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This is going to be the raddest webcomic battle ever to occur.
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paranoid randroid posted:i like to imagine that, among the Train of Idiots, theres a very confused noodle vendor who got swept up in all the excitement and has no idea whats going on, but he can hardly complain about having such steady business And his coming shall be followed by 108 Boiling Soups
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Aug 2, 2016 05:45
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Just an ever-escalating itinerant battle that breaks out every time Allison holds still long enough for everyone she's met previously to catch up
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Aug 2, 2016 05:56
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https://youtu.be/TjcPVwJWibc?t=22
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Aug 2, 2016 11:28
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I love how quickly this went from 'Guards catching up to Alison' to 'Guards getting owned by Maya' to 'Guards in a panicked huddle with guns pointing everywhere because poo poo just got real'. What happened to Eris-Lo (the guy who stood on his sword and basically said 'come at me' in the original standoff)? I don't think he died on panel, but I don't seem him here. Maybe he's getting noodles and will turn up in the second wave.
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Aug 2, 2016 15:01
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Hes there in the middle, next to the guy with the rings and below the guy with 3 floating heads. He threw the knife at Mathangi
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Aug 2, 2016 15:06
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Super Waffle posted:Hes there in the middle, next to the guy with the rings and below the guy with 3 floating heads. He threw the knife at Mathangi He's lucky he still draws breath on that account.
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Aug 2, 2016 15:09
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Which wall did giant baby smash through? I can't find the crane guy anywhere in the big spread.
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Aug 2, 2016 15:38
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ConfusedUs posted:Which wall did giant baby smash through? I can't find the crane guy anywhere in the big spread. I think it's behind the viewer perspective--none of the group whose positions you know relative to Hrotomos show up in the big spread.
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Aug 2, 2016 16:42
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I think the sleepy-eyed woman and her bug friend are also out of the spread, because I'm not finding them there, on that topic. Or I'm really unobservant, one of the two.
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Aug 2, 2016 16:46
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On the downside I was sort of hoping one of the 108 would be some sort of symbiote creature, skewing the count, thus giving us only twenty or so actual pursuers with hopefully more back story. But if we're going to get close to that number here, or have already reached it at least we should get some carnage. Hope the baby didn't choke the chicken :/
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Aug 2, 2016 17:54
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Jormagund posted:Hope the baby didn't choke the chicken :/ I don't think this mean what you think it means!
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Aug 2, 2016 18:22
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While there may actually be 108 of them (I have not counted), 108 is also a significant religious number on its own, especially in Hinduism and Buddhism, both of which have clearly influenced the comic. (Look up either and you will see the number 108 over and over again; it's the number of names of Shiva, the number of Buddhist afflictions, the number of beads in a mala, etc.) So I guess I'm saying, yeah, there might literally be 108, but it's also just as likely to be metaphorical, like in some Chinese texts where you'll see the number "ten thousand" used to mean "lots and lots".
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Aug 2, 2016 18:39
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idonotlikepeas posted:While there may actually be 108 of them (I have not counted), 108 is also a significant religious number on its own, especially in Hinduism and Buddhism, both of which have clearly influenced the comic. (Look up either and you will see the number 108 over and over again; it's the number of names of Shiva, the number of Buddhist afflictions, the number of beads in a mala, etc.) And the number of bandits in Water Margin. 
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Aug 2, 2016 18:48
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How trite.
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Aug 2, 2016 18:51
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JuniperCake posted:And the number of bandits in Water Margin. I already made a Suikoden joke and no one noticed 
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Aug 2, 2016 20:03
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idonotlikepeas posted:While there may actually be 108 of them (I have not counted), 108 is also a significant religious number on its own, especially in Hinduism and Buddhism, both of which have clearly influenced the comic. (Look up either and you will see the number 108 over and over again; it's the number of names of Shiva, the number of Buddhist afflictions, the number of beads in a mala, etc.) It could very easily be literal, because I think I count 59 unique pursuers in that page alone.
