Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[Laufey]

Oh but she WAS on the boat! At least my brain is currently very convinced that Minna has confirmed that the baby Aino's expecting is Lalli, Tuuri and Onni's grandmother.

As for living on the boat, it's a possibility, but they do seem to have a land option because Tuuli mentions traditional sauna birth, and Eino speaks of a "rec room turned fallout shelter". Going by what would be really typical for Finns my theory is that they have a summer cottage + sauna on one of the gazillion little islands of the Saimaa lake system.

The boat can only be used for as long as there's gas for it, after which I assume they'll do the usual thing and use a small row boat instead (if you have a summer cottage next to a lake you most likely have a row boat). I guess they could try to re-stock on gas every once in a while, on those stations that are at smaller towns and villages... but that would be really risky and eventually those would run out of gas anyway.

[Juniper]

Technically not a comic update, but Minna has posted this on tumblr and twitter. It'll probably be included in Monday's update, I'm guessing.

Meet Ensi Hotakainen, previously known only as Grandma Hotakainen:
http://sssscomic.tumblr.com/post/150229489615/nope-its-not-lalli-drawn-as-a-middle-aged-woman

AHHHH this is so exciting !!!! She's so gorgeous and ethereal just like I imagined ♥ maybe I'm just a bit eager now that we have her name and face but I wonder if having this means we're getting close to finally having the Hotakainen back story revealed and this is why dear Ensi was on Minna's mind ? I'm really excited to see some of the other cast and crew's family now, like perhaps finally getting to see Emil's parents ?

EDIT: more exciting things ! She answered the question I asked her about family trees making this is the second question I asked her on Tumblr which she answered ! Still nothing on that question I asked her about the differences between all the crew's uniforms and their purposes such as the time she mentioned in the comments that Emil's coat is canonically thicker than the others because he works with explosives . .

[Solokov]

I hope no one was in that elevator. Bad timing on someone popping the head out could block their escape from a giant off in the isolation ward.

[Juniper]

I wonder how long it took to stack all those chairs and if they just made Mikkel do all of it.

[Solokov]

Perhaps, but on the same coin there's the possibility that the chairs were already stacked on top of the elevator.

[Juniper]

Perhaps, but on the same coin there's the possibility that the chairs were already stacked on top of the elevator.

Nah, apparently Minna confirmed in the comments they were stacked by our dear heroes

[VibratingText]

I wonder how long it took to stack all those chairs and if they just made Mikkel do all of it.

Nah, apparently Minna confirmed in the comments they were stacked by our dear heroes

He took too long, and the others had to help him.

Things Mikkel is no longer allowed to do: Stack chairs

[Minutia_R]

Oh but she WAS on the boat! At least my brain is currently very convinced that Minna has confirmed that the baby Aino's expecting is Lalli, Tuuri and Onni's grandmother.

As for living on the boat, it's a possibility, but they do seem to have a land option because Tuuli mentions traditional sauna birth, and Eino speaks of a "rec room turned fallout shelter". Going by what would be really typical for Finns my theory is that they have a summer cottage + sauna on one of the gazillion little islands of the Saimaa lake system.

The boat can only be used for as long as there's gas for it, after which I assume they'll do the usual thing and use a small row boat instead (if you have a summer cottage next to a lake you most likely have a row boat). I guess they could try to re-stock on gas every once in a while, on those stations that are at smaller towns and villages... but that would be really risky and eventually those would run out of gas anyway.

In the Grandma Hotakainen story I wrote before the reveal (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7669366) I posited that the sauna and the rec room are on the boat.  I did a little bit of research and apparently it's not uncommon for houseboats and the like to have saunas?

[Róisín]

That's what I thought.

[Miriam]

Nah, apparently Minna confirmed in the comments they were stacked by our dear heroes

True, here's a link to the comment.

[urbicande]

Technically not a comic update, but Minna has posted this on tumblr and twitter. It'll probably be included in Monday's update, I'm guessing.

Meet Ensi Hotakainen, previously known only as Grandma Hotakainen:
http://sssscomic.tumblr.com/post/150229489615/nope-its-not-lalli-drawn-as-a-middle-aged-woman

Minna's description:

She looks like Someone Not To Be Messed With

[Laufey]

In the Grandma Hotakainen story I wrote before the reveal (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7669366) I posited that the sauna and the rec room are on the boat.  I did a little bit of research and apparently it's not uncommon for houseboats and the like to have saunas?

The rec room's supposed to double as a fallout shelter though. The necessary structure would in all likelihood be either far too heavy or far too large for a boat as small as Lumilintu, all depending on the shielding material used. You're right though that having a sauna on a houseboat is not uncommon, Finns will build their saunas wherever (and failing that there's also the tent sauna option).

[Juniper]

YEAH MONSTER TIME !!!! But Lalli's knife almost seems smaller than I remember it being ;_; I'm just, going to have faith that he knows what he is doing and could still adaquetely defend himself against a troll with that thing . .

[Keeper]

Lalli, please alert your captain and medic to the monster and do not go off alone without a trace to hunt it down...

[VibratingText]

That's a long neck for a troll. I wonder what the rest looks like.