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May 13 in EGS History: 2003 - Grace helps Tedd get changed for their movie date... using the TFG. 2005 - Dr. Sciuridae gives Grace a pep talk, and convinces her to assume her half-squirrel form once more. (Incidentally, this is one of my favorite transformation sequences in the comic - quite possibly my favorite period.)

May 12 in EGS History: 2003 - Sarah and Elliot meet with Tedd and Grace for their movie double-date, but something's not quite right... (At least that's what the title says; everything looks fine to me.) 2004 - Damien self-destructs. I hate it when they do that. 2008 - Catalina asks Susan out. 2010 - Grace's picture goes up on an unnamed pancake house's Wall of Fame for eating their "Pancake Mount Doom" meal in one sitting. 2014 - Half of the players at the Card Tournament arrive with barely five seconds left to spare.

Somehow, I usually wind up encountering some promotion for the big anniversaries. As for Transformers toys, I was just disappointed my parents couldn't afford to get me the toys of all my favorite characters from the show.

Wow, I'd forgotten that the original Star Wars was only a few years older than me. When I saw the original trilogy as a kid, I just assumed they were classic movies from a previous generation (I was unaware at the time that Return of the Jedi had actually been released when I was a toddler) and I even knowing their release dates I still tend to think of them that way. As for "now I feel old", I started to get that when things I became a fan of when they came out when I was a kid (like Transformers & Ninja Turtles) started hitting their 30th anniversaries, and stuff from when I was a teen (like Sonic the Hedgehog) started hitting their 20th anniversaries.

May 11 in EGS History: 2011 - Noah breaks the Bulldog dragon's neck; it unbreaks a moment later. 2015 - Elliot comes to a remarkable insight into the direction the story is going. 2016 - Detective Block cracks the case.

May 10 in EGS History: 2010 - Grace figures out that the earthquake was too weak and too far away to knock over the artifact. Then her pancakes arrive. 2017 - Ellen tells Elliot that she identifies as female. And also that she's skimmed a lot of wiki articles. I've heard stories, but never seen one. (Same for the 8-Track Tape. On the other hand, I am familiar with vinyl records, and even owned a few as a kid.)

Well, it all depends on what you count as "recent", but Jurassic Park came out 25 years ago and Return of the King 15 years ago. I wouldn't know about frame rate and resolution; I didn't see anything wrong with the image quality of the Hobbit movies in theater (granted I watched it in 2D because I don't consider 3D worth the extra ticket price) or on BluRay, and the only problem with the BluRay version of the Lord of the Rings was that it made the seams between some of the CGI and the live footage a little more apparent. As for older movies and TV shows that didn't have as good resolution as ones made in the past decade or two... well, to risk sounding old and grumpy, I think many of today's viewers are spoiled, and the studios that insist on putting out all these remastered versions should really stop indulging them so much. (Ah, who am I kidding, they'll keep putting them out so long as they're profitable.) At any rate, I hope the trend of cutting down a standard-definition picture to create a widescreen image ends soon. (No, Funimation, I do not want to see less of what's going on in DBZ just so there won't be black bars on the sides of my screen.)

There were at least two beings with ponytails (I think I see a third one in the lower right corner of the final panel of the May 4th comic). However with everything in shadow, one (or two) of them might have been golems with ponytails and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference with any certainty.

They won't watch it just to decide between them, but they might watch multiple versions because they're a fan of the story or franchise (I know I often do; I've watched both animated & live action Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, many Godzilla movies across multiple continuities, many versions of TMNT, and at least seven adaptations of A Christmas Carol). Also, this probably doesn't happen as often as it ought to, but I'd like to think that if the general consensus is that a older version of a movie/show/whatever is the best one, people who are interested in checking it out will seek out that version. This MIGHT be nostalgia talking. It's possible, but I doubt it. As far as the "not painfully bad" goes, some big budget movies of previous decades managed CGI that would be perfectly acceptable in an animated move, it just doesn't quite mesh with the live action, so it's a bit like watching a more serious "Roger Rabbit" (I'm thinking the Lord of the Rings trilogy, early Harry Potter, and the Star Wars prequels; probably the first Jurassic Park too though I haven't actually re-watched that in years), while others worked within the limitations of the technology (I've always assumed the T-1000 in Terminator 2 was supposed to look unnatural and artificial; it is a strange type of robot after all). As for Power Rangers, I never was much of a fan of it back in the 90s; I think my enjoyment of it today comes more out of my love of "so bad it's good" things.

