09-Aug-2015: Shching-thump

[Talos]

Maybe the cloth just reads whether or not he has anything in his hands?

[hellspawned]

Lucky coincidence how that magical face cloth has just the perfect shade to match the rest of Thac0s clothing.

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

Totally ignoring all conversation to add in my only real thought reading this page:

Where are the statues? How did that much conversation go on without them? Did they all get taken out the page before and I somehow missed that?? lol

ETA: Looking at it... yeah maybe he did. I just thought he only took out a few of them.

The fight is over, all the statues defeated, yes.

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There is the next page draft over on Patreon and there is no continuation of fight there, more talking and stuff.

[Guus]

Spoilers, Speaks, spoilers!

Hellspawn: Well, if he hadn't lost the pink...

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

Okay, added spoiler tag. I didn't wrote anything to draw conclusions from, there, though

[Guus]

Nope, but some people care a lot about not knowing, and you kind of gave away the next page

[Xavier78]

How is that giving away anything? He just described almost every Goblins page, ever. If people get butthurt over that, they are way too eager to get enraged.

[Guus]

Please don't jump to conclusions. I'm not talking about anyone being enraged. There is a rule about spoilers, I perceived what speaks said as a spoiler and pointed it out in a way I feel comfortable doing towards him because he's a forum regular. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Zathyr]

The

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"and stuff"

part was particularly telling, I thought. But I don't really mind.

We're seeing the floor texture again I've noticed. I guess if you're going to have characters interacting with it (ie. Complains falling onto it) then it should appear floorish?

[SpeaksManyLanguages]

The

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"and stuff"

part was particularly telling, I thought. But I don't really mind.

I'm so tempted to give an actual spoiler, the setup for the joke is perfect...
But ALAS

P.S. and i was totally fine with Guus pointing out the sentence was spoilerish enough to be covered in the tags. I have the same view of the situation.

[Glemp]

Yeah, after my last skirt with spoilers here, I made a policy of not mentioning anything, even the fact that I knew something. And the the way, I named the thread because I remembered, I think it was Krulle, talking about how he'd name them after sound effects. And the Tower scene was a MUCH better use of Sara Puked it.

[Krulle]

It wasn't me

Anyone else remember a time when page titles usually used a sound-effect taken from the page?

*CLANK*

Id be all for going back to that.

(I complained about the format used, and tried covertly to push for
dd-Mon-yy instead of American notation (Mon-dd-yy)

[VBAtheflyinghead]

I wonder how much becoming part Demon affected Complains, how much was his behavior affected.
As someone who loves this kind of situation in Stories, I'm going to Squee if Complains has become unconsciously deathly afraid of Holy weapons and Smite Evil. (when someone behavior is changed due to becoming something else, and having to deal with new senses and instincts)

[Talos]

I wonder how much becoming part Demon affected Complains, how much was his behavior affected.
As someone who loves this kind of situation in Stories, I'm going to Squee if Complains has become unconsciously deathly afraid of Holy weapons and Smite Evil. (when someone behavior is changed due to becoming something else, and having to deal with new senses and instincts)

It just seems like a visual shorthand for his "demonic" anger that he was already known for. Visual cues for character development. It's not exactly subtle, but there you go. A bit like Kin putting on that purple coat when she killed her abuser to cover what he had exposed. Or Big Ears getting paladin armor to reflect his class. And of court, the IME. I could go on for a while. And yes, while comics or any other visual medium is aided by visual cues to express something, it is hardly subtle. Given how compressed events are in this (not much time has passed in-story), I guess some of this becomes necessary at some point.

Not that all changes in clothing and/or appearance are necessarily significant. Thaco getting pants could just be an art upgrade, for example. Something that makes him look a bit more dignified that an old goblin with a scrap of cloth over his privates. And some are just useful items acquired on an adventure (like Grem's new gear), a feature of virtually every adventure or RPG ever made.