Royal emissary is a very dangerous job in the time of rebelion. He risks to get shot by enemy arrow any time. So I understand he want a little… compensation. Come to think of it, the more compensation he gets, the more risky his job becomes.
really dug the art on this page… esp the 501C rep with the silly hat… that there is a face that belongs to a home inspector or… oh… fond memories on this one… fire marshals… oh… the bane of the Thorn Building… but yes, growing up in Taiwan, i was shocked to find that in the states my parents didn’t need the carton of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey when they needed to visit “officials”…
Oh I wish we lived in the land of the brown envelope… This days we are moving to a new building with an entire youth center. hey, in at least four of nine neighbour countries we would have known whom to make happy in order to get things done. But not in Germany, no no… The owner of the new building (extra built for this purpose) is the city’s bureau for school and education. But everything that’s left of pruzzian bureaucracy is the attidude of the officials. Effiency and correctness are gone. But, Heck, even in Austria you know whom to pay how much in order to be listened to! How can you afford to live in a banana republic when you don’t know who is to have the bananas?
btw. Koad, I read your fine comic on a regular basis, although don’t post much. I like very much how the traditional art style you use is part of the context. It is so unique, yet in my opinion a good comic is always defined by the art style, too. It is like the language of a novel. Think Ulysses, or Hemingway. You can draw everything in manga style or line claire. But it would never have the class of something like this.
In this sense, your work is outstanding.
@Roland: That’s true there are few things as annoying as bureaucratic BS. Maybe I should work that into a future strip somehow… And thank you very much for the compliment. It totally made my day I hope to keep improving this comic so that it can live up to your high praise
@Ming: Took me some Googling to figure out who “King Hussein Soetoro” refers to… I disagree with many of the policies of the Obama administration, but I wouldn’t go as far as comparing Obama to the old Chinese Emperors. This is probably not the place for an in-depth political discussion, so I’ll just say that more than anything I wish our whole political system could have a more intelligent and level-headed approach to policy-making, instead of the name-calling and juvenile hysterics (from really all parts of the political spectrum) that have passed for governance in this country for at least the past couple decades.
US political ranting is particularly tiresome for those of us who are not Americans. Just like Barack Obama, I am of a cultural background different from the majority population in the country where I live, and growing up I often had to deal with xenophobic people suggesting there was something wrong with me because of it. Applying a name to the US president that leads, when googled, straight to “birther” conspiracy-theory websites (pretty much all the first page hits) claiming the same about him for essentially the name reason, is thoroughly distasteful. I’m sure there are plenty of political forums in which Americans with a taste for it can indulge in political/cultural mud-slinging, and I would certainly prefer not to see it here.
Well said, Mercy. A certain degree of constructive tension between parties with different interests is obviously necessary in a robust democracy. But somewhere along the way it seems we’ve forgotten about the “constructive” part. Here’s to hoping cooler heads will prevail somehow, hopefully before too long…
Ah, the royal emissary. I remember this guy in the novel. I wasn’t a big fan of him, though. I look forward to seeing Zhang Fei beat the crap out of him later on in the novel.
Heh… Speak for yourself. Some of us still live in the land of the shady brown envelope. The crooked official wears an exceptionally silly hat.
Royal emissary is a very dangerous job in the time of rebelion. He risks to get shot by enemy arrow any time. So I understand he want a little… compensation. Come to think of it, the more compensation he gets, the more risky his job becomes.
really dug the art on this page… esp the 501C rep with the silly hat… that there is a face that belongs to a home inspector or… oh… fond memories on this one… fire marshals… oh… the bane of the Thorn Building… but yes, growing up in Taiwan, i was shocked to find that in the states my parents didn’t need the carton of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey when they needed to visit “officials”…
Can you really blame the officials for their silly hats, when the bosses go around wearing this beauty?
Oh I wish we lived in the land of the brown envelope… This days we are moving to a new building with an entire youth center. hey, in at least four of nine neighbour countries we would have known whom to make happy in order to get things done. But not in Germany, no no… The owner of the new building (extra built for this purpose) is the city’s bureau for school and education. But everything that’s left of pruzzian bureaucracy is the attidude of the officials. Effiency and correctness are gone. But, Heck, even in Austria you know whom to pay how much in order to be listened to! How can you afford to live in a banana republic when you don’t know who is to have the bananas?
btw. Koad, I read your fine comic on a regular basis, although don’t post much. I like very much how the traditional art style you use is part of the context. It is so unique, yet in my opinion a good comic is always defined by the art style, too. It is like the language of a novel. Think Ulysses, or Hemingway. You can draw everything in manga style or line claire. But it would never have the class of something like this.
In this sense, your work is outstanding.
King Hussein Soetoro is far worse than the Chinese Emperor and his envoys.
He got the country in debt for 7 trillions with nobody knowing where the money went.
His wookie traveling to India next week for two days of conversation with sex workers
in Mumbai at the cost of a 100 million dollars!
At least the Emperor was fighting the Yellow Turbans…King Hussein Soetoro is
famous for bowing to the modern day version!
@Roland: That’s true there are few things as annoying as bureaucratic BS. Maybe I should work that into a future strip somehow… And thank you very much for the compliment. It totally made my day
I hope to keep improving this comic so that it can live up to your high praise
@Ming: Took me some Googling to figure out who “King Hussein Soetoro” refers to… I disagree with many of the policies of the Obama administration, but I wouldn’t go as far as comparing Obama to the old Chinese Emperors. This is probably not the place for an in-depth political discussion, so I’ll just say that more than anything I wish our whole political system could have a more intelligent and level-headed approach to policy-making, instead of the name-calling and juvenile hysterics (from really all parts of the political spectrum) that have passed for governance in this country for at least the past couple decades.
US political ranting is particularly tiresome for those of us who are not Americans. Just like Barack Obama, I am of a cultural background different from the majority population in the country where I live, and growing up I often had to deal with xenophobic people suggesting there was something wrong with me because of it. Applying a name to the US president that leads, when googled, straight to “birther” conspiracy-theory websites (pretty much all the first page hits) claiming the same about him for essentially the name reason, is thoroughly distasteful. I’m sure there are plenty of political forums in which Americans with a taste for it can indulge in political/cultural mud-slinging, and I would certainly prefer not to see it here.
Well said, Mercy. A certain degree of constructive tension between parties with different interests is obviously necessary in a robust democracy. But somewhere along the way it seems we’ve forgotten about the “constructive” part. Here’s to hoping cooler heads will prevail somehow, hopefully before too long…
Ah, the royal emissary. I remember this guy in the novel. I wasn’t a big fan of him, though. I look forward to seeing Zhang Fei beat the crap out of him later on in the novel.