This comment makes me unreasonably happy. Well done!
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<gives treat>
And he was injured and vulnerable. And the charm send to be wearing off.
I’m not sure it ever worked. I thing he might have stayed with Xykon out of immaturity and insecurity, and not because of any magic. Xykon gave him a home, so he stayed.
The charm was specifically only to trigger if Redcloak ever turned on Xykon, and has nothing to do with him continuing to hang out with Team Evil.
Since you’re discussing it openly, I’ll go ahead and ask. How is it a major part of the plot? I don’t remember Redcloak ever turning, and wouldn’t that mean that reading the book was actually necessary?
Hell, I’d completely forgotten it happened. It’s one panel, and it seemed to contradict everything Xykon says at the end about why he knows that Redcloak won’t defy him.
(Though, personally, I say Xykon is wrong. It really is only the mission that motivates him. That’s the something that he has to justify his actions with.)
Legendary
Ouch. That’s given me a pounding headache.
But Xykon was saying that to Redcloak - so it may have been something he was saying for effect rather than because he fully believed it.
There’s a balance between Xykon and Redcloak that both recognize. I think Xykon is smart enough to realize that Redcloak is smarter than he is while also knowing that he is more powerful than Redcloak.
Gosh, now I get it. I think the preferred spelling is Kronos or Cronus. Still, very clever and funny! (as are the responses!)
It isn’t yet a major part of the plot, because your memory is correct, and Redcloak hasn’t yet turned, and so that book is not necessary. Presumably, if Redcloak does eventually turn on Xykon in the main strip, Rich will introduce that plot point in the main strip at some time at or before then.
Chronos (the personification of time) and Kronos (the lord of the Titans, father of Zeus) are actually two different entities. Chronos (the poster) has been showing admirable restraint by not reminding us of that.
Eh, he’s got time.
I knew this and I actually hesitated to make the joke because I also knew, on this board, somebody else would catch it. But I figured even back in classical Greek times, people confused Χρόνος with Κρόνος so I decided to go with it.
Athen’ what you did there.
It was puntastic. I confess to have guffawed a bit.
Yeah, it was too good a joke to ruin. And besides, the boundaries between different gods are always a bit blurry anyway, so there might be some sense in which Χρόνος was Κρόνος, after all.
Nice one.
While we’re on the subject of MiTD.
Redcloak thinks he knows what MiTD is. Redcloak knows that Xykon is keeping him around for a reason, even if that reason involves whimsy. Redcloak may suspect that Xykon has hypnotized him. I say this because Redcloak has had years to think about Xykon and his capabilities.
Xykon intuits that Redcloak may suspect something, but doesn’t care. Redcloak understands this.