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Reminder: we are on a 5x a week update week. Thanks very much to Patrons for keeping me alive! Next week’s page previews will be up soon, this week’s previews are already up~
Another reminder that I’ll be attending ECCC in Seattle from March 1 to March 4, at table P-13! Hope to see some of you there~
Next update tomorrow night
The 2018 Hugo Award Nominations are open until 3/15! If you enjoyed my work in the previous year, I would be extremely grateful if you’d consider nominating “Mare Internum: Chapter 4” in the Best Graphic Story category (due to the voting process, only complete segments- such as a chapter- of a work are eligible for nomination. Next year the complete work will be eligible).
Thank you for putting up with my nervous forays into legitimacy, and of course for considering me~
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Poor Mike.
Oh, then she doesn’t remember their talk on the beach.
Is it my imagination or is Kalla smaller than she used to be?
Yeah, I think she’s a bit too small here, the newest edit to add to my growing editing spreadsheet X[ Thanks for noticing that!
I agree, i’m not sure but I don’t think we’ve seen Kalla and Michael entirely in the same scene before. Ive always had the impression that Kalla was significantly larger ~ 3-5 meters in height
Yeah, fully extended she’s pretty tall, crouched into a ball she can pull her arms in, but she should be about a foot wider at least at the shoulder
Is it just me or is new Kalla much smaller than old Kalla?
anyone link that conversation? so long ago real time :/
It’s page 44 of Chapter 3
Here you go — the convo gets serious from page 46 (“I’m sorry. For being a coward.”).
I’m a little bit blown away by how much depth this new page adds to that old conversation.
Time to “relearn this basic shit over and over again”.
thank you!
I knew this would happen so I’m not surprised, but damn. This is not the best thing to happen to a suicidal man.
Darn it i closest thing i experienced to this was in -Nier:Automata- and i didn’t like it feel terrible because they’re there and they are very much the person you know, but they aren’t THE person you know, the person that was there at that moment is gone, and you’re left with an image of them
Just file it under dementia in people you love, and remember where you put it. For later. Urksobsigh.
We all knew it but it still hurts :(
Let me translate Threvi: “Lug!”
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“Lug”? Does Mike not know Kallacore’s a girl, or is he just using the term in a way I’m not familiar with?
Lug’s gender-neutral. “Big lug” is an affectionate remark on size, not gender. You would lug a heavy or bulky object.
Also, used for “ear” in northern parts of the U.K.(M.C. Beaton, James Herriot). FWIW
My unimportant editors note is that Mike probably knows by now that Kalla is female, but keeps misgendering her because he’s the kind of person who would do that. I’ve written some masculine pronouns for her into the script just cuz I think he’s absentminded about that sort of thing, so if you see it come up again it’s not a mistake XD Thankfully Kalla isn’t bothered.
Damn, I was worried this whole time that she’d forget the conversation they had. It was really cute. This is cute too, though.
Also Kalla is still my top bae.
Noooo, my heaaaarttttt. ;_;
I am terribly happy and sad at the same time. Amazing comic.
Only the most important scene in the whole comic! *insert clip of Tidus and Yuna laughing*
Aw, a smile. :)
Hi I know that this is just a matter of “kalla literally died” + “extremely rigorous rules that govern revival + memory” but I REALLY like it as a parallel to trauma, disassociation etc. Dying over & over again. You already know u are a stellar writer but I am just gonna keep saying it. Brill work :)
other things I like: alien body language that is parallel to shy birb
“Please forgive my dramatics” that sounds a lot like something I would say. Kalla, you are a big lug and we love you. I’m happy she’s back. ; v ;
of course, makes sense Kalla’s last memory was when she touched the neural sea
I was talking to my gf the other day about this comic, about how on the surface it’s a great sci-fi story but that it’s also got complex underlying themes such as loneliness, self-identity, and mental health, but that also how enjoyable it was watching the readers take part ownership in the story and the creator taking their opinions on-board, such as when people started nicknaming and anthropomorphising the various characters like Armshark, Thighfriend, LEVi/Thrip/Threvi, Stabfish etc and they became canon.
I sent her the page where we first see Thighfriend, and her response, while grinning at me, was “you read some weird shit”. :)