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1) That might've been illusion 2) Only in self-defense or if it can be put into "empower and guide" rule. While technically true, I suspect that most uses of this power will immediately blow a canon-protection fuse (so comic will turn non-canon).

Wild Speculation. Beyond the barrier to her simulated realm is the spirit plane in which immortals hide and Magus is trapped. That's extremely unlikely based on Pandora not being able to observe what she's doing with her spell. There's nothing beyond the barrier. Probably literally.

How do we know that'd be her mother's reaction? My headcanon is that the entire Bobcat clan are party animals. Even as party animals they might object to hi-jinks. But, obviously, it was just joke, we don't know anything about them. Diane does know Catalina by name. That wasn't "I don't know any Catalina" who. That was "Do I hear correctly?" who. That much is evident when we see her reaction to Rhoda's messenger avatar. She totally didn't buy the "just buddies in a photo booth" excuse. Timing! This will happen TWO MONTHS LATER! Of course she knows "now" (in main story), but she may not know "now" (in NP story). Also Diane makes that remark about "the lovebirds" still being in their room. She's referring to Rick and Elijah. Perhaps she's disappointed that Rick turned out to be same-sex oriented, but she isn't really making a big thing of it. She may be disappointed that Rick didn't chosen her, regardless of which sex is her competition. Me neither. Although she MIGHT be unsure if it's just admiration or crush. That's much safer, considering the person who feels if puppies are in danger turned out to actually have mark spell for that AND multiple people had yearning for it ... and we know Diane is not marked. Also, it's not about her specifically picking gays: she's just good at guessing who are in relationship. I mean, which pairs are. Technically, yes. But Nanase was actually searching for romance. Diane, not so. Which doesn't mean she's NOT bisexual or gay, but it does lower weight of this argument. Also remember that she seems to have real feelings for Elliot. Elliot when boy. Given that Dan must've explicitly mentioned there are not kissing on previous page ... Personally, I think she may be bisexual. Or, say, 1-4 on Kinsey scale. 0,5 or 6 would surprise me.

Tedd Grace Elliot Ellen Nanase (sort of) Catalina Rhoda How many does she think she needs? Hundred? Thousand? If Moperville has population over hundred thousand, 7 is very short, isn't it? Actually, quality is more important than quantity, and Tedd, Grace, Elliot, Ellen and Nanase are disappointingly not transforming in public often enough.

We never saw Abraham hitting the avatar's shoulder, so we can't really use that as proof. As I said from my experience being jolted awake has the same effect, nerves are firing, heart racing, certainly does feel like something hit you at first and you instinctively yell out and curl up to try to get yourself back together. True ; the angle of axe swing suggest that might've happened but it's not certain enough to be proof. Maybe the damage she feel is not realistic - she feels it on corresponding part of her body but the intensity doesn't match what would she feel from real injury. If she does feel it realistically, she's much tougher than she looks. On the other hand, she's doing martial arts, we can't rule that out. Remember that she definitely has tactile feedback, and while pain and touch receptors are separate, the "overload of touch" sensation is likely painful even without pain receptor firing. In any case, the feeling should quickly pass after disconnecting from fairy, although based on comics it's not immediate ... What part of mine "What we see is not what Sarah see" did you missed? I think that what she sees is not wall nor empty space but somehow both.

I wouldn't necessarily say she feels the damage itself, I'd compare it to being suddenly woken up from a dream. There have been times where I've been woken up by what felt someone flicking their finger against my spine, and my whole body felt like it had been jolted by an electric shock. It didn't hurt, but it was very unnerving, and Nanase's reactions to getting her consciousness forced back to her body look exactly how I felt. She's holding her stomach there and she's holding shoulder next time. I think she does feel something in places where the doll was damaged.

Well, it is not parkour, but should they really do a lot of hi-jinks using their spells? Pandora: "Yes. Of course they should. Popcorn?" Mall guard: "Definitely not. I'm not sure what they are doing, but even running is forbidden." Kitty: "I want to do those hi-jinks with them!" Rhoda's mother: "My daughter doing some hi-jinks? I'm sure you mistaken her for someone else." Catalina's mother: "As if she would care about my opinion. Sigh." Diane: "Rhoda and who?" Tedd: "... I'm actually more interested about what I can learn about their spell than about possible wardrobe malfunction! What have I became?"

