I find myself sympathetic to the dragon.
So Calder has somehow removed his extra susceptibility to cold damage. How could this be done? Could a Dispel cancel that?
Calder might have casted resist energy. Resist Energy :: d20srd.org
“Quite some time ago” implies he didn’t just cast a spell, he has some (semi?) permanent effect going and has for “quite some time”.
Or he learned the Resist spell a long time ago…
Could be the Mantle of the Icy Soul spell, which grants a creature the cold subtype, with no duration. Ordinarily, that’d also mean fire vulnerability, but a creature who somehow gained both the fire and cold subtypes (like, say, a red dragon with that spell on it) would presumably be immune to both.
Possibly, but I’m a little skeptical.
First I’m finding different sources for Mantle of the Icy Soul spell, some of which list it as “instantaneous” and others of which list it as “one hour per level.” Second, the spell specifically mentions gaining fire vulnerability. When two effects are incompatible, the general rule is that the most recent one applies. I suppose you could rule that you gained +50% of the fire damage after immunity was applied, and +50% of zero is still zero. But that brings us to the bigger problem, that Burlew doesn’t tend to use super-obscure stuff like spells from the Spell Compendium.
My guess? A greater ring of cold resistance. Second guess? It’s actually straight-up spell resistance, and the dragon is lying, just like Haley was lying in the last strip.
Chekhov’s revenge. I like how Rich lampshaded it.
How is Sunny an “aberration” ?
That…was very satisfying.
It’s just a creature type. Weird unworldly things tend to get classified as Aberrations in the game. Mimi the Mimic is also an aberration.
Bloodfeast’s enthusiastic squawk was great
Does V’s fly spell start working again as s/he falls out of Sunny’s beam?
It should. It did last time.
Edit: My mistake, V wasn’t actually hit by the Dispel in their first fight with Sunny. They were taken out by a poisoned crossbow bolt. And a Slow spell.
Edit: Nevermind, Jophiel already addressed this.
Isn’t Sunny’s main beam anti-magic, not Dispel? Not a gamer, but this seems to matter sometimes.
It is. And it does. I’m not especially on my game this morning, it seems 
That big panel, though–that is worth all the buildup.
And his determined look as Belkar threw him. He was still a dino on the inside and he wanted to get his teeth into that dragon.
To all the naysayers who doubted Bloodfeast the Extremeinator just because of his “low challenge rating”, I say: RAWR! DINO VS DRAGON FIGHT!
Still, that does make me worry we may lose our little big guy.
Mechanically, I’m unconvinced but story-wise and visually, I’m all for it.