Lion-dog GET!
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Celebrations are loud!
Celebrations are fun!
Celebrations are now
and they have begun!
Throw him into the air!
Throw him under the trees!
Throw him under the sun
so he feels the breeze!
Jin takes flying lessons!
Jin takes to the new treat!
Jin takes to the world
and he just won’t be beat…
Cleo closes the deal
and learns a dad’s secret
He has fingers in pies
and didn’t help this, I bet.
Was he waiting his time
to introduce the pair?
She may need to ask him;
talk between dad and heir.
She’s learning business ropes
and quiet strategy;
in this the fair apple
won’t fall far from the tree.
Woo-Hoo! Double poem! Nice job Welshy!
Well, I did the one for Jin joy and, then, realised I’d not even mentioned the main events of the strip.
I just wish I could write as well as you, as easily as you seem to. (I’d bet it’s harder than you make it look! 😉 ) Usually I’m not much into poetry, especially reading it. So, I’m only occasionally inspired to commit poetry myself, and then usually just a 4-liner or haiku. 🙂
Heh, what a turnabout for Jin! Instead of tossing others he’s getting tossed! XD
Why am I not surprised Jin’s grandfather and Cleo’s dad know each other? That temple compound is huge and obviously well funded. I’m guessing Jin’s grandfather is a fairly well to do retired businessman himself.
Mother (or father) of all coincidences
So her filthy rich father has secretly trained martial arts? HE IS BATMAN!!!
Now that makes me wonder how characters like Batman are treated in this world.
Given that no hybrids are 18 yet and Batman was introduced in the 1930s, #GrandfatherClause is probably in effect. If Clark Kent can still get away with hiding a pair of glasses, Bruce Wayne can probably still get away with being dressed like a bat.
Clark Kent wears oversized clothes that hide his figure, slouches like a slacker, and tone-shifts his voice.
And still looks exactly like Superman, something they explain away with “super hypnotism” (superman has every power in the universe and beyond)
There’s a whole lot of factors that make the Clark Kent disguise a lot more convincing than it seems on paper, even in less tongue-and-cheek continuities.
-First of all, like I mentioned, there are numerous performance aspects that don’t convey in a static medium like comics. Watch Christopher Reeve or Henry Cavill act as both Superman and Clark Kent; they genuinely come across as different people.
-Secondly, Clark has a very GENERIC American profile, combined with the very low-attention job of working as a newspaper journalist. Dark hair, (usually) blue eyes, and fair skin are not just typical but STEREOTYPICAL American traits. Yes, Clark Kent looks like Superman; so do five hundred other Americans in any given city. And a respectable number of Canadians and Brits as well.
-Third, Superman doesn’t come across as someone who’s hiding something. He doesn’t wear a mask, and the fact that he’s an alien whose birth name is Kal-El is well-known. In many continuities, he has a home to his name with a landmark outside, and someone who needs his help will knock on his door, whereupon he’ll either answer the door or come up to you outside because he heard you knocking while he was out and about.
-And finally, he’s a larger-than-life superhuman figure; people don’t think of him as a person, they think of him as a POWER. You don’t look at every random on the street and assume they’re capable of ripping your jaw away from your skill with two fingers. Neither do the people of Metropolis.
I’d reply to Taylor but it won’t let me. ‘World’s finest’ also mentions another thing Superman does as Clark Kent. He makes sure he’s seen to be late to the train station by as many people as possible when he’s on his way into work. Three times a week usually. He’s known for it, apparently.
Seems like a lot of people like to dismiss out of hand the ability of Superman to act so openly and yet not be recognized as Clark Kent despite just how often in real life real high profile people manage to go just as unnoticed. When Hugh Jackman is behind the counter the response will be ‘wow that guy just looks like Hugh Jackman’ not ‘wow that’s Hugh Jackman!’ Famous people have shown up at Look-alike contests and had nobody think them anything but imitators because their image of the actual person is warped by the inability to reconcile the ‘ideal’ version of the famous person with the real version of them.
Watch Christopher Reeve in the first Superman movie. At one point in Lois’ apartment he lets his “Clark” persona slip for a minute. He seriously CHANGES from Clark Kent to Superman in Clark Kent’s suit. Testament to what a great actor Christopher Reeve was.
Henry Cavill does very well but I gotta believe he watched a lot of Christopher Reeve’s portrayal in rehearsing for the character.
Jiisan managed to break though Cleo’s formality. Nicely done.
Nice little bwuh?! in the last panel.
Seems Cleo’s dad gets around, socially. Makes me wonder when we’re actually going to meet the man, and what his first private interaction with Kaya will be like (we all know he’ll likely want some private time with Kaya to get a personal read on her, and probably thank her for helping his daughter get out of a problematic relationship that was likely a learning experience for her).
