oh great gengar is back

Gengar :D

Yay! Gengar's back!
:D

Some mentioned it a page or so back, Now that Gengar’s back, Mewtwo will have his powers. And when Mewtwo has his powers back, So will Victini

Does anyone else get the feeling that the last two panels are oddly... sedate?

Given the long-established bond between these two, and Gengar's literal disintegration in the preceding pages, I'd have expected these two to run toward each other, Jen shouting "Gengar! You're okay!", and hug each other tightly for at least two minutes before Gengar noticed any blood.

Instead, we get panel 5, where Jen looks like she's thinking, "Oh, you're back. That's cool, I guess."

Just doesn't seem to fit the characters, emotionally...

ButDoesItRunLinux said:
Does anyone else get the feeling that the last two panels are oddly... sedate?

Given the long-established bond between these two, and Gengar's literal disintegration in the preceding pages, I'd have expected these two to run toward each other, Jen shouting "Gengar! You're okay!", and hug each other tightly for at least two minutes before Gengar noticed any blood.

Instead, we get panel 5, where Jen looks like she's thinking, "Oh, you're back. That's cool, I guess."

Just doesn't seem to fit the characters, emotionally...

I think Jen is still a bit stunned/in shock due to recent events.

670 pages read in one day, i now await the next page because, by Arceus, this series has very much peaked my interest

ButDoesItRunLinux said:
Does anyone else get the feeling that the last two panels are oddly... sedate?

Given the long-established bond between these two, and Gengar's literal disintegration in the preceding pages, I'd have expected these two to run toward each other, Jen shouting "Gengar! You're okay!", and hug each other tightly for at least two minutes before Gengar noticed any blood.

Instead, we get panel 5, where Jen looks like she's thinking, "Oh, you're back. That's cool, I guess."

Just doesn't seem to fit the characters, emotionally...

There might be a few explanations

1)She might be in a state of semi-shock after all a bunch of power just went through ehr as it restored the world. It's kinda like an adrenaline rush when a person isinjured, the pain comes after the adrenaline disappears

2)She already knew her big bro was alive, he just became solid again. besides, she does care for him, also, she worried when she thought he was in danger

After that, she showed relief when he was okay

Shiitake said:
I think Jen is still a bit stunned/in shock due to recent events.

zidanes123 said:
There might be a few explanations

1)She might be in a state of semi-shock after all a bunch of power just went through ehr as it restored the world. It's kinda like an adrenaline rush when a person isinjured, the pain comes after the adrenaline disappears

2)She already knew her big bro was alive, he just became solid again. besides, she does care for him, also, she worried when she thought he was in danger

After that, she showed relief when he was okay

(Re #2: She knew Gengar was still alive in some sense, but not that he was fine, let alone that he'd be back to his old self after fixing the world. I think #1 is the stronger option.)

These are reasonable interpretations, to be sure. For me, the problem isn't so much the lack of an interpretation that makes sense (otherwise you'd have a straight-out non sequitur), it's that said interpretations have to exist on their own without any support from the comic itself.

As in, I can believe that Jen is stunned/shocked after what happened, but that's not being shown anywhere on the page. All I see is Jen getting up, and standing there, with a blank expression. We kind of have to fill in the blanks for the moment to make sense emotionally.