Don Edwards

The length of the registration line is a function not only of the number of people showing up, but also the efficiency of processing them and the number that can be processed simultaneously. If you want long lines at a small con, have registration infrastructure that is assembled for the very first time an hour after registration is supposed to open, staff it with people who've never worked registration before, and only allow two people to be processed simultaneously. (Yes, I've seen it.)

I don't think it's been realized that Rhoda was doing size-change magic on the boar. And it's possible that the shapes of at least some of the marks do not relate to the accompanying spell. Susan's mark was the traditional female symbol, which has no apparent connection to summoning magical copies of objects.

TFG transformations canonically can run to 30 days (and there's nothing in canon that explicitly says the limit can't be longer). That's plenty of time to go from Chicago to Sandy Eggo and back for SDComicon. However, it's likely that there's a fairly large comicon somewhere in/near Chicago. Possibly two (or more) of them.

Yeah - it doesn't make Shrink Rice or FV5 Rice, does it?

Ah got it. You're saying they are turkeys.

I'd like to think that he'd make a point of rereading that specific spell before agreeing... ... however, he is a doofus at times...

The buttons on Sarah's top are gone. And they should hope they get warning before it reverses - else they'll have two shirts with no buttons.

And Ellen can transform into any female (possibly restricted to mammals, but definitely not restricted to humans) within line of sight, or V5 herself.

Almost every writer I've heard talk about the process of creating a story (and I attend writing panels at sci-fi cons) has mentioned getting into an argument with one of their characters - and losing.

I've often wondered just how powerful a deity is, who can't sanctify a marriage without the permission of a preacher and/or a government official.

My question would be, do you still consider this rude, insulting, belittling, sexual-stereotyping person a "friend"?

Everybody. The newest (and best-to-date imho) workaround is to change your text color from "default" (which happens to be black, except when editing a message) to "black".

We don't know the true nature of Disco Wizard. Maybe he really is the voice of Magic - and the Immortals, individually and collectively, are dependent on his goodwill (or, at least, indifference). What would Pandora be if her access to magic were withdrawn? Or, of course, maybe he isn't.

Perhaps Ashley and unidentified girlfriend met on text-only forums... in which case it could be Tedd, and he wouldn't recognize either her appearance or her voice. (Plus, it probably was several years ago - both appearance and voice can change significantly in a couple years at that age.)

I just recently did a bunch of cleaning, moving out of the way a dozen or so comics that haven't updated in months or that I decided I was bored with. So I'm down to 99 comics and comic-like things I'm following now.

EGS suffers, as a fanfic base, from being tightly focused on a small and exceptional part of its universe (the town of Moperville, which is not officially any real town so we know nothing of it beyond what we are shown) and a restricted subset of THAT (the part that a small group of high-school students frequent). The fact that not merely one Immortal, but five, are heavily focused on those kids kind of implies that they are exceptional even relative to Moperville - so what they experience probably doesn't compare well to what anyone else in town experiences. Where is there room for a fanfic that is clearly in the same universe? For a contrast to that I'll toss up Wapsi Square. WS is set primarily in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, and real-world bits of it periodically show up in the comic to establish that yes, it IS the Minneapolis of our (well, much-like-our) universe. With forays into central America, Egypt, a few unpopulated tropical islands, and an interdimensional space that houses The Library - which has a copy of every book ever written. The main characters include an antiquarian jaguar-shifter who works in a museum and owns an antique shop; a mechanic sphinx; a cop who can't be killed; a yoga instructor; a supermodel; a siren in high school; a werebear also in high school; the siren's little sister who is a plant; The Librarian; a demon barista; and a few other people both human and paranormal. Now add in that the schoolkids go to a school specifically for paranormals - so obviously there are a lot more of them, and we've seen occasional glimpses of several species. It's a much larger setting, with provisions for extending the description beyond what's in the comic, and we see it from more different points of view. There's a rather rich *collaborative* WS fan-fiction community - it's nothing unusual for a single story to have three to five authors, some chapters have two authors, and there's a separate private forum where the fanfic authors make sure they don't step on each other's toes/characters/plotlines. While the canon characters and settings do frequently appear, most of the stories involve a non-canon family of a species that has never appeared in the comic. But it still clearly fits in the same universe. And there's so much of it, all interconnected, that the authors have seen fit to build an index of it. Of course, EGS fanfic could go the way of TwoKinds fanfic. Which is, very little of it makes any pretense of being set in the world of TwoKinds (or even a highly-similar world) or of picking up any major themes from TwoKinds. But then, why call it TwoKinds fanfic? Well, most of it is furry with some humans, and TwoKinds is a furry comic with humans... EGS doesn't have a similar tight niche.

