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  1. Story, Friday January 5, 2018

    Except that when the monsters are good at hiding, their numbers are unknown, and new ones can be born at any time, there's really no good way to kill all of them (or to know if you got them all). And if the ones that survive know you're hunting them, you just made yourself and your family that much more of a target. Also, you're much more likely to find something if you're hunting for it - and even for a Hunter any encounter with an Aberration is a chance for them to kill you. Those who hunt Aberrations, evil magic users, and other "monsters" are doing a public service. But if the goal is the safety of oneself and one's family, the best option is to be ready for anything, but not to go looking for trouble.
  2. NP, Friday January 5, 2018

    I'm not sure if that "Cowgirl!" is supposed to be what the card is, or what the end result is on Ashley. Ashley doesn't actually read the card out loud, and whenever Dan or Hanma talk about it, they say "Cow Form" (at least, in the handful of strips and commentaries I bothered to check; I could have missed something). Still, if it was specifically a "cowgirl" form that would solve the problem. As for "busty", it wouldn't necessarily have to change the sex of male-bodied players; men can have breasts. On the other hand, Dan does like his sex-change TFs, so I could see him using the card as an excuse for one...
  3. NP, Friday January 5, 2018

    It does seems a little out of character for Hanma. The only thing I can think of is this game isn't supposed to be just for girls. If the card was specifically "sexy nurse", finding a male equivalent to the typical sexy nurse outfit might be hard; this way either gender can wear the same thing. (Though that theory does raise the question of how certain other cards would work on a guy. Would the busty card result in man undergoing a sex-change or just a busty man? And what sort of effect would the "+ 1" to "attract" have on a cow guy (the first thing that comes to my mind would really be more appropriate for a horse)?)
  4. Story, Friday January 5, 2018

    First of all, I don't think it's a matter of conventional weapons always beating magic, so much as they're equally effective in the hands of a skilled or lucky user. As far as Susan goes, she's never been hunted before, so everything in her chest was just a precaution. She probably never saw the need to have a gun before. Also, a lot of people are uncomfortable about owning guns or having them around; Susan may not want a gun, or she may know that she'll get in a lot of trouble if her mother realizes she has one. Finally, why would Aberrations want to raze Moperville to the ground? This particular group are hired assassins, and their contract encouraged them to limit how many people they killed besides the target. And Moperville isn't exactly the only place where Hunters and other magic users live, so it's not like they could kill off all their enemies by blowing up Moperville.
  5. Story, Friday January 5, 2018

    I don't know if it's different with another accent, but in my accent, noise and toys rhyme. Dan even called it a poem in the commentary.
  6. Story, Friday January 5, 2018

    Really fun poem, and I love Scarf's grin in panel five. As an added bonus, we have technology triumphing over magic, which is a theme I'm always a fan of. ...Wait, I seem to be forgetting something... Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be rooting for Pandora's team, including her son! ... Oh *bleep*. This could be bad.
  7. Story Monday January 1, 2018

    Well, I'm no layer, but based on what I've read, if a main character was regularly using a functional weapon that looked like a Phaser and was called a Phaser, it would be copyright infringement. As EGS is a for-profit work of fiction, I believe Fair Use would only come into play if the story/stories the Phaser appeared in was/were parody. (Of course, whether Paramount/CBS would ever find out, or care enough to sue is another question. EGS is relatively obscure after all, and companies sometimes let people get away with little things like this.)
  8. NP Wed Jan 03 2018

    So Ashley did put her clothes back on, and there wasn't even a joke or big reveal about it. I guess our not being able to see much of Ashley the last couple of strips was coincidence after all. (This is probably the third or fourth time I've been wrong in my predictions regarding the comic in the last few weeks. I'm not quite sure what to make of this; usually I'm pretty good at predicting where things are going in fiction. True, Dan doesn't fall into standard tropes as often as most writers, but I don't think he's surprised me this much in a long time. Either Dan's writing is more unpredictable than usual, or I've been making too many predictions lately.) In theory Skunks don't smell bad, they just spray other animals with a foul perfume. This is just speculation, but I suspect that when they spray others they may sometimes get some of the scent on themselves as well. Of course, they try not to spray when they can avoid it, so most skunks would still smell fine most of the time. So perhaps instead of Repel, the game mechanic should have been that when a player lands on the same space as her she could "spray" them and cause them to back off several spaces (and maybe then the sprayed person would have a temporary Repel effect...).
  9. Story Monday January 1, 2018

    Perhaps more importantly, they might not be happy with Dan making use of an item from Star Trek as more than a quick gag.
  10. Story, Wednesday January 3, 2018

    So apparently Koala isn't that much of a coward, he just didn't want to face Raven. Either that or he has a grudge against Susan after the first time she hit him with a hammer. ...And, another starburst background in panel three. Yay. She can't summon another Sword right now, as Dan states in the commentary: So she's currently unable to kill any vampires whether she wants to or not, besides, she's already killed one in this battle so that should negate the question of her being squeamish. It also might be a matter of strategy. With the caped dragon she stunned it first then struck the finishing blow, and she could be following a similar strategy here. She might have some other more deadly weapon she can summon now as well (like that axe she used on her first vampire back in France), but being more familiar with the hammers wanted to stun Koala first before she attempted the harder-for-her task of killing him.
  11. Dec 30, 2017. New Student Diane.

