‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 618

Jane makes her point.

I'm on the promised Southern Tour. These are my stops:

San Antonio, TX: The Smokehouse (3306 Roland Rd, San Antonio, TX 78210) at 5pm on Friday, Oct 6th.

Austin, TX: Yo So Cool (1201 Barbara Jordan Blvd #1290, Austin, TX 78723) at 8:30pm on Friday, Oct 6th

~~College Station, TX (Sat, Oct 7, around 9am; place TBA)~~

Houston, TX: Pizzitola's Bar-B-Cue (1703 Shepherd Dr, Houston, TX 77007) at noon (12pm) on Saturday, Oct 7th.

Baton Rouge, LA: Sonny's BBQ (12475 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70815) at 7pm on Saturday, Oct 7th

Tallahassee, FL: Kool Beanz (921 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303) at 6pm on Monday, Oct 9th.

Ft Lauderdale, FL: Moe's Southwest Grill (2400 W Commercial Blvd, Tamarac, FL 33309) at noon (12pm) on Saturday, Oct 14th.

Orlando, FL: Yogurtown Cafe (1499 E Osceola Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34744) at 7pm on Saturday, Oct 14th (date and time change)

Jackonsville, FL: Cheesecake Factory (10260 Midtown Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32246) at 12pm (noon) on Saturday, Oct 21st.

Raleigh, NC: Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q, (4000 Jones Sausage Rd, Garner, NC 27529) at 6pm on Monday, Oct 23rd.

Charlotte, NC: Sweet Frog (8156 S Tryon St Suite C, Charlotte, NC 28273) at 7pm on Tuesday, Oct 24th.

Atlanta, GA: Los Bravos Mexican Restaurant #2 (2042 Johnson Ferry Rd NE, Brookhaven, GA 30319) at 7pm on Wednesday, Oct 25th.

Nashville, TN: Pied Piper Creamer (114 S 11th St, Nashville, TN 37206) at 7:30pm on Thursday, Oct 26th.

Little Rock, AR: Five Guys (2923 Lakewood Village Dr, North Little Rock, AR 72116) at 6:30pm on Friday, Oct 27th.

Dallas, TX: Texas BBQ and Burgers (3128 Forest Ln #228, Dallas, TX 75234) at 12pm (noon) on Saturday, Oct 28th.

Oklahoma City, OK: Ingrid's (3701 N Youngs Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73112) at 6:30pm on Saturday, Oct 28th.

36 Comments

has jane clocked her??

Oh, this is a glorious page! I love all the expression, everything! Good work!

The new version of will they, wont they; “Does she know or not?”

If we look at it that way, this is at least a Triangle Relation between Kat, Bandit and Jane.

Or more like male Harem Anime where literally everyone is interested in the main Character?

So Wanna give a guess to who Jane’s kids are?

Jake and Jane went on a plane
to see the world together.
Jane fell down and lost her crown
then Jake stole it right after.

Thankyou Mrs. Blu. That was very helpful…

I hate the cryptic talk… But it fits the character I guess.

I’m not particularly fond of Jane’s manner, but I love the mystery.

Kat doesn’t seem real impressed, though.

I really hope Jane has figured Kat out, or at least even suspects. Kat needs another ally and having an uneasy truce with Jane would be very interesting.

I suspect Jane intends to get Kat to sign off and help her in killing off every Dead One they come across, under the guise of somehow saving people through the course of action.

“…Trying to please everyone has its price.”

I was going to finish for her,

“…Then don’t give me free reign
to put them all on ice!”

I really do love the facial expressions, even if they differ a bit from the regular art style. Before, the same face could look angry, sad, disappointed, etc.
And this was fine during action segments, but during still moments like this, I really appreciate the extra detail put into the faces.

Ahahah, that has got to be the most genuine, gamer-like reaction to Jane yet. “Oooookay so hey cool I gotta go I’ll see you next time mkay?”.

Hahaha! That was exactly my thoughts too. Like: “Okie dokie, crazy person. Bai!”

Kat’s expressions are great.

Yeah that’s not really a complicated comment, sue me.

No problem, complicated comment day was last update 😀

Jane, maybe you should just TALK.

Where’s the fun in that?

Jane seems like one of those people who would talk in leet speak of her character allowed for it, were it not that the number pad is *extremely* important to keep intact.

Maybe she’s not sane enough to talk normally…

This is my favorite page yet. Since my last favorite anyway.

Jane speaks cryptic for possibly 2 reasons (maybe):
1. She’s “in character” and
2. She’s mentally damaged by what has happened and it’s all she can manage

That said, it appears she’s in better touch with reality than Kat. Translated: It’s a GAME Kat. You want to keep playing or save the REAL people?

Time for a Kat wake-up to reality.

I think I’m going to jump on the bandwagon for your interpretations, but also add that it is possible that Jane speaks in riddles and rhymes deliberately to “encrypt” her true intent; read between the lines and you could come up with more than one meaning, but without the proper context you might not be able to deduce the correct answer and it gives Jane plausible deniability if someone like Sandra tries to corner her.

Right now, on the surface, very few are likely to suspect that Jane is saying anything that is out of character or worth paying close attention to, especially considering her antagonistic relationship with Kat, but within the context of Kat’s knowledge (which we readers are privy to), it is very likely that Jane’s double meaning is becoming direct and to the point for Kat, piggybacking on in-game taunting that seems normal for an outside observer. Perhaps Bandit could figure out what Jane really means if he was witnessing this exchange, but most others wouldn’t have enough of the picture to suspect anything untoward.

