A Human Day

[PirateRose]

Why do people put so much emphasis on it? It's like everyone has completely forgotten the true meat of the game, which this comic captures wonderfully.

What was in this comic, was not in the game.

For me, ME3 as a whole lacked any real emotion and personality, it was all very superficial and shallow. "Commander Shepard, so and so wants to speak to you." You go to person and this is like only the first or second time you've talked to the person. You experiences extremely emotional scene, there are tears or maybe blood, dramatic camera angles, strong music. Then you're immediately thrown back into the game like nothing happened.

Then you know, you walk down the hallway of the Citadel, you hear extreme shock value scenes between npcs, chemical burns on children faces, murdering a girl because she wouldn't stop crying. Then you go buy some fish or booze in a shop.

Would have been more funny if they brought that porn magazine back. Oh here's a letter from your husband who died on the battlefield. Oh that's really sad and all but um do you have the latest issue of Fornax? Yeah, the one with the really hot hanar and asari stuff? Yes. That's it. Thank you and sorry again about your husband. That was really tragic. Bye. That there sums up how ME3 feels to me.

 

[PunkRex]

Did, uhh... did I just enjoy romance-related video game fan fiction? In comic form? On the internet?

Good lord, what will become of me?

DAMMIT GREY, YOU'VE DOOMED US ALL TO A FUTURE OF SLOPPY, CHEESY DIALOUGE AND ASS SHOTS!!!

OT: This was nice.

Tis only gentlemenly to compliment such an 'elastic' rack.

Personally if I was Sheperd, and a girl, i'd have gone for Garrus but this was really sweet. The art's pretty baller too, love dem facial expressions.

Also, page 5 is glorious.

 

[Headsprouter]

I just read the one before this. Sad stuff. This one's pretty droopy, too, but it was definitely had more light-heartedness.

And weirdly I always feel more the less human something is, and the less humans are involved. Yet I must stress that I don't consider myself a misanthrope.

I don't even play Mass Effect, but I really enjoyed this.

 

[Tono Makt]

Easily equal to the Blue Rose of Illium, though I can certainly see where this one might not have the same impact. For people who didn't romance Thane, this comic is going to be less of an impact than the Blue Rose of Illium. But as someone who considers Shepard to be Female, and one who really rather enjoyed the romance with Thane, BRAVO!

NO! BAD ALEK! BAD! *thwaps with rolled up newspaper* You will not get me riled up and go completely off topic in this thread BAD ALEK! BAD! *thwaps* and yes i agree with you 100%, darn it all

 

[Random berk]

Do Drell even have reproductive organs like humans do?

Because if they're like the rest of their bodies, it may... hurt quite a bit.

I imagine they probably have reptilian reproductive organs like snakes and lizards. Which means they aren't covered in scales and are instead concealed inside the body, extending from a slit when erect. And if Drell organs are more like snakes than lizards, then they might have two.

You are most welcome for the mental image.

Good strip overall, but Shepard seemed not only unlike my Shepard, but I suspect she was unlike anyone else's Shepard either. Between her reaction to Blasto 6 and in the restaurant, she seemed childlike- no, more than that. She just seemed idiotic. I know the idea was that she was supposed to just be unwinding on her rare time off, but I didn't really get that impression from looking at it.

 

[Tono Makt]

I'm trying to figure out where this story fits in to the main storyline. I'm guessing it takes place on the citadel but they encounter a ruined diner during their date. Now, this can't be taking place after the second citadel attack, since...

Spoiler: Obligatory spoiler tag

Thane gets killed in that attack

So I'm left to guess that this is damage left from the first attack, from the ending of the first game, but Anderson tells you that the Citadel is nearly restored, when you first meet him in ME2.

It could be any day between when you first meet him in Huerta Memorial and when get to the spoiler tag time. It could be the first time you click the "Want to go do really squishy things somewhere in private right now?" and Thane replies "Boy do I, Siha, but Kep-SPLURCH I NEED TO BREATHE SIH-SPLURCH-well maybe not that much."

 

[tofulove]

This story only needs one word to describe it, beautiful.

 

[LittleBlackDragon]

I was just thinking about Mass Effect the other day. Anyway, this was a very well-written comic and I easily imagined Thane's voice narrating.

 

[carpathic]

Oh My God, that was fantastic.

I actually got some feels from a comic on the internet.

You legitimately raised that beyond my expectations.

Thank you!

 

[AidoZonkey]

When I saw the naked Sheppard I thought "yup typical fan fic", but that was possibly one of the best things related to Mass Effect I have ever read, and legitimately gave me goosebumps. If anything even remotely this moving was in ME3, I would have never been angry at the end of the game.

Thank you for bring this comic into my life

 

[CrazyGirl17]

(Claps) Well done, you two!

The feels we get here are just... Ow...

 

[hazydawn]

I don't want to come off as ungrateful but the writing style is comparable to shoujo manga :0
Still I'm gonna save it to my hard drive >:3

 

[Someone Depressing]

...A fanfiction with sex? And I didn't hate it? The Internet has had a good day today.

 

[Basement Cat]

I haven't played any of the Mass Effect games but I grokked that she was FemShep, dunno who the guy was but it didn't matter.

Very nice, Grey. That was very nice. Truly poignant. ^_^

 

[Tar Palantir]

THANK YOU! Thank you for this!! :')

 

[azriel2422]

I opened this having no idea what it was going to be, I just recognized the art. Then I saw the ME themes, and so much was said with each panel without even a word. Definitely moving and thought provoking, very well done!

 

[Amir Kondori]

I did not care for this Mass Effect fan fiction stuff. It appears a lot of others liked it, but I hope we don't see more of it.

 

[The Material Sheep]

See I can't help but feel I would have been more interested had it been Femshepard and Liara. It also might have been more interesting if I cared at all for Thane as a character. Then again that could be said of most of the characters added in ME2 and 3 save for maybe Legion. IN FACT... this would only have been interesting if Legion was the one romancing femshep.

 

[The_State]

This was really good. Like, REALLY good. But I may be biased.

I played ME2 four times, each with a different pairing. NONE of them had the depth of emotional connection that Thane's did. It was the only relationship pursuit that didn't feel like a sprint to the goal line of "OMG SEX." His was the relationship I carried into my only playthrough of ME3, and those scenes were so powerful as a result. I later discovered heard that they were largely unchanged if you didn't romance him, which (among other things) prevented me from ever wanting to play the game again.

so maybe you cheated a bit in using the best relationship. Maybe I'm biased because I genuinely loved Thane's character. Regardless of that, your comic felt real and meaningful in a way that very few points in the game did. And that's something to be damned proud of.