Startec cliche
on February 20, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: The Seventh Power
Location: Mexico somewhere
“STOP!”
“What for?”
“Important questions. Where did the tripod for your giant cannon come from?”
“look i don’t know”
Yeah, Rikk wasn’t the only one sizing Joyce up from the moment they met. And Rumy may’ve missed Joyce’s well-hidden maturity, but there’s no missing where her heart lies– her reaction to Walky’s decision alone made it obvious. Make it her choice to save people or kill them and Joyce will choose compassion every time.
I think an earlier draft had “boyfriend” instead of “commander,” but it wasn’t totally obvious to outsiders that Joyce and Walky were an item, and putting it this way seems more respectful in any case.Despite her badass status, Rumy’s fighting style and an unchivalrous camera meant she gave the reader a lot of unintentional upskirts, a tradition borrowed from about 9,379 different manga series of the day. Sometimes you literally can’t avoid this, but with Rumy, it was a minor running gag.I gradually got less comfortable with that gag and retired it for good about a year after this, but I try not to lose too much sleep to self-recrimination. The female fans I’d gone to school with, always an audience I bore in mind with the series, wouldn’t have batted an eye in the early ’00s. Norms shift. My attitude is similar to the ERB guys, talking about some of their old material. “It was funny when we made it. Now it’s not funny. So we don’t do it.”
Why does the title say “Startek cliche” when Rumy’s dialogue clearly refers to the Fans!‘ in-universe show, Startec?
It never said that. *mind trick wave*
I was pretty sure Meighan and Shanna and the Cheese escaped from Mist somehow, but I had forgotten how that happened.
How freakin’ long is that chain? It’s been a different length in every comic.
As long as it needs to be for the narrative.
I was going to ask the same question, it is obviously longer in the last panel. I decided if she can store it in hammerspace, she can also change the length for the current need.
They need to get Rumiko and Sal to talk by the water cooler. I’m betting their debate on the concepts of honour and the like would be most interesting.
?? Don’t put yourself down like that!!
“The female fans I’d gone to school with, always an audience I bore” ??
Can’t tell if serious, but “bore” here is past tense of “bear (in mind).”
I’m convinced by now that the chain is magic, even if it’s just plot magic. It certainly looks like trying that with a real chain would break one’s ankle or something.
She tied the chain to her ankle, shouldn’t she have dived down? that snap when she runs out of travel is going to hurt.