page 1280 – NO ONE INTERRUPTS STEAK TIME
THERE! Finally up! Sorry it took so long, gang. If you missed the heads up yesterday, I was away from the house for, like, two days straight, and that’s kind of not great for productivity, ya know? Of course, speaking of productivity, that was also pretty much the LAST time I’ll be able to leave the computer desk until the Otakon at the end of the month. So that’ll be fun. (And on that note, new TWC Incentives are still on hold until I can clear the deck of the backlog of Conventional Wisdom stuff)
Also, in the rough draft, Avi was going to ask why using steam power and gears for everything required wearing top hats all the time… but then I remembered that we’ve never actually seen May in a top hat, so it didn’t make a lot of sense in context. That, and have you SEEN the jacket Avi has on right now?
Oh, and just a bit of friendly advice to anybody who wanders into this one comic page, sees the jab about political arguments, and decides that makes for a perfect excuse to go down to the comments and share Real Life examples: READ THE FREAKIN’ ROOM.
Congratulations Avi! You have hit the softest of Layla’s “I will hate you if you do this” buttons, interrupting Steak Time. The harshest of which being insulting her father.
In fairness, Layla would probably probably agree with Avi about the whole steampunk thing being silly, and blame May for being the bigger disruption.
…but on the OTHER hand, Avi’s got a much longer list of priors with Layla, so she might be even less inclined than usual to cut him slack for distracting from very important meats.
Even if Layla agrees with Avi, the fact is that Avi KNOWINGLY pressed May’s buttons on this, and then CONTINUED to do so after May’s initial rant, causing the follow up rant. As such, Avi has both instigated & maintained the disruption in a way that was easily predictable.
This all happened so quickly & effectively that it’s to the point where I would be surprised if this conversation, or ones highly similar to it, hasn’t occurred previously. Which, if my assumption is true, means that Avi was purposefully using May to interrupt Steak Time.
Oh, now that’s an interesting way to look at this. You’re right, Avi and May have ABSOLUTELY had variations of this argument before, but the notion that Avi might be escalating his attempts to get attention off of Marshall by sabotaging the whole dinner is… compelling…
It might be safer to try and get attention from Stilez than sabotaging Layla’s first nice dinner in a long time.