Panel 5: There should be a comma at the end of “Cleo”.
No.
I think both can be correct? My proof readers didn’t mention anything about it, though.
It’s fine, a comma would be unnecessary (although not wrong it’d be superfluous).
Could both be correct? My proof readers didn’t mention anything about it.
I love how the cast is now sweeping along this adorable and shy child like a leaf on a windshield – he’s coming along whether he was planning to or not, wherever this series of events leads!
You’re making some very unflattering assumptions about Kai and Kaya. They’re not bad people; if Jin had given them a conclusive “no, I don’t want to go”, they would have said “alright” and left him alone.
Apparently Katsumi can judge when to intervene and when there is no need. Otherwise the twins couldn’t toss Jin into the air like that.
But – oops – Jin is suddenly wearing trousers.
The pants he’s wearing is called a hakama. It’s the same thing he’s been wearing all this time. It just doesn’t easily show that it’s actually pants and not a skirt/robe :p
And yes, Katsumi is a good judge of character ^^
Actually there are two types of hakama, i dont know the technically names for them, but one is a skirt and the other is like pants, the pants one is actually known as ‘riding hakama’ as they were meant to be used by samurai, as hakama were usually worn by samurai, when riding horses
I currently wear hakama due to a combination of their breatheability and the horrible weather of this summer, and I can confirm that a hakama looks like a dress when you’re standing upright.
I’m no authority on Japanese clothes. I just observed that when Jin had his feet wide apart earlier, there was unbroken cloth all the way from ankle to ankle, just like a skirt, but now I see separate trouser legs.
When practicing any physical activity in modern “split hakama” they often appear to be “undivided” .
With all the folds and flowing cloth they can appear both ways.
I mean, I really should have seen that last panel coming when he was Jin’s grandfather and the family live in a little slice of Japan in the middle of America. That doesn’t really happen without money.
The twins tossing Jin up in the corner panel is so cute! And I know I keep saying this but with every new page I appreciate Cleo more and more. Seeing her interact with Jin and Gorou she has been very respectful to them and shown her knowledge with how to address them and what traditions to follow. This has been such a joy to read.
And Jin joins the team!
This page made my day, I really like panel two.
I wonder what the connection between Gorou and Cleo’s father may be.
You know there is one thing that’s bothering me (i dont know if this has been answered before) but why does Jin look the way he does? He looks more human with select traits of a lion-dog, like an actual hybrid of human and lion-dog, unlike all the other hybrids we’ve seen who look like more like anthropomorphic/humanoid versions of the animals they look like? Is there an unspoken reason behind that or will it be questioned/answered later in the comic?
Wild guess: Maybe because Jin is Japanese? If you look at Japanese cartoons and such, you often see people like Jin, with hands and feet that almost look like furry gloves and boots over human hands and feet. There could possibly be some kind of subconscious parental mental/emotional/cultural influence over the type of hybrid and its features before the child is born. Just an idea. 😉 End Wild guess.
Robin has said somewhere that some hybrids have only a few non-human traits, while others have more. Cleo for example looks fully human except for scales and a tail. The twins are about as hybridized as they can be. I suppose Jin is somewhere closer to the middle of the scale.
Doctor Franklin stated in the hospital chapter that the degree of hybridization varies from hybrid to hybrid. Jin is walking proof of the point.
Jin alone is adorable. Add the twins and you get truly dangerous amounts of cute!
Jesse’s Adventure: There shouldn’t be an apostrophe in “Wendigos”.
Actually, that’s probably one of the few cases where an apostrophe there is correct. Usually, an apostrophe is a shortening on something IS – something’s – but it can also be used for something HAS – in this case ‘the Wendigo HAS almost melted’ becomes ‘the Wendigo’s almost melted’.
Thought the others might be off-camera. My bad.
Maybe the reason your grammatical corrections got picked up by the spam filter is because they keep getting proven wrong.
Now, now. It’s better they’re brought up than not. An additional proof read, if you like. And some have been proven correct.
That only happened once.
The Order of the White Lotus (from Avatar: The Last Airbender) comes into my mind when I imagine the relation between Nakamura Sensei and Cleo’s father. Nakamura would be General Iroh, being wise, old and stuff. It is so cool 😀
oh, and the twins with Jin are cute as always :3
As Cleo has started to learn many places that you will go in life you’ll find your parents have preceded you there..
Unfortunately, the twins’ exuberance launched Jin into low orbit.
Now he’s a flyin’-dog.
(cue the tomato)
Wait a second….did I miss something here? Based off of his appearance initially, I kinda had that sense that Jin was female originally! It was too ambiguous to guess, so I just went based off of appearance. I was wrong, I suppose, but the context was never revealed, if memory serves.
Looking back on it, reviewing previous comics, it was mentioned, but I forgot!
You just got a Bridget dropped on you.