Today’s strip was a little bit late because I got too distracted training my five-year-old girl to summon elemental primals instead of rainbow-squirrels.
Also got a Fanart post to share today! This image was drawn by Lucheek in an art request thread at the behest of Tailsteak. Thanks, both of ya!
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Pohl puts the "magi" in "magitech". I wanted to close out the De'Madiea family's appearance with something unique that Todd and Selkie couldn't necessarily see/hear, but not something that ended the arc on a huge plot-related WHAM note like the "last of her clan's survivors" exposition from the hospital scene.
It’s still in the rough sketch stage but… is Pohl generating some kind of visual for his son… from his eyes???
Also his hand!
THAT’S SO COOL!!!
I agree, that is very cool. Also, that is an awesome “late for work” excuse.
(PS. I spent New Year tucked between a pixie and an allicorn. It was great. I was a snowleopard in a waist coat. How about others?)
… Scary!
Beta strip is better than no strip! :]
Also, neat! You play FFXIV too! Sucks that we’re not on the same server. I play on Coeurl. Totally would have helped you if you did since I’m a lvl 50 WHM, SMN, and SCH.
let’s try post ing again
cool ilusions but… ARE THEY EVIL? seriously this is out of left field.
yay it worked
Sorry, your first try went to the spam folder for some reason.
its partly my fault. first i forgot name and email , than i had to change my spam answer and after that itsaid my comment was a duplicate.
but while i have your attention are they evil? if so this will be worse than Bioshock and Borderlands2 combined. please don’t make them evil. please?
I believe you must mean, “Would you kindly not make them evil?”
I don’t view the De’Madieas as evil, no. Curious to know what gives that impression. Just the Fire-Eyes? Or has something else suggested a sinister intent?
wait am i the only one whose worried that thier “heros” want to conquer the world?
“Gee, what do you want to do tonight?”
“The same thing we do every night —try to take over the world!”
It’s Pinky and the Brain. Have you missed out on the epic goodness that was Animaniacs (P&TB even had their own spin-off show)???
The show went off the air 16 years ago, so it is *barely* possible.
Good grief. Am I *that* old? 16 yrs. ago? O.o
Wow…16 yrs…a lot of time and yet….not.
It’s HOW old!? I was watching it between… 4th and 9th grade I think… 7 yrs. or something like that…
i remember pinky & the brain, i was just focusing on the conqer the world part, and missed the relevance that they were mice.
Yes… Yes I did. D’oh!
I tell my niece stories about the heroes taking over the world all the time. She loves stories like that. Then again, I also punish Goldilocks and let the bears go free, Jack is revealed to be a bully and a villain for picking on the giant, and the witch from Rapunzel isn’t treated initially as a villain, just someone dealing with idiots.
also, while not inhearntly evil, the eyes do set asinister tone.
I figured. Was just curious. 🙂
Aww c’mon, Bioshock and B2 were teh awsum. 😀
The De’Madeas strike me as far from evil, and genuinely concerned with both the welfare of their kind and the welfare of most humans as well as good relations between the two.
i like the games, its just the plot twists were a real suker punch, particularly B2
Nooooo kidding! And I have never hated a fictional character so much as I did Handsome Jack. I replayed the last level a half dozen times just to have the satisfaction of killing him over and over. 😀
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky – try to take over the world!
You took the words right out of my…er…mouth? Fingers? Keyboard?! Um. Yeah.
Giggle
And now I sit here with the Pinkie and the Brain theme in my head, I’m glad others said it before me 🙂
I didn’t until I read your comment. -.-
Though I had read the others, I didn’t have the theme in my head until I read your comment. Thanks.
Will we be seeing them again?
Yes, they will be recurring characters. I intend to make a slightly more detailed end-of-arc post about this in a couple pages, but don’t worry about them disappearing. 🙂
Wait, who? The De’Medeia family or the mice?
Awesome. I figure at least Selkie has found a pediatrician, but it would be cool to see the baby when it hatches.
As much as this magitech story-telling is awesome and I love illusions for their use as storytelling aids, I’d just like to ask: HOW
THE NAUTILUS
ARE THEY DOING THAT?!
And also why is their story about mice? Seems a very land-based story.
Good point about being land-based. Fish people should tell stories about crabs and nautili and octopuses and squid!
But I’d be he’s just stealing the story from what he saw on TV recently, rather than it being an old folk story. They’ve been “land-based” for a while now, and probably watched enough cartoons to have favorites.
*Octopi
As we’re at it: octopodes (octopus/oktopous is Greek, not Latin)
It is land-based. :3
Oh yes, it is so epically awesomely land-based. 😀
Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one who thought “Oh look! It’s Pinky and the Brain!”
NARF! POIT! ZORT! TROZ! FJORD!
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
I think so, but how will we get the elephant into the bathtub, and why are there leprechauns?
I think so, Brain, but how do we get the donkey into the rubber pants?
Hey Dads, what do you wants to do tonights?
The same thing we do every night Selkie……TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Are the mice supposed to be Pinky and the Brain?
They’re Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
One is a genius
The other’s insane.
They’re laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They’re dinky
They’re Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain.
Before each night is done
Their plan will be unfurled
By the dawning of the sun
They’ll take over the world.
They’re Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain.
To prove their mousey worth
They’ll overthrow the Earth
They’re dinky
They’re Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Narf!
Oh I’m an idiot I was so busy reading it as creepy alien subtext I completely missed the Pinky and Brain ref.
it reminds me of a conversation i have with myself very often about what it would be like if society collapsed and we had to tell each other the stories from movies and TV so we didn’t forget them in the interim time before it was reinvented.
in the movie Reign of Fire, that was one of the things that happened, the people were re-enacting Star Wars for the kids in the group, the scene they were doing was the “Luke, I am your Father!” one.
I find it hard to believe that an ability to project images from the eyes, which would have evolved to project onto/through water, would work as well in air.
There is actually a play with this very concept. The series they use to help remember the past? The Simpsons…
One more confirmation that the green-and-black magic is inherent to the Sarnothi, it’s not a technology or the product of some device. Which means Selkie will be able to learn it. And she will, if I know our Selkie. As if the mouthful of shark teeth and the razor-sharp claws AND the caustic saliva were not enough, there will be yet another reason for humans to fear Selkie.
Yes, Truck’s future is not looking good!
I hope she does learn Sarnothi magic… and then uses it to conquer the world!
Shhh! Don’t suggest it to her!
I wonder if this developed from a sort of predator/prey adaptation… Perhaps to herd fish towards a net by projecting an illusory barrier or scaring off predators by projecting a larger predator.
It also makes me wonder if perhaps this is the actual extent of their juju and they channel it through special devices to form three dimensional forms (the black and green knife tool).
The heck did Pohl’s webbing go?
Pohl has never had webbing in-comic; the general consensus is that he had it removed to increase his manual dexterity as his profession requires a lot of it.
That is a seriously creepy way to tell a story.
… I just now noticed the “stinky” and “bane” tags…
Wow, Pohl is an AWESOME storyteller