Xenophon Hendrix

I think the consensus is "mother."

Heh. I can see that, actually.
That being said, the aforementioned bottom left mark (that looks like a light and dark contrast, really), though abstract, does kind of remind me of a book, and even though this comic is just Elliot misunderstanding what Ashley meant, it is food for thought...

It's a summon poop spell, and it's eventually going to be given to Rich.

And the playing field used to have a castle on it.
In a high-tech war, magic would be a weapon primarily for unconventional forces. And if there's no way to definitively tell who doesn't have magic (which is implied by some of the things Edward said about Tengu)...
For most of the Main 8 it's not hard to imagine how their magic could be used to kill or disrupt, or at least gather information, while keeping the person doing it safe from non-magical detection.
Tedd: override the safeties on the TFG and make a no-bronchia transformation with 5 minute duration.
Ellen: FV5 a person who's on their way to a high-security area (disruptive, unlikely to do lasting damage - but there is a possibility). "On their way to" can have a rather expansive definition, so Ellen need not even enter an area that would bring her under suspicion.
Nanase: clothing-swap a suicide vest with a dead-man switch on a 1-second delay, from her onto the target. We know her range is considerable (home to school) and buildings in the way are simply not a concern, so if she's familiar with an area and is watching a live TV broadcast of the target in that area, or looking out an upper-story window at people on the street below...
Sarah: espionage, obviously. "Take a nap" in the passenger seat of a car that is stuck in nasty traffic going past the facility of interest.
Susan: fairies. Espionage, again. Unlike Nanase's, they disappear - sometimes explosively, so have four of them group-hug a target's neck and unsummon them. (With Tedd's and Nanase's help, produce fairydolls that look like currently-popular toys.)
Grace: she needs forms that have a much different face, but Tedd can fix that. And she's a fire-resistant flying telekinetic melee-combat machine that can disguise itself as a cute teenage girl. Of course, she's on-site and therefore subject to things like weapons fire.
Elliot: unfortunately, his most powerful form is rather identifiable, and he also has to be on-site. So far. He'd have to turn into some random non-superhero female, do the deed, and escape. (Of course, if he's in custody but outside, and everyone turns their back on him, he can fly straight up. Hazard: unnoticed video cameras.)
Justin: another weak spot. So far all his magic requires his physical presence and has immediate effect, and he has no shapeshifting ability on his own - everyone else has either range, delayed effect, or shapeshifting, or some combination thereof - so he's extremely identifiable.
Also consider: what could you do with a fire the size of one lit match? What if you could create that fire at a hundred yard range behind cover? Like, oh, inside a gasoline tank, or inside a person's skull?

Yes, but magic likes drama. If she retired from monster hunting and had kids, it's possible that she has experienced no moments dramatic enough to bring her magic back.
Would it not make an excellent story line on EGS: something menaces the Kitsunes, there is a thrum of doom, and Mrs. Kitsune's magic comes back in the nick of time?

First Panel
Boy: So you're into comics! Marvel or DC?
Sarah:  I, uh, mostly like web comics.
Boy: So Marvel!
Web->Spiderman->Marvel.

Actually, Noah's main biological parent is the Demonic Duck.

The most important "real" information (i.e. not tautology or platitude) that I take from the phrase "survival of the fittest" is that aspects other than the ability to leave behind descendants (who in turn do the same) are completely irrelevant to evolution. How long you live after your continued living stops contributing to your descendants' survival, how pleasant your life is, how knowledgeable, cultured, or even how moral you are, all are irrelevant. Evolution cares not that you take the moral high road, only that you produce descendants who live long enough to continue the chain of life. This stands in stark contrast to the religious worldview that God(s) reward those who thoughts and actions show moral virtue, and is probably one of the reasons for rejection of evolution by those who do so (along with the "humans came from animals instead of being specially separate only-creatures-who-get-an-afterlife" idea).

Hmm, I can see a scene at the end of the plot where Adrian winds up doing this.  Most likely he'd know what he was doing, too, although not necessarily.

The interesting thing is that if you can just convince an immortal that they have broken their laws, that would in and of itself make them guilty automatically. Hm.

I don't remember if anyone has brought this up, but it looks like whoever empowered Dex and gave him the jar pendant was trying to set up Pandora. This comic and this comic show that Dex's manipulator was willing to kill Noah. We now know that Pandora cares deeply about her family, and that she would never risk Noah given that he is Raven's ward. She believes that her great-Godson's girlfriend is practically family, so Noah must be, too.
If this idea has already been thoroughly discussed somewhere, I apologize.

I don't remember if anyone has brought this up, but it looks like whoever empowered Dex and gave him the jar pendant was trying to set up Pandora. This comic and this comic show that Dex's manipulator was willing to kill Noah. We now know that Pandora cares deeply about her family, and that she would never risk Noah given that he is Raven's ward. She believes that her great-Godson's girlfriend is practically family, so Noah must be, too.
If this idea has already been thoroughly discussed somewhere, I apologize.

Ah ha, Tedd's "dangerous rarity" must mean that he's not only immune to a system change, but would likely be able to quickly determine what has changed and how to adjust.
I'm guessing people like Tedd are rare because they'd be a form of safeguard to prevent magic from being completely forgotten. I wonder if they are born at a certain interval, like 1 every century, or only when there is a possibility of a system change.

Chronological order:
Friday night: Sarah and Tedd were marked.
Saturday morning: Sarah discovers her mark, spends all day trying to figure out what spell she had.
Saturday night: Elliot and Ashley's date, Sarah's conversation with Pandora.
Sunday morning: Pandora enters Grace's dream and has her conversation with Disco Wizard.
 

On the "how old Immortals tend to look" thing, I think that it's mostly a matter of "You are as old as you feel". An Immortal may choose to look elderly in order to convey wisdom and gravitas--Jerry had that "everybody's favorite uncle" air about him right before his reset, while Pandora uses a child form to convey playfulness and lack of concern for consequences.

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

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

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

Welp, This pretty much confirms my speculation, Tedd's a bloody witch hunter.

The hammers, while at the time were usable by any female, they were still a magic spell that would have used energy, so it would have helped. Also Susan apparently did use the hammer fairly often considering at one point she was juggling 3 of them while holding a lunch tray, that's pretty skilled there.

Bah, she harmless. There's nothing odd with her being that nice it's just how she was programmed.
 
What? we're overdue for a "secret robot" subplot.

It's an alternate universe from ours.

Even that one is relevant. The main use for Sarah's power is finding information, ie answering questions.

I can't see why Susan would need a laser to get a ranged weapon. All she needs is to drop a TFG gun into her chest. Admittedly, a transformation beam isn't quite the same as a laser but it is at least ranged.

I wonder, if Elliot got one of those hoodies with the large front pocket, put the spellbook in there, then transformed, would he merge with his spellbook and instantly know every spell he has? Honestly, I feel that would be cheating.