Xenophon Hendrix

I guess Rich and Larry's wishes just didn't have enough chaos potential for her to want to grant them.

Perhaps she wants to make some furries who can actually breed some biological furries. That would spread some chaos.

I'm pretty sure that the "fittest" part of "survival of the fittest" is actually referring to fitness at reproducing, not the toughest or cleverest or whatever, although popular belief often gets that wrong. If Tedd were saying it, I'm pretty sure her inner desire would have matched her outward statement.

Thing is, empowering and guiding is what the French immortals did. They up powered Nanase and Susan and gave them information. Changing the subject, does not that pose in the fifth panel look like Edward?

Wouldn't a star be on the bottom? Green plants feed on light. Herbivores feed on the plants.

It is better to be at the top of the food chain than the bottom.

Oh. Never mind.

If someone who looked like Pandora's form in that comic came up to me and asked that question, I'd probably answer something like, "Doctor Strange with a less embarrassing costume." Meanwhile, I'd be thinking something like, "Sqeeeeee! Isn't she just the most adorable thing?" Only Shive knows what the end result would be.

Did you know that in thoroughbred racing, if the the track is suddenly flooded, the patrons' bets are not returned. Instead, the race goes on with the jockeys and horses being replaced by swimming chihuahuas.

The question is whether they will graduate before the author dies of old age. Anyway, I think all of the main cast will at least be offered jobs with DGB once they are old enough. They are a powerful, prosocial bunch.

I'd like to note that Ozzie Nelson's job was band leader. I don't know if it ever got mentioned on the television show, but it did on the radio series that preceded it. (No, I am not old enough to remember this myself. I looked it up a few years ago.) As for delivery jobs, the Goonish Shive universe isn't ours. Perhaps the sclerotic grip of government isn't so far advanced there as here. As an example that surprised me, in my parent's generation, country kids used to bring their shotguns to school so that they could go hunting afterward. I learned that several years ago reading Jerry Pournelle's website. My mother was still alive at the time, and she had gone to a country school, so I asked her if it was true of her school, too. It was. Can you imagine what would happen if a kid walked in carrying a shotgun today? When I was a little kid, seat belt use was rare. No one wore a helmet on a bicycle. Any collection of adults would be encased in a fog of cigarette smoke. Elementary school kids routinely were allowed to spend time home alone without adult supervision. A bow with real arrows was considered a fine toy for an eight-year-old. If a couple kids got in a fist fight at school, they weren't slapped with criminal charges. All of these changes happened over the course of a few years. It's completely possible for the EGS-verse to have somewhat different laws from ours.

I don't know what the author has in mind. I was just giving you a plausible reason for why magic might want some magic users but not too many. A few keep it fit and trim, but too many make it emaciated.

There is excess magic in one spot.

Perhaps magic is like a plant. The right number of magic users keeps it nicely pruned, but too many and it starts getting overgrazed.

Tedd has been producing wonders of magical technology. Edward doesn't know from lore that Tedd is a rare type of wizard; he is in the process of discovering that a rare type of wizard exists, and Tedd is one of them.

Perhaps the Emissary is Edward's subconscious mind. Edward must be gaining some inkling of what Tedd really is by now. When he wakes up from his and Grace's shared dreams, he forgets that he is the Emissary. From a meta perspective, the idea is efficient in terms of character development and plot, and Edward is Gandalf-Merlin, which fits the Emissary's outfit.

Sarah found her mark Saturday morning. The conversation between Pandora and the Emissary is taking place the morning after Elliot and Ashley's date. Does anyone know offhand what night the date took place?

Now that I think about it, I could be totally off about the timing of events. I get so confused.

I speculated in the old forum that "forced" most likely was something along the lines of offering them a scholarship in exchange for service. DGB just doesn't seem like an evil group, and Edward is a good guy.

So, marking Sarah must be part of fixing it.

Lindybiege has some interesting stuff.

Molly a cybernetically augmented character, has implanted mirrored lenses to protect her expensive enhanced eyes.

I conclude that the author hasn't read Neuromancer.

Are you positing that the author-artist put Susan and Diane on the cover in a fit of madness?

Pershing