Maybe Harky couldn’t retrieve it after that. Maybe he misinterpreted the billowing of Penk’s outfit as his herald having brought a furry tail to their honorable duel and is letting his skull be bashed in so he can forget about everything and die before putting two and two together.
Might have been torn out when Penk hit him with his drum. I’m thinking-
Harkey stabs Penk
Penk smashes Harkey in the face with his drumstick, the angle makes it likely that Harkey’s spear arm would have gone forward, pushing the spear deeper
Penk follows with the drum, Harkey falls back from the impact, pulling the spear back through.
Ironically, despite tutoring students in high school level English, I am not a prescriptivist. As such, I see nothing wrong in verbing nouns :)
Also, I should clarify that I am not assuming a continuity error exists, rather that I am honestly wondering if Trolls have the ability to instantly (or near-instantly) digest items within their body, so as to avoid the whole >regeneration stopped by impalement< issue.
I reckon that this would be a very interesting, although admittedly quite creepy concept. If that is true, I wonder whether absorbed mass is used to further speed up regeneration.
Spear will be high in iron…good for the blood. it didn’t look like Stone which would be high in minerals, or a different metal. Also the shaft is very high in fibre. Spear, does a body! Good?
I think Guild Wars sort of has that to an extent, but steins but some classes could use torches, horns or other items that don’t seem exactly like weapons.
I wonder why Harky isn’t using holy fire powers as well? Does that mean that Penk represents Tectonicus’s preference for the way this conflict is to go?
Because he can’t, wasn’t it the main reason why Penk even was needed? Harky lost it and another one had to take over, or Harky gave it away so that Penk could take it over, so Harky could focus on leading instead fighting.
I assume it has to do with the rather bizarre idea that they have character classes, where Harky is a pure fighter and Penk is a Paladin/Bard. With Rachel, Frigg and Silver Centurions all being paladins with “Glowy Hammer Shit.”
Rachel explains that her order uses faith/belief/gibberjabber to unlock what amounts to chi powers that they can then channel into a weapon. In Penk’s case, this is fire.
Okay, I’m just a little surprised. Harky always seemed like an ultimate badass – in chapter 8, he dominated the guildies (’til Byron ‘zerked; Byrzerker is the INFINITE badass); Penk’s battle against the same in chap 30 showed he was mediocre at best. So Penk looking like he’s about to strike the winning blow so quickly? I’ll bet the tide is about to suddenly turn (again, like when Harky was about to kill Syr and then got Brzerk’d.)
Two options: Either he’s been out adventuring, grinding, and getting better gear (to cover with his favorite armor as an aesthetic choice) while Harky’s basically been sitting back and leading the guild, remaining static while Penk took advantage of the Double XP weekends, or the will of Tectonicus flows through him.
While it does seem short, if it goes on another page it would seem too long. This is a fight meant to be both intense and to “get on with it”. Harky may be important, but he isn’t the main focus of this comic. Hell not even Penk is the main focus, they are both side characters/villians for the main plot.
Sepia world aside, Penk’s character development rivals that of any of the former Peacekeepers, and he’s on the same side as them now (or, depending on how you look at it, they’re on the same side as him). Of course, it looks different if one is only reading for sepia world.
We know nothing about Penk’s sepia counterpart (or even he’s a PC). People hypothesized that Xan was his player, but that was based on a similarity in appearance, which is, frankly, a point against the idea, because a) he would be the only non-tubed player who looked like his character, and b) does it really make sense that Mr Paranoid would make a public facing toon that looked like his real face?
is this fight strictly to the death? or is penk winding up for a concussive blast from the drum to knock harky out — enough to prove his dominance in the arena, but sparing the life of a respected elder?
ive got a head cannon forming where penk calls gondolessa down. penk reiterates that harky is now dead among trolls, either penk kills harky or hes banished to exile when he wakes. gondolessa has had enough heartbreak for one lifetime, so he carries harky out of town. they retire out in the middle of nowhere, bittersweetly ever after.
Harky is getting his arse beat, hard.
But….. I suspect Harky knew this would happen, in fact, I’d go so far as to say Harky planned on it happening. And took steps to ensure that it would. Except, being a troll, in order for it to go “as it should”, he has to make it real, hence, willingly stepping up and taking a possibly fatal beating for the sake of his people’s future.
Damn, that’s…. that’s dedication to what is right.
There once were two cats of Kilkenny.
Each thought there was one cat too many.
So they scratched and they fit and they fought and they bit.
‘Till, instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
The nerdy pedant in me wants to say that all all attacks should be performed in such a way that they limit your opponent’s freedom to answer with an afterblow. Therefore, Penk and Harky are doing it wrong.
