Comments on: Annotated 46-17

By: lp

lp — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 16:10:27 +0000

Possibly the best alt-text in the entire series right here. Unexpected, wouldn’t possibly be said, and yet it fits weirdly well.

By: Minivet

Minivet — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:12:42 +0000

It still seems a tactical blunder for Iver to challenge here and now, especially making it about the trolls’ fitness to be leading at all. Some of all the races (except landsharks) might be gathered at the arena, but surely trolls predominate because of what was about to happen.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:54:40 +0000

Iver brings his wives into the arena because this is a comic, so there’s a need to visualize the wives for the readership, who have never seen the wives before. (Or if we have, we sure needed a reminder!) But yeah, don’t expose your baby mamas to Trolls who are primed to attack, Iver!

By: Rolan7

Rolan7 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:00:14 +0000

As someone who faced a lot of unwelcome expectation to… reproduce, this hit me hard the first time around. It hits me differently this time, but I’m glad to observe that I’ve come a long way in that regard.

The connection of Iver’s ploy to the Savasi population issue is a solid point, though. I didn’t think of that last time. Obviously he’s still gross, but I can see how his position would resonate.

By: Athaic

Athaic — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:07:50 +0000

“I have more kids than you” is hardly a great argument for an application for leadership of the Rebellion.

Circular reasoning on Iver’s part. He decided that producing offsprings is an important quality for a leader, and then applied himself to it.

Iver’s main take was quite common two or three generations ago. “That makes the strength of a nation are her children. The more, the better, and everybody should do their duty and produce offsprings.”
I have actually met a guy like this, some years ago. An old timer who had a strong opinions on my country’s recently adopted law allowing same-sex marriage and he was quite intend on sharing them.
To be fair, there were a number of other grandads and grandmas in the room, and they were a lot more open-minded.

Also, don’t miss the subtext.
Iver is into a pissing context. He is claiming to be a better alpha male than either Harky or Penk, because he is hetero with some strong seed, not some unnatural perv avian-loving sissy.