December 16th, 2016
16 Dec 2016 · page 660 of 1306
Ugh, that guy
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Well.
You say Envy, and you think of...
That Guy? Is it Eglamore?
So is Vox trying to warn them about Envy? He's not the greatest guy but he certainly seems like he's come around to wanting to stop anyone else from repeating his actions.
You are so optimistcally idealistic :) Or - idealistically optimistic.
I'd wish you were right, but I'm afraid you are not :(
It sure looks like Envy's got its hooks in him again. I wonder if he'll join the party once he's freed from Envy's grasp and finds out that helping to stop the dealies is the best way to prevent Envy from getting him a third time.
Let's hope :)
Hard to tell from his body language if he's trying to explain something or just being angry and Influenced. It'll be interesting to see how this goes down...
I'd like to point out that the person who appears to be Voss is NOT green, and the person with whom he is speaking IS.
That would be nice. :)
Heh, Wolfe has a ratio of one non-word sound per word said on this page. Not his best moment, perhaps?
Technically he has a ratio of one sound per two words. In the second panel he has one sound and two words, the fourth panel adds another sound and the last panel adds two words. "Ach" and "je" are "Interjektionen" and considered words in german, at least grammatically. But you are right, he has been more eloquent in the past. Considering the situation it is understandable though.
Oh! Thank you for the language lesson, then :)
First time being thanked for being a grammar nazi on the internet :) You're welcome!
That being said, you should probably be careful. There's being a Grammar Nazi, and then there's being a Grammar Nazi in German.
Hey, if you were being a grammar nazi in a language I was fluent in, I might be a bit annoyed, or I might be even more sheepish about getting it wrong, but as a fellow grammar enthusiast, I have nothing but thanks for you. You were polite, anyways.
The hair color is right for Voss, and I can't remember if we've ever heard what happened to him in the end.
Wolfe allowed him to escape. As far as I know we haven't heard anything else about him after that, although it does look like we're about to.
And the color-blind reader thanks you all, yet again, for alerting me that the sky is green and that Voss has a distinctive hair color. I would be lost without the help of this comment section.
Kate does so many clever things with color that advance the plot and illuminate the story..... and I'm as dull as Mal about it.
The color play is actually really a cool little detail I've enjoyed about this chapter. While they were facing wrath there was a red tint over everything, just like wrath is red, while now everything has a green, envy like tint.
Oh, I thought they were just in the Emerald City
Well, they definitely aren't in Kansas.
Wow, thank you for making me feel a whole lot better about my comment! I felt a little stupid, just stating what's obvious (to me), since color is the first thing I notice / fixate on about everything. It's good to be reminded that not everyone perceives the world the way I do. Also, you've now made me realize that I've never paid attention to how Mal might be seeing things unless we're shown his point of view. I'm starting to find it worrisome that we've never seen the inside of the Anchor's spirit-room with The Sight...
Hey, that's OUR idiot! :D
I hope he's graduated from 'idiot', if only a little. :)
Wow, even the sky is turning green with Envy there...
Let's face it, whatever he's trying to do, he'll make a complete pig's ear of it.
That's a bit unkind to the ears of pigs, you know. :/
However....my first ever attempt at a Swiss roll? Oh, yeah. >_<
Well... he is effectively stopping more people from going in and falling under Envy's direct sway. That's something, at least.
Wonder what the play is that everyone is so keen to see so early in the morning. Presumably not that awful 'Violet and Leon' that they were showing last year.
I don't know about that, but I'll bet that Jill is a major donor to the theater.
I was wondering why Voss was still around given that Wolfe let him run away, and then I realized something about the time line: it's been no more than a day since the debacle at Voss' mansion. Florrie called for a family meeting at the end of Green-eyed Monster and we immediately transitioned to Find the Lady, which leads immediately into this story.
Voss hasn't had enough time to get away.
Not quite a day, since Florrie had to round up all her siblings and grandparents, but only a matter of days, yes!
Still, he could have legged it to the country. Seems he decided to stick around for some reason....
They know all the idiots.
Don't be ridiculous. There are always more idiots.
What happened to Verity's... vest... thing?
She folded her arms.
... and ka-BOOM!
Aye yeah I've been so waiting for this! Green-Eyed Monster is my favorite chapter. :D Let's get some callback in here!
I'm going to say from color clues (everyone under the influence of envy has a green tint) that Vox is trying to help.
I noticed the same thing. I also noticed among our intrepid band, Verity has quite a bit of green in her ensemble - vest, boots and belt. And she certainly seems the one who would be most vunerable to Envy's lure.
She's vulnerable to Greed, Pride and Wrath, too. :-/
Totally jealous of Sid, anyone?
May I just say that in the fourth panel, I am treasuring Ben's expression. His eyebrows! "Wait a moment..."
Another familiar face.