And thus they killed one another, and Gravedust became the supreme Leader, and there was popcorn for everyone.
Oh. Wait a minute…trolls…regenerative abilities…
…bah. Being a troll seer must be tough. ‘You will be mortally wounded.’ ‘When will that happen?’
‘Then. And then. And….’
Spiked kneepad to the goolies somehow sounds worse than being impaled.
I can’t tell, did Harky pull the spear back out, or is Penk’s healing factor so strong it disappeared the spear altogether?
Maybe Harky couldn’t retrieve it after that. Maybe he misinterpreted the billowing of Penk’s outfit as his herald having brought a furry tail to their honorable duel and is letting his skull be bashed in so he can forget about everything and die before putting two and two together.
I’d think the handle broke. That spear probably isn’t going out the way it went in.
Might have been torn out when Penk hit him with his drum. I’m thinking-
Harkey stabs Penk
Penk smashes Harkey in the face with his drumstick, the angle makes it likely that Harkey’s spear arm would have gone forward, pushing the spear deeper
Penk follows with the drum, Harkey falls back from the impact, pulling the spear back through.
Or continuity error.
Iyaknowwhatimean.
Made it disappear*
GRAMMAR NAZIS!
SAVING PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES EVERYDAY!
Ironically, despite tutoring students in high school level English, I am not a prescriptivist. As such, I see nothing wrong in verbing nouns :)
Also, I should clarify that I am not assuming a continuity error exists, rather that I am honestly wondering if Trolls have the ability to instantly (or near-instantly) digest items within their body, so as to avoid the whole >regeneration stopped by impalement< issue.
I reckon that this would be a very interesting, although admittedly quite creepy concept. If that is true, I wonder whether absorbed mass is used to further speed up regeneration.
Spear will be high in iron…good for the blood. it didn’t look like Stone which would be high in minerals, or a different metal. Also the shaft is very high in fibre. Spear, does a body! Good?
Is this accomplished by absorption or a hereto unexplained instinctive vanishing power inherent in the trolls accelerated healing?
He stabbed the symbol right off of Penk’s armor.
This is…actually kind of making me sad. Guess that means its a well written moment…..yah.
Any suspicions of them just putting on a show are pretty much gone.
True. A put-on show would have better lighting.
I can’t see a single lens flare.
JJ Abrams is not a troll.
Well, not THIS kind of troll anyway.
Snerk
I am kind of surprised that he is using his drum as a weapon.
“What do you fight with?”
“Oh – I have a duel wield specialty. Drum and mace.”
if you hit somebody with a steel drum, does it become a bongo?
No, it becomes a concussion instrument.
LOL!
Drum is not the greatest offensive or defensive weapon.
Kinda like a futon is neither a great couch nor a great bed.
The drum is the spork of weapons.
Clearly you weren’t on the clubbing scene in the early nineties. You’d see live drum and mace acts all the time!
I saw Mace acts, but not the kind Penk has.
Ladies and gentleman,
We understand that you
have come tonight
to bear witness to the sound
of Drum
and
Mace.
We regret to announce
That this is not the case
As instead,
we come tonight to bring you
The sonic recreation of the end of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen,
prepare
to hold
your
color.
Okay fuck it, I lied, it’s drum and mace.
What you gonna do?
Defiantly point for the “bards don’t suck” team, off hand drum wielding from his time before becoming a champion.
Also you could say Penk is “drumming” Harky out of office…
I’ll allow it.
Reminds of when you could use a stein as a weapon. I can’t remember which MMO it was in though.
WoW.. still can too.
I think Guild Wars sort of has that to an extent, but steins but some classes could use torches, horns or other items that don’t seem exactly like weapons.
No quarter.
Yeah the seats to this have to cost at least a dollar.
Has the font in the comments section changed for anyone else? It seems smaller and more Times New Romany than before.
Be glad it isn’t Comic Sans, amirite?
Yeah, I really couldn’t handle it if this page was only comments, sans comic.
Yeah, and the avatars are broken, too. I think one of my malware blockers has decided Gravatar is evil, but I can’t be arsed to figure out which one.
I wonder why Harky isn’t using holy fire powers as well? Does that mean that Penk represents Tectonicus’s preference for the way this conflict is to go?
Because he can’t, wasn’t it the main reason why Penk even was needed? Harky lost it and another one had to take over, or Harky gave it away so that Penk could take it over, so Harky could focus on leading instead fighting.
Has Harky ever used fiery powers in the comic? I can’t seem to recall him doing so.
Probably related to Harky not having the Fireseye anymore
I assume it has to do with the rather bizarre idea that they have character classes, where Harky is a pure fighter and Penk is a Paladin/Bard. With Rachel, Frigg and Silver Centurions all being paladins with “Glowy Hammer Shit.”
