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A big flaming stink posted:so, after nearly getting killed several times over, and having seen that the adult supervision is a complete moron, why on earth would Max stay in the Activity Club after this? neogeo0823 posted:Yeah, that's a very good question. Max nearly got killed, what, 5 times so far tonight? Who else is going to save him when racist whale frogs visit his house in the middle of the night and menacingly eat themselves at him?
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Yeah, Max doesn't really have the luxury of not being in the club, now that he's part of the whole spirit scene. Until he learns to protect himself or makes some other, more reliable allies, they're the best defense he has against bigoted amphibians or presumably other things we haven't seen since it's only been like 5 days in-universe or something.
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Oct 13, 2014 20:57
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So what you're saying is he needs to hook up with Forge and Johnny.
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neogeo0823 posted:Yeah, that's a very good question. Max nearly got killed, what, 5 times so far tonight? Probably mostly because if he doesn't come to the spectral bullshit, the spectral bullshit will come to him (see also: mirror frog).
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A big flaming stink posted:so, after nearly getting killed several times over, and having seen that the adult supervision is a complete moron, why on earth would Max stay in the Activity Club after this? Ya, as others mentioned I don't think Max has a choice here. He's not going to stop seeing and being affected by spirits, so he needs to learn how to deal with all these important details. (Such as what would have happened if he took a trip in a car outside Mayview) Now, if he'll remain accommodating to Spender's crap is another issue entirely. Edit: Also mentioned in the comments is the fact that Paranatural got a cameo in Three Panel Soul today Matlock Birthmark fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 21:49
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Max also got recently introduced to Boss Leader, who seems much more his type of boss leader. She might restore his confidence in the group a little.
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Tenebrais posted:She might restore his confidence in the group a little. She makes people wear onesies as uniforms because she thinks its funny. I'm sure she inspires something, but I doubt its confidence.
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Oct 13, 2014 23:18
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paranoid randroid posted:She makes people wear onesies as uniforms because she thinks its funny. Terror is almost as good as confidence. Arguably better, depending on your perspective.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:37
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Iny posted:What do you mean? We already know his deal. Rhonne posted:I wonder if this will make Max reconsider spying for Boss Leader. Oh and if Agent Day has good enough intel, and asks who Isaac is right in front of Max, if Isaac's existence really is being kept secret from BL. I'm also wondering if BL chose Agent Day specifically because Max would be more likely to assist in the investigation, and because Spender wouldn't be able to hide as much. I wonder if BL even knows about the strongest spirit is trapped inside him. Rereading the archive he keeps is 'room' sealed off from everyone. And presumably that knowledge would be in there. Depends on if the Consortium personal rooms are similar enough to the Spirit Communication areas, which seem to be 'surrounding area plus other stuff'.
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Oct 14, 2014 04:28
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Max can stay in the club to spy on Spender/help out Day since he knows Spender's definitely hiding something.
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Max only really came around to being in the club at all when it turned out he has no choice, but he's still pretty skeptical and open to alternatives. The consortium itself seems like it has some factionalism and mixed loyalties, and there's outside groups like the cousinhood or the weird spirit conspiracy with Doorman or whatever possible second spirit is in Max that might all be able to win him over. It's probably bonding with the other kids that'll see Max through more than anything. Him and Isaac have started off strong and him and Isabel seem to be doing better, and the burger child is uncomplicated. Seems like a good team.
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Kgummy posted:Oh and if Agent Day has good enough intel, and asks who Isaac is right in front of Max, if Isaac's existence really is being kept secret from BL. It's the other way around. Boss Leader knows who Issac is. It's Issac who is restricted from information.
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Matlock Birthmark posted:Boss Leader knows who Issac is. Hah, I just noticed that little infogram on Isaac she's holding is all about his spikey hair.
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Matlock Birthmark posted:It's the other way around. Boss Leader knows who Issac is. It's Issac who is restricted from information. Edit: Oh man, rereading I noticed that BL gave Spender a different middle name each time. Darkstorm and Nightfox. Kgummy fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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MikeJF posted:Hah, I just noticed that little infogram on Isaac she's holding is all about his spikey hair. The hair he has before the current spikiness is applied is pretty ridiculous too. I wonder if that's just a diagram or he really had a triangular orange pompadour before he was possessed. Kgummy posted:Whoops, I forgot that bit. I was remembering a few pages back where BL mentioned Edward and Isabel, but not Isaac. I wonder if it's a coincidence that both of those have to do with darkness; while Spender keeps his room locked to the other members of the Consortium, given that B.L. made it and can probably force her way in whether he likes it or not I actually would not be surprised if she knew full well that he's possessed by the weird darkness spirit. (Even if he doesn't know she knows; she can probably invade his dreams without his knowledge if she wants. She seems basically omnipotent within dreams, even when they're not ones she herself made.)
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Roland Jones posted:(Even if he doesn't know she knows; she can probably invade his dreams without his knowledge if she wants. She seems basically omnipotent within dreams, even when they're not ones she herself made.) Dunno how useful invading dreams is re: intelligence gathering. I mean, if you'd invaded my dreams last night, you'd have gathered the intelligence that I study space penguins for a living.
