"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
I don't think it has a creepy relationship with its mother-clone.
Unless it was changed in the reboot, which I have (not) seen yet, wasn't it his dad that had the relationship with Rei?
His dad had an implied relationship with Rei, but he also had a thing for Rei who was still a clone of his mother, which makes it creepy. Or just Japanese.
In the Remake, his dad is just a ****. I think there might have been some Dad/Rei stuff, but I don't remember much if any, and if there was some it was majorly toned down. Shinji/Rei is a lot more emphasized in the remakes, though, as opposed to Shinji/Asuka.
Placing odds on the Snarl liquifying everything it touches, and the ocean of water is actually the "World's Largest Genetic Soup".
Hah. Amusing idea, but when Blackwing looked into the rift over Azure City, it sure looked like there were land masses on that planet. No clue where the whole Snarl story line is really going, but there have been enough hints that what they were told wasn't true that it seems unlikely that the snarl is what they were told it is (cause blatant foreshadowing, right?).
I think there's clearly something dangerous inside the rifts, because it seems unlikely that a group of powerful adventurers would have expended that much energy sealing off a set of rifts that weren't dangerous in some way. And it also seems really unlikely that the whole "tendrils reaching out and killing people" part was made up, since it appears to have caused the break up of the group. I'm starting to think that the whole Snarl thing was made up by the gods to conceal something they did way back in the past (maybe like creating a pocket dimension and tossing a whole planet full of people into it or something), and the "snarl" is some kind of protective magic designed to prevent anyone from looking too closely.
I just think that when the barrier between the two worlds started breaking down and formed these rifts, people started getting killed by the protective magic, and when the adventurers asked the gods about it, they all lied and made up the Snarl story in order to ensure that the adventurers sealed them up instead of investigating further. Dunno. Just a theory. So far though, this series has been sufficiently unpredictable (well for some things anyway), that while it's fun to speculate, I don't place much on being right about anything. Burlew seems to like the "out from left field" approach to resolving things.
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
Heck, Xykon and Redcloak can be counted separately since Xykon wants it for himself and Redcloak plans to give it over to the Dark One.
Tarquin is small bananas here; he's the only one NOT trying to rule/destroy the world. Heck, Xykon is small bananas -- what's a mere lich compared to gods and shapeless entities that eat gods?
I dunno if the thing in Durkon is supposed to be some third party or if it's just "Evil Durkon" as spawned by the transformation to a vampire. I didn't think that Durkon would be able to be changed and then continue following Thor, acting Good even if his alignment box is checked "Evil" and all the rest of it. Or, of course, if it's some separate force possessing him.
Tarquin is small bananas here; he's the only one NOT trying to rule/destroy the world.
I was thinking more along the lines of his group becoming the "new" Linear Guild in his quest to get Elan to submit to Tarquin's occupational plans for him. Small time in the grand scheme, but still enough of a threat to be a constant problem.
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
I dunno if the thing in Durkon is supposed to be some third party or if it's just "Evil Durkon" as spawned by the transformation to a vampire. I didn't think that Durkon would be able to be changed and then continue following Thor, acting Good even if his alignment box is checked "Evil" and all the rest of it. Or, of course, if it's some separate force possessing him.
I got the impression (from Hel's statement about being "birthed in my hall" that it's a new vampire soul that is created when he was turned. That soul has access to all the memories and knowledge of the "real" Durkon, so from an outside observer it just looks like the same person who is now a vampire (so basically he's a goa'uld). I think it's Burlew's way of answering all the questions that were running around on his forums about what really happens when someone's turned. It's not actually Durkon, but an evil copy of him. And his soul isn't destroyed, so he can be "saved" and restored to his original self potentially.
I suppose alternatively, it could be a completely different soul that existed previously and then possessed him when he became a vampire, but while that might conveniently explain the whole accent thing, I'm not sure I buy that from a metamagic point of view. He was created as a thrall of Malock, who worshiped Nergal. Why on earth would Hel send one of her own already existing evil spirits from her hall to inhabit a new vampire that would be controlled by another (presumably a competitor) deity? Seems like a bummer job really: "Oh hey! Bob. In thanks for the thousands of years of service you've given me, I've got a job for you. It's your turn to inhabit a new vampire dwarf. Yeah. It's a thrall, so you'll have to serve some other god for awhile, but maybe one day you'll free yourself or something!". Not sure I see that happening.
In the meantime though, regardless of where precisely the evil version of him came from, it means that poor Durkon has to watch helplessly while his vampire self does evil stuff. So maybe not such a great thing from his perspective.
Art style is different. The arms are colored instead of just black lines. Weirdness
[Edit: Legs, too. There was a joke in one strip way back with one of the characters (Elan?) saying he thought he was barefoot for the first 50 strips. No risk of that now.]
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." — James D. Nicoll
Heh at Mr. Scruffy and Bloodfeast. The strip as a whole seems like kind of a throw away though -- unless there's some set up here we won't realize for a hundred strips, there really wasn't anything going on.