page 1190 – two contrasting reactions
Okay, first of all, it’s a bit of a miracle that I’m even awake to post this at all. I am WIPED OUT after the past weekend, but thankfully this was expected. For the first time in a WHILE now, the current page was completely finished well in advance, so all I gotta do is roll out of bed and do the site update. If fact, I probably could have written this in advance as well and just set the whole thing to update automatically… in fact, why DIDN’T I do that? I could still be in bed right now!
But enough about that, let’s talk about the actual comic. It may interest you to know that this page was originally TWO pages, which I condensed down to a single chain of events fairly late in the game. I’m still not really used to this whole “one page a week” thing, and I suppose I really should stay that way, since the plan is still to go back to two a week at SOME point. But in the meantime, I’m trying to be more conscious of the need to maximize the impact of a single page and accomplish more without spreading things out as much. That, and I’m just really excited about some future stuff that’s about to happen, and I needed to go ahead and get Marshall back into the action to set that up. Speaking of whom, never forget what Avi ACTUALLY thinks of Marshall.
Finally, this SHOULD be the last update for a while with no new TWC Voting Incentive. I obviously shouldn’t be making too many promises when there’s also some Conventional Wisdom workload to figure out in the future, but the plan is very much to get back to doing new incentives starting next week. Heck, the Tabitha’s Grounded series is pretty close to being over, and I do NOT like leaving a series dangling right before a conclusion.
Poor Marshall, he has no idea yet of the convoluted mess he just walked into. On the other hand he’s training to be a nitpicker, this is his life now.
Yeah, his whole training is to view EVERYTHING as a convoluted mess.
Let’s be fair, he can avoid getting entangled in this mess simply by leaving the boys well enough alone. Now, judging by what we’ve seen of the qualified Professional Nitpickers, he would never actually manage to become one a Professional Nitpicker if he was able to avoid entangling himself in the mess he can easily see brewing before himself, but that’s not the point. The point is that he can easily just walk away and never have to deal with the disaster that’s brewing right at this moment.
But again, to be a nitpicker is to realize that EVERYTHING is a brewing disaster.