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It kinda comes off to me that Wadsworth -wants- to believe he did it for some reason. Despite the 'lost' journal that indicates he was attacked by a loving skin-flaying skeleton, and seems to have sketches of the titular "angleworms" crawling out of the forest? Nevermind he somehow got a laceration on his back and no weapon was present at the scene, nor could he have laid a hand on Maris if he even wanted to? Wadsworth is obviously hosed in the head/severely OCD/unreliable narrator but I don't see how you wouldn't come to the conclusion you and Maris were attacked by something in the woods. I mean, even if I was paranoid as poo poo I'd be more scared of a creepy unknown monster in the woods that apparently attacked and killed my friend and wounded me than try to create an elaborate story in my head about how I could have rationalized and then executed my friend's murder?
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 20:35 |
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Fabricated posted:I mean, even if I was paranoid as poo poo I'd be more scared of a creepy unknown monster in the woods that apparently attacked and killed my friend and wounded me than try to create an elaborate story in my head about how I could have rationalized and then executed my friend's murder? I think Wadsworth is trying very hard to convince himself the creepy unknown monsters aren't actually real. He has forgotten all about the skin-flayer, right now he just thinks his nightmares are loving weird.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 20:44 |
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nimby posted:I think Wadsworth is trying very hard to convince himself the creepy unknown monsters aren't actually real. He has forgotten all about the skin-flayer, right now he just thinks his nightmares are loving weird.
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# ? Jul 15, 2014 22:58 |
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Fabricated posted:I might need to go back but didn't he detail the attack by the stitched man in his lost journal? The same journal that also has a drawing of what looks like worms crawling out of the forest? Either into or out of the woods, yes. Interestingly, I think the three lines is not just some Mark Of The Beast type deal. Look closely at the worms. I think the three lines are actually tracks.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 01:27 |
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Look, Doc, I don't want anything to do with your eroto-whatsits.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:35 |
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neogeo0823 posted:Either into or out of the woods, yes. Interestingly, I think the three lines is not just some Mark Of The Beast type deal. Look closely at the worms. I think the three lines are actually tracks. http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2013/01/28/perusal/
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:42 |
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Fabricated posted:The three lines thing is loving everywhere and I dunno if it has any significance but lookit old Vergil's head here:
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:13 |
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Fabricated posted:I might need to go back but didn't he detail the attack by the stitched man in his lost journal? The same journal that also has a drawing of what looks like worms crawling out of the forest? He had detailed his nightmares about the ghost unfaced killer, he has no current reason to believe it was actually real.
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# ? Jul 16, 2014 22:29 |
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Poison Mushroom posted:Holy poo poo, good catch.
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# ? Jul 17, 2014 11:35 |
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nimby posted:I think Wadsworth is trying very hard to convince himself the creepy unknown monsters aren't actually real. He has forgotten all about the skin-flayer, right now he just thinks his nightmares are loving weird. Something I've been thinking about the last few comics: what if the "red" thoughts aren't just Wadsworth's guilt, but the thoughts of the creature inside him? A creature which has, itself, fallen prey to Broodhollow's collective amnesia and needs to reconstruct its own crime?
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 04:16 |
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Carrasco posted:Something I've been thinking about the last few comics: what if the "red" thoughts aren't just Wadsworth's guilt, but the thoughts of the creature inside him? A creature which has, itself, fallen prey to Broodhollow's collective amnesia and needs to reconstruct its own crime? This is along the lines of what I was thinking, too. Maybe the angleworm isn't an earthworm--it's a tapeworm, a parasite, and Zane is its host. That's why Zane seems so convinced he was the one who killed Maris; it may not have been Zane himself, per se, but it was the thing inside of him, and those are more than close enough to mistake based on whatever fragments of memory make their way into his subconscious. Opposing Farce fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jul 18, 2014 |
# ? Jul 18, 2014 04:48 |
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Uh-huh. Sure.
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# ? Jul 18, 2014 06:18 |
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Somebody was asking about the writer?
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# ? Jul 21, 2014 05:00 |
What the gently caress. Can't Broodhollowians do anything like normal people?
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:11 |
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"Halleluon"? Ever-reliable Wikipedia says "hallelujah" is just "Praise God", with the "Hallelu" bit being "praise" and "-Jah" (or "Yah") being a slightly poetic name for God. What's the chances that the "-on" in Broodhollow's "Halleluon" actually is a bit of Hebrew that means something significant? Is anyone here conversant Biblical Hebrew?
