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It's nice that at least one of my favorite web comics isn't bummer city today. Ya never steer me wrong, Paranatural. 
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Feb 21, 2014 23:54
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new cast page posted:...I request that this is put into the thread's OP. Simply too amazing to NOT be in the OP.
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Feb 21, 2014 23:57
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Spender will continue to be my favorite, because he is so bad at maintaining the air of badassery he imagines himself to have. Also, to remind everyone about the man who has been fooled by the classic "made you look" gambit multiple times:  (I have a pretty good feeling it'll turn out Spender took out THE spirit on a fluke)
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Feb 22, 2014 00:16
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Huh, cast page says that Isabel's Grandfather trains consortium agents. I figured he was just training disciples and once in a while one chose to go agent.
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Feb 22, 2014 00:37
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Feb 22, 2014 01:39
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Splicer posted:What does Suzy have on Boss Leader? She knows her true face. 
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Feb 22, 2014 01:52
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MikeJF posted:Huh, cast page says that Isabel's Grandfather trains consortium agents. I figured he was just training disciples and once in a while one chose to go agent. I took this page to imply that he trains the agents. His first thought when he hears another agent is coming is that he'll be training them.
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Feb 22, 2014 04:11
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Ah so Forge isn't a bad guy. I guess he's a merc? Lol at spender bragging not being fooled for the oldest trick in the book. Never change you goddamn dork. I wonder what eyes are watching Spender with that dog jumping into the bush.
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Feb 22, 2014 04:43
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We've known since Forge's conversation with those rabbits that he's being hired by someone who works with the Doorman, so it was reasonable to assume that he wasn't exactly "evil". The allegiances are a bit unclear since the rabbit spirits and whoever they're working with are clearly up to something that Spender and the other spectrals don't know about, but it may not be malevolent. Whoever the game dogs work for clearly is malevolent.
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Feb 22, 2014 05:05
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I love these new character portraits. Johnny's outfit looks really cool to me, for some reason. But Lefty's blurb lost the handy pun. 
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Feb 22, 2014 05:12
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Regy Rusty posted:We've known since Forge's conversation with those rabbits that he's being hired by someone who works with the Doorman, so it was reasonable to assume that he wasn't exactly "evil". The allegiances are a bit unclear since the rabbit spirits and whoever they're working with are clearly up to something that Spender and the other spectrals don't know about, but it may not be malevolent. Whoever the game dogs work for clearly is malevolent. My favorite thing is when Forge was being told that the weird dog things seek out and follow the most evil thing and he immediately tries to command them. He at least thinks he's evil. But clearly isn't the most good at evil.
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Feb 22, 2014 06:22
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Hm, if they seek out the most evil things and obey their commands, who wants to bet Max's spirit will come out to get them to not chow down on his host? Bonus points if Isabel gets knocked out so she doesn't learn about it.
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Feb 22, 2014 06:47
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Honestly Spender is coming off as a real rear end in a top hat in the last few pages, spoiling for a fight at the slightest provocation just so he can be the badass killing big bad spirits.
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Fecha posted:Hey, it's that dog. Extra lives? A big flaming stink posted:Honestly Spender is coming off as a real rear end in a top hat in the last few pages, spoiling for a fight at the slightest provocation just so he can be the badass killing big bad spirits. I think it's more that he's very reactive and not all that smart.
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Feb 22, 2014 07:37
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Never attribute to malice what could be explained by stupidity.
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Feb 22, 2014 07:58
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Whitenoise Poster posted:My favorite thing is when Forge was being told that the weird dog things seek out and follow the most evil thing and he immediately tries to command them. Like many other characters in Paranatural, Forge is clearly a humongous dork trying to be badass.
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Fecha posted:Hey, it's that dog. That would actually be a demon but I understand the mix-up.
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Feb 22, 2014 08:40
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Looks like we finally got an answer about RJ's gender. And I guess Forge isn't going to just be a monster-of-the-week if he's on the cast page. And yeah, Forge is totally a huge parallel to Spender.
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Cast page also has links to the first page each character appeared on. Just click their picture. Looking at the cast page reminded me of something I noticed a while back: The only characters we've seen with white spectral energy (that I can remember at least) are Lefty and Boss Leader. This probably isn't at all significant (two people is really about the average for how many times we've seen non-spirits of any given energy color), I just found it interesting; whereas every other color has shown up on "normal" people, this one's only shown up on a ghost and the exceptionally mysterious Boss Leader. We also haven't seen any spirits with it (I think), but Boss Leader probably has some sort of tool. Not counting Spender, I mean. On a tangent from Boss Leader and colors, the alt text on this page really has a point. Yellow, white, and brown. Wow, what an awful color combo. On a completely unrelated note, meanwhile, this page (I didn't reread the whole comic (again (this time)) I just checked a few things) has three things I find rather interesting, despite them being (probably) rather minor: 1. Lisa is awesome and weird, though honestly we knew that from the beginning. 2. Suzy is planning to spread the rumor that someone jumped through a moving bus; the bus was actually still when Max leaped through it, because Johnny rie out in front of it and made it nearly crash. Lying is bad, Suzy. Tsk tsk tsk. 3. Suzy's plan is to get all the kids Bus Jumping. Bus Jumping. In order to blackmail Max she is going to try to get as many kids as possible to jump into/out of moving vehicles. Holy crap Suzy. ...I don't have anything relevant to say out the latest page, other than that we've got three purple-aura'd pixel dogs (two on this page, plus the one Spender killed) to one blue, one red, and one orange one. I wonder where these things come from, anyway; apparently they are both active evildoers (see Spender's comment about their language and whatnot) and servants of whatever great evil they can find, but their origins and what they are (besides assholes) is a mystery still. Also, Forge's eyes go out when he's shocked/upset and flare back up when he's pissed at Spender. Nice detail. Actually that was a fair bit to say about the latest page.
