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girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
God, no wonder Sockpuppy isn't around any more, that power is busted.

Edit: What a snipe. New page.

Edit 2: Hm. Given what we've seen before in this chapter, what we're seeing now, and the themes of Zarei's spirit creations (control emotions, control people, etc. etc. etc.), I have a theory: Whatever Sockpuppy is, Mina has been experimenting with iterating on the concept with a very specific ultimate goal; Mina wants to create something that can control wights.

girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Jan 30, 2021

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Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


"your power is OP and you're totally wasting it" -Max, years of days ago

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Yeah, my guess is:
Sockpuppy can control spirits
Hijack can control people
Hotwire can control machines
Ventrilobite can control emotions (in both spirits and people)

minor correction, but Hijack can control any living organism since he possesses animals as well.

Tendales
Mar 9, 2012

Brought To You By posted:

minor correction, but Hijack can control any living organism since he possesses animals as well.

Dogs are people, too.

Twibbit
Mar 7, 2013

Is your refrigerator running?

Tendales posted:

Dogs are people, too.
I refuse to believe flies are people

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/1360193678677929987?s=19

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Spender is such a dork.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I'd stop being friends with Spender too if he ruined MY cool dramatic exit

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!
it's been mentioned before but the game Zack wrote for, Petal Crash, really hits a lot of the same vibes as Paranatural. It's also on sale right now on Steam so if you want some paranatural-adjacent content it's a good pickup.

Ore Kid is just Max though. like she's just Max. every word she says could be copy and pasted into one of Max's speech bubbles and no one would notice

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Also seems kinda brazen to be taking the ghost train to travel during the day in a town where not everyone might be a spectral?

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Oct 31, 2012

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Also seems kinda brazen to be taking the ghost train to travel during the day in a town where not everyone might be a spectral?

On the one hand she's in the middle of some mad banter and probably caught up in the moment. On the other, I'm sure Mayfield has a small section in it's newspaper for flying human sightings that are dismissed as weather balloons and swamp gas...in the middle of the downtown area.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Honestly, if Davy is on the police force he may have a hand on suppressing things like that.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Countblanc posted:

it's been mentioned before but the game Zack wrote for, Petal Crash, really hits a lot of the same vibes as Paranatural. It's also on sale right now on Steam so if you want some paranatural-adjacent content it's a good pickup.

Ore Kid is just Max though. like she's just Max. every word she says could be copy and pasted into one of Max's speech bubbles and no one would notice

Remember when Max used to be in the comic?

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!
That was years of days ago, dude

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Countblanc posted:

That was years of days ago, dude

You know, I was wondering how much time has passed in the comic vs real life so I went and looked. Chapter 5 (the Hitball chapter) started with the most recent morning - chapter 6 covered the same day from other perspectives and the non-flashback parts of this chapter are the following night.

Chapter 5 started at the beginning of 2015.
It has been six years and 24 hours have yet to pass in the story.

I think I've come to understand why Paranatural has dropped off my list of favourite comics. It's still good, but its pacing... really isn't in line with its update schedule.

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Oct 31, 2012

Tenebrais posted:

Chapter 5 started at the beginning of 2015.
It has been six years and 24 hours have yet to pass in the story

C'mon that's like 50 namekian minutes. An hour tops.

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/1362718002697805825?s=19

Lt. Lizard
Apr 28, 2013
Huh a random thought just hit me this update. Mina "tamed" and "controlled" the Ghost Train by just keeping him mind-controlled 24/7 by her various artificial spirits. It's no wonder that the second he is not under the influence of one of them, he immediately turns hostile towards her.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


The ghost train was talked about as being rather wild to begin with, so I imagine it was pretty hostile by default.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Remember scrap dragon? Wonder what's going on with it.

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Remember scrap dragon? Wonder what's going on with it.

i don't think we've seen that friend in over 5 years

Tar_Squid
Feb 13, 2012

Lt. Lizard posted:

Huh a random thought just hit me this update. Mina "tamed" and "controlled" the Ghost Train by just keeping him mind-controlled 24/7 by her various artificial spirits. It's no wonder that the second he is not under the influence of one of them, he immediately turns hostile towards her.

It also makes sense why she was insisting that the lantern be given to her to 'recharge' the spirit since if it reincorporated and was still hostile to her there'd be Questions ( though this story makes me think that Boss Leader has been suspicious of Mina long before current time). Unanswered question is how she'd re-tame it if Sockpuppy or Ventrilobite or whichever spirit she had on board got destroyed.

Scrapdragon was years of minutes ago, my friend.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Adds a whole new layer to getting love bugged at the end :smith:

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-35

with friends like these, who needs friends

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


So this is how Rich affords Giancarlo on a teacher's salary.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

Bite my furry metal ass
Rich Spender indeed

Also gat drat Jean very definitely The Hot One in that relationship :eyepop:


Also also "But a fourth wheel, that's just an absurd vehicle." is peak Zack Morrison dialogue and exactly the kind of thing that keeps me coming back week after week.

Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 26, 2021

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Oct 31, 2012
"And positive role models to keep me safe while I explored"
I mean yeah, if your boyfriend is a werewolf you might want someone to help you out the first fullmoon or two.

Fecha
Nov 4, 2006

Did I... did I miss anything important?
Oh, Rich. Leaving children behind in vehicles to make risky choices since 19xx.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Hoping we see confirmation on the theory that Suzie is a spender here

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


rannum posted:

Hoping we see confirmation on the theory that Suzie is a spender here

It would fit perfectly with her getup at this point, honestly. She dresses pretty fancy

wokow6
Oct 19, 2013
https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-35

An appearance by a blood-sucking parasite! ...And Davy!

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Zack making an abrupt career turn into politoons

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?
Bill Spender. Christ. How is Zack so good at name puns?

Edit: Also, RE: the alt text, what you're looking for is a returning character.

girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Mar 6, 2021

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

No Penny, huh?

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

PMush Perfect posted:

Edit: Also, RE: the alt text, what you're looking for is a returning character.
It's an easy episode of "Where's the DJ"

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Tenebrais posted:

No Penny, huh?
Yeah, I was wondering if she is just that much younger since it’s still using a photo of Spender as a kid. Or if she was disowned even earlier. Bonus points if they’re BOTH gay.

Gonna guess mom’s name is Nichol.

Podima
Nov 4, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Ha, is that DJ Mothman in the background of Panel 4?

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


I am increasingly convinced Suzy is a Spender.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

He does seem like the kind of guy to have another kid just for poll numbers

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

Bite my furry metal ass

SKULL.GIF posted:

I am increasingly convinced Suzy is a Spender.

Think of a way to twist her name into a money pun, then I'll believe it.



Also just to clear this up, Davey is definitely a pirate as well as a vampire right? Nobody's got a hook hand AND a name like that without being a pirate, surely

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