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  2. Posted

    15 minutes ago, animalia said:

    However since Magic has a will it could simply choose that evil people can't use magic.

    If Magic really has a will, then Magic is essentially a god. This can work in fiction; Demon Xanth has fueled about three dozen novels so far. But it's pretty clear that magic doesn't withdraw itself from "evil people" in the Moperverse, as exemplified by the perfectly average guy who used Magic that almost anyone could learn to become not-Tengu. Not to mention Aberrations/Vampires who rely on Magic for their very existence. "Evil" is somewhat subjective, but Spider-guy is way beyond "somewhat."

    This is why I hope The Shive will eventually reveal that Disco Wizard really isn't really speaking for "Magic itself." Why would Magic need to work through a single human who didn't have any spells at all when it can change all spells? Not enough midichlorians?

  4. Posted

    Considering that in the first panel here both Ashley and "Mall Elliot" are blushing and "Mall Elliot" seems to be re-fastening her skirt, ME could have been wearing undies like that in the changing room.

    Or less.

    BTW, I've been calling "Mall Elliot" "Nadeshiko" for quite awhile. It fits the pink hair and may arguably a Japanese word Ashley knows, even though she's not supposed to be Japanese. (No, Ashley, even though we don't know where we're from, we're not from Japan. Absolutely sure of that. Can't you tell from the NOT JAPANESE t-shirts we wear?)

  9. Posted

    Or, questions that don't really merit a thread of their own, questions such as:

    • How can Elliot have his own car? Edward Verres had to arrange for his family to win a phony lottery for them to afford Ellen, and as Lucy pointed out, Elliot doesn't even have that summer job any more.
    • Why aren't there any servants at Susan's enormous house?
    • How come Diane and Nanase seem to drive the same Chrysler PT Cruiser?
    • How did Nanase get to Moperville North so fast in the second Goo fight?
    • Don't any of the parents other than Edward Verres have real jobs? Are their jobs simply "sitcom parent"? like the Cleavers, the Nelsons (Rick Nelson's parents), etc.?
    • Is Matt Cohen Italian? Because why else would a Lawful character be delivering Pizza when he's under-age unless it's the family business?
    • Did Matt Cohen deliver the pizza Ellen is eating in So a Date at the Mall?
    • Does Diane have a real tattoo on her right arm, or is it henna or something?
    • Why didn't "magic itself" come down on Jerry for providing all women with  the potential for summoning hammers?
    • Are Helen and Demetrius Jerry's kids? It would explain why they knew how to teach Susan how to use hammers.
    • Will we ever see Kevin?
    • Would you be willing to donate to the Fund for Nameless EGS Minor Characters? I mean, Ronin, Theater Clerk, Star Trek Fan, Screaming Girl, Bad Tom's Girlfriend, Some Other Guy...don't you feel for these lost souls?

  10. Posted

    Actually, I brought up the idea, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the first. I can't see absolute proof that the manipulator tried to kill Noah, but the manipulator did try to get Dex to sacrifice himself. A little later Adrian connects the pendant with his mother.

    However...

    In the latest NP arc, which is canon, the unseen narrator says that Pandora actually tried to go by "Box" which could mean Pandora doesn't know about the mis-translation by Erasmus or went with what was the popular misconception at that time. Why wouldn't she know about Erasmus? Not interested in Erasmus? Maybe neither is Pandora.

    Even if Pandora marked Dex, we don't know that she gave him the amulet. We just know that Adrian thought his mother did. And even if she did give him the amulet, is she the only one who can use it? And could someone else have put that image of a jar on it?

    Remember once again that when Magus refused get Edward to kill Abraham, Pandora didn't kill Magus. Pandora sacrificing a completely innocent person when there's no reason to think she was angry just doesn't fit with all the recent revelations about her, does it?

  11. Posted

    9 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Sirleck arranges to take over someone else's body.

    That makes it MUCH harder for most beings to dispose of Sirleck without also killing an innocent.

    Assuming that "most" beings have consciences, yes. I totally missed the possibility that killing Sirleck would mean killing his host. Totally, and I've seen The Hidden.

  12. Posted

    Catalina's the first one I thought of, but Ashley has expressed interest in transformation and (unlike Sarah) has never been turned into a cat by Tedd. Yet.

