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  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    All we need to do is construct a Dyson sphere around a young and stable red dwarf and set the whole system adrift away from all the galaxies in our local group.  We should be good to go for about a trillion years.

    The night sky would be spectacular!

    We'd be able to view the entire Milky Way galaxy in all of its glory, 500 billion stars burning silently in the sky.

    That's something that really bugged me about the Stargate franchise: at some point in one of the series, the humans acquired the technology to travel between galaxies, and yet they never stopped to simply gaze at our home galaxy.

  4. Posted

    14 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?

    On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

    Sirleck is looking for a low-profile host without connections to his previous one.

    He also obviously intends to betray Magus and take over his body after reviving him.

    I suspect he kept that butler around as a failsafe, in case he had to abandon his old host. Now he has incorporated him in his plan as some sort of intermediate host before he can move on to his intended target.

    He's probably going to "inherit" a fair amount of money, but not all of it.

    ETA: missed Tuscahoma's post, that's pretty much what I'm thinking as well

  9. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    It's possible, maybe she did mark Liz before moving on to Rhoda and Catalina. As for the others, the spells she could give them didn't really fit with her plans so it's possible waiting till later might end up being beneficial. And Rich and Larry's behaviour didn't seem all that appealing to her hence why they were considered a last resort.

    My point was just that Pandora couldn't simply postpone marking Liz because by then she might not have been able to give her that spell.

  10. Posted

    4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    There is a possibility that she marked Liz as well, the fact that Pandora didn't elaborate on why kind of spell she could give Liz is pretty ominous.

    We won't know for sure until probably the next time we see Liz in the main story, since the last time we saw her was before the "Marker" NP and Dan's commentary in the "Marker" page certainly suggests the idea to possibly mark Liz came with coming up with her response to Pandora's question so it would most certainly be a retcon.

    Keep in mind that what spells Pandora gives people at least partially depends on the circumstances.

    Take for example her encounter with Rich and Larry:

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    Please take note of how the choice of spells to give these two changes over the course of the conversation.

    We also know from Sarah's encounter with Jerry that options for marking someone can become void if that person gains new insights, so if Pandora found that spell she could give Liz useful, she must have marked her or she had missed that opportunity of giving her that particular spell.

    And considering how Liz talked about "not being big on pretending something she is not" and "not being big on getting a taste for something and getting cut off from it", I'm pretty sure she gained the ability to influence the duration of other people's spells. My guess is that if someone is really happy (not just pretending) with a (temporary) enchantment, Liz can somehow make it permanent, like Tedd can change his sex permanently.

    Pandora would probably find that useful.

  11. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Indrid Cold said:

    Pandora really is/was on a spree, is/wasn't she?

    This is only one day, and she's already marked Catalina, Kitty and "Felix". If this is an average, there must be 1,620 people marked in 6 months. Even without "huge incidents" like fire guys, bulldog dragons, tiger griffins and flying elf Jesuses, magic must really be on the verge of changing.

    Don't forget she also likes to take really looong naps.

    http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=491

    The week before Halloween is also a special case.

    http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=492

  12. Posted

    It just occurred to me that it would make perfect sense to retcon these two into being part of Luke's group.

    Of course not all LGBTQ people know each other, but it would make sense for a transwoman who suddenly gained the ability to change peoples sexes (which is strongly implied by Pandora's remarks) to discretely promote her services to other people in the same situation as her. If she does so over a local LGBTQ forum, she might catch the attention of Luke.

  14. Posted

    16 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2317

    This is not a very good Liefeld comic. The characters all have largely human proportions. That woman exercising clearly has a spine and her breasts aren't either massively huge or showing outrageous amounts of cleavage. Also, every single character actually has joints that can articulate and actual wrists. And there isn't as much as even a single pouch in sight anywhere. What gives?

