I am feeling so many feelings about this reveal that my brain has had to reboot. Now I am fixated on the necktie tourniquet on PJ. Binky is…BUSINESS CASUAL.
Alright I can’t take it! Gus is gonna talk to Mustard and put her on his side because of this!!! Author, if your reading this, please don’t quit the comic because I predicted it, I don’t even know for sure if that’s what’s gonna happen.
Gus does specialize in targeting vulnerable people, but..
Mustard has already been debriefed on this. She knows gus is doing this as a power trip. It would suprise me if he could just convince her.
I like to think she’s instead gonna do everything to bring her sis back to her side, which is kind of cheesy and predictable, but i like this, and it’s a clown comic, a clown policeman superpowered agent comic.
Buuut, during the stone bridge exposition, she expected there to be more to it. Gus is gonna convince her that there is, in fact, “more to it.” And convince her that he really is a good guy, with a bit about having to keep Echo’s secret yadda yadda, needing people to think that she was gone blah blah, supposed greater good with extra thick charisma, then Mustard will take out Binky (nonlethaly) and escape with the diabolical ringmaster.
I’m disappointed, because this isn’t a twist, but a boring cliché.
More then that it’s illogical. Mustard’s sister died in a car accident, nothing were the body would just go missing, and Mustard should be smart enough to know that this hast to be some subterfuge.
If not than it is bad writing, as nothing ever suggested the chance of this outcome.
Well, mcbell’s car ride also went south. Gus and the captain may have a thing for car accident-based recruitment.
Not everything needs to be foreshadowed in writing, either. This twist comes a bit out of the left field(though droves of people were predicting it for doylist reasons), but it’s hardly the literary trainwrech you’re making it out to be.
May I remind you that we had a whole discussion a few pages back where the Shadow Circus drug made people look dead when they aren’t. Maggie being a inanimate body didn’t mean anything during the accident.
“Whatever’s in those things [the cyanide capsules circus agents use when caught], it’s not cyanide.” (last panel of page 13)
“The implants release a chemical agent that slows one’s heart rate to almost nothing, simulating death”
So whose to say this couldn’t have been administered involunarily, even surreptitiously, to Maggie, who would wake up after her funeral thinking Gus had somehow miraculously saved her life?
My main problem is that it seems so unnecessary. Mustard became a clown because of her sister’s death, yes, but she isn’t the person to quit now that she is alive.
She has made peace with it, so there is no trauma to resolve, the death was in no way her fault so there is no guilt, and as an accident there is no revenge plot.
Echo is still a criminal, so we need no forced in personal drama to go after her.
That doesn’t mean Mustard will suddenly stop loving her sister and wanting her back, though. Now there is tension because Echo is so powerful it might actually take lethal force to take her down, and Mustard will have to decide how far she is willing to go to enact justice, or if her sister’s life is worth breaking her moral code.
And that’s assuming that Echo would ever allow herself to be “saved”. She seems determined to continue on this path.
In fact, this works because Mustard had progressed so much as a person, and become so sure of her career. She is like the gold standard of what a Clown Corps agent is supposed to be, not what politics has made of the institution. And now that is going to be tested.
Also, we still need to know what made Echo fake her death and work for a criminal. One thing is seeing the corruption in the Corps and becoming disillusioned, another is joining up with someone willing to kill.
This is the option that made more sense, but it still feels cheap that there isn’t any substantive link with McBell after all the coding… unless there is.
I am feeling so many feelings about this reveal that my brain has had to reboot. Now I am fixated on the necktie tourniquet on PJ. Binky is…BUSINESS CASUAL.
Mustard baby pls calm down you’re gonna drown yourself.
CALLED IT! I freakin’ knew it!
…
*just hugs Mustard* <//3
Awww
Alright I can’t take it! Gus is gonna talk to Mustard and put her on his side because of this!!! Author, if your reading this, please don’t quit the comic because I predicted it, I don’t even know for sure if that’s what’s gonna happen.
