I will now proceed to swoon over because of certain events in this and the previous chapter.
As for Mari's status...Spoiler: show
Spoiler: show
Page, finally!
This is building up quite nicely to Something Really Happening Soon --
All in all the “not quite meeting” is getting a bit convoluted. Given how easy it seems to be to travel between the worlds, it would seem likely there would be a postal service, and if so, would it be too much to ask for Felix and co to send a postcard to Teige and Parker? The tanuki girl (sorry I forgot her name) at least knows how close friends Hawk and Teige are / were and that Teige would very much like to know Hawk is alive and out of the Trade.
Furthermore the bad guys are going to do something, so Hawk’s trauma is about to fly into his face. I very much hope all of this,p won’t go down simultaneously, but I fear it will.
It’s understandable if Numair needs to take a moment to consider what to do with this information, but seriously he can’t refrain from telling them. If he did, he wouldn’t be the good person we have come to see him as.
Hiding his true identity from Hawk is bad, but somehow understandable, especially if read as “I’ll absolutely tell him soon, I just need to have this for a little longer”. Not letting the siblings know about each other would be selfish and cruel. He knows how Hawk suffers from the trauma of losing his family (the nightmare we saw was about the Trade but Numair probably knows something about his other nightmares too with his Seeing) and that Liya thinks she’s lost her family although she seems to be coping reasonably well. I don’t think Numair is selfish and cruel. At least I hope he’s not, even though real people have many different facets to them.
However, as the broadcast is right around the corner (this same night? The “bird” is up) he may choose to not tell until after the big event. Or may even be unable to reach Hawk before it. I don’t remember right now, can they call from world to world or would he have to go to Ardh to speak to Hawk. So, perhaps it all comes to light via some dramatic circumstances (see chapter cover) because of the timing. But he can’t just decide not to say anything to protect his “cover”.
All goodness! Hawk stills doesn’t know Teige’s there too.
Hawk knows that Teige is still alive - the important thing is that Teige now knows that Hawk's alive and okay. Hopefully they'll be able to talk next panel.
Is this going to turn into a final whole-group battle scene?Whole which group? I think it's still too early to assume that Noodle is acting solo here, rather than the entire slavers group have come for a loose end.
I think it's still too early to assume that Noodle is acting solo here, rather than the entire slavers group have come for a loose end.
I wonder if Yoshi will find out that necessity will be the final factor in her learning to shapeshift at will. She has the training, and the ring to focus on, and her body dysphoria is already improving, so maybe?
Oh, right, I did see those but didn’t remember. I was just thinking how she was just given the ring to help, and how it would be highly useful. Although, she’s a stablehand and probably packs a considerable punch just in her human form too.
Oh my dear boys :'( Hawk has every right to be furious, but I do hope they come out of this with something salvageable.
I do have to say, one thing I have appreciated about this whole saga is that it shows a person who is genuinely kind and well-meaning still managing to royally screw up a relationship for reasons that were both selfish, understandable, entirely in-character and entirely his fault.
However, I do hope Hawk cools off more than he is now.
But I’d like to think Numair wouldn’t keep what would essentially be a slave, whether created by him or othewise.
and I'd also expect that there are often conversations between Numair and Sraddi that we're not being shown.Chekhov's speech bubble might apply here. I found that I do not need all the graphical variations used to tell between Sraddis own wording vs. quoting someone else, but extending thereon would allow to have it really stand out if a third manner of speaking does suddenly pop up ...
I’d like to think Numair wouldn’t keep what would essentially be a slave, whether created by him or othewise.We're talking about a construct - that, even if sentient, may have been made to be unable to fend for itself, at least in some respects ...
This week's page not up yet -- but last week's page has developed a rather charged discussion in the comments, due to a new commenter's coming in and very much praising the comic but first noting that they're "not a big fan of the transgender thing". Which brings in responses from thephooka and others.
plus their response was stupid, "I'm not planning to become one" (transgender person). Oh I see, apparently they are planning to become a winged hunk, and a healer with a smith's muscles, and another healer who is also a tree? Reading something outside of one's own experience is enriching, not something that we shouldn't do!
Yeah, it's weird - like... do they feel that the existence of transgender people somehow threatens their own gender or something? Do they think that transgender people are trying to convert people or something?I obviously have no idea about that commenter in particular, but if you ask the right - as in, sufficiently far right - people ...
Do I actually want to go to that link, and am I going to be able to understand it if I do? I'm afraid I can only read English and a miniscule amount of French.Google can translate the text (https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/faktenfinder/queerfeindlichkeit-desinformation-100.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp) for you, but not the opener photo, which admittedly is all I expected y'all to look at. Yes, the text has a paragraph about the "portray as a threat to children" topic, too, but it doesn't capture the sheer scream of "we'll agitprop people's brains out!" that the photo conveys.
-- I wonder whether what they felt threatened about was thinking that people might assume they're transgender if they admit to liking a comic with sympathetic transgender characters? Which makes no sense if one thinks about it for five minutes -- not only is nobody going to conclude that they must be a shapeshifter or a truthseer, but surely they've noticed that many works in many fields present characters who are both male and female and nobody assumes that anyone praising those works must be a specific one of those -- but I suspect the commenter is somebody who's never actually thought about this before. I hope that they will now.Hmmmm I wonder whether that's why so many fans dislike major character deaths ... :P
I don't know how to get at the patreon page if it isn't.
Looks like next week we'll start getting a 10 page short story. Or maybe an exposition. I'm looking forward to it, in any case.