Comic for Thursday, October 6th
This would be more surprising to you guys if you were guys were less observant… š Well, maybe not.
Now I suppose we all have to wonder if Peter is aware that telephones were invented quite some time ago. Maybe this just simply tickles his need for meladrama? š Arron does not seem all that surprised, I somehow don’t think he expected to end the day with Peter arrested. Somehow I think the IDS Analysts have a new story to grossly over-exaggerate around the water cooler. They will probably at least add a puff of smoke… š
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I am trying to decide what tone Naomi is using. Don’t think that is a criticism PastUtopia it damn near impossible to do in writing. What I mean is is she just happy go lucky this could be fun talking about tag or come at me Bro and I will enjoy kicking your ass fun. Either is likely from my reading of her to this point. The first case is how I interpreted the Airball match with Kalli I didn’t get the sense of any malice between the two and Naomi seemed eager to be all that she could be. The second case would be her fight on the subway platform with Agent Personality and goons there was a degree of malice but she also was enjoying it.
My interpretation would be happy-go-lucky for now. Peter does not want her to fight inside the office building (likely because it is full of his old coworkers).
If they try to chase her down, well, I think it will be the other side of the coin and we will see the psycho-smile side come out to play. I am not sure she even associates violence with malice though. I think she was just flipping back and forth between the psycho-side and the happy-go-lucky side a lot more during the airball match. During the actual points she was pretty much in full on psycho-smile side.
Even the times we have seen her actually fighting she snaps back to the happy-go-lucky pretty much instantly after she has won or someone (usually Peter) stops her.
New vote incentive up; that’s about 3/8 suggestions so far, so we are making good progress. Feel free to toss more suggestions into the ring š
Considering that Naomi is probably the only Innate Mage in the room (Emmi is a Natural Mage), I wonder just how much Arron knows about her abilities and proclivities. Both Kally and Emmi have seen her in action, but neither has seen her full range of power. (Kally has seen more, but she hasn’t had time to tell Arron yet.)
I can’t imagine Arron backing down unless he had a fairly good idea of how dangerous she is.
Honestly I think its more of him making an educated guess based on the fact that Peter essentially left her in his custody on his own. And that Peter would only do that if either a: the person was capable enough of to not be able to be taken into custody, or b: the person being in custody is part of some greater scheme.
Either way Arron saves effort/trouble by just letting the person walk away and not attempting to play games.
Well, he either knows she is trouble, or he suspects she is trouble (because realistically there is no scenario in which she is not trouble). Plus he is probably not keen on trouble in a room (presumably) filled with non-combatants.
Of course, “let go” and “back down” might now be exactly synonymous. Arron is cautious, but probably didn’t get where he is by being wasteful of opportunities…
Well, that, and he probably does really want to know how she got in there…
I need to ask this. Is this going to be one of the few times when there is a big hole in the building that just went unnoticed? I am still very much intrigued, also did Peter just use magic?
It could have been magic, since we don’t know if that ball Naomi is playing with is a disguised autocaster or not, or it could have been a hologram. When Eff-Five went to talk to M.Y.M. in the lab, M.Y.M.’s logo appeared floating over a disk. Click on THIS LINK, and look at the last panel.
Whatever it was, it was pretty cool. ^^
P.S. I tested the link, and it works this time. ^^
The holograms we have seen have not been that close to real. The one from that page is fairly clearly a hologram, as well as the ones we have seen on communicator devices.
While Peter was slightly transparent and blurry, he could apparently pass for an actual person.
My guess is that as someone mentioned this has something to do with the “hard light projector” Peter got from Tyler in return for the dimension detector, probably modded somehow. From what we know about Peter (which is frustrating little, to be honest) it is likely magic integrated with technology, part autocaster, part hologram. Least that is my bet.
Panel 9, art error (I assume): Naomi’s stomach seems to be in front of her pants’ waistband…
I think that’s just how her shorts look, they were similar in the last voting incentive I think. I had to look at it awhile to see what you mean, think it’s just a bit of a tangant line.
I tweaked the art a little bit. Maybe better? Her shorts are a little weird, but they are what she’s been wearing in about half her of her appearances. I am pretty sure way back she wore a skirt, but I do not actually remember for sure.