Gus does specialize in targeting vulnerable people, but..
Mustard has already been debriefed on this. She knows gus is doing this as a power trip. It would suprise me if he could just convince her.
I like to think she’s instead gonna do everything to bring her sis back to her side, which is kind of cheesy and predictable, but i like this, and it’s a clown comic, a clown policeman superpowered agent comic.
Buuut, during the stone bridge exposition, she expected there to be more to it. Gus is gonna convince her that there is, in fact, “more to it.” And convince her that he really is a good guy, with a bit about having to keep Echo’s secret yadda yadda, needing people to think that she was gone blah blah, supposed greater good with extra thick charisma, then Mustard will take out Binky (nonlethaly) and escape with the diabolical ringmaster.
you: “pls author don’t quit cause im clairvoyant”
also you: “tries predicting the comic for a second time” ;P
I couldn’t take the pressure.
Oh no! Poor Mustard 🙁
I’m disappointed, because this isn’t a twist, but a boring cliché.
More then that it’s illogical. Mustard’s sister died in a car accident, nothing were the body would just go missing, and Mustard should be smart enough to know that this hast to be some subterfuge.
If not than it is bad writing, as nothing ever suggested the chance of this outcome.
Ah but theres quite a few instances where the body may not be found
Well, mcbell’s car ride also went south. Gus and the captain may have a thing for car accident-based recruitment.
Not everything needs to be foreshadowed in writing, either. This twist comes a bit out of the left field(though droves of people were predicting it for doylist reasons), but it’s hardly the literary trainwrech you’re making it out to be.
How do you know that the car crash wasn’t staged? Or that the body wasn’t fake?
May I remind you that we had a whole discussion a few pages back where the Shadow Circus drug made people look dead when they aren’t. Maggie being a inanimate body didn’t mean anything during the accident.
Late edit: it was pages 13-14 of this chapter.
“Whatever’s in those things [the cyanide capsules circus agents use when caught], it’s not cyanide.” (last panel of page 13)
“The implants release a chemical agent that slows one’s heart rate to almost nothing, simulating death”
So whose to say this couldn’t have been administered involunarily, even surreptitiously, to Maggie, who would wake up after her funeral thinking Gus had somehow miraculously saved her life?
My main problem is that it seems so unnecessary. Mustard became a clown because of her sister’s death, yes, but she isn’t the person to quit now that she is alive.
She has made peace with it, so there is no trauma to resolve, the death was in no way her fault so there is no guilt, and as an accident there is no revenge plot.
Echo is still a criminal, so we need no forced in personal drama to go after her.
That doesn’t mean Mustard will suddenly stop loving her sister and wanting her back, though. Now there is tension because Echo is so powerful it might actually take lethal force to take her down, and Mustard will have to decide how far she is willing to go to enact justice, or if her sister’s life is worth breaking her moral code.
And that’s assuming that Echo would ever allow herself to be “saved”. She seems determined to continue on this path.
In fact, this works because Mustard had progressed so much as a person, and become so sure of her career. She is like the gold standard of what a Clown Corps agent is supposed to be, not what politics has made of the institution. And now that is going to be tested.
Also, we still need to know what made Echo fake her death and work for a criminal. One thing is seeing the corruption in the Corps and becoming disillusioned, another is joining up with someone willing to kill.
Did she mention not finding a body?
That is just perfect grade blubbering on Mustard.
This is the option that made more sense, but it still feels cheap that there isn’t any substantive link with McBell after all the coding… unless there is.
YOOOOOO?????
That’s some strong grime
To be expected from people whose standart-issue stuff is “glove that teleports nonlethal weaponry”
You really managed to convey so many emotions on Mustard’s face all at once! It hurts to look at ( in a good way)
begging, pleading, down on my fucking knees asking for Binky to give Mustard the hugemassive hug she needs and frankly deserves right now.