    But this is Halloween, and the day after The Date at the Mall has got to be at least ten weeks later. That's kind of a long time for anyone marked with a transformation spell not to use it. Unless it's Before the Goo, this wouldn't be the time for Rhoda, Dex, or Justin to get their marks because they were all shown to have marks before the time skip. Now Squirrel Prophet does take place after the time skip. Of the four people Grace knows or thinks she knows are marked, only Catalina hasn't been shown using her power--but she could have during the time skip.

    So I guess there's a pretty good chance Catalina will get her mark "on camera" in Marker. Still, this question seems most likely to get Ashley to respond at length. Maybe she got the cloud, suggesting that she could morph something like Pandora herself? Or Plastic Man?

    Since we have a whole weekend at least to wait for the next installment of Marker, I suggest proposing some other possible interviewees, their answers, and results of the interview:

    Tony: I'm already irresistible to women. (Mark that makes him irresistible to gay guys)

    Greg: Chun-li or Unusagi. Unusagi? Haven't you ever seen The Lucky Bunny Bounty Show? (Eventually lands lead in live-action movie)

    Principal Verrucht: I'd just like more hair (Turns into an orangutan. No one but our gang notices.)

    Matt Cohen: Well, I don't know...There's this girl I like. Maybe if I looked a little more...I don't know. (Turns into a doppelganger of Elliot)

    George: Okay, how about a squirrel-human who can change sexes? (Morphs into a web cartoonist)

    Lucy: Xena all the way! (No visible change)

    Good Tom's Girlfriend: Maybe a puppy. My boyfriend is just obsessed with saving puppies now!

     

  13. Posted

    43 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Unlikely. He just tripped over something because was looking at pretty girls instead of where he is going.

    Maybe I should borrow Grace's "I'M JOKING" sign. However, nosebleeds caused by arousal or attraction are a common trope in humorous anime and manga. I'm quite sure that nosebleeds must have played a part in The Lucky Bunny Bounty Show.

  14. Posted

    43 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Arthur and Disco Wizard have similar goals, but at least it seems Disco Wizard wants to try to do it with little to no casualties whereas Arthur doesn't seem to care if there are any casualties as long as the secret is maintained.

    If Arthur J. Arthur's real goal is keeping the accessibility of magic secret, he sure seems to be doing a lousy job, doesn't he? Maybe the real long-term goal is to provoke The Change and take away all those neat superpowers--uh, magic powers. I wonder if Syndrome has a contract with the DGJ...

  15. Posted

    13 minutes ago, jmucchiello said:

    So when does she decide she's going to fix this by changing "magic's mind" about magic being open?

    Doubtful. Doing so wouldn't involve any other of the main characters, except maybe Adrian and Edward, and that's assuming she could make direct contact with "magic's mind." Maybe her best tactic would be getting Edward back in charge of the Wierdness Squad in Moperville or maybe of the whole operation. Arthur's clearly not helping matters.

    And who wouldn't like to see Arthur J. Arthur come up against Pandora?

    Another great tactic would be taking out Sirleck, because raining down Hell might attract even more attention to magic. While Sirleck seems to know that the immortal working with Magus is a "she," I don't remember him ever mentioning her name, and I don't remember Pandora ever mentioning him. Going back once again to the title page,  Sirleck seems to be behind Pandora, which implies she isn't aware of him. If she was aware of him, he'd be dead now, really most sincerely dead, if for no other reason that he'd be a potential threat to Adrian. Perhaps the reason Immortals hate his variety of abomination most because they have trouble detecting them. Pandora could have assumed Sirleck's host was just another rich old bastard--which he likely was when alive. Sirleck's animation of his brain-dead body might even seem an improvement over the original to his receptionist.

  16. Posted

    17 minutes ago, inqntrol said:

    She better start unmarking the people who got marks from her, there's probably lots of them, besides Tedd, Sarah, good Tom etc.

    If she can unmark people as simply as she marked them, problem solved. End of story arc. Kind of makes the marker NP arc sort of not-as-interesting, though. But unmarking will surely fix everything. Let's go bowling or something.

    Oh, wait. There's that whole "raining Hell down on Moperville" thing. And maybe the only thing that makes marks go away is Awakening?

