Actually, considering it was visible last comic, and next comic, and there’s no reason for anyone with the ability to “lock” it… I’m going with “Paul forgot to draw it today” on this one.
Let’s see. We know that Jin wants to fix the calendar machine so that a) the world and everyone in it can continue to exist past 2012 and b) she can die. We know she has worked for 81 000 years to do this.
It’s “vaguely” possible she girls might die along with Jin if she pulls it off. As opposed to definitely dying along with everyone else if she fails. The case for this possibility, I believe, is that Jin would “almost” certainly sacrifice them if fixing the machine requires it.
So the choice is: Either figure out how this ancient magical machine works better than Jin could in one thousandth of the time, make sure that Jin’s imperfect plan is going to get you killed, work out a better way to fix it, work against Jin in secret to accomplish this before she can and hope that you don’t screw anything up and blow up the entire universe forever in your attempt to save four people.
Insanity doesn’t have (much) to do with trust. Trust grows when we try it, and watch to see what happens.
Hey the tatoo is missing!
It’s “locked”, i.e. inaccessible. It disappears when that happens, as shown in a prior comic that I don’t have time to go hunting for right now.
That would mean that you don’t need Bud interfering like at that time to get it to lock/unlock since last comic had the tattoo.
Interesting that it was unlocked while Shelly was by herself but locked on its own when she got around Monica…
Maybe it’s because only people who can “poit” can use it, so it’s locked around her.
Actually, considering it was visible last comic, and next comic, and there’s no reason for anyone with the ability to “lock” it… I’m going with “Paul forgot to draw it today” on this one.
Let’s see. We know that Jin wants to fix the calendar machine so that a) the world and everyone in it can continue to exist past 2012 and b) she can die. We know she has worked for 81 000 years to do this.
It’s “vaguely” possible she girls might die along with Jin if she pulls it off. As opposed to definitely dying along with everyone else if she fails. The case for this possibility, I believe, is that Jin would “almost” certainly sacrifice them if fixing the machine requires it.
So the choice is: Either figure out how this ancient magical machine works better than Jin could in one thousandth of the time, make sure that Jin’s imperfect plan is going to get you killed, work out a better way to fix it, work against Jin in secret to accomplish this before she can and hope that you don’t screw anything up and blow up the entire universe forever in your attempt to save four people.
Or trust Jin.
I wonder if we’ve read this comic 56 times. Anybody? Anyone read this comic 56 times? and remember it all?