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Tom Sewell
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It sounds like the "he drew first" cliche from about a million Westerns, where the villain insults his victims until they start a gunfight the villain thinks he can't lose. To me, it also sounds a little similar to the reason Jerry gave the hammers to women since the ultimate reason was to tempt men to act like... men?
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This jogs my memories of the Foglio treatment of Isstvan from Myth Adventures. He was cursed with immortality, and tried his darndest to provoke the heroes into killing him. If this is Voltaire's goal, he seems well on his way to achieving it.
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I said it was a possibility, and it was justifiable. If Abraham was ready to kill Ellen, how many other innocents has he killed? He's pretty much the definition of a loose cannon. It seems that Nanase was quite capable of killing Abraham in her guardian form, a spell that Pandora essentially gave to her. Perhaps it surprised Pandora that Nanase didn't kill him, and that inspired her to try to use Magus to get Edward to do it. I think it should also be noted that Pandora didn't kill Magus. But she could have. And it now occurs to me why Voltaire would feel safe next to Tedd and Grace: He could think that Pandora won't use her full power on him when it might hurt or kill them.
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They don't appear until after Damien is killed, and The Shive has admitted he had a quite different plot in mind when he began that arc. If The Shive brings up that question, I think the answer will be that they hadn't started watching Elliot.
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question mark Story Tuesday May 17, 2016
Tom Sewell replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Comic Discussion
Remember that the Moperverse isn't quite our universe. Maybe Jason D. Poit played Boba Fett. -
Cheerleadra wasn't at the dojo then. Noah seemed to be the only one who sensed the blast coming, and the dragon didn't move away from Elliot until Noah flew away. How much control did Voltaire have over that dragon? Quite a lot, apparently. The dragon didn't attack Elliot after grabbing him and breaking through the roof of the dojo. Instead it flew to Melissa and spit a fireball at her, forcing Elliot to block it. Could Voltaire have expected Noah to block it? The fireball that would have killed Dex too could be reasonably expected to kill Greg as well as Noah, so the "one murder" rule seems to have been considerably stretched here. Voltaire was complaining that Plan B was a complicated mess, but Plan A sounds pretty darned complicated and messy, don't it, now?
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Yes, if she actually wanted it used again. I don't really see Pandora being that devious now that we know it was Voltaire who was manipulating Dex. What she seemed to have in mind was scaring Adrian; I don't think she thought he would be hurt so badly. Either that, or motherly instincts overruled all else, something not limited to mama bears defending their cubs.
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Much as I like debates about history, time-travel, and alternate history, this thread is really getting: Seriously off-topic Long in the tooth for a Story thread. Maybe someone could start a thread in the Off-Topic section?
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How about Tinder?
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Dodging to the spirit plane might not do Volty a lot of good. Magus can't leave the spirit plane, and look what happened to him.
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So it was. Sorry, I haven't re-read Stranger in a Strange Land in the last fifty years or so. It's remarkable that it became a hippie talisman since Heinlein's politics were as far or farther to the right as Larry Niven's. There's a possibility that Voltaire is close to his positively last appearance. He may not be all that necessary to the plot now. He's already set up Sirleck to attack Adrian, and if Pandora kills him now, he won't be able to tell the gang about Sirleck, will he? And Sirleck doesn't even know it was him; he thought Abner was talking to him on that miraculous payphone.
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Magic has a flair for the dramatic. Expanding out of clothes or shrinking out of them is more dramatic. Also more fun. If magic builds in safeties, it just means you wouldn't get hurt. As for modesty, we already know about speedbirds.
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Because aberrations all have caller ID.
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So you don't grok Spock? That, I believe, was the original original series T-shirt.
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You have exposed yourself as an Original Series Trekkie. Beyond the satisfaction of showing off how brilliant he is (and picking the name of a French Mr. Smartypants tells us he's very proud of his cleverness) I don't see what he plans to accomplish here.
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Spot on. Damien could have been an actor, though, the kind that always insists on bringing his own unique interpretation to the part. Think Brando at this worst.
