I notice Boo is coming closer. If Ashley sends Duane off after this heartfelt redemptive moment, I'll be alright with it.
Go Quigley, and love your son.
>I'm with Duane. Who didn't know this all along? Stupid Quigley thinking he's the first man in the world to fail at hating his kid just to spite his wife.
This is one of those updates where I feel like I’ll only really understand and appreciate the fullness of it after the whole chapter is out and I can do a leisurely reread with all the context before me.
I love how Ashely has completely unabashedly gone in on "The world may be shit but Power of Love and Friendship is Good and it will save this world and the people in it, too. Good is absolutely out there, people just need to step up to the plate and DO good for us to fully realize the extent of it."
That message so often gets dismissed as corny and false nowadays and it is genuinely SO refreshing to see a piece of media go "frick those guys, this has always been the truth."
Its because people got used to trite and kid-friendly stories where 'as long as you are a Good Person, god won't let anything bad happen to you/things will just work out in the end' which is a comforting lie but one that even a child can see isn't true. We want it to be true, but the fact is that bad things happen to good people all the time, being good isn't a shield from suffering.
Stories like Unsounded hit the right note because they put in the work, where the characters in question are already familiar with suffering and loss and pain. But instead of saying "I was a good person, this wasn't supposed to happen to me, thats against THE RULES" they say "The world sucks, but I'd rather make it better than make it worse. This isn't a mess that one person made, so its not going to be a mess that only takes one person to fix. If we are going to make things better, it has to be done together." And that carries much more weight because unlike the kid-friendly version its not a lie. An over simplification, perhaps, in a fantastical framework. But fundamentally still true.
i think kid friendly isn't the right word to use here but i will agree with trite and even sanitized- so much art these days is made as a product so before it can be a good story, it has to sell
Many Greeks openly questioned the existence of the gods, and there was a tradition of coming up with plausible origin stories for the myths. Things such as Cerberus being a really good guard dog, and being called "three-headed" because he had two puppies he was inseparable with. When Greeks saw Rome, apparently they were incredibly surprised to see that the Roman nobility was outwardly very pious. Of course, the Roman nobility wasn't that different from the Greeks, and there's a notable example of Scipio Africanus creating the miracle he then pretended to pray for. There was also a Roman senator who put the axe to a temple of Isis in Rome, because all of the laborers who he preferred do the work were too superstitious to do so.
A friend who read the Poetic Edda described it as "a manual for all the sorts of people you might run into in life, and how to deal with them" and Greek mythology strikes me as similar.
For a couple pages a week or two ago I thought everyone was going to drop the whole khert thing and go find Matty (first) and maybe that was how they messed with Cutter's plan.
From our perspective, them going into the khert is what Ilganyag wants them to do, right? Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
>Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
Why would Sette or Duane think that freeing the pain babies is what Tittybird wants? Sette actually cut a few loose the last time she was in the Khert and Tittybird stopped her.
>Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
Duane does, at least
https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/724102570644275200/i-honestly-dont-get-the-mechanic-of-this-duane >Duane has a very bad feeling about what a coincidence this is that they have access to exactly what they need. But Sette won’t let him object.
I'm so over this webcomic. Took me too long to realize the edginess and "woe is me"isms have no point, and there's no actual plot. It's all fluff, and an excuse to draw sexy men and children's feet, apparently. And no, world-building does not equal plot.
I'm pretty onboard for Duane and Quiggles adventures in Alderode. Sette needs to die and clear the way for them. We don't need her anymore, we have Mikaila back
Duane continues to be the best.
tip top tom the precocious mountain goat reveal
Is Quigley seeing Duane as a person, by intentionally falling for his glamor?
Definitely. He even calls him a soud instead of a fricking plod.
Holy frick I want to clap. This is a masterpiece. Well fricking done, Cope.
>Your penance isn't to hate, you fool; it's always been to love.
What a fricking awesome line. I've read worse lines in great literature.
Up there with 'God is unattainable by transaction.'
k i n o
I notice Boo is coming closer. If Ashley sends Duane off after this heartfelt redemptive moment, I'll be alright with it.
Go Quigley, and love your son.
How does she fricking do it? How does she keep doing it?
Frickin hell Duane, you aren't allowed to look this cool. It's a rule.
Don't worry. In the next page he's gonna trip over or say something cringe and racist. The scales always balance.
Anon, in the context of this scene screaming "FRICK ALL Y'ALL Black folk!" next page is a perfectly acceptable call to action, not "cringe racism".
>I'm with Duane. Who didn't know this all along? Stupid Quigley thinking he's the first man in the world to fail at hating his kid just to spite his wife.
>I like that panel of Duane grabbing his ribs.
(Ashley's Patreon comment)
I also like that panel a lot.
nice
Is this the first time Mathis has seen Duane's old face?
He isn't really seeing it because glamours don't work that way, Ash just drew it like that because it makes a better page.
