Did the cybernia demon possessing Byron just create a copy and put said copy into brother Tom, or did it strait up switch hosts? Did Homon just close the poor tall to cybernia? I am so confused but so entertained at the same time!!!
It looked to me like all of the cyberia demons were stuffing themselves into Byron, so now he’s like Legion or something. And he just sent one of them off into Brother Tom to be his mini-me ;)
Byron is the host of the swarm or at least the strongest ones. He kills others and implants demons into them creating new hosts. The new host go out and kills another and then implants a new demon…. Thrust, stab, parry, repeat and you just have made a zombie plague of madness.
Yeah, it’s like the usual way a zombie hoard spreads in a movie. Even though a lot of Cyberian demons came out of the portal, it looked to me like just one possessed Byron while the others were flying ahead to find more hosts. It also appears that one of the demons only possess a host at the moment of dying, which to me looks like Byron’s demon copied itself to possess the cultist, just as he was getting killed.
That’s interesting. At first I thought that the cyber-demons were flying over the trees and hence why the animals are all terrified. And that just one demon had decided to take up residents in Byron.
But after reviewing the last couple pages, it’s entirely possible all of the demons stuffed themselves into Byron.
And, for that matter, is “brother Homon” disappearing in that panel? Is he going invisible? disintegrating? sending himself through the portal while closing it at the same time? I mean, I know there is a lot happening on this page, and it’s all very intense, and bursting with colour and that one panel is kinda toned down in comparison… which makes me think it’s a “hidden in plain sight” kind of thing and could be an important clue to something later. Or maybe I’m just paranoid and reading way too much into it.
Also, I’d like to say that I love the way the “frames” have been handled in the recent pages, slowly deforming the traditional rectangles to the point where, on this page, they overlap and “burst” into one another. I think it really adds to the dynamic of the whole scene. Also also, this page is wonderfully creepy and even disgusting in places, just the way it should be, and it’s all without really changing the artstyle from the one that covered cartoony silliness.
I really want – and not for story or idealistic reasons – the last two panels of Friday’s strip to be Byron returning to normal, entirely unharmed, and HR shouting “Oh, COME ON!” at his computer screen.
It’s a plague of mad violence. How do you fight that when meeting the berserk can turn you into one of them? As far as apocalyptic threats go by crazy cults, this one is definitely something you can take seriously.
ASSUMING everyone who has been dead is no longer dead (a la Black & White Lanterns I guess?) my picks are:
Green- Frigg, Penk, Harky, Gravedust
Blue- Syr’nj, Rachel, & Normal Byron
Red- Mad Byron & HAMMERHEAD
Orange- Payet, Iver, Iwatani
Indigo- Bandit
Violet- Emerl
I’m honestly uncertain about Yellow; who uses fear as a primary tool? Scipio could be effective, as could the collective Gastonian Government a little bit (“We need your help, elves & gnomes, and you definitely want to give it to us”).
Pretty terrifying comic today. Makes me regret having stayed up to read it, as opposed to, y’know, having already gone to bed in the dark. >_>
I really hope that a lot of the images in today’s comic don’t become gravatars ^^;. Although to be honest, there are some images in today’s comic whose gravatar potential I actually really like. At first glance, Panel 1 Byron seems to be wielding an awesome stone drill weapon. Panel 2 Homon is legit. Choking-Tom Byron is alright (well aside from the context); and the last panel’s drained Byron I like. (All IMO.)
It’s the same old theme since Chapter 8 Page 23
In your head, in your head they’re still fighting
With their mace and their ax,
And another ax, and syringes,
In your head, in my head, it’s repetitive…
Well, I didn’t need to sleep tonight…that last panel makes me want to get out a big stick and sit huddled under the covers of my bed with the lights on ready to whack anything that comes near me. o.O
Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?
Brother Tom? Brother Tom?
Mourning bells are ringing! Mourning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.
(Sorry if this is a repeat. I vaguely remember a comment like this, somewhere)
He’ll get better, right?
What’s important is that he died doing what he loved.
Being tied to an altar by a person with tattoos?
Syr has tattoos, and a bed can be considered an ‘altar of love’, so yep. c:
Looks like fulfilling your dream generates a lot of stress. Brother Tom could use a massage to work out that kink in his neck.
Did….did they just make out?
This is how you catch mono, or maybe binary.
This doesn’t seem like something a respectable cultist would do on a first date. I think Brother Tom is a little easy.