  18. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Ranma_2k8 said:

    Who knew the crazy immortal could be so reasonable? :lol:

    Gee, think it could be to protect her family?

    1 minute ago, Xenophon Hendrix said:

    So, marking Sarah must be part of fixing it.

    Why Sarah? Maybe because she's one of those rare wizards who would be unaffected because she didn't get spells in the first place. Which could also describe Tedd. And Grace. Yes, the Q&A before this arc began spent a lot of time explaining how it would be ridiculously hard for Grace to gain human-style magic spells...but that all depends on magic working in the way it is now, doesn't it?

    You know, either Moperverse Earth has a radically different history or a really big reality quake that changed its past. Armies of fire-mages don't seem to have made it into our own history. Oh, it was in the other half of Earth? But wasn't it established by Lady Andrea that both halves share the same magic?

  19. Posted

    17 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Look again. Agent Wolf isn't scanned because it was decided ; he was scanned because he wanted to visit Abraham. Considering the risk of illusions and transformation based identity thefts, there will be places and situations where EVERYONE, even president, will be scanned and any complain based on rank would be dismissed with "sure, Arthur Arthur is my superior, but until I scan you I can't be sure you are Arthur Arthur".

     

    Look again. The clowns insisting on scanning Agent Wolf already know that Abraham is a stone statue. They're just being dicks because they can. Think they're dumb enough to dick around with a big shot like Arthur J. Arthur?

  20. Posted

    If "magic" can change itself so that humans won't be able to use familiar spells, why not change itself for Pandora? If Pandora is the prnicipal reason why magic is getting wide exposure to humans, "magic" can't take it's ball away from her? Pandora is more powerful than "magic"?

    This is why I put quotation marks around "magic".

     

  21. Posted

    On 8/4/2016 at 10:40 PM, ijuin said:

    Back in http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1937, where Tedd had just learned about having been Marked, Tedd speculates that trying to cast the spell again would, rather than reversing it, instead "double up" on the cute girliness. I would like to see what a "doubly girly Tedd" would look like (as opposed to "enhanced sexy" forms such as FV5).

    As per the anime trope, doubly-cute-girlieness in Tedd could cause fatal nosebleeds. For that matter, maybe that guy falling down in the mall was passing out from blood loss

  22. Posted

    The Shive is committing a lot of HIs resources to Pandora: This canon NP arc and all of the current story arc so far. In fact, except for the title page, no one with a known sister has so far made an appearance in  Sister III.

     

    Maybe Pandora is somebody's sister? 

    Okay, Grace has siblings. But Grace isn't on the title page.

    Anyway, who do you think we'll see marked next? I'd like to see a few more surprises rather than just complete the Eight Marks.

     

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Scotty said:

    Space Whale warned Tedd that something was causing an energy build up around Moperville. It assumed it was caused by one or more beings of great power which I guess is a good enough clue for Immortals, but beyond that, it didn't seem to know anything about Magic having a will and could bring about a system change. Heck it didn't seem to know that Magic was supposed to flow to the other half of the world through Moperville and that it was a clog that was causing the buildup. So I don't see Space Whale being behind Disco Wizard's contact with Grace.

    Good points. I was mostly using the Space Whale as a possible reason "magic itself" didn't give Disco Wizard a spell to get into Tedd's dreams. I can think of another example: Remember what happened to Luke when he tried to use his power on Tedd?

  24. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    Susan's mark was the traditional female symbol, which has no apparent connection to summoning magical copies of objects.

    Susan got to choose her symbol.  Pandora is trying to get people to learn about magic. Giving them clues in the shape of her marks would  point them toward the right ideas.

     

  25. Posted

    Once again, which October is this?

    The "master plan" suggests that Pandora's motive is to expose magic, the "apocalypse" she promised to create to make the world she thinks Adrian is asking for. She knows that Moperville has more than normal ambient magical energy, so that almost anyone should be able to use the potential spell she activates with a mark. That doesn't mean she created the clog, but maybe she did.

    Or maybe her "master plan" as of the October before last October is just to have some fun creating a chaotic situation more likely to surprise her.

    Let's all hope she didn't mark Bad Tom.