Some bi people have a third arm – it’s just a lot shorter than the other two.
However, given what we’ve seen in the strip, never mind cryptic messages, I’d say it isn’t much of a secret.
A good callback on the Gate joke.
And Redcloak has cast that spell before, just not that version of the spell.
Love the name of this one.
And Redcloak actually used the word “quinton”, so I guess IP infringement is not an issue after all.
The Quinton’s sponsor is Raid: Shadow Legends?
Also, it’s interesting to see how the Cosmic Forces of the Universe have progressed throughout the strip’s run, from Thor’s answering machine all the way to this!
But the comic is carefully avoiding saying “Mechanus”.
Xykon really outsmarted himself there
I wonder if Xykon’s little outburst about only wanting to kill everybody is going to be another bit of what causes Redcloak to betray him? Because we all know that’s bound to happen. It’s been lampshaded enough over the years.
If Xykon didn’t want to have to think about it, all he had to do was end every sentence with a four-letter swear. Easy-peasy.
Now, I guess he could end sentences with ‘clown’, or an odd-lettered swear.
I can’t help but think that Burlew is trolling his readers here, who will now be obsessively letter-counting. Thank Heavens Mechanus it’s only final words from now on.
That is exactly what i was thinking as i read it. That, or Xykon will kill Redcloak.
But if he does, that closes off the Chekov’s Gun of the compulsion Xykon put on the MitD. So I think it will be Redcloak that does the betraying. What happens then is going to be…interesting.
Oona appears to essentially being using Redcloak to further her own goals the same way Redcloak is using Xykon to further his own goals. And Redcloak, with his typical narrow view, doesn’t consider this possibility.
Perhaps the next word was “good”. Haley used to be fairly neutral in her alignment. Being with Elan has moved her to the good side.
And it would explain how she’s been carrying her arrows for all these years.
I think that Redcloak is fully aware of it, and considers it acceptable, because his goals (at least, his First Village goals, because he doesn’t admit the Second Village to himself) and Oona’s are close enough to aligning. Redcloak (on at least some level) really does want what’s best for all goblinoids. Oona wants what’s best for her particular tribe of goblinoids, and doesn’t hold any particular ill will for the rest of the goblinoids, so what’s good for goblinoids in general is mostly good for Oona’s tribe, and vice-versa.
Redcloak thinks he is successfully misleading Xykon. If Redcloak sees that Oona’s relationship with him is the same as his relationship with Xykon, he should be worried by the parallel. He should see the possibility that Oona is misleading him the way that he is misleading Xykon or that Xykon has seen through his plot the way that he has seen through Oona’s plot.
But I doubt it. Redcloak puts other people into mental boxes. He has decided that Xykon and Oona are under his control and he dismisses any other possibilities (just as he dismissed the possibility that the MITD is actively sabotaging the search rather than just screwing up.)