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  3. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Yesterday on my way home from work, I noticed a catamaran yacht anchored near the bridge,

    This is absolutely not unusual.  Anyone who lives close enough to a coast to be pestered by seagulls  will occasionally see a nice boat.

    So why did it seem noteworthy as I drove by?  Why does the memory stick out in my head like the buoy marking a crab trap?

     

    "Joy to the world,

    all the bouys and gulls, ... "

     

    Seagulls are my least liked bird, way more so than sky rats. I have occasionally seen them far inland, over the years, and not in any one particular location. But they are worst at the shore. If you have food, there's no such thing as seagull, nor even "a couple of ...".

     

     

  5. Posted

    12 hours ago, Wyrd42 said:

    I used to work at Borders, the largest multinational bookstore in the world at the time. We got a "customer" come in to rant and rave about how we should only be selling Bibles. Nothing else, just Bibles. So, yes, this is a very believable scenario.

    That degree of narrow-mindedness is painful to contemplate. It had to be in the US, I'm guessing South or Mid-West; but really it could be anywhere here.

  6. Posted

    2 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Heinlein (via Lazarus Long) said that the two artistic ways of lying are:

    1) Tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but not the whole truth

    2) Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in such a manner that nobody believes you.

    Which Book(s)? I don't recall that from Lazarus Long, although, I never read To Sail Beyond the Sunset. It sounds like something Jubal Harshaw would have said (Stranger in a Strange Land).

    To paraphrase, the best way to lie is to let people deceive themselves.

  7. Posted

    8 hours ago, Scotty said:

    You're combining "Grace the Goddess" with "Blank check for Weirdness" (AKA the AF04 universe), these stories are before Dan started putting an official "THE END" stamp at the end of stories. the girl in "Grace the Goddess" is, as Dan mentioned in the commentary for the "time speed up" strip, based on Liz, but not actually Liz. Sarah in "Blank check" is an AU version of the Sarah we know and love, and she's probably taken a similar outlook that Liz would have.

    Yes; the stories are back to back, and the character looks the same. FWIW, I kept reading the NPs just after, and Alice appears soon after (next story line maybe?) with much the same look, although the back of her hair looks close cropped. Harder to tell with the earlier art. 

    I am definitely looking forward to tomorrow's comic.

     

     

  9. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    I don't think Pandora would bother marking someone with a spell soo subtle that no one, not even the caster, knows it's magic being used. And then there's....

    Pandora also stated that what she could give Liz, while not what she was looking for, still had many ways it could end up helping... the implication is that the spell might not be as flashy as transformation, but would still work towards revealing magic to the public. If it was to see through transformations, it's not doing as Pandora hoped because Liz wouldn't be likely to call out people as being transformed in a public setting, and again if Pandora had any reason to think that someone was unlikely to use the spell in public, she probably wouldn't bother giving them the spell.

    Good Tom seems to be an exception cus him nor his girlfriend seem to realize that it's a spell that lets him detect puppies in danger (or maybe they do know, it's not really clear), but he got that because Pandora had a soft spot for saving puppies.

     

    "Not what I was looking for" - not splashy, obvious, public?

    "...many ways that could wind up helping." - from Pandora's PoV, must mean make other people's magic from marks more obvious and public. "... could wind up helping" seems to say that she doesn't know what Liz will do with it, Liz may or may not follow through in a way that forwards Pandora's agenda.

    "I don't think Pandora would bother marking someone with a spell soo subtle that no one, not even the caster, knows it's magic being used." - When first marked, not knowing about the spell is the norm. Pandora even counts on that as part of her fun. She might mark Liz with a spell that is not obvious, as long as she had an expectation of additional mayhem; "...many ways that could wind up helping" says that is the case.

    So Chaos is our plumb line. That's going to work out well.  ; )

    "I'm not big on pretending to be something I'm not" - Liz is probably not going to get transformation magic, ever, because EGS magic is preference aware, and Dan like foreshadowing.

     

  10. Posted

    5 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Yeah, I agree, my gut says that if she's marked, it has something to do with seeing things as they really are, something she could mistake for intuition.

    Just noticed, in panel five, Liz says, "You transform. It's not like you're the only person who does that." She is not hesitant, she is confident. How does she know that? She's right, but everyone's mostly been discrete, it is not being presented as common knowledge.

    Charolette's Web forum is a possibility, not sure it explains her confidence, though.

    Conversely, in pale six, beyond Liz saying that she does not personally transform, if she had observed someone transform, it seems like she would have mentioned that she had; it's stronger evidence than "You don't seem surprised by the concept". Also, trapping Elliot into that admission does not appear to be planned, she just seems to be fast on her feet.

    I'm not getting what this possible Liz mark is, but it's got to be tied to insight.

     

  12. Posted

    3 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Given what Liz said in http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2016-08-26 I would suggest that her spell might have something to do with seeing through illusions or transformations ("not really big on pretending to be something that she's not"). She might look at a transformed person/creature and subconsciously realize what they look like un-transformed. That would also neatly explain how she is aware of Elliot being Cheerleadra even though nearly everyone else seems to have put it out of their minds.

    Edited for spelling

    Yeah, I agree, my gut says that if she's marked, it has something to do with seeing things as they really are, something she could mistake for intuition.

  13. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    I'd say Dan started giving her more depth when it was revealed she was friends with Ashley. Actually we can all thank Dan's creation of Ashley for Liz getting more panel time, Dan basically says as much in the commentary of that page.

    Agreed, more depth, but at that point, it did not yet seem out of character. She was still essentially the same Liz, with more face time.

     

    I thought the name looked familiar, you might have posted a few times before the crash wiped everyone's post counts.

    Sounds right.

     

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Of course it is, but Dan could have changed her pose a little so it doesn't look like a goatee in silhouette.

    Yeah, didn't think a silhouette  made sense for that frame, but not really complaining.

    Are you new to El Goonish Shive, or just to the forum?

    Neither, just not into forums in general. This story arc with Liz, though, seems so out of character for her that I wanted to see if anyone had any insights. She's generally too apathetic to confront anyone. To be fair, Dan's characters change character when the plot pulls them in, and she looks like she's being promoted.

    I did not remember that there was a forum, found y'all through Google, and when I wanted to post, was surprised to find that I already had an account.