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Yay for dramatic diagonal lines background in panel three! Actually, she's on this quest because Arthur insisted she get on with adventuring, and because this is apparently part of the main quest and she wants to get the story over with. (The way for her to loose the evil status would have been to donate to a church, not help with a ritual.)
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Yay for lights-in-the-mist backgrounds in panels one and two! Yay for flaming background in panel eight!
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Yay for outward expanding "parallel" lines of demonstrating scale in panel three... I guess. (Honestly I don't think it looks all that great, even if it is a useful reference.) I believe by panels, Dan meant the steps in Elliot's transformation, which is technically all in 1 panel, and that there should have been a middle step between the second and third steps. Though compared to the first time Elliot became "Rose" there were technically only 3 steps with the middle step not looking anything like the final result either so... The way I interpret it is: Dan drew panels one and two, then realized that the transformation sequence he had in mind would take up a space equivalent to two rows of panels, so he cut out material that he was intending to put between panel two and the transformation -- hence the relatively abrupt transition between Diane and Justin talking and Elliot's transformation (though it's not too bad; I didn't even notice it was abrupt until I read the commentary).
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Yes. (Supposedly all the "deaths" in battle in that game are actually just the characters being knocked out, and Phoenix Downs don't actually bring people back from the dead; if true then being unable to revive her is not a plot hole. However, none of that was actually explained in the game, so it's still bad writing.)
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Considering that if the villain has already completed the evil deed it might be too late, definitely. It depends on what one means by "allowed". There are times where it would be morally justified for the heroes to act, but the writers would prefer the bad thing to happen, so the heroes can't do anything to stop it. (A certain scene in Final Fantasy VII comes to mind...)
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Yay for dark starburst (or would that be "negative starburst" as in a photo-negative?) in panel two!
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Yay for bubbly background in panel one! Grace hates keeping secrets, but it seems to me she's pretty good at it. Not counting this party (where she clearly wasn't trying) can you think of any times she failed to keep something a secret that was meant to be one?
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So, I'm thinking that Nanase realized that everyone thought Nanase was cool for superficial reasons, but aside from her friends no one actually valued her for who she is. This may also include (or perhaps lead to on a later page) her realizing that the reason Ashley isn't as impressed by Nanase as Nanase is used to people being is because Ashley isn't so swayed by superficial appearances. ... Incidentally, the dark skin tones were a mistake; Dan's corrected them.
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Huh. At first I just assumed they were in a dark corner of the basement, but comparing it to the previous comic, that doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe someone turned off a light? (Obviously, Dan messing up is also a possibility.)
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If was going to be small and held by someone normal size, I would want to be in domestic cat form.
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"Fairly reliable" perhaps, but not always the case. In my school district when I was in school, elementary was 1-4 (Kindergarten was in a separate building for me, but was added to Elementary when the school was renovated after I left), middle school was 5-8, and high school 9-12. Thanks to declining populations, that renovated elementary school was eventually abandoned as a school (it got turned into a gym); I'm not sure what the current set up is, but I believe they currently only have two buildings for all of the grades.
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Yay for bubbly backgrounds in panels two, four, and six!
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http://egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-048 The fourth wall's wearing a little thin in this one...
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Considering the form she took as she woke up from her nap around Halloween was a variation on her chaos form, I wouldn't think it would require concentration. Personally, I figured that the chaos form was what happened when she didn't concentrate on what she wanted to look like (though I also think that it either doesn't take too much concentration to stay in humanoid form, or she had an easier time staying in humanoid form whens he was younger). While we've never seen any other Immortals in a "chaos" form, my head canon is that all of them have forms like that, and that it's actually their natural form (though I suspect the multiple heads thing is a product of aging well beyond 200). If my head canon is right, there shouldn't be any reason they couldn't assume the form of other animals and reproduce with them just as easily as they do with humans. Wherever the mass goes, it has to do with Uryuom powers as modified by Cosmetic Morphing Devices; remember that before she was hit by the Transformation Gun, she maintained the same weight in all her forms (making for a very dense squirrel form...). As far as her memories and human thought in squirrel form goes, it might just be Dan's art style, but Grace does seem to have a bigger head than a real squirrel when in her squirrel form.
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Patreon Dec 21 / Sketchbook Dec 23, 2019 - Christmas Nonsense 01
ChronosCat posted a topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2019-015 https://www.patreon.com/posts/christmas-01-32532892 -
*shrug* Not really, but that doesn't stop me from being curious.
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They proved that movies about female and/or (or at least "or") black superheroes can make money. One frustrating thing is that non-superhero movies (even non-superhero action movies) with females as the main characters had made money before, but the movie studios apparently found excuses why they didn't count as proof that such movies could make money in the future. (The first examples I can think of is the first the first two Alien movies; I have to wonder if the studios thought those were flukes, or that the Xenomorph was the star of those movies. Another pair of movies that I think of as starring a woman are the first two Terminator movies, but it's pretty clear that as far as the studios were concerned Schwarzenegger was the star, not Hamilton.)
