I hope I wasn’t obscure here, but repeating what everyone already knew was going to happen was wordy and inconsequential. So I thought I’d do it this way. More suggestive.
As for me, it’s been a crazy week, and will probably be another crazy week to come. For starters, my apartment is being sold, and so I don’t quite know what that means for me. Probably I’ll end up having to move. At the very least, it means my rent is going to go up, and there are going to be realtors trying to go traipsing through my home at intervals. So I’m a bit uptight now, and have begun looking for other places to live. I’m seriously bummed out about that, I have to admit – I like where I live, and I don’t want to have to leave. But I mean, it’s other people’s property, and I can’t afford to buy it myself, so what else is there to do, really?
God, what a hassle. It’s just what I need right now.
Anyway, I’m basically down for it here. Time to sleep.
This is not going to end well…
What, the comic or my home-life situation?
😀
–M
Are refrigators still sold in those hughe cardboard boxes?
If so, you don’t need to worry.
Haulley has to stop picking fights
But he’s really, really GOOD at it! He’s probably the most “soldierly” soldier in all of 6-Commando, so far. He’s definitely a man of action. A Nuclear War version of Captain Kirk.
–M
… Kirk or Khan?
HAAAAUUUUUUUULLLLLLLYYYYYYY!!!! *Echos from beneith a planet’s surface, into space*
I actually think it has a terrifying beauty to it, leaving out Haulley’s exact orders. It leaves us as the readers interpreting just how crazy Haulley might be, and just what measures he may have ordered this poor grunt to take in apprehending the south americans. On top of that, if having your most powerful tank go rogue wasn’t bad enough, now we’ll have infighting inside the UNA’s very base. I wonder if the FSR is having this much trouble… (They probably are.)
😀
Haulley has a way of making things more complicated by trying to do the right thing. Sounds familiar somehow…
–M
ah, the joy of renting a place… it’s cheaper for a while than buying, but over time it’s more expensive. but it’s neigh impossible to ‘rent’ a buy house so you pay it off in terms. the owners generally go “rent or pay in one bulk”
Yeah the real problem, of course, is capital. As in, not having any. Most of my income is tied up in paying off my student debt, which was considerable. Now, granted, it’s possible for me to pay less each month, but making a down payment on a house is simply impossible at the moment, and besides I can’t really in good conscience take on such a responsibility until I’m out from under it.
–M
I’m looking for a new place, too. It’s insane what people demand for a place these days…
A few years ago I could rent a big place for about 1/3 of my income. Today I’d almost need to chip in half of my money to get a similar place. Sure, priceds went up and the economy doesn’t look to good, but it’s almost insane.
Right now I’m having trouble hiring new people. Everyone outside my area has no chance to get a affordable place to stay. Mind you, I can pay good wages, but still it’s not enough – especially for people with family.
Something has gone way off balance.
Gotta love the detail you did on this week’s page.
Is the flag on the UNA troop’s armor a variant of the Australian flag?
Yes, it’s an invisible play on words, actually. In their world, the Australian Federation is a place, not an event. Likewise, the Canadian Confederation. I don’t know, you have to have a pretty rarefied sense of humor to find this kind of thing interesting, I guess.
–M
I thought 6-commando was drawn from the US, Canada, Mexico, the Republic of Quebec, the Republic of Cuba, plus misc. Europeans and Russians? Not a criticism, just wandering how he wound up there 🙂
Not at all! The South Americans are “observing” the UNA mission in Africa. Which is why they have their own equipment and their own part of the base.
–M
Sorry, I meant how the Australian trooper got there!
Ah here we go, I was starting to get bored at the lack of actual shooting. Following pages should sate my boredom nicely.
“NOOOOOOO! NO MORE TAAAAAAAAAALK! WE KILLLLLLLLLL!”
“Be still, my Dog of War! Soon, you will have your revenge. But we do it my way!”
😀
–M
Sounds familiar. Where’s that quote from?
Mad Max 2 I think
Otherwise known as The Road Warrior
Think the Colonel is a somewhat tragic figure at this point of the story. Haulley must blame himself on some subconscious level for the start of the nuclear war being in command when the bombs went off, at the same time Haulley can not allow self doubt to enter his mind as a commander in the mist of the crisis. Colonel Haulley may be looking for someone else to blame for the sake of his own sanity but every extreme action becomes even more self destructive.
Also, the idea of the Mike acting on his own is a level of crazy that Haulley simple can not seem to except which is just fuel to the fire.
I’m with you, in re: Colonel Haulley. He’s basically going nuts, just like everyone else in the story, just in a different way.
–M
If you live in a complex and the complex is being bought, they are legally not allowed to kick you out. The new owners have something like minimum 90 days to notify tenants of any evictions, but your rent is most definitely going to go up. I remember when I lived across the street from Busch Gardens and the Greystar Corp. bought our complex. rent went up by $150 a month.
I think real estate agents and the gremlins playing the property value market are all insane, and are worse criminals than most people in prison.
It’s a house, actually – a triplex mutlfamily where I have one floor. I’ve been here a long time, but I’m ready to try something new, truth be told.
I don’t think anyone is doing anything criminal, here, everyone’s just trying to negotiate a good deal. My landlord is retiring and wants to get enough money from the sale to support himself and his wife in a reasonable way. The new people, whoever they end up being, want to make a good investment. And I want a decent place to live that has an affordable rent. The real kicker as I see it is that the city has a bloated payroll, so taxes have been going up steadily to keep everything funded, and that’s going to drive all our rent up with it. My landlord has actually kept my rent artificially low for some years, mainly because I stayed and didn’t make trouble, and he wanted some consistency in the place while so many other tenants came and went in weird permutations. He’s been good to me, and I don’t begrudge him getting a decent payout on the place now that he’s had enough years running the show – he deserves it.
I have a lot of options coming up – looked at one today and it was a really good location. Seeing another tomorrow. I have good credit and good references, so it’s not a real problem to move around, just a momentary hassle. It’ll all work out one way or the other.
–M