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by Aria on June 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM

what chases patron saints

Unfortunately the company I ordered my new merchandise through is pretty backlogged right now, they tell me, so all that cool new stuff hasn’t arrived yet. I CAN open up the shop again for this week though, so there’s that! I renewed the post office box I use for KC this week, which I know isn’t a big deal really but I think it’s so cool that you guys give me reason to have one. Thank you very much for your support <3

Wereael

Ah. What the fuck.
- Aria
  
  ya boy’s gotta eat
  - Wereael
    
    LOV THE CRONCH
    - Aria
      
      S T O P
      - Wereael
        
        N E V E R. Also the robot looks like Genji, execpt blue.
      - Aria
        
        need healing
      - Joe ST
        
        definitely do after seeing this page, gosh dang
    - Sorin Braveheart
      
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/43edbfcc70b84972a82d19ad39dab7f162616792e6d139c42fad2b7ee2f539e5.png Lov the cronch you say?
Amaaré

“Oh hey, that’s another cool robo-…..oh. OH. Wow. Well shit.”
- Aria
  
  it’s been a tough day for buns
  - Amaaré
    
    Makes one worry about what’ll happen to the other person with a part missing when she shows up shortly.
    - Aria
      
      something tells me this guy isn’t the best equipped for helping someone immediately after the death of a parent
      - Nandan
        
        …and the loss of a limb?
      - Aria
        
        That too!
    - caribouchat
      
      Seeing this, the tain was really soft on Ulrich back then after all, just wanted an eye and his voice…
Watto

NOOOOOOOOOOO
- Aria
  
  rip
caribouchat

I know this voice.
- Aria
  
  oh no
  - Amaaré
    
    I think he might be TAINted…
    - Aria
      
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f0d968adac23f4c5fe6e98d69bece6e573f51e73b0799e8b7b1bab6eec886f3.jpg
    - Sandman366
      
      Aw man, I was hoping to do a joke along those lines, but you already stole it. 🙁
      - Aria
        
        gotta get here EARLY for The Good Puns
      - Sandman366
        
        Not much for being early bird.
        
        Guess I could be second mouse, though. Do like me some cheese.
      - Sandman366
        
        Actually, yesterday, I thought of a base for a great (but possibly convoluted) joke, except Raven’s already gone, so I’ll probably forget about it by the time I get to use it again. (Something about Thaumcraft and Taint, or taint-related things….)
      - Wereael
        
        A Raven x Jocasta death message, maybe?
        
        “Raven was corrupted by Taint.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
        
        ~~oh sweet Mianite, ye shall be missed~~
      - Sandman366
        
        Oh, that’s a good one…
    - A Wild Bird
      
      Well, only taint can explain how you go from a nice pair of pearly whites to OMGWTF in 2 seconds
ProbablyASerialKiller

So is this the guy with the tooth from earlier or not? (Page 413: http://kiddcommander.com/?comic=page-413) Cause he’s got all the mouth stuff going on and his green-accented clothing but his skin tone definitely looks darker and the green on page 413 looks more turquoise, though that could just be the lighting…
- Aria
  
  It’s him yeah! I don’t mind clarifying. The colors in KC aren’t always super consistent haha, I improve or learn new stuff between pages so things sometimes change a bit over time.
Monochrome

Is the host body what is left of Magpie Sweet?
- caribouchat
  
  I also wondered about this…
  - Amaaré
    
    Me too, I think we all thought “Is that Maggie?” when we saw the first glimpses, since there isn’t anyone else we know of yet who’d be connected to the others that way.
- Wereael
  
  They have the same freckles, it looks like.
- Oscar Crooks
  
  Maybe? We’ve got 2 pictures of Maggie do far, the biggest differences I can see are the nose type, The hair is flicked to the left and absence of glasses.
  Similarites are they’ve both got large triangular collars and freckles, and they both seem to be persuasive/likable people.
  Personally I think Dusk is this worlds version of Maggie, but with the lack of information on both of them all bets are off.
  - caribouchat
    
