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Alas, Phill. A great, tragic character only allowed the briefest of moments of glory on page in EGS.

In hindsight, yeah it is. But at the time is was like "Oh, some random griffin asking for directions to show Elliot doing things that people take notice of", even Elliot's comment "She was just asking for directions." made it sound like there was nothing special, at least in terms of "weird things happen in Moperville" sense. It's like "we've had goo, evil green monkey things, fire golems, bulldog dragons, a griffin is just par for the course around here and at least she wasn't violent"

and then two years from now our time when Tara and Andrea make another appearance, it's discovered that Phil was the one who caused the clog in the first place! ...By spraying grafiti in his teen years, which unintentionally wound up in the shape of a magic seal, that Edward and his people have been maintaining ever since thinking it was there for a good reason and sealing away something important/dangerous.

A perky dark-haired woman in a blue waitress uniform pops out of a door no one had noticed before next to the kitchen, behind which is a brief glimpse of a white room with circles on the walls. She walks over to the jukebox and pops behind it, muttering in an English accent. "Funny, the Telepathic Translator circuit usually kicks in automatically...." After rummaging in the workings behind the jukebox for another moment, she pops back out, gives a cheery wave, and calls out, "Try it now!" before disappearing back through the door, which everyone present immediately forgets was ever there. Oddly enough, to everyone in the room she sounds as if she is speaking their native language, sounding rather like their favorite schoolteacher from childhood.

"We aren't up w......." is what I thought, though "we fill'r up while you wait" might make more sense. There's a good chance that that guess is accurate, and if so, in the words of Strider: DAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving DAVE: but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice work

"In retrospect, that griffin was probably noteworthy." is pretty good foreshadowing though

I think this is the best representation of FV5 Greg we have seen so far. But for some reason, Greg is the one normally male character in EGS we have seen transformed where the transformation does not seem right to me.

Phill has been a minor running gag in EGS fandom for quite a while now. He was only ever seen in one panel, yet people cite his appearance as often as possible and speculate on what he's been up to or when he will return. Probably thanks to his name being right there on his coveralls, making him easy to refer to. Plus, by the Law of Conservation of Detail, any character who the writer bothers to name *should* turn out to be important some day....

This gets us into the territory of "Vanilla is a spice, too!" arguements.

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=196 Actually, Phlogiston theory is older than the knowledge of oxygen and when oxygen was first discovered, it was thought to be dephlogisticated air. The Phlogiston theory was invalidated when they realized that the phlogiston must have negative weight. Not only that, the Ptolemy's planetary model with epicycles was giving better results than original Copernicus theory, because until Kepler added elliptical orbits, it didn't really matched.

Meals On Wheels delivered a cake along with my mom's lunch because her birthday is tomorrow.

You remember that? : puts on shades :

I really love FV5 Greg. We need to see more of her! Also am I the only one who is imagining Justin changing into Justine mid-jump? swish-swish-swish-boing!

The Moderator: Matoyak does have a point, InfiniteRemnant. You did come across a bit strongly. Something like "I personally find him irritating, but to each their own" might have been better when responding in this way.

I though Dan retconned "Vampire" to replace "Aberration" as the umbrella term for mages wanting immortality badly enough to prey on other humans?

"I knew she was trouble the moment she walked into my office. Legs that went on forever, a body that won't quit topped with hair the color of spun gold. I said to myself 'Abner, this is your lucky day.' I just wasn't sure if it was good luck or bad luck. My business, the luck's usually bad..."