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It may be several weeks until said fight occurs, but heck, I want to see those two throw down. The comic needs some rage-infused action to mix up the dullness that's been occurring since they landed on Gilligan's Isle.

Yes, but that is the very, very beautiful thing about art. The artist creates it, draws it, writes it, whatever, and is really nothing more than the means that the story is using to get told. It's up to readers to analyze it, decipher it, and find meaning in it. That's not to say that the authors don't have what they want in mind and they don't control the story, but, stories have a way of taking on their own lives. A detail an author found inconsequential might add a whole new level of character depth to readers.

I'm sure there's some stuff Tom wishes fans would stop putting so much thought into.

*cough Flora being pregnant or not cough*

I don't have firefox and too lazy to copy-paste it in word. Mosty becuase I like to belive all cultures have a drak side. Humans are bigots and enslave the other two (which is weird since the're Feudal and wouldn't need slave since that's what Peasants are for) Kendiens raid human villages and eat people, and Basitins are a harsh dictatorship.


Like I said it's just my theory. Well the drug part is just becuase most armies throughout history has used combalt drugs, starting with the Greeks with Opium, and other things it's a good way to keep the rank and file in line and march for days.

And for the rest, we DO only see ONE port town, and I'm going to call they have a few other islands and cities. And a good dystopian is one at looks like an utopia. The breeding isn't that effective: now if they breed twice a year(the summer/winter solstice) give or take that means the female population is always with child, now without any preditors and we know they're immue to most poisons and maybe most Diseases so... unless they have a short lifespan which I dought it I don't think they really need that many kids. Plus living on a lsland would lead to massive oer popultion so send the to there deaths. And that female was only wearing a helmit and like I saw befor it's all just for show wend they trade with others (since as an island nation they would lack the resources needed).


Well that's my two cents, want any more of my crazy over thinging?

I don't want to reply to the whole post, but as for the trading, I don't think that's necessarily true. There are plenty of island nations that have developed without trading with the rest of the world (say, Japan), and the Basitin islands in the most recent map seem to be big enough for them to find all their own resources.

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I don't want to reply to the whole post, but as for the trading, I don't think that's necessarily true. There are plenty of island nations that have developed without trading with the rest of the world (say, Japan),quote]

No, the world does not work that way, Japan was not developed unless you count being in the middle ages for over two hundread years until the United States Navy showed up and blew up a few ship as 'developed'. You can't say England becuase it's 90 miles away form France and was invaded like 60 billion time
And that's a medieval era map 'nuff said

...But Twokinds is not to the point in its timeline where anyone is going to be going anywhere and blowing anything up (not with the technology you're using here to indicate being "not advanced.") Japan was developed for its time at a few points in history, just not the part you're thinking of. I'm not saying that the Basitin islands are completely isolated, they obviously have traffic to and from the rest of the world. However, they could sustain themselves without trade, and, I suspect, largely do.

Also, as for it being a medieval era map 'nuff said...you're saying the map is inaccurate because these people don't have modern technology? I'm inclined to believe that we can trust that map...partially just because there are things like dragons and magic in this world.

YAY! Things are starting to heat up, and i like the look of natani in the 3rd last panel :D good work tom keep it up :D

No, I'm saying there inaccurate becuase 98% of people (at least) can't (or shouldn't) read/write and those that do (my guess Monks) are too busy writing Bibles.


Also it's geology is wroing becuase a Timber, a Mediterranean and a topic jungle (corrent me if I'm wrong, but that's what the Human/Wolf, Basitin, and Tiger lands are right?) in the same parallel line, Timber is 60 parallel, Mediterranean is 40 and Topic is 10. give or take. So unless that have that map sideways...

Or the planet's axis is different from ours. ;)

Never forget, we can draw parallels, but we can't make exact conclusions. For instance, in fantasy, literacy is often close to universal. In the fantasy genre, it's somewhat rare to find someone who can't read or write, regardless of the reality of Europe's Middle Ages. When it happens, it's generally something that's made a point in the story. While hard sci-fi is popular, hard medieval work is much less so. We like fantasy, with magic, and dragons, and talking animal people, and no horrifying diseases. Besides, the only character in TwoKinds that we know is illiterate is Natani. Pretty much everybody else has demonstrated the ability to read and write, often in languages which are not their native tongue.

In addition, the map they were looking at was one of the charts from Eric's ship. You can bet your boots that the ship's charts are going to be accurate.

Like the 45th parallel? </bad_joke>

Also, Flora can't read, and I don't think she can speak Basitin either... Not when she specifically points out that Trace shifted to the Basitin language, so she seems to be just like Natani in terms of language skills.

I would go as far to say that of the three girls (I'm ignoring Mika(sp?)) only Kathryn can read, and none of the Keidran can speak a different language...

Thus Tom's probably trying to make a point here, considering that as you say, literacy does seem to be universal in fantasy stories.

Alternatively, I'm reading too deeply into this.

Flora can both understand and speak the human language, but she can not read.
Natani can neither understand nor speak the human language, or read it obviously.
Kathrin probably can't read all too well, as the books Eric gives her don't seem to be very litterate. But that's just what i think.