…Matter 62
Go!Anna & Wombatman vs WOMBOT: And so we reach the end of The Things That Matter! I’ve pretty much intended this story to finish on this scene… Go!Anna goes onto her next thing following the apprehension of Brunton and saving Kaycee… there will always be a next thing, which means the significance and magnitude of her first case will be buried over time with everything else yet to come her way.
THE END!: It was only about 12 pages longer than I anticipated but, no thanks to the production delays caused by the implosion of my website and need to rebuild it, this story took much longer than expected. Anyway, I enjoyed putting this story together, hope you enjoyed reading about Go!Anna/Annie’s first case out of Magellan Academy!
Coming soon: For the next Magellan story, we will be returning to the present timeline at the Academy where Kaycee and Co will be in third year. I’m also working on another voting incentive short story. Stay tuned for details!
Next update: Wednesday, January 22, 2020: Yes! New story starting soon…!
Well done, I think this chapter has told us readers a lot. I’m looking forward to the third year of Kaycee and Co, maybe especially Nadine’s and Mudge’s progress. And Rochelle’s, while not as drastic as for Mudge but I believe the events in Lock(e)down may have sparked some interesting changes for her as well.
See you whenever you return 🙂
Take as much time as you need, Xmung, we’ll be waiting patiently for your return.
I love this series. I really enjoy your method of character development and especially the slow reveal of backstory.
“Obviously” 😂
Dang, I have to imagine how it ends up now. Dunno if Luke is strong enough to break through what I suspect is pretty tough armour… maybe with leverage? So they make their way to a place where he can plant himself, break into the interior, and bust stuff until the ‘Bot stops? Maybe it’s piloted, so they can capture M-M-M-M at the same time?
God bless you and yours, Grace. See ya when we see ya.🕯️🙂
A great end to another chapter! Monster-Marsupial-Mecha-Man might be my new favorite supervillain name in this comic if only for the crazy alliteration.
Definitely take some time for self-care and just a good old fashioned break, Grace. Maybe you can update parts of the site in the interim? I’d love to see the side stories finally back up, but no worries on that timeline!
Yep, definitely on the To Do list. 🙂 And I feel pretty proud of Monster-Marsupial-Mecha-Man… one thing I like about Magellan is that the villains (and heroes) can sound totally nutso but still deliver the goods in bad-assery!
… I must admit I totally though it’s wombatman’s bot …
Aww, I wanted to see the giang wombot squash Sydney. or at least the opera house
lol – better luck next time Sydney is under attack from a giant robot…
Monster-Marsupial-Mecha-Man now really needs to make more appearances in the comic. I mean, we need to see all of his monster marsupial mechs.
Also, it will be interesting to jump to the third year. You’re moving them quite close to graduating, Grace. I don’t know how I feel about that. For one thing, I’m glad your story is progressing and all that, but for another, I really like this comic, and graduation seems like where the story will end. I know you’ve been doing the thing for quite some time, but I can be selfish and want to see it just keep on going. Maybe I juat like to be in the mindset of reading the superhero comics I would read growing up, where there was no end slated, and the story was intended to keep going on indefinitely.
Of course, you could easily surprise me by not ending the comic with graduation, but I can’t help but feel that’s unlikely. But if such is the case, it’s both not immediate (the students would have to be in their fourth year, right?) and there’s the fact that whatever you move onto afterwards should also be interesting. Heck, I found this comic all those years ago from reading Loxie and Zoot, so I’m no stranger to you doing comics that aren’t Magellan.
Well, graduation aint until after their sixth year. Cadets in years 5 and 6 wear their costumes rather than a uniform, that may be the cause of slight confusion. But I haven’t found a reference right now so I’m not 100% certain.
Well, here the six years are mentioned at least: http://magellanverse.com/comic/ten/
Eventually I found this http://magellanverse.com/comic/punchin/
and a couple pages later sixth year cadet Paradoximan addressing fifth year cadet Keyes and now I feel safe putting together the following list:
1st year: Purple
2nd year: Blue
3rd year: Red
4th year: Teal
5th year: Use your own costume
6th year: Also use your codename
I’ve seen this summarized before somewhere (on the giant old cast page maybe?), I’m fairly sure its correct. At some point in the future, hopefully not the too distant variety, I’ll try to put a Magellan wiki together.
