Okay, O-Chul’s perfection is starting to get on my nerves now.
Also, eee, badass Elven team.
Let me make sure I got this straight- elves are coming to help the resistance in Azure City?
I dunno – I thought the line “One saving throw at a time.” was rather poignant.
Absolutely. But that he could have the presence of mind to construct such a thorough, if not exhaustive, list of spells while fighting Xykon and Redcloak? It’s starting to stretch belief.
Yes. Unsurprising, since the first Gate Xykon (okay, Redcloak) destroyed was Lirien’s that was located in an elven forest. And I thought that Shojo had implied the various gatekeepers surreptitiously kept in contact, or at least kept tabs on each other.
More likely, over the course of several months of confinement during which all three villains regularly used their spells and abilities to torture him.
Also, being hit by a meteor swarm is the kind of thing that sticks in your memory.
Yeah. That was a brutal line. I was also reading it as ‘well, he used this on me on Thursday when torturing me. Then he used this on me when he was bored with the gladiatorial combat on Friday…’
Is this O Chul’s exit (for the moment) strip? Presumably he’ll stay with Hinjo as the Order go off to the next Gate.
I think the implication was that Xykon had used all of those spells either on him, or in his presence. Optionally, he might have updated the list with the last few high-level or Epic spells right after being healed, since he did have some downtime.
This is more or less my point. What means the rule of law when there exist individuals who simply aren’t threatened by government reprisal? And if not, whose government do you listen to?
Almost certainly. That’s kind of the wrap up for his arc with the only dangling thread being a confrontation with Roy or Vaarsuvius about a certain elf using demonic powers and that’s not even necessary.
Oh, and I totally called the comedic misunderstanding of Elan and the Ninja getting undercut.
I wonder just how much Haley told Elan?
IE does he now know stuff that we, the audience, do not?
I think Elan’s part in this strip shows how much he and Haley have matured as characters. It’s rather sweet, actually, to see Haley, who had hid her true feelings from him for so long, exposing herself and telling him all her secrets instead of letting her fear guide her actions.
I think it’s just another example of Burlew defying conventional narrative expectations. The cliche (as Elan recognized) would have been to save Therkla’s death for some shocking revelation scene. And we’ve already seen the build-up over Haley’s secrets so another shocking revelation could have fit in there. Instead we have them sharing their secrets offscreen with no major drama involved. The real plot point, as shantih pointed out, is that Elan and Haley have matured.
There are such people in this world, too. Nobody argues that the rule of law is rendered meaningless by the existence of people like Al Capone or Osama bin Laden.
And a new strip is up
Dude, I checked like, a minute before you posted and it wasn’t there.
“I need you to dismiss me”, ha !
I’m happy to see that after all the months they’ve spend together and all the adventures they’ve shared, Haley still can’t stand that annoying twit.
Uh-oh. Haley wasn’t the one who summoned her. Or at the very least it wasn’t Haley’s magic.
Of course I doubt that will actually amount to anything since Vaarsuvius or Durkon could use a spell to dismiss her back to her plane.
It may not have been her magic, but she was the summoner.
Anyway, the amulet is a DM invention. It’s his rules.