Chapter 45 Cover & Page 1
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‘We already went over this. You stab me in the back at the moment I least expect it. Have you not been paying attention at all?’
I thought so to, but now I’m thinking the daughter surprises everyone.
“Dad always thought it would be Taro. Taro thought it would be Taro. But I was listening to his dinnertime gloating sessions too.”
You know, that’d be oddly satisfying. Especially since we’d still probably have a villain in charge, even with those two getting their just rewards.
“even with those two getting their just desserts.”
It’s a dinner scene, we might as well get the puns starter. =D
We do seem to have quite an appetite for them.
She strikes me more as the feeding information to the enemy type.
Yeah, Taro is way too impatient and cackling-maniac-style villain. He’s surely destined for patricide, but I’d not be surprised if the daughter was the real powerhouse.
He blustered, he promised… she did it.
It did seem suspect that the Weo only said there’s be a shfit in power in Iwatani’s house soon, rather than be more specific about it.
Taro tries to usurp his father, fails, and Misa slips in and finishes them both while they’re both distracted.
Taro takes out both parents. But Misa, who’d made sure there was a plethora of witnesses and incriminating evidence, has Taro arrested for treason before he can take the throne.
The citizens of Iwatania, who revere Misa for having the integrity to bring her own brother to justice, demand that she be made their Empress.
The cries and accusations from Taro, that Misa had given him the idea and plans for usurping the throne from their father, fall on deaf ears. It turns out that details of all of Taro’s misadventures were somehow leaked to the press.
Again, I suspect this will be a Baron Harkonnen type of deal.
Yes, of course junior will try to stab in the back, but not before Iwatani demonstrates that you still *need* him.
And when daddy is good and ready to retire, he’ll do so when it’s clear that he’s not a threat and just wants to live out his retirement. And junior’s empire will be all the better for it.
Like son. I’m trying. Trying so hard to instruct you in the lessons of power. But you won’t listen will you.
Surely the Iwatania thing has to be satire.
Maybe. Or maybe it’s continuing a proud tradition. Depends who Gaston was.
No one rules like Gaston,
No one’s cruel like Gaston,
No one makes lesser races
The fool like Gaston!
In a coup he is sure to be EXempla-ry,
My what a ruler Gaston!
Up to three of those chalices are poisoned, how much would you bet?
More efficient to poison the whole cask.
Always be wary of the noble who drinks water
If you think about what era they live in (no filtering or purification of water available), then it would be much *safer* to drink some kind of fermented beverage. Unless they have some magical means to purify water, then any source of it would be suspect until people could drink from it & still live.
I’m thinking of Helena Bertinelli’s last dinner with her family.
Perhaps, but the flagon with the dragon holds the brew that it true.
But the only brew for the brave and true, comes from the Green Dragon!
Wait, was it the flagon with the dragon, or the chalice with the palace? I thought the pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the flagon with the dragon.
If you kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the candle with the handle on the gâteau from the château.
It’s like the Last Supper made up entirely of Judases.
In truth, I say to you. One of you has NOT betrayed me. I am so disappointed. I raised you all better than this!
And the expression of everyone at that table would make them a suspect.
No, no, they’re all poisoned, with different poisons. In fact each chalice has three different poisons in it.
this ^
No, all four chalices have three doses of the same poison.
The whole Iwatani family is about to be astounded when they realize that they all four have spent years developing an immunity to Iocane powder.
‘The other lesson is to update your phone, cos DAMN.”
She’s got the Nokia brick! I loved that phone so much!
It makes phone calls, it has games, and it’s a total knuckle duster in a pinch.
Knuckle duster in a punch.
I’m still using a clamshell. Don’t know how many times I’ve dropped it on concrete floors.
Go to your room and scheme.
But daaaad!
Now!
I am used to flipping fom technicolor to sepia and back to technicolor. At the most suspensful moment too. It is the quality I find most endearing abot this epoch. But one panel? Hey must admit that one panel tells a story.
That’s not a panel. That’s the chapter title page. They post that and the first page of the chapter at the same time because they’re nice like that.
WHAT ABOUT ME
IT ISN’T FAIR
I’VE HAD ENOUGH NOW I WANT MY SHARE
Yep. I went there too.
God damn us all (especially Shannon Noll).
“You pass the butter”
………… Oh-my-god.
Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.
So the nation is renamed Iwatania, but the people are still referred to as Gastonians?
Interesting that he suspects Miyamoto and Canaghem are the most capable of treachery, but not Bedard or Jarvis. Considering the forces under the latter’s command he must have some leverage over him to avoid a potential overthrow by the military.
Miyamoto’s already shown his hand, so they already know he’s untrustworthy. Caneghem is a Dirty Foreigner, so he’s suspect from the get-go. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bedard and Jarvis have their own plans in motion, but it seems like they’re much better at playing the game intelligently.
Bedard & Jarvis strike me as more “behind the throne” type of leaders. I suspect they are fine with Iwatani being in charge.
They each have plenty of influence & power and probably secure enough in their positions that they aren’t particularly worried about Iwatani pushing them out.
It would be an interesting development if Iwatani ended up hoist by his own Bedard.
Heh. I see what you did there.
I cannot wait for Iwatani to get it in his smugass face!
So Canaghem and Miyamoto are not taged.
Are they dead already?
And wtf is that black blob above Iwatanis head in the last panel? Just some color on the paining or some ball of hair or a spider or an opening black hole?
It’s in the painting. The painting is “The Mas Arles” by Paul Gauguin, 1888. The two oval paintings are from “Cornfield with Cypresses” by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Only the best for the Iwatanis.
“Just soak up being prince for a while. Its all the perks of being king, except you don’t have to make any decisions. Seriously, kid, its a sweet gig.”
“Your job is to watch CGP Grey’s The Rules for Rulers video, so you can learn how your complete lack of interest in actively rewarding supporters is totally really won’t help you. And also how running a monarchy works can actually make your empire less productive, giving you less despite taking a larger proportion of goods produced. Giant robots don’t get made by people without roads.”
Arming every able-bodied adult (male?) in the nation seems like a rather short-sighted move for a despot, even if there *is* a war on. I suppose Iwatani is counting on good PR to stop the people from rising up against him, though. Wonder if that’ll come back to bite him.
It will be fine as long as he can make sure there’s always a war on… I’d guess the wood elves are next once the savage alliance is dealt with.
Standard policy as realized by Orwell in 1948. You need an enemy to justify the police state. And if one isn’t around, create one.
And the little shit expresses the question on the minds of all entitled douchebags the world over.
“Don’t you see me as a threat? What am I doing wrong? I poisoned your orange juice, you know.”
“I do know. I took the antidote before we sat down.”