Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[wavewright62]

Granted.  But still, he doesn't have to worry about a ghost horse following him back and hunting down his folks, that should cheer him?

[thorny]

Reynir seems to have cheered up considerably. But why does Emil look so gloomy, I wonder?

[Windfighter]

I think Emil thought they were being taken to Björköfjärden because he's vain like that! So now he's all "Wait, this isn't home o.0"

[yung_chrysanthemum]

it's pretty crazy to think that if reynir hadn't been there, the entire group would have died after the FIRST ghost attack (which would have happened regardless), and if they had miraculously survived it somehow, they DEFINITELY would have died after the second one

moving to the 3rd level of increasingly-unlikely hypotheticals, if somehow somebody managed to get back to civilization, they would have brought a ghost/troll horde back with them -- do people in Y90 even know how to deal with ghosts? difficult to predict what would have happened in that scenario

reynir is the MVP of adventure #1 IMO, i kinda hope somebody gives him credit for that in these upcoming pages. i kinda doubt it though lol

[Mebediel]

moving to the 3rd level of increasingly-unlikely hypotheticals, if somehow somebody managed to get back to civilization, they would have brought a ghost/troll horde back with them -- do people in Y90 even know how to deal with ghosts? difficult to predict what would have happened in that scenario

I'm under the impression that they might to some extent, but probably not well enough to have known what to do in that specific scenario. Onni is a pretty experienced mage, for example, and he didn't really know how to get rid of them. Maybe the Icelandic mages would have had some other ideas, but I'm not so sure. 90 years isn't exactly a long period of time; there's still a lot they have to discover/rediscover, and I imagine that dealing with those ghosts is just one out of many of the magical things mages still have to figure out.

[vegetablemonster]

Minna did confirm in a recent livestream that Onni blamed himself for not protecting Tuuri enough. Seeing his face in the recent comic page makes me wonder how he's coping. Probably lots of (off-screen) tears were shed.

[Hrollo]

I just realised what Onni's reaction in yesterday's page reminded me of:

[Grade E cat]

I actually went inside that church when I was in Reykjavik a couple summers ago. Happy to see it's still around.

EDIT on the 7th:
Seeing that Kitty was left in a cat hotel while Sigrun and Mikkel are having their lunch made me think of how Michael Madsen refused to do exactly that because he thought the places were "practically kitty-jails". I never really paid attention to the differences in how cats are treated in the two eras before this.

[thorny]

Kitty:  What? There are other cats in the world?!!

-- this may be the first time she's seen another cat since she was too young to remember, and she's probably got no idea how to behave around other cats.

Even if she saw the ship's cats while she was being carried through to isolation, she wouldn't have had a chance to interact with them.

[Grade E cat]

It would really depend on the memory length of cats. Her mother and littermates can't have been dead for longer than three months.

[thorny]

They can certainly remember longer than that -- but she was a very young kitten at that time. I would guess that, like humans, cats remember their infancy poorly if at all.

Cats who have been separated from all other cats as small kittens often have trouble getting along with other cats if they're introduced as adults or near-adults. Some of this is probably that socialization in cats is partly learned, and a cat who's only been socialized to humans may not be a fluent speaker of cat.

[wavewright62]

Hers was not the only feral nest in the Silent World, there may be a sizeable population of ferals throughout Denmark, which Minna didn't draw or show Kisu interacting with.  For much of the time in canon, she would have been keeping close to the tank, but definitely should have at least nose-tapped others during their travels on foot with Will Barry.
We didn't see much of the abandoned Danish base where they ended the journey (a tremendous pity that), but I headcanon a population of cats in that vicinty too.

[thorny]

I'd expect feral cats to keep well away from humans; and Kisu was always shown as keeping quite close to her people.

However, you're right that there are certainly things going on that we don't see. So I might be wrong about this one.

[Grade E cat]

The more I think of it, the more I'm tempted to peg "Aunt Helga" as a member of Ragnar's generation rather than of Árni (Ragnarsson)'s, as I've seen assumed by some people in the comments. She's pretty much stated to be dead, presumably of old age, in the present day and she's shown to have typical "old lady" complaints in the childhood flashback.

[Purple Wyrm]

Here's something interesting. If we assume that...

1) Year 90 is 2103/2104 (90 years after the comic started in 2013)
2) The expedition was planned to take advantage of the coldest month (January)
3) The moon seen on page 504 is waxing gibbous.

Then consultation of moon phases shows that the expedition set out from the Oresund base on new years day 2104!

(This is a lot of assumptions, but I think it's neat! )