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Dan has stated that he foreshadows everything that's important to the story, whether a random character appearing is actually someone in disguise or there's some major reveal, he'll leave clues about it, even red herrings are explained at some point. Dan also stated that something that will be revealed in this arc was foreshadowed back in 2007, which can be one of two things, something to do with Magus and if Pandora was responsible for him being stuck. or it's "The Woman with Susan's Face". One possibility for the Woman with Susan's face is that the woman was Pandora, a hint at that would be the strands of hair that hang in front of the woman's ears, Pandora's child, teen, young adult and adult forms hall have those strands of hair. Now Grace also has those strands so it might just mean Dan likes that style, but if that's a hint that the woman was Pandora, and Mr Pompoms is Adrian's great grandson*, then Pandora might have unknowingly had an affair with her great great grandson, which wouldn't be unheard of, it does happen, it happened in my family, almost twice actually. The first case was a an ancestor had a couple kids one of which moved out of the area and started a family, their children's children then moved back to the area and one of which met and married the great grand daughter of the kid that stayed without either of them knowing about their relation to each other until later when they had kids of their own. The "almost" incident was with my brother who was at a bar one night and got chatting with a girl, they were hitting it off, flirting and such until she asked him where he was from. He told her and she was "Oh I have family there" and since my brother already knew about our aunt and uncle being distant cousins on my Grandfather's side, he had a feeling as to where this was going. He asked her who her family was and sure enough her great grandmother was our grandmother's mother. So my brother just straight up said "we're related" and that basically ended the night. Later that year we had our family reunion for that side of the family and she showed up, her and my brother completely avoided each other, it was super awkward. *I'm using great grandson just and an example, since we have no clue as to what kind of relation there is. Don't think this as me asserting information that doesn't exist. On second though, maybe Pandora wasn't having an actual affair with Mr Pompoms, if she had seen him being unfaithful to his wife, Pandora could have felt the need to expose it by setting Mr Pompoms up to be caught? Again this would all be without knowing her relation to them, it might have just been a spur of the moment "This guy is married and playing with other females, he should be taught a lesson." because Pandora might have been bored at the time.

Jerry sensed a connection between Susan and Diane, something that made him assume they were sisters, he couldn't explain how or even confirm whether it was true, but there was something and he seemed determined to figure out what it was for the sake of his vow to Susan (and being able to par-tay sooner). Pandora admitted to Sarah that the evidence was in front of her, even if she didn't specifically tell Sarah who she was talking about, it'd be easy to assume that Pandora sensed the same thing about Susan and Diane that Jerry did, but had chosen to ignore it because of the lie a previous incarnation of herself passed along. And Pandora must have encountered Diane a number of times while watching over Adrian at MSHS. Adrian and Diane had at least 1 run in that we saw, and likely more throughout the past few years. Pandora might not have needed to see both Diane and Susan to sense a connection, but Diane and Adrian could have sent up flags that there was something and Pandora would be like "nah that's not possible" I wouldn't call her senile, her mind is pretty clear, especially right now. Her behaviour in the past was certainly due to her age and the boredom that it brings, but aside from the lie that one of her previous incarnations passed along, the fact that she didn't remember the magic change and all that could be due to her having chosen not to analyze and predict the outcomes of her actions so that she could be surprised by them. If you think about it, she was getting bored of things when she was 150 years old. Then she met Blaike who informed her that not knowing what was ahead was part of the adventure. Pandora took that to heart and restricted herself to accompany him and experience things as he would. I would say that her continuing to restrict herself from predicting outcomes of the things she does was something she chose in order honor Blaike, but the circumstances of Blaike's death made her chose other things as well like trying to keep Adrian safe, revenge on those that killed Blaike, a bunch of other things that stacked on each other. That's not a sign of senility because that could happen to anyone, people make choices with good intentions, but following through with those choices may lead to doing some unsavory acts and some people claim the ends justify the means, or they just don't even realize that what they're doing is actually hurting the people they're trying to help. I'd say Pandora got stuck in that trap and it was Adrian's reminder of Blaike that snapped Pandora's focus back to what matters.

Bad Tom was soo full of himself and his ability to manipulate people into doing the things he wanted, he was basically a balloon filled to near bursting and Susan untied that balloon and sent him flying.

From the previous comic's commentary: Rhoda has the ability to change her looks completely, we saw it in Escape from the Mall where she darkened her skin tone along with changing hair and clothing styles and colours, and likely eye colour as well.

It was Rhoda that was holding her in the previous page, this one is basically a direct continuation with Rhoda putting Ellen on the floor.

She didn't give him anything regarding watches, although he might lose ability to make them anyway. She also didn't give him ability to see magic. Only thing she gave him was the mark, so she must talk about the mark. She was probably referring to the mark, because she believed she was being nice to him when she did so, but it could also mean the excess ambient energy, if she was the initial cause of it being higher than normal for much of Tedd's life, it would have made it easy for him to become interested in magic and obsessed with making it public, and then Pandora finds out that what she did could cause magic to change and then Tedd learning about it ruined his dream.

That would mean that Noriko had an affair with Adrian, I don't think that'd be the case because the revelation that Edward isn't his father would just mess him up I'd imagine. Tedd and Edward already have a rift forming over Tedd's genderfluidity, if Edward isn't even Tedd's father, why should it matter what Edward thinks of how Tedd feels? At least that's one possible outcome of this, another would be Tedd going back to the way he was before the TFG. And another possibility is that it pushes Tedd into doing whatever Voltaire is hoping that Tedd would do after he's been sufficiently traumatized.