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Story Wednesday December 18, 2019
ChronosCat replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
By "Smoke", I meant the wizard who Grace and Sam met. I had actually forgotten that Luke's friend Camdin (presumably the person Smoke copied the spell from), had talked about spying on "the Super Chicks" - though if he is doing it he's going against Luke's instruction not to spy. Also, while an experienced wizard would be in a much better position to break in to the house, the spy could also just be a quick learner and/or quite lucky. I was mostly just using Immortals of an example of the fact that whatever security the house has doesn't protect against every sort of magical intrusion. That said, Sirleck was able to exist on another plane of reality as well (and he was originally human); this raises the possibility that humans could enter and leave the spirit plane under their own power (as opposed to whatever led to Magus being stuck there). -
There was a movie of the 66 show. I haven't seen it, but my understanding is it's a villain-team-up story with Catwoman as one of the villains. I have seen several episodes of the show with Catwoman in them, and there actually was some hints of romantic interest between Batman and Catwoman. However, Batman made it clear he could never be with her unless she gave up her life of crime, which she couldn't bring herself to do, so it never went anywhere. (I don't recall any talk about her backstory in those episodes.) Despite the hints of romance, I do agree with your assessment that she was an antagonist and not a protagonist in that series/movie.
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Story Wednesday December 18, 2019
ChronosCat replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
Being able to turn into a gaseous form should allow someone to get into a non-airtight house without breaking anything or tripping conventional security systems. If no one is home or everyone is asleep, it then shouldn't be too hard to explore the house (though why they would choose the spare door in the basement to enchant, I don't know). If Smoke doesn't have to be visible while in smoke form, they could even explore while people are there and awake. Of course, the Verres house probably has some sort of magical security system, but since we don't know anything about it, it's hard to know what weaknesses it might have. I wouldn't consider it out of the question that it had holes that a magic user with the right spell might be able to take advantage of. (It's a different sort of magic, but at the very least Immortals seem to be able to come and go as they please.) -
Story Wednesday December 18, 2019
ChronosCat replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
So, I haven't totally dropped my theory that the click involves some sort of magical "locking" spell, but I have a new alternate theory: What if the click is the result of a device hidden in the doorknob designed to record the spells being used nearby (and possibly spy on things in general)? Maybe Mr. Verres set it up so he could pass on the information to the Paranormal Division, or at least keep tabs on the party (he was the one who told Tedd to use the door after all). Maybe someone set it up years ago and it still works (but who and why?)*. Or maybe a wizard recently decided to try to learn spells from Tedd and his friends (maybe Smoke, since they at least know about Grace's magic, and might be able to sneak into the house in smoke form). * I don't think it was in this context, but I believe someone on Discord did mention the possibility that Noriko had enchanted the door. Assuming the door's really been in the house all these years, she at least would have the opportunity (but what would her motive be?). -
Story Wednesday December 18, 2019
ChronosCat replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
Usually, but not necessarily. It largely depends on if she was going to be heading into a city with skyscrapers, or just hanging out in the suburbs; Kaiju sizes are generally chosen to be big enough to trash buildings and look impressive, but (barring plot requirements or meeting fan expectations) no bigger than necessary (as the smaller the Kaiju the better you can see the details of the buildings it's destroying, and thus the better and more realistic it looks). So a Kaiju that only destroys houses and other buildings no more than a few stories tall will be a lot smaller than one that trashes skyscrapers. (Fun fact: Godzilla's increasing height over the years was in response to the rising height of Tokyo's skyline...) -
In the Old Testament, there are actually parts where if you don't go into it assuming God to be omniscient it sounds like it's saying that God made mistakes. For instance, according to Genesis, God caused the Flood because humans had grown so wicked that God regretted ever making them; this sounds to me like God himself considered creating Adam and Eve a mistake. I'm pretty sure there were several other cases of God changing his mind in the Old Testeament, which again seems to me to imply that God is not infallible. ...Personally I think it more likely there is no God, but I think a fallible God would be a lot more believable than a "Perfect" God that for some reason decided to make the world we find ourselves in.
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Yay for starburst (or sunburst with hidden circle) background in panel one! Yay for white-circle-with-a-hazy-edge background in panel three! ...Dan wouldn't go there, particularly in a comedy story, but if Parable was made in Japan, there'd be a fairly good chance it would be impossible for Susan to successfully protect Rhoda, and she'd die or be kidnapped in a cutscene.
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No one in-story, anyway. Dan, on the other hand, may intend it...