Running Out of Chances · 7:25pm May 10th, 2020
So it's been some time since I've written one of these, since I've been busy planning fanfic, writing fanfic, and most importantly telling myself to do those things but doing other things instead.
But I've got two comics that have been patiently waiting for what is probably best classified as a review, and it's time that I get to one of them.
So let's talk about issue #88 now that I have crossed over into the madness of one who never leaves the apartment.
Once again, the moral is that you shouldn't be so obsessed with winning that you become a whiny little pile of horseapples over it if you lose.
Okay, that did come out a little stronger than it was supposed to. I'm sorry, Silver.
The moral is that there are important things other than winning, and the least you can do is be gracious in defeat and not turn it into an extended one-sided bitter rivalry.
It's still weird how much Silver Streak doesn't recognize that Big Mac doesn't remember their racing days the same way he does. He just can't seem to get the message that Big Mac never wanted to be rivals or had any particular desire to win, no matter how clear Big Mac always made it.
Do you think there are pegasi on standby to rescue any racer who loses control and goes over on of the many cliffs on the route? If you just painted the Draytona Breach track rainbow you'd easily be able to pass it off as a Mario Kart road. Surely accidents are far from unheard of.
I can't entirely suspend my disbelief on the asserted reason that Sacks Roamer will get away with it if he can get across the border. Sure, "no extradition" may have been a concept that's a little more complex than they wanted to introduce (although aren't the comics theoretically targeted at an older audience than the show?), but it seems a little silly that the border would be the exact line where it becomes too cold for dragons (putting aside issues 55 and 56 where there were dragons in Yakyakistan) and a lot silly that neither Roamer nor the dragons would think of the possibility of getting help from less cold-sensitive creatures to apprehend him.
Our gremlin friend provides an excellent demonstration of why it's important to give your henchcreatures decent benefits and working conditions. You don't want them eager to flip on you and quit the moment the slightest hitch comes up.
