Quite so. I remember a party where I joined a group of people who were tossing their friend in the air because it was his birthday, we had fun together, and only afterwards did they recognize me as the “entrance jerk” who hadn’t accepted to let birthday boy in for free. I didn’t take it personally.
And indeed, great face. Who is it? Cry? Reptilian? (If he knows SB’s identity, he’d be one to cry out loud that way.)
I love how Winston notices how Marc kinds of gets lost in his thoughts. But not, apparently, the closed fist. (Which is a very nice touch.)
And yeah, helping is the whole point. Even those who don’t particularly deserve it. Remember when you were about to fight the entire frigging Royal Guard for Egregore’s life?
Not to mention it’s sound strategy. If there’s a way to avoid that fight, they should go for it. (To paraphrase an aikido teacher I worked with, “you never know the other guy’s level until it’s too late”.)
Alternatively, they could collectively agree to pull their punches. I already hope those fights are with kid gloves on, because, c’m’on, they’re all heroes, or heroes in the making. Giving people permanent damage while training doesn’t make sense. (Except in a hard-90s/dumb-Spartan way.) Still, they can agree to play real nice and say it out loud before it begins. “We’re here to learn to fight evil, not each other.” (Lifted from an awesome L5R tournament final round.)
And I guess the friends are, left to right, Blackbird, Trackstar, Conjurer, Migrant, Princess Paragon and Dagon. Though it would be funny if some of them totally didn’t look like their costumed alter ego (like, say, they’re actually Dagon, Princess Paragon, Blackbird, Conjurer, Migrant and Trackstar)…
Even horrible people are still people, and even most “horrible” people aren’t entirely horrible. Hard to remember that.
Great face in that last panel.
Quite so. I remember a party where I joined a group of people who were tossing their friend in the air because it was his birthday, we had fun together, and only afterwards did they recognize me as the “entrance jerk” who hadn’t accepted to let birthday boy in for free. I didn’t take it personally.
And indeed, great face. Who is it? Cry? Reptilian? (If he knows SB’s identity, he’d be one to cry out loud that way.)
I suppose it might be someone he doesn’t know at all calling for a whole different Marc too, although I doubt it. Not the most uncommon name ever.
I love how Winston notices how Marc kinds of gets lost in his thoughts. But not, apparently, the closed fist. (Which is a very nice touch.)
And yeah, helping is the whole point. Even those who don’t particularly deserve it. Remember when you were about to fight the entire frigging Royal Guard for Egregore’s life?
Not to mention it’s sound strategy. If there’s a way to avoid that fight, they should go for it. (To paraphrase an aikido teacher I worked with, “you never know the other guy’s level until it’s too late”.)
Alternatively, they could collectively agree to pull their punches. I already hope those fights are with kid gloves on, because, c’m’on, they’re all heroes, or heroes in the making. Giving people permanent damage while training doesn’t make sense. (Except in a hard-90s/dumb-Spartan way.) Still, they can agree to play real nice and say it out loud before it begins. “We’re here to learn to fight evil, not each other.” (Lifted from an awesome L5R tournament final round.)
And I guess the friends are, left to right, Blackbird, Trackstar, Conjurer, Migrant, Princess Paragon and Dagon. Though it would be funny if some of them totally didn’t look like their costumed alter ego (like, say, they’re actually Dagon, Princess Paragon, Blackbird, Conjurer, Migrant and Trackstar)…
Typo in the caption box of panel three. “Senties” should be “Sentries” there.
good catch! sorted it now, thanks for the heads up!