Is it though? The right eye is roughly fd6d44 – orange. That side of the face is illuminated slightly different, there is still a glimmer of color change there.
That’s more ‘jovial’ than angry, or sad. Many anime/manga and comics draw the lower eyelids coming up for characters being cheeky (whether they’re about to do something bad, or good). It’s a bit of an exaggeration of how some people’s faces contort for similar emotions.
That and I think what Zeke is feeling is a sort of relief, like he didn’t want to kill or hurt anyone really, but he couldn’t risk being captured agian. So he used the only tool he knows – violence, up to and including lethal force if necessary. Zeke wasn’t sure if Ethan was correct in that Scott and Ethan mean Zeke no harm. And with the explosive events of their last meeting, zeke wasn’t gonna leave his freedom and life to an unknown. Scott had to stand down first before Zeke would even consider standing down. But once Scott… Read more »
Lids on the upper eye has been aggressive.
Lids on the lower has been more playful.
The Legacy
6 months ago
Wouldn’t it be funny if Zeke kills Scott… And Scott suddenly respawns (and no longer paralyzed), and Ethan finds out his powers now affect those within a radius of him? 😅
Oh, true. I’ve seen that a couple of times. One of the most memorable ones was in Nove Covert Ops (StarCraft 2 campaign/DLC), when Nova agreed to Alarak’s proposal. While Protoss with no mouth, his eyes were clearly telling he’s smiling.
Shy Hot Prince
6 months ago
While his eyes are still red, the mechanical parts he is using have changed. If he is angry, sorrowful or thinking, it is usually the top-side or both. This is the first time in this encounter, he just used the lower-side part, which makes the expression different. It appears more playful.
Would be interesting to go back to the older comics, especially those where he was in the storage room, and check if this has always been the case.
When human’s smile big, it pushes our cheeks up and causes the lower eye lids to move up. Zeke is just emulating that action, giving him a more readable human expression. The eyes Zeke had were purple after Ethan freed him from Eugene, went red after the bomb. The only times in 1.0 his eyes went red was when Zeke went into attack mode after Lilith had splashed him with water, or when the whole penguin thing happened. Basically, when he gets killing mad, or as we call it: “Seeing red.”
Gonfrask
6 months ago
It would be frustrating rather
Stephen
6 months ago
Good for Scott
It’s hard to imagine being as afraid as he must have been right then; and still being able to make a courageous decision like that
Maybe Zeke’s comment about being paralyzed got through to him
Jack0r
6 months ago
That almost feels too easy
Alpha-00
6 months ago
Not very, Zeke, not very.
Saixak
6 months ago
Gallows humor has a time and place, ZK. You’re not in an episode of South Park.
ya i would see him more putting an arrow down to block scott from fire. he knows ZK may not know ethan is potentially powerless and if he was feeling murdery toward him would have already snapped his neck thinking he would just come back.
Honestly, if it was accompanied by an appropriate punchline, so would I. But then, we aren’t dealing with the stakes that Zeke’s current audience is.
Timmeh
6 months ago
I mean, this is the first time we see Scott really treating ZK with any shred of empathy. Beforehand, ZK was always an “it” which isn’t different here, perse, BUT he is talking to ZK as if ZK is a person instead of a thing.
guest
6 months ago
big fan of Zeke’s panels literally cutting the tension by cutting through the page’s border, Tim.
foducool
6 months ago
dude, no
jack
6 months ago
absolutely hilarious, zeke. absolutely hilarious.
ThatMageGuy
6 months ago
Honestly, it would be hilarious.
Shona-SoF
6 months ago
*chokes on drink in that last panel* Dammit, Tim!!
Shona-SoF
6 months ago
I think Zeke is good. They could have taken the shot, could have killed Ethan, could have done a lot of things with their speed and strength if truly set on a course for murder.
But the biggest point here is that even in jest, Zeke said ‘if’. That tells me that murder is no longer intended.
PhobosRising
6 months ago
Ah, the true test of being alive. Can you sabotage yourself in the name of being a dick to someone else?
ReyMonoArdilla
6 months ago
Extremely funny…I mean, wrong.
Crestlinger
6 months ago
‘About as funny as Scott saying ‘Just kidding’ *push.
