Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 11, 2011

I think my brother did this to me when I was little :S

Kate knows how to muzzle Danae.

Kate learns how to use her charm early. Her future boyfriends should be warned.

You know Kate’s just messing with Danae, all of the pages have words – there’s no pictures in any of them.

Love the expressions in panels 3a and 3b.

This is fun, good series Wiley!

Got to say Katie’s good!

This can’t sit well will the Church of Danae.

Danae is going to…learn!

Kate is reading a nice, romantic, novel about Italian royalty.Macciavelli’s ‘The Prince’.

Because you are being set up, Danae!

Beware! There WILL be a reckoning!

Little Katie is diabolical…definitely Danae’s sister….

The con has been conned.

it’s always the quiet ones you should fear

This is beginning to make me wonder what sort of stuff Kate is getting away with. She can probably get away with all sorts of things because dad is so focused on Danae that he won’t see what sneaky, naughty things Kate is up to.

The distinction between manipulation and leadership is a subtle one, it’s true. The techniques can be similar — appealing to others’ natural, personal inclinations to frame what you want them to do them in terms that they’ll accept as being something they want to do also…and even think it was their idea in the first place..But neither one is inherently evil. The difference is in the intention: with manipulation, to satisfy your own selfish ends alone; with leadership (or teaching, or parenting), to build the others up as better people and together accomplish some higher good.

It’s called ‘libertarian paternalism’ ;-)

Kate! You’re creating an educated evil Danae—the most dangerous type of evil!

Kate’s smile is both cute and creepy. [Shudders]

That smile looks like Dennis Leary when he’s about to say something completely outrageous.

Beware of reading, Danae. It tends to make certain beliefs untenable

To find out what can go wrong when you read books, check out C’est la Vie.

Should this arc be entitled: "How Kate Saved the World’?

Can’t wait to the look on Dad’s face when he sees them both sitting there reading quietly.

I wouldn’t have imagined that Danae was aliterate (not illiterate) to begin with. She has a good vocabulary, and is more intellectually sophisticated than most of her peers, and there’s nothing better suited to either of those than reading avidly.

question? will someone use her newly read knowledge? or is more danger coming?

I used to do this to my older sister. She was always getting in trouble and I was able to fly under the radar.

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.”

Jean Giraudoux

WHen are they going to get their own strip??

KILLER KATIE, that has a ring to it.

They’re both intelligent girls but on different sides of the “battle.” Kate seems to be mostly good except when she can yank Danae’s chain. Love it.

“But isn’t manipulation, even for good intentions inherently evil?”

So you’re saying that Princess Celestia was just as Evil as Nightmare Moon was for, arguably, “manipulating” Twilight Sparkle and her new-found friends into stopping Nightmare Moon from bringing an Eternal Night to Equestria and bringing back her sister Luna?

I wonder what Danae would like to read?