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Actually not. As they were built, they were sheathed in polished limestone, which were covered with paintings. Except for the top of the Great Pyramid, the limestone sheathing was all robbed by the Arabs to build Cairo.
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story Story: Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Tom Sewell replied to Howitzer's topic in Comic Discussion
If Elliot was really the only target, why did the dragon fly off after Noah? Why did the dragon fly away from Cheerleadra to where it met Noah, who didn't know anything about the dragon until Melissa screamed? To me, it looks like the whole point of the dragon's attacking Elliot where and when it did was to get Melissa to scream. The dragon didn't attack Melissa or make any more attacks to finish off Elliot. And after fighting with Noah, the dragon flies back to the dojo, luring Noah just like it lured Cheerleadra. I kind of think the whole commentary was a smokescreen to conceal the fact that Edward is wrong about this one, or at least not totally right. Maybe Voltaire when Voltaire said that Plan A would have solved the problem with just one murder, he didn't mean Elliot's murder. -
Way, way back in Painted Black, Nioi, who basically is Lord Tedd's Grace, thought General Shade Tail was corrupting LT. That would make Lord Tedd himself another catspaw. But manipulating an Immortal? However, while I don't see Lord Tedd or GST being the ultimate boss of this storyline, I do have what might be an original explanation of how Lord Tedd could be a good guy and still want to kill off all the other Tedds. Remember that the whale said Tedd was a far more dangerous rarity than a wizard? Maybe Lord Tedd devastated his own world and wants to prevent all the other Tedds from doing the same. We've only seen a few interior scenes of Lord Tedd's world; all of them could have been in an underground shelter for all we know. Maybe we should check around for vault boys...
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I thought Damien was supposed to be a genetically-engineered human, someone else's black project, not a Seyunolu or alien crossbreed. Also, Lord Tedd mentions Nioi elsewhere, in the only comic where we see a speaking General Shade Tail. How would Damien even know of Nioi's existence? Nioi actually came to the Moperverse looking for a way to defeat General Shade Tail. She became focused on the gang while observing Tedd and then discovered Grace's name was Sciuridae, perhaps related to the Dr. Sciuridae Nioi was looking for. Further, it's stated in the recap beginning Painted Black that Damien has no apparent shapeshifting powers.
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Yes. I already suggested that if Pandora had made any mark on the pendant, it would be a box, not a pithos, because she went by "Box" for awhile. And I also suggested it was Voltaire outsmarting himself; not that many people know about Erasmus these days. Incidentally, Erasmus lived about five centuries ago; he knew Henry VIII. It's conceivable that Pandora knew Erasmus too.
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Pandora might have told Sarah that saving magic was more important than keeping her spell secret, and would have pointed out that if magic changed, Sarah would lose her magic anyway. Edward is still DGB, after all. I am wondering why Sarah Pandora hasn't contacted her son to help fix the problem or at least to warn him. It could be just because she doesn't want to admit she made a mistake. Maybe Pandora has empowered Sarah in some way which will fix the clog but allow her to do magic, maybe by making her sort of a magic sponge to soak up the ambient magic energy. Something like this might awaken Sarah completely. I wonder if there is any limit on how much empowerment an Immortal can give. Jerry had to sacrifice a lot of his to make the hammer artifact. And I'm wondering if empowerment could stretch to include possession as long as the possessed gives consent. Maybe the four-page dream in Power Fantasy could turn out to be foreshadowing.
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That would make Voltaire the prime suspect, because Noah is Adrian's ward. That also suggests perhaps that Pandora might consider Noah as much "family" as Tedd. Voltaire's really targeting Pandora. It would sure be a good time for Grace to finally remember all the warnings she's been getting about magic getting close to changing. Could that be why she's pacing? Pandora might have already given Sarah the word on this; kind of fits in with the whole “save all magic” thing. But Pandora also warned Sarah against Edward finding out about her new power, which might explain why Sarah doesn't seem to on the scene now.
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Imagine how complicated sports leagues must be in the Ellen's Second Life world (not to be confused with Second Life®, which is a registered trademark.)
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No, a caterpillar is for holding up the roof of a cathouse.
