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Brannock posted:What happened to the dog behind Spender / the flame shot that Forge was going to shoot? It jumped in the bushes / Spender shot his hand to put it out
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 00:07 |
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So, I'm guessing here, but it seems like the dog's power is that their are either a lot of them, or they just rebuild/respawn themselves after being destroyed. I'm pretty sure we've seen the red one die twice now. Spender also speared the purple one on the train and that one reappeared last comic.
Matlock Birthmark fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Matlock Birthmark posted:So, I'm guessing here, but it seems like the dog's power is that their are either a lot of them, or they just rebuild/respawn themselves after being destroyed. I'm pretty sure we've seen the red one die twice now. Spender also speared the purple one on the train and that one reappeared last comic. e: though looking at them honestly they could as well be called cats. Weird cats. Fecha fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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I have no idea why everyone is calling them dogs they are obviously cats.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 01:28 |
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Baron O Beefdip posted:I have no idea why everyone is calling them dogs they are obviously cats. Cat's don't go Yip!! when stabbed in the head by light spectral energy.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:00 |
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Note that on this page one of the Darkbunnies tells one of the other ones not to bother slicing up the Bitdogs. And later, they claim that a fight would last FOREVER. So, yeah, the respawning is probably a feature of the evil spirits. Also note this page where they pretty much hand the dogs the strategy they're using right now. Lots of foreshadowing in this chapter.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:25 |
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Tollymain posted:Obviously Spender's attack screwed up Forge's attack. I wonder why Forge is shrugging it off? Watch out, it'll eat your head if you do it for too long! So are we meant to take from this new page that Spectral-Energy blasts aren't all they're cracked up to be? Maybe we are, although it could just be possible that Forge is somehow highly resistant or outright immune to it.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:41 |
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Splicer posted:Oh my god it's I'm not telling I just know it is it has to be Was it who you thought? Like seriously you spoiler tagged speculation that isn't even speculation and it bothers me that I have no idea who you're talking about.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:43 |
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:Watch out, it'll eat your head if you do it for too long! Well the spectral harpoons one-shot those dogs in the panel posted earlier this page (even if they regenerate from it later), I think it's more that Forge is really tough or Spender wasn't giving it his all yet.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:47 |
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:Watch out, it'll eat your head if you do it for too long! Forge is supposed to be tough. He's been around for a long time and was lugging around that big hammer when he was first introduced which apparently a sign of being a serious poltergeist.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:49 |
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I doubt the Activity Consortium would send its agents to be trained in something that's useless. The issues are, yeah, Forge is a beast (albeit one who acknowledged that Spender would still probably beat him in a proper fight) and Spender might be loving around for some reason. Actually, on that topic, have we seen Spender fight seriously? Other than when he destroyed those dogs he's always seemed to be kind of goofing around, though he appeared to be preparing to get serious when Max was getting attacked by the bat at least. Hypocrisy posted:Forge is supposed to be tough. He's been around for a long time and was lugging around that big hammer when he was first introduced which apparently a sign of being a serious poltergeist. The hammer was a big, non-tool physical object. So, yeah. Forge is serious if he can lug around (and throw) a huge piece of metal; the only other poltergeists we've seen are the bat (which inflicted minor property damage) and Lefty (who could carry a plastic lantern at least, I suppose). Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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pik_d posted:Cat's don't go Yip!! when stabbed in the head by light spectral energy. That's the sound effect known as "Fip!". It's the sound a spear made of yellow spectral energy makes when it hits the floor of a ghost train after almost stabbing an infinitely respawning cat spirit.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:54 |
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Forge tries to command one to roll over. Zach refers to them as dogs in the comment right here. They're dogs.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:57 |
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idonotlikepeas posted:Forge tries to command one to roll over. Zach refers to them as dogs in the comment right here. They're dogs. These are the dumbest looking dogs I've ever seen.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:59 |
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Baron O Beefdip posted:These are the dumbest looking dogs I've ever seen. They're heavily referential to cyber-dogs from some movie. Also, they're spirits - spirits generally only vaguely resemble the real-world animal analogues.
