Minus Years, Update 4
….and we’ve come to the end of the break!
I hope that was at least something to tide you over, and perhaps entertained some to see an earlier version of Peter and Kally. Maybe I will flesh out more of their story (possible just continuing from here) in the future.
I should also probably note that “buying a house” is not, in fact, a normal thing for an IDS agent to do, per se. They usually live in rented apartments or the like as they move around a bit, but when the person teaching you “how to be a normal civilian” is Peter, you cannot expect there to be a large intersection with normal. I could probably do a whole arc on the time he decides to teach her how to collect her salary…
Anyway!
Back to the regularly scheduled updates on monday, and hopefully see you all then, currently looking at that we’ll have about a week of buffer, which is good enough. Did a bit of drawing, and took a bit of a break, all around I think we’re ready to get back to it 😀
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“Talking to you to you”
If I was hit in the head with a pile of flying concrete…
through my force field…
I would lie down too.
@Byzantine: That’s pretty much my theory, too.: Since Peter went rogue, suspicion would naturally fall on Kally as his former partner. By treating her so badly that she is obviously furious at him, he hoped to divert said suspicion. It didn’t work since Biana went after her anyway. If I’m right he should moderate his behavior somewhat. 🙂
I could not stop laughing, I have been needing a good laugh for the past couple days.
This makes it seem like Peter’s gotten less condescending over time.
Considering, well, Present-day Peter, that’s…..jeez…..
Haha, I dunno. I think modern Peter is more aggravating. At least this version of Peter is vaguely honest 😛
See thats part of the issue. Peter’s treating people like they can’t even stop him even if he tells them what he is doing; Ergo he is very condescending, but less jerkish (Or at least not MORE). Different axis to travel on.
This Peter seems very blatant about everything and gives no shits who cares about what and will do as he says and pleases anyway.
Present Peter still does the latter, but appears nowhere near as blatant about everything, unless he thinks that would work better.
Can I just ask for panel 11 as a wallpaper? ‘Cause that would be awesome.
The “Who’s a good dragon, you’re a good dragon” panel? Idk, it’s probably far too small 🙁
I can isolate the picture and see what the original res was, maybe I’ll draw a larger version at some point if I can get a chance; I’ll reply again if I do! 🙂
Fluffy is looking particularly good, here. 🙂
Peter actually looks like less of a puppet-master here than in the main comic. ^^
Who exactly are you calling Fluffy, Delta-V… 😡
“Meh, I found a way around that,” sounds like it should be Peter’s personal motto.
Knowing Peter, I strongly suspect that means he stole it or made Query figure out how to buy the houses.
Thinking about it, probably the second, and that is probably a lot scarier than the first. Peter might be the last person on earth that should have an all powerful AI…
What could possibly go wrong with loosing Query on the housing market… 😐
From Peter’s perspective? Very little.
From the rest of the world’s, on the other hand…
Wow. As someone just getting out of college and setting up life for grad school, Kally’s perspective on housing is a little harshly on-point…
The remark about Peter teaching Kally how to collect her paycheck gave me a great internal chuckle.
Some of the edges of these comics look slightly cropped – parts of panel-edge seem to be missing. I don’t know whether that’s common, but the bottom-right panel of this page looked weird because of it.
(Also, votey: math*e*matically)
Oops. This is why I shouldn’t put words on the voting incentives… 😛
To be honest, that’s pretty much what happens when anyone has to find housing for the first time, if a little embellished here. They really need to add like… How To Life 101 as part of the GEs, would be like a 100x more useful than most of them.
There are just so many hurdles between like bills, insurance, housing… blarg! And they go on forever! What are you going to grad school for if you don’t mind my asking?
In response to the Life 101 idea… http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/858/658/59c.jpg
I love the early Peter/Kally interactions!
Minus Years made me really like Kally. I would not mind seeing more of them in the main timeline, even if their dynamic has tragically shifted (though I think we can see some of this in the later interactions, where Kally is confused instead of just angry).
These prequel pages have a lot of the funniest dialogue in the comics. Even the bad guy just going “nope, nope, nope” before trying to get away and getting grabbed by Fluffy cracked me up.
I liked Kally even before I read The Minus Years, and always felt sorry for her because of the way Peter treated her (although I have my own theory about that).
He definitely still cares for her; he was willing to say fuck everything to rescue her. So I’m with the theory he was trying to keep her from getting too involved in whatever the hell he is currently scheming because it is way too dangerous for people he likes.