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I'm a little surprised (and feel a bit sorry for her) that Diane apparently never suspected she had that sort of reputation. Really, given the way she and her friends "dated" so many boys (particularly with it being pretty clear Diane and Lucy at least never cared for any of them) it was almost inevitable that they'd all be seen this way (Rhoda's shyness and sweetness might have protected her somewhat) with Diane being the focus of that perception thanks both to being the leader of the group and blonde (her hair color is also probably where the "bimbo" perception comes from). I wonder if she overlooked this possibility because she was fairly young when she started toying with boys and didn't think things through and/or know better, or if she was just arrogant enough to think she'd never be looked down on that way. (I had previously assumed she knew how her group looked to others, particularly boys, and just didn't care, but her reaction in this strip suggests otherwise.) ...At any rate, her expression in panel four is cute. Apparently that a drastic hair-cut (and outfit change) might lead to those who don't know her well not recognizing her was something else that didn't occur to her (even after Rhoda alluded to that idea).

I would imagine the fact that it's a historic district is why they're still in use. Someone presumably decided it wasn't enough just to keep the historic buildings around, they should keep the historic roads too. I've been to a part of Boston with brick roads; it may not be comfortable to ride on, but it certainly looks cool.

I mentioned before that I think it looks like something an android (or gynoid, rather) would wear. Dan implied somewhere (either a commentary or a tweet) that it's based on a hair style commonly worn by Romulans.

Yeah, the entire comic hasn't fit on my screen at once for a decade or so, since the switch to vertically orientated comics. Shortly before Goonmanji 2? It wouldn't be the first time non-canon events influenced canon ones (Grace's squirrel plushie comes to mind as an example). I'm guessing Dan either decided he didn't want to wait to introduce her new hair style to the canon comics, or he forgot that her hair wasn't that long the last time we saw her in canon. EDIT: Oops, I forgot! Yay for starburst background in panels 1 & 4!

I prefer the option Dan mentioned in one of the commentaries (I don't remember which one) that Grace-a-Monsters are actually all immortals; the "rules" Graces follow are this world's version of Immortal Laws. (Why all the immortals decided to use the same face and call themselves "Grace" Dan didn't explain, but I'm willing to go with it anyway.) I assume it was a typo... It's been that way for years - since the move to 910 CMX in 2009, I think. If I remember correctly I tried to mention it to Dan once years ago (along with some other errors introduced in the move), but he never replied (or fixed any of the problems I'd mentioned), so I don't know if he got my message.

Yeah, based on the dialog it's entirely possible the kids teasing her don't even know she's adopted (though in that case they're going to be wondering what she means by "they didn't have to" if they stop to think about it). I haven't had much contact with children since I was a child myself, and my mental development was a bit unusual, but the impression I've got from both the media and lay-person-level presentations of scientific studies suggests that children usually start stereotyping "boys" and "girls" (and absorbing the existing cultural stereotypes about them) roughly in the 3-4 year old range.

I have no idea who used it that way first, but I know there have been a few times I've been about to type "magic reset" before remembering that it was a "change" and that "reset" applied to immortals; I'm sure there were times I didn't catch myself.

https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-012 This was on Patreon a while back, but since it's been so long I figured there ought to be a new thread for the sketchbook version. Gotta say, I like this look.

How do you determine what kind of (ocean going) ship a (relation-) ship is?

https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-013 https://www.patreon.com/posts/20790573 What I would have liked to see would have been Tedd's first reaction to seeing/interacting with Mall-Goth Elliot... This is still pretty cute, though.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/single-rhoda-20624469 https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-015

https://www.patreon.com/posts/double-pet-ellen-20745923 https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-011 Again, meow! ...Interesting, that's not the shade of green I was expecting (based on the shade of it in grayscale I was picturing it on the pale side).

