Awww, Richard's so cute. <3 I am amazed. This is the first time I have ever seen him sincerely offer to help. He looks like a hopeful little kid in the third panel.

I was somewhat disappointed. It was funny, but I expected more from #100.

Also, how many here think Richard is going to kill the Fire Elemental within the next 2 panels? I really want him to still be effective.

I dunno. I mean we all know that Richard can shrug off physical injuries without thinking twice about them, but at the same time, the guy is extremely squishy. I know that Benny managed to rez Cale from a pile of ashes, but can she fix Richard when he's just a smear of green goo?

...Barnacle, I think it killed Richard.

Good thing Richard's already dead! Otherwise that REALLY would have hurt.

Was Richard actually going after a Fire Elemental with fire? *headscratches* He should really try that ice-blast he smacked Tavor with. Ice against a Fire Elemental would work a heck of a lot better than fire against a Fire Elemental. *shrug* But, whatever. It's all good.

I love it when Krunch smacks people with his hammer. He's so cool in battle.

Comic #100! Whoo-hoo!!

Heheh. Little Dick joke.

Anyone else think it's way cool that Cale fileted another earth elemental? I mean, he's starting to look like a sushi chef with mountain-sized sushi. That's precision work, there. And Krunch? Bad-ass as always.

I love battle scenes.

Oh, I also like that Cale and Pella seem to be getting along. I wonder if Cale likes her because she's willing to maim Richard. I can't rightly figure why Pella likes Cale just yet -- other than the whole "fighting for the weak" thing she was likely raised to revere -- but I like it. It's a good dynamic.

Ice is really the most effective thing Richard has here. Fire is useless against fire, earth, and water; lightning is useless against earth; and necro won't harm elementals. Why is Richard fwooming with fire here? He said that bit about "how you use it", but he did almost the worst thing he could do there. That's why I think he has to have a secret plan or something, we know he isn't that stupid.

Cale looks so cool in that first panel, swords in hand, cloak billowing out behind him. He's really become quite the warrior, hasn't he?

What says the normal laws of RPG counts here?
What if he can use fire so all the oxygen in the air disappears so the elemental just die!

Oh yea I think Richard will be the so to say 'thorn in the foot' of that fire elemental, digging though the lava and frostbiting his leg off . That or either he's drawing power from the magical energies of the elemental to grow in size.. you never know

Further Cale's has become a real badass combat junkie? hehe
And he's becomming more and more himself again it seems, just a little different, less innocent and more leadership and charisma!

And now the long wait till monday _{:keeps staring at the screen:}

The secret is in the "how you use it." I wouldn't be surprised if Richard blazed his way through the elemental, and then somehow took control of it to blast the others with. Not exactly Warlock, but Richard has shown all kinds of offbeat powers and abilities...Warlock Monk anyone?

Then again, they could have just ended Richard as a character, its not like someone would go peel their skin off, cover them in honey, and introduce them to fire ants for it...*wonders why he thought of the idea so extremely quickly*

On a less violent note...why is Cale attempting to be Superman?

aww c'mon, Richard get up and blast that fire elemental on top of you.

Well, unless Richard has some new, impressive ability that we have yet to see (it's been known to happen), I'm not sure there'll be anything left of Richard to revive. I love Benny's shocked expression. The "Holy crap, I just made him kill himself" look.

Hmm I don't think that Richard is done for. I think him asking to help is because he is just so frustrated (shrunk, not staying at the buffet) that he needs to destroy something.

I predict that this stomp on him was the last straw to get Richard really mad and he doe's a Hadoken (or alike spell) powered by his combined frustration to at least blow the fire Elemental in litte pieces, probably more

Normally I'd agree with you, but the expression on Richard's face when he's asking Krunch if he can help doesn't look like frustration. It looks more like helplessness. It's that wide-eyed look Richard sometimes gets. He's still wearing the expression when Benny tells him to do something about the elementals. Believe me, when Richard is irritated, it's obvious.

But I have a feeling you're right about him getting mad. He probably will surprise everyone by destroying the elemental in the next update.

Let's not forget, he took out a ship. He regularly kills dragons, and generally, it's overkill when he does so. I get the feeling that if he fires it all up, at least one elemental is going down.

ooor....

we get to see richard without his cowl seeing this is the 100# comic and well... a fire elemental step on him, his clothes should be all burned up

All I know is, his flames aren't nearly as strong as they were before the curse. Krunch was able to grab a fully flamed mini-Richard without even burning his hand and Benny easily blew the fire out. He's not at full strength and, as he did with the trolls, he's going to have to improvise.

This strip is made of win. Richard cracking his knuckles, Cale kicking serious ass, Krunch kicking even more ass, Pella gets some recognition, and Richard gets stepped on.

XD

Considering your last comment,I think you'll get fwoom'd
by devoting Richard fangirls.(but I'm not sure with ILR.)

Since it's RICHARD we're talking about here,he'll probably
think up an unexpected way of pwning that elemental.
Ice attack?Perhaps water works better...if you go with PM
physics.

It IS Richard after all. Once he recovers from the little mishap of being stepped on, he's gonna be mightly pissed. And we have seen what happens when he gets pissed. Stuff gets hurt. Even if he is a bit reduced.

We will see what he will do. First post yay!

