page 1179 – The Obvious One At Fault Here
Oh man, THIS was a nice change of pace. After the past couple of updates had me scrambling all through the night well through into the next day, this one was ALMOST completely ready to go at midnight. The only reason it wasn’t was because I got distracted and nearly posted a copy of this page without any tails on the speech bubbles, so I had to go back and add all that in. Kind of a dumb slip-up, but it’s nice to have the problem be that I’m getting AHEAD of myself for once.
And the impressive thing is that I actually did a TON of editing in post on this one. As originally drawn, the layout of this page was completely different, but the panel arrangement wasn’t working that way. It was one of those situations where re-editing the existing drawings to fit a different arrangement probably took longer than just re-drawing some stuff would have, but it’s always an even worse blow to morale to admit defeat like that. And hey, even doing things the long way managed to wrap up ALMOST on time, so whatever, right?
Anyway, once again, there’s a new Voting Incentive up too, which is the REAL reason this update was way less labor intensive. Oh, and speaking of intense labor, I’ve kind of been slacking off on the Far Out There Patreon comics lately, so I’ll just drop a heads up right now that there’s another Jenna comic in the pipeline. It ought to be up in the next couple of days, so keep an eye out for that!
Avi, HOW are you spinning this so that it’s the fault of the only person who WASN’T in the huddle? Actually, why do you think that blaming the BROTHER of the person you’re trying to please will be in any way beneficial to you? Seriously, what is going on in your head here? It’s probably just that you’re that pampered that you can’t admit responsibility for anything, but, still, what?
@ Incentive: Is that a doorway (be it physical, transference or dimensional), another, incredibly long path, or just a dramatic light show? I really can’t tell.
I should probably be playing it coy on the glowy thing, but I don’t want anybody to seriously fear there’s yet ANOTHER long passageway in Tabitha’s future, so I’ll specify that it’s a tube/tower/shaft of light coming down from that giant mass of machinery hanging from up above in the previous page.
However, I probably WILL play it coy over Avi’s thought process… mostly because I’m not sure there’s anything I can say that wouldn’t just be spoiling dialog for the next page 🙂
Oh, I know that Avi’s going to answer my questions on the next page, but I HAD to get my complete bewilderment about Avi’s decision making here out there.
Avi best hope that Layla isn’t still within earshot as he tries to shove the blame onto Trigger. That’s not the sort of thing that she reacts well to.
I’m half-predicting that Avi’s going to say something like “Trigger wants to keep Layla for himself”, and may be informed of Trigger and Layla’s relationship being that of siblings on the next page, to his abject confusion and dismay. The other half has the entire next page covered by Avi throwing wild, baseless accusations at Trigger (either alone or with the rest of his group joining in) until someone shuts him up or distracts him. Either by having the group go find evidence of Trigger being a villain (done by the rest of the friend group), or by someone, let’s say Tabitha (who’s returning to check on Alphonse), coming in and treating the group like the idiots they are.
Tabitha walking in just then wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing for Avi either, given that his finger could be pointing at Alphonse as well.
If I’m understanding it correctly, Mariska’s job now is basically to use her vast army of lackeys and unlimited wealth that the kids parents gave her to make sure that the kids never ever ever have to face reality, by ensuring that their delusions of finding “villains” come true by framing the world around them such that whatever innocent person they have fixated on actually appears to be involved in whatever ludicrous unfeasible conspiracy they dream up (or if not the same conspiracy, at least some sort of other absurd conspiracy). Whether or not said innocent accused persons really get arrested/imprisoned/executed or that’s all fake also, who knows?
In any case, if they now fixate on Trigger as the focus of their current imaginary villain conspiracy, that means that it is now Mariska’s job to frame Trigger as an Evil Supervillain! 😮
This can not turn out well for anyone. Ever.
No.
Mariska’s job was to use a vast army of lackey’s (that she employed with her employer’s unlimited wealth) to keep the kids out of trouble by redirecting their trouble making antics to places where it’s easier to hide and make everyone pretend it isn’t a problem, keeping them safe from real danger in the process.
In no way does this job require her to try to change the environment around said kids to fit their delusions. This is important because, when they run away on their trouble making antics, it’s common for the situation to spiral into a direction that’s completely incomprehensible that MAY result in what they wanted happening, even as they forget about what the initial assumption that set them off was, and the result is completely unrelated.