Head Surgeon Merrs, while an extremely capable surgeon, is not the most skilled conversationalist.
Most people just let it slide, given his prestige and position.
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Big Summer Blowout!
Not even gonna deal with this crook here.
*Stands up.* ‘Vat did you call me? *Yoink*…*Toss*
Definitely nothing to sneeze at.
Thank ze Gods
You LITTLE SHIT!
He saved Elim. Let’s just focus on that and give him…..a bucket of popsicles? Whatever it is that doctors like as thank you gifts.
melody pops. with doctors it is ALWAYS melody pops.
Given his fairly blatant delivery, I’d say that this reaction is precisly what he was hoping for.
Elim will live! Though it’d be funny if Kass’s Hankie had TF properties, the Doc would make for one funny yinglet.
I think getting snot in the face is bad enough already…
It’d be funny if it was the first time, for some reason I doubt it is.
You’d think this works in a binary like system
Patient lives = Good
Patient dies = Bad
Yeah this feels incredibly out of character and done just to make a goof for the comic
Or he has incredibly high standards for himself and forgets that other people don’t share the same good/bad definition.
I dunno though, as the house’s doctor he should have seen enough people die to appreciate survival as a victory. Even a perfect doctor can’t save everyone. And being off-duty for a while is pretty much the best outcome that could possibly be expected.
Judging by how “snooty” he seems to be i’d say that is the case, he might expect that after HIS treatment any patient would just walk right out of the operation table 90% recovered in the LEAST
Giving the benefit of the doubt… this means the House lost money on the procedure. Which could be a bad thing, which is why the head surgeon treats it as a failure. Because in the end, to the House, “dead” is cheaper than “3 months of intensive care.”
Otherwise, absolutely yeah, this feels manufactured.
I’d say this is pretty believable given that apparently you have to be of a certain importance for the house to expend anaesthetic for your treatment as opposed to ‘bite down on this chunk of wood.’
But as far as I’m aware Elim hasn’t gotten a promotion. He’s still a grunt.
I think he’s getting special treatment since he is Kass’ bodyguard.
Also because if he died, Kass would no longer be of use to the House. Whether by anger towards the House and Ran, or complete mental breakdown, they would lose Kass if Elim was to die.
Ran knows that, which is likely why they bothered so much with Elim in the first place.
You’re on to something, here. His speech definitely sounds more like something prepared for an executive or aristocrat who is not nearly as concerned with the well-being of their employees or subjects as they are with the expense and profit loss from keeping a non-working body fed and housed for months on end. Viracroix’ leadership doesn’t at all strike me as quite so exploitative, but perhaps the doctor has been around since Viracroix’ predecessor ran things, or has come over from another tradehouse.
I’d have to disagree, myself. The doctor has been established to be very…odd minded since his introduction a few pages ago. I mean, he left a patient sitting on the table to deal with this.
He’s probably a nutcase, that Viracroix keeps on hand because he’s an amazing surgeon. He seems to have a knack for gathering weirdos.
While being aloof about it, he properly explained this as triage.
I’m pretty sure Kass is just REALLY stressed out right now, and doesn’t appriciate having his emotions tugged around like that.
I know *I* was thinking the exact same thing when the doctor pulled his “I’m sorry….” bullshit.
I believe my reaction was… “Holy mother of fuck you!”?
I bet he hangs out with Ren
FEK YOU! AND YOU! AND FEK ALLO’ YOU!!!
Shouldnt kass still be able to say “fuck”?
Voice probably squeak-cracked. Also the way Yinglet voice boxes and facial/oral construction seem to work seems to favor the “E” sound, hence the screeching and accent most of them seem to have, outside of just replacing “TH” with “Z.” It’s probably not even intentional, it’s just how their mouth and larynx works.
…how toxic is yinglet snot? The surgeon might want to wash his face. Like, pronto.
Think the Toxicity is due to their diet and exposure to unsavory things, Kass’s diet so far has been mostly non-yinglet minus the trip to the enclave. Could be something inherent to yinglets in bodily fluids, but then wouldn’t they be using that as a weapon?
humans used human bodily fluids as weapons.
In fact, to this day, using body fluids to attack someone (e.g. spitting on them) is considered “assault by bodily fluid”, and they can arrest you for it. After all, they have no idea what kind of contagious disease you might have.
Important news first, Doc. Always start with a brief sentence under five words (eg, “He’ll live”). Though that was probably intentional, given he’s a Snape.
YAAAAAAY!
Ah finally, the relief I needed for months. Absolutely fantastic work on the shock panel too. It’s surprisingly accurate despite the ratbird.
Nobody’s going to comment on how this is the first time we’ve seen what human Kassen looks like in something like 4 years?
I didn’t even immediately recognize him!