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MikeJF posted:Dunno how useful invading dreams is re: intelligence gathering. I mean, if you'd invaded my dreams last night, you'd have gathered the intelligence that I study space penguins for a living. Please tell me more about the great space penguin migrations
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Please tell me more about the great space penguin migrations unironically this
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Roland Jones posted:I wonder if it's a coincidence that both of those have to do with darkness; while Spender keeps his room locked to the other members of the Consortium, given that B.L. made it and can probably force her way in whether he likes it or not I actually would not be surprised if she knew full well that he's possessed by the weird darkness spirit. (Even if he doesn't know she knows; she can probably invade his dreams without his knowledge if she wants. She seems basically omnipotent within dreams, even when they're not ones she herself made.) His subconscious is militarised.
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MikeJF posted:Dunno how useful invading dreams is re: intelligence gathering. I mean, if you'd invaded my dreams last night, you'd have gathered the intelligence that I study space penguins for a living. Well, ignoring things like the flashback that was spied upon, given that the Activity Consortium HQ, and all the rooms within in (Spender's included), are in dreams, and as we've established you can see the wisps of people's spirits, even the ones in tools, inside those rooms, probably extremely so. As I was saying, it's quite possible that Boss Leader knows about the dark spirit, even if the rest of the Consortium presumably doesn't know it exists. And, for reasons already stated, Spender wouldn't even necessarily know that she knows. Why she'd be keeping it a secret, meanwhile, is a mystery. Quite a few possible reasons, not least of which being that she's a huge jerk.
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While it's possible that Boss Leader knows about the dark spirit, I don't think so. Spender doesn't let anyone into his dream room, which explicitly includes Boss Leader. As for how he can keep her out, I seem to remember something about how the Mayview barrier preventing her from looking in. She only met Max and created his room when he was outside of the barrier and it's not like it's the first time he fell asleep as a spectral. Spender is said to be super secretive by everyone including Boss Leader, if she could just look into his dream room, I doubt she'd need confirmation from Max that he's doing potentially dangerous stuff (like imprisoning a very powerful and evil spirit inside himself.)
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Please tell me more about the great space penguin migrations I don't know much, but I was sitting on the edge of wooden dock and we(?) were watching how they swam and possibly taking notes but there was no ocean just nothing and also we were in orbit.
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Today's Paranatural page is loving astounding.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:Today's Paranatural page is loving astounding. "But that would've taken 140 pages and no one wants to read anything that long" You motherfucker
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Oct 18, 2014 00:09
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ahahaha we are going to be catching glimpses of isaac's anime sidequest bullshit for the entire comic aren't we 
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Tollymain posted:ahahaha we are going to be catching glimpses of isaac's anime sidequest bullshit for the entire comic aren't we I really really hope that after all's said and done, we get treated to a side comic that's just Isaac's anime sidequest adventures.
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Ouch, Issac is left out of the loop once again. Nice to see how long that friendship lasted huh?
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Prison Warden posted:Ouch, Issac is left out of the loop once again. Nice to see how long that friendship lasted huh? I guess I don't get why he's angry. She's wearing the suit, it's obvious she's an agent. And Spender could be a friend with an agent for all he knows.
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I think he's angry because he inherently doesn't trust the agents since he has no clue what they're all about. He's also probably bitter because he knows that he's only going to be met with "You're not supposed to know any of this" for the duration of agent Day's stay.
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I don't know why Max is suddenly taken aback by that then. It's not like he's decided to side with the agents yet at Boss Leader's request.
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Both Boss Leader and Spender, at odds with each other, have said Isaac needs to be kept in the dark. Max probably figures if both of them want Isaac to know as little as possible, then it's probably a good idea.
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I think he's mad because he doesn't know anything about agency or agents or Boss Leader or the Consortium or the Cousinhood and etc. because Spender willfully keeps him ignorant. Max isn't taken aback, Max is like "oh, um, hmm" because he said something he now realizes Isaac doesn't know anything about.
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Yeah, Isaac isn't even allowed to know about the Consortium. Max clearly knows that Day is an agent of something, but he really obviously goes mum when he realizes not to elaborate in front of Isaac. Isaac is offended by this, because he was hoping that his new friend would help him learn everything that's been withheld.
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Oct 18, 2014 02:33
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The anime that Isaac stars in is like 40 episodes in by now. Eightfold.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The anime that Isaac stars in is like 40 episodes in by now. (Which was what, like only two days ago? Wow. Time has not flown by.)
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Ed's salute in the fourth panel cracked me up. He seems like the only one in the group who'd have no problem going along with Isaac's dumb anime adventures.
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Tollymain posted:ahahaha we are going to be catching glimpses of isaac's anime sidequest bullshit for the entire comic aren't we If Zack does that thing the Simpsons did with the hidden McBain movie, where Isaac's anime shenanigans seem completely random on their own but actually form a coherent single story when put together, I will give Zack a percentage of my paycheck so long as I live.
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Rhonne posted:Ed's salute in the fourth panel cracked me up. He seems like the only one in the group who'd have no problem going along with Isaac's dumb anime adventures. I prefer to imagine anyone along for one of Isaac's offscreen anime sidequests simply becomes more anime, whether they'd normally go in for that or not. God help you if you're already susceptible. If Isaac went to the cafeteria with Jeff we'd cut away to them to see Jeff piloting three gundams.
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