Rachel explains that her order uses faith/belief/gibberjabber to unlock what amounts to chi powers that they can then channel into a weapon. In Penk’s case, this is fire.
Okay, I’m just a little surprised. Harky always seemed like an ultimate badass – in chapter 8, he dominated the guildies (’til Byron ‘zerked; Byrzerker is the INFINITE badass); Penk’s battle against the same in chap 30 showed he was mediocre at best. So Penk looking like he’s about to strike the winning blow so quickly? I’ll bet the tide is about to suddenly turn (again, like when Harky was about to kill Syr and then got Brzerk’d.)
Two options: Either he’s been out adventuring, grinding, and getting better gear (to cover with his favorite armor as an aesthetic choice) while Harky’s basically been sitting back and leading the guild, remaining static while Penk took advantage of the Double XP weekends, or the will of Tectonicus flows through him.
That was before he gave the magic gem to Penk.
As others have said, back then Harky was Tectonicus’ Chosen. Now? He’s just a Troll.
While it does seem short, if it goes on another page it would seem too long. This is a fight meant to be both intense and to “get on with it”. Harky may be important, but he isn’t the main focus of this comic. Hell not even Penk is the main focus, they are both side characters/villians for the main plot.
Not villains exactly. Antagonists, sure.
I think that ship sailed a long time ago.
Sepia world aside, Penk’s character development rivals that of any of the former Peacekeepers, and he’s on the same side as them now (or, depending on how you look at it, they’re on the same side as him). Of course, it looks different if one is only reading for sepia world.
I do believe that Penk’s Sepiaworld equivalent joined the adventurers as well, yes?
We know nothing about Penk’s sepia counterpart (or even he’s a PC). People hypothesized that Xan was his player, but that was based on a similarity in appearance, which is, frankly, a point against the idea, because a) he would be the only non-tubed player who looked like his character, and b) does it really make sense that Mr Paranoid would make a public facing toon that looked like his real face?
You forget that if Harky doesn’t do his job here, there’s a certain landshark boss who will likely step up to the plate… the dinner plate, as it were.
Well, kill your heroes and whatnot.
that’s some sweet beats he got there XD
Because he always ate his beets.
I don’t want to work / I want to bang on the drum all day / I don’t want to play / I just want to bang on the drum all day
I love the visual effect for this comic on my desktop monitor. But on a tablet, it’s really hard to see what’s going on.
Boy that escalated quickly. That really got out of hand.
Troll fights. Where being impaled through and through is nothing to write home about.
having the heart of tectonicus tends to have that effect
In most Mythos trolls have regeneration capabilities all of them not just the ones that wield Tectonicus.
True though I would being a vessel for a god’s power probably boosts that healing factor considerably anyway.
When fighting trolls, cover all your gear with cheese graters.
is this fight strictly to the death? or is penk winding up for a concussive blast from the drum to knock harky out — enough to prove his dominance in the arena, but sparing the life of a respected elder?
ive got a head cannon forming where penk calls gondolessa down. penk reiterates that harky is now dead among trolls, either penk kills harky or hes banished to exile when he wakes. gondolessa has had enough heartbreak for one lifetime, so he carries harky out of town. they retire out in the middle of nowhere, bittersweetly ever after.
Harky is getting his arse beat, hard.
But….. I suspect Harky knew this would happen, in fact, I’d go so far as to say Harky planned on it happening. And took steps to ensure that it would. Except, being a troll, in order for it to go “as it should”, he has to make it real, hence, willingly stepping up and taking a possibly fatal beating for the sake of his people’s future.
Damn, that’s…. that’s dedication to what is right.
What’s happening in the third panel? I can’t really tell. Something is .. hitting something?
There once were two cats of Kilkenny.
Each thought there was one cat too many.
So they scratched and they fit and they fought and they bit.
‘Till, instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
…
*watches intently*
…
The nerdy pedant in me wants to say that all all attacks should be performed in such a way that they limit your opponent’s freedom to answer with an afterblow. Therefore, Penk and Harky are doing it wrong.
That only happens when one combatant wildly outstrips the other. You have been watching too many movies.
FINISH HIM.
I really like this setup, T. Reminds me of the fight between Rumi and the General.
And thus they killed one another, and Gravedust became the supreme Leader, and there was popcorn for everyone.
Oh. Wait a minute…trolls…regenerative abilities…
…bah. Being a troll seer must be tough. ‘You will be mortally wounded.’ ‘When will that happen?’
‘Then. And then. And….’
HYou just KNOW that there’s a troll in the audience with a beer hat on…
Boom Goes The Drum O’ Might
Angry mace in last panel! :-)