to get seriously conned here.
I’m pretty sure that’s where Tyler is going with this, and whether Peter gets conned or not, his expression should be priceless. ^^
The way I think of Peter is someone with a social disorder of some sort. You can really see it in how he works with Kali in the Minus Years strip. Peter may be able to acurately model/guess at what people are going to do, but he doesn’t act like a normal person would. Heck, the AI acts more human than he does.
So, we don’t know if Peter would anticipate such a move or not. Also, we really don’t know how he’d react. You’re right in that everything comes down to if he thinks it would help or not.
That’s the think about the Keplers. They set goals, then work on achieving them. Things like power or position are merely methods. Then again, as long as your goal aligns with theirs, putting them in charge seems like a good idea.
Ah, good, so I’m not the only one who read that spiel about his “interim replacement” and thought he was likely disappointed that Peter didn’t give him an opening by asking who it was.
It’s possible that Peter maneuvered for this. I prefer to think that Tyler has finally matched him in unpredictable brilliance and that a blindsided Peter will be dragged kicking and screaming into Malsa’s fight.
If Peter doesn’t WANT to head the MSB, even temporarily, then Tyler will need some leverage to get him to accept. These sorts of maneuvers don’t quite work on people like Peter when based solely on the authority of, “Hah, now you own it.” Peter’s quite capable of snorting and saying “no,” without bothering to voice the “and the horse you rode in on” follow-up. However, we’ll see if Tyler has maneuvered Peter, here, next comic: if Peter is presented with reasons why he has to take the position because otherwise his own plans fall apart, and why he’ll have to actually use it for the interests of Malsa (as Tyler and Peter see them, which may be different than as the Consul sees them)…then we’ll know Tyler managed to actually make a move Peter wasn’t expecting nor able to counter.
PastUtopia always likes to end the page with an unanswered question, here the question is not “who did Tyler pick for his replacement?” but “how did he bait the hook?”.
The M.S.B. is about to catapult into the national spotlight. This is both a pro and con, Peter wants to meddle in international affairs, but he prefers not to have responsibility from what have seen for what he’s done. Peter would much rather be the guy behind the head of the M.S.B. then the guy leading it.
It also may be interesting that Tyler can pick his successor, rather then the Consul. Assuming the Consul didn’t put him up to this in the first place.
The simplest hook – The threat of being arrested would go away. He’s still have enemies, and they’d know where to find him, but any arrest would require blatant disregard of Malsa. Whether that matters or not anymore is a good question though.