JozMk.II
6 months ago
I don’t think he will. He wasn’t expecting Scott to drop it. He knows Scott has effectively disarmed himself and is no longer a threat. He doesn’t know what else to do, so he cracked a dark humor joke.
Verdiekus
6 months ago
Ah, there is the Zeke we know and love. You can tell they are joking by the position of their eye lids.
Del Cox
6 months ago
I feel bad that I chortled out loud.
Gravshire
6 months ago
None. Robot has to string Scot along, and show the flaws in his fragile moral code, making Scot rethink his outlook and regret his own life choices. And then regret his own outlook.
Not that Brian
6 months ago
It’d be pretty damn funny ngl
Pyre
6 months ago
And then, next comic, Zeke says “And I’m all about the lulz”, shoots Scott and then puts enough pressure on Ethan’s neck to partially crush the esophagus. Then Zeke leaps out the window, leaving a gurgling Ethan to vainly reach for Scott…….
And then, starting Friday, we get a month-long Chef Brian marathon.
Acher4
6 months ago
pheeeeeew.
This arc is amazing!
jonathan corbett
6 months ago
Of course, he WON’T. He wouldn’t have brought up the dark humor if he was gonna.
Richard Weatherfield
6 months ago
Not nearly as funny as the line you just delivered, my dude lol.
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Gutsy choice
And the correct one!
I think I can see the old Zeke coming back! Despite their dark humor, Zeke’s eyes seem almost joyful… potentially even genuinely happy.
Despite having a clean shot and the risk to himself, Zeke didn’t shoot. I think Zeke wants companionship more than just pure revenge.
I’m intrigued to see where they go from here.
Might seriously be asking the question
“No really, would it be funny? I’m still working on this humor thing. Would it be funny? It’d be funny right?”
And, it would be, from a certain point of view.
Ok, I’m color blind here. What color are Zeke’s eyes in the last frame?
Still red.
Still *very* red
Is it though? The right eye is roughly fd6d44 – orange. That side of the face is illuminated slightly different, there is still a glimmer of color change there.
Just a consequence of shading first and using the “screen” blend mode to add the glow in a digital art program.
Red, same as the previous frames
Still red, but they look sad to me, rather than angry…
That’s more ‘jovial’ than angry, or sad. Many anime/manga and comics draw the lower eyelids coming up for characters being cheeky (whether they’re about to do something bad, or good). It’s a bit of an exaggeration of how some people’s faces contort for similar emotions.
That and I think what Zeke is feeling is a sort of relief, like he didn’t want to kill or hurt anyone really, but he couldn’t risk being captured agian. So he used the only tool he knows – violence, up to and including lethal force if necessary. Zeke wasn’t sure if Ethan was correct in that Scott and Ethan mean Zeke no harm. And with the explosive events of their last meeting, zeke wasn’t gonna leave his freedom and life to an unknown. Scott had to stand down first before Zeke would even consider standing down. But once Scott… Read more »
Nah, that’s not sadness. That’s him making a “cute” gallows humor joke. You can take that eye position to be a sardonic smile.
Darn, ok. Thanks!
Lids on the upper eye has been aggressive.
Lids on the lower has been more playful.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Zeke kills Scott… And Scott suddenly respawns (and no longer paralyzed), and Ethan finds out his powers now affect those within a radius of him? 😅
He will be SO. PISSED. to shift from a DPS hero to a support one.
I wouldn’t call him a DPS. He’s more like a tank, as he can take abuse in place of others for little/no consequence.
I’m sure Ethan would be having another moral crisis considering what that kind of ability could have done that one time he encountered deathblood
There have already been people around who die.
Always surprises me how well you can portray a smile from a character with no mouth just by which side of the eyes the eyelids are most visible
Oh, true. I’ve seen that a couple of times. One of the most memorable ones was in Nove Covert Ops (StarCraft 2 campaign/DLC), when Nova agreed to Alarak’s proposal. While Protoss with no mouth, his eyes were clearly telling he’s smiling.
While his eyes are still red, the mechanical parts he is using have changed. If he is angry, sorrowful or thinking, it is usually the top-side or both. This is the first time in this encounter, he just used the lower-side part, which makes the expression different. It appears more playful.
Would be interesting to go back to the older comics, especially those where he was in the storage room, and check if this has always been the case.
I went back to the archives and couldn’t believe it. It has been *three* years already!!!
