ASTRID IS MORE THAN SHE SEEMS! WHAT A TOTALLY UNEXPECTED TWIST THAT HASN’T BEEN FORESHADOWED IN ANY WAY AND MOST CERTAINLY WASN’T ALREADY SPECULATED ABOUT MANY WEEKS AGO!

So, this is another page I mostly bashed out before MAGFest, but THIS time I really like it. Just kinda awesome, ya know? Awesomeness is fun.

Alas, I was not able to get a new Voting Incentive ready to go along with this page. Those Conventional Wisdom MAGFest comics are taking even longer than the Ichibancon ones, and this time there’s more of them. HOPEFULLY I’ll have enough done for everything to go back to normal around here next Tuesday… just in time to start scrambling to get ready for Katsucon. Man, I do the worst things to myself…

(Historical Notes: I really wish I could re-size those side panels to make better use of the space of the page as a whole, but the only way to really do that would be to re-draw those panels from the ground up, and as I’ve said multiple times, that ain’t happening.  Still super proud of this reveal, though, even if it wasn’t a surprise in the least.)