Only insofar as he doesn’t seem to know about Tarquin’s long con; he may think that he’s just another two-bit man in the shadows.
But it does harm my hope, no question. Oh well.
(Too late to add: besides, Ian implies that it was his sister and brother-in-law that were the real drive behind his involvement; how invested is he in overthrowing Tarquin himself?)
New strip
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0771.html
Crikey, Ian’s really paranoid.
Like I said, you can take the boy out of Greysky City… It was most likely your best survival mechanism there. That and he’s been in the prison of a conniving warlord for the pats few years.
I wonder what’ll happen once she tells her dad she loves Elan? Probably won’t change his mind.
“Ok, yes, but it was consensual every time, sir!”
I love it.
Ian, Tarquin… everyone has their own narrative - their own version of how events must fit into their own story, with themselves at the center. It’s almost po-mo.
Bad Hypno-Toad. Two minutes in the box.
Ian doesn’t listen to Haley terribly well, does he?
Which may be the narrative reason for countering the glibness potion with the antimagic field.
Hey, now that I think about it, didn’t V communicate with Roy with a message spell while he was in the prison? Shouldn’t that have been blocked by the antimagic field, too?
What parent does listen to their adult children?
Amen.
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Hey, now that I think about it, didn’t V communicate with Roy with a message spell while he was in the prison? Shouldn’t that have been blocked by the antimagic field, too?
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I remember that happening, too, but I looked it up and they were in the courtyard (or whatever you want to call it) when it happened. I think the AMF doesn’t extend out that far.
Ouch. I guess Ian is that disfunctional.
'scuse me. Something in my eye.
A bit of Miko Miyazaki in him.
Now that you mention it, he does have the same sort of streak of ego. I wonder what he would think of the comparison (assuming he knew who Miko was, of course).
It wouldn’t matter to him, since Miko would obviously have been working for Tarquin.
I didn’t have the reason right. But I’m giving myself half a point for calling that Ian would refuse to leave (and that Haley could have used that glibness effect).
I’m just going to point out the identical oh-you-have-GOT-to-be-kidding-me poses Ian and Roy make in the 8th and 9th panels. Go Banjo!