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*nod* That concerns me too and, as far as I can tell, I'm very much like Dan in many ways relevant to what I like to read and write about.
I suspect the difference is that Dan feels the pressure to keep a schedule while I'm much more willing to delay producing something in order to meet a certain standard.  After all, everyone productive agrees that "perfection is no good if it means you never get it done" but where to draw the line is a fuzzy thing.
(For my story ideas, I'm taking the "plan out the whole novel/fanfic first, then fill it in like a progressive JPEG, then only share it with strangers after it's more or less done," approach... something that keeps getting me dopamine hits from a trickle of insights I never could have had from writing in linear order, which cause me to make significant but proportionately worthwhile changes to the character bio charts, backstory, etc.)
Heck, once I clear out some more urgent projects, I have a Scrivener competitor in a very early stage of development where the ability to pull up note cards which share a certain tag (eg. character bios) in a cross-comparison display is on the TODO list specifically because I'm finding it's starting to get laborious to double-check that my characters aren't evolving toward too much similarity as I continue to develop my conceptions of them.

On the one hand I enjoy seeing people embrace the fun of transformation. On the other hand, every once and a while I get concerned that Dan is making his characters more and more similar over time to a level that is unrealistic (and potentially could lead to them no longer feeling like distinct characters); I'm feeling that concern again. (Other examples: Both Tedd and Elliot are nonbinary/gender-fluid. All of the main 10 except Justin and Nanase (and arguably male!Tedd) are some form of bisexual. ...Though at least those examples are of things which don't get enough representation elsewhere. Having most of the cast being interested in transformation just feels indulgent.)
At any rate, yay for blurry-sunburst-with-bubbles background in panel three! Yay for diagonal-lines-and-bubbles background in panel four!  

I agree with this pyromaniac uryuom. Fire is a wonderful thing worthy of celebratory laughter.

In other words, she has turned into a Pan Galactic Gargoyle Blaster?

And with the box now open, a high-strutting bullfrog with a top hat and cane enters the scene singing "Hello My Baby".

This is possibly the best NP strip I have seen for quite a while. Susan being able to even temporarily overcome her inhibitions for some reason fills me with contentment.

Something about this page manages to evoke an emotional sense of "the narrative rises up in preparation for the crescendo" in me. I like it.

Something about this page manages to evoke an emotional sense of "the narrative rises up in preparation for the crescendo" in me. I like it.

Once again, Dan surprises us by having characters talk to each other and share important information.  You'd think we'd be expecting this more by now!

 A long time ago.  When it was revealed that the scary magic detector wand could not detect magic in Tedd.  And when it was revealed that Immortal magic could not be detected.  At that point I speculated that Tedd was a larval immortal.
I was shouted down for this thought.
Tedd might not be immortal.  We won't know that for sure until Tedd dies.  As long as Tedd's living, Tedd might be immortal.
But whether or not immortal, Tedd does share the immortal characteristic of having magic that is undetectable by mortals.
...
I just realized something.
Tedd has magic, and a magic mark.
If someone with a magic mark awakens, the magic mark disappears.  But the spell associated with the mark is usually included in the spell package for the newly awakened magician.  So that really doesn't change, except for the loss of the tattoo.
But Tedd already had active magic when Pandora marked him.  So I would take this as an indication that people who already have magic can get marked.  This could be a way for magic users to get specific new spells without being wizards.
And considering that glove lets Tedd put spells in watches, maybe Tedd could use that, or a similar glove, to put spells in people after the reset.  Tedd could be a Mortal who can give magic marks.
...
And Tedd may be a larval immortal.

Maybe he was cheating for the halibut.