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I should read the commentaries more. I think I always do but.....

Minor quibble I spent too much time researching: Not a FV1. I agree entirely with the rest of your post. The body in the costume looks like the standard-issue Cheerleadra form to me (FV5) just wearing a much-improved version of Elliot's "So a Date at the Mall" costume. Also reminder: By default Cheerleadra looks like Ellen.

Despite being a fictional character Sarah suddenly finds herself unaccountably angry.

Or TransforMage if personal inclination enters into it... No argument. With EGS Prime Ellen the hottest of the bunch. Appropos of nothing, of the universes we know about Dunkel children born Ellen now outnumber Elliots. The ratio is either 3:1 or 3:2 depending on how you count the AF04 Universe in EGS: NP. I think it's a canon universe despite appearing in non-canon EGS:NP, but I couldn't fnd the NP comic that lays out what is canon NP and what isn't.

I'm not sure why Ashley would suddenly be a great battlemage candidate... Magus made a presumably permanent change to his default form. He had a big change to defend. Dunno if it was cheating... No I didn't guess it because I don't think his family and friends told him the switch was a mistake. I think they told him he didn't have a choice.

I don't think so. based on magus' dialogue in today's strip, he had it beaten into him that he had to be male to be a battlemage. Mentally squint a little at his dialogue and gender invert the pronouns, then correct this for Magus' life. I think he's telling us what happened to him. "What does everybody do? Railroad her into staying a man....She was pushed into adopting a gender identity not her own to fit an identity that was created for her....Pressured to be anyone but herself...her only options for becoming female were temporary ones that could easily be dispelled without warning...always knowing what her default form had become." yeah, I'll be Magus says he likes being male. he has accepted it as his only option. I don't get why being a ballemage is such a male-centric job, but if I'm reading Magus right, they brought it down like a sledgehammer on him and he made the switch while Terra bulled through as a female. Presumably their magical battle was an attempt at settling the gender argument.

Pretty much Magus spent a number of years as a girl. 10, 12, maybe even 15 or 16. Which means when he gender-reversed, he had to have the same damn conversation with a whole lot of people either leading up to the change or afterward.

Magus lays exactly this out in Friday's and Today's comics. Yes, he's talking about Ellen, but he's also talking about his experience as Ellen. His motivation is admirable: he wants to spare Ellen the pain he went through, likely as direct atonement to Ellen for willingly letting Sirleck possess her. Ellen carries a lot of pain from her first day and suddenly having to come to terms with the fact that she wasn't Elliot, an identity she felt every bit as as deeply as Elliot himself. Also from starting life sure she was going to simply disappear in a month. She's carried some anger at Tedd for the series of mistakes that led to her creation and that pain. Magus thinks he has an insight into Ellen's pain that has not only eluded everybody else around her but they worked to suppress, just as Magus' world worked to suppress who he really was (which comes back to why I use "he" for Magus provisionally)

Oh yes. lack of framerate is actually the most important part...

And sped up by at least twice.

I'm getting that vibe too. That m!Ellen (magus-Ellen) was forced by his world's rules to be physically male in order to follow the path he wanted (I use "he" and "his" for Magus with some hesitancy. Magus himself would argue vehemently for it, but I suspect that vehemence might be fueled by genuine gender dysphoria at being male). If Magus got Elliot's Cherleadra spell along with his new body, that could be an eye-opener for him. Cheerleadra is far more physically powerful than any unmodified human body, male or female, invalidating the logic that forced Magus to masculinize himself.

That's what I expect too. And a Cheerleadra transformation is likely to follow. The question then is if we get a second one.

I think Elliot's fine unless magus pushes the issue. Better still is something that builds down the confrontation. "It's ellen's choice.. You'd want that choice in her place. You wouldn't want even the right thing done TO you without your consent or control."

Elliot's best stance is "Ellen chooses. I'll back her up, whatever it is. You (Magus) do not get to choose for her. If she wants to be a male, I am fine having a twin brother now.."

You're an artists and you've been suffering. How can it not be that you've produced good art?

My first job out of college was doing assembly programming on a 186. Burning my code onto an EEPROM and plugging it into a chip socket on an industrial computer. Debugging that code was awful.

Nobody had any love for the 80186...

Every one of them has an Eric Cartman form... (Warning for language and generally being South Park)

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-03-11 Last two panels.

"Well no wonder he carries a knife."

"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

I was going to ask if Mr Peabody had more than one Sherman and it just got edited out. Some of his timeline fixes were a bit sketchy...

Nobody knows. ...as in "no single individual in the Real World knows how to build a recognizably current car from a pile of iron ore, tree sap, etc" To make a classic car (1940s - 60s, say) you first have to reinvent the Industrial Revolution. To make a 2018 sort of car you also have to replicate the Information Revolution. And iterate significantly on both technologies.

I was thinking along these lines. Catalina is mercuric and ready-fire-aim reactive but she's actually very meek those times she isn't reacting to her world. Rhoda seems to be the reverse. timid in public because people are huge and she's tiny. But in private when she's comfortable a more aggressive side comes out.

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=415