Mike is kind of a dick even when he’s in a good mood, haha. Needs more GTI (good thrip influence) in my opinion
COOL NEWS, my bud Blue is Kickstarting her comic O Human Star.
You might have seen me mention it here and there as being one of my favorite webcomics… cuz it is. Certainly top three. If you like sci-fi with themes about identity, persistence of self, and lots of robots, you should definitely check it out (and maybe even snag some books while they are available).
Hanna on Twitter did a very cute Bex fanart, and asked a good question too! We’ll have to see about that… I also finally snagged a commission from the incredible Oxboxer, which is blowing my fucking mind pardon my french but holy crap. She is amazing, and you can look at more of her inimitable work on her Tumblr and Gumroad.
Cute Thrip stickers continue to be up for grabs to 10 random MI commenters this month :] Just leave at least one comment to get on a random list I’ll pick names from… Kinda fun to see some of you come out of the woodworks XD And as usual, lovely Patrons have an even better chance at winning both art and/or stickers all month long as well.
And again, Mare Internum email updates are a thing now~
You guys are full of interesting ways of getting your updates XD But I’m paying a couple of bucks a month to make it easy for anyone who wants simple inbox notifications.
OK back to work like usual :]
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Oh my god, there are too many amazing things happening on this page…. Kalla contemplating cooking Thrip, Mike apologizing for ruining Kalla’s Dumplings, Mike calling Kalla’s species just “things”. XD
But the “You crushed my dumplings” line… oh my god. XD It made my entire day! Thank you so much for such an amazing page that had me smiling so hard!!! This was exactly what I needed today!
never forget
:’c
You never crush Kalla’s dumpling
I guess we’ll finally learn what Kallakore’s species is called…
Hopefully Mike doesn’t screw it up like last time:
http://www.marecomic.com/comic/ch3-page-25/
Shame. I’ll miss calling them Armsharks.
Here’s hoping that becomes the common name in-universe.
Because of the typo, I thought you were talking about Kalla’s species being “Espy”…
“Espy” is a word! It means to spot or sight, and has a more formal tenor than “spy” does.
Huh. I learned a new word today!
Melikes Kalla’s elaborated use of language. Did they learn it from LEVi because he had a knack for it, or maybe Braid?
Yes! Things only. Mike, don’t let her trick you into pretend you’ve got manners!
It makes me so happy to see Mike smiling and genuinely joshing around with Kallakore. As someone who’s been through suicidal depression, I’m glad that he’s doing (temporarily) better, even if this is all just a dream.
Oh man, thrip was playing them the whole time. Probably a spy sent by the controller or something.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r88kxlq4g8iz2lj/image.jpg?dl=0
and then we’ll discover he is THE controller, in a “Dog was the mastermind” trope-fashionned !
Don’t be racist, Mike.
Or speciesist…..or planetist?
Anyway, Mike, don’t be a d****
Arrghh one asterisk too many
“dicky”
…or was it
d’uche
Spoiler: Thrip was secretly the pilot of Levi all along. Levi was Thrip’s only means to communicate in a language others could understand. Since the destruction of its vehicle, Thrip has been frustrated as it can no longer express its feelings of wanting friends.
Oh my God! Best theory ever XD
Since I haven’t paid much attention to the comments nor even the descriptive text under the comics on most pages so far, for a while I thought Thrip WAS the LEVi that was constantly being referred to… until the thing in the water was found and it was apparent that Thrip was something else…
Huhuhu…
Hohoho, very amusing indeed, BUT WHERE IS THE THRIP, DAMN YOU HELMER.
Oh no it was DUMPLINGS Mike you had a chance and didn’t take it
Also that commission from Oxboxer is STUNNING
[cue Stranger Things gifs recaptioned so that parties shouting “Will!” are instead searching for “Thrip!”]
#thriplives
You crushed her dumpling, Mike.
“If you like sci-fi with themes about identity, persistence of self, and lots of robots,”…
Holy crepes I like all of those things why is this the first time I’ve noticed this comic thanks for the tip gotta go gonna go binge an archive now
thanks for reccing O Human Star, i just binge-read it (at the expense of my math hw unfortunately, but i can make up those points ;PP) and it’s … it’s amazing. there’s such depth of human emotion, it’s so well-written, i can’t wait for the next update.
Still wonder, can Kalla express emotions with her voice? Or she has monotone speech?
She can inflect, but doesn’t know where to properly put them all the time, so Kalla’s speech sounds either too flat or too singsongy.
Like this?
http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/GLaDOS_voice_lines#GLaDOS_Reawakening
Lots of good interactions! (kinda)
But something tells me that something unpleasant awaits them at the top of that hill
Agh! Friendly banter, my second-greatest weakness!
Mike, are… are you *smiling*?
It’s weird. But I like it.
My immediate thought on Thrip’s “owner” is Dex
I was ambivalent about canapés but, now that we’re talking dumplings, I’m hungry!
Thrip is the best. Don’t talk about eating the best.
We don’t actually know that Kali is what the original martians looked like. Kali might be an artificially engineered construct designed to better survive the habitat down there. S/He might be a thing.
One of the earlier pages showed a flashback to just before the Martian exodus, including about three Armsharks with various hairstyles. If Kallakore is indeed a “thing”, then all the differences between her and the original Martians are internal.
Okay.
In my experience, I haven’t seen any Martian laugh. >_>
Don’t be a smartass Omer XD
Oh Mike, don’t call people things.
Backup copies of armsharks qualify for personhood nowadays? Thanks Obama.
eating your pets is bad habit -__-
So the Thrips are the MI equivalent of the Paunchy Perchers in Flight Rising:
http://flightrising.wikia.com/wiki/Paunchy_Red_Percher
I feel like the communities attachment to Thrip is what inspired some of the comments on this page, and I love it lol
Well aren’t we awfully saucy for an overgrown trash germ, Mike.
Isn’t that just the way, though, if no one claims ownership, anything is up for grabs…especially when one is hungry.
LTRFTC (Long-time reader, first-time commenter)
I wonder how often Kalla eats. She seems pretty chill about the lack of food.
I think she ate while Mike was passed out the second time, she had little dishes already set out for her own stuff XD
These colors continue to be amazing. I hope one day we get a MI book to match the Meek ;)
I just found this comic, and WOW! IT’S FANTASTIC! I can’t wait for the next update!!
\(^_^)/ Keep up the awesomeness!
Thank you! And: next update in a few hours, yay :D
Yay!
I’D EAT YOUR DUMPLING KALLAKORE <333