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Snipes have longer beaks, that's an owl.
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Aug 30, 2020 14:18
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I feel compelled to point out that BL makes a point of saying "By our hands, impossible to kill." Not just "impossible to kill". It's possible that Sandman was either killed by something else and she took it, it was sealed in her at full power (ouch!), or was a Grudge that evolved within her. For that matter we have no idea where BL's physical body is. She might have to be kept far away from anything to stop it regenerating.
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Aug 30, 2020 15:48
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With the crescent moon motif and the "Sandman" name, this spirit's powers are clearly sleep-related. Maybe Boss Leader is in a Sleeping Beauty situation, literally incapable of waking up. It's also possible that the whole persistent dreamworld used as Paranatural Activity Consortium HQ is created so as to drain Sandman's powers maintaining it as fast as the spirit regains its power, so that things stay stable and it can't just get the last bits of energy needed to break free from Boss Leader and wreck all kinds of somnolent havoc.
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Aug 30, 2020 18:00
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Yeah since just about the first time we've seen BL I've had strong "is probably in a coma somewhere" vibes. When max asks why she Boss Leads the ghost cops instead of living in fantasy she says she likes real people too much, implying this is her only way of having contact with real people.
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Aug 30, 2020 19:39
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Given her powers are dream-related and she's presumably maintaining the Consortium's HQ at all times so people can always access it as needed and use it as a base regardless of their location in the world, I took it as a given that she herself is always asleep, really.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:12
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Roland Jones posted:Given her powers are dream-related and she's presumably maintaining the Consortium's HQ at all times so people can always access it as needed and use it as a base regardless of their location in the world, I took it as a given that she herself is always asleep, really. There's also the time Max asked her why she was running an HQ rather than building some awesome fantasy world or something, and she replied that she is just too fond of the real world. Which makes a lot more sense if she can't otherwise be in it.
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Aug 30, 2020 21:42
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Cat Mattress posted:With the crescent moon motif and the "Sandman" name, this spirit's powers are clearly sleep-related. Maybe Boss Leader is in a Sleeping Beauty situation, literally incapable of waking up. I'll add some wild guessing to that. My theory is that the primary purpose of the dream world is not the whole "Consortium HQ" thing, that's just an useful side-effect. The main purpose is to constantly drain the Sandman's spiritual energy by basically forcing it to keep using its dream power 24/7 to maintain the dream world and making sure it never recovers enough energy to become an independent spirit again. Boss Leader its obviously Sandman's medium, so she is forced into coma to shape the dream world and to maintain the delicate balance of draining neither too much or too little energy. Although considering how mediums eventually take on characteristics of their spirits, not waking up might be just a natural a side-effect of hosting the wight of dreams in your body.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:09
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Lt. Lizard posted:I'll add some wild guessing to that. My theory is that the primary purpose of the dream world is not the whole "Consortium HQ" thing, that's just an useful side-effect. The main purpose is to constantly drain the Sandman's spiritual energy by basically forcing it to keep using its dream power 24/7 to maintain the dream world and making sure it never recovers enough energy to become an independent spirit again. Boss Leader its obviously Sandman's medium, so she is forced into coma to shape the dream world and to maintain the delicate balance of draining neither too much or too little energy. Although considering how mediums eventually take on characteristics of their spirits, not waking up might be just a natural a side-effect of hosting the wight of dreams in your body. My personal theory is that if BL isn't waking up due to Sandman's influence, then it's a purposeful life-long coma. BL did mention her predecessor, which makes me think she inherited this role from some other comatose vegetable.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:50
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neogeo0823 posted:My personal theory is that if BL isn't waking up due to Sandman's influence, then it's a purposeful life-long coma. BL did mention her predecessor, which makes me think she inherited this role from some other comatose vegetable. Alternatively, the consortium could not have had the dream world until BL became a medium for Sandman. Which itself might be one of the major contributing factors for BL taking the mantle of Boss Leader in the first place as she would have become a vastly powerful Spectral and someone central to the consortium's operation.
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Aug 31, 2020 02:07
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Did a full re-read, and came to two conclusions: 1. gently caress this comic is good 2. Man it's been a while since we've seen Scrapdragon. Obviously there's not a huge range of interactions Max can have with it while it's still a grudge, but it's been a looooooooong time since we've seen the dude, and I really wanna learn more about it.
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Aug 31, 2020 19:33
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It was years of days ago
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Aug 31, 2020 21:44
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as unbearable as the Hitball/Hijack chapter became, the page where johnny et al interrogate jeff may be one of the greatest in the medium
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Aug 31, 2020 21:50
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Did a full re-read, and came to two conclusions: How long has it been since we last saw Max, the main character of the comic? Two years?
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Oxxidation posted:as unbearable as the Hitball/Hijack chapter became, the page where johnny et al interrogate jeff may be one of the greatest in the medium Hitball is pretty much where the comic fell apart and just became entirely too ADHD but hell even I’ll agree to that. ~What are your hopes and also dreams~
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Who What Now posted:How long has it been since we last saw Max, the main character of the comic? Two years? We saw him briefly at the end of the last chapter, with the rest of the gang, getting omionus warnings from the sphinxes Captain Oblivious posted:Hitball is pretty much where the comic fell apart and just became entirely too ADHD but hell even I’ll agree to that. It was aeternal but especially on a reread I thought it did a nice job of juggling between its 12 plot points. It was just....a lot to go through one time a week when Zach was able to do one a week. then it was followed by a chapter that was super focused leading to a vareity of mysteries. The worst part about it was the never eending big foot narration. and now we're here, in a structured set of flashbacks!
