Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[Róisín]

Beautiful country. But yeah -mosquitoes. And midges.

[urbicande]

I'm kind of looking forward to hearing more about Grandma!

[Gaemmel]

Lalli isn't really that young anymore in this page. Means: either his grandma has outlived her sons and their wives, or all of them died not even THAT long ago. Also, if the parents are still alive in this, that means Juha, Jukka, Anne-Mari and Tuulikki were ALL non-immune.
Or am I missing something?

[Anna]

Lalli isn't really that young anymore in this page. Means: either his grandma has outlived her sons and their wives, or all of them died not even THAT long ago. Also, if the parents are still alive in this, that means Juha, Jukka, Anne-Mari and Tuulikki were ALL non-immune.
Or am I missing something?

I took it to mean that all of the parents were non-immune, but them being dead is a possibility, as they aren't present. We don't know the full circumstances.

[Grade E cat]

I've been interpreting this page as meaning that both sets of parents were dead, even when they lived in Saimaa. Notice how Tuuri jumps from Onni to Ensi. She doesn't ask about Lalli's parents.

[Abprallen]

I've been interpreting this page as meaning that both sets of parents were dead, even when they lived in Saimaa. Notice how Tuuri jumps from Onni to Ensi. She doesn't ask about Lalli's parents.

I interpreted it more as they were the ones who taught/trained him. He'd failed to do his job, something his parents weren't (as far as we know) involved in but his cousin and grandma were.

[Purple Wyrm]

Well, there goes my "Tuuri is secretly immune" theory - unless her parents are in on the conspiracy.

And it seems Onni isn't neurotic because of whatever tragedy drove them to Keuruu - he's just naturally neurotic 

[Minutia_R]

Well, there goes my "Tuuri is secretly immune" theory - unless her parents are in on the conspiracy.

And it seems Onni isn't neurotic because of whatever tragedy drove them to Keuruu - he's just naturally neurotic 

Eeeeeeh, I'm not sure that "being appalled at the suggestion that you steal a boat and take your baby sister into lake-beast-infested waters to visit a troll-infested island" necessarily qualifies as "neurotic."  If nothing else, Onni--who is probably at least twelve by this point?  I'm guessing closer to fourteen?--knows perfectly well who would be blamed for such an escapade, assuming they stayed alive long enough to get caught.

[Róisín]

Indeed. I often wonder how my two-years-older big brother ever coped with me. I was a climbing child. He wasn't. I still remember how much trouble we both got into when I broke both my ankles, and he had to go and get help, and obviously hadn't succeeded in restraining me.

[Antillanka]

Eeeeeeh, I'm not sure that "being appalled at the suggestion that you steal a boat and take your baby sister into lake-beast-infested waters to visit a troll-infested island" necessarily qualifies as "neurotic."  If nothing else, Onni--who is probably at least twelve by this point?  I'm guessing closer to fourteen?--knows perfectly well who would be blamed for such an escapade, assuming they stayed alive long enough to get caught.

Hahaha, yeah, I'd rather call him "reasonable" than neurotic in this case... but I'd bet he is a huge bit more fearful than the rest of the non-immune of the island... let's see ^^

[Grade E cat]

Okay, now it looks like Tuuri in scratching the top of her back with both hands... not liking this at all...

[Anna]

Okay, now it looks like Tuuri in scratching the top of her back with both hands... not liking this at all...

Or just tucking her hands behind her head in a relaxed or casual sort of way. (She may or may not be feigning being relaxed.)  I've done it before, usually while lying down.

[Sc0ut]

Okay, now it looks like Tuuri in scratching the top of her back with both hands... not liking this at all...

No, she's just leaning against the door and using her hands as a pillow.
I think if there really was something wrong with her skin, Minna would show it more clearly. When Sigrun's arm was hurting it often had stars coming out of it, and Sigrun's expression was unambiguous (it's in the previous pages but I don't have time to find it now, sorry). 

[Grade E cat]

I'm probably seeming paranoid because on the contrary, I think it would be exactly like Minna to make Tuuri's first symptoms look like completely normal gestures and have them happen in the background to the event that is actually supposed to have the reader's attention. And since that random guy who turned out to be in early stages of the Rash in the Finland prologue was shown scratching the back of his neck before his girlfriend checked his back, I'm going to be wary of every single time Tuuri gets her hands anywhere close to that part of her body, even if it looks like she's actually doing something else.

[Lazy8]

Given that she was shown to be sitting right next to Kitty, who was visibly relaxed, I don't think we have anything to worry about quite yet.

...then again, we have yet to get any confirmation of exactly when cats start reacting. When the person first develops a rash? When they first start mutating? Or not until they become a full-blown troll?

...I'm not doing a very good job of selling this, am I?