2.17
I hope by now we’ve all established that the Emperor does not like Caris.
Last post I got a lot of “grammar ftw” type comments, thank you all for being such astute readers! Actually there are no errors so far in the comic, all the bad language is entirely the Emperor’s fault. Santri, the major language in the comic (aka English), is his third language. Basori (his primary language) has an entirely different syntax and grammar and pronunciation etc etc. He has an accent too, obviously you can’t tell from looking at pictures. Rest assured, I reread the script many many times before putting it in the comic, everything from the length of the sentences to the vocabulary gets taken into consideration. If I’m going to make a text mistake it will probably be in spelling something wrong… like believe/ relieve, I always get those vowels mixed up. Again, I appreciate all of your close readings :3
The dude in the painting is the Emperor’s late (very late) father, Sadar. I could get into a paragraph about Pasori naming conventions but I will resist. I’ll be posting some more about him in the TWC voting thing this week, as well as some big panels!
Comic is now being updated on Sundays, more on that here. This will change back to 2x a week after the end of my second semester in May!
Pimp of the week goes to Raine Dog, by DC Simpson. She is also the mind behind Ozy and Millie as well, which I enjoyed for years and is one of the most nicely-written comics I’ve ever read. Go take a look!
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Poor Emperor.
I see Luca is missing some teeth in panel 3. lol
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So… Luca grabs off his left hand glove but he shows her his right hand? Am I seeing things or is that a oopsy-error? ;P
I see that too. And am now going to be using the term oopsy-error for the rest of my life.
It could be, or you could be like me and say that both hands are ungloved so he is waving both of them around
His right hand is the only wounded one, check out 2.01: http://www.meekcomic.com/2009/08/27/201/
Whoops, meant to say bruised, not wounded.
In what way? I can’t see what’s wrong with his hand.
I’m not at all surprised that people misinterpreted the emperor’s grammar as being the writer’s fault, but I DO find it a little vexing that people who have read The Meek from page one would think so little of her planning and forethought. Does anyone besides me think that this is one of the best-written and best planned comics being posted for free online? I also have to applaud the author for using such restraint and good humor in her reply to these shenaniganous (new words are fun just ask Kiesu) comments. Still, I’m glad we got some direct exposition from the author on this one; at first I thought that the emperor had some hilarious speech impediment.
Speech impediments, haha http://jjrowland.com/wigu/20020315.html
Well, I’d rather get everyone on the same page than yell at them :B I figure by the 15th “typo” it will start to sink in.
so what has happened to Luca’s hand? did i get smashed or something in the war with Caris?