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:18 |
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What of -on is short for DEMON
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 06:31 |
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Maybe when they're done, they'll chant halleluoff.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 06:42 |
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Ofaloaf posted:"Halleluon"? Ever-reliable Wikipedia says "hallelujah" is just "Praise God", with the "Hallelu" bit being "praise" and "-Jah" (or "Yah") being a slightly poetic name for God. What's the chances that the "-on" in Broodhollow's "Halleluon" actually is a bit of Hebrew that means something significant? Is anyone here conversant Biblical Hebrew? I'm not Jewish or a Biblical scholar so someone who actually knows Hebrew may actually correct me but "On" is a transliteration of the Hebrew "און" which looks simiar to the biblical hebrew אָוֶן (pronounced awen) is "trouble in the sense of one step away from becoming wicked, or emptiness in the sense of one step away from becoming idolatrous." http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/On.html http://bible.gen.nz/amos/hebrew/alep/awen.htm My guess is he actually meant Halleluawen, but some-one with a better background can correct me.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 07:30 |
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Chard posted:What the gently caress. Can't Broodhollowians do anything like normal people? the better question is, what started this tradition
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 09:31 |
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Tollymain posted:the better question is, what started this tradition Something VERY normal. Obviously.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 13:12 |
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Tollymain posted:the better question is, what started this tradition They had a ghost that stole body parts and hated being looked at. Maybe they sympathized with his predicament and wants to be accommodating.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 14:07 |
If we're translating things, "Kruzevabole" appears to be Latvian, although I'm not sure of what significance it might have. Lots, probably.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 14:28 |
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Tollymain posted:the better question is, what started this tradition Well the only other tradition like it I can think of is the one where you use the solid cloth to hide your guilt from God, so if I had to guess there was a murder conspiracy in the town's early days.
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# ? Jul 26, 2014 21:25 |
I assume you are referring to this tradition which is, uh, not exactly funerary.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 00:09 |
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Yeah my mind went straight to cannibalism because of the cooked ortolan traditions, but in an odd way I think that's way too mundane of a creepy town trope for Broodhollow
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 01:24 |
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2014/07/28/halleluon/ Not creepy at all. Nope.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 08:57 |
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I'm about ready for that halleluoff now.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 08:59 |
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A totally normal funeral I think.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 09:03 |
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This is obviously setting up towards something but whatever that is, it will have a hard time topping it. Christ.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 12:20 |
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Writer guy is going to get brutally murdered by a ghost.
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# ? Jul 28, 2014 13:14 |
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One of these days the comic is going to be a gif and I am going to be scared shitless.
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 22:01 |
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New Page: http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2014/07/30/breaking-point/ What a surprisingly reasonable reaction to the current situation! These choices will almost certainly not have any repercussions for the parties involved. I really like that last panel. The colors and postures contrast with the rest of the comic. You can even see the three lines in the background, connecting them to Wadsworth's unstable emotional state. The angle the lines are at is also a fantastic compositional choice.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 08:56 |
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Tenik posted:New Page: http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2014/07/30/breaking-point/ i like the last panel because the insufferable rear end in a top hat got knocked the gently caress out
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 09:31 |
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So I imagine Mr. Novacek will be accused of Maris' murder and it'll be up to Zane to solve the Scooby Doo mystery because he "knows" he did it instead.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 13:09 |
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New page: http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2014/08/01/the-departed/
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 08:37 |
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I love it when a character in a highly bizarre situation finally snaps and goes "just what the gently caress is going on here?!?" instead of taking every freakishly unnatural thing in stride.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 10:12 |
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Novacek makes a good point. Why would the Sawmill have 3 big brutish guys working the night shift all by themselves? Especially when the 3 guys had no problem fighting huge demon-like bats.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 12:24 |
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Oh, god, that poor man is going to be locked in jail until he forgets.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:45 |
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I dunno where he's getting the "You don't know yourselves" thing from. I could see someone being like, "Seriously, what in the gently caress us up with a TOWN having unique funeral rites?" but eh?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:07 |
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Fabricated posted:I dunno where he's getting the "You don't know yourselves" thing from. I could see someone being like, "Seriously, what in the gently caress us up with a TOWN having unique funeral rites?" but eh? He might simply have asked questions about the night shift before and gotten answers along the lines of "I don't know, it's how we do things around here".
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