GTS – Page 265 – Kidd Commander!

SparkliTwizzl

to paraphrase Brian David Gilbert: "either Phineas is a god or she could kill god, and i do not care if there is a difference!"

VoidGrove

Love Ulrichs "so THIS is what i've signed up for, Fuuuck me" face

caribouchat

so do i believe, phineas, so do i

the last panel made me laugh, and I'm glad to be back with the crew
now maybe we'll be able to take care of noon… soon…

Aria

All this lore and stuff has been good to get out there, but man I miss the crew when we're away like that. By the time we get through these lengthy interludes I'm usually as relieved to rejoin them in the present as y'all are hee

smurfton

I like this a lot. Very hopeful. I'm starting to think Phineas might actually get there without getting shot down at the final moment or severely harmed to complete the cycle Crow started

everentropy

I feel like I have a lot of thoughts on these pages but none of them are coherent enough to say. This is just…so powerful

D

Phineas has hidden depths. …That she wears on the cuffs of her sleeves(or in her case, her adorned, yet unsleeved wrists ^^)

She's been saying it this whole time with her whole chest, but somehow the… breadth of it all still slipped by me.

Seriously, it's like sitting in on a student presentation and after 20 minutes of preamble, she finally drops her thesis, and, rug pull, your brain is suddenly off balance, as what you thought was the topic is pulled away– except the topic hasn't changed and the kids who were really listening are nodding along.

Looking back, yeah, this is basically what she's been saying the whole time, but there are more steps to it, more meaning, more… reality than just "punch god". "Infect" is such a strong word. The plan doesn't just stop there. It isn't just "slay the dragon, everybody gets a happy ending(except the dragon, of course)", but that step still matters, it is still core.

This page is probably the one I've had the most controversial opinions about so far. When I first read it(days ago, I actually needed to take time to process and appreciate it properly), I stumbled. It tells so much about not only Phineas, but the world. Things that have been hinted, maybe, but not said. Things that may've required a swallow. (Of course that which might affect saints wouldn't likely stop there. But did I really get that? It almost upset me at first glance, despite making sense.)

It redefined– no, not redefined, the details haven't changed, the world and all its moving part are still the same –recontextualised? Yes, that'll do, if not perfect. Recontextualised world elements, and Phineas and her goals. Clarified, with the sudden yanking of the blackout roller shades of limited perspective.

This page has been quite impactful.

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I wonder if this is the first time she's ever really put it into words, even to herself. If the time loop maybe– helped her figure out how to say… what she's been saying all along. To refine her ideas. Circumstances everchanging and talking again and again and again with her confidants, even if she only remembered it viscerally, to the point that it took seed and flowered, into something that she could vocalise.

Aria

Man this is such a cool comment to get, thanks so much for taking the time to write it out hehe

Everything you said is why I took a little extra time to get these pages done, I knew these two could end up recontextualizing the entire series for some folks. There's always the potential that that ends up being a negative thing that puts people off the story, even this far in, but even the positive version still really needed the script here to be saying exactly what I want it to say since like. This is the foundation for pretty much everything, the protagonist included. It's a lot of pressure this far into the thing lmao, I was feeling it even before the real life chaos delayed the work.

I don't want to confirm or deny anything necessarily, but I do wanna say I really appreciate that you're putting so much thought into my little comic's philosophy here, it means a lot that folks out there are playing in the space <3
- D
  
  And thank you for giving me the moment that inspired the comment <3
  
  I can only begin to imagine what going through that was like, but I'm glad you made it through. What you've written, I think, might shake some people up, but we've got a good crew here, who can handle some turbulence ^^ In the end, I feel we'll be feeling this page for a while, but good'll come of it yet, and it'll be quite something to look back on, as we progress further.
  
  And always glad to have a think about comics, but especially this one. So many good and reaching moments.