Monday, 12 hours of editing Anna Galactic. I am seeing double, or blurry. Somewhere in my notes of edits to make, I came across:
“And so I went to the bathhouse and got myself some potatoes. I wonder where those potatoes went to, he asked?”
I have NO idea what that meant. Gone loopy.
Haha, that’s stone-cold, Julie.
What i like about the writing Christopher did on this page is how same word “Avalanche” is used in complete opposite emotions . terror vs exuberance.
Well, the soldiers might never break through the mountains, but if the defenders rely on avalanches too much they might run out of mountain eventually…
Ah, true pacifists to the core! It does one’s heart good to see how staunch they are in their determined belief that violence only begets violence, and the only of staying out of the war is to be out of the war.
Sarcasm aside, I think this is a telling observation that most people, when push comes to shove, will put survival ahead of ideals. It takes a true hero (or deluded idiot, or lunatic – choose your own point of view here) to put their ideals ahead of both their own and their family’s survival.
Hey, if they won’t talk and want war you have to give in to what they want. Then crush them totally. Maybe the next ones to come will not want to fight.
Do these armies seriously have zero scouts or outriders, have they just all been found and killed, or is one about to shoot Julie?
(To be fair, they could all be out there in the mountains, just really ineffective. Especially as there don’t seem to be many other mountains on the continent)
@AndyW, I think they’re more against physical aggression, or using violence as justice. I view this as purely an act of self defense.
Somehow I don’t think Julie really has this “use force only as a last resort and with great regret” thing down.
I take the point 🙂
And please don’t take my rather sardonic comment for criticism of the comic – any comic that can show people appearing to say one thing, while behaving at odds with what they say, while still speaking and behaving plausibly is telling a good story.
My comment was more about human nature – and even when people are acting (as they see it) purely in self defence, what they actually do in self defence can be very hard to distinguish from aggression. The line between the two is often set arbitrarily, since there’s no hard and fast distinction. Defend yourself? Your family? Your home? Defend your border? Remove the aggressor’s ability to attack in future? Remove the aggressor? Remove the aggressor’s friends…?
Heh, I’m suddenly reminded of Douglas Adams’ ‘Three stages of Warfare’ definition.
1. Retribution – “I’m going to kill you because you killed my brother.”
2. Anticipation – “I’m going to kill you because I killed your brother.”
3. Diplomacy – “I’m going to kill my brother and then kill you on the pretext that your brother did it.”
Okay, not to the point, but funny 🙂
Hahahahaha! 🙂