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This is a close up? A CLOSE UP YA JERK! A CLOSEUP!

ohhhhhhh yeah I think I see what you mean. it probably looks like fanart because I'm actually the one who drew it

My thought process for a hypothetical new Ace Attorney went as such:

Ace Attorney will not spoil the twists from their other games, even if it leads to weird/unsatisfying characterization and dropped plot threads.

As much as I wish it weren't true, Ace Attorney will never have a game without a young, female character in the main lineup.

If they make an AA7, even one year of timeskip means all the younger teenage girl characters (Trucy, Pearl, Athena) will be "too old."

That means AA7 will have a new teenage girl character.

However, I have a hunch (wishful thinking) capcom will return to existing popular characters again, since adding a lot of new characters in AA6 and TGAA (which I have still not played) led them to having more niche popularity than the older games

Also, the AA4 version of Phoenix scored way higher than the AA5-6 version of Phoenix in the 2024 popularity poll, and Trucy scored #4

So... if AA7 will probably have new characters, but we want a game with returning characters, then why not make a game that takes place during the 7 years timeskip?

If a game stars Phoenix during that time period when he's not currently a lawyer but canonically still helping solve cases, wouldn't the Ace Attorney Investigations format fit perfectly?

So, in my hypothetical AAI3, it would involve Phoenix and Trucy helping Edgeworth solve cases & creating the MASON system a year before the events of AA4. Instead of Edgeworth's "mind chess," there'd be a mini-game where you'd interrogate people under the guise of poker. You'd meed a young girl in Europe named Athena and help her out of a sticky situation. And of course, the AAI games all feature a flashback case, so in this game you'd play as Mia Fey, with Phoenix as her new apprentice.

I enjoyed designing the costumes for this! I even consulted a friend living in Japan so make sure the fashion wasn't too influenced by my western bias.

I gave Phoenix the blazer/hoodie combo because allegedly a lot of men in Japan do wear that, and there was a similar design in the AA4 concept art. And I gave him crocs because I thought it was funny.

Your honor yes she yells at her and yes she sent her to the go super high into the air test as someone who had been doing magic for basically 2 days but have we considered she’s 12 so like she expected coco to just be hopping around with the shoes and not get that high up

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

Like. The core premise is very easy to grasp. Eleanor and Jason are both dumpster fires of humans being. By contrast, Chidi and Tahani can both be obnoxious to be around at times but they feel like clear examples of the kind of person that would probably get into a Heaven type system.

Chidi has lived a moral and ethical lifestyle, while Tahani has effectively bought her way in through charity works. It doesn't quite seem fair with Tahani but you still kinda get it; She has created a substantial amount of net good that outweighs any negatives of her personality, and this is a system that literally quantifies people on a Goodness Quotient point-scale. It makes sense.

It's easy to overlook Chidi and Tahani's little foibles and take at face value that they belong in Heaven while Eleanor and Jason are Hell-bound.

And then you hit the first twist and it's like, surprise! You weren't supposed to overlook those foibles! Tahani and Chidi belong in Hell too. Actually, every single one of these people has been a piece of shit. Chidi and Tahani are no better than Eleanor and Jason; They just suck in different ways.

But then it twists again and says, actually, these people don't belong in Hell. None of them. They aren't bad people; They're a product of circumstance. All four of them could have grown as people and become better if they were given a chance to learn something different.

And then it twists one final time and says, as a matter of fact, nobody belongs in Hell. The very notion of a Hell is unjustifiably cruel, and everyone deserves a chance to heal from their traumas, unlearn their bad beliefs, and become better people.

Pedestrian traffic lights

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Nick Barlow, Clusterfuck/Keep It Together, 2022