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Madrox posted:So is this a character from another of her comics? I've only read Unsounded... uhhh I think this guy is like her favorite character which is kinda bumming me out since he seems to be the "Superpowered expression of Man's Id" cliche which is a cliche I loving despise and am bored with. I'm kinda hoping he doesn't gently caress the comic up being an overpowered silly cannibal rapist thing that dominates every scene he's in.
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New page is up; yeah I totally trust this guy who just fondly remembered what sounds like rape, let's let him loose!
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Feb 13, 2013 12:39
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Sette is largely the main protagonist so she's got impenetrable plot armor and can't really get anything more than minor booboos.
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Feb 15, 2013 12:46
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I'm doubting it'll be that bad. I hope so anyway. This seems to fit with the whole thing where she pounds you over the head with a club to get basic characterization/plot/lore across if you're not reading any of the sperg-poo poo past the comic itself.
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Feb 15, 2013 13:29
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And here I was thinking he was only going to try and eat her since it's been however long since he had done so; nope, he absolutely was going to rape her.  And this guy is going to be essentially one of if not the primary antagonist(s). Guess he's certainly hateable enough.
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Feb 20, 2013 12:38
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It'll swerve back to maudlin, since if you recall Duane technically died 6 years ago.
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Feb 28, 2013 19:04
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Reminder that the khert sucks up all memories from dead people's souls. Note that this is something that Duane is not witnessing himself, but Sette is seeing it in the khert. Kinda easy to draw some conclusions from that.
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Mar 13, 2013 00:03
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Well it looks like Formspring is shutting down, so the spergbait is gonna be gone.
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Mar 16, 2013 00:48
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I imagine his family is just fine. That's a lot of people to suddenly have to kill off, so I imagine Duane doesn't want to go back since he's well, an undead monstrosity.
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Mar 28, 2013 20:41
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This is also a setting where the main religion of the continent unironically has their priests/high-up muckity mucks indulge in literal ritualistic cannibalism.
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Mar 29, 2013 13:11
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Flavahbeast posted:I'm glad nothing like that takes place in the preeminent real-world religion
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Mar 29, 2013 18:48
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Onean posted:Do we know if it's even possible for him to return the his family? I was under the impression that Duane isn't exactly young, and any family he might have had is long dead.
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Mar 31, 2013 17:52
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According to the author, they're executing captured members of The March, which is a secularist/sorta-anarchist movement. They aren't well liked if you can imagine.
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Apr 1, 2013 11:30
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SlothfulCobra posted:Public executions used to be a very popular form of entertainment, gruesome as it sounds.
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Apr 3, 2013 02:09
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Hello, handsome dead man.
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Apr 5, 2013 11:36
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Cresce is a good shot at an actual meritocracy but of course there's some glass ceilings in there, and they think they literally own everything. The peaceguard patrols in the neighboring countries are pretty much just spies that occasionally do policework. Also the whole war between Alderode and Cresce was actually started by Cresce; however many hundreds/thousands of years ago Alderode was having some massive internal upheaval and Cresce decided to make a grab for the whole country, doing so by slaughtering everyone they ran into. Alderode united and got its poo poo together, then pushed them out. So basically Cresce is responsible for everything, including Alderode kinda sucking.
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Apr 8, 2013 11:32
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Deki posted:Where are you getting this from?
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Apr 9, 2013 13:17
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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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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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Roland Jones posted:Well that got pretty serious; even Mikaila enjoying herself and Duane's "~IMAGINATION~" spell couldn't completely lighten it. (Also, confirmation that Duane's the older one. (Also also, drat, that dragon thing has some gnarly teeth.))
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May 15, 2013 11:46
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Drakyn posted:I'm very curious as to HOW the horrible thing happens now. If it's as straight forward as "Bodie says hello" *family disemboweled, then Duane* I'd expect Duane to be brofisting Quigley on the subject of How Alderode Is The Pits, not still a patriotic loyalist. Unless he got a little selective editing of memories...but then it'd be weird that he keeps flashbacking to his daughter, and what's the point of erasing things that can torture him if you're being cruel? Maybe he thinks the system's fine but the people in charge of it need replacing... but a system that permits something awful to happen to your family would be a preeettty big hurdle to overcome even for a diehard 'my-country-right-or-wrong' man. Also the rest of his church is pretty nice to him and the whole military mindset. I'm still not convinced his family is going to die. I'm not sure even the "I'm so cute! Man, I love being alive! Aren't I cute!?" daughter is doomed. Duane flat out said he doesn't ever want to return to Alderode. Since he still thinks the country is a model for the world to follow, I imagine it's less that he hates Alderode/has nothing to go home to but rather that he doesn't want to chance seeing his family again as an undead monstrosity (which would be extra traumatic to them since the undead are ESPECIALLY offensive to their religion).
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May 22, 2013 16:23
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Well, at least Duane picked up a slight inkling that something is coming.
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Jun 5, 2013 19:08
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I am actually somewhat sure the kid survives at this point. The author has only really killed people with very little characterization so far and Mikaila has gotten an awful of it in just a couple dozen pages for her to be cut down in the street with her dad.
