![[0101] Too High A Price](/comics/2009-10-08-[0101]-too-high-a-price.png "[0101] Too High A Price")
The current story arc started with this strip: Bribe Money. (Some readers have pointed out that some earlier strips are also related to the current storyline, but if you just want to know what’s going on you can start reading at this one.)
To be continued.
Initially it was planned to publish this full page as the 100th strip as a special bonus, but then I had the idea for an additional strip earlier in the storyline, so it became the 101st strip.
- Sandra: Sigh…
- Larisa: Hi Sandy, I…
- Sandra: Hmm?
- Larisa: … I … wanted to say that I’m sorry.
- Sandra: Hmm?
- Larisa: You’ve barely spoken a word in school this week. I didn’t know you liked Cloud that much. He’s a real cutie and I wanted to tease you a bit, but…
- Larisa: … that’s not worth it. I’ll stop going after Cloud, okay? And let’s be friends again, okay?
- Sandra: … Okay.
- Larisa: But if you dump him, he’s mine! ALL MINE! MUAHAHAHA!!
- Sandra: Haha, you’ll never change, Larisa, will you?
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Larisa looks so awesome on the last panel! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Am I the only one getting paranoid about my teeth visiting this site? Also, my belly no longer seems adequate…
Anyway, back to the comic. Pleasing this one, works as a stand-alone gag and fits in with the emotional build-up too. That makes it a bit of a winner. Interestingly bare too, quite unlike the S&W we know…but that puts a focus on the dynamic between a hither-to unexplored character and Sanda, which works well for me.
Though I do find it strange to hear them using relationshippy terms, given they’re 11. They’re almost behaving more like 15 year olds.
It may sound strange considering the last panel, but Larisa is awfully nice.
First time posting, and I have to say, I find this arc to be my all time favorite one. Sometimes it’s not all about the funny and I like that about this webcomic. I am glad Larisa values her friendship enough with Sandra to work things out and set things right again. I am doubly glad to see that she is still the same ol’ Larisa we know and love! I wonder if Cloud noticed Sandra’s distance as well?
Rabid_Fox wrote: Am I the only one getting paranoid about my teeth visiting this site? Also, my belly no longer seems adequate…
I have blocked several of those dumb ads, but in the end I can¹t do much to eliminate them all: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32676456/ns/business-the_big_money/
Rabid_Fox wrote: Though I do find it strange to hear them using relationshippy terms, given they’re 11. They’re almost behaving more like 15 year olds.
When I was in 5th resp. 6th grade there was no lack of chatting who was “going” with whom… While the story might have worked, with small adjustments, with 15 year olds as well, their conceptions of a proper relationship would be completely different, for example going to the ice cream parlor for a date would most likely be regarded as rather “uncool”.
This strip should never ever end, Larisa´s 6 diferent expresions that goes from a “I was passing by”, “please dont hate me!!” to a “Im so sorry” and the final Muahaha.
Sandra goes to a second place, this is all about Larisa.
The next Strip should explore more the reaction of sandra.
That “you´ll never change” is right out of a 50´s dull family show sitcom.
So whats going to happend next is all bout Sandra, cause other way that last line is going to make her look plain.
Now, this isnt 9 years old behaiving like 15 yo, Its just the speed of things “(from one strip to another) that make look this like Dawson´s Creek, but the ups and downs here arent like a Drama show. Larisa is going “sight” cause she has giving up and this is like a week after the first Larisa-Cloud thing. They are clearly children, cause there is no big drama behind, it´s seems like that because the speed of things, but if you look closer you´ll see this is like a week later
Fe de erratas:
where it´s says “Larisa is going sight” should say “Sandra is going sigh”
PD: in the ecuation Friend VS Boyfriend/Girlfriend Friendship>Relationship,
“¿does my Boyfriend/Girlfriend cares more about his/her friends than he cares bout me?”
Almost the same, but allways is going to go to see a friend if he needs to and is going to let you alone, dont get mad and…
DEAL WITH IT!!!
Sandra keep an eye on Larisa…
I love Larisa’s face in the last panel :D, and I don’t think
she will get that chance to get Cloud.
It’s good that they made up, just goes to show you how great the bonds of friendship can be. . .
dude… Cloud is a lucky little prick… *jealous*
I have to disagree with the suggestion that these two are acting like 15-year-olds. Most teens I know would NEVER be mature enough to talk things out like this. Oh no, my friend, there would be MUCH backstabbing, rumor-spreading, and cat fighting before anything got resolved (if it did at all). Clearly, Larisa and Sandra have a ways to go before the hormones REALLY start clouding their though processes.
I don’t feel I could add anymore to what Blitz just said, so I won’t…
Kudos Froggiechan for demonstrating such a diverse, range of emotions in Larisa, not to mention the various head positions for Sandra. It’d be a great comic just to reference if you guys decide to request guest art in the future.
My experience with American kids of that age. A more appropriate response from Sandra in that last panel should be a head slap with an “Oh god” or just laughter. Or maybe an eye roll.
And I agree with blitz. the 15-20 year old girls I know would have half killed each other before someone else made them talk it out like adults. One of my good friends boyfriends x-girlfriend and her boyfriend (Wow that was a mouth full) went through a chapter where they were screwing with her pretty bad.
She talked with my mom (a.k.a supermom at school now) and was fine from that point on, and actually was able to screw with them back.
Well thats the end of a pointless ramble. Loved this strip and am happy that this arc ended happy for everyone. I knew Larrisa was in it to mess with Sandra’s head.
Woah, i’m surprised i haven’t seen it before.
i think it works good as comic 101. Dalmatians rock anyways!
