Baldness can strike fear in any man’s heart, and lead a man to seek out desperate solutions. Such as believing an insect-seller’s claim that letting a certain type of mite lay their eggs in your scalp will stimulate hair growth.
Now he’s just got a bald streak down the center of his head and thus he potentially has a claim for untruthful selling practices, but that insect guy’s already moved on and is probably hundreds of miles away by now so whadda ya gonna do.
Thanks as usual to Raptie for handling the character coloring and shading on this page!
I didn’t need the image of that fly on my mind.
Good call.
I would proudly react the same way if I knew a doctor like that. Nobody wants an intoxicated doctor.
Unless it’s the doctor from an anime called The Irresponsible Captain Tylor. He’s 33 years old with a 30 year drinking habit and the best surgeon in the fleet when he’s totally smashed.
I was just watching that!
Heh, I see Matty & Chitz. 😀
TIL Animes literally rip off anything, including M*A*S*H.
What’s with Split-Top? Did he get an axe to the head at some point?
Look in the text below the comic. He got it by being duped into letting a mite lay eggs in his scalp to prevent balding.
That last panel’ snot gonna fly with me.
All that buzzing about is nothing to sneeze at, yaknow.
i was wondering if he’d come up! XD
I am so incredibly curious where you’re going with this. I don’t see you killing off Elim this soon, so this is probably going down another path, but which…? Another TF?
Well, I’ve called for Elim to die, not because I want him to die, but because I expect realistic consequences in my fiction and hate the idea that “one chance in a million works 90% of the time”; unless medical technology here is radically divergent from our Renaissance medical technology Elim’s wounds give him less than 1% chance of survival. Moreover – even if they have antibiotics and know-how to clean infected matter from the body cavities – in absence of magic, or at least “magic” Elim is going to be bed-bound for many weeks to come, so whether he lives or dies he stops being active participant in the events.
What gives me hope is the fact that Val stated that he already knows all the important events of the story: it is planned in advance. I’ve seen quite a few webcomics and fanfics to take a turn for the worst or just sputter and die because of the reader’s pressure; so the fact that Val is not going to go that way is a very big plus for me.
My prediction is that the stabby yinglet and kass are going to enter an uneasy truce. Reasoning:
– Stabby yinglet has realized he’s truly screwed, and his only lead is kass, so he’ll seek kass out.*
– Kass now knows stabby yinglet is important and will seek him out.
– Big-Horn-Girl is going to be mourning elim.
– Without elim, kass basically just has Big-Horn-Girl for emotional support. Big-Horn-Girl is going to be needing support just as bad as kass; and is also too shy for adventuring anyway.
– If kass has no emotional support, she’ll probably go through the stages of grief. Which includes bargaining. Which ties back into stabby yinglet: chase down the only lead she has left to follow, to understand why stabby yinglet was stabby.
– Head moth dude is going to be very interested in what just happened; either concerned, or he’ll see an opportunity, or he’ll try to protect his asset (kass) and keep her away from threats (e.g. the stabby-yinglet that she wants to follow). In any case, kass will probably feel some form of pressure from him, adding to the stress.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
* Or skip town. But that’s not good for the story; AND even if he does run he’s running from someone who has connections with all other nearby yinglet communities so he’s still quite screwed.
you forget that there are a great many divergences from our history, some other race (probably yannet) might have something that will disinfect the wound and/or be able to properly seal his wounds.
You know, a read through the archives can reveal many a yet unused plot point. You just might be onto something. Not Yannet though. The first letter is correct.
Healthy Healthy Juice, yesyes. People was already mentioning it in the comments soon after the stabbing. That is what i meant my “magic” in addition to the possible second Zhing. It would kinda cheapen the impact of the stabbing but it is 100% internally consistent.
Personally I can see the bed-ridden thing happening with Elim getting mopey again because he can’t do anything to help Kass, until horn-girl smacks some sense into him pointing out that the REASON he’s laid up in bed right now is because he was the only one who COULD help Kass in that situation, leading to some character growth on several parts.
You are not wrong, that could have gone through either the abdominal aorta or the illac artery.
What is it with flys and being suicidal little kamikaze bastards all the time?! One flew into my ear yesterday! MY FUCKING EAR! I COULD STILL HEAR IT BUZZING!!!
I once had a moth fly in my ear, it was terrible.
A bee landed on my left eye ball when I was 6. It just stood there for a full second and then left. Why did you do that to me tiny buzz of fluff?
Flies up your nose are just THE WORST -:F
At least words got around about the yinglet officer, silver linings and all that.
The rummor mill probably spread the news faster than the official channels. I can totaly see the 2 elevator guys talking about the new officer as soon as they got off duty.
Awww…
Well at least he was mentioned
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Ugh, that idea of a live fly inside my nose will live on in my nightmares from now on. Thanks for that.
