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Chapter 7 is complete! And at last we finally learn why Max is the main character of this comic! Also: they've been in the background this entire time     
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Sep 30, 2022 13:17
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I think most of us made the Agent Day connection a few years ago, but it wasn’t absolutely confirmed. The other portion was news to us…and Spender 
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Sep 30, 2022 14:04
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But, most importantly, we got huge Beef Wine lore today
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Sep 30, 2022 14:06
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Pants Donkey posted:I think most of us made the Agent Day connection a few years ago, but it wasn’t absolutely confirmed. Yeah, what was new to me was that those other two kids were her siblings. And that got me looking through and finding out they're still Max's best friends. So the connection to Agent Day wasn't from years ago, it was from weeks ago at most!
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Sep 30, 2022 14:13
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I thought this mega flashback started with Spender in bed thinking about stuff? How did we end up in a wine/dinner setting with agent Day?
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Sep 30, 2022 14:34
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I thought this mega flashback started with Spender in bed thinking about stuff? How did we end up in a wine/dinner setting with agent Day? Back at the end of chapter 5 he did arrange to have dinner with her that weekend, so I guess time passed off-screen while the flashbacks were happening. This also means that chapter 5, 6, and 7 have all ended with Beef Wine.
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Sep 30, 2022 14:42
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Fitting that Mr. Spender and the Activity Club ends with a reveal into Max's past after we got thorough flashbacks for Ed, Isabel, and Isaac.
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Sep 30, 2022 14:45
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Chapter page is actually interesting? All Sandman could seemingly say was DONTLOOKATME, and know we have a character saying the opposite. I’m sire this is fine.
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Oct 10, 2022 15:49
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Pants Donkey posted:Chapter page is actually interesting? All Sandman could seemingly say was DONTLOOKATME, and know we have a character saying the opposite. that wasn't sandman (his wail was DONTBESCARED), it was the unnamed wight that ed's parents had spent/lost their lives tracking i still skim every page but i don't like the direction the plot's been going for a while, it's moved further into shounen melodrama with every chapter and that's not half as good as the gags. for a little bit it tried to play off the melodrama as a gag but that pretense has pretty much dropped away entirely Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Oct 10, 2022 |
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Oct 10, 2022 15:53
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Big fan of todays page and all the Doctor's faces
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Oct 14, 2022 11:23
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Man, reading that recap was wild. This comic has been running for a while!
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Oct 14, 2022 14:54
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I gotta say it's nice having this whole scene play out in one update instead of eighteen. So at some point Davy's gonna try to sic Cody onto the Activity Club, yeah? Wonder if Hijack will be able to intervene.
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Oct 14, 2022 15:01
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I really hate to say it, but I think writing has taken a considerable dip since going to the script prose style it currently is. Too much of it is extremely tongue-in-cheek and on-the-nose to really support any intrigue. There's no questions anymore about what a character is thinking or feeling because the text literally just spells out, plain as day, and even straight up tells us when a character quietly takes it the wrong way. I understand that the current style is easier on Zack's wrist, and I'm not about to demand they put their health on the line to provide me with a free story, but I do kind of wish they had approached the current story telling with a bit more traditional prose in mind. Show me more; tell me less, y'know? I want to read about Max wanting to hit Davy with a bat, and then getting that pay-off chapters later when I realize the connection myself. Don't just tell me now, as soon as Max thinks it, that he will hit Davy with a bat at some point. I want the story to narrate to me, not at me. Unfortunately it's a very common problem for many webcomics that reach this stage of production.
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Oct 14, 2022 16:52
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I'm in love with Davy Jones operating like the Majima Everywhere System since he's been introduced. The man's just everywhere.
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Oct 14, 2022 22:10
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Since nobody linked it: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-1 Max really can't stop sassing can't he.
