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One should not underestimate guardians of ancient, mystical places, especially if they're willing to be polite. If they weren't powerful enough to deter any attackers, then the places they guard wouldn't have lasted to become ancient. And politeness on their part means that you aren't a threat to them and they would rather not take the time cleaning up your remains.
Given that Dan's commentary states that modern Uryuoms wouldn't understand the ancient language, it's at least like comparing modern English and Old English (like what the original poem of Beowulf was written in) as modern English speakers can understand Shakespearean English(also known as Early Modern English), albeit with some difficulty.
Yes, but the golem has been inoperable for all that time, with it's systems and functionality being actively suppressed. Any internal chronometer likely wasn't running either, so while the golem can obviously tell it's not at the library any more, it most certainly doesn't know how much time has passed.

Yes. Hollywood History will lead a blitzkrieg, conquer almost whole world, fails to secure it's supply lines and few decades later capitulates.
Jurassic Park is less than 25 years old and people already accepted that dinosaurs should have feathers. They even acknowledged their dinosaur are not historically accurate in sequel - ON SCREEN.
Movies don't last. Even if the topic stays interesting and doesn't get outdated, the special effects certainly will, and so will the quality of material it was filmed at. Hollywood will make new version of the movie, with new stars and new effects, and it can use that opportunity to fix mistakes made in original movie, especially if people who knew better was making fun of the movie on social media.

Yes. Hollywood History will lead a blitzkrieg, conquer almost whole world, fails to secure it's supply lines and few decades later capitulates.
Jurassic Park is less than 25 years old and people already accepted that dinosaurs should have feathers. They even acknowledged their dinosaur are not historically accurate in sequel - ON SCREEN.
Movies don't last. Even if the topic stays interesting and doesn't get outdated, the special effects certainly will, and so will the quality of material it was filmed at. Hollywood will make new version of the movie, with new stars and new effects, and it can use that opportunity to fix mistakes made in original movie, especially if people who knew better was making fun of the movie on social media.

Or maybe he knew that kind of thinking was going to happen and foolishly believed he could put a stop to it. He was wrong of course, this is the internet, where saying "not this" will always result in someone thinking "it must be this".

On this topic, the operative word in "cold fusion" is "fusion", not "cold" ... I might hold a grudge against certain movie pretending to be Star Trek ...
I see he was related to someone more competent. At least I HOPE he would be just fired otherwise.

On this topic, the operative word in "cold fusion" is "fusion", not "cold" ... I might hold a grudge against certain movie pretending to be Star Trek ...
I see he was related to someone more competent. At least I HOPE he would be just fired otherwise.

That was just to cover for his mistake. You wouldn't believe how it can undermine the confidence of your troops once they get the idea into their heads that you don't know which way to hold a map.
The worst part is... I know of at least one story where this actually happened. A genius lieutenant in the US Army who was based south of a major city was supposed to take his unit to a training ground. His unit consisted of one platoon, a light tank, and a jeep and driver for his own convenience. This supergenius actually did hold his map the wrong way and could not be persuaded that this was so. As a result, he valiantly led his men straight towards the heart of the city (Chicago, I think it was.) The fact that construction grew denser and that they were clearly entering the suburbs instead of reaching open land failed to impress on him the possibility that they might be headed the wrong way. He insisted that they would soon be at their destination.
Meanwhile, some of the locals had notified the local authorities of what was going on and several units of police were sent to stop this unexpected invasion. The hapless police officers set up a roadblock while wondering what they would do if the invaders decided to press on (the operative word in the construction 'light tank' is 'tank', not 'light'). They had this suspicion that their pistols and shotguns would not make much of an impression on a tank of any weight class at all.
The parade arrived whereupon the lieutenant got into a shouting match with the cops. At this point the driver of the tank had had enough (passing several road signs that clearly read 'Now Approaching Chicago' or words to similar effect had not helped his confidence in his commander). He did a K-turn on some unfortunate person's lawn and headed back to base. The infantry followed him. The outraged lieutenant ordered his jeep to pursue the mutineers but they would not be persuaded to resume their advance on Chicago. Thus this brilliant offensive failed to achieve its objective and in the aftermath the lieutenant found himself transferred to a desk job that did not involve the use of map or compass.

Well, Sauron was a man,. Men don't ask for directions. It's in the man code. There's in-canon proof: Ellen, a woman no more than hours old, stopped to ask Phil for directions. Meanwhile, did either Tedd or Elliot ask for directions? For all we know they were in Canada by the time Hedge gave them a lift. And all this could been avoided if Tedd had remembered to design that belt to turn Elliot into a catgirl. Talk about a really stupid omission. Tedd should really do all his research as a girl. Maybe a catgirl, as long as there's no yarn or vacuum cleaners around.

Yeah. They should've remained on their island oh wait they couldn't Sauron was teasing Valar from it so long they sunk it.
"Sees everything" ... well, yeah, but just one thing at once. Delegation and redundancy, that was missing.
... fantastic idea. And it means the golem will want to kill half of main cast for same reason, so perfect reason for conflict spawning hundreds of pages - oh wait this is supposed to finish quickly.
WAIT.
If we combine the "Uryuom inspiration" theory and "blasphemy" theory ... the golem is from the same religion which passed laws forbidding the CMD which was reworked into TF gun on Uryuom home planet. And we though it's just throwaway joke! Instead, we will now get the full explanation of issue, just like hammers were explained in hammerchlorians.
That's so good idea I would almost excuse it for the inevitable "both Uryuoms and fairies were influencing ancient legends as if only one wouldn't be much more reasons for it than necessary".
... maybe there was even war. We don't know if Uryuoms are protected by immortal law, do we? And fairies DEFINITELY wants sex change shenanigans ...
Edward: "You mean you KNEW about immortals"?
Lavender: "You mean immortals are fairies? They are still around?"
*picks communication device*: "Code 31, starts evacuation immediately, I repeat code 31!"
 

