Page Commentary No. 233

Psu: This is such a stupid but perfect plan.

Gunwild: I thought the Mentos thing was too goofy when you mentioned it instead of just pressurizing the tank. But y'know, if you're gonna treat a tanker like a giant soda can, what's really too goofy?

Psu: If this were a level in Hitman, you'd totally think about putting a bag of "mintos" into the soda tanker when the guards roll around, right?

Gunwild: I like to be very quiet and evidence-light when I play Hitman video games! But I understand the appeal of directed, useful mayhem, too. Or, I understand that's how heists can be when Cassiopeia does them.

Psu: To be sure, this plan miiiiight be really sorta dumb when you stop to analyze the different ways it might go wrong. Like... could they have known that guards were coming along? I guess Zeke could've told them they're coming. How would they deal with the pressure inside the tank as it was building? Their suits may have those shields we keep talking about. It's kinda tricky that once you start poking at threads in a crazy movie heist, things start looking like they might be coincidence. But we have to balance that out with rules of cool. Like... if my Dungeons and Dragons players came up with this plan while I was the DM, I wouldn't tell them I did this but I'd fudge the dice to let them have their fun.

Gunwild: I instinctively rebel at getting away doing with stuff because because there are plausible excuses off-panel. But at least they're not too far out of the way this time.

Psu: At least one of our excuses is just in the drivers seat! Anyway, I think it's worth it just for this "cool" reveal that's equal parts fun, messy, and badass. We can say badass here right?

Gunwild: Yeah, people are paying for this, you'd be shorting them if you didn't.

Psu: I think they need me to talk about the paint job on minx too. We'd already established her color, and earlier we established the burger world design. I liked how just by swapping out the palette and shading it just right, it made that doofy looking service robot body into something that looks... arguably cooler than her original. But it's not very sexy...

Gunwild: Robot people don't need to be sexy 100% of the time. Between the old robot body and the re-used props of Maddy's swords, I think she is doing pretty well with the material available.

Psu: And even given the limited dialog, she's making good use of her speaking lines.

Gunwild: Me not using too many words on a page is what's really refreshing.