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Jun 7, 2013 18:22
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Duane was in the army and spent most of his pre-churchy career training soldier wrights. He knows how to murder people.
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Jun 11, 2013 01:14
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I don't count on the author knowing medieval weaponry but a proper crossbow would literally blow a loving hole in you at the distances Duane has been hit at. Could be trying to catch him?
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Jun 11, 2013 13:07
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Freeform RPers are interesting to hang out with if you can deal with a high degree of cringe and they don't talk shop all the time. So basically like any nerds, only instead of cring-ey talk about anime, figurines, comics, cartoons, CCGs, etc you get to politely try and tolerate "hilarious" RP stories about the time someone got raped. Madrox posted:Should I recognize the person showing up in the last panel? Or is that just another one of the goons from the group attacking Duane?
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Jun 18, 2013 12:37
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I think we're starting to get back to "reality", as it were. Ugh, I forgot about Murkoph completely during this flashback. I hope the Unsounded twist on him is the same kinda quality as the twists on Duane/Sette or he may as well be riding into the shot on skis to jump an actual shark.
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Jun 20, 2013 15:10
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Even if she likes the character, I don't think she's writing him with the intention that others will. I don't like him because he's a nothing character from nowhere; if a character could literally be edited out of every panel they're in and the comic still would make perfect sense you have a really shittily written character. edit: doesn't mean I trust her to not gently caress up a perfectly good comic with this guy; every panel this guy's in oozes "  my favorite character! Lookit how fuckin sexy and mysterious he is! "
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Jun 28, 2013 11:44
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Avshalom posted:I live in hope that the next few pages will have Duane doing the proper thing as a surrogate dad and reducing this guy to a chunky red paste.
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Jun 28, 2013 13:42
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Wheats posted:This tumblr post actually explains some of her intentions with Murkoph. If you don't trust her to continue to handle her story after how well done this chapter has been, I don't know what to tell you.
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Jun 28, 2013 16:23
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Seoinin posted:Wait so this creeplord out of nowhere is, like, an actual capital-C Character? The gently caress? Sette just finds this creepy dead dude trapped in a wall in the khert, she's desperate for someone to protect her from the giant bird chasing her, this guy comes off like a pip so she lets him out. I guess it's in character but there's no real build up; he literally just grabs her and tries to rape her the instant he's loose.
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Jun 28, 2013 17:47
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Seoinin posted:Ohhh I get it now. That blog post about Murkoph is the first I've seen of all that other stuff. I was completely sideswiped by the way she was talking about him like he was an established character already instead of just some inexplicable prick-inna-wall. This is really cool because it means if you have any spergy interests in minutia it likely has a sensible, canon answer rather than being "A wizard did it shut the gently caress up so I can tell my story" thing. If you're observant you can suss out a shitload of story; unlike say Lost where people discovered the writers were literally just pulling it out of their asses and had no real plans so shallowness was mistaken for depth. This is also really bad because it's hard to boil a lot of it down to explain the backstory within the confines of the comic. Stuff is significant to characters and you don't know why, but a comic isn't great for again, Tolkien-level asides explaining every little thing. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jun 28, 2013 |
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Jun 28, 2013 18:24
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:Word of god on zombies is they have limited sensation and a limited ability to feel pain. Duane can really only feel heat and pressure anymore, and he only hurts if his bones break. He doesn't like the sun, but he can handle it. So the stomp probably didn't bother Murkoph any since Murkoph is also dead.
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Jul 3, 2013 11:42
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Fun speculation stuff that probably isn't true: Go back and look at Duane when he was preaching; the face paint represents scars from being clawed by a lion because you know, his god was killed by lions. Now look at Murk's face in his closeups.
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Jul 4, 2013 03:20
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Bummer this was a two-page update ironically; the first page posted today was pretty  but turned on its heel in the next one. Would've had a bit more impact if you had to wait a couple days to see it.
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Jul 8, 2013 15:16
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Yeah, that's the guy Duane's corpse eviscerated when Sette tricked him into going into the hotel room.
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Jul 11, 2013 21:03
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Wow, sucks to be Toma.
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Sep 18, 2013 11:30
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And that's probably Murk.
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Oct 7, 2013 11:30
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Elka has been around a while; she may just actually get some characterization now!SlothfulCobra posted:
If he continues to gently caress up every scene he's in I'll just write him off; he'll be to Ashley Cope as Jar Jar Binks was to Lucas- the character the creator really liked that no one else did. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Oct 9, 2013 11:40
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Cardiovorax posted:I don't, if that guy keeps showing up out of nowhere being a giant creepshow for no obvious reason I'm really going to give up on this. I mean for gently caress's sake, the comic hasn't been done with the previous storyline for a month and we're already back to the fetish bullshit. We'll see if he even does anything this chapter, and if he's actually an asset to the story when he comes back presumably without the need for an introduction. I don't like him either since having bothered to read a lot of the stuff Ashley has written about him I find him a hell of a lot less original/interesting/fascinating than she does and I don't CARE if I'm "supposed to hate him", but I honestly don't think we've seen him in this version of her world enough to really determine if he's awful or not.
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