Comments on: Annotated 4-17

By: Lirazel

Lirazel — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:18:06 +0000

All the gore is certainly enough like One Piece to make me suspicious!

By: Lirazel

Lirazel — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:16:35 +0000

I was thinking more of the way Best sails away in an airship, but yes, Taro’s presence and actions here both foreshadows and probably hastens the development of his contempt for other beings. After all, if Legendary Heroes can be so callous, why not little kids?

By: TxGator

TxGator — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:10:54 +0000

It’s a comic, so the physics doesn’t have to be accurate. Just suggestive or symbolic. And in this case the third panel seems to suggest the shooter has recently a acquired a new hole in his head.

It’s possible that it’s meant to represent Best swiping his head with an axe. But I believe Erica would of drawn the scene to be a touch more gory if that was the case.

By: Jack Vermicelli

Jack Vermicelli — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:54:30 +0000

Given that the shooter’s forehead while sighting (from Best’s perspective) is pretty much the same bearing as the muzzle of the gun, and given the apparent angle of divergence of the ricochet path from our point of view, and given that there is a lot of empty space (free of the gun muzzle) in the left of the panel, dictating a minimum distance between the shooter and the point of ricochet, I’m not exactly following where our point of view can possibly exist.

By: TachyonCode

TachyonCode — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:43:31 +0000

You know, until just now, rereading this page and your comment, I actually felt the whole wrap-up scene at the end with the Evil Lich Training scene was a little out of place. “Divine intervention” in the form of H.R. has taken its toll on my perception of the plot, and I had chosen to dismiss just how coincidental Taro’s role in the plot had been all along.

Maybe his upbringing predisposed him to villainy, but this chance encounter was the catalyst that pushed him over the edge – making that training scene I mentioned more of an endcap to this subplot and giving it a little more gravity as a wrap-up scene.