She looks pretty now!
Press F for casually flying into sinuses fly, who struggled fiercely to the end…we’ll all miss you, buddy
F
F, he will be remembered. He is survived by his family member fly-in-your-eye gnat.
Services will be held in the doctor’s left ear canal sunday evening.
Superstition or not it seems appropriate.
Galen needs to get off the weed. Good doctors are in demand everywhere, you’d think, and he might be able to do something/get things done for for the other Dinnish refugees.
Yeah. Imagine the dosh he could pull in.
I think Val needs to update their news feed once every couple years, maybe. It’s been 3 1/2 years, man.
Also, in that last panel, I’m totally hearing Paula’s voice from No Evil
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I totally LOVE this series!
Calamity is the best!
Poor Galen…
I was thinking he could comb the rest of his hair over his mite-ravaged scalp & have a Trump-do, but I guess you’d need hair spray to keep that in place & hair spray hasn’t been invented here.
In this case, at least how I was trained to move someone injured like Elim was to form a chair out of two people’s arms by grabbing your arm by the middle of the forearm, and grabbing the other person’s forearm who then does the same, making a stable square with hands on the top of the forearms to carry a 3rd person who can lean on his comrades for support while being carried. Elim isn’t the first person to receive a honorable wound in the line of duty, after all.
Despite how simple these techniques are to perform they are really non-intuitive. CPR for example does not require any medical knowledge to perform, so in theory it could be invented in pre-historical times, but in fact wasn’t invented until 1950s. I am reasonably sure that “chair carry” was unknown at least in Napoleonic times, and possibly as late as WWI.
I love how well trained the Ivenmoth guards are, respectfully calling Kass “ma’am” without hesitation.
Kas probably isn’t happy with that…
Or maybe he is, being shown respect right off the bat
I don’t know if it’s respect or fear. 🙂 It’s better not to ask questions and play along if Viracroix has decided to recruit a female yinglet and give her the rank of officer. I think they like to keep their heads on their necks. 🙂 I think “ma’am” is better than “sopretty lady” for Kass.
Given that he does actually ask Kass questions, I think we can rule out fear.
I didn’t mean frightened by Kass. 🙂 Nobody would be afraid of a yinglet and nobody would take it seriously. They are afraid of Viracroix. If it were not an order from Viracroix, anyone would think that a yinglet in uniform is a joke. The guy seems rather perplexed seeing Kass, more or less like the two guys on the elevator. It’s like he talked to Kass the same way you would talk to someone met on the elevator.
I woke up one night because a gnat flew up my nose. I tried to blow my nose but it wouldn’t come out. I went back to sleep but kept waking up all night trying to get it out waiting for enough mucus to build up. It came out in a mass of snot after a few hours.
Plot twist: It turns out that there is a kind of bug that can regrow your hair by licking your scalp. When was the last time we saw best girl?
vriska isn’t in this comic
Wait, isn’t there some kind of error in panel 5? Elim grabs him with the right hand, which was draped over bald guy’s shoulders. He should grab the other guy with his left hand.
When will the next page be published, I love this comic so much!
Theres not a set schedule. You kinda just have to wait it out. It seems the artist usually gets 2 pages out a month.
Kind of an odd page to realize this while reading, but I’m just now putting together bits from earlier in the webcomic. Yinglets have heat cycles, the local Baron Von Redboi made ominous mention of “extra demands” that he reserved the right to make because of the increasing demands made of him by Kass.
Something tells me Kass’ first heat cycle (a barrel of fun by itself for her, I’m sure) is going to “coincidentally” happen right before Baron Von Redboi starts adding on those “extra demands”. And I can’t think of a less convenient time for that to happen than during the (presumably) long recovery period Elim is in for, assuming he survives at all…which to me makes it seem more likely that’ll be exactly when it happens. Even ignoring the heat cycle issue, Baron Redboi clearly has some ulterior motives in mind for Kass, even if he’s not outright intending to harm her, and he’s as ruthless as he is silly, so heat cycle or not this would be the perfect time for him to make his next move towards…whatever his goal is, while Kass is vulnerable without Elim as support.
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Elim is still a badass.
Ate more than one bug riding a Fat Boy with out a helmet. Never do that when telephone-love bugs are swarming.
Telephone love bug?
I took a june bug to my forhead at 75 miles an hour while riding. Hurt like hell. It blinded me and almost lost control. Thank goodness i didn’t. Would have been one hell of a road rash. Plus it was rush hour. I would have been ran over most likely.
AAAAaaaaa ……. Good times….
On the plus side, that bald streak hasn’t gotten any wider. Right?
eeeugh! I’ve reread this comic like 4 or 5 times and that fly visual still makes me cringe
a trick that mends all wounds: just suck on a specific kind of leaf!