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neogeo0823 posted:In other news, rereading that page reminds me exactly why Isaac's spirit is such a liability when it comes to secrets. It's interesting to see it being worked around almost like it's a disability. Of course, the Doctor seems to think this is a terrible idea, with her comments about wisdom and good sense.
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Brannock posted:I almost get the sense that Forge is preparing to be killed by Spender, from Forge's body language and word choice. You know, if he were discorporated, he could get through the little door. quote:Yea, that was clever of it to use its last action like that. Makes me wonder what sort of creature it is, to be willing to sacrifice itself in that manner while also being smart enough to come up with that trick.
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Feb 10, 2014 21:30
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Which raises the question of what they're going to do when the storm god regenerates and reforms (this seems like a really good way for spectrals to die if they don't have a good relationship with their symbiotic spirit). The cynical answer is "keep killing it and have Isaac or some other agent continue using its powers for eternity."
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Mar 8, 2014 23:14
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Also relevant, I think, is the fact the train is a tool in the hands of a shadowy conspiracy that's sealed a town in an invisible dome. It's not a noncombatant.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:44
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What's up with Isabel's arm in the final panel?
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May 24, 2014 06:32
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I don't think Spender could be worse even if he were trying.
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Jun 9, 2014 05:42
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Oh god the author twitter says Spender is 26. That makes him younger than me. This is terrible.
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Jun 20, 2014 18:36
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Yeah, I think we're back in "two spirits" territory, although I guess it's possible that they're both in the bat. That might actually make sense; the thing that's maddening Scrapdragon is the need to share space with a trickster spirit.
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Jul 4, 2014 18:53
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Calling Lisa as Boss Leader's real identity.
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Jul 5, 2014 04:38
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The fun comes when Isaac learns how much Max knows and Max realizes why he shouldn't share.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:34
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MikeJF posted:The thing is, I think that most of Isaac's resentment comes from Spender not telling him anything, not just Consortium stuff. Plus Isaac hasn't even been told the reason why he's not being told anything (even we are just theorizing, really) so as far as he knows Spender just trusts him even less than he does Ed.
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Jul 21, 2014 14:32
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ProfessorProf posted:More seriously, odds that Forge's angel and the person Spender is here to pick up are the same person? Agent Day isn't a local, just a visitor; Forge wouldn't have come to town to visit her.
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Sep 2, 2014 14:48
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Dolash posted:How does possession work with non-spectrals again? Frog-guy considered it for Max's dad, but I don't remember if they can still spectrally recharge from that. They slowly become a spectral of a matching color.
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Sep 16, 2014 02:21
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It's almost amazing to contemplate how Spender has failed this evening on pretty much every conceivable level.
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Oct 10, 2014 23:44
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This, of course, is the real reason Isaac is excluded from the Activity Consortium; if he were not they would rapidly become even more anime than they already are.
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Oct 18, 2014 20:09
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It's looking depressingly likely that there won't be any consequences for Spender even though one member of his team didn't make it back. :::
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Nov 1, 2014 04:15
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Of course, this puts Isaac and Max in an pinch, since they're supposed to keep Doorman a secret.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:49
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The Lord of Hats posted:Seriously, Spender completely fumbled the situation in just about every possible way. Short of a student straight-up dying (which very nearly happened twice), I don't know how things could be worse. Spender mentioned at some point that one of their spectrals raised it using a spirit's power. Probably they could even take it down, except that that would probably defeat the purpose of bubbling the whole town! I mean, seriously, that bubble is a disaster waiting to happen the minute an unknown new spectral tries to drive into Mayview. They must really want to keep the town concealed.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:01
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What's funny is that Spender is feeling really bad and he doesn't even know about all the ways he's screwed the pooch yet.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:We don't really know if Isaac's...uh...issues...stem from his possession or existed beforehand. I suspect they existed beforehand. He seems like a kid who always wanted to be a hero, got his chance to be one, and basically is taking it up to 11. Can you even really call Isaac's lifestyle "having issues?" All that stuff he does is real. (Although, there does seem to be a qualitative difference in how Isaac relates to the world and how Spender does, but that could be a coincidence.)
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Dec 1, 2014 02:23
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The main difference is that Roshi was training two young men who were functioning as adults (even if it was at a ridiculously young age) and could leave whenever they wanted and become a baker or something. Isabel isn't an adult and treating her like one (and honestly, he isn't even really treating her like one, since if she was an actual subordinate he would probably have, like, asked what happened before deciding it was her fault) is abusive and counterproductive.
