- Tibor: But?
- Viola: Well, you see...
- Raymond: The carpenter said he’d arrive tomorrow at ten o’clock, so probably the day after tomorrow at four o’clock.
- Viola: Tibor, this is Raymond. Raymond, this is Tibor.
- Raymond: It’s my pleasure.
- Tibor: ...
- Viola: Oh, Tibor, you know I like you. But...
- Viola: Raymond is a merchant and owns a house! And he has excellent manners. And, well, just look at him!
- Raymond: Viola, you‘re embarrassing me!
The Machine of Eternal Summer 013
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18 thoughts on “The Machine of Eternal Summer 013”
BlackDragonSlayer
Raymond does seem like a rather polite, charming fellow. Perhaps *too* good for Viola, even.
Regardless, if Tibor knows what’s good for him, I don’t think he’ll be pining for Viola much longer. It’s not every day someone airs their red flags so openly.
c
Ah, the joys of bestiality. What a blessing it must be to go woke.
Dilandu
Since both are fully sentient, self-conscious speciemen, it can’t be bestiality. Its xenophilia – attraction to the different sapient specie. As far as I know, xenophilia is not considered a crime or even a deviation anywhere on Earth. So your comment make no sence.
KB
mostly because as far as I know it’s not possible on earth. Most societies, especially in time periods with poor medicine and high mortality rates, would frown on unions that cannot produce offspring.
Dilandu
KB, well, it isn’t Earth, and as far as author stated – all those foxmens, wolfmens, ect., are basically a subspecies of Homo Sapiens with some cosmetic elements. They are capable of having childrens with each other.
ivy
Bestiality is wrong because animals can’t consent. A furry is basically a human.
Crystalgate
Good luck finding a woman who would take a man like Tibor over Raymond. That said, normally this is not an issue since either Viola would be below Raymond’s league and thus he would not be interested in her or Viola is above Tibor’s league and therefore Tibor would not have entered her radar.
Lukas
Exacly, people are shocked that she dumped a hopeless broke. Nobody wants to marry into poverty.
Vicious Sand
Yep, while Tibbles was cleaning up his act, she went and got a different boyfriend. We don’t know enough about Eternal Summer’s story to know if this was where Viola lost her chance at Big Money, or if this is where she gleefully escapes the fate that leads to the bloody shootout with chickens.
Ah, so it’s panel 5 that’s the “You can see the moment when his heart breaks in half.” My guess was panel 3.
Crystalgate
Tibor has not in any way, shape or form cleaned up his act. Robbery is not cleaning up your act. What he did was to get out of a bad situation by making someone else paying for it.
Vincent
In French I would say he is “beau à croquer”, which would translate roughly as “beautiful enough to eat”, I feel this would be a… delectable… way for Viola to describe her beau.
HKMaly
So, now he’s free to pursue the heroine. He just needs to fix the bad first impression he gave her with the whole robbery thing …
Tiny
It’s quite interesting how Viola very clearly mention financial benefits of her relationship so openly, and her new boyfriend is even kind of flattered by that. You would at least think that he is slightly worrying,, that she only wants to have his money. 😉
Very charmingly drawn by the way. I’m still worrying that I could used to animal and human figure kind of randomly mixed in one story, but I guess there will be a reason to that later on.
Dilandu
Frankly, for pre-industrial society – arranged marriages with mainly financial benefits were pretty normal, even standard thing.
Brett Bellmore
They’re just slightly more disguised in industrial society. Very slightly.
They’re basic sex roles with biological roots: The male feeding and guarding the female, the female producing and raising the young. You see it in every human society, it’s built right into our genes because it works.
Dilandu
Well, there are SOME differences. Industrial society put much more emphasis on personal development (because, frankly, it’s more efficient to have one educated, socialized specialists to run the power showel, than to hire a hundred of illiterate diggers). So personal choices and family stability became more important factors.
Crystalgate
It’s strange that she puts it this way, but it is not strange that she’s picking a guy with lots of money over one with little money. IRL, women usually don’t pick men with lower income than them, even women with high paying jobs tends to pick men with even higher paying job. There is nothing alarming about her choices, but she for some reason it making herself sound more superficial than she had to.
Crystalgate
I have honestly no idea what I am supposed to think about Viola. She is 100% making the right choice, this is even with the assumption that she’s completely unaware that Tibor is an awful criminal. Picking Tibor when she has better option available is not romantic or “liking a man for who he is” or something like that, she would be making a poor life decision. That said, her last line makes her sound more superficial than she had to be and there are a lot of comments from people thinking she’s bad news, making me wonder what the intent behind this strip is. Maybe the next one will bring some clarification.
I will also mention how unlikely this scenario is. Raymond is just so above Tibor’s league that those two would normally not compete for the same women. A woman who can attracts men like Raymond would not even consider Tibor and women who are in Tibor’s league would not attract a man like Raymond. The only exception that is not very unlikely is if Raymond is just interested in sleeping with Viola for a while and then dump her. Men who are just interested in having sex with a woman, but not in having a lasting relationship with them will actually choose woman who are below their league. The deal with the carpenter does not support that idea though.
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