Stand Still Stay Silent

Is anyone reading Reynir's tale? 4 new pages are up, and nobody talking about... about... how neat that mist was drawn?

I take it you don't read the comments under the strips, then?

The scenery, the colours, the horses, the utter doofus, palm trees: all discussed.

Really? Everyone just talks on the comic's page only?

edited 3rd Apr '15 12:01:49 PM by KlarkKentThe3rd

And the fan forum. <shrugs> I don't go on there much, myself. I have enough in the way of time sinks.

Poor Sigrun. Looks like they're stuck with this Escort Mission whether they like it or not...

Poor Mikkel: nobody gets his jokes.

That too.

On another note, I wasn't a fan of SSSS's art at first, but it's really grown on me. I love how she drew angry Sigrun in the last panel.

Hangdog Reynir is also quite something.

So I read the prologue tonight...I think except for the people on that ferry everyone we saw made it? Unless the Icelandic Coast Guard ship wasn't looking for the ferry and was just looking for that little boat (that I'm pretty sure wasn't the one that the pregnant waitress and her family were on).

Also GEEZ, only 41,000 people living on Iceland? I expected more than that if it really is the only place that wasn't reached by the disease.

The ferry wasn't actually heading to Iceland, though. :| Nor did it change destinations to go there (it would be unlikely to have the spare fuel to make it there... nor the structural capacity: it was made for plying the Baltic, not the open Atlantic — rather different beasties). It did, however, have fuel enough to head to an easily dockable area with forgiving beaches it could self-quarantine to keep the locals happy. With a couple of locals from Bornholm working aboard it to help with negotiations via loud hailer, too.

And about the number of survivors: check out The Lake Toba explosion. The bottleneck that caused probably meant a reduced global human population of even lower numbers. -_-

edited 10th Apr '15 2:53:48 PM by Euodiachloris

Ah, I see. The 41K was just the population of Reykjavik. That makes more sense.

Double post but am now caught up. Reynir, you idiot.

Yup. Naive, very loved and, as a result, very sheltered. Poor boy had his deck stacked with Fool cards. :|

Indeed.

Also realized that everyone from the prologue managed to live, so yay XD

Anyway, apparently they'll be getting a cat soon, judging from the most recent post.

I've just started reading this comic, and so far it is amazing. I'm kind of awed.

On the one hand, I'm wondering how this thread has been buried for almost a year, but on the other at least I don't need to worry about spoilers as much. :P (Reynir just joined the cast, and he reminds me of Anna but maybe slightly more interesting... everyone else in the cast is better. So far I think the best chapter was 3, mostly for the worldbuilding behind Sweden, and the Dallahästen, and the interactions between Lalli and Emil. :D )

edited 19th Feb '16 5:33:43 PM by Noaqiyeum

Normally you worry about something good being ignored, and to a fan that is one of the worst pains. But with S4, you know that the comic has a crapload of readers. They just post on the comic's page, and not here (or anywhere). So it's not that the thing you like doesn't have enough fans, it's just that the fans are somewhere else.

Speaking about the comic, the thing I like most about it is the sense of freedom it has. ANYTING can happen, even the supernatural. That is also something I enjoy in Stephen King's work, who is not afraid to include the mysterious in just about everything he does. And the atmosphere is amazing. I always said that atmosphere is the key in immersing the audience in a piece of fiction. And actually expressive expressions on the characters, and S4 has that in tons. Nobody looks rigid, and the sense of movement is well captured.

Pretty much. The blend of solid, character-based interaction, the use of colour-pallet both for the general aesthetics, but also as a tool for storytelling... the humour, the horror, the exceedingly cute and the gritty... What's not to love? Even Minna's occasional gaffes just make it feel more human and organic, rather than breaking me out of the feel of the whole piece.

There's only one thing it doesn't have, and I seriously can't be bothered to miss it: it ain't crudely hardboiled. Even the nasty bits have a sense of wonder I outright cherish.

Yup: hooked.

Exactly so. I tried to go into some of that a little bit when I bumped the thread but decided it was turning into inarticulate gushing and deleted it.

Like, every single panel is dense with beautiful artwork or wonderful character interaction or both, and I have no idea how Minna manages a cast and setting that allows that. Even the background humour is character based (contrasted with, say, Girl Genius I guess? where they're mostly based on the setting, which is not bad either but it's a lot more common it seems like). It's incredible.

I also want to mention how much I love the dreamworld(s), because it really appeals to me as a general trope and SSSS is fantastic with it. One of my favourite pages so far was Lalli shadowing Reynir between dreams, using the ripples left by his footsteps as stepping stones.

I'm all caught up. D:

And, what a page to catch up to.

Holy. Fuck. That is extremely awesome!

Emil speaks for everyone.

No, DON'T unleash the kraken, PUT IT BACK

Ouch. That's gotta leave a mark.

Also, damnit Minna, you're supposed to do the cliffhangers on Fridays, not at the start of the week.

What are you talking about? It's been daily cliffhangers for months, now.