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Dec 1, 2014 16:48
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What I want to know is, what part of the USA has convenience stores that are zoned to allow somebody to live on top of them?
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Jan 7, 2015 16:31
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I just looked back at Chapter 3. Wow, this comic's art has improved by leaps and bounds in a really short time. It's honestly kind of all-around fantastic for an artist/author who's so young.
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Jan 16, 2015 16:05
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It's pretty much the perfect storm of interactions between two terrible authority figures—Spender led Isabel into danger and didn't think to ask if she was all right (and in fact ignored her attempts to tell him about the death(ish) of her partner), and Francisco raised Isabel not to complain or seek help for her injuries.
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Jan 20, 2015 15:18
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Hypocrisy posted:I don't think Francisco has a policy of not having his students ask for help. He did summon Zarai to fix his ghost student's wounds. It's just that Isabel and Francisco's relationship has deteriorated to the point where Isabel won't do anything to make herself look weak in front of Francisco and Francisco refuses to give her his approval because she's doing dangerous things with Rick Spender, teacher of the year and her cocking has gotten her seriously hurt before. Oh, I agree that he's very solicitous of his student's wounds. But he has a different standard for Isabel.
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Jan 20, 2015 17:56
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paradoxGentleman posted:Yeah, I can see why Isaac would be pissed at the situation, poor kid. Do we even know why they keep him in the dark? Are they scared that his spirit will use that information against them? It seemed to not be very fond of the whole organization, but they could at least warn him that that was the reason the withold information from him. They haven't really said but from context it definitely seems to be 'they don't want his spirit to know anything'. Honestly, Mr. Spender has hinted at that hard enough that Isaac should probably have figured it out already but I think Isaac has pretty much checked out of the mental space of bothering to listen to anything Rick Spender has to say. (not that i can blame him)
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Jan 28, 2015 16:54
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The Dog Lover mug is just icing on the cake of Spender Is An Awful Teacher.
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Feb 14, 2015 16:56
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Spender also regards Isabel as trustworthy and sends her on missions to do the things Isabel wants to be good at. He's probably Isabel's major source of validation. Which is very sad.
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Fried Chicken posted:So it occurs that at this point Johnny could be hit by spirit energy, but still can't see the stuff yet. So if, say, Johnny tried to bully them on the way to school the way he did Max and Isaac and Isabel did some spirit punching all Johnny would see is her waving her hands while he got beat up invisibly. He got through the barrier last night, so I don't think he's ripe for spirit punching yet. That last part is still correct though.
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MikeJF posted:Also some flashback images showed there used to be a black kid in the club alongside the current crew. Or at least part of one.
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Oh my god, the Vice Principal is literally hiding behind a fake child with a "No Adults" shirt. What a magical, magical school.
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Apr 15, 2015 03:30
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And he keeps getting better, too. Even the beginning of the last chapter doesn't look nearly as good as the comic does now.
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Apr 16, 2015 23:10
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That's actually interesting, because it looks like most spirits can't affect physical things with their powers (or at least the town doesn't have as many weird things happening as it should if they can), so a spectral actually provides something unique to the merger instead of being either a parasite or a parasite's host.
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flatluigi posted:What does this post even mean It means that people really like trying to explain away gay things as not being gay.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Cody strikes me as an inverse Isaac--he seems equally anime, capable, but his personality is vastly improved as well. I wonder if this is significant--maybe Isaac is an anime red herring, and will be killed off early to make room for the new true anime, who is of course a proper pretty boy. It turns out there is more than one anime! One day Isaac will learn this and his world will be rocked.
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Apr 25, 2015 23:55
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If Ed can actually do fifty of even a couple of kinds of exercise, I don't know what this guy is complaining about.
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May 5, 2015 16:24
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What's really weird is that none of the other six people bought one. I mean, the others are all adults and possibly Ed, right?
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May 8, 2015 23:18
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Meanwhile, Zack is struggling on Twitter with people who think Johnny is attractive. Sorry, guy, but that's a bucket that doesn't have a bottom.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:26
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So, is Isaac Piro and Spender Largo, or vice-versa?
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It does seem kind of interesting. You'd think this spirit would be known, since it has a fairly distinctive MO, is obviously very dangerous, and has presumably been inside the relatively small area inside the barrier since it was put up (so, at least since Spender reached puberty).
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