User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Kind of a Rant...?/@comment-1271618-20100703233036

Oh yay, you're back! A rival for long thought comments I see XD. And I agree that while some fans are too hard about the series, it shouldn't be a problem to criticize aspects as long as you aren't stomping on anyone's feet. I kind of shied away from some of this discussion because I was worried about debate getting out of hand, so many comments! I really find it funny that both FGN and I made posts on these guys too. Kind of stopped following mine 'cause I got bored and it was starting to annoy me, this one's got more discussion to it!

Even with that aspect of Seborga you mentioned, I think he still has a tiny bit more than Wy does for precedence in the comic. Though pff, I seriously doubt the new prince's independence plan will pan out like the previous one's if it's that "serious" as they want. The town is so tiny that it wouldn't work well as its own country and Italy definitely won't be giving it back its other "claimed lands" any time soon. Regardless, I like this character for the interactions we might see with both Italies and I'd hope we would see some. Romano doesn't seem to like him, if that chibi sketch is any clue. But I am curious about Vatican and the other microstate of Italy, San Marino (who he's never mentioned), and their relations a bit more. San Marino's got quite the history, it's one of the oldest republics and it was also a feature in WWII. And of course the Vatican City got formed during the Fascist era. If we do get more Australia with Wy, that could be fun, but so far Australia seems to be like the other Nordics and Belgium in that we'll probably have to wait a long time to get a clue about his personality or more information.

Someone on Livejournal pointed out that Himaruya was probably reading recent Japanese news article on Wy though, and that's why he drew her up. Me? I'm still waiting for the rest of those Netherlands strips. Apparently the only update he's done so far was to fix up Netherlands' accent that he goofed with, so yeah. I want to see the rest of that before we get any more of the micros or more new guys.

But if he goes and makes a Kingdom of Lovely or an Aerican Empire, we can really wonder if the shark's jumped. Or even that so-called micronation that's a giant ball in Austria. Rose Island I could see having some background for a comic, it was basically the same thing as Sealand but it got destroyed (but would he really kill them? Japanese fans in a "characters we want" thread on 2ch even wonder if he'd actually go through with that). Molossia wouldn't surprise me, and Himaruya's already mentioned a Hutt River. But we don't need all of the micronations either, aside from a lot of them being jokes, it would also load up the comic if he barely did anything with a bunch of them. Same thing goes if he introduces actual countries but doesn't use them, we've already got a few of those. That's why I'm hoping he'll actually utilize more characters that he already has. But I wonder how long we'll have to wait for volume 4?

We really don't even have a face for Cyprus still, which makes me sad.