    Huh, I was so busy looking at Diane's shirt (the blue really stands out against her white gi) I barely even noticed the background until now. Either that dojo has a very strange choice of wallpaper, or we're seeing the triumphant return of the bubbly background of attraction. Personally, I prefer the old flowery backgrounds, but it's still a nice touch. Yay for bubbly background!
  12. NP Monday January 1, 2018

    Well, if you look at the previous strip, all the players seem to be in the same positions they were in before (with Ashley across the board from Susan). Also, it's hard to be sure of anything in fourth panel of the 27th's strip, but we don't see her collar in that panel and it looks to me like we should. And I don't see why she would have taken the collar off unless she was taking everything off. Also, if she really hasn't put her clothes back on, one would assume part of the reason is the discomfort of wearing clothing over fur; shoes themselves probably wouldn't be a problem, but unless they're fairly loose socks would probably be among the more uncomfortable articles of clothing to wear over fur.
  13. NP Monday January 1, 2018

    My guess for what the Skunk's effect are is (as someone suggested on Patreon) that it is (game mechanically speaking) the reverse of attract. If going in the default direction would cause the player to move closer to Susan, they'd go the other way instead. I suppose that's possible. If so, I hope it's directly called out next strip. (Actually, come to think of it, it's interesting that players are able to use more cards than they need to.) For one thing I find it somewhat suspicious that all the other players and/or their pieces are seen in this strip. Perhaps more importantly, if panel 1 had had a background, from that angle we'd likely be seeing at least some of her (at least one knee and the other foot if she's sitting cross-legged, maybe more). Granted it's not proof Dan's continuing the whole "make it unclear if Ashley is wearing clothes" thing past the Dec 27th strip, but it's more evidence - and I thought the 29th's strip was pretty strong evidence on its own.
  14. NP Monday January 1, 2018

    * Mourns the loss of Cow-Susan. * I suppose if Dan had gone quite a bit further in the game before he decided to change the rules on how two-type card replacement worked, and the Skunk form was important to how the game played, it would have been a lot of work to back up to this point and correct Rhoda's move. However it still bugs me that there's no in-story explanation for why she bothered to use the Skunk card. And still no view of Ashley. Not that I really expected one, but did have a faint hope that the viewing angle on her in the last strip was just a coincidence. That seems quite unlikely now.
  15. Story Monday January 1, 2018

    Or you could throw your sword at the enemy! This is often very effective against dragons and other large monsters. However, this technique is inadvisable when dealing with multiple enemies or if your aim is less than perfect, unless you have a large number of swords on you. (Fun fact: When I first played the original Legend of Zelda as a kid, when your hearts are full and your sword can shoot energy blasts shaped like swords I initially thought Link was actually throwing swords.)
  16. Dec 30, 2017 Bunny Susan

    I love how absurd and surreal this is. The line-work and coloring are both great as well, though I've come to expect that from Dan.
  17. NP Wed, Dec 27, 2017

    As I mentioned earlier in the thread, it looks to me like the joint of the shoulder is too far from Ashley's head. (I'm basing this on the spot along her shoulder/arm where the fur sticks up, which in all the other pictures occurs right at the curve of the shoulder.) That line running from her shoulder to her back is pretty awkward looking too (it makes it look to me like she's wearing a huge scarf); in fact it's possible that line is part of the reason her shoulder looks so wide to me. As for the socks, it's entirely possible that's the correct shade given the level of lighting and the other shadows in the image. However, in my opinion, unless they're painting a realistic portrait, using art to report the news, or illustrating a scientific document (and sometimes even in those cases) an artist should place a higher priority in conveying the idea of what they are showing than in being completely accurate.
  18. Crazy Counting Guy

    Amazing to think that if it weren't for NP we would hardly have seen Grace at all this year. (Nanase and Justin on the other hand, it really does feel like it's been ages since we've seen in more than passing; hopefully they'll get more screen-time next year.)
  19. NP Friday December 29, 2017

