Ch3 27
Let’s just go over the last little bit, shall we. Alli’s Surface broke a little over a month ago (For those interested, it was NOT a Surface 3 Pro, but a regular Surface 3. They just lied about getting the part in, or so we assume) as we tried to come back to 2 updates a week after an unfortunate series of other non-related events. Then, her computer decided to up and die last week. That got fixed, but her tablet pen for her screen-drawing machine-thing (Yiynova) bit the dust so we rush-ordered a new pen (Which is apparently leagues better than the original, or so I’m told) and NOW… Now… we get to the fun part…
We’re back to 2 updates a week! That’s right, My Hero! fans, we’re finally back to our regular schedule of two updates! That means double the annoyed Hass, double the shenanigans and double the shirtless Lark pages every week! The universe may have been trying to get us to quit subtly, but we’re far too stubborn to let a small thing like: SO MANY BROKEN PIECES OF TECHNOLOGY stop us from using the internet! I will rig my machines up by strings and cans if I must!
So… This Thursday, prepare yourself for another entry in the Hasera and Lark review. Prepare yourself for Chapter 4, because we’re starting it up in October with some sweet, sweet poster-art that Alli has been smearing all over Patreon (For just a buck!).
So long as we don’t wake Cthulu from his endless slumber, we should be perfectly fine…
If Lark is such a financial disaster for the order everytime he does a job, why wasn’t he fired long ago? Or do they make so much money with merchandise (and other stuff i don’t know about) that it covers Lark property damages? Or am I just asking silly questions and I’m completely clueless about this worlds system?
No, you’re on the right track. It’s a little bit of both. Many members in the know are looking for a way to ‘tragically’ lose Lark, if not only for the story of the Death of Lark, whose sales might be enough to cover the next five years of non-Lark operational fees. Others are constantly in the process of spinning the latest exploits into a profit-making machine and see the constant back-and-forth of Rounds as a necessary evil to gain such stories to give validity to the role of The Order. After all, there have been so few monsters these days that people are beginning to ask questions (This will come up in a later chapter, so heads up)
TPFH says that is spelled “charlatan”
Back! Back I say! He got out, must have forgotten my meds. 🙂
Going on vacation — finally. Back next week.
Lol, I thought Charleton was some english word I don’t know about. Now that you pointed that out my inner grammar nazi also found “unfamilure” in the third panel. Jim, who does the proof reading for this comic?
Usually me, when I’m really tired. New mattress should fix that.
If we’re “helping” then first panels thorugh feels like it should be through. And second panels urband could probably stand losing a d.
Less picky – I don’t like the smile of that dirty dove. Seems like giving her a what for will only make her better off, and probably Hasera deeper in the hole.
Yep. People always say: If you think no one reads your comic, make a spelling mistake. I think we’ve proven that we have at least ten readers! 😀
We’ll get these squared away as soon as possible. Thank you all for pointing out the spelling mistakes. We appreciate it!
While we’re on it, panel one: “thorugh” should be “through.”
I was just about to make a couple of jokes about Charleton Heston, but then I remembered he wasn’t spelled that way, either. Oh, well, no great loss. The jokes weren’t very funny anyway.
I’d still like to hear them! I love terrible jokes!
Maybe I should get my guild leader to send some your way. He’s a dad-joke machine! Wiiiiith absolutely no filter. Don’t ask him what a Merkhan is unless you want the short short version.
This probably going to go the way I expect it to, but I really want Hesera to drag this celestial behind the wreckage and beat the b.s. out of her. After all, some people only learn the hard way.
Lark is just the cheapest demolition company around if you’re a citizen. Not so much for the Order, though I imagine all the merchandising (cheap romance novels, posters, calendars) helps offset the costs of collateral damages a bit.
Plus the yearly auction…
Yearly auction? Is this a “I get a hot guy for a night to serve me dinner” or a “I have a slave for a day” type auction? Either would be pricey… I can see the latter pulling in a hell of a revenue. Devious mind you have, Jim. I knew I stuck around for a reason!
There’s a whole chapter dedicated to The Auction in the future. Trust me, you’ll want to stick around for that train wreck. 😀
YEah, and by telling her about your plan, they aren’t going to pay you anything.
Hmm, that does seem to be a [reasonable] plot we had not considered. Somebody powerful declares your house a national monument or historic treasure, and forbids most changes to it. You, by contrast, deem it a deathtrap, and a money pit since nobody wants to buy it. But if link causes damage, you at worse gain an empty lot where you can build something more to your tastes, and you may be able to stick someone [the order apparently] with the bill too. You have to watch that they do not insist that they do not insist you repair the damages and go back to this being a white elephant, so being so open is likely unwise, but Link & “friend” have done a “good job” on totaling the place, and she may feel there is no risk.
[Her actual plot may be a desire to build a flying house, which causes the destruction of the old house, and is forbidden, but that is just different dressing for the same basic motive.]
Now this plot can be attacked as too modern, but we really haven’t seen enough of the society to justify saying that firmly whether the story is set in “1000” or “2000”, and even if it fits easily in “2000”, it also fits in any time where people think something no longer valued should be preserved anyway [and somebody else pays for that]. It may fit better in a time of rapid change, but can fit even in very static cases. [Holy King X was born here. So it must be kept just as it was, even if nobody can live there as a result.]
Our owner is likely bending the rules too much in her own favor, but right now I have a fair amount of sympathy for her.
I’m seeing a kind of possible visual error in this comic (in addition to the two typos about “urban” and “charlatan”). In the previous comic the Seraph *popped* away two of the bags of gold she had given Hasera, but not the third –Has is clearly holding onto it in the 2nd-to-last panel, and there is no real indication that the Seraph is taking back the third bag in the last panel. But in this comic neither of Hasera’s hands is holding that bag.
In the first panel I see the cloud-hound licking Hasera’s hand, and I’m wondering it that might be a problem (not healthy), since her hand is covered with Abyssal Wyrm ichor.
Cool it Hasera, if you get more purple on her your costs might go up!