C2E2
Hi everybody! No page this week on account of me and Rachel being in Chicago for C2E2! Because the show starts tomorrow, I figured I would post this up a day sooner than normal posts, just so folks can see this in advance :)
If you’re going to be in the area, though, please do come by and say hello — we’ll have the hardcovers and prints, and this is the only show this year Rachel and I will BOTH be at! GAH, I ended that with a preposition, didn’t I? Erm, it’s the only show this year at which BOTH Rachel and I will be! Stupid prepositions!
Anyway! C’mon down and check us out in Artists Alley, table U-16! Just follow Quin’s directions. It’s okay — you can trust him; he’s a professional scout after all! GREAT with directions!
A preposition is entirely acceptable to end a sentence with.
Academic shacademic, we know what grammatical rules to live by!
Comma splicing, sentence fragments, Inappropriate Capitalisation.
Anything goes, man.
“Why, yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.” -Steed, from Dresden Files.
My, that’s a big con. Have a blast, guys, and sell lotsa copies an’ schwag!
Meanwhile:
QUINLAN: Wow, this garrison is huge! We’ve been running to find your father for what, three weeks?
DAKKAN: (Angrily) Just. Shut. Up.
LOL
Five buck says that next week they find Kenosh gravely, but not mortally wounded at the gates, being gawked at.
Eww, well then, just for that mental imagery you get to be the ten year old, Mr. Vau.
They’re putting his head on a pike?
There are a lot of Canid brides and grooms who need to get that traditional wedding-head-on-a-pike somehow.
Any head will do in a pinch.
Hmmm… Everything beautiful, nicely-heads on the peak (I like it XD); But what it will be if Ermehn lose ……. Not only that they will lose so many people in the fight, it’s still knowing Canid, they allow for some war crimes next on poor Ermehn … :(
Already Ermehn have earned my utmost respect for their uneven, hard and very bloody fight for freedom…
XD
simply brilliant – nothing more, nothing less :D XD
………But if Dakk and Ouin find Kenosh in a pool of blood, it’s not going to be so funny……….
I think Kenosh has a strong enough case of badass syndrome to take care of himself. Even if he will die in this scene–which I rather doubt–he’s a major character and it will either be in a manner that allows him some final words with Dakkan before he passes, or at LEAST in front of Dakkan so that Dakkan can go all blood-frenzy on the hapless Ermehn who cuts his father down.
So no, I don’t think that they’ll be arriving to find Kenosh dead on the ground. Though, as Shieldmaiden has pointed out, Kenosh, as the mentor figure, is probably going to separate from the protagonists at some point in the story, forcing Quin and Dak (maybe with friends) to wing it on their own. Kenosh’s receiving of a debilitating injury in this battle would be a good way to accomplish that.
Or, most likely of all, they find him with a few cuts and bruises, but nothing serious.
Well, my dear colleague :) – I take into account the various possibilities of any events which may happen in the rest of the comics – including what you write (this also thought); but I do think that it is possible that kenosh – one of the main hero can die, then this type of events in a literary work (A comic book is a literary work) – as far as I remembers from the lessons of Polish language and literature – we call it Drama :) (finally here in this fantastic comic have a little comedy, grotesque, or even drama) ;) :) .
Just I also think and imagine different scenarios in a different situation ;) … So far they are checked only once – like a few weeks ago one of the soldiers of Canid killed an attacking a Quin, one of three insurgent of Ermehn ;) .
Then again it might not be a pool of his blood…
I hope as it Kenosh will be in a pool of blood, this is not him blood – that he survives ;)
Best of luck to you both. (Not that you’ll need it.) Enjoy the con! :)
So apparently Quin is great with directions, as stated above. This will come in handy when he’s a middle-aged father explaining to his wife that yes, he knows EXACTLY where they’re going and EXACTLY how to get there.
Is that a Finding Captain Nemo reference?
Partially.
You guys and your overly dramatic assumptions…tsk tsk tsk… I’m pretty sure that by the time Quin and Dak find Kenosh, they’ll come to realize that he already defeated all the Ermehn with his chilling Death Stare and thus everyone is saved, Hardin finds peace and love, Clovis starts a new career as an aerobics instructor, Crim joins an anti-bullying organization, Janik becomes part of the Dunian’s first world Counsel, everything becomes all sun-shine and rainbows and Quinlan and Dakkan ends this entire story with a freeze-frame jump cheer while the camera slowly pans out while playing inspiring music.
I’d be all for that except that it would mean that the end of the comic would come in just a month or two.
If it’s any consolation, we’d get to see War of the Western Deep if that happened.
You forgot to mention Feyn, the popeye weasel, comes back from the dead and becomes mayor of his tribe. Yes, they live in a town, now.
I feel like Hardin could just change his tattoos and slap on an eye wrap and feign being Feyn quite effectively.
You dont’ even have to go to the trouble of changing your tattoos- just jump off a wall and Wilhelm scream the entire way down.
. . . If the animated film is ever made, you are going to push hard to have the Wilhelm Scream in Feyn’s death scene, aren’t you.
That’s fine, it almost seems like a requirement these days anyway.
It’s tempting, but I’d rather hear a scream from whoever his voice actor ends up being.
Can we please have Mark Hamill as Tosch if only for that evil laugh?
Every time I hear that one scream in a movie I want to flay whoever convinced the directors to add it alive.
That meme got really old.
It’s… not so much a “meme” as it is a decades-old tradition/injoke. Kinda like Pixar’s A113 references. The problem comes with context. It’s a comedic sound, and if used in a situation that’s supposed to be dramatic/taken seriously… yeah, don’t do that. :p
You should be in bed Rachel, I know we’re in the same timezone X)
And I think it’s no so much the sound that’s comedic as the fact that it’s so widely used and easily recognizable, although I could certainly be wrong on that.
This seems at least semi-relevant.
“Neo, you screamed like they do.”
. . . “Bullet Time” references always remind me of The Matrix . . .
Hi there! I’m a new fan (pregnant Chell at the con). I’m really glad to have paused by your table and that I got the book. I really appreciated your patience and friendliness at the table. I’ve been catching up on the pages and I cant wait for the next book to be released and next years con.
Hello :) I’m old fan of “beyond the western deep”, but I am also a novice in “salmon party” :)
I’m officially claiming salmon party as our fandom name, on that note.
Welcome aboard, Aliorn!
Glad to have you join us, Ailorn! The more the merrier- soon, we might even have enough people to storm the nearest Canid garrison!
I personally think that any uprising has claimed a lot of innocent lives and unfortunately, a lot of artists; as already I would have to fight, I would have fought with the occupant and enemy of the word, sabotage and of course art ;) , and how it can not effect … – unfortunately in 95% of cases (as in situation Ermehn) ends this uprising, and the death of innocent people and us artists …
…And of course, if I wasn’t a man, only invented the character living in the world of our heroes – Yes, I would have joined the Erehn and kicked butts of Canid soldiers, for their crimes… ;)
Heheh ;)
Hi ailorn, I’m happy to meet you! I make snarky commentary, it’s my specialty! I’m fully biodegradable!
Hello! Nice to meet you!