I dunno. I looked back and the waistband still looks a little odd compared to previous appearences, but perhaps it’s the same – it may just be drawn with a little more detail than, say, in http://pastutopia.com/?comic=comic-for-thursday-may-26th or http://pastutopia.com/?comic=comic-for-monday-february-8th; the extra line makes it look a little wonky to me, but that may just be the shorts style.
I still can’t get over the face of the analysts in panel 7. They just seem sooo happy with their new gossip. š
It’s basically gossip christmas come early. They are going to be the water-cooler bards for a few weeks now. A story this good is bound to spread… hmmm… š
I am starting to think Arron’s face is going to get stuck in a perpetual “god dammit Peter” expression.
It looks like the astral projection (or illusion or whatever) is not a well known technology. This could be how Peter has been ducking out from the start, when the IDS was trying to keep tabs on him. I wonder if it can make someone who is there invisible? Or just show something that is not there.
Naomi… yeah. Still Naomi. I think I was starting to miss her.
It is indeed a new a gossip-worthy magic trick to the analysts.
While making illusions is not that unheard of in it’s own, the fact that it appeared to be Peter holding a conversation of them (and even replying to Arron’s facial expressions and the like) makes it quite a bit more tricky.
Peter’s doing magic tricks.
What the hell, Peter! You were already an 11 on the badassery scale of slickness! You’re like, 13 or 14 now! ARE YOU HAPPY?!
This page. Is. AWESOME.
Especially the tag/hide and seek jokes.
I also think panels 4, 5, and 9-11, sum up Peter’s/Naomi’s MO pretty well, and in a hilarious way. (Confuse everyone, skirt around topics without actually touching them, and offer fights for fun.)
I think if these pages had titles this one should be “Playground Games”. =D
I think it is also very appropriate considering what Kyle said about Peter way back. Peter may have an important cause, he may view it as dangerous even, but he still plays it like a game.
It was talked about awhile ago in a commentary or comments that Peter is a magician in a world of mages. This page reminds me of that. He is clearly using magic of some sort, but he is not summoning dragons or blowing buildings up, he is using it for dramatic flare and trickery.
I wonder what Peter would be like to play chess with.
Probably horrifying. Like, you take his pawn with your knight, he takes your bishop with his UFO. And he’d probably never agree to that chess game without being able to pull stuff like that…..without having tricks up his sleeve you don’t even consider possible. And that’s just one sleeve.
Not to mention you asking him to chess was probably part of one of his plans and he’s anticipated how long the game will take, let alone who wins. (Oh, and your taking his pawn was a trap, too. Either way I’d expect it to be something he allowed for.)
Check out Xantos Speed Chess at TV Tropes :).
I linkified that for you, by the way, hope you don’t mind. Figured I’d lower the cost of entry for people, as googling something without a link is hardwork (I know, I had to do it to go look it up…) š
my laziness is shameful and I have no excuse for not doing something I know how to do :(.
Rock-paper-scissors-ufo- wait… what? What does UFO beat? You sank my battleship?! Checkmate?! What is going on?? š
I suspect Peter is closer to playing Calvinball than any game the rest of them might be playing (a fictional sport from Calvin and Hobbes where the rules were made up on the fly).
If he’s playing Calvinball, then he’s probably also trying to act as two different players trying to screw each other over, because that would be the most straightforward way of forcing everyone else to stay off-balance forever.
Bottom-left panel: Naomi says, “That was neat trick…” But there should be an “a” before trick.
Anyway, you’ve gotta give Peter credit: He makes a neat exit. And the tag vs. hide and seek banter was clever.
Fixed missing word. Thanks!
There’s a hole in the wall somewhere, isn’t there?
Arron will find out soon enough. Whether we will is another matter entirely.
Yup. Definitely a hole in the wall. Ah, Naomi.
Well, I mean she’s know for her subtlety and… yeah, probably a hole in the wall. š
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I am pretty sure that Peter installed a back door in Arron’s security.
Its right there behind the wall paper.
Right next to the Naomi sized hole.
Haha well, yeah. Though I think Naomi probably did the installing on that one… ^^