 
Abraham's responsible for the enchantment on the now-blown-up-and-evaporated diamond. Not necessarily for the existence of it.
Alternative theory 3, compatible with either of the prior two: The golem wants to deny the power of the wooden core to humanity, because it's a wand with a particular spell that was anathema AND blasphemous (and a few other really bad things) according to the golem-makers' culture. That spell is...
 
 
 
... now what comic are you reading? Isn't it obvious? ...
 
 
 
 
 
sex-change magic.

Sounds most likely to me as well. DEFINITELY more likely than Kevin.
And BTW, no, this won't save Ellen from headache. She will have headache because being woken up too soon after Sirleck possession, no matter HOW she was woken up.
It's not about what we want. The golem seems sturdy enough. It wasn't destroyed by the beam itself, I doubt the fall would destroy it, especially looking at final page showing the asphalt being scattered, not the golem.
...  Elliot would understand, but so far only Ashley (and Kevin) was hearing what the golem was saying, so ... yes. We currently can't be sure it isn't Uryumoco. We also can't be sure it isn't Japan or French, given Nanase is not here.
Abraham just enchanted the "diamond", he didn't created it. Possibly his master did, but more likely it was even older.
That wasn't Saruman.
Sauron lost it in public, but he was having health issues and really started looking for it as soon as he could.
Isildur lost it totally not in public. And he also had health issues. Fatal ones.
Saruman started looking for it quite soon after his arrival to middle-earth, but he never found it so couldn't lose it.
That was accident! Frodo was totally going to bring it back, but then Gollum tried to steal it and they fought and ... well ... seriously, accident. Noone wanted to dump it there. Also, Sauron's fault, in fact - the volcano wasn't OSHA compliant. There should've been railings there. Yeah, that's it. Remember, the volcano was where the ring was forget in first place.
 

It's probably not the ordinary catgirl transformation but the pet version from Goonmanji. Or she's on catnip.
Or maybe this is how she was when she was actually 18, before the "betrayal" of Noriko.

....them?
Sensei Greg, Hanma, Vladia.
Of those three, which two are "Normal"?
Let them interact like the unusual and extraordinary beings they are.

Jealous?  Heck, no!  Hanma would ship Greg/Vladia!

Hmmmm .... Hanma is staying on astral plane here, but maybe? It's not like Greg must KNOW his new girlfriend is an immortal who is stalking him for years ...
I also think the 3/4 is too low estimate.

Kind of like a CEO who majored in marketing.

On the one hand, I love the idea, the catly abandon with which Catalina stretches, and the fact that Susan is completely herself, from her appearance to her being turned on by watching.
On the other hand, that tail is coming out the wrong place!  The tail is a continuation of the spine; if it came out where it's pictured, Catalina's pelvis would have nothing to attach to!  I know it can be hard to figure out how to combine clothing with tails, but completely breaking the anatomy just totally ruins any suspension of disbelief.  Better to have it emerge from the shorts in the right place with no explanation, or give it its own little "leg", or have it emerge from one of the normal legs of the shorts, or anything else that's actually possible.

With Dan's commentary, it would seem that Kevin is a more recent creation, rather than an inert artifact from a previous system. He not only knows modern English, but also gets Elizabethan English significantly wrong AND thinks the 'Ye Olde English' sounds sophisticated and 'mystical.'
As for why Kevin, a wizard training device, would be considered useless (considering that even simple and benign wands can be used to awaken magic), he seems rather obnoxious and temperamental. The DGB probably just figured no one would be able to put up with Kevin long enough to get any use out of him.

I think Kevin can only teach magic to wizards (and only wizards), he can't cast any magic himself, except perhaps in the process of teaching his apprentice (in which case either he doesn't have enough power to harm the Golem or he knows Ashely isn't ready to learn such spells and isn't willing or able to bend the rules on when he can use magic).
As for the magpie, first of all we don't know it's going after the Golem - it could be going after a fourth, as yet unseen magical artifact.
Secondly, while all these other artifacts activating around it might be what triggered it to act, it's also possible that it had been intentionally shut down and the magic released by the destruction of the Dewitchery Diamond turned it back on.
In fact, I suspect that all these artifacts activating now is only related to the Magic Change in the sense that there are more potentially functional artifacts in the facility now than there were earlier in the day; I think it is the energy from the destruction of the diamond that's actually turning everything on. (Which means the same thing would have happened on a smaller scale even if Magus had done his resurrection trick before the Change. Pandora probably knew about this and didn't tell him, hoping to watch the fireworks; she'll be disappointed she missed it.)

Now you have me wondering if one of the magical artifacts might be an Endless Barrel of Exposition.

Not speaking about the ridiculously small 512MB card in camera and gigabytes of space in computer ... just MONTH of comic time before video camera phones with HD. (March 9 and April 9, exactly month.)
And the speed CRT monitors changes to flat panels is also quite fast ...
 

Well, we either have to believe he is so extremely bad at teaching wizards that he can be categorized as useless, or he was inactive until the magic changeover and really is from an older system of magic; his modern design could be part of his magic, appearing to the wizard in a form that seems appropriate to the wizard. 

Totally agree. How can I completely clean the dungeon when the enemies keep reappearing? It's so untidy ...

Magus whole "I'm a better battle mage as a man" thing strikes me as pretty much a rewrite of Tedd's "I'm a better cook as a girl" thing at Grace's birthday party.