No no, I wasn't saying he's freaked out because she walked through the table, I mean, it might had added to it a bit considering he was trying to keep his distance and realizing nothing could stop her. Also Pandora moves through stuff all the time, I don't think it bothers her anymore.

"They"?

She's being pretty up front so far, both by stating she's know by Sarah as Box, and as Pandora. Tedd's also pretty freaked out right now, and Pandora is standing in walked through his table

Yeah, Elliot's been preoccupied with things this week, but I don't know if Ellen and Grace have done any more training this past week either.

If it was a choice between being raided by him, or Nazis/KGB agents. They'd probably go with Indy.

More like "Oh Carp!" But yeah, training with someone who does have combat flying experience would be good.

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2363 Sarah figured out Box is Adrian's mother!

I dunno, I would think that some Pharaohs and Kings wouldn't mind being raided by Lara Croft.

Adrian's desire to not kill (though he did threaten to do so if Abraham didn't surrender) might have given Abraham the upper hand. But considering the spells at Abraham's disposal as well as magic items and the fact that he was able to resist the sleep spell would suggest that he's a decently powerful wizard. Also Abraham would have killed other monsters created by the diamond, if any of them were hostile, he'd have to have learned how to fight them. Also I would imagine that being able to put ones self into essentially a stone stasis pod would be quite a high level spell. That was nearly a month ago that we saw it, but I would imagine her and Grace have done more since then. Certainly more that Elliot's done.

The question is, will Elliot get the ability to fire laser beams from his eyes, or FV5 beams from his eyes.

This is all assuming that much of the main cast will be nearby when crap hit's the fan. Sarah might be at the mall with Sam while Susan is meeting Diane, I can see Susan giving Sarah a ride over if that's where Sarah and Sam agreed to meet. Catalina and Rhoda might be there as well for a date but not guaranteed. Though they might go to see if anything else crazy happens. Grace and Tedd, I'm not sure, I guess it depends on what Pandora tells Tedd? I don't really see any reason for them to go to the mall unless Grace feels the need to get Tedd out of the house, though it's possible that Grace has to work at the comic shop, the tournaments are a weekly event for those who aren't restricted by allowances. That would also make Justin unavailable for anything happening at the mall. The vampire attacks are supposed to distract Helena and Demetrius from watching Elliot so that Magus can get Ellen to zap him, so that means that Ellen and Elliot would need to be together at the time of the attacks. Nanase would likely be with Ellen...I wonder if Nanase, Ellen, Elliot and Ashley will go on a double date? So that Nanase and Ellen could get to know Ashley better? Nanase did seem suspicious about Ashley, Ellen might worry about that and suggest the double date, that could get the to the mall as well. Though they might be too close and still easily protected by Helena and Demetrius. Their date might have to be elsewhere. But Adrian would also have to be S Rank right? At least by Wizard standards? I mean he's half Immortal and Abraham was probably also considered S Rank despite the foul up with the diamond and supposedly Wizards can be more powerful according to the commentary.

Yeah unfortunately Dan didn't draw her completely so that we could see a version without the dialog boxes:

More like I'm hoping that IF someone close to Rhoda were in danger, she'd come running in with a guardian form to save the day. Does that cover things better? If any of them can pull explosives out of their trenchcoats like the Spidervampire could, then they could still be dangerous. I'm pretty certain Ellen's beams are still using Earth Magic rather than Ellen converting Earth Magic into Uryuom energy. Her beams are only supposed to mimic the TFG delivery method. Unless that's what you were trying to say already... then carry on. Agreed. As the "Mistriss of Shrink", if anybody can reduce a horror to pocket size, and keep it there, it would be Rhoda. Possibly, but she's only been at it for probably 7 going on 8 months? Rhoda might be good, but as hkmaly stated before, there's a chance there's a vampire or two that are better. It's also possible, that considering the reason so many vampires are being sent after Adrian is basically a Zerg Rush intent to overwhelm him. Rhoda may not be able to handle more than a couple herself and risk being overwhelmed as well.

It is possible that the watch is the one he promised to make for Nanase, however it's also possible that Nanase hasn't gotten around to giving him the details of what she wants on it. There's been a few developments that have had her attention lately.

A coworker of mine told me not too long ago about how a dog she had ended up in quarantine and then ended up getting some diseased and died shorly after she got him back. Her and her husband were at their trailer one summer and they went out for dinner, leaving their dog tied to the trailer axle as they always did, they came back to find animal control demanding to take their dog because it apparently attacked an American that was vacationing up there, the guy had claimed that the dog attacked him by his trailer on the other side of the park, but my coworker didn't believe it was possible because the dog would have needed to drag their trailer all that way and there was no sign that it ever got loose. Still animal control took it. Later on my coworker was talking to one of her neighbours and they said that they saw a guy cutting through the plot several times that night, the dog barking at him each time, so it's more likely that at one point the guy must have got close enough for the dog to reach him. So basically the guy was trespassing through someone else's plot and didn't heed the dog's barking to stay away and got bit, then made a false claim to make him be the innocent victim, and the dog ended up dying because of it.

Susan definitely got the watch. From the commentary for that page: " Sidenote: Susan is totally in her short, more "hippy" form in this comic. She did get that watch of her own forms, after all. "

That depends, what if the vampires can resist Rhoda's shrink spells? Not_Tengu easily resist Ellen's beam (and it's possible that it wasn't even an FV5 beam she used). Actually, It would make sense if Ellen tried shrinking Not_Tengu, even half size might have made him easier to fight hand to hand.

Not necessarily, we know Rhoda cares about Diane as well, Diane's already been attacked once, and there are still more vampires out there, someone suggested that Diane might have an angst induced awakening if she were to witness Susan's life in danger, but what if Rhoda witnesses Diane's life in danger?