The next page after this will be Wednesday. I'm not satisfied with what I'd written, and I know I can write better.

This is not hubris! I'm simply the best writer ever. It's how I know I wrote something not good enough.

I'll see if I can work in at least one backflip (I don't think there'll be a backflip, but we'll see).

Looking Down

"It's a bit like with cartoon coyotes. I had to make sure you looked down."

"I refuse to believe you have that reference on your side."

"Oh, we don't, but we've been here a while. I'm very concerned by how much television Mist's been watching."

Not a loophole

One can be forgiven for reading Voltaire say "I vow to do that" and assume he's going for a loophole.

That's not a loophole. That's "it just took two panels for Saou to cover the contents of the vow, we're not going over that again on-panel."

Should one wish to headcanon that Saou had Voltaire repeat it properly, that's fine, but unnecessary. The "that" in context pretty much has to go along with what Saou described. The only way Voltaire's vow doesn't match is if he misheard or misinterpreted it. Whatever his genuine understanding of what Saou said was, he just vowed to do that.

So I guess there could be "a loophole" if Voltaire just did not get what Saou was saying.

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- Thursday EGSNP