Or he’s playing a bigger game than Malack realizes. We don’t yet know who Tarquin is lying to.
Excellent point. There’s no reason that Tarquin can’t be playing both of them for a scheme that he hasn’t shared with anyone yet.
I don’t think Tarquin really wants to kill Nale.
Yep. He wants Malack to kill him. When Nale is no longer useful. 
Right. Tarquin wants to extract the maximum use from Nale, and then get some brownie points from Malack when he lets Malack kill Nale.
I just realized that the strip title (“Suspicious Agreement”) can be read two different ways:
[ol]
[li]The obvious interpretation is that Malack’s agreement with Nale’s plans is suspicious, especially given Tarquin’s reference to the end of the mission.[/li][li]It could also refer to Tarquin’s subject/verb agreement. If he’s trying to pass as Thog, that’s gonna be a giveaway.[/li][/ol]
The first thing to look at to figure out a strip’s title should always be the last panel. Nine times out of ten, the title makes sense in that context.
Is Malack Affably Evil, True Neutral, Lawfully Lawful or something else? I sort of imagine him ending up in Mechanus.
Gotta say, I look forward to the strip and this thread way more than I should…
My guess is he’s Lawful Evil, he’s just not all moustache-twirly about it. Which is good, because lizardfolks can’t grow moustaches.
In general in this strip, how well two characters get along socially seems to depend mostly on their ethical alignment. Thus, for instance, Belkar enjoys hanging out with Shojo and Elan, since they’re all chaotic, and Durkon and Malack strike up a friendship because they’re both lawful.
And the less said about lizards with other mammalian traits, the better.
Or nuetralizing Durkon without killing him.
That’s an interesting point, and it makes sense - lawful or chaotic are as much personality traits as they are ethical philosophies. You might be opposed to someone with a different moral alignment as a matter of principal, but someone with a different ethical alignment will just rub you the wrong way.
Roy (lawful) and Haley (chaotic) get along fine.
Elan (chaotic) looks up to Roy (lawful) as a surrogate big brother.
Durkon (lawful) worships Thor (chaotic)
All the paladins (lawful) disliked Miko (lawful), but Shojo (chaotic) was a mentor to her.
Haley (chaotic) dislikes Belkar (chaotic) and Belkar mostly ignores her, showing neither like nor dislike.
Thog (lawful) and Elan (chaotic) became buddies.
Haley (chaotic) and Sabine (chaotic) hated each other from the first.
etc.
There’s no way that Thog the barbarian is lawful. Do you mean someone else?
Elan says that they are different ends of the alignment spectrum.
Elan is chaotic good, so I understood that Thog is lawful evil
Nope; to me, the obvious one is the second.
No, Elan is on the good end of the spectrum, and Thog is on the evil end. All of Thog’s behavior is chaotic, and barbarians can’t even be lawful at all.
I’d also dispute some of your other assertions: Haley and Roy work together as a team, but they aren’t really friends, and in fact are often in opposition. Shojo never liked Miko, either. And Sabine’s alignment is ambiguous, but she certainly seems to be portrayed as lawful (which is as rare as hen’s teeth for a demon, but she does work for the IFCC).
Tarquin’s mount is translucent. Is it a spell?
No, the wings are just that thin. Note the rest of the body is solid.
How’d they manage to whomp up a zombie pterodactyl anyway?