When a webcomic updates but you don't want to make a huge deal out of it, what you do

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by phil_

I need to know what you were trying to accomplish with these two tags in this sequence.

I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about, considering I certainly did not make any tag errors. Nope. Not me.

Yep, I get things correct the first time, yessir!

(Fixed. Sorry.)


AAAAAAAAAAAAALSO:

Dang it. I just finished catching up on Kill Six Billion Demons. And then finished catching up on the original Kill Six Billion Demons. DANG. IT. (Hint: neither have yet been concluded. The Re-booted K6BD is, in many ways, a vastly superior product, and is currently ongoing. The other is hilarious and was ended without conclusion in order to reboot the series. Both are... amazing, if NSFW, though more for violence and gore reasons rather than sexual ones.)

[Menarker]

New OotS comic.

Also, called it. =3

[BitVyper]

I figure Annie's dad hasn't bothered to give her a book because he's seen her previous work and realised that she's been copying off Kat, and he's just responding to it in the assholest way he can.

[Flarecobra]

OotS's alternate title for today: Turnabout Golem.

[Loyal]

Guilded Age has been unimaginably heavy lately.

Like. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'r'body dead.

[mauve]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I figure Annie's dad hasn't bothered to give her a book because he's seen her previous work and realised that she's been copying off Kat, and he's just responding to it in the assholest way he can.

I seriously hate Annie's dad already. He's an asshole and has no right to criticise Annie's behavior since she nasically spent the last eight years without parents, even though he has apparently been working right down the freaking hall from his kid all this time.

Gunnerkrigg Family Services needs to step in here and get that girl some help, since Annie's practically being raised by the Court anyway. XD Hell, Jones and Coyote make better parents than her actual dad, and Coyote's a douchey trickster god and Jones is some kind of emotionless golem.

Seriously, to hell with Anthony Carver. Guy's an ass and I don't like this chapter.


...Hi, my name is Mauve and I get too worked up over comics.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

I seriously hate Annie's dad already. He's an asshole and has no right to criticise Annie's behavior since she nasically spent the last eight years without parents, even though he has apparently been working right down the freaking hall from his kid all this time.

Gunnerkrigg Family Services needs to step in here and get that girl some help, since Annie's practically being raised by the Court anyway. XD Hell, Jones and Coyote make better parents than her actual dad, and Coyote's a douchey trickster god and Jones is some kind of emotionless golem.

Seriously, to hell with Anthony Carver. Guy's an ass and I don't like this chapter.


...Hi, my name is Mauve and I get too worked up over comics.

While I tend to agree, my guess is that there's more to this than it currently appears. He... did not have those facial scars when courting her mother, and he was a very different person back then, by all the accounts of past recollections we've seen.

Something changed him - perhaps it was just the death of Berma (I think that's her name? Now I'm not sure...), but I remain unconvinced.

I do think he's a jerk and being a terrible father right now... but I'm also hoping that there are some sort of extenuating circumstances or some sort of explanation - not that it fully justifies his behavior, but at least explains it better.

(Of course that could just be because I'm a husband and father and want there to be good husband/father figures in comics, so...)

[mauve]

Yeah, but it's not just that he's being a terrible father right now: He's been a terrible father since page 1 of the comic when he dropped her off at school and never contacted her again. Ever. And he works in the Court. It's not like he lives far away and can't be bothered to check up on the welfare of his only child carrying the immortal soul of his wife. He's a short walk away and can't be bothered.

My guess is that the scars and prosthetic hand come from some super sciencey attempts to bring his wife back to life; maybe he avoids Annie because he'll have to kill her in order to revive Senya or whatever the mom's name was and so he doesn't want to get attached to her.

But unless the next comic has him saying "Lol just kidding, good to see you Annie," I shall continue to hate him.

[Menarker]

Annie's mum's name is Surma.

I hate Anthony too, although the court is partly to blame for letting Annie get away with all of this cheating. Someone commented that the Court might even be intentionally letting it rack up to extreme heights so they'll have something to leverage against Annie in case she acts against the Court in favor of Coyote and his forest friends/minions. Basically holding her membership in the court (and thus the school) hostage by her records of academic dishonesty. Anthony's harsh methods might be intended to remedy a bad situation before it gets even worse; although I'm sure we'd all appreciate it if he could at least be a bit open and kindly about why he's doing it instead of being all clinical and cold about it.

[Amake]

I liked him better as an absent dad than an asshole dad who apparently either assumes his kid should somehow still respect him or doesn't care and expects her not to care when he suddenly shows up after seven years to teach her class.

Not that I know why we should have expected anything different. What little has been revealed about Tony has shown him to be completely emotionally incompetent and subscribing to the "maximal loyalty for minimal effort" John Constantine school of building personal relationships. I just think everyone would have been happier if he had stayed gone.