All-in-all, it’s a very effect scene unfolding here. 🙂

I feel like Jane’s speaking in rhymes is some combination of Snoots’ #2 comment and your comment.

Good points Thracecius. Wish these comments could notify us of replies and had a “thumbs up” function .:D

I struggle to figure out Jane’s cryptic speak, but I suspect you’re correct. Though I wonder, is her goal to purge everyone in the game so that they help in the fields? I imagine everyone in the game is one less person helping real people. On that note, I suspect that http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-232/ is relevant. I remember another where Jane twitched when hearing something regarding outsiders.

I do love how Jane’s solution to “Is this the person who ruined the world” isn’t to avoid the problem like the plague (see, Tenka), but to just keep making statements that will only be conspicuous to people who think/know who Kat is.

D****t, i missed your stop in atlanta! loving the comic!

Yes Jane likes making points. Then stabbing them into people. Over and over and over and…

I love this. I love the expressions. I love that someone is making this point. I love that *Jane is the one making this point*. It makes you realize that she isn’t as insane as she appears – or at least, not *just* insane. Sure, she probably isn’t the most stable of people, but that isn’t really surprising, all things considered. Just because you’re a little off-kilter doesn’t mean you don’t have any logic to your actions. It doesn’t mean you don’t care about other people. And it doesn’t mean that you can’t recognize that something is horribly wrong.
I think maybe Jane knows that she isn’t entirely sane. She just doesn’t care. She’ll do whatever it takes if it might help her children, even a little bit, even for a little while. Or, if they’re actually dead and she is in denial, whatever it takes to maintain the illusion.
The cryptic speech might be a reflex at this point, or it might be a symptom of her mental illness – or it might be to force Kat to think about what she is saying.
Because Jane is right. This isn’t what will make Kleya a hero. Helping the Lilly family, what she did for Dani, those are the kinds of things that are heroic, that are ‘nice’. Confessing to her lies and facing the consequences of her actions. Trying to make up for the ways she has wronged others. Those are the things a hero does. That is saving people. On a very small scale, yes, but everyone has to start somewhere. She can expand her sphere of effect over time; it will take a while to adjust from helping on an individual basis to something more far-reaching.
Looking forward to seeing what Jane will say next, and how Kat will respond.

Except Jane can speak sane, she does it with Sandra such that Sandra is always being annoyed when Jane goes back into Jane-speak cause other people are around.

I don’t doubt that Jane has emotional issues of an intensity that we would regard as deserving clinical attention. But while I think she is mistaken about a few things, I doubt she’s delusional in the sense of being incapable of distinguishing reality as long as she has access to consistent evidence.

I still believe that Kat has a strategy beyond “become beloved as a Game heroine”. Becoming seen as a hero seems to be a step in a larger plan, and I think that Saisuke is going to turn out to be more significant than some “random popular Game hero”.

Hmm, good points. Well, I don’t know Jane well enough to conclusively say why she does it, but I’m sure she has her reasons. Maybe she uses the nursery-speak as a mental shield of sorts, and trusts Sandra enough to let that shield down, but not Kat. Or maybe she just wants to tweak Kat’s nose.
Can’t imagine what Kleya’s plan is, but I suppose it is too early to rule out her having more of one than we’ve seen.
As for Saisuke, my current theory is that he is either Jake’s alt or Kleya’s father.

Well this is more confusing by the hour… I mean by the page.
And it’s probably my favorite scene so far :>

So, is Jane referencing the fact that Danni was the sixth?

That would actually kinda make sense. Cause Danni really would die without her Game slot. And yet…it still doesn’t quite cut it, because Danni costs her City enough that she could be replaced with “several imported Outsiders”. Her spot in the Game secured her life, but the resources didn’t come from nowhere. The fact that she had a slot in the Game swayed the decision her way, but the resources came from denying several other people a place in her City.

All the same, I’m kinda reading this as being about Danni somehow.

Okay, that’s an interesting conundrum, asking Kat to kill NPCs to save real lives. I would demand some answers and some additional opinions first, but if it weren’t for the trust issues with almost everyone involved, a quest like that would be a no-brainer for me. Of course I’d try to “kill” any amount of virtual characters to save any amount of real lives. I mean, saving lives without getting into any personal danger myself? Duh, really. But Kat with her fanatic no-kill attitude is going to have an internal conflict here. Maybe she’s even afraid of potentially going back to her Demoli days and enjoying blowing stuff up way too much. Looking forward to it! 🙂

Those six Scary Mary is counting are probably the six alignments. If Mani, Erbana and Demoli are Kat and her parents, I’m curious who the other three are and whether or not they’re as strong as well. But taking down the strong six is going to take some major grinding time out of everyone, so it makes me wonder if there’s going to be a time-skip at some point.

The six alignments are Mori, Kesti, Cardista, Mani, Demoli, and Erbana. Saisuke is referenced as the Kesti, without any indication that he’s runner up to a former champion. Jane seems to be aiming to take the title of the Mori, without needing a perfect score, and it seems like a bit of a ‘default’ alignment. An expert player who actually specialized in it should have left behind a perfect shinagami.

My perception is that Kat has information about what really happened in the Ending, but she knows it won’t be believed because of who she is. I think she knows who was really behind the DM attacks. What she doesn’t know is whether she can reveal this information in any way that doesn’t just cause a new round of anti-hacker hysteria, only directed at TENka this time and resulting in the remaining Cities all dying.

If she can’t build a trusted identity to give people a rallying point, then all she’d be doing is shooting what’s left of civilization in the head.

I was going to finish for her,

“…Then don’t give me free reign
to put them all on ice!”

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 618