page 1215 – fair and reasonable feedback
I think Avatar was genuinely worried he might have some kind of back problems and was going to ask if he needed some kind of cushion.
ARTIST RANT TIME: This is the second page in a row where I didn’t realize until too late that the art wasn’t cooperating with the dialog placement. Ideally, Avatar and Lynne should have their positions swapped so that the character on the left is speaking first and vice versa. But no, I’d already drawn them the other way around, and I’d already spent too much time drawing the SECOND panel over from scratch to go back and re-do the top one as well. (You wouldn’t think it, but that puppy-dog tilted-head pose was surprisingly hard to get satisfactory) And thus, we get the awkwardness of Avatar’s dialog being tucked away on the other side of the page from her. Dang it.
Anyway, news. I’m off to another anime convention this weekend, and as usual that’s gonna mess up a few things. For obvious reasons, I’ll be trying to go ahead and get page 1216 finished and ready to post BEFORE I head out on Friday, because Lord knows I won’t feel much like doing it on Sunday night. To make that happen, however, I’m not even gonna try to get a new TWC Voting Incentive done this week. I know, I know, it’s not like I remember to do one on time anyway, but I’m gonna need that extra bit of time and energy if I’m gonna get the next page finished that far ahead of time. Sorry!
Yse Avatar, his friend over there does need help; from skilled mental health professionals. Possibly in a place where life is beautiful all the time.
It’s a sad state of affairs when you’re sitting on the same bench as Tax, and YOU’RE the one everybody thinks is acting weird.
Honestly, Avatar is probably the most appropriate person to act as a mental health professional we’ve seen in the entire comic. And that includes secretly-mental-health-professionals we’ve seen either in the background (be they blurs or not) and secondary characters.
Avatar is probably the most qualified person for a LOT of things…after all she knows everything there is to know about everything, and can recall it instantly – there’s probably few jobs she’s not horribly OVERqualified for. But she probably doesn’t want to do any of them.
I said “appropriate”, not “qualified”. There’s a few differences, which can range from significant to notable to insignificant depending on the field. For example, you don’t want a “doctor” who hasn’t joined a medical body and is thus bound by the Hippocratic Oath to perform surgery on you, regardless, if not especially, of how good they are at actually performing surgery. On the other hand, the only thing stopping Avatar from acting as a great Nitpicker is the fact that she hasn’t joined the Nitpicker’s Guild.
The thing about Avatar is, for all her book knowledge, her actual life experience is fairly limited, or at least heavily dominated by stuff that provides little common ground with others.
Remember time where she knew all the rules to a board game by heart but had no idea if it was fun or not because she’d never played it.
Wow that sounds oddly familiar really…‘The thing about Ed8 is, for all his book knowledge, his actual life experience is heavily dominated by stuff that provides little common ground with others’
In fact I am in RL frequently left scratching my head in bewilderment at what others think is “fun” even after I’ve tried it.
I think I see why I like Avatar so much, we seem to have issues in common, at least with regard to relating to others! 😉
Honestly, I think you have a lot more faith in organizations and certifications and oaths than I do – I’d pick the more competent uncertified surgeon over the incompetent licensed oathed one every day (for example if he got his medical degree because his super-rich mom bought it for him. I can see Augusta buying Megaweapon a medical degree if he asked for it. Of course he would use it in utterly horrifying ways.), assuming there was some way I could verify for certain that the uncertified one actually was more competent. And I have no confidence in anyone following any oaths whether they’ve sworn to them or not – I’m not that trusting 🙂
Possibly, but to a certain extent I suspect that I have more trust in my ability to get something out of suing for malpractice from a registered doctor than trying to get something out of someone “I trusted knew more than the registered professionals” if something goes wrong.
Basically, I’m more confident putting the onerous task of proving someone’s capable of doing what they say they are to a registered body over attempting to take on the responsibility myself.
Well, yes, that’s certainly true in RL – you’re probably unlikely to find an unregistered person who knows more than the officially registered people anyway – I was really thinking more in a FOT context where there’s mad scientists and other similar unregistered types who can build zombie kindergardeners from leftover parts. 😀
Would you REALLY trust a Mad Scientist to work on you? I honestly would have difficulty trusting many of the medical professionals in FOT, but the danger of being turned into some sort of experiment from having a Mad Scientist work on me is far too high a danger to risk, in more ways than one.
Think about it this way, which would you rather?
.1. A botched surgery from a guy who get’s his boss’s boss’s employer to get you to shut up (preferably via a payout, but possibly through a swift death)?
.2. A surgery where the results can vary from “successful with no complications”, to “surgeon wandered off mid-way because of boredom”, to “surgeon forgot what they were doing and turned the reason for the surgery into a fully-functioning ferris-wheel”, or even to “surgeon was just using the surgery as an excuse to turn you into an easily controlled puppet”? With the least likely being “Successful with no complications”, and the other options having both “successful”, “unsuccessful” and “partially successful” variants that don’t include the additional complications caused by the change (aka, the Ferris-wheel could be fully functional, but whether or not it ruptures your intestines is unrelated).
He’s probably OK, as Stilez probably won’t even *notice* his pathetic attempts to “capture” her.
On the other hand, if he decides that the path to catching Stilez is to capture or threaten Tax in any way, Stilez WILL notice that, and we will look forward to the future adventures of the Super Stupendous Justice Trio.