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Oyvind Thorsby, creator of the wonderfully bizarre comics Hitmen for Destiny, Lies Sisters and Wives, Accidental Space Spy and Transdimensional Brain Chip (archived thread for those last two here) has returned with a new comic updating Mondays and Fridays in which he has returned to the fantasy genre, this time with a non-secret-fantasy setting: Trixie Slaughteraxe for President (first page). Edit: Dammit, it should be Oyvind in the title, not Oyvin. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Thoughts: This format shows some promise - there's room for worldbuilding and political intrigue but it's also got a simple 'hunt treasure get money' adventure format, a return to the adventure formats of Hitmen and Space Spy. This particular format is simpler than Space Spy's 'follow the leads' format and more or less on par with Hitmen's 'kill this monster' format. Trixie and Lyndon's style of speaking is clearly a deliberate choice; it'll be interesting to see what society's like when they're from (and, in contrast, where Audrey and Klara are from). The overall mixture of the modern and archaic, too, indicates that it may be interesting to see what Thorsby's come up with. I hope we get an explanation for their gruesome surnames that's tied to the setting's history. That wall spell seems to be Thorsby's version of the 'towel game' popularized by Douglas Adams; he's going to see how many different non-fatal uses he can come up for it over the course of the comic. To save time and as a nod to his past, some of the creatures on the crystal ball shelf are very familiar. And a prediction concerning their current predicament - since this opponent is someone they can actually talk to, the solution will be to, in some way or other, take advantage of the fact that he's been in stasis for over three hundred years. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Nov 12, 2015 08:59
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New page I was right, not that it helped them much. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Nov 13, 2015 02:02
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 UPDATEToday on TSfP: the most proactive scavenger ever.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:30
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Light on action but heavy on promises, just like USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POSTUpdate Sarcasm continues to work.
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Dec 15, 2015 04:11
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HBar posted:I wonder how long it took to draw those ~150 creatures on the shelves. And I bet he has notes on what each one does too. At least some are copied from at least one of his other comics. I recognized a Triplet's Orc and a Necrosyrte's Waitress.
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Dec 16, 2015 02:44
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http://trixie.webcomic.ws/comics/26
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Dec 25, 2015 07:34
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new strip, FARCEBY MODE ACTIVATE
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Jan 2, 2016 04:42
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New strip: it continues. I'm thinking Klara might canonically have high-functioning autism. This would explain her encyclopedic knowledge of a specific topic, her outward unemotionality and her inability to detect peoples' intentions. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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Jan 4, 2016 04:06
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New strip - bullshitting continues.
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Jan 8, 2016 12:57
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New strip in which we learn a thing.
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Jan 12, 2016 09:42
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New strip in which life is not like a video game. A specific video game.
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Jan 15, 2016 03:19
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New strip. A clever fake-out - the box can only be found by tampering with the most recognizable statue.
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Jan 18, 2016 10:17
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New strip. Snorlax, I choose y--SPLURG!
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Jan 22, 2016 09:27
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jon joe posted:Can't wait to see what Thorsby does with the now ex-magician. The current theory is killing someone with pacifist magic doesn't permanently take away your capacity to do any pacifist magic, just the spells you currently know. That's why he only learned one.
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Jan 23, 2016 05:04
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New strip. Haven't had a good old-fashioned multi-floor collapse in years.
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Jan 25, 2016 04:10
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New strip. Go, Aerodac(to be continued)
BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 03:09
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New strip. tylOH GODDAMMIT
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Feb 10, 2016 03:07
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#41 The potential for a many-monster clusterfuck isn't being used, but keep in mind this is still the first quest.
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Feb 16, 2016 06:33
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#44 Is... is this Thorsby's way of celebrating 20 years of Pokemon?
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Feb 28, 2016 11:53
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#45 Gen VII is lookin' good. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 06:02
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#46 In my day Snorlaxes never appeared in the wild. If you didn't catch the one you Poke Fluted that was it!
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Mar 5, 2016 01:28
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#48 GOTTA SQUISH 'EM ALL audrey please take away our source of pokemon jokes
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Mar 11, 2016 12:59
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#49 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's building a stairway... of Pokemon.
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Mar 16, 2016 09:07
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#50 Just wait, it'll evolve into a Gydrados.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:55
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#51 By Thorsby standards, this all went... fairly cleanly. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Mar 21, 2016 04:20
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#52 Potential happy endings are described.
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Mar 25, 2016 06:35
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RandomFerret posted:Well, that was a fun little romp. Nothing wrong with a short comic. One job probably isn't enough to fund a campaign on par with the
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Mar 27, 2016 10:54
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loving Event Pokemon. HBar's theory was actually pretty good. The queen should have done that. She really... ...dropped the ball. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Apr 2, 2016 12:00
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#55 Yay!
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Apr 4, 2016 02:49
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gently caress, reading something so simple and flawless in a Thorsby comic gives me the heebie jeebies. Things are going to go wrong, but HOW? Also, nobody's mentioned Morgan Freetheirorgansfromtheirbodies. Looks like Thorsby's brought in the big guns when it comes to explaining complex things. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Apr 16, 2016 09:36
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#60 The Diabolican People's Front vs the People's Front of Diabolica.
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Apr 22, 2016 04:32
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#61 The effects of the Skyggemyrian Magic Missile Crisis still linger.
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Apr 25, 2016 12:15
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May 5, 2016 10:06
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Either Klara had a huge lapse of judgement or she's done one of the terrifying things anyone in a Thorsby comic can do - take a direct route to a goal without any crazy bullshit. "Audrey will not help Trixie because she has all the money she needs. If she did not have the money she would help them again. Common methods of losing money include gambling."
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May 10, 2016 07:46
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What if she hadn't lost with her first ducat, given that she's super-rational and terrible at lying? I feel a fanfiction coming on. Oh no, thought Klara. I won. Now I have no excuse for losing money. She had started to leave when the moderately-drunk man who had been next to her called to her. "Hey, you can't go now! You gotta let it ride!" Klara stopped. "Excuse me?" "You've got good luck! You can't stop now! You might keep winning! If I were you I'd go crazy wondering if I would've!" She walked back to the table. "But every time the game is played the probability of winning is the same. It was already unlikely that I would win once." "...Ahh, that's quitter talk. Take it from ol' Jeff Liveimpalement. Let it ride!" Klara looked at the roulette. I wonder how popular this reasoning is, even though it is completely illogical. She tried reducto ad absurdum. If it were not, people would leave sooner after both wins and losses and this casino would have closed down years ago. She blinked exactly once. Klara walked into the living room. "I did something stupid." BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 06:11 on May 12, 2016 |
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May 12, 2016 06:08
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#67 Audrey's comments at the end are actually pretty drat clever when you think about why she dropped the sarcasm. If everyone speaks a language with no negative words, nobody can criticize you. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 10:58 on May 18, 2016 |
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May 18, 2016 10:51
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#68 #69 I was concerned I'd have nothing to comment about, but then symmetricat. Hooray.
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May 24, 2016 07:43
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#70 I think that Audrey and Klara may represent two opposing aspects of Thorsby's creativity. Klara is the intelligent overthinker, while Audrey, while less intelligent, shows common sense (see also: monsterpile) and also represents his all-important ability to laugh at himself. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 14:40 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 14:34
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#71 Oh gee, you think they might have hung TWO paintings to cover TWO cracks?
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