I suppose I haven't really seen a lot of movie remakes (particularly if one were to rule out new adaptations of stories that have been adapted before that aren't trying to remake the old adaptation), so I can't really make a definitive statement on the matter. Also, come to think of it my experience with remakes, reboots, and new adaptations in general is pretty mixed - though I will say that cases I've seen where the newer version is unquestionably superior to the old one(s) are pretty rare, and as such the idea of a new version will replace (as opposed to coexist with) the old one really rubs me the wrong way. I almost specified that older digital effects can and often do look pretty bad in a painful way - though I would argue the problem isn't that they look "old" but that in those cases they were never that good in the first place. (Not that all old CGI was painfully bad, some of it was just painfully obvious. Also, even bad CGI can have it's charm in the right movie - a few years back I re-watched the original Power Rangers movie, and the cheesy CGI in it was just as amusing as the chessy practical effects in the original TV series).

Being specific about power levels without being clunky is much more difficult than being vague about power levels, and being too specific usually only leads to a loss of dramatic tension (if the heroes are clearly the stronger fighters) or the power levels being revealed to not really matter in the end (if the enemies are suggested to be the more powerful ones). At any rate, I don't think Dan is trying to be deliberately vague, he's just trying to avoid giving the wrong impression of their powers. So to rephrase what he said in the commentary, he doesn't want us to think the Urteronc is weaker than it really is, or that Magus is stronger than he really is.

Given the discussion in the previous thread about the "Uryuoms" lack of antennae, I'm surprised no one's mentioned that the leader of the group here does have antennae now and apparently the rest of the group were golems. I do wonder why the antennae didn't show up in the Friday comic; were they somehow hidden, or did Dan forget to draw them?

And most of the time they'll fail to capture what made the original good in the first place, though at least that often has the upside of bringing the older, better movie back into the public consciousness. As for special effects, personally I love the style(s) of 20th century special effects, and I find the imperfections are often what gives them their charm. I realize my opinion is not the prevailing one, but I still can never sympathize with the view that a movie or show having "dated" special effects is a bad thing.

I got a bit busy the past few days, but I don't want to wait a year to post these, soooo... May 6 in EGS History: 2003 - Nanase accidentally finds a soft landing space. 2011 - Greg begins teaching Grace a sleeper hold using the Fire Guys as practice dummies. 2016 - Voltaire informs Sirleck that Adrian Raven is half-immortal. May 7 in EGS History: 2008 - A bunch of girls quit the Feminist club because it's unpopular. May 8 in EGS History: 2002 - Grace is a bad kitty. 2017 - Elliot reads a PM from someone claiming to be transgender and asking for a way to be transformed. As for today/tomorrow (depending on where you are)... May 9 in EGS History: 2004 - Ellen, Elliot, and Mrs. Dunkel all celebrate Mother's Day by dressing in matching dresses and aprons. 2005 - Vladia tries to get Grace to let go of her feelings of guilt and inadequacy by arguing with her angrily. It's not very effective. 2011 - Arthur Arthur refuses to send in a team to deal with the Bulldog Dragon, simultaneously displaying a great deal of faith in the effectiveness of non-magical Police officers against magical monsters, and a disturbing disregard for casualties. 2012 - Mr. Tensaided paraphrases a Ghostbusters quote about a building to describe a person.

May 5 in EGS History: 2003 - Brownie meets Fairy Doll Nanase for the first time, and decides she'd be fun to play with; the ensuing commotion wakes Ellen up from a nap. 2008 - Tedd injures Susan's brain with logic. 2010 - Sarah reveals that ever since Elliot started assuming female form regularly, she's not as into Elliot as she used to be. 2017 - Grace provides Duck with change. (Or is that, "a" change?)