Thank you. I had forgotten the amount of years they had for school, and defaulted to American high school length (considering that’s what I went through, and all). I would’ve just looked at the cast page to possibly clear things up, but that darn annoyance Grace had with the site of course is the reason why that page still isn’t up.
Fifth year will be interesting when we get to it, though: will Kaycee use the Maverick costume, or something else? Speculation at this point is easily just that, but we are getting closer to that time.
I think it’ll be most jarring during 5th year, when half the cast is in costumes of their own design, but others like Olga and Brelvis will still be in the teal uniforms.
Then again, it may not even be noticed or commented on, since we are supposedly getting used to the idea even now.
Yes, that’s a great summary!
The way I want this story to end… original future Diane and current present Annie reminiscing about this, their first adventure together. I imagine that the fact that each has lost the other in their own timeline would help them to bury the hatchet.
Xmung, take as much time as you need. Thank you for the regular updates about your father. I remember when my own dad was dying of cirrhosis, which was caused not by drinking, but by the chemotherapy for colon cancer… so even though the tumor disappeared, I still say the cancer killed him. It was painful watching him slowly waste away. He passed away just a week from what would have been mom & dad’s 50th wedding anniversary.
Hey, if anyone would like to show their support for Xmung’s family, you could always donate a small sum to a charity like the American Brain Tumor Association (abta.org) or other organization dedicated to brain cancer research, like the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation of Australia, or The Brain Tumour Charity in the UK.
Addendum: Aunt Ina passed away on November 2nd of this year. Then just two weeks to the day later, on November 16th, my mother passed away too. What is it about me and people dying in November? First my dad, then these two. Those of you who aren’t from the U.S. might not give much thought to Thanskgiving, which was on November 28th. I didn’t have a lot to be thankful for this year. Anyway, I can definitely relate to what XMung is going through, now more than ever.
Love to your family. Even when you know it is coming, losing a loved one is hard.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful comic with us, even when life is hard.
Thanks for sharing your comic with us, it’s a great story! I look forward to hearing more of it when your ready to continue. Good thoughts for you and your family…
Thanks, everyone, for your well wishes. So glad you enjoyed the story and the comic. My father clings on… it’s no exaggeration to say he seems to have aged 30 years in 5 weeks. I have no idea how he is still alive and suspect it is through sheer stubbornness. Regardless, having visited him yesterday, I can’t see how he can survive much longer.
Grace, I know what it can feel like. In 2011, my mother had a major stroke that didn’t kill her. Instead it destroyed parts of her brain dealing with her memory, and bits of her thinking. She could remember doing all the things she could do before, she remembered so much, and over the course of a year I had to watch her thinking decline(she was probably having micro and mini strokes, as well), and watch her frustration and pain at all that she couldn’t do any more, until she deteriorated to such a state that she was put into palliative home care. She passed a year and a month to the day after the stroke. It is probably the hardest thing to see someone you care about go through that process. I wish I could do something more than offer my sympathy and a degree of empathy through the internet. Just…make sure you have someone to talk to that is not family, OK? Family are going to be having a hard time keeping it together, and you will need someone who you can let the grief out around.
Sheer stubbornness seems to go a long way in holding on to life. I’m not finding more to say at this point, have some music to listen to instead. And if this isn’t to your taste but you would like some music, just tell me 3 songs you like and I’ll find you something based on that.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Jjw5soZ6VGodUhxKK0lgB?si=nM8HcqBvTH2NuoSmBvNOHw
A great story. Magellan is a triumph.
So sorry to hear about your father
I can relate Grace. My own father passed on last year. But honor his memory by soldiering on.
Hope to see more from you soon.
Sorry to hear about the passing of your father. Take all the time you need to get back to Magellan…we will understand.