Yeah, somehow thought this was Ran, who suddenly appeared. Nevermind that I also completely forgot how that guy looked until he appeared again some pages ago.
Does the doctor turn into Yinglet now? He got scav goo on him.
Why was Cass over blowing her nose? Was he crying?
No, he’s just got to get gangrene all over his face.
Yikes he’s going to change in other ways. I would have preferred ying TF over gangrene.
I like the fact that the pre-transformation Kass was shown to highlight the true mix of feelings he felt.
What mixed feelings would he have about his best friend dying?
His world shattering, mainly. Elim keeps Kass grounded in who he is, so without that anchor he’ll lose whatever shreds of humanity remain.
Anymore wild drops on that emotional roller coaster?
Head Surgeon Merrs deserved that.
“The best trained and equipped doctor in town will remember that”
Should have gotten the nurse to give the news to be honest.
Why everyone of the most brilliant people in this comic has a form of altism?
Because its funny.
FEK YES!
Someone should animate that rag to the face and play it alongside a memed version of the Mario theme song
Whap-whap-whap wha-whap whap.
Oops, I just realized I was one whap short.
Kas climbs up on surgeon and gives him a slap.
Kas: Zhat is for making me zhink my freind was dead!
(Hugs him)
Kas: and zhis is for saving his life
(Pause)
Surgeon: well this is awkward
Kas: (still hugging) shut up and enjoy your scav hug.
Someone NEEDS to make this a thing. Only first thing Kass gives the doctor that snot rag to the face, then hugs.
I Should point out that the two ‘Red’ comments are from different people.
While I really like Elim, I also have a strong dislike for plot armour. I have mixed feelings about this.
Eh, don’t think about it too much. He’s really not getting scot-free and humans are actually pretty tough, so with actual medecine, it’s not that much improbable.
Elim has only had one near-death experience so far. That does not translate to ‘plot armor’.
That is why you ALWAYS start with “The Patient is recovering” then give the bad news.
“The patient is recovering…for now”
I just want to say that I’m absolutely hooked on the story, I’ve read the whole comic in a binge and have done a re-read to absorb details. The world and the characters are all very captivating (and adorable).
I hope there’s a arc for Isher, where she realises that things aren’t as peaceful as she would like, and “harden up” for the sake of Kass and Elim. It would be both interesting and maybe even be spooky to see her angry and upset at a group, and act out in violence after being pushed to the edge. And of course Lopin caught my heart, as he has everyone else.
Kass: “Where is Elim? I want to see him.”
Head Surgeon: “I am afraid officer Elim is… no longer with us.”
Kass: “no”
HS: “Rest assured, he is in a better place now.”
Kass: “No!”
HS: “He can finally rest in peace.”
Kass: “NO!”
HS: “We’ve moved him to the recovery ward.”
Kass: “N- wait… WHAT?!”
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
Those long arms look pretty good for throwing stuff. I recommend the yinglets research projectile technology. Possibly an atlatl.
Thanks for the rescue and fork you for being an ass.
What is inside Elim?? An extra organ? An implant? An Arquilian? What??
Well, if its an Arquilian then he’s doing a pretty crap of preventing war. Maybe he put the wrong belt on.
Naw, I’d say he just forgot to set the belt to “wumble”.
Maybe he just has a really interesting tatoo.
We need a “report” system on here to quickly get rid of all this garbage.
Cha. Or a moderator.
This comment software DOES allow spammers to be IP-banned. (GrrlPower uses the same software, and at least one guy was permanently banned for drive-by racism and sock puppeting.) Of course, in order to do that, we first need a moderator…
Coincidentally, one of our two spammers is apparently a Korean gambling site. The “name” field always translates as some sort of gambling term (like “Blackjack” or “First Casino”, and the text sounds like some sort of sports headline truncated to approximately 45 characters.
The other spammer is obviously an online pharmacy, possibly Ukrainian. The last paragraph is typical “word salad” meant to prevent anti-spam software from detecting a pattern, with the name of the drug they’re trying to sell (in this case, Zomig) thrown in multiple times so a search engine is more likely to catch it.
the fek is the next page?im going nuts here for content!
Kinda wished he posted “Cannon” comics from other artists here. Yinglet Inc. has a lot of people watching it in Deviant Art with several comic strips current, including (But not limited to) Learn to live and Scav’s Glory. Click the link on the Art and Extras to his Deviant art page if you haven’t already.
Hey, Valsalia? Consider some kind of comment system like Disqus that would allow us to report spam comments to you. :/
Anyone know what’s up with Valsalia?
This sort of break in OOPs is pretty normal since Val works on other things.
He posted page 28 of LAM the other day which counts towards his 2 – 3 pages a month goal. He made posts on his patreon recently about the 3D yinglet models and how those are coming along as well as the usual voting for patreon drawings.