    I really hope not. Not only would that result in our not seeing much of Ashley during that time, but it would limit the angles Dan can show everyone else at, and as cool visuals are part of the point of having all these transformations, I feel it would really detract from the story. Although, all this makes me wonder, do the player pieces reflect what the players are wearing, or what their cards say they should be wearing? It might just be that Ashley's piece would continue to wear the bikini, collar, shoes, and socks even if Ashley took them off. In this case, Dan might be able to pull this off if he focuses on the board most of the time. (Though unless there's some payoff at some point, I don't see why Dan would want to limit himself this way.)
  20. NP Friday December 29, 2017

    My goodness, the dialog in panel one is open to so many "naughty" interpretations it's ridiculous. (Personally my head-canon is that while Susan took her shower, Rhoda and Catalina petted and groomed Ashley without going so far it would count as cheating on Elliot. But I can easily think of a number of less tame scenarios that fit what was said...) Hmm, the starburst in panel four is more of an embellishment to the "Attract" text than a background, so I don't think I'll cheer for it. ...But what's this, a special effect that's not a starburst? I'm not sure if it's meant as a background, but I'm going to count it as one anyway. Yay for sparkly background of cleanliness and/or attraction in panel one! I'm still rather baffled by how Dan's been handling the furry nudity (or lack thereof) in this story. I have to wonder if Dan's practice drawing non-furry characters naked for the Patreon Pinups has made him less comfortable drawing furry characters naked. I just hope the ambiguity of Asheley's state of dress is leading up to a good joke or something. Because I'd rather see Ashley clothed than not be able to see her just because she's unclothed. Depends on how much of the legend you're telling. I mean, DBZ had a lot of filler with plot, particularly prior to the battle with Frieza, and there's also the movies, the specials, GT, Super... Not to mention how the anime divided the manga up into "Dragon Ball" and "Dragon Ball Z" in the first place. However, if you restrict it to the period covered in Dragon Ball Z and leave out most of the stuff not in the original manga, Kai was able to do it in 167 episodes. (I haven't seen all of it, and it's been a while, but from what I saw I don't remember them going overboard on recapping in Kai.)
  21. Story Friday 29, December 2017

    I'm a little surprised Koala is sticking around - I thought he was running away because things got too dangerous. I guess he wants to swoop in and assist the other aberrations when the heroes are nearly defeated so he can still get paid. <singing> In the twelfth strip of Sister 3 Part 22, Dan gave to us a starburst of transformation in panel 8... </singing> ...We now have had twelve starbursts in twelve strips. I think from now on I'm going to think of this chapter as "Starburst Apocalypse"... It's an interesting use of the same phrase, but considering the vastly different circumstances I doubt it was an intentional callback. While Pandora might not have had the time to track down Susan's full family tree, I'm fairly sure she'd know whether or not Raven was Susan's father. (And I personally don't think there's much chance at all of Raven being Susan's father - as I've said before, I don't think he's the type to cheat.) I probably wouldn't have figured it out on my own, but someone pointed it out back when Raven first used it in Sister 2. I suspect it was someone on the forums, but I have no idea who at this point.
  22. NP Wed, Dec 27, 2017

    Meanwhile, her socks (in the non-mirrored image of her) are shaded in so close a shade to her fur that you wouldn't know she was wearing socks just from that image if it wasn't for the mirror. Combined with what I perceive as messed up anatomy in panel 4, and Dan seems to have been having quite the off day artistically speaking.
  23. NP Wed, Dec 27, 2017

    I said rays of light, not rays of white. And seeing as this starburst reminds me of the rising sun for some reason, yellow light would be just fine.
  24. NP Wed, Dec 27, 2017

    I'm a bit disappointed by this strip; after Dan's talk of "pandering" I thought we were going to get something really fun here. Instead Ashley's scene cuts off before it gets good, and we don't even get to hear Susan's thoughts on her cow form. As for the last panel, if the next strip continues from it, we might get to see some interesting interactions, but it's not doing anything for me at the moment. Also, it could just be the unusual angle combined with a lack of reference points, but it looks to me like Ashley's body is misshapen in that panel; in particular it looks like there's too much space between the joint of her shoulder and her head. Oh well, at least there's a bunch of rays of light to lighten my day. Yay for starburst in panel 4!
  25. Story Wednesday December 27, 2017

    I was trying to decide what pronoun to use when talking about this aberration, perhaps I should have used a gender neutral one. I can "read" them as male or female... It looks like they have a relatively flat but muscular chest, but that could be breasts rather than muscle. Meanwhile it looks like their waist is narrower than their hips, but that could just be the angle we're seeing them from and the position they're in. I really wish we'd seen more of them; a few more shots might have made it easier to tell their sex (though knowing their gender would have required someone actually having a conversation with them). ...I suppose we could try asking Dan...