Now I don't want him going and getting a big head about it, but I think this Duane guy would make a pretty good priest.
I want to love this but all I can think of is how bad the next page is gonna get now. How many more kids gonna die?!
Quigley redemption arc. Hell yeah.
It is just the beginning, and there is far to go. But it begins.
I fricking knew it. I l knew Cope wouldn't do my Quiggle dirty.
if she ended it right here I'd be okay
Duane's fatherly powers are fixing Quigley's edge. It's amazing how this feels so good and so deserved for both of them.
This is one of those updates where I feel like I’ll only really understand and appreciate the fullness of it after the whole chapter is out and I can do a leisurely reread with all the context before me.
I wish I could write like Ashely
this is the kind of page you read a comic for a decade to see
dialogue that goes unfathomably hard
ASHLEY COPE HAS DONE IT AGAIN
I love how Ashely has completely unabashedly gone in on "The world may be shit but Power of Love and Friendship is Good and it will save this world and the people in it, too. Good is absolutely out there, people just need to step up to the plate and DO good for us to fully realize the extent of it."
That message so often gets dismissed as corny and false nowadays and it is genuinely SO refreshing to see a piece of media go "frick those guys, this has always been the truth."
Its because people got used to trite and kid-friendly stories where 'as long as you are a Good Person, god won't let anything bad happen to you/things will just work out in the end' which is a comforting lie but one that even a child can see isn't true. We want it to be true, but the fact is that bad things happen to good people all the time, being good isn't a shield from suffering.
Stories like Unsounded hit the right note because they put in the work, where the characters in question are already familiar with suffering and loss and pain. But instead of saying "I was a good person, this wasn't supposed to happen to me, thats against THE RULES" they say "The world sucks, but I'd rather make it better than make it worse. This isn't a mess that one person made, so its not going to be a mess that only takes one person to fix. If we are going to make things better, it has to be done together." And that carries much more weight because unlike the kid-friendly version its not a lie. An over simplification, perhaps, in a fantastical framework. But fundamentally still true.
i think kid friendly isn't the right word to use here but i will agree with trite and even sanitized- so much art these days is made as a product so before it can be a good story, it has to sell
being ssael ain't easy, man
You could replace the employee's text with text from some of Duane's various religious speeches.
damn bros, that choked me up a bit
quigley will fricking DIE* before mathis can get his redemption arc.
*note: all quiggers go to hell.
How can anyone still be a gefendur after listening to ssaelit doctrine? They're 100% right. Even if Ssael isn't real, the gefendur gods suck.
Paper gods aren't real, take the senetpill. Khert and pymary were designed by ancient Tainish kings.
why did anyone worship the greek gods either, real pieces of shit there, that's how religion is
ssael isnt puppies and rainbows either, you should read what he thinks on body hair. and women!
Pubic hair doctrine is a contentious issue even on Cinemaphile.
If your pubes are shaved and styled into a perfect trojan mohawk noone is going to argue against it, anon. Not your mum. Not Ssael. Nobody.
Many Greeks openly questioned the existence of the gods, and there was a tradition of coming up with plausible origin stories for the myths. Things such as Cerberus being a really good guard dog, and being called "three-headed" because he had two puppies he was inseparable with. When Greeks saw Rome, apparently they were incredibly surprised to see that the Roman nobility was outwardly very pious. Of course, the Roman nobility wasn't that different from the Greeks, and there's a notable example of Scipio Africanus creating the miracle he then pretended to pray for. There was also a Roman senator who put the axe to a temple of Isis in Rome, because all of the laborers who he preferred do the work were too superstitious to do so.
A friend who read the Poetic Edda described it as "a manual for all the sorts of people you might run into in life, and how to deal with them" and Greek mythology strikes me as similar.
"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
For a couple pages a week or two ago I thought everyone was going to drop the whole khert thing and go find Matty (first) and maybe that was how they messed with Cutter's plan.
From our perspective, them going into the khert is what Ilganyag wants them to do, right? Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
>Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
Why would Sette or Duane think that freeing the pain babies is what Tittybird wants? Sette actually cut a few loose the last time she was in the Khert and Tittybird stopped her.
>Do you think they have any doubt at all that they might not be saving the world but playing into the villain's hand?
Duane does, at least
https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/724102570644275200/i-honestly-dont-get-the-mechanic-of-this-duane
>Duane has a very bad feeling about what a coincidence this is that they have access to exactly what they need. But Sette won’t let him object.
I'm so over this webcomic. Took me too long to realize the edginess and "woe is me"isms have no point, and there's no actual plot. It's all fluff, and an excuse to draw sexy men and children's feet, apparently. And no, world-building does not equal plot.
Consider learning to actually process what you read
I'm pretty onboard for Duane and Quiggles adventures in Alderode. Sette needs to die and clear the way for them. We don't need her anymore, we have Mikaila back