Annotated 23-5
The first panel is nice foreshadowing, and it’s a bit of a compromise between Phil’s and my dueling positions. Fightopia may look silly… it may in fact be silly… but sometimes serious conflicts have seemingly silly beginnings, if there are real issues underlying them.
I misnamed Miyamoto as “Persson” in my script, which caused Phil and me some consternation until we realized the mistake.
One could read Sundar’s Declaration of Independence, and Fightopia in general, as a little self-parody on my part. For all that I come off as the quiet thinker and Phil comes off as the loud, impulsive guy, Phil was all about the layers and layers of world-building and I was generally the one who was pushing to move the plot forward. “Let’s just have them fight a new race, Phil! Stop worrying how it fits into the game mechanics!” There are virtues to both approaches, but at your Constitutional Congress, you want a Phil, not a T.
Two pages seem to have gone up at once, and after navigating back to the previous one (to get context for the first panel, here), you need to go back to the main page to get back to this one. Don’t know if there’s anything you can do to fix that, but…
This one went up a bit early, but the other one went up at the usual time. I have noticed the issue with the penultimate page cropping up every so often; I’ll try something to resolve it tonight.
Oh, dang. I thought you had fixed the RSS feed so that it would show the latest page. But, I guess it was a mistake.
Actually… seems fine now. Dunno!
Fightopia suddenly reminds me of the bizarre story of the Principality of Sealand, well worth a Google search.
And so Ardaic and Syr’Nj invented a new sport: synchronized facepalming.
T: “Phil at the constitutional convention,”
Phil (giddy): “I was chosen for the constitutional convention!!”
Ardaic’s withering look at Miyamoto when he interrupted his little private soiree with Syr’Nj is very telling.
I interpreted that as “there’s a Head of House right here, why are you only addressing me?”
This is probably Miyamoto’s greatest scene, if only because he isn’t being incompetently opportunistic or consumed by impotent rage. ^_^