Were you aware they've been pumping out at least one a year for the past twenty years? I don't think they're going to stop anytime soon. (Not that I've seen them all - the last one my sister bothered getting a copy of was the fourth one, and if it wasn't for watching them with her I probably would have stopped with the first or second.)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/extra-girly-20642999 https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-010 Very cute. I particularly like Ashley's outfit, and the interaction between Ashley and Grace. Also, I wasn't sure at first about Ellen's new hair style, but I think it works here. Oh, and I can't pass up the opportunity to say: Yay for bubbly background!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/double-pet-diane-20593793 https://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-009 I've said it before, and I know I'll say it again: meow!

Well, some people seem to think you can't have too many ways to kill people. You'd think after a few Godzilla attacks they might have learned their lesson, but no such luck.

If it weren't for the fact that she's still getting used to the idea of being not-entirely-straight, I'd say Sarah was a good candidate. We know she has always had an interest in transformation, even if she was too traumatized by the cat-girl incident to make use of the TFG until Grace's Birthday Party, and I can definitely see her cutting loose online in ways she would be reluctant to do in person. However, I doubt she would have gone so far as to date a girl online back when she considered herself straight.

And here I thought he was made in a factory. So the Burgher Meister isn't the Master of Burgers? That's too bad. Of course, but as Willy Wonka said, "that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies."

To any Immortal who holds any respect for humans and who doesn't blindly trust other immortals, Voltair's statement in the final panel ought to be a warning that Voltaire's intentions aren't as good as he makes it out to be. But Humans haven't stopped, at least not all Humans. In addition to some varieties of the modern Pagan movement, Hindu tradition has a rather large pantheon, and some of the Kami in Shinto are powerful enough to rank as gods (hence the term often being translated as "god" or "gods"). In fact, pretty much anywhere that Christianity or Islam hasn't completely suppressed the old beliefs, there is belief in either a pantheon of gods, or a huge range of spirits some of which are like gods. I assume what you really meant was the rise & spread of Christianity (followed by Islam) in the Old World and the resulting near-universal abandonment in belief in the pantheons of the Roman tradition (including all those it had absorbed), Egyptian tradition, Germanic traditions (including the Norse), and the Arabian tradition? So approximately 2000 - 1000 years ago? That would give Immortals who reset on schedule about 5 to 10 incarnations since the current laws went into effect; I suppose that would be more than long enough explain the "it's always been this way" vibe I've gotten about current Immortal society & rules (not to mention for a lot of knowledge to be lost, though considering they apparently deliberately forgot many things during resets, and different immortals don't interact a lot, large amounts of resets aren't really required for a culture-wide loss of knowledge).

As I recall, way back in the Keenspot days, Dan said that the EGS multiverse contained a finite number of universes. (Unfortunately I don't have a link, and obviously Dan could have changed his mind since then.) EDIT: A little searching on the Keenspot forums brought up this, which for the purposes of this discussion is almost the opposite of what I remembered. I wonder if I was remembering a different statement, or if I was misremembering that one? Also relevant to this discussion: Word of Dan regarding Lord Tedd's Attacks from 2004.

Hmm, hard to say. Either way, it certainly didn't look to me like they were finished.

For those who don't follow Dan's Twitter, I wanted to point out that he edited the shot of Diane getting her hair cut to look closer to the final look of her haircut. From a continuity perspective I don't think it was necessary, as she was clearly mid-cut at the time. However, I do think seeing more of a half-way point does make the transition to her new cut a lot less jarring.

That just makes it worse - my mind wants to read Diane as a badly drawn Sarah. Either that or an android (or gynoid if you prefer) - that's a very neat and orderly style (it probably doesn't help that it's freshly cut; if Dan does it right it should look more natural as it grows out).

Yay for speed-line background in panel one! (It reminds me of the cinema scenes in the NES Ninja Gaiden games.) Although that sounds awesome, unless Immortals want to start publicly passing themselves off as ancient deities, it's just going to be people against people with no "gods" involved. Same here, though I don't feel like that haircut suits Diane. I believe it was said that people could use old magic systems if they know how, but the default magic system for new magic users is still the current one. In other words, in addition to ancient artifacts, people could learn old magic systems from books or any immortal beings who happen to still remember the old systems. That's what I figured as well.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-17 Grace-a-monsters world Charlotte sure has a different taste in clothing from canon Charlotte.