Comic for Monday, Aug 28, 2023

[Darth Fluffy 302]

Comic for Monday, Aug 28, 2023

'Enormous'? I would have said 'Obnoxious'. I see him as the Scrappy of the comic. And, like Scrappy, he doesn't serve a purpose. It would have made more sense if Ashley had found an enchanted training spell book or a magic training iPad.

He defies any form of logic. How does he see and hear? How does he think? How does he speak? Why, in the context of his single purpose, does he have emotions? What do those emotions reflect? He does not seem to have a personal ethos that matches Arthur. So where do the differences come from?

My conclusion is that he is strictly comedy relief. When does he get 'face' time in the comic? When he says something dumb.

So, caveat, when they do the movie version of EGS, Kevin will be the villain pulling the strings behind the evil.

"Hey, Kevin, can you help us start a fire?"

"Certainly. I know several trivial cantrips for creating fire."

"Actually, if you'd just stick one of your ends in this pencil sharpener, we just need some tinder."

Years later, Kevin is a magic training toothpick. "Practice good oral hygiene, kids. Clean your teeth."

[mlooney 3,417]

I like Kevin.  Like all things magical, don't think about it too hard.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

37 minutes ago, mlooney said:

I like Kevin.  Like all things magical, don't think about it too hard.

You know from playing RPGs that some items make sense and some are just trouble, and need to be constrained.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

 

Kevin was an EARLY attempt by Arthur to enchant a teaching tool.  If Kevin had worked properly at first, Arthur would have become aware that he had created a caricature of a teacher with an exaggerated sense of the values and ideals a Government agent was supposed to uphold.

Might have been worse.  Kevin could have become an enchanted, immortal career bureaucrat. 

 

 

[mlooney 3,417]

5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Might have been worse.  Kevin could have become an enchanted, immortal career bureaucrat. 

A teaching bureaucrat.  I've had a few of those.