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He wasn't really expecting that.

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Kleya “Nuclear Winter” Smith is coming.

Oh my gosh!

She said yes!?!? I totally did not see that!

Yeah that’s amazing… Hope things go ok. But expecting things to go wrong.

I can imagine how that’s going to go “Danni tell Kat that I think she’s really cool”, “Danni please tell the bandait that I disagree with everything he stands for and think he’s lame”,

I love this thought

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Miracle of miracles, kleya ACTUALLY cooperating, be still bandit’s tender heart XD

I just want to hug her.

Kleya: The immovable object or the irresistible force, but never anything in between.

Oh no, Bandit, time to panic!

I’m half expecting him to run around going, “Dang, I’ve got to put out drinks, and I should have cleaned my room…”

Lol. Wow

and, “Where are my SNACK CAKES!!!???”

“What will I WEAR?!”

Yes, imminent panic was also my immediate thought 😛

I’m with bandit. SHE’S COMING?!?!

I didn’t expect that either. I hope it turns out that he has a securely private communication channel there, so that they have the opportunity of speaking freely. I don’t expect either of them to get anything more than “Yes, I know you are you” said as a first step, maybe not even that, but it would nevertheless be a major step forward.

Danni achieves the near impossible!

Shouldn’t the last panel text bubble end with a questionmark if he is incredulous?

Also, I am sensing some Danni shenanigans.

The fact that it’s a period suggests that Jake’s so surprised that he can’t even be bothered to do the little extra that’s required to make it a question instead of a statement. Sort of like if someone says something so outrageous that the only valid response is “wat”. (Note that the period is outside the quote)

Either that, or he’s telling Dude, who’s face will appear incredulous on the next page.

Yes, Jake. She’s going to grace you with her presence. Don’t blow it by breaking the rules.

Kleya seems so cute. I know she’s having emotional difficulties at the moment, but that doesn’t detract from how cute she looks in that pose.

Both of them believe falsehoods about each other: she, that he betrayed her–personally and deliberately–and he, that she killed her mother–heartlessly. Oh I can’t wait to get the full back story, because both of them have to be wrong somehow.

I can’t wait, huh? It will be a looong time coming . . .

we had to wait 14 years for the Dan-Regina backstory to come out. Here’s hoping it’s less than 10 years for this one.

Yessssss!

I can’t help looking at this and thinking that Kleya’s selfishness with Danni’s friendship, not wanting it taken away to the point she’s wanting to limit the tools at Danni’s disposal, is the exact same thing that led to her saying yes.

I mean, once it became clear that she needed a good reason she started shutting down really hard, and gave in to that kind of persistence.. It doesn’t look like she acknowledged that Bandit was a good teacher to have out loud, so I guess that’s what’s left. She doesn’t want to give that up, and finally accepted the only way she could be sure he didn’t damage her friendship was being there.

“Okay, now what? I didn’t think this far ahead, because I wasn’t expecting it to work.”

That moment when Bandit reaches Dude level panic.

I don’t know… Dude panic seems to be somewhat calculated, whereas this panic seems to be more of a blind I-think-this-is-going-to-kill-me-and-everyone-else-on-Earth style panic.

“Oh no! My plan worked!!”

Ultra Instinct Kleya

Writing broken people is hard. Either you do it inaccurately for the sake of convenient storytelling, or else you end up with a character who is nonfunctional in ways that impede the plot. Kleya has major control issues beyond her need to win, and this is like the third or fourth plot point where it’s come up in a way that just halts the story until she betrays her characterization. Pretty soon her issues will be as serious as Adrian Monk’s OCD (i.e. both comical and ignorable).

Not to say I don’t want to see the plot move forward, but I’d like for Kleya’s character growth to be more explicit and less subject to the convenience of the author. Just my two cents.

Broken people becoming better always seems abrupt and random to outside observers. And… to themselves… it never seems like anything has changed.

I like to imagine in that last panel that Bandit felt a disturbance in the Force, and that’s what allowed him to know Kleya was coming.

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 671