Well. THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!
I don’t think that was his tongue he stuck down the cultist’s throat.
Did the cybernia demon possessing Byron just create a copy and put said copy into brother Tom, or did it strait up switch hosts? Did Homon just close the poor tall to cybernia? I am so confused but so entertained at the same time!!!
It looked to me like all of the cyberia demons were stuffing themselves into Byron, so now he’s like Legion or something. And he just sent one of them off into Brother Tom to be his mini-me ;)
I think it’s just the one — the marching people E-merl and Scipio saw in Monday’s strip are additional hosts, I bet.
Which makes me wonder if what we’re going to see on Friday is Byron coming out of his madness only to have to deal with Berserker Tom.
Byron is the host of the swarm or at least the strongest ones. He kills others and implants demons into them creating new hosts. The new host go out and kills another and then implants a new demon…. Thrust, stab, parry, repeat and you just have made a zombie plague of madness.
Yeah, it’s like the usual way a zombie hoard spreads in a movie. Even though a lot of Cyberian demons came out of the portal, it looked to me like just one possessed Byron while the others were flying ahead to find more hosts. It also appears that one of the demons only possess a host at the moment of dying, which to me looks like Byron’s demon copied itself to possess the cultist, just as he was getting killed.
That’s interesting. At first I thought that the cyber-demons were flying over the trees and hence why the animals are all terrified. And that just one demon had decided to take up residents in Byron.
But after reviewing the last couple pages, it’s entirely possible all of the demons stuffed themselves into Byron.
Don’t feel too sympathetic toward that tall.
For anyone knows, that tall could be rich & wealthy…
And, for that matter, is “brother Homon” disappearing in that panel? Is he going invisible? disintegrating? sending himself through the portal while closing it at the same time? I mean, I know there is a lot happening on this page, and it’s all very intense, and bursting with colour and that one panel is kinda toned down in comparison… which makes me think it’s a “hidden in plain sight” kind of thing and could be an important clue to something later. Or maybe I’m just paranoid and reading way too much into it.
Also, I’d like to say that I love the way the “frames” have been handled in the recent pages, slowly deforming the traditional rectangles to the point where, on this page, they overlap and “burst” into one another. I think it really adds to the dynamic of the whole scene. Also also, this page is wonderfully creepy and even disgusting in places, just the way it should be, and it’s all without really changing the artstyle from the one that covered cartoony silliness.
Now Byron, the situation might be a bit sick, but you have to try to keep your stomach down.
Starting a pun thread in the comments for a page this dramatic?! Some things just make me wanna puke.
Definitely a gutsy move.
absolutely gutted by you people..
Hey now, no need to throttle a good pun thread.
The puns continue – we’re not giving up, Chuck
FIRE IN THE BELLY !!!!!
i don’t know, this just seems like regurgitation…
Or a very serious bowel movement…It moved from Byron all the way over to Brother Tom!
WELP not going to bed just yet… *goes to look at kitten videos*
… Damn. I want that guy’s head in the last panel for my avatar, but I don’t want to photoshop it up for my own use. Feels like stealing.
(I said as I used Adell’s face…)
…that’s just your style?
I could make my own thing, but nobody would know what it is…
Creepy Bro Tom is creepy in a way I haven’t seen since issue #2 of The 40 Year Old Hippie.
Does panel 3 look like an inverted troll-face to anybody else?
No looks like the Spitfire skateboard truck dude like I tole you
Is Brother Tom about to shoot Barbara Gordon and then try to convince Byron that one bad day is the only thing separating a good man from insanity?
That would be a killer joke.
Here’s your wheelchair.
Mouth-to-mouth resuccubusitation.
French Inhale
And, I thought sharing bubblegum was gross…
I really want – and not for story or idealistic reasons – the last two panels of Friday’s strip to be Byron returning to normal, entirely unharmed, and HR shouting “Oh, COME ON!” at his computer screen.
It’s a plague of mad violence. How do you fight that when meeting the berserk can turn you into one of them? As far as apocalyptic threats go by crazy cults, this one is definitely something you can take seriously.
WAIT A MINUTE. Is this a red lantern reference? I feel like there’s a little red lantern in there.
If Byron is the Red Lantern now, who would get the other color rings?
I don’t think there can be any doubt that Frigg gets Green. Rachael is probably blue. Harky for Yellow, maybe?