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Roland Jones posted:The hammer was a big, non-tool physical object. So, yeah. Forge is serious if he can lug around (and throw) a huge piece of metal; the only other poltergeists we've seen are the bat (which inflicted minor property damage) and Lefty (who could carry a plastic lantern at least, I suppose). Oh! And don't forget the racist whale-frog! I guess it makes sense that poltergeists are probably tougher than spirits that can't physically interact with the world at all. All of the spirits that have given the gang any troubles so far have been able to, although we haven't seen if these Skull-Speaking Dogs can or cannot move physical objects so they might be an exception.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:19 |
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Brannock posted:They're heavily referential to cyber-dogs from some movie. Seems like they're based on the monsters from Attack the Block. But as a character in the movie points out.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:35 |
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:Oh! And don't forget the racist whale-frog! Ah, forgot about that moment. Anyway, poltergeisting seems to require great willpower, sheer anger/hatred, and/or a fuckton of spiritual power. Any one of those things would make for a tougher opponent, so yeah, poltergeists tending to be stronger makes sense. Pixeldogs don't seem particularly strong, just vicious and either numerous or immortal, so I doubt they're poltergeists.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 04:36 |
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Alopex posted:Spender's dialogue is getting more and more pretentious. Who's he trying to impress here? The forge spirit that he is also simultainiously trying to kill.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 05:52 |
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idonotlikepeas posted:Forge tries to command one to roll over. Zach refers to them as dogs in the comment right here. They're dogs. I think you mean demons. And no matter how strong their opponent is they'll ultimately be at the pixeldemons' mercy.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 06:58 |
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7c Nickel posted:Seems like they're based on the monsters from Attack the Block. Yeah, they look more like angry gorillas in that scene.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 07:00 |
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I kinda want someone to get possessed by a pixeldog. Respawning would be a pretty cool power to have and all you'd have to deal with is an objectively evil spirit in your head.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 07:44 |
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Whitenoise Poster posted:I kinda want someone to get possessed by a pixeldog. Assuming that they do in fact respawn, they pretty much have no need to possess people. It's the near-death state that forces spirits to possess objects/people, after all, so if they don't enter that state (or at least stay in it for any real length of time since they just come back)...
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 08:06 |
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Roland Jones posted:Actually, on that topic, have we seen Spender fight seriously? Other than when he destroyed those dogs he's always seemed to be kind of goofing around, though he appeared to be preparing to get serious when Max was getting attacked by the bat at least. I don't think we have. I think the closest we've seen him come to getting serious was here where he seemed to be gathering both yellow and black energy. Every other time, even just crushing the dogs, he's only bringing out the yellow energy.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 10:39 |
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Desuwa posted:I don't think we have. I think the closest we've seen him come to getting serious was here where he seemed to be gathering both yellow and black energy. Every other time, even just crushing the dogs, he's only bringing out the yellow energy. I don't think he has two spectral colours; I think he has light/shadow powers, and those blacks were part of his shadowpower.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 10:45 |
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Whitenoise Poster posted:I kinda want someone to get possessed by a pixeldog. When they respawn, they respawn with a different spectral energy color. So the possession would get cut short...
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 16:47 |
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New page is up. They're trying to psych us out.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 19:56 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:New page is up. They're trying to psych us out. And it seems to be working!
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:00 |
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Ok, that's officially the creepiest thing I've seen all day. Also, what's going on in the 2nd-to-last panel? They both look like they just felt a disturbance in the force or something, and their spiritual energy is trailing forward towards the dogs.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:07 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:New page is up. They're trying to psych us out. Oh hey, Spender fell on a door.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:11 |
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It's cool, they're just Gergoth dogs. Er, cats. Whatever.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:11 |
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neogeo0823 posted:Ok, that's officially the creepiest thing I've seen all day. Now they remind me of some D&D monster.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:19 |
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Blackheart posted:It's cool, they're just Gergoth dogs. Catdogs? Nah, that'd just be silly.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 20:19 |
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Man, what is Max's aura doing in that second-to-last panel> It's getting weird and tendril-y, and it seems to be moving towards the pixeldogs rather than upwards like the stuff normally does.Cat Mattress posted:Now they remind me of some D&D monster. That's what I thought of as well.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 21:53 |
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I don't know why we're discussing this at all when Ed already explained everything.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 22:14 |
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What is the point of the second to last panel?
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 22:50 |
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Darth Windu posted:What is the point of the second to last panel? I think they're finally noticing that the train's insides are starting to change from train car to stomach.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 22:53 |
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So, it looks like the not-dogs are helpfully positioning themselves directly between the backpack full of metal and the kid with the magnet powers. Will Max finally get his chance to prove himself? Also...a backpack full of metal...a spirit who can shape metal into doors...a train that's looking increasingly opposed to passengers in it...a barrier that normally can't be crossed through without the train...I'm gonna call it right now, Forge and the Spectrals are gonna have to set aside their differences just so they can get back into Mayview. Angry Walrus fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Angry Walrus posted:So, it looks like the not-dogs are helpfully positioning themselves directly between the backpack full of metal and the kid with the magnet powers. Will Max finally get his chance to prove himself? Angry Walrus posted:Also...a backpack full of metal...a spirit who can shape metal into doors...a train that's looking increasingly opposed to passengers in it...a barrier that normally can't be crossed through without the train...I'm gonna call it right now, Forge and the Spectrals are gonna have to set aside their differences just so they can get back into Mayview.
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# ? Mar 1, 2014 01:43 |
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Wait, how is Max's backpack not phasing through the train? Eightfold's book is a tool so that wouldn't, but the backpack isn't possessed as far as we know.
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