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Tollymain posted:Wonder why a boy that young has a prosthetic limb like that His job requires him to be armed at all times.
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Apr 11, 2013 08:11
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T.G. Xarbala posted:His job requires him to be armed at all times.  Usually when people here ask perfectly logical questions like that someone has on the formspring or whatever the hell it is now- just checked and yep, it's going to be explained.
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Apr 11, 2013 13:03
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Tollymain posted:Wonder why a boy that young has a prosthetic limb like that Is he not a soldier or something? Dismemberment is an occupational hazard for swordy types.
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Apr 11, 2013 19:56
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Worst spy ever
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Apr 11, 2013 20:09
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The Sin of Onan posted:It is this fellow, I think. It's not that guy. If you read several pages further there's a closeup of the badge which indicates that guy was a member of a mounted infantry division in Cresce. Hence the "We cannot be so far west" line.
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Apr 11, 2013 20:34
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Rime posted:It's not that guy. If you read several pages further there's a closeup of the badge which indicates that guy was a member of a mounted infantry division in Cresce. Hence the "We cannot be so far west" line. Well he's obviously not remembering someone he's never met and looks Aldish despite being from Cresce. I interpreted that as him remembering his brother in the context of fighting Cresce. 7c Nickel fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Apr 11, 2013 20:38
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7c Nickel posted:Well he's obviously not remembering someone he's never met and looks Aldish despite being from Cresce. I interpreted that as him remembering his brother in the context of fighting Cresce. Hmm, fair play. I always read it in the context of the flashback being the person who's corpse he stumbled across, never considered that angle. The "Worm-eaters" on the badge takes on a whole new meaning after the most recent pages, too.
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Apr 11, 2013 21:16
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Rime posted:The "Worm-eaters" on the badge takes on a whole new meaning after the most recent pages, too. "Snake Killers" and yeah the badge has some sort of giant wolf biting down on one of those weird Aldish snake dragon things.
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Apr 12, 2013 02:29
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So... over/under on the Weeping Plague being an instigated biological attack? It's getting too much mention for it not to be A Thing.
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Apr 12, 2013 15:17
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My speculation - and this is actual speculation, she's never said about it on the Formspring - is that while the government may not have created it, governmental factions are certainly willing to drag their feet on seriously fixing it in order to gain some political advantages. The guy who took Kara away after her family died of it is almost certainly Bastion Winalils, who's the same guy who gave Sette the amulet to control Duane, and who is a Blacktongue according to Kara (which seems likely to be true because the amulet he gave Sette certainly isn't government-approved magic.) So if the Blacktongues were in Falcyne, trying to fix the problem, they may also be responsible for it.
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Apr 12, 2013 20:17
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That is the brightest blush I have ever seen outside of an anime. Alive-Duane continues to cement his absolute dork status.
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Apr 17, 2013 05:54
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EgoEgress posted:That is the brightest blush I have ever seen outside of an anime. That's such a great little bit of interaction going on in the background there. Alive-Duane has really made me like his character a lot more. Sure is going to suck when he dies horribly!
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Apr 17, 2013 06:13
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I vote that "I don't know what that means, but it does sound impressive." should be the new thread subtitle. Represents my reading of this comic every day.
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Apr 17, 2013 21:37
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EgoEgress posted:That is the brightest blush I have ever seen outside of an anime. It just makes me want to know how he transitioned from being an adorable dork to being a horrible undead monstrosity.
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Apr 19, 2013 00:09
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SirSamVimes posted:It just makes me want to know how he transitioned from being an adorable dork to being a horrible undead monstrosity. By dying, mostly.
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Apr 19, 2013 01:04
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On the old Formspring she said that his personality hasn't really changed much, aside from the crippling depression and underlining tones of hopeless despair. I mean, he's still a big dork, but it's kind of overshadowed by his zombieness. I'm just wondering when he'll hit the dude. Couple pages back, it looked like he wanted to start something.
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Apr 19, 2013 01:45
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:My speculation - and this is actual speculation, she's never said about it on the Formspring - is that while the government may not have created it, governmental factions are certainly willing to drag their feet on seriously fixing it in order to gain some political advantages. So now we know that 1) the Weeping Plague is definitely magical, and 2) Winalils is definitely studying it (making him indeed Kara's "black tongue doctor".) Apparently the idea of trying to weaponize it isn't new either. ...huh. If this flashback wasn't 6+ years old I would think that this is the whole plot right here. Starfish told Captain Toma that his payload "wasn't meant for Cresce", which raises the question of why he's smuggling it there in the first place. Cresce is on the western edge of the continent, so it's not like you have to go through Cresce to get anywhere. Unless, of course, you want to make it look like a biological attack is coming from Cresce... perhaps as retaliation for the current Aldish invasion, a plot that Winalils had plenty of advance warning on (and depending on his level of influence, may even have helped instigate.) So the Ssaelit faction gets their revenge on their countrymen, and the Crescians get the blame. Either way Councillor Bodie is sinister as gently caress, though. At this point I wouldn't put it past him to have been behind the original weeping plague outbreak and have deliberately unleashed it on his fellow Ssaelit, in order to thin out competition for power and create justification for "retaliatory" attacks. His "Whether by accident or design, the weeping plague fell upon a province of our good and blameless Ssaelit brethren" speech definitely reads like "haha yeah I nuked the gently caress out of those dorks."
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Apr 22, 2013 15:10
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I can totally see why Duane would hit this guy now. If it weren't for the fact that it'd gently caress him over I'd want him to do it, too.
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Apr 22, 2013 15:28
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Whelp, Friday'll be fun. (hithimhithimhithim)
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Apr 24, 2013 14:59
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He did it! He punched him! What a shocking twist! Exclamation points!
