Annotated 48-4
Most people guessed we were about to get Sundar; a respectable minority figured on Bandit; not many expected both!
I’m kind of impressed that Sundar’s subterfuge worked so well. Even Bandit seems to have missed that the box was moving on the last page: I don’t think she’d have landed on it deliberately otherwise. Maybe she was too preoccupied with getting in to thoroughly case the place until this page. As for Mich and Franz not noticing, never underestimate how diverting it is to be petty dicks to the one guy in the room slightly less privileged than they are.
Most no-brainer chapter title ever.
FB: In “Warcraft,” Rendar’s gotten the draft and the shaft, Micho and Franz are cheering up after taunting him (they laughed and laughed), rescue attempts are poorly choreographed, and though Iwatania is short-staffed, there’s always plenty of graft.
Panel 3 settles the mystery of why the box was labeled ‘my mangos’ in previous ones, by cutting it off it correctly labels the contents of the box.
That film was actually quite enjoyable for someone with barely any familiarity with the lore of the setting
I’ve heard something similar. I suppose that by merely playing the first two games (that, also, cover the lore that this movie pulls from I believe?) I would fall into that category. Still no plans to see it.
Warcraft? I guess that was an adequate chapter title. But if we’re going to dip into video game metaphors like that, I think Metal Gear would have been better.
The reason not to use “Metal Gear” as the chapter title is that it would make those parallels a little too obvious.
I was *mostly* kidding. ;)
I thought the box (and its unlikely effectiveness) might be a reference to Metal Gear Solid’s “The Orange” cardboard box, which may be one of the more popular of the series. Given Sundar already has a lot of the Snake energy and references it seemed like a pretty good reference.
Flo was co-plotting this, so it was probably meant that way.
»Bandit seems to have missed that the box was moving «
My internal explanation was that Sundar kept still while the professors were talking to Rendar, and that would have been about the time when Bandit snuck in, so she could only have seen the box moving after Rendar declared that the air is clear — i.e. the same moment when she started jumping.