I don’t think Rachel will be getting one.
ASSUMING everyone who has been dead is no longer dead (a la Black & White Lanterns I guess?) my picks are:
Green- Frigg, Penk, Harky, Gravedust
Blue- Syr’nj, Rachel, & Normal Byron
Red- Mad Byron & HAMMERHEAD
Orange- Payet, Iver, Iwatani
Indigo- Bandit
Violet- Emerl
I’m honestly uncertain about Yellow; who uses fear as a primary tool? Scipio could be effective, as could the collective Gastonian Government a little bit (“We need your help, elves & gnomes, and you definitely want to give it to us”).
Not intentional, but I’ll take it.
So… I’m guessing this is a virus thing with Byron being the original carrier… or something.
I guess Byron is….patient Nero. (⌐■_■)
Tom’s like: Best. Day. Ever.
You know what ? This axe guy sucks…just found me a better vessel.
Pretty terrifying comic today. Makes me regret having stayed up to read it, as opposed to, y’know, having already gone to bed in the dark. >_>
I really hope that a lot of the images in today’s comic don’t become gravatars ^^;. Although to be honest, there are some images in today’s comic whose gravatar potential I actually really like. At first glance, Panel 1 Byron seems to be wielding an awesome stone drill weapon. Panel 2 Homon is legit. Choking-Tom Byron is alright (well aside from the context); and the last panel’s drained Byron I like. (All IMO.)
2 Guys 1 Vessel
Iseewhachudidere, but aren’t the possessed guys technically vessels? So it should be 2 vessels 1 loa.
What’s in your heeeead? What’s in your heeeeead? Zombie! Zombie! Zombie-hee-hee!
It’s the same old theme since Chapter 8 Page 23
In your head, in your head they’re still fighting
With their mace and their ax,
And another ax, and syringes,
In your head, in my head, it’s repetitive…
Well, I didn’t need to sleep tonight…that last panel makes me want to get out a big stick and sit huddled under the covers of my bed with the lights on ready to whack anything that comes near me. o.O
Any thing that comes near you… what… like a giant purple spotted schorkelwhacker?
See? This are the kind of events in an MMO that really bring the masses to the game. Good Job Devs!
Now I understand the vomit trail from last time. Spitting up cyber deamons sounds pretty rough…
Pretty sure Homon’s busy scrubbing himself from existence. *Maybe* to another existence.
Wow I think panels 3-5 are the most auto-erotic asphyxiation I’ve seen in a webcomic since homestuck. I think brother Tom needs a towel…
He might need more than just a towel.
A neck brace would be good…
That Byron is such a clown.
Brother tom got over tiny HR’s betrayal very quickly.
SCARIEST PAGE EVER
well done!
“Dead means DEAD,” in Tom’s own words. I suspect, were he still alive, he’d consider this blasphemy.
I told you. So many hugs will he give.
This is why I could never get into snowballing.
It’s like watching birds feed their young!
Next up: watching birds feed ON their young.
Poor Syrn’j. Her boyfriend is french kissing cultists again.
Was getting possessed himself part of Tom’s plan? I got the impression he was ready to die die.
Either way works, I’d think. He’s proud to be chosen for a final service.
Props to the Waltrips on Brother Tom, there. Creepy lookin’ possession.
yikes! What the hell is HR’s endgame here?
Well his endgame is to become a god. It’s the middle parts of the game that are a bit fuzzy.
Its guys like Tom give cults a bad name
TAG!!! Your it. The new Bro Tom looks like three kids standing on their shoulders pretending to be a grown up
I’ve never seen someone so happy they got murdered.
Brother Tom is having a deathgasm.
La grande morte?
*mort
See, if only Brother Tom had been able to find a wonderful, tolerant BDSM community somewhere in Arkerra, none of this would have needed to happen.
I am honestly terrified right now …
This entire page is SO UNSETTLING!
Well we know what happened to the cultist, but what did that do to Byron?
Brother Tom:
JIZZED
IN MY
ROBE
(jizz in my robe I jizzed in my robe)
Huh I wasn’t aware the writers were into strangling and kinky cyber porn. I think I might just come back more often.
Harky and Penk ain’t the only ones with troll-faces!
Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?
Brother Tom? Brother Tom?
Mourning bells are ringing! Mourning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.
(Sorry if this is a repeat. I vaguely remember a comment like this, somewhere)