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Aug 3, 2016 00:27
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I imagine that the number of pursuers fluctuates a lot, growing as they chase after Allison and more people follow them, and then you get a massive culling as a bunch of them die off when they find her and FIGHT TIME breaks out. The weak get weeded out of the pack,and the strong continue to hone their skills (and as word spreads stronger and stronger people join the chase) until you've got a solid core of 108 of the mightiest warriors in all of existence who chase after Allison and it's barely even about the key anymore it's just what they do. And of course as the veterans travel together, that mutual loathing turns into a strange kind of respect, and if an outsider thinks they're going to kill a member of the group they've got another thing coming because half of the Pursuers are determined that they will be the one to finish that bastard off at the next Fight and no two-bit sword master is going to take that away from them. Aesma would loving love the whole thing.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:21
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Ze Pollack posted:unfortunately the Monster Factory/Kill Six Billion Demons crossover has yet to happen, outside of this preliminary exercise in the Aesthetic  This guy could definitely be some kind of Servant, despite the fact that he looks just like Bart.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:46
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also hrotomos please do not eat mr bird man
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Aug 3, 2016 05:48
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More Tumblr answers:quote:I must ask- what is the baby shaped thing in the most recent page? Is it a type of servant? A construct? (Also, all of this is excellent. But you knew that.) quote:he’s a rowdy fightboy looking for some good old fashioned fun anon quote:Is the giant baby (Hrotomos?) a baby of their species or an adult that simply looks like a human baby? quote:To answer this question more seriously, I like the idea that’s Hrotomos is a baby, but from a race that spends a thousand years to mature, and nine hundred years of that in their infancy - so he is physically a giant baby, but with the mental faculties of a hundred-year-old or so. quote:What does Jadis even want anymore? quote:Very sincerely: to die.
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Aug 3, 2016 07:40
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"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω." "For I indeed once saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in her jar, and when the boys asked her, 'Sibyl, what do you want?' she answered 'I want to die'."
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Aug 3, 2016 08:59
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Archenteron posted:"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω." HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME atomicthumbs posted:also hrotomos please do not eat mr bird man I'm kind of hoping he uses him as a club to hit someone else with.
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Aug 3, 2016 12:10
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i am very interested in the back stories of incidental characters.
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Aug 3, 2016 12:26
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This is like the elaborate Star Wars trivia about characters that spent half a second on screen. But good.
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Aug 3, 2016 12:43
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idonotlikepeas posted:I'm kind of hoping he uses him as a club to hit someone else with. Seeing as he might actually be an enormous baby, I kind of hope that he makes the Crane guy his lovey/comfort object and just carries him around tucked under his arm and occasionally throws him when he gets pissed (its ok, Crane can fly, right?). I mean even if he has advanced mental faculties he might still be emotionally an infant in many ways.
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Aug 3, 2016 14:34
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nimby posted:This is like the elaborate Star Wars trivia about characters that spent half a second on screen. I think we can all agree Episode VIII and IX could only be improved by Rey stealing Allison's thunder and gaining a posse of 108 bounty hunters always chasing her.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:55
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MonsieurChoc posted:I think we can all agree Episode VIII and IX could only be improved by Rey stealing Allison's thunder and gaining a posse of 108 bounty hunters always chasing her. also by Kylo Ren being a giant baby oh wait he already is 
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Aug 3, 2016 16:03
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Does anyone else hear the crane going "Buh-GAWWWK" like in a looney tunes farm cartoon as the giant baby picks him up? "I will love him and care for him and call him George."
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Aug 3, 2016 21:42
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paranoid randroid posted:also by Kylo Ren being a giant baby Kilo Ren is unironically my favorite Star Wars character.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:02
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I put a piece of masking tape over "Darth Vader" on my vader crew card and wrote Kylo Ren instead. The crew ability is perfect for Kylo.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:30
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ConfusedUs posted:I put a piece of masking tape over "Darth Vader" on my vader crew card and wrote Kylo Ren instead. The crew ability is perfect for Kylo. for those of you who do not play tiny space figurine games, in the X-Wing dogfighting game Darth Vader comes in two flavors: a really good pilot of his ship from A New Hope, or a crew card you can put on an imperial ship carrying crew, normally a shuttle. he does a shitton of damage to whatever ship he is riding in to do a critical hit on the ship his ship was shooting at.
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Aug 4, 2016 03:23
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I have no idea how I posted to this thread. Rofl. So, uh, how bout that giant baby?
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Aug 4, 2016 04:57
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What about me? 
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Aug 4, 2016 09:27
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I think eventually back stories will develop for each of the pursuers, and the best part? it's all canon, especially the parts that aren't
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Aug 4, 2016 10:07
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A giant orange baby named Hrotomos When he finally matures into adulthood, do we call him Hrotomos Prime
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Aug 4, 2016 16:08
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Phy posted:A giant orange baby named Hrotomos Hrotomos Past His Prime
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Aug 4, 2016 16:45
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December Octopodes posted:I think eventually back stories will develop for each of the pursuers, and the best part? it's all canon, especially the parts that aren't consider: there is no such thing as canon
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Aug 4, 2016 17:21
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In a twist it turns out that it's all Kanun.
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paranoid randroid posted:consider: there is no such thing as canon There are such things as cannons, though.
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