Chapter 23 – Page 18
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The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
The Messenger
indui
In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Monster's Garden
Ash G.
Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
Angel's Orchard
Harry Bogosian
After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
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Pwit. :3
Fightopia seems to be experiencing some blowback.
Frigg totally rocked Bragg’s socks off.
BONK!
Actually, I’m fairly certain those are his boots.
basicly she defeeted him.
When I first saw the boots in the comic, I thought they were letters! I read them as saying “F U!”
If they can have a bear crapping on a flag, Brag’s boots can spell whatever they want :P
(Also, that blind seer seems pretty near-sighted)
At least she might be able to see to the end of her nose now that it’s smashed flush with the rest of her face.
Pretty sure she saw the shield…it’s the force field that suddenly formed several inches in front of it that got her by surprise.
Looking the way she’s accordioned way more than the visible thickness of the glowy barriershit, maybe there was a little oversight on her calculations.
And another look at the glowy lines, looks like she was shield bashed in a rat-trap-like motion. She still chose to charge face-first at the goddamn shield of something so fierce you can taste it.
The way she’s failing so hard is so amusing for me that it makes up for every Zattoichi wannabe I’ve ever seen.
Not even the threat of death can shake you from being friendzoned
I think I might re-read the whole thing, I guess I forgot a few fact keys.
Frigg totally figured the glowy hammershit mechanics, or she’s just empathizing (is that even a word?) with Emo-rl hard enough to activate those and make Braggadocio have flashbacks about cliffhangers and yodeling?
I think she has indeed figured out the basic glowy hammershit mechanics well. But it’s also cool to see that even Frigg can have a little empathy for “E-girl”; she was (still is?) pretty shaken up about being friendzoned by Scipio. She’s actually a tiny bit sweet underneath that mountain of crassness and blatant indifference.
She did, thanks to Rachel’s unwanted help.
Also, E-Mo got his slamwich. Doesn’t seems to enjoy it that much, though.
At least it doesn’t make him useless in a fight.
Unlike some heroes.
This reminds me of the old time two page melee scenes that we occasionally used to see in X-men or Teen Titan comix from the 80’s. Just one huge panel spanning both pages, with all *&^% breaking loose.
HMMmmmm! Whatta thought! Howzabout it, team? Maybe in a future battle?? (So cool)
F***ing hated two page spreads :|
Unless they were on the centre pages, otherwise they never lined up properly (it’s almost like they deliberately missaligned the 2 pages to piss off readers… nah, they wouldn’t do that, right?)
The friendzone is bullshit, but it makes sense that Frigg would use a term like that. Also, heartwarming.
Of course it’s bullshit, that’s why Frigg said it
I can just see Gravedust and Rabbit having a mobile archery duel.
Keep shooting, keep dodging! If you run out of arrows, just pick up the ones your target missed you with!
It’s like some deadly re-imagining of tennis! We might have to call an interference foul on E-Merl, though.
Wow… I just got that E-Merl saved Gravy in Panel 3.
Was wondering what caused the arrow to explode (thought at first it was Gravy’s return shot hitting Bunny-boy’s arrow head-on)
Looks like Bunny-boy got a shock when his arrow exploded (look at his face, his mouth is open)
I think I figured the detail that was bothering me before…
So, the buck-toothed hobbit fired an arrow at Gravy. A battered (physically and emotionaly on varying degrees) E-Morl had the reflexes to firebolt a mid-air arrow accurately after being in ground zero of a glowy hammershit impact.
Braggadocio is fast enough to surprise this guy.
More and more Braggadocio is getting close to the modern Volstagg. He got hit with enough force to knock him off his boots. I think Mythbusters demonstrated how much force it takes to do so once. Hell, any force hard enough to do a home run hit at someone of his size would easily destroy most stone golems.
No matter how badly hurt Bragg is now, just surviving it is a wondrous feat.
And probably all they did was to make the juggernaut angry. Angry, hungry and with two tickets to the gun show.
At least, once all the Bragadoccio amazement fades off, +1 respect to E-Morl (from Gravy, the only one who seems to keep track) for reducing the total amount of arrows to his face by one… unless this is a “magic missile-like” (read: Auto-aim) spell. Singed eyebrows for nothing, then.
I didn’t realize it was Merl who “blew up” the arrow. I kept looking at it and wondering what happened. I thought it was an explosive arrow or something but it didn’t seem to make sense. Some sort of visual cue would’ve helped, just a few lines from Merl’s hand or something.
As for the rest, it’s just comicy over-the-top-ness though I’m not a big fan of how overpowered Rachel and Frigg are. They make both their enemies and their allies seem inconsequential. I do realize their powers are important for the story.
Regarding the first half: As I had the same problem (and looked into the comments for getting a clue – which worked, see above) I obviously didn’t get it myself at first, but there is a visual cue, namely the posture of E-Merl’s Hand in the third panel. Especially in combination with him holding the fireball/magic missile/whatever in the second panel.
True about Merl’s posture but it’s very out of the way and I simply didn’t register it. I didn’t even realize the hobbit was trying to fire at GD. One moment he’s dodging GD’s arrow, the next there’s an explosion. Yeah, he’s kinda notching an arrow while dodging but again, it escapes casual observation.
No big deal but a number of factors makes the scene difficult to “read”, did for me at least.
It wasn’t obvious to me at first glance, but after a second look I thought the action sequence is quite clear to me given Merl’s expression and posture cues in panels 2-4. As for the second part of what you say, I quite agree. All this ka-smitery has loads of possibility to throw the story out of balance; trivialize everyone besides Rachel and Frigg. Also, I find it a bit jarring that Gravedust hasn’t made any analysis of these new powers in his journal; I thought everyone would be a little more surprised over this power that allows Frigg to destroy armoured war machines in a single blow.
Last panel: Where’s the Bragg-sized hole in the trees?
Umm, probably that gap the rest of the Fightopiates are racing through?
This brings forth the memory of the classic all-out brawls of comic history… and makes me laugh out loud whenever I read it through :D
Yeah, and one of the best parts is spending hours perusing the page(s) attempting to work out what is going on, and always finding some new little detail (like Tamara landing in the trees in the last panel :D)
Have we determined what sort of smiting Frigg’s patron wolf of badassery actually grants her? Smite Chumps? Smite Sissies? Smite People-Not-As-Awesome-As-I-Am? Inquiring Paladins, Blackguards, and Hellknights want to know.
As Governor, with my brother being in charge of national development, our first order of business shall be…
MECHANICAL WHORES!!! GODDAMIT I’VE WAITED TOO LONG ALREADY!!!