Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[Kiran]

I think Minna may have forgotten to update the page. I am still seeing the chapter cover for ch.17. Does anyone know what happened?

[catbirds]

She may have just elected to post on Monday! Check the notes section, it's mentioned that it'll be either today or Monday.

[Kiran]

She may have just elected to post on Monday! Check the notes section, it's mentioned that it'll be either today or Monday.

Yeah, I didn't notice the "or perhaps Monday" part of the notes. Oops. 

[Róisín]

Update comes when it comes. I am looking forward to it!

[tehta]

I am glad she took a few extra days. Both for her sake, and for the sake of the finished product.

[lwise]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and like that, but ...

It is difficult to express how little I care about the battle between Surma and the Mother of Bears.  As long as they're off somewhere else, giving Our Heroes a chance to hightail it back to civilization, I really don't care what happens to those two.

[thorny]

Yeah, looking at the note below the page I thought gaah, welcome back to this fight that's been going on for ages.

And this page doesn't seem to get us any further through it; it's just another round of whack, whack, whack. We already know these two are trying to kill each other and are both really hard to kill. I hope Minna's not going to take up yet more of our limited pages left having them throw each other around.

[lwise]

Welcome back, my friends, to the fight that never ends ...

[Jitter]

Plaaaaaahhhhh

[lwise]

The main conclusion that I reach from this battle is that the team has no chance whatsoever against either of these creatures, so regardless of which one wins, if the team doesn't escape back to civilization first, the survivor will wipe out the team with ease, barring a deus ex machina.  And we already had a deus ex machina in the previous chapter, in the form of the Swan.

[catbirds]

HMMMMM hmmm the dream world sequences have definitely been the more interesting parts of this adventure, but I'm also curious about what this brief cut to the monsters fighting was for. I feel like they've been sufficiently distracted that they won't interfere with the awake (?) crew for now. My guess is this is where it ends for the bear, if the cover page means anything.

And maybe Surma's the one peeking at the crew on the cover page.

But I'm just wondering so much at what the rest of the chapter will be like and how it'll end. Most importantly, if we'll be happy with it or not.

[vergoftowels]

Anyone else horribly, horribly disappointed by today's page? =__= The Hotakainens are my favorites, and I was hoping for... any kind of emotional catharsis. I already wasn't happy with how heavily railroady the swan was in this latest part.

Man, catching up and reading page by page is hard.

[TubularFox]

Yeah, sigh, I was not expecting my first-ever post here to be about being disappointed...... but I am.  The last 500 pages have been about getting to grandma and saving grandma and now we don't even get to TALK to grandma?  And what little talking there WAS we don't even get to hear???  What kind of emotional catharsis am I supposed to have from any of this.................

(Also please, please, I miss my Swede can he come back soon please? ;_; )

[Jitter]

hello TubularFox and welcome to the Forum!

Also welcome to the club, yeah I’m disappointed too.

I think panel 2 is an important one in the way it underlines how Onni is all alone again, but I really wanted to hear some of that conversation! And earlier, something from the original Kade, but apparently neither of these things will happen. Frustrating!

I miss Emil too. He hasn’t really done anything since the Tanktroll!

[lwise]

I have to agree with prior comments.  This is so disappointing.  We've learned nothing of the Kade and why she did what she did, nothing of Ensi's feelings, nothing about why the Kade ("It") was looking for the Hotakainen mages in particular ...

Maybe there'll be something tomorrow.