Pizza’s here. And no, you may not “pay some other way”.
I considered including some text bubbles of Todd and Selkie shouting more flustered things, but it's crowded enough as it.
Pizza’s here. And no, you may not “pay some other way”.
We’ve never heard the full translation, have we? And there’s nothing to say that there isn’t some kind of code embedded in the message Selkie’s mom gave her. It’s possible whatever “Echo” Agent Brown is looking for might still be part of this.
Yeah, a translation would have been nice.
I like the fact that we don’t know what the Sarnothi stuff says. It’s interesting to be outside the loop, and will be more interesting when re-reading with a better idea of what was actually conveyed.
Kind of like in one war movie where the American spies made a slip-up by using the wrong gesture for “three beers.” The mood at the table was very clear that Something was Wrong, and the tension served the scene well. But if you didn’t know ahead of time the distinction between the two gestures (one counts from the thumb, the other doesn’t), you would be in the boots of the Americans, realizing they slipped up somehow but not knowing how.
It’s hard to put the audience into the mindset of ignorance in a way that flows smoothly and doesn’t feel weird or cheap or put you out of the moment. I like it when it’s done well.
Long time ago there was a miniseries on TV based on Clavell’s Shogun starring Richard Chamberlain. The main character gradually learns Japanese– so the Japanese characters in the show spoke Japanese (no subtitles) and gradually changed to English as the main character “learned Japanese.”
It was really cool, and contributed a lot to understanding the character– and everyone else hated it so when they re-released it they subtitled the whole damn thing. This was before Closed-Captioning, so they burned it right into the screen so you can’t watch it the original way.
Long story short– I think it adds a lot to the story to have Tensei be not understandable.
Selkie translated it previously.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie582/
It always seemed to me that there was more after Selkie’s mother said “I love you,” but that it got interrupted. If that’s not the case then I defer to the writer who obviously knows more than I do. 😀
I still think it’s possible there’s more than we’ve heard. 😉
or just more than one message stored in it. the others only triggered by certain events.
It says under the comic, ‘Nei Li detected. End transmission.’ I figured that was the last bit.
An echo huh? Hmm…I really hope that this thing is just her mom’s last ditch effort at getting Selkie help. Like if she needs it.
They better have some actual pizza
I doubt that, which is too bad! It is almost lunchtime where I am and I would not mind a slice of peperoni, mushroom, and cheese.
On consideration, and now wanting pizza myself, it was silly of them to say they were delivering pizza, unless that is in-story talk for “leave us the frak alone. You don’t wanna know.”… due to the fact of how they are dressed and are sans pizza and all…
It really worries me that Agent Then keeps calling Selkie “the Jin ‘Sorai” rather than either of her names. It dismisses Selkie’s status as an individual and, considering the differences in their skin tones and the civil war, makes me wonder if Then is harboring some prejudices.
I’m afraid that Then is going to try the same thing he tries every night; try to take over The Lake!
If Then is the Brain, is Agent Brown Pinky?
Not saying that I have it right, but it looks like a race war, or a caste war, or genocide against the Jin-Sorai. I wonder if all the agents are on the same page/team, or if different factions in the gov’mnt havae taken different sides?
glad i´m not the only one who noticed that – i guess you can be on the same side and still have some prejudices against one another, perhaps even without noticing it yourself….kinda reminds me of how many ww2 resistance dudes fighting the nazis were die hard antisemites themselves.
as for the sarnothi, i always got the vibe that the clans were not really intermixing (pohl said they near always marry within their own clan) and probably held deep-seated animosities, which explained how the sh# could hit the van that fast+drastically.
He might be trying to protect her identity in an unsecure location. Most people, in this complex, if they hear The Jin Sorai they won’t know what he’s talking about. You say Selkie, they’ll know who she is.
I doubt they’d even be able to hear ‘the Jin Sorai’, since that exchange is in Tensei and it would just sound like a big string of unintelligible gibberish to most people. But yeah, they probably could have picked out ‘Selkie’ if they’d said it, the same way you can pick out Captain Kirk in the German version of 99 Red Balloons.
On the other hand, they ARE standing in front of Selkie’s apartment, so even without saying her name it’s pretty clear they are there to see either her or her father. I’m not sure how much more discreet they’re really being by speaking an ‘alien’ language that sounds exactly like what’s playing on the ‘looping scifi film’ inside.
technically, the people potentially interested in harming her wouldn´t know her by the name humans have given her, but would surely recognise her clan!
I don’t know who this Plo Quar guy is, but I like him!
Totally got the names in the descirption messed up, please ignore.
If you are referring the the green guy on screen right now, that is Agent Then, yes his human name is “Then”… but if you are referring to “Plo Quar” i believe that that is Selkie’s MOM, because it is her voice we are hearing in the green/black text bubbles. that’s why we have three people on the cast list for today.
Are they… putting their jackets on in panel 4?
Taking them off.