    The hair flicked one side doesn’t mean anything. Like Phineas, Dusk looks like they can change this at will as seen in this page.
    - Aria
      
      Ye! I keep it the same for someone like Raven where the hair is accomplishing something specific, like hiding something, but usually I just part the hair in whatever way looks nicest in that particular panel haha.
      - caribouchat
        
        Well, maybe some of them took up commanding or whatever magic just not to have to spend time on hairdo like Rook…
      - Amaaré
        
        Kidd Commander: A comic about advanced hairdressing
l33tninja

is his only utensil a spoon? I only really see a spoon there (and is that a nail file…?). I DON’T WANT TO SEE HIM EAT THE JACKALOPE WITH A SPOON!!!!
- Wereael
  
  I’d imagine the spoon is his secondary choice. Looks like he’s just going to tear into the poor patron saint, with his hands and teeth. The spoon is used to scoop up the bloody parts that are more liquid than solid.
  
  He also has some star candies on the plate, and two cups of coffee, with milk. Also clean naps, to be presentable after the meal.
- Aria
  
  The spoon is for his coffees 😉 propped up on a little stand so it drips neatly onto the napkin instead of getting dirty against the table surface. he takes his coffee real serious
  - abibiliboop
    
    Yeah, he isn’t a savage after all.
caribouchat

Is this a restaurant? Looks like he’s paying (or tipping?). I didn’t know there where restaurant with semi-gods on the menu.
Aria

Looks like a restaurant! It’s lunchtime so he probably paid a bit extra for privacy.
- caribouchat
  
  And special menu?…
  - Aria
    
    For Sure
Oscar Crooks

I wonder if having Tain symbols on something has any magical effect or if it’s just so the server knows the order. The symbols on the plate cover translate to KILLS, and I think it’s repeated circularly.
(Cypher translation on extras page)
Myk Streja

Seems to be a lot of people with names that are gender-confused. People talk about Maggie, who it turns out is Magpie Sweet, who is actually a boy. Then there’s Phineas (anyone remember Phineas Fogg?) which took me about twenty pages to be sure Phin was a girl. The rest are gender-nonspecific (similar to Pat) that have to be figured out in context. I’m getting a headache.
- Aria
  
  That’s unfortunate! I and many of my readers are queer and I spend a lot of time featuring those sorts of things in the comic, which seems to be causing you significant distress according to a lot of the comments you’ve left here over the last couple days. While you’re more than welcome to keep reading, I feel it’s only fair to warn you it’s going to get more headache-inducing from here.
  
  I appreciate that you’ve found it worthwhile to engage with the work, but now that you’re catching up to where people are more active in the comment section I’m going to ask that you refrain from saying things meant to make other readers feel uncomfortable. While I encourage folks to have discussions and differing opinions on the story itself, unhelpful jabs like this sitting in the comment section give other people the impression that I allow this type of thing, or at the very least make them less likely to engage themselves because they’re wary that an argument is hiding in the wings. If you would like to keep participating in an appropriate way you may, but from here on if you make any more sexist, queerphobic, or otherwise inflammatory comments I’m going to ban you with no further warning.
  - Myk Streja
    
    I’m going to have to go back over my other posts before I respond to those. As for this particular post, I certain was not intending to offend anybody’s preferences. In fact, I’m not sure why you see it that way. My comment was about the names and only the names, not sexual preferences. That’s it. My “headache” was caused by not being able to determine gender so that I could identify a character. That’s it. My POV is that it is a crying shame that people think a relationship is different in any way based only on gender. I don’t care who dates who, I just want to know who is who. That’s all. Perhaps you should review my comments, keeping in mind that while not overt, I support the basic human right to love whomsoever you desire. I could tell you my own preferences but it would only seem self serving based on the accusations that have been leveled.
    
    To all of you out there that I have offended, my most sincere apologies.