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Aug 31, 2020 22:12
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On re-read the Hitball chapter is honestly pretty good and enormously funny (And the actual events of hitball take up maybe about a quarter of the chapter). I will say though that there's a lot that could have been eliminated or cut down through editing, Hijack's dialogue especially, and the timeline specifics around the reveal of who Hijack is really piloting aren't always clear in the moment. I think Zack has learned from the experience, though—Chapter 6 was relatively short and focused, and the current chapter has already taken a deep dive into some long-standing questions/mysteries. e: hell, when's the last time we even had a good diatribe on ~ethics~? double edit: actually zack's worst crime is that the greatest character in all of comics, Johnny Jhonny, hasn't shown up in two years, Give Me More Johnny Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Aug 31, 2020 22:50
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Ethics is the worst branch of philosophy
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Acebuckeye13 posted:On re-read the Hitball chapter is honestly pretty good and enormously funny (And the actual events of hitball take up maybe about a quarter of the chapter). Yep! I re-read the entire comic recently and the Hitball chapter is great when you can read it in a few dozens of minutes instead of four loving years.
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Countblanc posted:It was years of days ago
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I love hitball, zack's action sequences are always a ton of fun
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Wherein some things are confirmed about Boss Leader Alt text: screaming in jagged rainbows... the ultimate lullaby
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"Please don't be scared" is interesting. I guess the wight isn't malevolent?
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I mean all that was established about wights so far is that they are extremely powerful and dangerous. No one said that they have to be evil. EDIT: I'll follow suit and put it into spoiler, because why not.
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fractalairduct posted:"Please don't be scared" is interesting. I guess the wight isn't malevolent? Makes sense, they were described as having found the center of an emotional maelstrom so they have reached a point of tenuous stability. Every Boss Leader being a coma patient isn't terribly surprising but it's also nice to confirm that.
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We're not getting the inception flashback then  So, Sandman isn't the feminine wight that attacked them earlier. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the feminine wight is what's locked behind the Monster Door given BL's comment about their dreams being too close to each other. Wonder if Mina will get to ask her about that door before we move on to Rick's second flashback.
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Interesting. The one that attacked earlier said "look at me" and Dr Burger said it was "lonely". Aside from giving extremely Simone-from-Nier-Automata vibes, that makes it seem that Max might've made exactly the right call with saving Scrapdragon from BL to prevent its Grudge state worsening. Ghost Train's a Grudge now as well iirc. Also with the feminine one from before saying "look at me", and being implied by Spender's PTSD-flashback to be in a lake, I'm calling it now: It's some kind of Siren, and it's why spirits are attracted to Mayview.
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Given that there's been a series of Boss Leaders, I wonder if that means we'll see Penny become the new Boss Leader before the comic ends.
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yeah yeah lore and whatever but more importantly I think boss leader might have a thing for buff ladies
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T-man posted:yeah yeah lore and whatever but more importantly I think boss leader might have a thing for buff ladies Does she want to be with one or does she want to be one or does she want both I think what she mostly wants is muscles.
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Rick's like 13...15 tops here right? The boss leader switch over must've been pretty recent.T-man posted:yeah yeah lore and whatever but more importantly I think boss leader might have a thing for buff ladies It's pretty subtle, though, hard to say for sure.
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T-man posted:yeah yeah lore and whatever but more importantly I think boss leader might have a thing for buff ladies I think it's more she never met her predecessor and is only going off reputation. The reputation that the previous BL was buff. Very buff.
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rannum posted:Rick's like 13...15 tops here right? The boss leader switch over must've been pretty recent. He's 16. He could reasonably have been under a different boss leader when he was 13; at that age it would make sense to both be within the organisation and not know the boss personally.
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I appreciate the quick confirmation of the "BL is in a coma" theory from the last few pages.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I appreciate the quick confirmation of the "BL is in a coma" theory from the last few pages. Same!
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Wights having trouble talking in a way other people can handle has interesting implications for the angel, who I agree must be the wight in the lake. She also has the rainbow text characteristic of wight wail, but she can actually talk in a intelligible and even pleasant manner.
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The wight telling everyone "Please don't be scared" reminds me of that bit in the Bible where an angel appears to someone and it says "Be not afraid" because the guy was losing his poo poo at the sight of the angel (which, according to the Bible, is a massive wheel of fire studded with glowing eyes). Edit: lol apparently there's biblically accurate angel memes, because of course there are Tupperwarez fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 04:51
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The spectrum stuff probably has something to do with how the angel and the thing inside Max were split apart from an original wight.
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Rand Brittain posted:The spectrum stuff probably has something to do with how the angel and the thing inside Max were split apart from an original wight. I'm not sure the angel is part of the broken god -- Doorman specifically says she doesn't fear it.
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Oh, my, BL is showing her real face. Sort of. You know she's serious! Have we seen Mina's spirit before? This isn't her Cocoon friend. ETA: Patchworm, that's the name. Or is it? Patchworm has rainbow lettering. Bonster fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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