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Regrets are a pain in the ass.
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chapter 6 page 124

by clowncorps on January 29, 2025 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Chapter 6
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  1. Sirksome
    January 29, 2025, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know what to believe anymore.

  2. Rezmason
    January 29, 2025, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Ted Chiang has a short story about the unreliability of personal narratives, even ones that define us— The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling

  3. Ditocoaf
    January 29, 2025, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    I had a feeling there was a Rashomon bent to this. Glad to see a second take on the same flashback to really confirm it.

  4. SmilesPerHour
    January 29, 2025, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    You can’t get rid of me that easy…

    ‘Cause I’m with you to the end of the line

  5. MrsMackerel
    January 29, 2025, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    It’s incredible how well this lines up with page 3 of the chapter. Love this.

  6. Weh
    January 29, 2025, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    This entire vigilante shift seems to be Mustard regressing to her high school bully roots. Binky called her out on looking for people to terrorize. I wonder where she goes from here?

  7. Fellow
    January 29, 2025, 7:32 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure this is the real version of events. The corndog the clown bit is absolutely a thing that happened, and it’s not in here. Could just be an omission for the sake of tone, of course.

    • AFrickinDwarf
      January 29, 2025, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      I think probably omitted for brevity

  8. JamJar
    January 29, 2025, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Holy heck. Squeaky got assaulted by a balloon tank, Oats was nearly hanged off the side of a building, Gus had the lower half of his face obliterated…and this still feels like the most brutal thing Echo has done. Maggie’s death seems to have truly changed who Morgan wanted to be, and as sorrowful yet relieved as Mustard must have been that her sister was alive, she brought the ugly past with her and shoved her face into it. In chapter five she wondered if Maggie would be proud of her, of who she had become. Of all the grieving people in the world who wish they could hear the answer to that question firsthand, Morgan actually got to…and look what it’s done to her.

    Maybe this’ll be what’s needed for her to truly change, to become someone who never would act the way she did when she first came back in black.

    • radio
      January 29, 2025, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      This page, suddenly and with great force, is making me ask myself why the guy who could argue anybody into anything found it so important that the woman who could reproduce any funny trick she saw not be able to speak.

      • AFrickinDwarf
        January 29, 2025, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

        Oh my fucking god…

      • quark
        January 29, 2025, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

        ………..OH.

      • charles mingus
        January 29, 2025, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

        Nah. It’s a fun theory, but Gus’s arguing ability is pretty explicitly described as something that can’t be learned, like PJ’s sleeping or strongman’s strength.

        • Mr. A
          January 29, 2025, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t know. It would certainly make sense if Gus was a genetic freak, but I can’t find a page that “explicitly” confirms the source of his ability.

          Some relevant pages:
          https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-10/
          https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-30/
          https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-70/
          https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-87/

          • Sirksome
            January 29, 2025, 8:55 pm | #

            Yeah I think it’s more nuanced. Some abilities have pretty specific circumstances. Like being born with a bigger body and muscles is different from sleep walking, but neither can be mimicked, yet I don’t think PJ’s sleep quirks can be given through genetic manipulation science like strong man’s. McBell just improvises which can’t really be taught, but learning how to gaslight people could probably be studied. Or even stuff like Fuschia’s tech can be copied but not her intelligence.

      • Sirksome
        January 29, 2025, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

        Wow. How did I not put that together?

      • Kammon
        January 29, 2025, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

        That… seems suddenly incredibly relevant, yes.

      • yeet
        January 31, 2025, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        now there’s a hecking point

  9. Marcus Martin
    January 29, 2025, 10:33 am | # | Reply

    Siblings relationship are hard to describe no matter how far apart you are and how you grow up apart.

  10. Tooniator
    January 29, 2025, 10:36 am | # | Reply

    Seems to me that they are getting along like most sisters who are close in age.

  11. Mr. A
    January 29, 2025, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

    The previous version of this flashback was in color; this one is in black-and-white. Should we be reading anything into that? And if so, which way?

    • Plotline
      January 30, 2025, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      So, I gave it some thought, and, I’m not sure how on-the-clown-nose I am on this, but, here’s what I think.

      I think the truth is somewhere in between. Morrigan probably was a very flawed person in High School, but probably not nearly as bad as Maggie is making her out to be. I think the color flashback is more accurate to the truth, and the black and white flashbacks are the perceptive flashbacks. It might not be entirely accurate, but, it’s accurate to how the character feels.

      Mustard’s tears might not be inherently an acknowledgement of guilt, but rather, an understanding of how her actions might’ve affected Maggie’s perceptions and sent her down this path.

      Just my two cents.

  12. Ivy
    January 30, 2025, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    No yeah i was just thinking about that! Why wouldn’t she be able to copy his techniques and make Mustard believe anything?

    Even if this flashback is accurate, that could still be the case. Mustard, vigilantism aside, has changed from high school.

    On the other hand, and idk if I’m reading too much into things, so grain of salt, but in Mustard’s flashback Maggie took a bit out of the corndog.

  13. Plotline
    January 30, 2025, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

    “Regrets are a pain in the ass.”

    That line was missing here from Page 3…

    Hmmm…

    • Joy
      February 27, 2025, 2:03 am | # | Reply

      Huh. Morgan’s dialogue sorta reminds me of the dynamic between Mae and Gregg from night in the woods, only one sided. Well, panel 7, anyway. In context it comes across meaner. It’s like: “You do care but don’t want to be vulnerable about it, which makes sense when your younger sister relentlessly bullies you because she thinks you’re a bully, why would you want to be emotionally vulnerable around someone who acts that way.”

      Making it about you, then glaring and raising your voice, sneering, morbid jokes about her dying… It’s super easy to see just this page in isolation as chill younger sister vs mean older sister because that’s what this particular scene comes across as. …it’s not that simple.

      I don’t usually feel a lot of strong emotions about being a middle child, but I’m glad that I am one right now, since I actually understand what it’s like to have both a younger sibling and an older sibling. Since it’s oldest + youngest sibling as the dynamic, they don’t really understand each other’s perspectives intuitively. I remember growing up I had several friends who had all been the oldest child, and they just acted mean in ways that seemed really uncalled for while expecting me to relate to them about having a younger sibling. It’s, like, no that’s embarrassing, “I do have the experience of having a younger sibling but you don’t have the experience of being a younger sibling,” right? It’s like… Morgan probably just didn’t realize how hurtful she was being. :/

      Maggie doesn’t really seem to get how hurtful she was being either, not having had the experience of having a younger sibling in the context of that type of dynamic… Yeah, I was the nice one in my family. Somehow. I wasn’t even that nice. My perspective was literally, “I hate that you act that way and I don’t want to be that much of a [word] so I won’t do that to someone else.” I was blunt and judgemental, as a teenager in particular. I’m still pretty judgemental and blunt actually. Whatever. I like talking about myself lol. In any case yeah making yourself out to be the chill rational one and being smug about it when someone’s visibly upset is actually pretty mean, I don’t think most people realize that since they tend to focus on how it feels like winning?

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