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=765 It's kind of funny how we're not seeing Catalina in these montage comics, but she's clearly nearby (unless she has some sort of scrying magic) as she keeps causing transformations.

Except we've been told before that Grace could learn magic, it would just require a lot of effort; also Noah can use magic. So maybe the Uryuoms in the flashback backed off, or maybe it the magic change didn't completely block their access to magic, or maybe a more recent magic change restored some of their magic access... Or perhaps (and this seems the most likely to me), full-blooded Uryuoms couldn't use magic (besides Uryuom Power) between the time of the flashback and the final magic change, but part-human chimeras inherited the ability to use magic from their human sides. Indiana Jones recovered it from an ancient temple filled with still-functional traps in one of his untold adventures. Maybe, as Scotty said, it's an ancient version of Uryuomoco. Or maybe it's the same long-forgotten tongue Heka spoke to Pandora with (it might have been a Lingua Franca in that part of the ancient world). Uryuoms are shape-shifters; there's no need for a retcon or complex explanation for them changing appearance. Probably styles were just different back then.

May 4 in EGS History: 2012 - Elliot fails to recognize a reference to an iconic scene from The Matrix despite owning the movie. 2015 - Ashley suggests she and Elliot should head in the direction of the Lingerie store. ...As I was compiling this list, there was a long period where I was worried I'd have say nothing much happened in EGS on this day. (Or, horrors, not post anything.)

May 3 in EGS History 2002 - Nanase breaks up with Elliot. Meanwhile, Grace takes a nap in squirrel form. 2004 - Grace apologizes to Damien for hurting him. 2007 - Pandora reveals that she is familiar with the Super Mario Bros. series; Magus has no idea what she's talking about. 2010 - The Demonic Duck jumps out of a moving car; Susan assures us he's fine, but Grace still looks pretty upset. 2011 - Greg burns his finger trying to touch Dex, then a Fire-Guy glomps him.

Assuming you're not being sarcastic or something, your search-fu is very good (or very lucky), as that image you posted was of someone cosplaying a character from the Gargoyles tv series I (and Dan in that link) was referring to. Until someone mentioned it here, I actually hadn't noticed. (But then I have a bad habit of reading so fast I miss things; I usually don't even realize I'm doing it.)

Now if only I had a Switch and an internet connection with enough high-speed data to make playing games online feasible...

May 2 in EGS History: 2008 - Nanase tells Ellen about all the ways she managed to sneak magic use into her day; later she finds the coolest disappointments ever in her spell-book. 2013 - Mrs. Kitsune tries to warn Nanase of the danger of developing a reputation for heroics. It might be more effective if she was willing to admit she actually has some experience with this sort of thing. 2014 - After seeing Grace with his aura-vision, Luke freaks out. 2016 - A dame that looks an awful lot like Tedd cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit hires Detective Block to tackle a mysterious case.

Technically most of my Sonic fanart is based on the long-running (but now sadly ended) Sonic the Hedgehog comic series put out by Archie, which had a lot of characters that weren't in the games (though some of them were in the 90s Sonic cartoon series)... But if you don't know anything about them you don't know anything about them, so I guess the distinction isn't that important. Anyway, thanks.

This is one case where I wish I had several strips to read at once (and not ending at this strip); not knowing what's going on is frustrating, as is knowing we'll have to wait at least two days if not more (depending on how long the explanations are going to take) to find out. If you're referring to the 90s "Gargoyles" cartoon which Dan has referenced before, no, they were a separate species from humans. However there was one episode where the entire population of New York (including the Gargoyles' friend Elisa) were temporarily transformed into gargoyles by magic. In which case Ellen's hair color change might be from her burning out. I like this idea; it's a lot less troubling for Ellen's future than my initial guess that Ellen absorbed some of the energy (and possibly one or more spirit) from the Diamond and it's changing her in unknown ways.

I draw, but I seem to do less and less of it as the years go by. Also, for some reason I've never gotten around to attempting any EGS fanart. If you're interested, my DeviantArt gallery is here; it's mostly Sonic fanart and landscape nature photography.