    For those who don't know what this is about:

    http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/4/21/2960508/worst-rob-liefeld-drawings

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    9 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I think that this is more because those two, despite being in same universe, don't interact so often and if they do, it's crossover which doesn't contain "someone guessed someone's identity" as subplot.

    If they interacted closely, as in standing side-by-side on a regular basis, it would actually make it clear that they're not the same person. My point was that even if they didn't and were active in the same city, people would still tell them apart because one is the super-strong, bulletproof guy who can fly and shoot death-beams out of his eyes but doesn't because he's too nice to do that and the other is an ordinary human with a cape who can scare the wits out of the toughest bully if you just mention his name.

    9 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I don't think it will really work. Especially considering he would be forced to use similar technologies for both identities. Although it might be worth the shot as last resort.

    Well, they couldn't use the same abilities, obviously. For example, if the hero possesses any superhuman abilities, then the detraction identity couldn't possess the same abilities. But there's no reason why he couldn't simply be good at things like lock-picking, climbing and running the way an ordinary human would. If Superman can pose as the ordinary human Clark Kent, then why shouldn't he be able to pose as a superhero without superpowers?

    9 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    He's not that super as cat, and showing he can transform at all now would be risky. It will be something else if Catalina (and/or Kitty) gets public, actually - if Catalina would make obvious and public knowledge that being able to transform to one thing doesn't allow you to transform to something else, THEN might Elliot get some advantage of revealing his cat form.

    Or the public might draw a connection to werewolves, who also don't transform into a wide range of forms.

    This would obviously result in a whole new world of trouble for Elliot, but I'm pretty sure it would get people off his back about the whole Cheerleadra thing.

  22. Posted

    10 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Followed by "The best I can do is this cat guy form!"

    Sure it'll still draw attention to him, but not for being Cheerleadra. ;)

    This occurred to me as well.

    I think that would actually be a brilliant way to hide a superhero identity: in the comics, people frequently figure out the true identity of Batman or Clark Kent, but who would ever suspect Superman behind Batman or vice-versa?

    Imagine Bruce Wayne crafting a second superhero alter ego in addition to Batman. Maybe a persona similar to Booster Gold.

    In case of an emergency, for example if the public gets dangerously close to finding out about his escapades as Batman, he could simply burn that second identity by allowing himself to be unmasked as that second hero. People would forever associate him with "Booster Gold" and never suspect him to be Batman as well.

    He'd just have to make sure that this second persona never actually gets involved in any illegal activities (limiting himself to saving people from burning buildings, rescuing cats from trees etc.) or acquires an enemy list similar to Batman's.

    I suppose the same thing would work for Elliot and his two alternative identities.

  24. Posted

    7 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Aiming at shoe of running person might be difficult.

    Rhoda is already aiming with her palms, there's no indication she needs to do anything beyond pointing them in the general direction.

    7 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Unlikely.

    How so?

    It's already established that Kitty is obsessed with cat girls and that she has an outgoing personality and doesn't hide her feelings. In fact, this is basically everything we know about her at this point.

    It's not a stretch to assume that missing this chance to meet two genuine cat girls would result in a moment of despair and that she would vocalize it audibly (sobbing, crying, wailing etc.), especially if she comes to the conclusion that she scared them off.

    Rhoda and Catalina would still be close enough to notice this (also: cat ears) and they're definitely the type of person who'd turn around to see if they can help. And if they don't want to hide any longer, their enchantments end - that has been confirmed by Pandora.

    Last but not least, don't forget that Dan intentionally created Kitty as a person obsessed with cat girls just for this storyline, so there's probably a purpose for this trait. He didn't need a character like that just to chase Rhoda and Catalina into the department store (they were already running there when they encountered Kitty), so there should be another reason. My guess is that Dan's thinking was along the lines of "What would convince Rhoda and Catalina to come out of hiding? Well, they'd leave their hiding place if someone was in trouble and in need of their help", so he came up with a way to make that happen.

    And yeah, that's just a hunch, but I think it's a coherent argument and I would like it if the story turns out that way.