Closest I found was this one when Zeke is simulating emotions:
https://cad-comic.com/comic/identity-p15/
you’re right. Think of it as a squint smile, u know with your eyes a bit shut 🙂
When human’s smile big, it pushes our cheeks up and causes the lower eye lids to move up. Zeke is just emulating that action, giving him a more readable human expression. The eyes Zeke had were purple after Ethan freed him from Eugene, went red after the bomb. The only times in 1.0 his eyes went red was when Zeke went into attack mode after Lilith had splashed him with water, or when the whole penguin thing happened. Basically, when he gets killing mad, or as we call it: “Seeing red.”
It would be frustrating rather
Good for Scott
It’s hard to imagine being as afraid as he must have been right then; and still being able to make a courageous decision like that
Maybe Zeke’s comment about being paralyzed got through to him
That almost feels too easy
Not very, Zeke, not very.
Gallows humor has a time and place, ZK. You’re not in an episode of South Park.
Unless it’s a boeing flight, you always have time for gallows humor.
South Park shouldn’t have gallows humor, none of the characters are robots. /s
Cartman pretended to be one to trick Butters for a while.
Doitdoitdoitdoit
Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life
Lucas charge in and F-it all up in 3…2…1…
I think Lucas would be wiser than just do that. If he’d be here and he would intervene, I think it would be to shield Scott after Zeke shots.
ya i would see him more putting an arrow down to block scott from fire. he knows ZK may not know ethan is potentially powerless and if he was feeling murdery toward him would have already snapped his neck thinking he would just come back.
No, what i meant he had their messages and charge in the action and sees his friends being choked and nother at the gunpoint and he attacks.
Yes, and my point is that if he suddenly arrives he wouldn’t mindlessly charge
Well done, Scott!
Zeke: You know what, i just do it for the lulz …
Like a True Gamer *teardrop*
Well, I think that just means Ethan is suddenly in much more danger
Not going to lie… little funny.
Legit hilarious.
Zeke, no
Zeke, yes
I mean, I’d laugh.
Honestly, if it was accompanied by an appropriate punchline, so would I. But then, we aren’t dealing with the stakes that Zeke’s current audience is.
I mean, this is the first time we see Scott really treating ZK with any shred of empathy. Beforehand, ZK was always an “it” which isn’t different here, perse, BUT he is talking to ZK as if ZK is a person instead of a thing.
big fan of Zeke’s panels literally cutting the tension by cutting through the page’s border, Tim.
dude, no
absolutely hilarious, zeke. absolutely hilarious.
Honestly, it would be hilarious.
*chokes on drink in that last panel* Dammit, Tim!!
I think Zeke is good. They could have taken the shot, could have killed Ethan, could have done a lot of things with their speed and strength if truly set on a course for murder.
But the biggest point here is that even in jest, Zeke said ‘if’. That tells me that murder is no longer intended.
Ah, the true test of being alive. Can you sabotage yourself in the name of being a dick to someone else?
Extremely funny…I mean, wrong.
‘About as funny as Scott saying ‘Just kidding’ *push.
I don’t think he will. He wasn’t expecting Scott to drop it. He knows Scott has effectively disarmed himself and is no longer a threat. He doesn’t know what else to do, so he cracked a dark humor joke.
Ah, there is the Zeke we know and love. You can tell they are joking by the position of their eye lids.
I feel bad that I chortled out loud.
None. Robot has to string Scot along, and show the flaws in his fragile moral code, making Scot rethink his outlook and regret his own life choices. And then regret his own outlook.
It’d be pretty damn funny ngl
And then, next comic, Zeke says “And I’m all about the lulz”, shoots Scott and then puts enough pressure on Ethan’s neck to partially crush the esophagus. Then Zeke leaps out the window, leaving a gurgling Ethan to vainly reach for Scott…….
And then, starting Friday, we get a month-long Chef Brian marathon.
pheeeeeew.
This arc is amazing!
Of course, he WON’T. He wouldn’t have brought up the dark humor if he was gonna.
Not nearly as funny as the line you just delivered, my dude lol.
About as funny, but the line doesn’t waste the potential human resources like the murder would.
You can murder someone only once, but you can scare them to death almost indefinitely!
No Zeke, it’s pronounced Trā-jik.
Zeke, you psychopath xD
But yes, it would