XD that was funny, but that guy makes me suspicious. Now discuss.

Aww, poor Richard's sad 'cause he doesn't get to fwoom.

Poor Richard, he's so sad now. Can't you let him put one racoon on fire before you leave?

which guy, the peasent?

*kek*

Richard, Bane of Everything Living and Pure. XD And for some reason I can see Pella filling the 'mercenary' title with ease.

As for the peasant... Yeah, he's probably got herpes or something. He's going to give the group herpes.

yup. he' so.....awardly shoved into this whole thing.





yes, that was the best wording I could come up with.

I bet Richard could think of a few good awkward places for him to be shoved into....

You can take that however you want XD

I have to say this one actually made me LOL. Totally awesome. That bottom frame becometh a sig!

Get to work on that sig!

*cracks whip*

XD Whooo! This may be one of the best first pages ever.

Yeah. I love how dejected Richard looks in the last panel. XD Poor Richie-poo! *kek* XD XD

Meh. Either that or he's just a plot device who randomly turned up. maybe hes Hctib in disguise?

Nah, couldn't be Hctib. For some reason I don't foresee the little imp being that cunning. He seems more likely to just run in, guns blazing. Except... with out the guns. Or the blazing. Unless the blazing means Richard setting the poor little imp on fire... which is the most likely scenario.

Im going to have to agree. With everything. For the next 17 seconds.

cael,looks,so,....seriuz bizznuss

Awesome comic,yay for pella!

Yup. I don't trust him. When he bows to Cale, hands folded in front of his face, doesn't it look like he's hiding a grin?
I think he's grinning. And if it's a journey of several days to reach the village from the city, how did the villager cover this distance without any visible equipment? Water, food? Anything? Ok, to be fair, characters in LFG walk around without backpacks or anything, too, often you dont even see their weapons. Hammerspace again. *sigh*

Cale isn't even looking at the guy, he's staring at the horizon, in a "let's get this over with" attitude.

More Pella and her mighty boobs. At least she didnt sing.

Richard is acting like a 6 foot tall sadistic-yet-innocent spoiled child when he's bored. Interesting that he obeys Krunch. The scholar must have a huge charisma. He will hopefully continue to act as Cale's mentor on Cale's path to kinghood.

Interesting that Kethenecia's return started a spiritual and physical revival of the countryside, in fast-forward mode. Reminds me of the Grail myth - the king and the land are one, if the king is wounded or absent, the land suffers. Or the scene in The Last Unicorn (more explicitly in the novel, less in the movie) where it is stated that the lands around the castle of King Haggard used to be green and fertile until he arrived, then over time under his hand they became barren wasteland, and after Haggard died and the unicorns returned into the world, the land starts to heal, water and birds return, trees are budding and the first green of spring covers the ground. (Except for the cursed village of Hagsgate, which was rich and fertile under Haggard's reign and now after his fall shares his fate.)

He just so....not right. He decently literate, calling them elementals, made his way to a Kenicthica, a place thats not supposed to be there, he's apparently elderly so I doubt an old guy could acually walk that far any way, plus what kinda man would leave his family and friends to search for help in a barren wasteland? He sure is fishy.

If I'm not already going to hell, this sig will send me there.

Lar, forgive me for chopping up the artwork...it just worked in the size constraints

Herpes sounds totally plausible. Thank God for Herpinex or whatever they're calling it these days.

And Richard's last frame reminds me of this t-shirt. Sohmer, why do you distrust the noble raccoon?

Seriously though, raccoons with lightsabers chopping of Pella's limbs would be . . . amazing? Yes. Amazing. And you just know Richard would be all torn like "But I like her more than anyone else! BUT RACCOONS WITH LIGHTSABERS."

Richard obeys Krunch because Krunch is his "new best friend" due to Krunch tackling a dragon in the begining of the series.

I mean who would'nt want to be friends with someone like that.

The shifty old man must be "The Archmage" in disguise! I had to say it before someone else did... LOL

Can't wait on next... week...

...

Wish I can fast forward time...

Wrong thread for the wishin', dearie.

I'm glad I could eat my Halloween candy while reading this. This must be what Richard feels like after pillaging, except part of the fun's taken out because they're willingly handing out candy.

The last row of panels reminded me of the "blood in the buckets" thing from back in the day. Hooray for reanimated chipmunks. That's a cute siggy, Kay.

This comic made me smile, like in my avatar...only more sadistic...and laughing at Richard.

Almost feel sorry for Poor Richard.

Did she just called him ... 'cow' !?

She does that more often, and believe me, i've been called a cow too back in my WOW days (Tauren ftw!)

He's not a cow, though, he's a bull! Maybe Cale isn't the only one with a confused gender.

A thought occurs to me: this village that is under attack must be Bertu, the same village Richard reduced to two inhabitants. It's a lovely irony that he might end up saving the village he has destroyed once.

Very nice sig.

Poor Richard....so many things to fwoom, but he's not allowed....

He must be going through withdrawls, its been so long since he got to kill any children.

And that's for the halloween thread. Aw, poor pella. She got ripped out of her own time, and can never return. She looks sad. Put her back, because I don't want a fifth party member! /tempertantrum

w00t! Pella is staying!
Also, reanimated chipmunks and raccoons on fire are funny.

No no no! Pella does not stay I want the silly dwarf gonez!

I need to learn how to animate an avatar, because the last portion of the strip needs to be animated... Hmmm.

They stated that Pella was staying on page 90. Benny mentions the dwarf bard from another time

Benny has called Krunch "Cow" before

And ... if Richard is being flung around like that by dragons, I think he's smart enough to listen to someone whose tackled dragons before.

