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Will do. True, actually. It kind of looks like her base adult form.

Horrible. Never going to read that.

Woo! Good confirmation on various things. Any bets on who the second sillouette is? Also, I made a thread at the same time, so how do I go about deleting it?

Awful. He sounds like a real piece of work.

Ah, right. I assumed you were talking about something EGS related. My mistake. Explains why I didn't know what LFG meant.

I feel like i've missed something. What was LFG again?

This ismy hope, that even if the story as a whole isn't coloured, the covers are, for effect and all that.

Which one?

It would really depend on when in the month of January we are currently. By logic, the Saturday just gone could be the 11th, the 18th or the 25th, meaning the griffons' date to meet Elliot and co. in 4 weeks would be Saturday the 8th, 15th or 22nd of February, so it has to be February by the time that happens. Also, if the Saturday just gone is the 25th, the Sunday following it, the 26th, is the one year anniversary of when Tedd and Grace first met, oddly enough.

Hmm... it just occurred to me, regardless of where you place it (and I place Football Player as the base form of the evolutionary line, because logic), that actually means that Cheerleader is stronger than Football Player in most or all aspects and stats. Also, going by naming logic, I can think of a final evolution. That being Cheerleadra. Though to be fair, there's easily better ideas than that.

Regardless, I was kind of just going for generic stages 1, 2 & 3 for general reference, rather than anything official.

Ah, right, sorry. Though is that just for TCG or in general?

What, like a Dewitchery Diamond. I've heard that item's pretty rare. And it only works if the subject has the 'Cursed' status inflicted, anyway. That would be one of those evolutions which creates a second Pokemon, though, now that I think about it. So that's probably not it. EDIT: Actually, since I put far too much thought into analyzing the past couple of NP comics (and their commentaries), this is what we can tell about Football Player and Cheerleader by general deduction and Pokemon logic: Football Player is a 1st Stage evolution, as it doesn't appear to believe it exists, so can't have evolved before. Football Player evolves when traded, given visual evidence, though whether specific parameters need to be met is unknown (With Football? With Steelix?). Football Player knows or can learn Seismic Toss, as mentioned. Football Player might be a Fighting type, since most Pokemon able to learn Seismic Toss are, and Seismic Toss is a Fighting type move. Football Player may be able to learn other Fighting type moves aside from Seismic Toss. Cheerleader is a 2nd Stage evolution, by process of logic. Further evolutions are unknown. Cheerleader can learn Bounce, as commentated on. Cheerleader might be a Flying type, since Bounce is a Flying type move, though this is unlikely, since many Pokemon of other types can also learn it. Cheerleader can know Seismic Toss, as it's previous form knows or can learn it. Whether it can learn it if it does not know it already is unknown. Cheerleader might be a Fighting type, as it's previous form might also have been a Fighting type, due to knowing or being able to learn Seismic Toss. Cheerleader might be able to learn other Fighting or Flying type moves. As I said, far too much thought.

