All right, that’s Chapter 10 in the bag. We had a lot of set up, and I’ll admit to some pacing problems as I got used to the new writer/artist system. Chapter 11, I think, is going to blow your mind. Everything heats up from here…
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Lola: Like all of our generation, Jacob is worried that we left a poorer world behind. If there's a way to beat him, it will be through self-doubt. I'm sure that's what Joey tried. To beat Jacob Doe, be a better human being than Jacob Doe.
Caera: Is there any way I can do it by being young and brash?
Lola: (sigh) Look -- the nearest candidate island is less than a day from Britain. I'm sure it's clean. A conspiracy of deviants would be insane to base themselves so close. Take a day trip. Practice your surveillance techniques. Should be a nice place. It's a tiny island called Corvo.
Caera: Is there any way I can do it by being young and brash?
Lola: (sigh) Look -- the nearest candidate island is less than a day from Britain. I'm sure it's clean. A conspiracy of deviants would be insane to base themselves so close. Take a day trip. Practice your surveillance techniques. Should be a nice place. It's a tiny island called Corvo.
Uh, yeah. Sure. “Self-doubt”. That’s what Joey tried, all right.
He certainly used Jacob’s guilt to draw him out. That poor village.. used as smoke signals.
Lovely caldera..will see lot’s of action, I bet:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Corvo+Island/@39.713503,-31.106352,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s80855256!2e1!3e10!4m2!3m1!1s0xb3247959c9c6983:0x59be196c967d2206?hl=en
Well, he did almost get Jacob when he told him that he was responsible for SO many deaths.
But Joey sort of failed at the being a better person part. Killing him probably made Jacob feel at least a little better.
Joey did try the self-doubt angle, though. He told Jacob that he had the deciding vote in setting off the Guayaquil Pandemic—a pandemic that killed more than a billion people. If that isn’t self-doubt, I don’t know what is.
Is it a spoiler to remind anyone that the island of the crazy deviants was identified in the March 20th strip? 🙂
“Nobody would place his conspiracy right under our noses, that’s absolutely not a trope, so I’m going to assume that the least likely island is really probably safe of any traces of conspiracy”
Well, she is at least searching it.
Just, only as a training exercise. This will be good.