You might underestimate how weird seeing the end of the world is. It's not depicted accurate in the comics because it's not possible to depict it with just pixels. She goes into it and it will surround her on all sides, so she won't see anything. She makes several steps, no change. Then she turns around, makes single step and is immediately back in simulation. I don't think Pandora had that big influence on what exactly is the spell doing. Most influence probably had Will of magic. Who was NEVER sane by mortal standards. On the other hand, it's the same will of magic who is enforcing the safety rules on transformations, so ... That's with the expectation of a spherical or hemispherical area. While that does sound most likely, my next guess would be the area Sarah is wondering about, trimmed to the limit of her spell's power. She would likely wonder about things like entire rooms, buildings, or roads, so a flat "end-of-scan" might be how the spell goes down the road until it runs out of thaums. With that clue slightly blunted, Dan has done a masterful job of obfuscating the total area. Hmmmm ... no, that would mean there is some sort of pre-scan of what is around. Although it IS possible that the center of spell is not Sarah but center of her attention ... but still unlikely. Tedd description was accompanied with spherical range centered at Sarah's head, after all. Nanase did have the advantage of a spellbook telling her nothing would happen to her if her avatar was destroyed. So she knew about it before the first time it happened, though not sure if her scream was from the experience of suddenly having her consciousness thrown back to her body, or from suddenly having Vlad in her face just prior to getting sent back. Remember also that while she isn't actually injured, she FEELS the damage of fairy. But, yes, the spellbook is BIG advantage in such case. As noted by Susan. The effects shouldn't be too bad. The barrier should just be impenetrable, or alternately one other facet of the simulation that Sarah could manipulate. The worst that could lurk beyond the barrier would be aspects of Sarah's own mind, I don't think anything bad can happen if she toss something into it. There doesn't seem any subconscious monsters around either, Pandora would mention them. And Sarah's body is not there anyway ... so, while I would start with tossing and poking with a stick, even poking with finger should be completely safe. Entering it, well, that may be more risky ... If she's in buss, she might missed her stop - oh wait, school IS the FINAL stop.

FINALLY! Been calling it since she shown. And predicting the explanation as well: seriously, Pandora might not like name based affinities, but no way would her hate be big enough to miss this opportunity. Also calling this for several strips already. There are hard to predicts parts of this storyline, but this is not one of them. Note: Pandora marked her in hair. Searching for mark would be hard in case they think about it. Did Pandora though about it or is she just so good she's doing it subconsciously? ... emphasis on "try". This is likely to result in even more hijinxs. Also, originally I was joking about EFTM - Part 5, but it's getting more and more likely ... ... well it would explain what forced Catalina, Kitty OR both to turn him into catgirl. Wait: must be Kitty, Catalina would turn him into catboy.

Clarification: I was pointing out the need for Sarah in her time-freeze spell to get well away from her own body. Further away than can be achieved while remaining inside her home (both physically and in-spell) let alone inside a car. This does not require that her body not be at home or in a car - she can leave either within the spell. (Hypothetically of course she COULD check her range when her body's pretty much anywhere... some places for it are a worse idea than others.) Note that her range is not likely to move: even when in moving car, her simulation will remain frozen and will contain stuff which was inside her range in the instant she cast the spell.

When did you think they got their training time for that? Obviously starting "now" Obviously. But, you know, making mistakes is big part of training. So, they may be pros in two months, but they MAY do some mistake which causes them to "not be fine" now. (Although, obviously, that "not be fine" won't include death. But, seriously, death is rarely an option in EGS, even as a result of very dangerous mistake.) It's even possible only the fact they are transformed saves them from being banned from mall ...

These two are pros at using dressing rooms for other things than dressing. They'll be fine. Not yet. They WILL be pros two months from now.

On one hand, they would probably start with resizing, and that wouldn't work because they need to start with disguise. On the other hand, the retail guard have work with the skateboarding people. So, good question.

Or kicked it off and flown out a window. I doubt that she can do a range check while remaining inside her home. Or inside a car. Presumably, it's morning, close to start of school. If she's not on way to school, she's risking coming late. So, while possible, it would be weird putting it here. More likely, she IS on way to school, hopefully by bus or with someone else driving. And probably not Elliot, because she would have lot to speak about with Elliot.

Sarah might have been taking the bus with Tedd and Elliot in the mornings since at the time her and Elliot were dating, and the reason Susan usually drove her home might be because of the after school feminist club meetings, but Elliot's "we think he missed the bus" comment sounds like they didn't take the bus that morning. So if Ellen had the car, how did Elliot get to school? Wait, where did they missed the bus? Although the bus is referenced here ...

That's some supernatural mojo if Grace's lespuko DNA was calling out to her. While not SHOWN, it is possible that she SAW her Lespuko parent as a child. We can't rule out supernatural mojo either of course. She DOES have telekinesis and who-knows-how-many additional senses, so some sort of genetic memory or telepathy is possible ...

