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3-38 Coming Home

Friday, March 21st, 2008

It looks like class and work are going to eat all my time again this week, so I’m not expecting to have a new page this Friday.

🙁

See you next week.

– Craig

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20 Responses to “3-38 Coming Home”

Timo Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Ok, this was not expected. Marcus has his home at mythband realm, not in earth-realm. And Tara is there too now.
Cardinal Rob Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I wonder if she lost her memory as Leon did, although Leon seemed to retain some knowledge about his Mythband character Ranger.

Is Tara even familiar with Mythband?

I hope she becomes a paladin. She seems bent on justice, and she’d look hot in a chainmail bikini 😉
Charles Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Leon lost his memory because he had ceased to be fully human, viz., the blood on the contract.

Tara was pretty messed up by Rex, so we’ll see what Lilith can do. She would be cool as a fighter, and her inability to understand evil might even make her a paladin candidate.

Mother, I’m coming home – Just a little Pink Floyd-esque?

No PKilling? Not a Philip Katz reference? That would be too geeky, sorta like if Rex had said he’s going to cat Ignatius slowly:

#cat Ignatius | Rex > dead.meat
#less dead.meat

Segmentation fault – core dumped.
#

Ha!

Tara knows Lucky; Tara will be weirded out. She also knows Leon. Meeting up will be interesting.

Great move to go to Mythband! I wasn’t expecting it, but it makes absolute sense.

Thanks for the Easter present. The whole idea that a real world could have an ASCII interface is just too cool.
Charles Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Oh yeah, coming home is also an Ozzy lyric. That could work too, with the dark side factor.
Andi Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Do you think that’s when Leon’s memory was messed up? I was thinking it was from whatever the Maintainer did to send him into Mythband. Seems to me Leon was already something slightly different than human if Ignatius is his grandfather.
Timo Says:
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 am
Charles: how does Tara know Leon or Lucky? I don’t recall any episodes with them together.
Z Says:
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
In 1-5 Leon says he “does not really know Tara that well”. But he knows her somewhat.

In 1-9 in ZampoÃ±a we see both Lucky and Tara, but I am not sure whether they know each other. Apparently Leon didn’t know Lucky before 1-15.

Charles, what do you mean by “Easter present”? I don’t see any…
Djabanete Says:
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I like Marcus more with every strip.
Timo Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Same here. Marcus seems to be quite nice fellow…for a vampire.
Charles Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
By Easter present I meant that the strip itself is well-appreciated as one might be glad to receive an Easter present, it being so proximal to the date of release.
Z Says:
March 26th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Thanks, I misunderstood your comment (I thought there is some kind of a hidden Easter page, which is somehow related to an ASCII interface to our real world…)
Andi Says:
March 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
What??? You didn’t click on the hidden bunny in panel three???
Cardinal Rob Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 8:04 am
No comic this week?

Distressing, I really wanted to see what happens to Tara
Timo Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I find it better that Graig and Jennifer do not do hasty comic in a hurry. It is better to do your work properly and then do a little bit better job at comic too even that it takes a bit longer to draw those.
MyrddinEmrys Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
haha… I LOVE the “5” in frame 2.

Also, can someone help me out and explain the “not due out of your box for five years yet” thing to me?
nerdpride Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Tara shouldn’t forget who she is if she’s fully human, I think that was the stipulation. Maybe she’s going to be vampiric now that she bit Marcus (heehee).

Now that I think of it, I don’t know why Marcus was imprisoned. We don’t know much about him yet, other than him being a vampire.

With the whole fight between Ignatius and Rex Caligo, and also the Maintainer being one of those usually evil ilithid guys, and now the vampire capturing this woman to save her, after the woman bites him, it seems like we won’t be having a stereotypical white-hat vs black-hat comic. 😀

Or I don’t know, maybe Marcus doesn’t want to follow these orders but has to from compulsion?
Z Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
“Marcus seems to be quite nice fellowâ€¦”

He does not need to be a nice fellow. He just obeys Ignatius, who told him to take her home.
Andi Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Well no, he doesn’t /need/ to be, but he does seem to be from the various dialog and such we’ve seen from him thus far.

I’m guessing that his imprisonment may have been a protect-him-from-himself type thing. Something I’m confused about, though…way back when Ignatius and Marcus were having their develop-the-backstory chat, it shows the Maintainer, Lillith, and Marcus on one side of a table and Ignatius with a greedy smile on the other side, while Lillith is unhappily signing a contract which revokes Ignatius’s fey power given certain stipulations, because he wanted to be king of somewhere. Presumably the storylines of Marcus and Ignatius diverge at that point, as Ignatius goes off to be kingly (and human), gets deposed, and his execution by drowning is attempted at which point he manages to survive long enough to be “saved” by the sea hag until quite recently.

My question is…when the contract was signed, was Marcus already under Ignatius’s control? If not, when would he have had the opportunity to make that happen?
Charles Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
This actually reminds me to a certain extent of the Dr. Who episode, The Image of the Fendahl (Sept. 1977).

There, a creature developed that got rid of all life on a planet. It tried to do so on Earth. But it did so by affecting a certain place (Fetch Priory) and altering time in that area to manipulate individuals and bring about its regeneration after millions of years. Thea Ransome (both names theologically significant) transforms into the Fendahl Core, assisted by Satanists.

I suspect that, although we see a lot of individual things going on, we should look to the fact that, as the background issues of the town being somewhat collocated with the supernatural become more apparent, a “what was then shall ever be” kind of scenario will emerge and the individuals may remain, yet find themselves part of larger currents.

I think that Carl Macek’s Robotech interpretation of the Macross/Genesis Pits material was the first comic/animation of which I was aware that really capitalized on the background story. If you read the Vanished Planet chapters you will also see some similarity with the structure here.

IMHO this is lots better than science/fantasy a la Piers Anthony; it is almost Lovecraftian in the sense of an old lurking horror, yet I see in parts a style recollective of Larry Niven where you really want to root for the individual characters and their stories and save the Ringworld as much for them as for any. If novelized, this could have the potential for a depth recalling Jordan, yet perhaps not so dragged-out and torturous.

This is based on good writing, and that is rarer than some might guess.
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