Next update Tuesday March 21: Sadly, just as I thought I was going to get back on top of everything art wise, etc I got a bad cold… or mild flu… or something. So I’ve not been great for several days which means that drawing, lettering, colouring hasn’t happened. But as I recover I’m feeling 97.32% confident that I can aim to restart updates next week.
Ah yes… the “snorf”… it was a bit of a blink and you’d miss it moment. But when Janice and Hamish arrived at Locke Island they used this otherwise unnamed astral sniffer bug to locate Rosie and the parasite. Check out page 6.178 if you don’t believe me! As you might rightly presume, Janice is calling it a “snorf” because of the sound it was making.
Master Assassin… has many interesting theories… including that he lives inside a story and that everything bad that happens is the fault of The Creator who writes it that way; believes that by killing the so-called Alpha Character he will be able to conquer said “Creator”. He uses his cult minions known as Character Assassins to “strategically” eradicate various people (“beta/gamma/delta characters in the story”) in a bid to reveal the Alpha. As mentioned above he had thought Vertigo – the leader of Force Magellan, and who was also the traget of a Character Assassin – was the Alpha… but seems to be re-evaluating his theory. BTW, this isn’t the first time he’s broken the fourth wall… see his first appearance in the CrossOverKill crossover story.
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Next update: Tuesday March 21, 2017… Brainspike & others…
Master Assassin is the best Meta character ever! I love that he is so frequently inconsequential to the plot (and hate it because I would love to see him more). I love that he wants to “kill god” and take control of his own destiny, it’s such a natural reaction to realising you are trapped in a narrative.
I had actually originally hoped the Poison Poet would be the most interesting villain in this arc, but that was just based on his appearance on the cover page. Master Assassin, on the other hand, irks me . . . but I’ll be damned if I don’t admit that Grace has done a great job with him!
Just promise me one thing, Grace, please: Don’t let the Master Assassin kill you! You’re much too awesome to be slain by one of your own creations.
If I was ten people I/we would be working on various stories for many characters at once. I have a great origin story in mind for the Poison Poet…but it is parked behind many other stories…
Awesome to hear . . . but what about that promise? I’m starting to wonder if I should be worrying, here.
Which promise is that? You’ll have to jog my failing memory…
DON’T. LET. KRUEGER. KILL YOU!
And don’t let anyone or anything else do it either, promise us that. And do alert us if you need help fighting them off.
Indeed. I may not be the most skilled fighter, but I can grab Olaf by the legs and swing him like a mace! That soul-sphere-skull is bound to cause some headaches.
Good idea. I’ll grab Brainspike. 😀
And yet, he never figures out that you don’t need to limit a story to one main character. You can have a viewpoint and narrator following a group.
But then, the guy just wants to kill the story anyway. Just as well he sucks at writing.
So, I “semi” called it! Yay me? Then again, maybe Vanishing Vanessa /is/ technically in the frame of the last panel, but we just don’t see her.
She’s not far away, I guarantee it! 😀
Oh great, if the Master Assassin plays “which one of these things is not like the others” and finds the ONLY unpowered individual… well come to think of it, if you count a disgruntled prison guard there’s TWO unpowered individuals…
And Krueger himself, so three. But only one of them is a hero cadet and (presumably) keeping the major villains very busy…
There is of course the possibility that he DOES figure it out but gets killed, either by the defenders, or someone who sees Kaycee Jones as a ticket for power, after all she can only be killed once… er twice if you count temporary death by space cucumber.
Poor Master Assassin, I’d think he’d have studied enough narrative theory by now to understand you don’t need an Alpha Character. Not for a long series, anyway. Individual chapters, certainly, but even then the central point doesn’t have to be a person. The narrative can focus on an object, or a location, or a string of seemingly unrelated events.
Very excited to see if nutjob Krueger ends up at the correct divination of the alpha character now (though, how could he miss it this time?) – and more so on whether this means that he will finally… uh, be at least somewhat important to this story. If he ends up killing Kaycee then let’s hope he still somehow does not transcend the story and finds his way to this world. Because if he did, I’m not sure if I should be glad I’m on the other side of the world from Australia, or if I should jump on a plane to go save Grace. I didn’t get any hero training! 😀
How could he miss it? Easy; Charisma is loud and center-of-attention-grabby enough to draw the Master Assassin’s ire.
More to the point, if he managed to break free from a webcomic, I’d be totally re-evaluating my understanding of reality. Still, best not to tempt fate, aye?
My understanding of reality: it is really weird. Not much to re-evaluate there. And I’m supposed to be a scientist… 😀 (It did take me a lot of time to accept that my understanding of reality is ridiculously unlikely to ever be complete, and even if I do get there, reality will still be a very weird thing. No, I don’t expect such things to happen, but I’ve given up on my expectations being correct. I wouldn’t stay sane otherwise.)
Charisma, yeah, maybe. And for once it might happen that Kaycee and Charisma fight together which is what their relationship would need. If Kruger attacks Charisma and Kaycee comes to the rescue? Not good at all.
But… Charisma may also look like an obvious red herring to Kruger by now.
So Krueger, the problem with killing off the Alpha character is that just like cheap villains there’s always another one waiting in the wings. The world won’t end if a character dies simply the chaper. The next page is another chapter beginning with a new character. Who steps up to fill the power vacuum.
I meant to change that last bit to say…
Who steps up to continue the story.
Finally in color, yay! Just a small typo: it’s real name should be: its real name
Nicely caught.
As an aside, has anyone ever called the Master Assassin “High Wizard Juggalo” or something like that? Because it crosses my mind EVERY time i see this guy! 😀
This really sounds like a Ranger Bill thing to do.
I really want him to do it now.
Have a nice rest, sleep well, and get well. See you next week. 🙂
Aye aye; recover with great pleasantness, Grace!