Actually, this gives me a thought. What if Ferris was playing Scipio, and when Ferris died, Laura got “promoted” to control him, but she doesn’t know how to properly role play him?
well, assuming they have any written texts with which to spread the word of Frigg, which isn’t likely considering Frigg can barely write her own name, and assuming that text has pictures (snorts at the idea of Open Heart Picture Books), those pictures are hardly going to be photo realistic. For one thing, it’s not like Frigg has ever sat for anyone to paint her portrait, so any images in the text would be based on memory as described by the witness and interpreted by the artist with the addition of visual representations of whatever holy aspects they’ve assigned to her. While she’s not hiding or anything, she’s also not glowing, or 10 feet tall, or whatever.
I think the villagers are reacting more to Rachel, who is proudly sporting Open Heart regalia.
(on further thought: if they are all players in an MMO, they just might have the setting turned off that displays her avatar name. Or, more likely, they have their language filter on.)
I like the way you guys use consistent landmarks through a strip to illustrate they are actually moving and not just standing there having a conversation.
Technically it’s practicing your stealth skills.
Multi-classing: Not just for fighters!
What surprise4s me is that they had the time to go ahead of her and even order some drinks.
They’re doing pretty well onsthe steahlth department too, they blend in quite nicely.
Also, pretty sure the villagers are reacting to the pseudo-swearword “retard”.
Now, now. It’s very important to keep properly hydrated when you go out stal… *ahem* walking.
I’d have guessed they were reacting to the sigil of the open heart that rachel is wearing
Or maybe they just recognize Frigg
Frigg is the ablest of them all!
I’m an idiot.
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/further-materials-toward-a-theory-of-the-man-child/ The Woman-Child tells an ablist joke. It is not funny. It is the fact that the Woman-Child said something ablist that is. The Woman-Child wants you to know that you should not take her too seriously, except when you should. At any given moment, she wants to you to take her only as seriously as she wants to be taken. When she offends you, she was kidding. When she means it, she means it. What she says goes. The Woman-Child thinks the meaning of her statement inheres in her intentions, not in the effects of her language. She knows that speech-act theory is passé.
Nude gator wrestling!?!? How scandalous!
I only wrestle clothed gators.
Well SOMEONE didn’t explain the rules to me.
Avatar win.
But has Scipio got the right measure of cruel kindness?
S’up, home-sizzles. How’s it hanging, my niggles?
Oh, E-merl, I’m disappointed.
Is he wearin’ … a dress??
Maybe… or he could be wearing an fashionably short wizard’s robe.
(Suitable for summer-wear, and quick retreats (or access for) from angry, sexually frustrated women…)
I need panel 2 as my avatar. Stat.
The fact you currently have dramatically intense Rachel as an avatar makes this statement all the better.
indeed!
The last panel confuses me. Who’s talking? Scipio?
No, Scipio’s Cigar is speaking.
The cigar IS Scipio.
That’s clearly far too many words for Scipio to say out loud. E-Merl is just inferring his meaning and using magic to project it in the nearby area.
Actually, this gives me a thought. What if Ferris was playing Scipio, and when Ferris died, Laura got “promoted” to control him, but she doesn’t know how to properly role play him?
Everyone in this conversation has the perfect avatars for what they are saying.
Still should probably modify the speech bubble. Its Scipio, right?
E-Merl is thinking to himself and replying out loud
This town reminds me of Rohan, except with like, 20 Grima Wormtongues, except the Grimas are kinda hot nuns who like hitting things with rulers.
I am conflicted.
Scipio just said more in a single frame than he has in this entire comic combined.
e-merl annoyed scipio out of his silence!
“I’m not Ablist, really! It’s just that they have a harder time getting out of my completely indiscriminate wrath!”–BezerkAnon#42
See? Everyone ELSE recognizes them, but not the novice that supposedly worships her as a prophet or something.
maybe the novice was trying to subtly GTFO
well, assuming they have any written texts with which to spread the word of Frigg, which isn’t likely considering Frigg can barely write her own name, and assuming that text has pictures (snorts at the idea of Open Heart Picture Books), those pictures are hardly going to be photo realistic. For one thing, it’s not like Frigg has ever sat for anyone to paint her portrait, so any images in the text would be based on memory as described by the witness and interpreted by the artist with the addition of visual representations of whatever holy aspects they’ve assigned to her. While she’s not hiding or anything, she’s also not glowing, or 10 feet tall, or whatever.
I think the villagers are reacting more to Rachel, who is proudly sporting Open Heart regalia.
(on further thought: if they are all players in an MMO, they just might have the setting turned off that displays her avatar name. Or, more likely, they have their language filter on.)
I like the way you guys use consistent landmarks through a strip to illustrate they are actually moving and not just standing there having a conversation.
I too hate being the backup.
UNATTRIBUTED SPEECH BALLOON! UNATTRIBUTED SPEECH BALLOON! FLEE FROM THE GHOSTS! FLEE!
Who ARE those two people in the last panel? Its so hard to tell with those cunning disguises.
Its Bandit and Byron, right?
Cloak + shoes + bare legs = Flasher Merl