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Geese are usually recognized as the best poultry guards. From ancient Roman Legions to modern nuclear reactors. Put a flock of geese between the inner and outer fences and you will know if anyone enters that area.

Pandora. Actually Will and Gill would be very good choices. Gender ambiguity is built into Uyouom genetics. Someone would have to tell them there was a problem however because they wouldn't perceive it otherwise.

Just had a scary thought... What if that has nothing to do with the immortals, or with the aberrations skill at hiding? how do we know Sirlec is the only body-snatcher in the area? Arthur J. Arthur has been pointed out to be acting oddly out of character... Complex operations have a much greater chance of success if you have an inside man...

Unfortunately, it is not always a three for three in the real world -- or for that matter, in games. I could certainly envision a gun you loot off some bandit or mook being in an atrocious state of maintenance, for example. What is that term, a Saturday Night Special? One of my own favourite comics about how to handle guns may be found in the first panel of this Grrl Power comic.

I'd agree with this. The issue isn't "betray trust", it's "keep the circle at 8" that the problem now. Depending on how you look at it, we could be as high as 12...

Philip K. Dick is very hard to get around when it comes to science fiction. You could say that many of his ideas are ubiquitous.

Remember, Edward Verres is the guy who mused aloud about Grace not dying, in front of Grace's boyfriend....

It still doesn't make any sense. With the amount of information we have the blond 12 year old with the baseball cap who frequents the comic shop is just as likely as Noah. ...gets about as much screen time too...

Tedd needs someone to intercede on his behalf with his father. Someone his father can not dismiss as child and is "in the know" about magic. Someone who could speak sympathetically to Edward for Tedd about gender-identity. Tedd's advocate need not understand or approve entirely. But he needs to be able to tell Edward "It's real to Tedd, and by dismissing his feelings on this matter, Tedd thinks you are dismissing him entirely." So far, I think Adrian Raven is the only one who could do this. And the only way he would even know to ask is if Grace let something slip. We know Mrs Kitsune has her own hang ups about gender roles that she tries to work through for the sake of Nanase but would probably think of getting between Tedd and Edward as going too far. Noriko might be an option, IF we ever find out why she can not make more time for Tedd in the first place.

I'm not really comfortable with calling Mr. Verres "transphobic." What he's doing is not cool and hurtful, but I'm pretty sure he just doesn't understand what he's seeing. Like Tedd, he probably didn't even realize gender identity, gender fluid, and transexual are things, especially since he probably grew up with fairly rigid gender roles. From his perspective, it probably looks like Tedd is trying to run away from himself, and he's just not handling it very well. Transphobic is a very strong word, and I don't like using it for what may be just ignorance. (On the other hand, I'm of the opinion that actions can be transphobic/racist/sexist separately from the people doing them) Tedd is definitely justified in not wanting to talk to his dad about recent events.

Don't know, never stole anything around the Brahmin. though you get a Karma loss whenever you steal an item. Though what I meant is there are hostiles located at most locations with loot.

I lost a stepfather due to metastasized brain cancer many years ago, so I have some feeling of what the two of you may be going through. Both of you have my sympathies.

Nonetheless. While I will concede the above, I have yet to be convinced that any of the mentioned characters have done anything like betray Mr. Verres' trust in them. The closest I have seen any of them come to that is Tedd who is deliberately withholding information about his own magic from his father -- and he has the massive provocation of his father's transphobia and numberless microaggressions against him.

A decently well-made gun in good condition being competently handled, the chance of that happening is negligible. Something, you know, about not having a finger on the trigger - and with some guns, where the safety is easily reached, having the safety on - unless you positively intend to fire the gun in the next couple seconds.

I doubt there was that much conscious analysis. More likely whenever she'd think of going to the dojo, or even of resuming the sparring/kissing tradition, it just felt wrong, like something she just wasn't into anymore, didn't feel right to go back to doing it. Ellen acts on instinct a lot, but her instincts usually come to the same conclusion thoughtful analysis would.

Another option to add some realism would be to have a small but non-negligable chance of the gun going off accidentally any time you point it at someone. A few great runs ruined by having a vital NPC getting taken out before they can help you might teach players to respect their weapons a bit more.

... in videogames, anything which is not background is obviously for you to take. Even when nailed down. (In minecraft, background = bedrock)

I'd love to see Greg again, it's been far too long. Maybe we could see some of Ellen's other beams, and maybe we'd get confirmation of the Fanon idea that Greg and Vladia are dating. :-) If you look at the next page, their faces aren't really *that* similar. Susan is more angular, the nose is a bit diffeent....the woman looked like a baby-faced Susan a lot more than she looks like a more mature Susan. You know, given that Mr. Verres said he's been actively addressing the Lord Tedd issue, I wonder if *this* is the *real* reason Edward doesn't want his son to know. If Tedd knew that his mother's enemies might come after him and his friends, he doubtless *would* renew his efforts to develop weapons and increase his power. Perhaps it was the desire to protect his friends and family, to make sure no one could hurt them, that set his alternate(s) on the road to becoming Lord Tedd in the first place. The reason I don't see Edward doing anything bad to Justin or the others is because of how he treated Ellen after her creation. Despite her attempt at becoming a villain, he treated her with kindness and understanding. He gave her equal status with Elliot and did everything he could to help her and her family integrate her into the world. He may be clueless about his son's gender fluidity and how to deal with it, but he is not a bad person. Even that hurtful behavior comes from love and fear of Tedd being harmed by his transformations, not out of any callousness or cruelty. Edward is a good guy. I really think that once someone explains what's going on with Tedd, he'll prove to be supportive and loving there, too. So I just can't see him bringing any of these kids to harm based on what sort of man he has shown to be. If anything, his reply to Justin may have come off as more threatening than he would have intended, another sign that he sometimes isn't aware of how what his says comes across to others quite as much as he should be.

I'm pretty sure that Susan would love to be able to give herself pointed ears when she wanted them.

I think it would be better to try kind words first before including a gun.

Well, if she was smuggling knives, then she would be a Blade Runner.

on that note, supposedly intelligent characters in games doing trigger-guard-spins of pistols and revolvers as an idle animation is equally stupid.

SECONDED. The very minimum that should be required of ANY gun owner should be knowledge of basic gun safety. And while I do not belong to the school that says that video games are the cause of all of today's violence, I do feel that it could improve the genre a lot as a whole if shooter games became more aware of this. Not necessarily to the degree of being sermonising -- but it would be nice if gun owning heroes got small reminders of the fact that it is not necessarily a good idea to wave your gun around like a bollocking toy.

Characters pointing their guns at each other willy-nilly is something that tends to annoy me in video games. If you are not going to use your gun, don't point it at something ( a rule that every reasonable user of guns follows). So it's nice to see Grace have a reasonable reaction to it in panel one.

Okay, I suppose you have a point there, but if the situation were that desperate i would expect more active effort towards recruiting individuals known to have powers. to go with your superhero metaphor, where's the JLU? The kids have been seen saving the day, it's shown up online and on tv, some of the incidents are weeks or months old at this point, DGB supposedly keeps tabs on them, and Susan has experience 'hunting' yet there hasn't been a peep in canon. I dunno, maybe refusing to accept Xeno's theories is just me being cynical or stubborn, but they're full of holes and what if's, and every answer I've been hearing to those holes just raises more questions... It just doesn't add up for me. I know there's nothing concrete, but at-least to me, It makes more sense for it to be false than true.

this explanation makes more sense than the innumerable egg theories, mainly because it doesn't involve introducing a rule seemingly for the sole purpose of breaking it.