Deus ex machina, for the most part Marx can do about anything. How do you keep a story interesting when you have a God like character who can step in and intervene anytime they want? Typically it devolves into either their being no stakes, or the character does not think like us so that the normal reasons to meddle do not apply.
Aaron Neatherly for years has been managing to use Marx without falling into either trap. Of course Marx knows things we don’t know, and which affects his motivations, but they are not operating on some strange God like “we can’t understand his ways” kind of thing.
In panel 1 it does look like it is the light but it intersects with the wall the wrong way. Wally is clearly surprised, he has the same surprise marks as Allen does in panel 4. You can also see the first toothbrushes caught up in the field. In panel 2 you can see more toothbrushes caught up in the field as it starts to pass Duffy. In the 3rd panel it has passed Duffy, is about halfway thru passing Allen and is almost a complete wall. By the panel 4 it is a complete wall, it has passed Allen and Allen is surprised by what has happened. All I surmise is that some force pushing the tooth brushes out of the way, and if it is dittos, Wally has no conscious control over them.
No. Repentance is “I am sorry I did it.” Not “I am sorry I got caught.”
note that he says “..and I’m right at the bottom..” His world has been turned upside down. Whats even worse is not only is he wrong, he is wrong and at the bottom end of the scale. This is pity and selfishness, not repentance.
I think the Rats may be the source of all that leaked information. If this is a coup and has been planned, it all makes sense. The rats feed all the info about a shortage of food to Foxworthy, ferment civil unrest, and then when the powder keg blows, step up and take control “for the duration”.
There is still more to this. Someone was making sure there were stories about food shortages. There are masters still pulling the wolves strings and the death and simulated murders of pigs. We are still waiting for the puppet master to step out of the shadows. All we are seeing right now are the useful idiots.
Aaron runs a good strip. I have had a few of my sacred cows gored by him before. I expect I will have a few more gored in the future. This has been the most political arc he has done yet. My hopes are that he will show me things from a point of view I had not even imagined before. Over the last 4 years he has earned my trust. I look forward to how he brings this to an end.
Deus ex machina, for the most part Marx can do about anything. How do you keep a story interesting when you have a God like character who can step in and intervene anytime they want? Typically it devolves into either their being no stakes, or the character does not think like us so that the normal reasons to meddle do not apply.
Aaron Neatherly for years has been managing to use Marx without falling into either trap. Of course Marx knows things we don’t know, and which affects his motivations, but they are not operating on some strange God like “we can’t understand his ways” kind of thing.