Annotated 5-18
So, Bandit Keynes.
Guess I’ll start with the name. The others’ names all come from fairly sensible inspirations, but Keynes’s name is a cross between noted economist John Maynard Keynes and Yu-Gi-Oh character Bandit Keith, She has nothing notable in common with either figure. It’s just that Keynes was on my mind because of all the economics we were discussing when laying out the series, I loved Bandit Keith’s Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged incarnation, and I thought it would be funny.
We’ve seen her in the flash-forwards enough to establish that she talks quick, Byron trusts her, Gravedust doesn’t, she earns that trust, and she’s not of gnomish culture but knows it pretty well. Still, this is her first chance to really shine in the story. I like the energy she shows here, talking and stealing rings around the others.
We never considered using the floral design Erica has here for the back of the “Can We Break It” stickers we sold. We had a need to promote our own URL that Byron does not.
Bandit Keynes is the reason why every night I check under my bed for Chris Hansen. I’ve been living in fear ever since I started reading this comic.
I didn’t know someone could make a house out of an emotion. Then again, I did once create a house made of candified ironwood for a sweet toothed druid.
I’ve built houses out of both shame and denial. It’s even possible to live in sin. Or so I’m told.
Oh, so it was a reference to that Keynes, I had always wondered.
Gravedust’s just finally happy there’s someone he can look down on.
The mention of YGOA makes me nostalgic… which makes me feel old. Aren’t you supposed to feel nostalgic for your childhood, not your way-into-adulthood?
It’s also odd to be nostalgic for something that is still continuing in the same fashion/vein in which it started – albeit with a more glacial pace.
So, I just noticed the site header still says, “New Comics Every M/W/F”
Perhaps it’s time to update that to reflect the current schedule, “
Old ComicsNew Annotations Every Day”?I’m curious how she is “not of gnomish culture, but knows it pretty well.” For some reason I thought she was of gnomish culture, but just didn’t fit in and was sortof ostracized?
This may be semantics, but that seems a little contradictory to me. If you don’t fit in and are ostracized by one culture and spend most of your time mingling with others outside that culture, are you really of it, after a while? Bandit would later come to terms with Gnometown to some degree and vice versa, but I think she’d self-identify as a ronin at this point.
Perhaps even ignominous?