Magick Chicks 27-09-11 A danger to Melissa

[Giz]

New strip! http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/a_danger_to_melissa

[Artemisia]

Yes, we certainly hope not...

[Ravenhull]

I like this page... Faith in full "I'm in control" mode... and that last line...

[yiraheerai]

Akito. Faith is reminding me of Akito from Fruits Basket SO HARD right now.

[Jane]

Well... She is correct... Although she's most likely not the appropriate party to be doing this investigation, student council or no.

I love her expression in panel four, incidentally.

Although, I hadn't pictured her the "goodness gracious" type, for some reason...

[Count de Money]

Faith certainly does love playing those mind games, doesn't she?

Confound Faith and her logic! Her true motives remain inscrutable -- except where it concerns the MMAA. With Tiff, it's clearly the case of the harder she runs, the more Faith chases her. Kinda like Pepe le Pew and the black cat.

[Artemisia]

Well, she could just use an esper mind trick. "this is not the wand you are looking for"

[SilentChaos87]

Hm...well, like it or not (And I suspect the majority of people fall under the not category) Faith's logic is difficult to argue with. Not much to be done about it. Faith's curiosity has the better of her while Tiff's distrust has her. Its probably a lesser of two evils thing for her. Oh heroes of justice, what dilemmas you are bound by!

Question is even if Faith does figure out what the wand is and does, there's still the matter of what to do with it afterwards...

[Random Wanderer]

Although she's most likely not the appropriate party to be doing this investigation, student council or no.

I'm not sure anyone at Artemis Academy is the appropriate party for this investigation. Do we trust the teachers? What if investigating the wand leads them to the information that the coven are witches? The story ends rather abruptly with three dead girls. Should it be given to a magic student? Same problem, and they may not have the resources or the ability to either figure it out or deal with it if it should do something. Faith knows people all over, and can likely get semi-expert assistance and information whenever she needs it. And she is less likely to simply kill or report the coven: she'd probably be more interested in using the knowledge as leverage (or she may genuinely care and not give it up because she doesn't want them to die, you never know).

Short of finding a trustworthy adult, Faith probably is the best person to handle this. The safest person, at least. And boy does that seem like a strange thing to say.

All of this, however, depends on what the wand actually is and what it does. Right now we really don't know specifics. It could be very bad for Faith to have it, because she could be an evil monster trying to conquer the world, and the wand is Magical Maid Melissa's only way of stopping her. Or it could be not-so-bad: see above. Right now we just don't know.

[MonCappy]

This is what makes Faith so interesting. Is she a Complete Monster just waiting to show her true colors or is the somewhat misunderstood?

[Searcher]

Complete monster


I wonder why Tiffany wait so long to confront her? Why not do it outside in front of everyone? Does she already know Mel's true past?

[yiraheerai]

She knows Faith better than we do. She probably had an idea of how that'd end if she had. Maybe not the right idea, but considering how their encounters have been so far...

[Don Alexander]

You've got to hand it to Faith, she has built-in cruise control for cool. That, and the sarcasm. Don't forget the biting sarcasm.

[MonCappy]

I am beginning to wonder if Faith is somehow David Xanatos's love child.

[Adamas]

Well she does remind me of Fox.