…nice story, highly unlikely to happen, though… they behave in a way adults would want kids to behave, but certeinly not in the way kids normally do… sadly, kids’ life (or even adult one) is not normally as friendly and outspoken as that, but then: this is an AU^^… 🙂
Heh. Some things don’t change, I see…
LOL!
First I thought: “Oh Larisa, You can actually be nice and the way you apologize is really cute.”
And then I saw the last panel XD””
There she is again, the good old and completely crazy Larisa I mean… ^^”’
Nice Job.
PS:
Schade, dass dieser Webcomic in Deutschland nicht so bekannt zu sein scheint ^^
Mir gefällt er 😛 Und du hast einen interessanten Zeichenstil ^^
Erinnert mich an irgendeine alte Trickserie… aber ich komm nicht drauf o,Ô’
LOL, that was too funny. It’s cool the girls made up, but I love Larisa’s little catch at the end. Funny!
Getting close to end of this arc,and just in time for my birthday next week.Jubilation! Larisa looks downright diabolical in that last panel,and I just noticed she has a dramatic ponytail :P.
How the dialog plays out reminds me just how kids that age would approach something,well the beginning of it anyway.Also I hope we get to see some more Woo after to arc is over,I’ve been missing the little guy.
Love both the first and last panels, just brilliant!
lol, yes, it needed to happen, or reverse russian revenge.
well written… I enjoy these touching-yet-funny strips.
@ A.L.: Yes, there will be some strips with Woo after the current story arc.
After Woo’s thoughts about Cloud and Sandra’s relationship (see strips 97 & 98, I think) its surprising to see that Woo didn’t have any further input upon Larisa’s inclusion in this little love triangle.
Come to think of it, I don’t think we have yet to see Woo and Larissa in a story arc together. Is that just coincidence, or are these two elements tp similar an influence on Sandra?
@ Leptonyx: Woo will be together with any other character when it’s appropriate for the story. Since Woo can’t talk when other people are around, he’ll usually play a minor role in such stories.
Am I the only one seeing that Larisa’s pony sail floats in the air half of the time? @_@.
Good page I loved this ark
Unfortunately, it never works this way.It’s still nice to see it in a comic, though.
So, let’s see here: Cloud is the center of a fight between two girls, one completely unstable, and one who’s Russian and Chaotic Neutral.
And there’s a jealous raccoon in the mix too.
The plot line for FFVII is suddenly becomming less and less convoluted…
In any case, I really enjoyed this stip, and it’s wide range of emotions. ;3
Great use of space on the first panel.
I breathed, and felt all melancholy.
So glad they made up. They’re just to sweet to stay angry at each other, it’s… what’s the best word… unbecoming? Either way, I doubt ones shenanigans would have been as fun without the other. <3
O…k….
Yay Larisa!
Its hard to hate Larisa she is just to fun XD
Are you sure Larisa is neutral? If not she sure looks like it. But then again, if she was she wouldn’t be apologising. Hmmm…what is she thinking?
Panel 2: Okay, that’s awkward…..
Panel 3: Sweet
Panel 4: Oh, I’m Diabetic!
Panel 5: ;_;
Last Panel: MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! XD
Huh. This is kind of odd.
I mean I guess I never guessed she was being left out really, thought she was just being jealous before.
I think this is kind of makes Larisa seem kind of a smut, seeing as how she “Just wanted to tease her abit” And then the whole “IF YOU DUMP HIM, HE’S ALL MINE” comment kind of…killed the apology. > _>
lol, are these two ever gonna get together? I think THAT would be both funny and awesome
Larisa is showing her Russian upbringing while Sandra is thinking…. same old Larisa
Yeah, it’s been a year or so since this strip went up but… awww! This comic just gave me the warm fuzzies to quite an extreme. Thank you. Yes, I understand on the comedic elements… but this little bit of heartwarming was just well worth seeing.
So far, Larisa is my favorite character…
Larisa is chaotic neutral, she will go after the things she wants and do whatever she wants, doesn’t mean her moral compass is all the way black, nor does it mean she lacks friends, she is evil of course, but she isn’t devil like no….wait….*Looks at last panel.* Uhhhh, let’s cal…no that isn’t it either…Larisa is weird
Why does Larisa remind me so much of myself, despite me being a wimpy artistic (ironically) seventeen-year-old boy? Maybe it’s the sudden want for vengance that she gets in nearly every strip she’s in. After all, I DO call myself the Karma King for a reason. I also have a habit of getting revenge in video games when I get annoyed. Like if you kill me too many times? I’m gonna hunt you down with the mother of all weapons: the grenade launcher. Or anything else more powerful, such as a homing weapon or an attack copter or something.
And @ ill eat yourself:
And by Grenade Launcher, I meant the Militek MGL. Yes, the one from 007 Nightfire, a.k.a. the one used in “Inception”. That thing is quite possibly the most Bad-“A” gun I have ever seen. Someone shows up with one of those, there is only two possible courses of action. Shoot first, or the more common and reliable: find safety FAST. Because that hing won’t just blow you TO Kingdom Come. It’ll blow you THROUGH Kingdom Come, THROUGH Heaven, and straight out into the deep white abyss known as “Beyond Infinite”.
I like this person and every one made fun of me so i thought i would drown my sadness in a webcomic several panels in i realize that Larisa is just like her. she has the same hair and everything. why does the web hate me.
Was that a Daffy reference at the end.
@ Blitzkrieg1701:
“start clouding their though processes”
I see what you did there.
@ Random:
Indeed, that did sound like a threat in the last panel.
((By the way, this is still me.))
Am I the only one who was both crying and laughing at this strip?
Ah friendship…This is awesome. If only more people had this kind of sympathy and love for one another.
(amazing how I find Larisa suddenly cute just coz of colors)