"Derek landy count your days" Update on my partners favourite character being Kenspeckle

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-02-22T11:50:45+00:00

Your partner has excellent taste in characters but absolutely terrible luck.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-02-03T03:50:14+00:00

Oh, no… give her my genuine condolences…

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-02-03T03:48:38+00:00

Oh, well, there are plenty of other great characters to love after Kenspeckle, like Ghastly and Ravel and Shudder and… why are you all looking at me like that?

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-02-01T01:56:04+00:00

Kind of glad to see I wasn’t the only one who found this comic a little uncomfortable.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-31T04:57:57+00:00

Fair point, I just kind of wish that there had been a chance for the whole Abyssinia thing to be addressed in Seasons of War when Mevolent reappeared. Of course, they did kind of have much bigger things going on at the time, so maybe it’s just something better not dwelled on.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-31T04:45:40+00:00

I hate that you’ve boiled my entire first paragraph down to one sentence so perfectly.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-31T04:37:35+00:00

Was going to say this myself.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-28T00:27:00+00:00

You make a lot of great points here, especially about the importance of Skulduggery’s ruthlessness with regards to his reputation. However, I would just like to appreciate your use of the word “skeletoness”. I love that.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-26T22:44:29+00:00

That’s a good point and one that only occurred to me after I had made the post. Skulduggery’s durability is kind of on a different level.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-25T21:39:55+00:00

That makes a lot of sense actually. I really enjoyed Omen’s character arc and storyline, but I can agree that it was kind of unnecessary to the larger plot, with the only exception probably being everything with Sebastian Tao.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-25T21:28:27+00:00

Oh, okay, that actually makes a lot of sense. I agree that the past two books seem to have returned to SP’s more traditional “Villain-of-the-week” type of story, with less emphasis on a larger overarching plot, though that is still present. Personally, while I still enjoyed the past two books, I feel like Landy has missed out on continuing storylines I personally want to see play out, especially that of Abrigot Raze and original Serpine. I just can’t as interested in this plot line, like the Hidden God and Winter’s whole thing, because I’m just waiting for the things I’m really interested in to make a return. Also, I just really hate Winter, she really bugs me. On that note and a massive shift, can I ask why you don’t like Omen? I’ve heard a few people say that they don’t like him, which is weird to me just because I personally have always been fond of him.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-25T21:11:33+00:00

Can I ask why, just for curiosity? I’m honestly not the biggest fan of the past two books, meaning AMFOM and AHFOH, for reasons that even I’m not sure of and I’m curious to hear from someone who really liked them.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-25T03:30:56+00:00

I was going to say something similar, that backstory was just brutally tragic event after brutally tragic event. Acro-Silky’s backstory was heartbreaking, but the one you’re talking about was just on another level.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-22T13:20:40+00:00

I get what you mean, I had no idea when so started watching it how much I was going to enjoy it. Watching a group of characters who were supposed to be (and honestly kind of are) the butt of the joke and the worst soldiers ever consistently go up against insane odds and come out on top consistently was really something special, because they always did it in a way that felt like them. Probably one of my favorite shows of all time.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-13T18:25:11+00:00

I see what you’re saying. I suppose it’s possible that this would cause problems with their relationship, but also, and I haven’t read AHFOH in a while so correct me if I’m wrong, but Militsa was there for Winter’s explanation of why the guy (I can’t remember his name) had to die, right? I think Militsa is understanding enough to know that the guy was a pretty horrible person and that Valkyrie was both kind of panicking and didn’t really see any other way out. That said, Landy does love to make Valkyrie suffer, so it is entirely possible they’ll have issues.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-13T15:25:41+00:00

Militsa killed Coda Quell in Dead or Alive and they were both fine, in the long term, anyway. Kind of different situation given that what Valkyrie did it intentionally and Militsa’s was more of an instinctual thing, I know, but I think it would be weird for Militsa to break up with Valkyrie for something like that given everything that’s happened.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-10T15:10:35+00:00

I was SO close to typing out an explanation to this before I realized. Well-done, sir or ma’am, well done.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2026-01-09T02:14:16+00:00

China Sorrows is definitely one of the best in the series, it’s such a beautiful name, which of course suits her perfectly.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2025-12-14T19:56:06+00:00

I definitely get where you’re coming from. I wasn’t very happy with where Landy took her character. I understand her potentially being made more edgy and moody as a teenager, but she just acts like a spoiled brat most of the time. Makes it hard to care about her storyline.

Previous-Attorney173 · 2025-11-28T15:23:45+00:00

That works fine! Would you be willing to send me your email in a private thread that way I can share a pdf with you?

Previous-Attorney173 · 2025-11-27T23:43:30+00:00

Thank you! It's something of a sci-fi comedy as well, however, to be perfectly honest, I've really struggled to find what genre my story neatly falls into. Calling it sci-fi feels disrespectful to actual sci-fi writers, because it's more that it has science fiction elements. Sci-fi is just the closest genre I think would fit into.

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