Must have been a glitch in the first version of the artwork, then.
If it had been only one panel then I’d have thought so. But when it happens in three different panels, and it’s the same guy’s sword each time, it looks deliberate.
Maybe the creator changed his mind.
FINALLY. Belkar kicking ass again. I knew that we were on the cusp of awesomeness when, in the previous strip, Belkar recited the line from my all-time favorite OOTS strip. If I could frame that one on my wall, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Aw, HELL yeah.
Belkar=Homicidal Goodness!
610 really did rocked didn’t it? i liked how the comic conveyed cinematic tension with mere panels.
V ain’t dead yet but is in terrible shape, mostly because s/he’s been takin’ care of business, workin’ overtime to get in touch with Haley and Belkar. Among other conditions, Belkar had to stay within a mile of Roy’s body in order not to set off the Mark of Justice and since they weren’t able to get Roy on the ship in time, he and Haley stayed behind in Azure City - thus setting off the attempts to contact them (frustrated by Xykon’s Cloister spell) which have drained Vaarsuvius of everything except the will to snark, pushing him/her ever closer to the edge of the mortal abyss.
QED.
You mean “So do you want to be the one to tell him he probably won’t get any XP from any of them?”
I’m glad to see something is finally happening again in OOTS. I was disappointed in some of the meandering plot developments, none of which seemed to have any immediate purpose, and which mostly undermined the importance of the central characters.
It’d be too much a downer to go into all of that now, but I’m glad Belkar is finally unleashed again. 
I hope Durkon doesn’t have himself materialized into the seige room, and start resurrecting all of the guild members.
How would he get there? Given the rather poor situation of the refugee fleet, it seems unlikely that they have access to someone who could cast Teleport (or whatever).
Let’s just say we’re in complete disagreement.
Nobody would still be reading this strip is it was just Belkar stabbing things. That’s just something Burlew throws in once and awhile when there’s nothing important going on. The important stuff is the characters.
Let’s just say you completely misunderstood what I said.
Well, we know that Hinjo has at least one wizard that can cast Teleport. Yes, he died, but he was due for a res the next day. And the cleric with the res spell was seen later. So, it’s reasonable to assume he was raised off panel.
We had a recent thread on this issue. Some people complained that the plot had stopped moving forward and was just wandering. Others (including me) felt that what’s going on is important. The characters are shown to be changing and because they are physically seperated, they are not able to adapt to each other’s changes as they occur. When the group is reunited it will be six people who are not the same as the six people who split up. Everyone will have to adjust to the differences between how they remember the other five being and how they actually are now.
Burlew has done this kind of thing before. People who haven’t read the books may not know that Xykon used to work for Redcloak. Burlew spent an entire book showing how their relationship gradually changed over several years.
Who cares about plot? It’s all about the short sociopath.
Please tell me I am not the only one to have exclaimed “I am a sexy shoeless God of war!” during a meeting at work.
The best part was watching everyone stare not at me (they are used to me doing that sort of thing) but at the guy who got it and collapsed in laughter.
I don’t think that’s a very likely possibility, but I do agree that the very conspicuously placed spell-message-thing to summon Durkon (really, you’d expect it not to be shown in the panels at all) indicates that it will be involved in the plot device – particularly when we were explicitly not told how far along the spell was (or if it was finished) when the mage decided to heal Belkar.
Namely: Does Elan dig short-haired chicks?
But, Belkar stabbing things IS important to his character. After all the introspection crap he had a major epiphany. He really is just a homicidal sociopath.