Today's Order of the Stick... No, you know what? This calls for a quote.
"...a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
Gaaah! Miko!
I want to feel sorry for her, I really do. But it's hard to feel sorry for someone who can't snap out of her own little world and realise that she is, in actual fact, not always right. Even though her action was bad more through timing that actual evilness, there's a fairly high probability that she would never understand how bad smashing that sapphire was even if it was pointed out to her. She hasn't even got that redeeming feature. Plus from what we've seen so far, it's not even certain that her reasons for breaking the sapphire were sound in the first place.
I suppose then that I'm angry at her not for her mistake, but because she'd probably do it again if given a chance, without so much as thinking it through.
Anyway, Burlew gets kudos for creating such compelling panels. If you think about it, the outcome was predictable (honestly, if the bad guys died that would be the end of the comic), but by triggering this predictable outcome through a set of infuriating events, he involved readers in the story and made them feel genuine emotion at the result.
And that's brilliant.
To change the subject completely, the current Dominic Deegan storyline, while somewhat contrived at points, remains whole-hearted and charming. After the heavily-emotional storylines preceding this one, the light-heartedness is rather a relief.
But I'd really like to know if Dominic is being genuinely pleasant, or whether he foresaw the whole thing.
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