page 742 – Oh right, my motivation!
Just a quick reminder that, yes, there were a lot of other people on that airship Stiles trashed. And they probably didn’t all have trash cans to hide inside.
But enough about that, LOOK AT THE CUTENESS! I guess we know who the real “grown up” in this pair is, huh?
Also, LOOK! AN UPDATE THAT FINALLY WENT UP RIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! How long has it been? Well, I’ll tell you this right now, it wasn’t easy. I got a crazy head start on today’s page because I didn’t really have time to be working on comic stuff this week… and ended up having to work on comic stuff all week anyway. Better yet, we had a power outage when I was about two-thirds through editing this thing, and I had to start over from scratch. THAT was fun, and also a reason why I’m not incredibly pleased with the page we ended up getting. Doing stuff over again, but in a hurry, rarely yields results as good as the first time through.
Anyway, another side effect of the update going up on time is that I don’t actually have the new Voting Incentive finished yet. It’s coming, and will probably be done by the time most of you read this. But if you’re an early bird, you might need to wait a few hours. Sorry!
EDIT: Uh, okay! So, literally just a few minutes after I wrote that, the power went out AGAIN, this time for several hours. Shockingly, that made working on incentives a little difficult. It’ll still get done… SOMETIME today, I just really don’t know when.
EDIT EDIT: OKAY! New Voting Incentive is finally up! Vote away!
(Historical Notes: I like that I’m re-posting a page with all this complaining about the power going out on a day when the Internet’s been randomly going out all afternoon. On a more relevant note, I think this is the first really obvious instance of Tax moving away from being the imp that drives Stilez on to the calming factor that reigns her in. At least, obvious enough for Past Me to actually mention it in the comments.)
As someone who is completely separated from the reality that Stilez and Tax are in, my perception is that the “almost” is incorrect, particularly since the people who are crippled for life are, from my perception of reality, basically nameless blank canvas’s upon which theoretical injury was inflicted, much like how thousands die in almost every novel’s war, but reader’s never care because they’re almost all faceless grunts we know little to nothing about.
A. Of camera deaths don’t actually happen. As far as we can definitively prove.
B. They were all bad people (we assume by default) since they were involved in illegal arms sales, invariably to groups of equally shady people who would have used them to hurt innocent people, or as we saw earlier other bad stuff like human trafficking, etc. Stilez likely (unintentionally) saved a large number of innocent lives by getting rid of them and smashing their stuff.
C. Come on, Avatar, you’re just exaggerating. We know from waaaay back during the ship tour that Avatar has an exaggerated sense of how fragile “regular” people are. So she’s likely exaggerating about the crippled for life – given millions of years of medical science development, anything that doesn’t instantly kill your brain (say, like being vaporized), up to and including the destruction of the entire rest of your body, is almost certainly 100% curable at a level as good or better than new. Depending on the quality of the Crime Syndicate’s insurance coverage.
So therefore we are back to them just being cute.