RainbowWizard

I'm more worried about Pandora 'surviving' Grace's dream. And that's 'before' messing with it.
 
"You wait, they'll turn ugly. No one likes to see someone else messing around in their mind." - Arthur, Inception

Surely... It involved... A very old... OLD... skill that he posesses.
 
Yes, I propose, that the Old Hack, master of hackery, did the deed through that very specific skill which he does posess.
 
What skill is that, that the man known for the word hack could have used to hack his way into getting such dangerous information?
 
Why, he merely asked politely.

Not Danish, but DAN-ish, perhaps?

 
Absolutely nothing. Nobody can prove anything. And the DNA matches could easily have been pure coincidence.

I strongly suspect that someone on this forum has been helping Grace learn Danish.
This does not bode well.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet (1.4), Marcellus to Horatio

Guys, I just had an idea. What if this arc is called "Sister 3" partially because PANDORA is someone's sister! Voltaire seems an obvious choice, but it could be Jerry, or perhaps Demetrius.

OUCH. 

He didn't even get to die a hero - his death was in vain, unable to save anyone. That makes it hurt all the worse.
Also, called it.

Nothing says this occurred on the EGS-Prime side of the earth...

Naah ... People change. (For very wide meaning of "people".) It was centuries ago. It is still possible to hate what Pandora became.
... although there definitely was no reason to hate her when she was with Blaike.
Waaait ... this could actually be done by some other author, with just few hints about how immortals work from Dan.
The question is IF DNA works with Immortals. Or half-immortals. It is possible the reason Raven can't have children is that he doesn't have any DNA, or he may have some but incompatible with humans. It's unlikely Blaike was pregnant, so it was Pandora ... and she likely did a lot of "empowering and guiding" to make the pregnancy work. Raven may have black hair because Pandora liked him that way ... or because she deliberately randomized that part of DNA.
Alternatively, Pandora might be having black hair in genes and just changed her hair color with magic.
Note that the pointy ears might be recessive (I doubt that, but it is possible) but the things she definitely needs to actively suppress are related to magic and immortal rules and are unlikely to be encoded in DNA at all.
 

Current project could be described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Firefly/Killjoys with a large helping of Lovecraft on the side.

I can see where this is going, Blaike surprised Pandora because he didn't predictably jump at her offer. He did his own thing, his own way, and didn't take shortcuts and it made him unpredictable to Pandora. It's clear that this is still before Pandora turned 200, I'm wondering if, after Blaike passed away (either from an adventuring mishap or old age) she attempted to find someone else like him that would surprise her the same way?
Also, I really am beginning to wonder if the two halves of the world were more connected at one time, dragons and magic lion bears seem more fitting to the griffon's half than this one.
There's something I'm wondering about concerning the age of Immortals in relation to their appearance. Pandora in these past couple pages is around 150 years old, yet she looks like she could be early 20's if she were human which I would think would be more fitting if she were between 50-100 years old maybe. The adult form she currently takes seems more appropriate for an 150 year old Immortal.
I'm wondering though, if the elderly appearance we've seen with Jerry, Helena and Demetrius is purely a choice they make to look like that to let other's know that they're getting close to resetting, or maybe it's the form they have to take when they initiate the reset process. Jerry was in the process of resetting when we first saw him, we're not entirely sure if that was the case for Helena and Demetrius when they first visited Nanase and Susan but there is a chance they're improper deaths were not long after that visit. Pandora can switch forms at will but we've never seen her in an elderly form, only child, college kid, and a term that was coined in American Pie. Of course I'm not counting the chaotic form unless that's the kind of form that only Immortals that have gone well past their reset date can take.

Are you positing that the author-artist put Susan and Diane on the cover in a fit of madness?

Bah. Whoopi Goldberg is great. You are just sore at her because she reminds you of Hachepsut.

Actually, my thought on the color was simply to do with recent trends and not previous Sister arcs. Dan seems to find it quicker and easier to do non-color.
Also, agreed. We're in this for the long haul. Strap yourselves in.

What if a "Muffin Man" turns out to be a central figure in the upcoming "Something III" story?
Is there a "Drury Lane" in or near Moperville?
How does Phill fit into this discussion?
And clearly Dan is wrong in the commentary.  Banana-nut is the best muffin.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2209
Dawww...
Ghostubusters reference mixing. Noice. Still strongly dislike marshmallows.

Strictly speaking, you can level and progress through Champions Online without ever hurting anyone.
 
Be a healer, and don't participate in fights: my own healer recently hasn't killed a dude for ages, instead she just heals herself and her team. You get xp from their kills, which is kinda like depending on followers to kill for you, but also, many missions require collection or interaction with stuff, which gives you xp. It's actually only slightly slower than regular gameplay since you need to avoid missions where the goal is to defeat X enemies.
 
With sufficient stealth powers boosted and heal power, it is very possible to have a fun experience avoiding inflicting damage on others.
 
If I had a power that let me heal enemies, I would, as I have slipped up maybe twice and killed a guy with excess healing energy.

Bet the next question is "Wait... Who's WRITING these darn spellbooks? Is it someone malevolent trying to turn the world into a magical free-for-all brawl with heroes and villains?"

Bet the next question is "Wait... Who's WRITING these darn spellbooks? Is it someone malevolent trying to turn the world into a magical free-for-all brawl with heroes and villains?"

Grace has always been overpowered, Dan simply moderates her impact through her naiveté, discomfort with violence, and placement in the narrative.
 

we do if it gets to the point of having a negative impact on pacing and characterization.

It doesn't explicitly confirm it, but it strongly suggest it. The summoning of tonfas was certainly earth magic.
Agree.
Then another timeskip will happen and Grace's 19.
I would be more worried about the 2020 estimate of Lord Tedd returning. I think he will return AFTER they finish with Pandora, and that would take them some serious real time.
Luckily, this is comics, not game, so we don't need to care about it being OP.

That's not entirely true. While games are more sensitive to character power levels, an extremely powerful character in any narrative work can remove dramatic tension, requiring either contrivances or escalation to explain why the OP character doesn't simply solve the problem causing the dramatic tension. EGS does focus more on social aspects than straight combat, but given Grace's pacifistic, fun-loving, and over-all friendly nature, the most likely spells for Grace to get if she awakens would be social in aspect.

Of all the Discworld books I've read (most of them but not all), I would have to rate A Hat Full of Sky as the best preparation for writing Sarah learning about her magic.
It would be mildly beneficial - certainly not critical - to read Wee Free Men first.

While not a series, I thought Ready Player One was pretty good, and probably right up Dan's alley.