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Illjwamh
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Been a while since this one's come up.
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Been slackin' off. Time to get caught up. Also, I'm officially counting the Will of Magic as its own character now. Mon. Feb. 5, 2018 Arthur: 14 WoM: 7 Van: 6 Tedd: 721 Wed. Feb. 7, 2018 Tedd: 722 WoM: 8 Van: 7 Arthur: 15 Fri. Feb. 9, 2018 Tedd: 723 WoM: 9 Arthur: 16 Van: 8 Mon. Feb. 12, 2018 Arthur: 17 Van: 9 Tedd: 724 WoM: 10 Wed. Feb. 14, 2018 Tedd: 725 WoM: 11 Arthur: 18 Fri. Feb. 16, 2018 Arthur: 19 Van: 10 Tedd: 726 WoM: 12 Mon. Feb. 19, 2018 Voltaire: 25 (2018 debut) Wed. Feb. 21, 2018 WoM: 13 Tedd: 727 Arthur: 20 Van: 11 Fri. Feb. 23, 2018 Tedd: 728 WoM: 14 Arthur: 21 Mr. Tensaided: 63 (2018 debut) Justin: 415 (2018 debut) Ashley: 136 (2018 debut) Sarah: 631 (2018 debut) Van: 12 FULL COUNT
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I think what I like most about that one is the rapid ups and downs in his intensity.
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Nice to finally get an inside look at Voltaire's motivations, and see that they were more or less what most people seemed to be expecting. I somehow didn't catch that, but you're right. I love it.
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Are we sure that magic going public isn't what he wanted? Or at least part of what he wanted?
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We'd need to start installing those dragon sirens Magus was talking about.
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I have to say I'm impressed with how readily Arthur admitted he was wrong and changed his viewpoint when presented with new information. People should do that more often. The way I see the last panel is not that Magic is rejecting their argument outright, but rather saying they're going to need to work harder to convince it. In other words, this isn't over so easily.
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I do believe that is the case. Man, she really does fit right in with this bunch, doesn't she?
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I don't think that's why. I think it's because those are the 8 who fought the Goo (the climax of the first major story arc), and more importantly because those were the 8 who were at Grace's birthday party. However, both of those arcs happened over a decade ago. There hasn't been one since where all of them have come together. Yes, while it is true that each storyline still features at least one or more of that group, there are others, as I pointed out, who have just as big an impact on the story nowadays. A person who started reading three years ago and never bothered to look through the archives might not even know who Justin is, but they'll know Diane, and Ashley, and Pandora, and Charlotte.
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Mon. Jan. 29, 2018 Tedd: 718 Van: 3 Arthur: 11 WoM: 5 Wed. Jan. 31, 2018 Arthur: 12 Tedd: 719 Van: 4 Fri. Feb. 2, 2018 Van: 5 Arthur: 13 Tedd: 720 WoM: 6 FULL COUNT
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Oh? Consider than in the last two years (that is, 2016 and 2017), ostensibly-main-character Justin has appeared a grand total of 7 times. Even Grace - Grace - has only 37 appearances in that timespan. If we include 2015, their numbers only increase to 21 and 46. That's three years' worth. Now compare that with the last two years' worth of appearances for Ashley (27) Diane (57), and Pandora (80). If you include 2015 for them, that becomes 84 for Pandora, 87 for Diane, and an insane 111 for Ashley. Plus Charlotte at 45. The so-called "Main 8" are not the story-drivers they once were.
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The overall tone of the comic has shifted several times. When I first got into it, it was mostly a gag strip just enough story to give it some continuity (think things like the hammers, the ASMA dojo, cutaway gags, and the April Fools strips). Before long it morphed into a heavily plot-based story (the second half of Sister, Painted Black), then shifted again to become largely character-based (Grace's Birthday Party), and eventually settled on the tenuous balance that we have today. Also, the cast has expanded tremendously. I'm not just talking about the sheer number of characters. Secondary characters like Raven, Pandora, Rhoda, Ashley, Luke, etc. all receive a lot more focus than they would have in the old days, because the story doesn't just revolve around the original main characters anymore.
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That's just a delightful side effect.
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This is my working theory of the Harry Potter universe.
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If he were, I'm 100% certain Pandora would have said. So no. (Sorry for the double post. Quote box was being screwy.)
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Something I thought of while in the shower (that maybe has already been brought up but I didn't check because I'm lazy like that): Much like "the Bane" is the affinity tied to descendants of Pandora, what if the propensity for being a Seer is a trait of Voltaire's bloodline - and that's how he knows about them when even Pandora didn't?
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Fri. Jan. 26, 2018 Tedd: 717 Van: 2 Arthur: 10 Will of Magic?: 4 FULL COUNT
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Lol. It was originally a project just for myself. I'd been doing it for a while before I thought to put it up on the forums in case anyone else was interested.
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The master copy is a notebook in which I enter all data by hand, color-coded by year. Every named character is counted. The explanation for Phill is long and wordy, and in the counting thread somewhere. Not sure where, exactly.
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I counted from my own master copy, actually. And it doesn't match because I didn't count people without names, like "Sarah's fan with glasses" or "Random Crazy Person". I did, however, include the legendary Phill, who as we all know is not on the list.
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Because all the obvious reasons that everyone is pointing out (and that I immediately thought of as well upon reading the strip) are too obvious. 131
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I agree (with both of those points), and I really don't think Van is actually Tedd's sibling (nor do I want him to be, at this point); I'm just saying that's the kind of thing Dan would totally do.
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That is an excellent point. We know it's not referring to Diane and Susan. The last two have both involved Ellen and the D. Diamond, and this one is likely to as well, but wouldn't it be just like Dan to subvert our expectations and reveal that the "Sister" has really been Tedd all along.
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First new character of the year! Mon. Jan. 22, 2018 Tedd: 715 Will of Magic?*: 2 Wed. Jan. 24, 2018 Tedd: 716 Arthur: 9 (2018 debut) Will of Magic?*: 3 Van: 1st appearance! *The voice speaking to the seers is as-yet unconfirmed. It could be a disembodied voice belonging to the will of magic itself, or it could be Heka, or the Emissary of Magic, or any number of similar entities or people. As such it has not yet been officially added to the list. If it does turn out to be a character who already exists, whatever the "Will of Magic" count at that time is will be added to that character's count. If it is a new character, then that character will simply join the official count as per usual. FULL COUNT
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Just these three? Seriously? In the whole world? And two of them are American? And have only one degree of social separation? Good lord, the odds on that must be whatever is beyond astronomical. That's actually the one thing keeping me from being sure that Van is Tedd's sibling (since the thought did of course immediately occur to me) - it would be so convenient as to be ridiculous. Now, if Friday zooms out to show dozens more seers milling about, then I retract all of this. This one is actually more informative, as it implies Tedd has at least one half-brother, in addition to any other half-siblings he may or may not have. Also, something that should have occurred to me before today but somehow didn't: Tedd was female when magic decided to change. Does that mean her choice was made for her, or will she keep the spell Pandora gave her?