Hmmm, people seemed to have interpreted "I was just going to look. with fire. and lightning. and reanimated chipmunks. and raccoons. on fire." As reanimating the chipmunks and setting the raccoons on fire. When I first read it, I thought reanimated chipmunks on fire and reanimated raccoons on fire.

won't this new found flora greatly disrupt the habitat of the sand dragons?

Lol...I thought I was the only one who had actually read the book! The book rules...

Anyway, yeah, the villager is so totally hiding a grin. He also seems to be hiding his nose...it looks kinda like it vanished with his hands in front of his face like that.

To me it looks like he's just really pleased they're helping. Perhaps Hctib is the one controlling whatever is attacking the village to try and lure them/Richard out?

I think we have a winner here.

That villager is just happy.. that's not an "ah ha! you've fallen into my trap foolish mortals" grin, it's more of a "oh thank god someone is going to put a stop to this elemental infestation problem" grin.

He didn't reduce it to two inhabitants. He killed everyone in town and reduced the town to ashes.

The two inhabitants he put on the sign, written in the villagers' blood, were himself and Sooba. Richard doesn't leave people alive ("Killing means never having to say sorry.").



Maybe they'll become undead chipmunk dragons.

The king and the land are one pops up in a lot of fantasy work, not surprising since it goes as far back as the Grail myth. Just think of it as a codicil to the whole divine right thing. They want to make the main point first- “I rule because GOD says so and to go against me is to go against GOD!” Once that point was set and clear, then and only then could they allow the romanticized stuff come in.

Anywho, whilst I am still in the camp thinking the peasant may be Archmage device and not just generic plot device. The stuff you bring up in your last paragraph may explain the stuff in the first, Tobrian. Kathencia has been back for weeks already. It brings up physical and spiritual renewal. That it would act as a beacon to those in need of justice without them realizing it is feasible. As for the rest, once the peasant is being called by the city, he can be treated like our main cast as far as the necessity of provisions until he reaches the city.

Still, I think he’s a puppet.



Hey. Don’t hate on Queen.



Good call. Like side by side flip pages. You can make the animations of the movement out for yourself. But this time with more speech!



Okay, as much as the people who want to go “LALALALALALAI’MNOTLISTENING!LALALALA” whenever anyone suggests WoW influence will hate this, whether or not the characters in general adopt this, I think Sohmer was influenced by WoW that much. The player culture calls all Tauren cows, they are sufficiently enlightened on gender issues that the line is not drawn. So I don’t think Benny calling Krunch cow is meant to challenge is manhood so much as just to be generally derogatory, in an endearing way.

I like that thought about the village. Except that it will be the descendants of the two survivors that fled far away as the land died with the loss of Kathencia. Ooooooh.

edit- At least it would be cool if he left two inhabitants. I understand The Gf’s, but I hold out on the hope that Richard wouldn’t consider himself an inhabitant.

If I had photoediting capabilities, I would create a collage of every time Benny called Krunch a cow and post it out of spite. And boredom.

15 posts before people got talking about Cale? K'mon now! That was the first thing I noticed. (Despite the fact that it's the first panel, of course. >.>) He looks all dark and shit now. I'm sure after three weeks of brooding nobody would look their best, but I get the vibe that he's fully intending on settling into this new mood. He does have a 'lets get this over with' look on his face, though, but I think it's something he wants to get used to. Hehe, it's the anti-Cale.

I usually rant on about Richard, but I really don't need to. He just speaks for himself sometimes. I did think it was kinda funny how Krunch jumped on him (metaphorically speaking, if he literally jumped on Richard I wouldn't have the strength to be typing right now...) as soon as he switched over to destructo-mode.

I wanna see reanimated flaming chipmunks.

I'm sorry, I just had to look at the last few panels again.

How could you say no to that face?!?!

I forsee that yes, he seems to be intent on just being a moody-arse bastard, but something's gonna happen--not sure what--that will show him the 'light' (possibly literally, Lar seems to like doing that), that he's not evil, and that he can still be good. The only logical way I can see that is having the archmage do something...Cale's so far gone I doubt anything less than epic could change him back.

I dunno, I don't see the Archmage wanting to do anything to make Cale go back to the way he was, s'pecially after he worked so damn hard to fuck him up. It's assumed he wants him to be the next ruler of Kethencia, and I would also assume AM would want Cale to be a leader like him. It's generally accepted that AM is not a nice guy.

Yes, I had that thought, too...but I can't really think of anything else that'd fix Cale, beyond the Archmage throwing something in their path...I mean, hey, he's done it before. What's one or five bajillion more times? Cale's acting more like a selfish, emo mercenary right now than a leader, so he needs a least a little bump in the right direction.

That might have something to do with him having not even the slightest clue that he's supposed to be a king.

It's worth noting that the mercenary attitude is rarely the kind of attitude that makes a king. A king has to desire power, for whatever reason. Cale's attitude, the mercenary attitude, doesn't desire power. Just money.

In short, in his current state of mind I don't think he would jump at the opportunity to rule a country.

It's also worth noting that just because he said they better be able to pay, doesn't mean he's turned mercenary. Benny demands pay, and she's not a mercenary, she just needs it to pay off Aelloon. Or however the hell you spell his name. Temmet. Last I checked, Cale was still helping Benny, and that involves getting the money to help pay off her debts.

Agreed. I think that Cale is so messed up over the whole situation that he's just trying to find something to fall back on. He doesn't know what to do, but he does know that he swore an oath to Benny. That's all he has to go on right now.

Not only that, but you See her. This does not, however, make me any more pleased.