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Annotated 34-11
That alt text is another little Flo tic I love. I barely remember the Cinnamon Toast Crunch ads, although there is a basketball-themed Cheerios ad that lives rent-free in my head and probably will to...
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Annotated 34-12
This scene is doing its best to argue that Syr’Nj and Byron have not just become a pair of idiots for the convenience of the plot. I think it’s partly successful in that: Syr’Nj’s precaution is...
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Annotated 37-20
This page is pretty great. As I said last time, Gravedust is sorta leaving E-Merl in the lurch because Gravedust has his own, slightly subtler trauma he needs solitude to process. But bearing that in...
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Annotated 40-20
It’s good for the state of Syr’Nj’s overall soul that even though she was the one contemplating killing her friend, she’s also the one to ensure her safety as something strange starts to happen to the...
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Annotated 40-21
So I guess the overall portal itinerary here was: 1. Hollister and Clair to Peacemaker Headquarters 2. H&C and Syr’Nj and Kur’Ik to Fr’Nj’s part of B’ial Vezk 3. H&C and Syr’Nj to Iwatani’s...
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Annotated 40-22
Had we gone with the plan of making Miyamoto, not Iwatani, the Head of House engineering the Peacemakers’ deaths, their status as enemies of the Gastonian state would be a little less cut and dried....
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Annotated 40-23
I could tag the Altruists here, but eh… this is more about the idea of them than even a direct flashback. God, Syr’Nj looks so tired in panel 2. She had spent a fair chunk of her adventuring life...
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Annotated 40-24
This won’t be the last time that the young sky elves just kinda…keep hanging around after they’ve been dismissed in conversation. It happens often enough that it feels less like a goof on our parts...
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Annotated 42-23
So with this, we conclude the real point of this chapter’s B’ial Vezk scenes: laying out why some people are going on this mission and why some are staying behind. See, it’s not just because we’re...
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Annotated 42-24
Just when we thought we were done with everyone’s side stories and ready to follow a single questline, Frigg drops her little bombshell in panel 1. What exactly she wants with Rachel’s erstwhile...
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Annotated 43-1
This is an arguable callback to Chapters 1 and 5. In the former, we opened Gravedust’s segment with him wandering through the desert, in the latter, we opened the chapter with Byron and Gravedust...
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Annotated 46-2
Seems that some of you were flustered to learn of Weo’s fate yesterday. To me, it seems only logical based on what we know…”this is the only adventure Weo will get to be a part of,” and a member of...
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Annotated 47-10
FB: “A very good vintage, year 1078. The grapes are grown on the branches of Yggdrasil, aged in the elevated spires of our city, and seasoned with idealists’ tears.” Again, I set up this scene, and...
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Annotated 47-11
In an earlier draft of this speech, Caneghem showed particular loathing for goblins: “Sky elves died from goblin explosives while defending human interests…Why should more die from human explosives...
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Annotated 47-12
Panel 1 is interesting: even as Caneghem concludes his case for isolation, he looks to Syr’Nj for understanding, comparing his people’s withdrawal from the known world to her withdrawal from the...
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Annotated 47-34
Sure, bardic magic. Can we sing it? Yes, we can! If we consider the war to last a couple of weeks to a couple of months, it’s safe to assume that Best and Penk will perform this song many times, […] ↓...
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Annotated 48-18
Though they’ve fought side by side for a while, Penk still isn’t above calling Syr’Nj “elf” when he’s mad and/or stressed. And it’s hard to imagine more pressure for him than this moment. Victory...
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Annotated 48-20
I saw some comments on yesterday’s page to the effect that Hollister and Clair should’ve adopted a “We’re made of rubber, you’re made of glue” strategy and hucked the Ultimate Engine’s missile right...
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Annotated 49-9
“You know cultists better than any of us…even though your track record of avoiding cultist traps is actually not that great.” Ulak’s original dialogue: “It’s like all our nihilism was for nothing!”...
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Annotated 49-10
FB: Heralding apocalypse, a storm forms around a cyclops colossus. Someone objected to the idea that Xanna’s backup would’ve been getting signal from them in the first place, but that strikes me as...
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