Comic for Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
This one is a bit late and a bit rushed, but I didn’t want to miss this week, since… unfortunately, I will probably be missing the next comic.
I’m travelling over Thanksgiving, and don’t have any ability to make a comic on the road on the anymore. Given that I’m already a little crunched for time as we see with this one, I don’t imagine that I’ll have time to buffer up a comic while for while I’m gone. This happens every year, but with the already slow schedule it’d be a bit of a longer break. Next comic should be 12/9, and so I’ll be back with that and the yearly Santa Hat Poll probably.
There will probably be a bit of a time skip in comic as well, as we are probably going to skip directly to the summit with Fairway from here, or at least the lead up to that, since that will probably take the remainder of Chapter 18.
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In addition panel 7 we are going TO BE outgunned
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In the panel below the word “elsewhere”, it would seem that ” for making this relocation fall aport” or “to make this relocation fall apart” would seem right but “to making this relocation fall apart” seems wrong.
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Not to nitpick (we pick because we love!), but maybe that red-shirted lady’s third speech ellipse should read “son OF that canary-coat troublemaker…” It makes a little more sense that way. And when she later says “There should be some people”–did you leave that hanging for a reason? It seems a little unfinished. Or maybe I’m just reading it wrong.
I believe that red shirted lady is Lucy Harper. I think we’ll be seeing more of her. She’s named for the Harpers of Pern. In all likelihood, she’s going to die tragically on her first away mission.
My apologies for the spoilers.
For a moment, I was going to complain we already had a Lucy, so she had to die off quickly. However, I double-checked before I did, and we didn’t already have a Lucy. El Goonish Shive has a Lucy. Dumbing of Age has a Lucy. I think some of the comics I read whose cast I don’t track have Lucies. It’s about time we had one.
I hope she lives longer than her eponym, if you are right about her eponym. Otherwise, we will quickly fall short of our Lucy quota again.
EGS Lucy has nearly been a main character lately.
Dumbing of Age rebuilds his entire universe every time he gets bored, it’s irritating and I haven’t read there since the early 2000s.
Peanuts has a Lucy. She might be the best of them.
In addition to the dropped word in panel 6 and the hanging phrase in 8, in panel 7 there is at least a couple dropped words ‘we are going TO BE out gunned’.
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Hah, Fairway seems like the kind of guy who understands risk. The thing is relocation carries a ton of risks as is. It means either the risks are higher for doing nothing or the rewards are so great said risks are worth it. The thing about refugees is the things Peter is talking about regarding Central’s history and likely the principles of the tech don’t stay hidden when you have thousands of them.
The info Peter is spreading about Central has a shelf life, and everything he reveals actually reduces the risks associated with the relocation plan. This means they have to show some other risk. Which would be Kors world involvement, the war, or the risk of said refugees being hostages, or something else.
Fortunately for them, it seems the two people in the bottom panels understand that doing something to annoy Fairway is a bad idea. Which means it’s another group likely to make a move. Which still seems inane to me
If Kally thinks he shouldn’t be involved in this, then I think the risks of not relocating are higher than anyone focused on the Palindra scene realizes, apart from maybe Peter. About the only thing that I feel would be likely to stop it would be the Kor’s World stuff.
Or maybe I’m wrong, and maybe Fairway might not be involved because of “risk”s per se. If that’s the case, anyone trying to stop it is just blowing against the wind. “We have a count down, people, we need to be out of here.” When the choice is between pan and fire, the fire seems pretty dangerous. When the danger is between void and fire, the fire is safer. At least there’s enough air for the fire to use to keep burning.
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