There’s a non-zero chance that Greg has had this exact conversation with Michelle several times already. But he’ll keep having it with her until she believes it.
There’s a non-zero chance that Greg has had this exact conversation with Michelle several times already. But he’ll keep having it with her until she believes it.
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Greg is being her best cheerleader right now and I’m living for it. Also she DID make Bloodcarver a medallion! I wonder if he is, in fact, the mysterious man from earlier in the chapter!
Absolutely, his coat has the same pattern as his back or chest scales. The mustache fits his nose fringe thingies.
Huh, I had assumed he was Jonathan, Lorne’s brother because of the mustache, but now that I’ve looked back at the character list, I realize that Jon’s hair is brown whereas the mystery man’s is more reddish.
My wonder is if he’s a manticore – specifically Ike’s father, maybe? Due to the juxtaposition of him hanging out while Ike interviewed Statler and Woldorf, and the reddish tint to his hair. BUT if that’s the case then it wouldn’t have been Michelle who made a medallion for him.. which would raise the question of who else could have. All ‘if’s, but mystery man is so sus.
We see Jon sitting at a table here, while “Mystery ‘Stache” walks past in the background: https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/the-monsters-loose-page-13/
Yeah, the more I looked at it, the more obvious it got. Coloration, and that profile! I hadn’t noticed the moustache/tendril similarity before though.
He looks so pleased with himself!
As he should!
We should all be so lucky as to get a Greg in our corner!
As he damn well should.
Greg’s a good egg. :3
Despite being a mammal. :)
Platypus, ehh?
…I was going to make a comment about Australia, but then I remembered that it was AUSTRALIA! They didn’t create Avalons there to hide from Humans, they did it to hide from EVERYTHING ELSE!
Noticed Greg’s moustache makes him looks older in a good way (he didnt have one in the beginning)
And loving his character developement<3
It’s interesting because I do talk to myself like Michelle is talking to herself here but having an outside perspective on it, it’s almost egotistical right?
“yeah sure maybe you’re impressed by me but i could be way better”
“I could do way more than what I have already done, even if what I’ve done was monumental by your standards”
idk it sucks! brains are mean
https://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_672.php
No matter how good it is, you made it. You see all the flaws no one else can spot because YOU made them. THAT’S what you’re beating yourself up over.
Same. Classic symptom of depression and I’m prone to it. It has stalled me for literal years in the past.
It took too far too many years for me to learn this. I’m an old man now by most objective measures. But I have learned an important thing: Depression is just depression. I may feel bad about myself but that’s not reality.
That’s just the shape of my shadow.
I look in the mirror and I start counting memories of all the times Bad Brain was wrong.
I remember being pessimistic and feeling worthless and stalling for literal years about things that turned out to be easy when I finally did them.
I remember that I’ve have helped people more than I’ve hurt them. I remember that I’ve been a good friend to people I care about. I remember that I have empathy, and no will to be mean or hurt people, and although that may be a low bar I clear it and some folks don’t.
I remember that I’ve done things a lot of people can’t. I have degrees and patents and awards on the wall that say I’m not as worthless as I feel.
And then there are bad memories. I remember letting love go because I felt that I didn’t deserve it. I remember making sacrifices that didn’t help anyone because I felt like the gesture was more important than I was. I remember wasting time and life feeling sorry for myself while broke and unemployed.
All because Bad Brain is usually wrong about these things.
But it took me too many years to learn this, and it took me too many years to gather and start realizing the value of those memories. The memories are precious, even the bad ones, because they teach me who I am.
So get on with life and gather memories of your own.
I hope this helps. It seems likely that it won’t, but that may just be a symptom of Bad Brain. And I have learned that I have to work through my pessimism, or I don’t get things done.
You definitely deserve a bear hug, and I hear you!
It sounds to me like you are on the right track.
It’s just often easier to know than to fully realize…
Ah, impostor syndrome…it affects nonhumans too.
Good supportive boyfriend, and he is even actually right, too!
8-D
A good use of the boyfriend card
Aaaaah, sweet, sweet validation *meltemoji*
I just noticed Greg’s wearing a Wilco sweatshirt.
Also, good use of boyfriend privilege. :D
If one may digress from the awesomeness of Greg, Michelle’s notes bring up some interesting questions. The presence of the cathedral clearly shows that the Avalon has been there since medieval times. But though Liverpool was founded around 1200, according to Wikipedia it was an unimportant backwater untill the late 17th C. This raises an interesting possibility: That the Avalon may have been (part of) the reason for the rise of the town (it’s at least less unsavoury than the official reason, that it rose due to the African slave trade)
Keep in mind that a medieval-looking building, especially one that’s a probable former church, isn’t necessarily medieval. I lived in Germany for a few years and spent a lot of time in the UK, and there are SO many churches that date back no further than the mid-to-late 1800s that were deliberately built as much in an older style as any Gothic folly. Some are really beautiful, too.
Me, I keep wondering what happened in and to the Avalons during the Blitz. And to the nonhumans during WWI & WWII, for that matter.
During one of Michelle’s visions you can see a human monk taking to a cryptic. There’s a good chance that the cathedral was built at that time.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/illumination-3-page-6/
IIRC, somebody with local knowledge posted a while back that the modern Liverpool waterfront, including the tobacco warehouse, is built on “reclaimed” land — that is, filled-in swamp or river. That would imply that the Avalon and its cathedral used to be somewhere upslope from the current location.
So, they apparently relocated at least once, all without the mundane neighbors noticing. When the warehouse became available, they moved into its shell. Did they accomplish the big move in gradual, stealthy steps, or in one swell foop?
awww That cutie patootie is loving every bit of praise and affection. From his girlfriend’s mother welcoming him warmly at their first meeting, to this, and I LIVE for that simple joy.
Too bad his own family, on the human side, could see how sweet he is.
*couldn’t* see I meant.
Michelle has been through a lot and in a really short time! I love Greg’s little good bean smile at getting Michelle to admit it and/or get her to smile a little.
She’s chilling out a bit. Those pupils have faded again.
Your word choice triggered my flypaper mind to spit out a musical memory, and I checked my collection. The album “License To Chill” was released by Jimmy Buffett (and Friends) in 2004. The title song was recorded with Kenny Chesney.
And, yes, I’m the same parrot-head who looked at the teaser page for Illuminations and thought, “Finns to the left, Finns to the right…”
The fact that Greg had to emphasize literally twice makes me think he has indeed told her before that she’s way too hard on herself. Go Greg! Cheer her up! :D