Annotated 39-9
Helpful as Chrissie is being here, she could maybe mention why Bandit got drummed out, even if she’d probably say it was something she was forced to do. Byron’s death will turn out to be irrelevant to whether Byron’s player is alive or dead, but it could have been important information. But maybe that’s what she was about to say when Kaye interrupted her.
Man, how much fun could it have been to show Kaye going through some of Scipio’s questline and giving her interpretation of it as she went? (Sleeping with Fr’Nj) “Ah, I see I have unlocked the OnlyFans wood elf content.” (Fighting the Sisterhood of the Open Heart) “Okay, how many designers of this one had traumatic Catholic-school upbringings? Show of hands? What—ALL of you?” (Interrogating admitted Cultists) “Wow, wow wow wow. These guys are more nihilistic than Dark Souls.”
Fr’Nj’s status as “not quite a player, not quite an NPC” was a bugaboo for me and Flo, so we figured we might as well use that here.
Nice shout-out to my all-time favorite Disney movie.
Disney’s best movies include those that AREN’T about princesses. Groove, Lilo & Stitch, the first Mulan.
Interesting balloon-flow in panel 1. Normally you’d assume a text higher up comes before what’s below, but here it’s obvious that Daniel’s comments are followed by Xan’s, then Lia’s: it’s really the only way to read it. The reader is guided by the lay-out of (balloons in) the panel, helped by the way the comments fit together.
Left-to-right seems to work out.
Speaking of things that don’t make sense: Kaye’s head position in the last panel. It’s maybe kinda supposed to look like she’s looking at Chrissie, but that’s not how those devices work. Even if part of Chrissie’s head somehow manages to be in the field of view of this laptop’s camera (which is unlikely), Kaye would see it on her screen mere inches from her camera, not projected far to her right. So Kaye is looking at something in her apartment, probably not paying attention to this conversation, but she has no reason to be distracted yet.
Maybe she is looking at at her cat off screen and it just looks like she’s looking at Chrissy to the rest of us… Or maybe this is a comic and visual cues are important to let the reader know who’s doing what..
Yeah, now that we all have experience with video calls that bugs me a lot too.
I thought it comedic artistic license.
If any of these jokers has a standard Max Headroom impersonation, it’s Kaye.
Yeah, that always bothers me too when I re-read the series.