"You can't be serious"

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:43 am

I'll do that, right after you give me $2200.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:59 am

It doesn't remind me of that Star Wars scene, since Rose doesn't even know what is going on. THAT is what I find so good about this strip. Rose is talking on as if nothing is happening WHILE IN CLEAR SIGHT Quentyn is fighting for his life against a Kraken. It more reminds me of the scene in Men In Black where the new MIB is being thrown around by a tentacle while the old MIB talks on as if nothing is happening.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:01 am

But she is isn't looking at him...she's looking in the opposite direction.

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:04 am

My guess is that they're revoking the village's charter on account of their village questor acting outside some sort of bounds. It's the nightmare that Gilder was worried about. No village = no village questor, just a hot-headed guy with no authority, much more easily disposed of.

What's interesting is that if the Council is advisory, the executors are acting in a very strange fashion. They should not be starting with Lady Rose but filing the official papers and setting up the details of implementation with the local guard after introducing them to their new bosses in whatever political subdivision Freeman Downs is getting folded up inside.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:30 am

I know Madmoonie, but all she has to do is turn around. That is what makes it so funny.

Wallbanger · Post by **Wallbanger** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:34 am

I'm inclined to agree with TMLutas -- no mere civil claim would send Rose though a warp-speed journey through four of the five stages of grief...

Panel 1 -- Denial
Panel 2 -- Bargaining
Panel 3 -- Anger
Panel 4 -- Depression

Panel 5 is *supposed* to be acceptance, but we are interrupted by the fracas in the backyard.

Detrius · Post by **Detrius** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:49 am

greatbeast wrote:Im suspecting that instead of him being sued, he is being given a "can't refuse" mission that is somewhat dangerous.

Maybe legally "Shang-hied" into dealing with something related to the creator of the rat king and deciples....or maybe something involving the Gragum "government" ??

Maybe even something dealing with humans ?

I had similar thoughts, this is the classical "What you want him to do is suicide!" dialogue.

My guess is that someone in the government finally has realized that the Rac'conan have no idea of what has happened in the outside world over the course of the last few centuries and that it might be a good idea to finally send a scout. The official reasoning might have something to do with Quentyn's "talent for improvisation" or the fact that the "Gragum respect him", but in truth he's just dispensable. Oh, there might be some double-cross involved... like a hidden revenge plot or using him as bait, so that the _real_ scouts can observe what today's humans will do to a Rac'conan.

Quentyn is going to live in interesting times.

And hello everyone, this is my first post in this forum.

Dapple · Post by **Dapple** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:08 am

I dont's think RH will ever have Quentyn leave the seven villages, on the other hand while in Haven he may have made some rather powerful political enemies.
Yeah you know RH is laughing at us right now, he LOOOOOOVES keeping us in suspence. The next couple of days are going to unbareble.......

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:40 am

Madmoonie wrote:*CLICK

Rats, no new comics...

*CLICK

Rats, no new comics...

*CLICK

Rats, no new comics...

*CLICK

Rats, no new comics...

......and this goes on about all day

This is why I made TotQ my homepage. Everytime I go online, or open a new window, it's the first thing I see.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:40 am

detrius wrote:
greatbeast wrote:Im suspecting that instead of him being sued, he is being given a "can't refuse" mission that is somewhat dangerous.

Maybe legally "Shang-hied" into dealing with something related to the creator of the rat king and deciples....or maybe something involving the Gragum "government" ??

Maybe even something dealing with humans ?
I had similar thoughts, this is the classical "What you want him to do is suicide!" dialogue.

My guess is that someone in the government finally has realized that the Rac'conan have no idea of what has happened in the outside world over the course of the last few centuries and that it might be a good idea to finally send a scout. The official reasoning might have something to do with Quentyn's "talent for improvisation" or the fact that the "Gragum respect him", but in truth he's just dispensable. Oh, there might be some double-cross involved... like a hidden revenge plot or using him as bait, so that the _real_ scouts can observe what today's humans will do to a Rac'conan.

Quentyn is going to live in interesting times.

And hello everyone, this is my first post in this forum.

YO! Hi there! Welcome to the forum. Check your sanity at the door, and please, under any circumstances, don't feed Solidus.

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:48 am

Yes, welcome! And watch out for the puns, they can be deadly.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:03 am

Tom Mazanec wrote:I know Madmoonie, but all she has to do is turn around. That is what makes it so funny.

Sorry, I misread your post and took it a wrong meaning. I'm sorry.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:31 am

Sariah wrote: This is why I made TotQ my homepage. Everytime I go online, or open a new window, it's the first thing I see.

So basicaly instead of clicking the your book mark, you're just consantly restarting your brouser every few minuets? Hell knows thats what I do.

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:38 am

Astral wrote:
Sariah wrote: This is why I made TotQ my homepage. Everytime I go online, or open a new window, it's the first thing I see.
So basicaly instead of clicking the your book mark, you're just consantly restarting your brouser every few minuets? Hell knows thats what I do.

Yes. That's basically what I do.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:00 am

Yay for excesive energy expenditure!

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:45 am

No, it's easier for me. Every time I open a new window (just by hitting "appleN") it goes to the homepage, not the page I already had open. I use Macs, not PCs.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:56 pm

MAC's are icky. I am a graphic designer and I still prefer PC's.

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:22 pm

To each their own. I think PCs are icky *and* I've never gotten a virus. EVER! I don't even need the software to keep them away.

Anyway, back on topic, I've read today's comic at least a dozen times and still laugh out loud. But what threw him in the first panel? Electricity? Where did that come from?

Greatbeast · Post by **Greatbeast** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:56 pm

Im also puzzled about the electricity looking thing....

Though Im kind of partial to the Mock Tenticle as a pet

Hairyshoe · Post by **Hairyshoe** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:57 pm

Wildcard, perhaps? Then again, the second time around we don't see anything but flying severed tentacles.

Also, a question: is there any way to get directly to this board after signing in? It always kicks me out to the ComicGen home page.