Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[thorny]

Maybe that's why it was itching.

[JoB]

Maybe that's why it was itching.

If you're referring to the actual "itching" incident, that one happened when (and apparently because) only Tuuri was present (and doing some Open Boil Mining) inside the kade.

[thorny]

No; I'm talking about page 486, which is after Reyner and Lalli entered the kade -- they went in on page 482.

It's because Tuuri's presence made the kade itch that I thought of it, though.

[Groupoid]

I wonder how & why the inside of the Kade is arranged like this.
I noticed a few weeks ago (after a chapter break) that Minna's drawing style left the realms of round bunny faces and returned to the "usual" style of SSSS.

[wavewright62]

Agreed, the art style has been more 'on-brand' for Chap. 16.

[thorny]

I wonder how & why the inside of the Kade is arranged like this.

I've been wondering that too.

And they don't seem to have seen any of its absorbed beings; though Tuuri saw them when she was inside, and most of them went back in.

But it's the dreamworld, so I suppose things can be strange like that --

[wavewright62]

Today, Reynir is looking dumbfounded at.....

...a Rubik's cube.  Turns out that kade was always envious of those who could solve them.

[Grade E cat]

I think Lalli should be the one climibing onto the eye. He's an expert eye-poker, after all.

[tehta]

I think Lalli should be the one climibing onto the eye. He's an expert eye-poker, after all.

Agreed.

Alternatively, he could use Reynir as a poking stick.

[catbirds]

Okay, I found today's page very funny! The shaking movement happening just at the tip of the swan's very long neck cracked me up for some reason.

[thorny]

Has it occured to anybody else that we might be very near the end of the story?

I mean, Minna could give us lots more pages of adventures as our team (or the survivors) make their way back out of the wilderness to the Known World, tie up bits of loose ends, give us some idea what they're going to do next.

Or she might not. Swan sorts things out, story's done --

[catbirds]

Yup, frankly, I don't think every loose end will be tied up since the main goal right now is probably closer to just getting back home, so the swan dealing with this issue feels like the story is a lot closer to its conclusion than most of us would like. There's still kind of the issue of Surma... kind of. We haven't seen the other half of the crew in a while, plus the walk-in refrigerator situation, but that's hardly the biggest problem of the ones the mages have been dealing with.

I hope the ending at least has a bit more of a focus on exploring everyone's personal lives and their futures. Adventure 1 ended in a way that would've been pretty unsatisfying in terms of character development if we didn't know we'd have the beginning of Adventure 2 to look forward to, but now that we know Adventure 3 won't be a thing, I really want to see a little bit more of their regular lives when this one ends.

But maybe it's too soon to think about that!

[tehta]

Didn't Minna say she expects the comic to end early in the New Year? (I guess she might have changed her mind.)

The main plot hooks I can still see are:

• The trolls converging on the mages' pantry. (Who will be encountered by the non-mages soonish.)
• The whole idea of kadefication and the Seagull Mage, who is qualified to reverse it if it is early in the process. It would be a huge shame not to use that whole setup.

I don't really count Surma/bear as I hope never to see another bear again as long as I live.

[thorny]

Bah. I've been hoping that in some fashion they'd get to talk with Grandma; but that doesn't seem very likely.

[Jitter]

There will be at least one more chapter after this, because Minna has announced a break (last weekend’s stream). But yeah, I find it hard to feel happy about the developments because it brings us closer to The End.  :'(