At this point, Taro starts to sound like a real mechanical savant, if not quite as gifted as the gnomes themselves, then still capable of appreciating their work on an educated level and even suggesting improvements. This will not last. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel like panel 1 is more significant in retrospect. Bandit has been clinging, however desperately, to the idea that her people’s talents would never be used for war. It’s not so much that she’s a pacifist herself, but even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll be honest: I’ve never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and I was imagining a very different context for this line before I looked it up. At least I didn’t misremember it as coming from Million Dollar Baby. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unlike Mich and Franz, Taro was always meant to return in some fashion. This continues but is close to the end of his “MacGyver/Kevin McAllister” phase, where he was deadly in relatively close combat with actual adventurers thanks to his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Woo-hoo, 4-20! [inhaling noises] Oh, who am I kidding, that’s Phil’s thing. Panel 1 is the kind of busy tableau that I love to encourage, where there are at least several different things going on, all of them jostling for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