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Apr 26, 2013 06:08
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I love, love, love the facepalm on the guy in the back of the last panel. Not "oh my god, he punched him!", just "oh, god, he punched him." Beautiful.
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Apr 26, 2013 07:57
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I know it'll end badly but man, that is satisfying. Also, "pissmop"? Considering the way hair color and Alderode castes/races align, that's pretty blatantly a slur, right to Duane's face. Wow. Though, checking out the wiki, he also called Duane a traitor based solely on his caste, so I guess we already knew this. Still, what an rear end in a top hat. Edit: I mean we already know he's a dick, what with suggesting unleashing that one plague and hinting he's behind the one that already exists, but it's still a bit surprising to see such openness about his dickery. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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Apr 26, 2013 10:31
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Wow, I'd have done a lot more than just punch the guy. What a knobend.
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Apr 26, 2013 14:43
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Roland Jones posted:I know it'll end badly but man, that is satisfying. According to Duane's wife this guy has a reputation for these speeches, which gives you an idea of how low Duane's social status is. You know, if the fact that he lived in a literal ghetto with obscene graffiti on the walls wasn't a clue.
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Apr 26, 2013 14:53
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Heh, Duane's face in the second-to-last panel. "My apologies, dear wife of mine" Also, ow, he's gotta stop abusing that poor injured hand of his. 
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Apr 26, 2013 15:51
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Eh, that's a high enough road for me 
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Apr 26, 2013 17:19
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Gabriel Pope posted:According to Duane's wife this guy has a reputation for these speeches, which gives you an idea of how low Duane's social status is. You know, if the fact that he lived in a literal ghetto with obscene graffiti on the walls wasn't a clue. You really have to wonder why Duane is so loyal to a country that considers him a traitor and scum because of his birth.
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Apr 26, 2013 18:44
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Yeah Man posted:You really have to wonder why Duane is so loyal to a country that considers him a traitor and scum because of his birth. Alderode is the only country where the Gefendur faith hasn't crushed Ssaelism, the religion he follows, and in fact puts it on equal standing (if not slightly higher; it's because of Ssaelism's beliefs about corpses that plods aren't used there and other such things). Besides that, it's his homeland, and apart from scumbags and certain institutionalized things he's living the relatively good life, even about to be promoted to composer despite his caste. He isn't living Quigley's life or anything.
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Yeah Man posted:You really have to wonder why Duane is so loyal to a country that considers him a traitor and scum because of his birth. Anywhere else he'd be a traitor and a heretic because of his religion. Sucks to be Duane!
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Apr 26, 2013 19:04
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I looked at the formspring (well I guess it's ask.fm now? whatever) thing and the author takes a shot at her own art, making fun of the background details of this panel: Then someone comments it looks like a... particular face and she responds:  Ha. The gal's alright.
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Apr 26, 2013 19:12
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I do love Duane's expression before he punches the dude out. It's just "welp, that's enough of that". A pity his promotion's doomed now.
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Apr 26, 2013 23:56
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Don't you mean hanged? But yes, great expressions all around on that last page.
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Apr 27, 2013 09:34
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Yeah there's no way Duane's making it out of this alive. We know he walks out of it dead though!
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Apr 27, 2013 09:59
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Panel 5 is great and I made some avatars out of it:  And animated: 
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Apr 29, 2013 11:33
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Nanomashoes posted:Yeah there's no way Duane's making it out of this alive. I don't know - he's in the papers, he instructs students, he preaches - he's clearly a pretty public figure at this point. If they try to arrest him for assaulting the councilor, he gets to turn around and say "I did it because the councilor was promoting BIOLOGICAL WARFARE." I can't imagine they just straight up murder him right now and then try to claim it was some kind of a legitimate execution, that just seems super suspicious. And if the councilor to some extent listens to the shadwe - which he clearly does since he's running this plan by the shadwe before just doing it - and the shadwe really likes Duane, well, there's at least a chance he exits this scene alive. Edit: yeah, his promotion's fuuuuuucked
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We know Bodie's in with this guy. Duane's also no fan of Black Tongues. I'm figuring the guy in the flashback has something to do with Duane's eventual fate due to the Bodie connection and, you know, the fact he basically gave over Duane to the Frummagems. Quigley came out with the Black Tongue comment after noticing Duane 'stank of undeath' and Quigley's rumoured to have at least associated with them. I kinda wonder if the red vial he's holding in the last flashback might be something similar to the one Sette's controlling dead-Duane with too. Hallgerd fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 19:27
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:I don't know - he's in the papers, he instructs students, he preaches - he's clearly a pretty public figure at this point. If they try to arrest him for assaulting the councilor, he gets to turn around and say "I did it because the councilor was promoting BIOLOGICAL WARFARE." Therefore, silence him with blackmail. Good thing he brought a perfect piece of blackmail material to work on this fateful day. We're gonna get the source for this flashback.
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Apr 30, 2013 19:33
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So I can't help but notice the red snakes. Duane talks about them, they show up around him later while he's lost control. They're coming out of people and seemingly being controlled by Quigley in his suicide run flashback. One appears and bites past-Duane when his daughter's spell goes awry. The vial given to Sette by Winalils is the same color red. I'm mostly wondering if Mikaila's back-firing spell hurting Duane will mean more. Given how adept the artist has been about incorporating small but important details in various scenes I can't see the snake there as being inconsequential.
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The snakes (smoke eels) do seem to be important and the writer has talked about them on her formspring/ask.com thing. Without going into that, reread what the dying girl in one of the earlier chapters says about them when Duane finds her. What happened to her also clearer with the plague talk of the last few pages. Some things seem to come out of nowhere, but have been foreshadowed or even kind of explained long before. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. After all, if you don't recognize it as useful information at the time, and need to read additional stuff outside the story to realize that it is, it just seems out of place.
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