I'd add that if Grace likes green shirts and wears them often (one in bed, then another to school, and a third to work, all in the same day, kind of points that way), it would be rather normal and non-meaningful for her to wear a green shirt in her dream.

Purely hypothetically: Diane learned to get what she wanted by manipulating her (adoptive) parents, particularly her father. She figured out that with him, "no" meant "ask again a bit differently". Being that sort of pushover does not cause the kids to respect you, and she carried the lack of respect over to males her own age.

If it's still going on, staying inside is smart. Also, do NOT peek from behind the curtains - if you move them at all, open them wide and stand clearly visible. You don't want nervous cops with guns in their hands to become even more nervous about YOU.

Young Susan did not catch her father half-dressed with nearly-naked "my other mommy" or "Nancy". She caught him with "a woman". So, at least at that time, she did not know the woman, and certainly was not aware of the woman being her birth-mother. (Note: I am not asserting that the woman was, or wasn't, her birth-mother. If she was, Susan may have learned of it later.) --- There is NOTHING consistent with the notion that Raven is her biological father or her mother's ex-husband. The latter is not totally impossible, but it seems rather out of character for Raven to be married and have an affair - even more so to be so imprudent (he's had literally centuries of practice keeping secrets) as to bring his mistress into his wife's and adopted daughter's home for a non-G-rated visit. The former we've been told is impossible, and I don't think we've seen another instance of him lying about paranormal stuff to someone whom he knew was paranormal-aware. If there's a genetic relationship between Raven and Susan, it's by separate descent from at least Blaike and more likely Blaike's parents or grandparents. --- We know that Noriko has a second son who is younger than Tedd. For this third sister to be Tedd's sister, she would also have to be younger than Tedd. Tedd's 18, so these two would be younger. Why would they be coming to the US, and specifically to Moperville? Most likely cause, Noriko is dead - and it's too soon after Tengu for her to be killed, the legalities straightened out, and one or more kids to be shipped over. Also, why would Noriko name Edward - who lives on another continent - to take care of that sister, rather than any of her European friends and coworkers? And the title emphasis on "sister" implies that the brother would not come with - which would require further explanation. A possible explanation would be that the sister also registers magic-null. But then either she's still an infant and Noriko is tossing her out, or she's the younger of the two so the disappointment is somewhat assuaged by the presence of magical big brother. Still, that puts her probably at least four years younger than Tedd, and easily could be much younger than that. It's entirely possible that she'd be part of Akiko's adventures - Tedd's, not so much. Seriously, I don't see it. I don't think we'll be seeing Tedd's sister. (If he has one, she's still in Europe. And at least two years younger than Tedd.) Flip side, we have no indication that either Tedd or Edward is aware of Edward having any children other than Tedd. --- It's entirely possible that the title "Sister 3" means nothing other than that this is the third occasion of a chapter focusing on sisters. But if there is another sister about to become prominent, I'm guessing that it'll be either - in no particular order - (a) Carol becoming more prominent, (b) Akiko sort of magically erupting, (c) the return of Vladia, or (d) not a sister of any of the main 8.

Mr. Verres would need to borrow the TFG to fill that costume.

I suspect that (at least some) irregular forms of "be" originated as entirely different words. In Spanish there actually are, today, two different *sets* of words for "be", with slightly different meanings. Ser is "be" referring to a normal condition, estar is "be" referring to something unusual or changed. The immigrant whose last hundred generations of ancestors lived in Nigeria es negro - the Scotsman who just managed to spill a gallon of black paint on his head esta negro. Both translate to English as "is black". (And even with that, ser is conjugated irregularly in a way that looks, to me, like at least three different root words.)

I doubt that Disco Wizard is continuing contact - unless there is additional information to impart, but I think Grace already got as big a clue as she's going to get. But Pandora doesn't know that.

Well, aside from Andrea's initial reaction to Nanase... Also, I think it was Ellen, over the actor Jason D. Poit.

Jargon is necessary in any complex (or even mildly complex) field because people proficient in that field, talking with each other, will need to distinguish between idea/concept/object A and idea/concept/object B, where people who aren't into that field are (in some cases) unlikely to even be aware of the existence of either of them. For example, lots of people have some understanding of the word "parameter", but anyone who can name two ways of passing parameters knows something about computer programming - even if they can't explain the difference. (If they can name three or more, they probably know a LOT about computer programming.)