Tom Sewell

So, is Elliot really considering that he might be transgender? Well, maybe, but I think it's more consistent with his born-wearing-a-boy-scout-uniform nature that what's actually troubling him so much is whether he should try to help whoever made that post. Despite what Elliot told Tedd about magic not changing, Elliot knows it could change soon. It could be too late to help before very much longer.
And who could help this supposed transgender pleader change sex? Well, Tedd, of course--but also Ellen. Ellen can change any male into a female and back, and it's kind of an easy step to a Friday comic where Elliot asks his sister whether she'd be up for doing this.
 

A different moral angle has been introduced to the story. Tedd has been concerned about giving everyone the ability to resist magic. What if he concentrated on giving everyone the ability to become the gender that best suits them instead? I can see f!Elliot talking about this in Tedd's basement. What would Tedd's reaction be, especially concerning the discovery of his own gender-fluidity and how the TF gun (and now his spell) facilitates what he feels?

The question has to be asked: Is Duck's dad Sam Sheepdog?

Not for Ubermann.

There's one bystander shown, the half-a-girl who's squeezed into the left side of the second panel. I wonder why she's there at all. Unless she's much taller, she can't be very far behind Elliot, and should be close enough to catch at least some of what Elliot and Tedd are saying. She doesn't have those three little lines as in here and here, but what we can see of her expression doesn't rule out surprise, and her head is turned so that her ear is showing. And look where Elliot's eye's are. To me, it looks like he just squeezed around that girl, and that she's sort of frozen in place, maybe because she also heard what Elliot and Tedd said in the first panel, where there wasn't enough space left for even half-a-girl and her three little lines.
Maybe this isn't the first time we've seen her with Elliot?
And besides that, what about the grassy knoll?
 

Want spam in your dreams? Just watch some Monty Python. 

Or it could go total the other way and be an (ahem) enhancement that attracts other people's eyes...

I'm starting this thread for anyone who wants to share thoughts about Susan and people or things connected to Susan. Whether or not "real" ghosts are going to be allowed in the Moperverse isn't settled. To quote Charlotte, "If ghosts are real, ghosts are real." But Susan has certainly been haunted by her past, and perhaps an actual ghost.
The the only street view we have of Chateau de Pompoms is an early work of Dan's. Possibly magic has revised the architecture in the better part of a year of story time that has passed since. Still, it's probably still big. I may be living in the po' side o' Santa Clara County now, but I've seen plenty of Palo Alto and Los Altos, two of the richest communities in the world, and I have yet to see a three-story mansion.
So who lives in that enormous mansion? Apparently just Susan and her mother. No maids, no butler, no gardener, no chauffeur, no cook. The intercom system plays Mexican radio, but maybe that's for the Mexican ghosts.
It's quite likely Dan just didn't want to show any staff. They could be asleep, gone home, gone out. Mrs. Pompoms could just use services as needed. Still, Susan never mentions housework or chores.
There are only two occasions where Susan's mother appears. In the very first panel we see her in, she's in her bathrobe and holding a pretty large wineglass. It's dark or getting dark outside but it's winter and a movie night is planned, so it shouldn't be that late. She couldn't put down that glass before coming to meet Susan and her guests?
Next we see Susan's mom in Hammerchlorians, later in the narrative but in two flashback panels from Susan's first year at Moperville North. In the first Susan's mom looks sober as she slices carrots, and in the second she's tearing Principal Verrucht a new one. These scenes happened before Susan went to France, got her magic mark, and killed her first vampire.
I've noted that wineglass long enough ago that I don't have the faintest idea when. But it wasn't until I started this post that I considered this possibility: Susan's mom is drinking now because she knows what happened in France.
Now, if this is true, why hasn't it been mentioned? Why did Susan complain in Playing With Dolls that she would need multiple trips to sneak four dolls from the car into her house?
A possible answer: Susan doesn't know her mother knows. And possibly she doesn't want to know. The most likely source for Susan's mother to learn the secret? Mrs. Kitsune, of course. It is very difficult for me to accept that Noriko's sister, from the same long magically-endowed bloodline, wouldn't know pretty much everything that's going on with her eldest daughter. Sharing her concerns with the mother of another magically talented young woman and a prime potential recruit for the covert magical ops that tore apart Noriko's marriage sounds plausible to me.
 

And I'm not going back to Vegas until Vegas puts the Raiders back where they found them. I was born in Oakland.

Still indisputably cutting edge tech!

Still indisputably cutting edge tech!

A brief history lesson regarding a use of the device that bears the name of Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9fG_ji7T8
 

And I'm not going back to Vegas until Vegas puts the Raiders back where they found them. I was born in Oakland.

What do you mean, no Santa?

Unlikely, considering she's not even close to awakening. Remember that not only magic marks, but even use of magic items gets you closer to awakening.
More likely, the carpet is thick. Or there is music playing.

Stanford?  Absolutely not.
I have been avoiding the western half of the United States for the last quarter century.  I'm not moving towards the Pacific Coast until Vegas puts that pyramid back where they found it.

So how old will Elliot's nextborn be when Susan is ready?

I have had an epiphany: It wasn't that Dan didn't want to create a reporter that was not Carol Brown to announce the death of whats-his-name; it was so he wouldn't have to make up a name for Sirleck's rich host. Dan's been very stingy with names. He hasn't yet given surnames to Diane, Rhoda, Noah, Melissa, George, Tony, Liz, Ashley, and Lucy. The only parents with first names are Tedd's. If Dan keeps this up, most of his characters may go on strike, perhaps organized by the demonic duck, whom we know to be a union duck. Come to think of it, the duck doesn't have a name either.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

I think Dan already has. Does the butler look willing?
What Sirleck reminds me of most is the alien body stealer in The Hidden: Takes over hosts and wears them out. For an extremely creepy webcomic on this theme, try The Settlers.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.

So did Sirleck leave the butler all his dead host's money? Or did Sirleck just have to get whatever host he could get right away?
On the other hand, after whatever villainy Sirleck is about to commit, maybe he could jump to another host. Then everyone will think the butler did it.