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Roland Jones posted:On a tangent from Boss Leader and colors, the alt text on this page really has a point. Yellow, white, and brown. Wow, what an awful color combo. Ah, yes, the "Tighty-Not-So-Whitey" palette. It's why in her brief appearance she's taking the piss out of Spender and treating Walker like crap. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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Feb 22, 2014 12:39
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What a waste of a perfectly good posting slot
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Feb 22, 2014 13:21
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 God dammit Zack, we ALL KNOW Spender has light and Shadow powers, jesus, just come out and tell us already.  this picture is what has finally tipped me into the "Dmitri was in the Activity Club" camp. It's just such a terribly mysterious image.
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Prison Warden posted:
Aha, a clever allusion to my sunglasses' ability to manipulate light. Very nice.
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Feb 22, 2014 20:01
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Isaac's original tool was a car: http://firstnamezacklastnamemorrison.tumblr.com/post/77639598603/i-think-i-mentioned-before-that-isaacs-original
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Feb 24, 2014 00:54
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I don't remember seeing Digimon goggles on Isaac. What was the first page he showed up in?
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Feb 24, 2014 04:27
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Level Slide posted:I don't remember seeing Digimon goggles on Isaac. What was the first page he showed up in? Check his locker.
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Feb 24, 2014 04:28
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He's got a kickin' rad Game Gear-like brick in there, too. Morrison says Isaac doesn't watch anime, but I get the feeling that he's watched stuff like Digimon without realizing it's anime.
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Feb 24, 2014 05:34
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Huh, I just noticed that a bunch of purple ghost children show up in the hallway in between the third-last and last panels as it switches to Isaac's perspective. Also there may be more in the panel where Suzy's doing a hair-mustache behind them?
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Feb 24, 2014 06:37
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I think it's pretty much any kid who's not the color of a normal human. It's a neat thing to think about; a school full of ghost kids. Well, until you realize that it's a school full of ghost kids.
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I'm not sure how much we're supposed to read into the coloring of background characters. Both Violet (fifth panel), Johnny's gang (outside the window in the last panel) and even Max (last panel) have been drawn tinted purple when they're in the background. I think it's just an Art Style Thing that happens to have been subverted once when Max was just starting to see ghosts (which were drawn in purple).
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blastron posted:I'm not sure how much we're supposed to read into the coloring of background characters. Both Violet (fifth panel), Johnny's gang (outside the window in the last panel) and even Max (last panel) have been drawn tinted purple when they're in the background. I think it's just an Art Style Thing that happens to have been subverted once when Max was just starting to see ghosts (which were drawn in purple). Splicer fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Or the style hasn't changed and they're actually all secret ghosts.
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Purple is not the normal color of ghosts and stuff, it's the color of their shade -- when someone starts to become a spectral, the effect is not instantaneous. Additional link. Notice how here there are some patches of solid green among the see-through purple. Now that our viewpoint character is fully spectral, he'll see ghosts and spirits with their normal colors, not in purple. (Unless purple is the ghost-or-spirit's normal color of course.) Purple is also the color of the fog of art, so background characters are drawn in purple. It helps the main characters pop out of the picture. This led to the trick here but notice that these characters aren't in the background. Since then, though, Zack has decided ghosts would be legless. So maybe the ghost kids are not actually ghosts, but spirits. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Feb 24, 2014 19:37
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Level Slide posted:He's got a kickin' rad Game Gear-like brick in there, too. Morrison says Isaac doesn't watch anime, but I get the feeling that he's watched stuff like Digimon without realizing it's anime. I think it's like his hair. The anime just comes naturally. Isaac doesn't watch anime because one time a friend sat him down to watch Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon and he got bored because to him it was like one of those dramas where the characters just do mundane everyday things and you have to read between the lines to get what's really going on.
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New page: http://paranatural.net/index.php?id=238 5th panel reads: weaponized spectral energy? what fools idea was this?
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Feb 24, 2014 23:21
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Spender's dialogue is getting more and more pretentious.  Who's he trying to impress here?
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What happened to the dog behind Spender / the flame shot that Forge was going to shoot?
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Feb 24, 2014 23:58
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Obviously Spender's attack screwed up Forge's attack. I wonder why Forge is shrugging it off? Also I just realized that the magnet snake in the banner opens their head/mouth thing when you scroll the mouse over it 
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Brannock posted:What happened to the dog behind Spender / the flame shot that Forge was going to shoot? You can see the dog run away in the previous comic, so presumably it left, its purpose fulfilled: Getting Spender and Forge to fight. All Spender saw was Forge try to attack (something behind) him.
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