• I do so enjoy watching President Smugface’s reaction to this.

  • RTM

    General… this better not be your doing and genuinely some asshole trying to ruin the peace talks. Otherwise it is quite likely this will be found out, possibly by Jane and a few others and used against you by some truth seeking reporter or worse the president guy himself.

  • Amberlight

    Well at least now it makes sense why everyone is gathered at the same spot.
    Tank flipping still doesn’t.

    • Sebastián Piriz

      We have in exclusive, what is the people talking in the crowd!

      • Amberlight

        Nailed it:D

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        Dude on the right:, “man, I feel inadequate now. Wish I was that awesome! My girl is gonna rub it in my face..”

      • Adriano

        Man on the right : “So that’s where my taxes go, huh ?”

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        Guy with beard all the way to the right:
        “My god, it’s the jelly donut incident in the breakroom all over again!”

  • Matt [in Middletown]

    LOL, dirty play, but quite an awesome one.

    Edit: I recall the HAWKS.
    I also recall that satellite “mysteriously” went down.
    And the HAWKS got taken out by Dirtbot the Destructonator.
    (His brother, Rockbot the Rupturator will appear sometime soon. Not seen, ever, will be Brobot the Beerillator.)

  • Chris Kotthoff

    “What could possible go wrong?”- President Smith, 24 hours ago

  • Ian Brown

    “position is rapidly being compromised.” and that statement will maybe last another half minute before the rest of tanks are turned to slag!

    • Adriano

      “Huh… It seems like the unnamed soldier beated all the enemy forces in presence… I… I guess we have a new heroe in town.”

  • Adriano

    I didn’t remember the HAWK, shame on me ;^;

    but I love so much this page, we learn a bit more of how Minervans actually live. Also, I wanna see a side-story about The Athenian.
    Or else I’m gonna make a fanfic !!

  • Lirik

    Can’t we learn to all be friends?
    That’s the thing to do,
    Can’t we try to see from someone else’s point of view?
    Just stay calm, remember mom
    And then we got it made,
    Let’s all shake hands, respect our land,
    And then we gonna invade!
    (Histeria. Invasion song)

  • Adriano

    I’m totally going to make a fanfic about Minerva, and the Athenian. Dan, I’ll send it to you by email when done ? (end of next week surely and it won’t be long text x3)

    • Sounds good. The Athenian is the main official Minervan news report, just so you know, but not the only one.

      • Adriano

        Hmhm, okay thank you !

    • If you’d like some backstory, I actually developed the Minervan media outlets, including the Athenian, for reasons I can’t (or simply won’t?) at yet disclose, so I can send you the details via e-mail. I’m not sure if I should post them in the comments, but it’s not classified information or anything, and it’s for a good cause, so e-mail should be fine =)

      • (His reasons being that he’s making another canonical short story with me) XD

        • Way to steal my thunder, man! I was trying to be mysterious =P

          • Yeah well without my blessing you just sound like a random fanfiction writer :P

          • Hey, I got my start as a random fanfiction writer! XD

      • Adriano

        Oh, that would be rad, thank you !

        • @adrianowr:disqus, do you have an e-mail address or some way I could PM you the details? I tried to find a way to do private messages in Disqus, but I can’t seem to figure it out.

          • Adriano

            Well, you can find me on Twitter (which is linked to my Disqus account) @daftpunkliker
            If it doesn’t fit the pm system of Twitter, then I can pm you my mail there.

          • I’ve followed you, but you’ll need to follow me in order to receive a message from me. My twitter handle is @JSConner800

  • Bruce Greenwood

    That one second panel has just completely changed everything I should probably have already known about the world this is set in. For some reason I’ve been picturing this as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with few survivors, but this places it in a world 10 years from today. Or 20 minutes into the future, if I want to show my age.

    • Heh. It IS a post-apocalyptic wasteland with few survivors… UNLESS you’re lucky enough to live in Minerva, where the people there act like it’s 20 minutes into the future XD

      That entitlement and ignorance of the plight of non-Minervans is a point of contention between them and other people around them. Although there ARE other communities and “nations” that are doing decently well, none are as separated from the apocalypse as Minerva acts.

      • Sebastián Piriz

        didnt you upload anything about the city on the previous chapters?

  • Just out of curiosity, are the buildings in this scene built on top of Minerva’s mountain stronghold, or around the base of it? Or is this not Minerva HQ at all?

    • Minerva HQ is around the base of the mountain bunker. The bunker doesn’t get much use now.

  • Henrik Svantesson

    Makes you wonder if they expected him to come back - it’s one thing to be the scariest kind of heavy infantry, it’s quite another to stand up to face off against armor. Especially if they were tanks with modern features, like the copper-jet anti-tank shells and explosive point defenses.