Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[Jitter]

I love the Kitty and gull panel, but the entire return trip has been meh. I mean maybe a couple of the 200 bear pages could have been sacrificed for this?

Still, it’s wayyyy better thy are all safe than have someone die now!

[lwise]

This actually feels like an epilogue, as if the chapter ended with them sitting around the fire with Lalli doing the ceremony with the bears' skulls.  Now we just get the wrap-up: they got back to the Gull Mage; they weren't infected by the Kade; they go back to civilization; all done, yay.

[JoB]

The Disqus comments are closed now, so I'm afraid that the forum will have to endure my silliness ...

"The aua of a thousand beaks!"

[Buteo]

I am deriving some amusement from the fact that "aua" in Maori means "herring"...

[yung_chrysanthemum]

It will always be my headcanon that the original intent was to have somebody be possessed by the Kade, but Minna nixed it because it would take too long and she clearly wants to get rolling on the next project. Wasn't there an info page alluding to exorcism as far back as like... Adventure 1?

[JoB]

Wasn't there an info page alluding to exorcism as far back as like... Adventure 1?

(No, kades and sentinel mages are specific to Finland, if not the particularly silent parts of the Saimaa lake system, and did not get introduced until adventure 2 brought the entire team there.)

[thorny]

Ooookay, we're definitely in 'let's get through this as fast as possible' mode, aren't we?

I'm not surprised; but I'm continuing to be disappointed.

At least it's seeming less and less likely that anybody's going to get killed off; thereby leaving more room for fanfic.

ETA: I don't know where Minna originally intended to go with this, back when she was still into it. But I'm about 97% sure there was originally intended to be more of it.

ETA again: have we met the guy in the last panel before? or does he just look like somebody we've met before? or am I just being faceblind, which is perfectly possible? (people who don't look alike to most people often look alike to me--)

[Róisín]

Isn’t he the skald who was maintaining the graveyard, doing troll watch and generally looking after the Hotakainen’s old village? Mauri or some similar name? The multilingual old guy?

[tehta]

I agree that he looks familiar! I even went back to see if maybe he was the gardener from Lalli's 'old home place', since that was another surprise Norwegian speaker, but no.

I might reread the start of the adventure tomorrow to see if I can spot his double there.

[Jitter]

He reminds me of the harbour guard who had Lalli running in circles back in Reykjavik, but not because of his looks but the way he sits in a little booth in a harbour with a newspaper.

I guess the seagulls in panel 1 are to explain why everything goes so smoothly (plus if I recall correctly there were no dangers on the water all the way from Saimaa capital to Väinö’s) but still, this is ridiculous. At least here is some of the previously missing travel montage (with some nice scenery and not nice at all ducks) but… no. Not enough. I’m not buying this, it doesn’t have all of the content. Ok,you are right, it’s still good value for its price so I shouldn’t complain BUT

[wavewright62]

Nah, he's just some rando, we haven't seen him before.  Plot twist: everybody in Finland outside of Keuruu actually spoke Norwegian all along, including the bears. 

Probably those ducks, too.

[JoB]

have we met the guy in the last panel before? or does he just look like somebody we've met before?

I flipped through the part of adv2 where the team's in Finland and meets actual people¹, but the best I can say is that he looks like (but cannot be) a younger version of Tapsa the cat-wrangler.

¹ Saimaa canal to Väinö's, so, pages 80-150-ish

[tehta]

If only we could ask Remembering Man...

[JoB]

If only we could ask Remembering Man...

Hmmm, you think? I take the nose and the dome, and buy Finnish origin and reading glasses bending the ears forward, but why would he switch from dock worker at the Bornholm hub to shopkeep in Saimaa, shave off the mustachiolo, and grow out the rest of his beard in the meantime?

[tehta]

I just meant that Remembering Man would remember.