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Oct 15, 2022 07:10
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To be fair, we won’t see Max hit Davy with his bat until 2040
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Oct 15, 2022 15:33
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full omniscient narration is one of the biggest writer traps out there
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Oct 15, 2022 20:43
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I do feel like a major appeal of the comic was piecing together the world and history through show-don't-tell moments, and a lot of that stuff just gets made explicit now.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:15
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if nothing else this condensed narrative shows that paranatural would have never been finished in its normal format. still probably won't be, but holy poo poo, we'd have still been in the camping trip flashback right now
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Oct 15, 2022 23:34
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New page: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-2 One thing I genuinely like about the narration is this moment spent capturing Different Modes of Max's dad and how different descriptions are used for each one. Its just a fascinating bit of character work for what's normally such a goofy character.
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Oct 22, 2022 04:41
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Gotta be Ollie, right?
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Oct 22, 2022 14:26
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SKULL.GIF posted:Gotta be Ollie, right? https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-3 Yes. 
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Oct 28, 2022 16:46
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The author's note got a chuckle out of me this time!
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Oct 28, 2022 17:37
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-4 I have concerns about that very normal doctor.
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Nov 7, 2022 00:28
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-5 I refuse to believe The Sphinxes were at one point an actual threat.
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Nov 17, 2022 09:55
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There's a ton of lore here that's finally tying the whole setting together.
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Nov 17, 2022 15:50
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Do we know any of the spirits named in there?
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Nov 17, 2022 16:29
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aegof posted:Do we know any of the spirits named in there? Flipflop is currently Isabel's in the umbrella, but aside from Forge these are all new names.
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Nov 17, 2022 16:36
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Flipflop mentioned his brothers and master before, that'd be Hiphop, Switchswatch and Polaris.
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Nov 17, 2022 16:42
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Muse is Ed's monkey buddy https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-34
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Nov 17, 2022 16:44
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Sounds like Team Doorman is mostly benign, or at least not as directly harmful as all the others who would want to eat the wight.
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Nov 17, 2022 23:01
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MikeJF posted:Flipflop mentioned his brothers and master before, that'd be Hiphop, Switchswatch and Polaris. You can see their silhouettes here. Looks like Polaris is a teddy bear. Probably a polar teddy bear. https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-173 aegof posted:Muse is Ed's monkey buddy So Muse losing to Guerra explains why Ed got the paintbrush; Guerra had it laying around and likely didn't have anyone with lime-green spectral color to use it. edit: I guess Davy is the "devil" leading the Death Cult? He openly references the Witch here and the factional struggle: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-281 Or maybe it's entirely separate, I don't see any vampires here: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-6-page-40 SKULL.GIF fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Nov 17, 2022 |
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Nov 17, 2022 23:12
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Have we gotten a better panel than this yet
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Nov 19, 2022 17:49
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Have we gotten a better panel than this yet I just want to say while I enjoy the X-files reference, Animorphs is still a far more disturbing story to me.
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Nov 19, 2022 18:53
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Brought To You By posted:I just want to say while I enjoy the X-files reference, Animorphs is still a far more disturbing story to me. I never even realized Ed was supposed to be an Andalite until you mentioned Animorphs.  I will excuse myself for this by the fact that he's not obviously a centaur.
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Nov 19, 2022 20:28
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Alard posted:https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-8-page-5 Hmm, the Sphinxes are probably split into parts (Truth, Games, ??). Whatever's possessing Max is probably a Sphinx fragment: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-39 Nin is very concerned about "Isaac's friend". And this page seems to confirm, "I sensed that he, too, was unaware that he carried one of the s--": https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-14 What's Max's sphinx's aspect? Promises?: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-120 Boss Leader freaks out immediately upon Max saying "I don't do promises", and is on the alert for "animal instinct": https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-121
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Nov 20, 2022 17:38
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SKULL.GIF posted:Hmm, the Sphinxes are probably split into parts (Truth, Games, ??). Whatever's possessing Max is probably a Sphinx fragment: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-39 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Plus on the new page Nin mentions "The whole sphinx litter likely knows this is our base now." And I can't think of any reason they would think that was case unless whatever is possessing Max was one of them.
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Nov 21, 2022 04:24
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It occurs to me that the Sphinx of Promises was likely triggered to emerge from Doorman's speech to Isaac about breaking promises: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-36
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Nov 21, 2022 04:40
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-3-page-39 I'd actually wager it's because Doorman physically asked Max to keep a promise, which tracks with when Boss Leader asked him to do the same.
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