So! Even though 3 posts in a row isn't the best, here it is, from working out. The Character Count as of the comic on Friday 3rd of June 2016: http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2197 Show/hide Elliot: 839 Grace: 756 Tedd: 651 Ellen: 590 Sarah: 580 Nanase: 554 Susan: 445 Justin: 411 Diane: 129 Ashley: 125 Mr. Verres: 113Cheerleadra: 95 Raven: 86 Charlotte: 78 Greg: 77 Hedge: 66 Noah: 66 Amanda: 66 Mr. Tensaided: 61 Catalina: 57 Luke: 57 Dame Tara: 57 Jeremy: 54 Lisa: 53 Rhoda: 50 Damien: 47 Vlad: 45 George: 45 Abraham: 39 Guineas: 38 Goo: 35 Pandora: 33 Larry: 33 Melissa: 32 Not-Tengu: 30 Dex: 29 Magus: 26 Rich: 25 William: 24 Gillian: 24 Brownie: 23 Agt. Cranium: 23 Sam: 22 Andrea: 22 Helena: 21 Carol: 21 Taurcanis Draco: 21 Tony: 20 Dr. Sciuridae: 20Ms. Mild-mannered: 20 Demetrius: 18 Chika: 18Lil Nase: 18 Jerry: 18 Rhea: 18 Principal Verrukt: 17 Agt. Wolf: 17 Nioi: 16 SL Ellen: 16 Matt Cohen: 16 Demonic Duck: 15 Mrs. Kitsune: 15 Tom: 15 Spider Vampire: 15 Voltaire: 15 Mrs. Dunkel: 14 Akiko: 14 Dr. Germahn: 13 TC: 13 Liz: 13 Duck: 13 Boar: 13 Bill: 12Heidi: 12 Dan: 12 SL Kaoli: 11Fox: 11 Mr. Dunkel: 10 Rick: 10 Dying old man: 10 SL Tedd: 9 Bloodgrem: 9 Elijah: 9 SL Archie: 8 Magic Emissary: 8 Sirleck: 8 Lavender: 7 Jr. High Kid #3: 6 Susan's Mom: 6 Mr. Alephnull: 6 Gerald: 6 Whale: 6 Some Guy: 6 MNHS Science Teacher: 5 Tony's Pal (Ronin): 5 Gen. Shade Tail: 5 Commander Jaguar: 5 Lucy: 5 French Aberration: 5 Eric: 5 Arthur J. Arthur: 5 Jim: 5 Cecil: 5 New Jerry: 5 Unusagi: 4 Rat: 4 Matt: 4 Lord Tedd: 4 Female soldier: 4 Susan's Dad: 4Curiosity: 4Logic: 4 Principal Washington: 4 Sandi: 4 Dex's fairy: 4 Gullible fan: 4 Mullet fan: 4 Glasses fan: 4 Creepy Cloak Lady: 4Goth alt-ego: 4 Travis-san: 3 Beta Tedd: 3 Screaming Girl: 3 Mr. Guyur: 3 Uryuom soldier: 3 Alice: 3 "The Woman": 3 Dick: 3 Ranger Simpson: 3 Max: 3 Noriko: 3 Doomed Ass: 3 Shipping fangirl: 3 Random crazy person: 3 Tom's friend: 3Dream Teacher: 3 Beta Ellen: 2 Minion: 2 Sarah's Dad: 2 Specialist Steve: 2Inner Tiffany: 2Inner Susan: 2 Liz's Ex: 2 Random Cop: 2 Matt Cohen's pal: 2 Cecil's pal: 2 Good Tom: 2 Abner: 2 Original Grace SL Mrs. Dunkel SL Tony Mr. Bluel Kaoli Mr. Kitsune MSHS Counselor Victor von Hip A.D. Liefeld Gary Jimmy Derek Ashley's Dad Cameraman PhilDiane’s AngelDiane’s Devil Girl in Dr Who Scarf Girl in Dr Who Scarf’s friend Bartender Barmaid Bar Patron Annoyed Old Guy

Okay, this is technically a double post (and a bump, really), but it's one with a good reason. The normal runner of this thread and it's appearance counting hasn't updated it since before the site was rebooted. Why is not something I know, nor that I need to know. What I do know, however, is that because I didn't want to see this thing die, I have taken the most recent version of the character counter we recovered and added the numbers from the strips that followed it up til present, so I have a more recent set of numbers to post. If anyone is interested, I will post them here after today's strip comes in and I add the numbers from there. This likely won't be something I do regularly, as this isn't actually my thing and I was just interested in where the numbers were up to, but they're here if you want them.

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2146 Look at what's behind the tree in the last panel of this page, then look at the next page.

I was going to say. Is this a sketchbook we're going to consider canon foreshadowing simply because of inevitability? Because I sure as hell am!

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2113 Only just noticed this when I was looking back over this part and saw Carol's motions at the end of that page and the beginning of the next. It took me a second to realize where I'd seen them before in the comic (Sarah testing her powers). I assume someone's pointed this one out already, but still, interesting.

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2175 Four weeks? You know, it's at times like this that I really wish we knew the exact date. That way we could keep track over the next few arcs to see if they miss it.

I think there were other things Dan mentioned that might be happening that could only occur in January. I can't remember exactly what they were (bar one, though i'm keeping that one to my chest in case it doesn't end up happening), but he'd likely not skip past them unless he relegated them to NP, so we can be assured it's, as you pointed out, probably still early to mid January.

True, true. Though to be fair, it's probably still January given some of the comments about New Year apparently still being recent and things like that, which means there's a finite number of Saturdays available (11th, 18th and 25th, if i'm not mistaken, though i'd say it's more likely to be one of the first two).

So what i'm hearing is 'Both', really.

The 'Uh, what just happened?' look on Sarah's face in panel 2 begs the question of whether that's a literal transformation or just a metaphor.

The Susan is strong in this one.

Good to see these are still around. It would a shame for fan artists if this resource was lost in the forum reset.