I think the Lespuko was shown once .... even if you don't count that skull which was haunting Grace and was probably his. EDIT: The monster seen here is likely Grace's Lespuko parent, although good luck finding proof ... EDIT2: For being Grace's parent I mean. It being Lespuko is confirmed in Q&A.

No, but it's illegal to do so, in the case if Sarah driving back to Tedd's in Sister, it would have been odd to let Sarah drive if she didn't have a license while Susan certainly did. Of course it's illegal, but considering the amount of transformations in this comics, I wouldn't rule out situation where they would be forced to. Not that I remember any. (On the other hand, I remember situation where Sarah needed ride despite having car ... guess she hadn't keys or something.) Three passengers giving direction is actually pretty scary though. "Don't talk over each other, decide who will give direction by rock paper scissors and others be quiet!" Considering Justin called his parents to ask permission to stay overnight at Susan's, there's no indication that he's not still living with his parents. I think any of the main characters moving out would be worth mentioning in comic, even more so if they were kicked out for whatever reason. Right. So at least his dad is around. It's still weird we never saw him. EDIT: For people who want to count cars in comics: Justin took both Nanase and Susan FROM Grace's birthday party, but Susan arrived earlier with Sarah. How?

Most mall store dressing rooms (and for that matter big box store dressing rooms) that I have seen out here in flyover country look about the same, plus or minus the color of the paint. ... which we don't see because grayscale. The question remains: We saw one dressing room where Rhoda shrunk Catalina, we saw this dressing room and we saw dressing room Elliot and Ashley were making out in. That can be one room (or at least rooms in same store), two rooms or three rooms, and if two, which is the same?

To be fair, there is no problem eating hotdog and talking at the same time. Unless you try to swallow something into lungs and choke. It's the driving which makes it dangerous. Not sure if it's shown anywhere but it would make sense - I mean, it would explain why those two were together on start of comic. Is probably his idea of breakfast. Maybe she has car but didn't used it that day to get to school? OR she decided she will leave it near school and pick it up later. Remember that people may live in walking distance from each other. Technically, someone driving doesn't mean he has license, but I agree Nanase wouldn't be likely to drive without license. I suspect Dan doesn't keep notes who is supposed to have car, so this might actually get complicated. On the other hand, if several people use shared family car instead of their own (like, family may have two cars and agree on who will use which when instead of having them divided) it could be explained by interference with other people schedules. Although I would definitely expect Susan to have own car. With rich mother AND steady job ... And Justin ... does he even HAVE family? Besides uncle? I mean, maybe he lives with his uncle because his family moved elsewhere ... BTW, did anyone saved the link to the "middle" version of comix?

... is that the same dressing room or does all dressing rooms look similar? Yeah ... based on what Catalina said, she definitely expected something more aggressive. Possibly even more aggressive than what Rhoda was thinking about.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=571 Skateboarding? Seems it's not end of hijinks yet. Note that resizing sleeves doesn't exactly scream "magic". Could be just some trick.

Definitely. Also note that Dan mentioned "European" version, but most of Europe is driving on (the) right side. Only Britain is driving on left and it doesn't want to be part of Europe anyway. (Or at least European Union, which is much more understandable.) And how do you do that while still obeying rules against using your cell phone while driving? By being passenger. Every person driving their own car is non-ecologic and non-economic anyway. I hope someone else than Sarah is driving the car she's in. Elliot? Tedd?

As a veterinarian, I always advocate for giving the amusing names to your pets, and giving your kids names that won't get them teased in school. As if there would be ANY name which would prevent teasing. But yes, names might be easier or harder to use for teasing and the harder ones are better for kids. While bad prediction, I don't think it's THAT bad name. Wait ... mid-70s? First Star Wars was released 1977. Aaaand he probably started going to school soon after Return of the Jedi ...

In Elliott's case, Magic thought that Elliott was supposed to get girlie spells, but that was only because of how he got magic. It didn't actually reflect either an affinity or a part of his personality, which left Magic trying harder and harder to please him, until finally Elliott changed enough that it did. (At which point Tedd believes Elliott will finally get some non-girlie spells that reflect other aspects if his personality.) Yes. It reflected the supposedly existing part of his personality which made him girl. If Catalina's suspicion becomes public, I could definitely see a lot of people trying to get her to kiss them..... She would PROBABLY reject all boys. Wait. She takes her relationship with Rhoda as exclusive. Ok, she would likely reject everyone. Except Susan. Her will isn't strong enough to reject Susan. Pity Susan would be only one who wouldn't be interested. Also, wouldn't believe such suspicion. And she might not be ready to kiss anyone even if she would know for sure it will give her spell she wants. Like the hair-control spell.