Tom Sewell

Any relation to Dick Shooter, the famous founder of the Dick Shooter Cattle Company of Dickshooter, Idaho? Look it up on Google Maps
 
That's a question I've been asking myself for a long time, ever since Diane described her ideal man to Rhoda. Before that she was pretty much a queen bee/golddigger, but that got to thinking about a deeper backstory. Are her (adoptive) parents divorced? Maybe. Maybe it could be a legacy of getting so attached to Rick only to find out he was gay--which could help explain her hostility to Justin. Since it's clear Diane still loves Rick, displacing that anger onto Justin, someone who put his longtime friend Melissa through a similar wrenching experience sounds quite possible.
Just how important is money to Diane, anyway? Even if she doesn't own a car, clearly her family can afford to let her use theirs which isn't a junker, and they have to be putting a big chunk of money to send Rhea to college. Rhea could still live at home; her college doesn't seem to be beyond commuting distance.
When Diane talks about a meaningful relationship, I think her model may be the relationship she's seen between Susan and Elliot on their show. Elliot clearly listens to Susan and respects her opinions. Better than Rick, who still treats Diane like a little kid. In fact, Rick seems to treat everyone like little kids from what we've seen of him.
 

Here's two of mine, first coloured because of how useful it is for memes, second just to see if I could:

I was right in that the attack was already underway during all this and that Dan would do a rewind to show it. I believe we saw 3 vampires so far, so there's 3 more yet to show up. And Magus said Moperville is loaded with people capable of killing vampires too? Are we talking the Paranormal Division, or are vampire hunters more common?
 
Edward's description certainly fits vampires, but body snatchers are a different flavour of aberration, and as we saw with Francine, body snatchers don't need to kill their hosts.
They'd be like parasites, the host might  appear to have an increased appetite while being possessed, I bet when the old man's coworkers, or who ever, learn of his death, they'll probably be like "but he seemed to be so healthy the past 8 months, we actually though he was on his way out back then but he managed to bounce back...though I'm not sure his secretary appreciated the requests to dance for him..."
Though it is interesting to hear the motivation for Sirleck to become an aberration, it fits what I had thought about with the good guy gone bad reason, Sirleck probably had a decent life once, but got screwed over or bullied or something and he turned to darkness out of revenge of what he felt was justice and then he started getting greedy.
 

"Shit. The other guys got captured, locked into a garage that conveniently held a car and a crapload of tools, and then modified the car into an APC and busted their way past dozens of goons shooting madly at them? This Moperville place sounds like a bad action TV series."

No no no no. One, it would not be required to. We can observe relativistic time differences even inside our own universe. Two, the Gooniverse is actually moving along a fractalized trapezoid-shaped path on the inside surface of the Fermionic Klein bottle shaped and held in stasis by the opposing pulls of the Source and the Rock of Eternity.

Not just the solar system (you know how big navigation hazard would that be for Uryuom? On second though, that might explain why they are no short-term Uryuom tourists). Whole EGS universe is moving in that trajectory, relatively to ours.
In fact, it would be multiple universes, as I suppose that Lord Tedd's universe time is running similarly as EGS-universe time. Then there is this universe ... hey, maybe it's our universe moving that way. Do we know ANY universe with time similar to our own?
 

Nonsense. The laws of physics are the same. It is just that Earth-Moperville and its solar system is moving on a superhyperelliptotoroidal trajectory around and between three singularities in interlocking orbits at high speed. This causes the minor time distortions we have observed.

It's definitely most likely explanation.
I can't recall ANY instance where ghost would age, and I don't see why should anyone age in astral form, so yes, definitely likely.
Nioi's age might be completely unrelated to Tedd's age. However good point about second life universe - although note that Nioi was putting off helping Kaoli yet she was ready to do the nosebeep on extremely short notice ... and those memories are supposed to be actual memories from another dimension ... did Nioi really established some link and that other universe have time going that much faster, or did she like prerecorded those memories and it was all playback?
Yes, especially if it would be without hints.
I suspect that the body is really Elliot's with just few physical changes, possibly even just the hair color. I don't think Magus would care about exact age even if he had option to change it.
Note that we know that technically Elliot is enchanted by Magus, as otherwise the diamond wouldn't be able to separate them.
As opposed to short breaks.
It's very likely Moperville IS on Gregorian calendar, but the TIME is different there.
 

Not new, it was known in the first Sister arc.
 
BTW, no one's commented on how Magus reacts to realizing that Ashley wasn't in the know about Ellen's origins, and how he attempts to convince Ashley to not let this info affect her relationship with Elliot. Certainly not something a bad guy would do, right?

Actually, Elliot knew Nanase from ASMA before the France trip, because Elliot rescued Justin during Freshman year, and Justin revealed that Elliot introduced him to Nanase shortly after that fight, Justin also has a flashback showing the introduction, he's seen still wearing the bandaid Elliot gave him. The France trip was the summer after Freshman year, so yeah Elliot knew Nanase already,

Otto von Bismarck said that one is better off not knowing how two things are actually made: sausages, and laws.

So what we need is a nuclear powered, sausage making, airplane that caries an entire parliament while they debate legislation?
That would probably be easier to understand than Goonmanji II.

Otto von Bismarck said that one is better off not knowing how two things are actually made: sausages, and laws.

Otto von Bismarck said that one is better off not knowing how two things are actually made: sausages, and laws.

Really? Send me a copy of your revised Overwatch program which allows you to summon a million-carat flawless purple diamond shaped like Napoleon's hat that gives you unlimited shots against orcs wearing clown noses, propeller beanies, and swim fins, or at least a screen shot.

Maybe we'd actually get players using Teenagers From Outer Space (TFOS) or TWERPS?
I regret writing that last paragraph, because it forced me to realize that TFOS is so ancient there are no knacks for smartphones!

Kind of like finally opening  the box Schroedinger's cat was both alive and dead inside?

I have played tabletop RPGs for years. Unfortunately, I just did not have any ideas for your thread. I am sorry.

Note to self: Don't let Tom any where near any car I own, has borrowed or rented, unless I hate it, and then only after checking the insurance first...

He killed any chance of sanctioned Parkour racing in the Swedekea...

I'm speaking about what he said exactly in the comics where Sarah talks about the (not-)date.
Although there are more ways to interpret "As much as people might throw things at me for this, we're not suddenly shifting focus to Sarah and Sam's date, as that's not the focus of this story." I got the feeling the story might be Sister III and that it means we won't see the (not-)date until AFTER it.

Well it DID saved cats.

Two, four, six, eight!
Who do we eradicate!
VAMPIRES! VAMPIRES!
DESTROY ALL VAMPIRES!

So, female silver age superheros then.
 

I don't think the world could survive two Ashley. She has to little of the ugly to split off for another of her. The cuteness and honesty would reach deadly levels whenever they came in contact.