Isabel's grandfather really was an asshole.
In b4 "He just acted cold and distant to make her stronger"
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Jace Taylor
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Jackson Adams
Not really sure why it seems like the grandpa is the one mostly raising her so far. I guess just because he's the de facto patriarch?
Also wonder if this is back when he was still alive.
Tyler Gonzalez
>yfw the actual plot will not even span for a whole week, as most of the narrative is set in the past, and most of the key events happened already literally at day #2
Colton Ross
>imgur.com
Thoughts?
Xavier Ward
There is no plot, just endless character introductions.
Michael Bell
Needs girls.
Dominic Robinson
thinking about how everything turns out better than the dodgeball arc in this comic
Eli Myers
Oh, really? Are you still homo phobia?
Kevin Butler
Still don't get the complaints about that. The whole chapter spent with Literally Who and the pretentious radio duo, THAT complaint I get.
Colton Ramirez
You asked for thoughts. Take the critique or leave it.
Aiden Scott
Seems to me that she's just doing this to herself
Jace Butler
Being good at fighting is all Grandpa cared about, and Grandpa is the only family she seems to have.
Cooper Reyes
Such a constant disappointment of a webcomic. Zach's got an eye for art--too bad his gf ruined his morality and writing with the needless woke bullshit.
Easton Howard
>literally nothing "woke" in the page
>bitches about "wokeness" anyway
ok
Jaxson Reed
I'm talking about the comic in general, you tard.
Owen Butler
Right, and there's been nothing "woke" this chapter. In fact it's been mostly dream. You're just so easily triggered that you can't stop harping about "woke stuff" even when there's nothing of the sort going on.
Juan Lewis
>Spender is only 26 and has two careers, a bunch of kids that look up to him, clear goals, a mentor, and a boyfriend
I need to get my shit together.
Jaxson Green
This just looks like she's showing up to his classes and doing this herself.
Easton Foster
well yeah, it's the only way to get grampa's attention
he hates weaklings quitters and crybabies, remember?
Ian Watson
AAAAAAAAAAAGH
Levi Watson
that was bad too. ig it comes down to preference, i feel like it really was drawn out (i mean its like 500 pages or something??) and has a lot of shonen tropes i dislike. its definitely among the weaker chapters for me
Jordan Gray
I mean, it's a squad of kids (with an eccentric mentor) that use secret superpowers to save the world.
You're gonna get shounen tropes.
Owen Davis
5 hours late! where have you been?
Ayden Powell
This comic is still going? What the heck is going on
Jordan Mitchell
Extended flashback. We've learned a little about what's up with Ed's parents, and what Spender and Mina know. Mina knows more than Spender, Spender has felt guilty for like a decade over not being able to reunite Ed with his parents. Boss Leader spends all her time asleep, and her Spirit buddy is more or less an unstable nuke.
Thomas King
Her parents are still in the picture since this is before she met Eightfold, and we saw them looking at her with concern after she was bitten by a dog
Michael Perry
Didn't Eightfold call shenanigans on how she remembered the dog story?
Hudson Hall
i don't mind em. aka, why i say "has a lot of the tropes i dislike" in that chapter. the ones that are enjoyable are enjoyable. that chapter just has a lot of the weirder ones, feels out of place. but like i said, its up to personal preference.
Kevin Barnes
She didn't say the events were false, she was complaining because she asked Isabel to tell her the story of how she became friends, and Isabel instead told her the story of why her Grandpa gave her Eightfold in the first place, only mentioning Eightfold in like the last sentence.
Zachary Walker
Like I don't really know who these two guys could be if not her parents, especially because her dad looks pretty similar, just with some art variations.
Jack Watson
Remember when his comic had backgrounds, and not just vast expanses of emptiness behind every character?
Levi Edwards
Fuck, I just realized these aren't even good examples. You can already see the lack of effort creeping in even back then.
Henry Jones
Though Eightfold does say
>What about your parents
I feel like it's more that Isabel didn't talk about them out loud during the story, instead of "did you forget that they had been forced out of your life/abandoned you/died by now?"
Also is the whole "Spectrals have trouble treating their spirit partners/many spirits in general as just as much a person as humans" kind of a dropped point or was it mostly just Isabel who had that problem in the first place?
Jose Kelly
Like I don't know, if you look back at this uncharitably, you can definitely see the foundations of wokeness in Eightfold's rhetoric... but I think the difference is that it actually makes sense and is meaningful within the story, as opposed to some of the other stuff.
Leo Young
Hopefully this flashback will give some more context as to the situation with her parents and grandfather. To be honest, I've been assuming that the parents aren't involved in Spectral stuff, and gramps more-or-less hijacked Isabel's life because she has abilities her parents lacked. Curious to see if my hunch is even in the right ballpark.
Levi Thomas
Oof, poor Eightfold. This "stalling so you won't notice I'm sacrificing myself for you" scene still kills me. Hope Isabel finds some crazy ass way to get her friend back.
Dominic Price
Yeah that was definitely the impression a lot of people had at first, but... It doesn't really seem like becoming a spectral is a genetic thing, more just through exposure. And I really doubt this guy is the twin brother of Isabel's dad.