You know...fireelementals are made of fire (and other molten things)...Richard goes FWOOSH quite a bit...what if Richard somehow takes control of the Fire Elemental via direct control of the fwoosh?

you know.. since hes undead that really wouldnt hurt being crushed and all lol...

but yeah i agree since he goes fwooosh alot why cant he just control it with he fire and crush the elementals and eat the children, i mean he is a lord whos bored at the moment... granted hcitb elttil turned him into a child... that just means he can learn more magic and destroy more worlds.. and get away with it because hes adorable lol

or he could have simply called down a hail storm when everyone was greating him like before "hail, hail, hail" .... "Hail" *ice rains*

oh well.. still the comics getting better and better, still laughing at Richard being crushed.

Is it just me or does it look like Krunch hit that poor elemental in a very painful place in the first panel, if it were male (and if elementals even have genders)?

Awww, poor Richard. He just wants to kill things. The sixth panel really gets me. He's got that look like he's trying to
give himself a pep talk.

Richard: <Alright, you can do this. Just kus I'm tiny doesn't mean I'm not still the most powerful, bloodthirsty being this existance has ever known. Yea, that's right. Hctib thinks he hindered me, oh no. I can still decimate anything that dares stand against me, Richard, Lord of the Thirteen hells, Chief Warlock of the Brothers of Darkness, Master of the bones, Emperor of the Black! I WILL DESTROY ALL THAT STANDS BEFORE ME! BWAHAHAHAHAHAA->*
Elemental: *SQUISH.*
Richard: <...I hate that imp...>

Poor Richard....he's so gonna destroy life as we know it as soon as he's back to normal.

man poor gummi richard. i hope he does fine away to recover from being squished


i wouldn't be surprised if he did indeed bounce out from being squished
you know what i mean...


elemental lifts its foot and starts to attack benny, and as he lifts it out comes richard from the hole and dives into the molten elemental head and begins to control it

Um, I'm pretty sure that, being smaller and thus having smaller lung capacity, the group and all the humans would die from lack of oxygen before a bunch of elementals. Besides, I think it would only blow out the fire elementals and deny the wind elementals the air they need to exist. Water wouldn't be hindered. Nor would earth.

As for stepped-on-Richard, I'm wondering if maybe it's another moment for Cale bad-assery? The poor, deluded elf does have a soft spot for the wicked warlock, after all. What if he sees baby Richard all stepped on and flattened and mushy and goes monkey-house on some elemental ass? I mean, more than already.

Then, we can have a lovely panel with Cale kneeling woefully beside a cardboard-cutout-flat Richard...which would then waver up, looking one-dimensional, and ask to be re-inflated so that he may lay waste to the surrounding area in retribution.

Okay, so probably not. Cale's already supposed to be looking for the chalice with Pella, so he may not even notice. *grin* But if he did....

And seriously. Ice would be way more effective than fwoom on both fire and water elementals.

We can imagine Richard getting trapped underneath the foot of the elemental for an extended period of time, and once he finally does get out telling the group things like,
'By the fifteenth hour I had a ephinany about life and all the creations of the world, but then, three hours later I had another ephinany and realized that I was going crazy.'

And the much more serious side, we think that right before being squished by the elemental, that Richard was summoned by Hctib to the magic land of demons and volcanoes.
One thing we'd like to mention about the whole Richard and Hctib thing is that, very similarly to Cool Hand Luke, Hctib will sucessfully break Richard's spirit, causing a whole bunch of uncomfortableness for just about everyone except Hctib, but then as is the same with Luke, Richard snaps back into place at the oppurtune moment.

Just wanted to throw it out there.

Since when did LFG Star Wars turn canon?*shot*
Apparently ice magic works too,but won't the Hail one
damage everyone,including Cale and the others?Unless
Benny took time to shield everyone.

Um.. people. ICE + FIRE = WATER. Water + LARGER AMOUNTS OF FIRE = steam. Unless Richard intends to turn the place into a bath house, I seriously doubt with his miniturized powers, he can do THAT much.

But I'm on the bandwagon with the folks who believe that when the elemental stepped on him, it will either explode, or he'll somehow control it.

Him asking to help and looking sincere though.. that was a shock.

And is anyone else seeing Benny slowly getting closer to Richard? -scratches head- I hope I'm not going crazy..

I can totally see that happening. Either Richard surprises everyone by turning the tables on the elemental, he gets summoned by Hctib, or we will simply be shown another "humorous" method by which Richard can be injured and still survive.


I couldn't believe how serious Richard looked. He's never been serious about anything. It seems to me that Richie attaches a lot of his self-esteem to his ability to fight. Take that away and he is not a happy camper. I think it's really upsetting him that he's not at full power.

As for Richard and Benny's relationship, I just think that Benny happens to "get" Richard more than anyone else does, and vice-versa. They seem extremely comfortable with each other and to me, Richard seems to let his guard down a lot more with Benny than he does with anyone else. After all, she's seen him at his weakest (like with the shamans).

Which Hctib would know. And which is why the revenge is so epic. *snerk* Poor Richard. He's been unmanned!

One should always wait for the oppurtune moment. Richard tends to swing between snagging those moments and missing them by three miles. Still, I think he'll fwoosh it up, except with ice. Hey, the bottom of one's foot tends to be a weak point...for most people, anyways. Perhaps that spot is weaker than the rest of the elemental? At the very least he'll get cold feet.

...Yeah, that was a bad pun. Ignore that.

What would be even worse then Richard's spirit being broken, is Richard's spirit being broken while the captivity of Hctib. Like becoming the suck-uppy little servant. That would get really uncomfortable. >.< And then while in front of the group, oh man, that would just be horrible to watch, and is horrible to imagine...

I don't know why but I have a weird feeling that Cale and Richard are brothers for some reason. Don't know how that would work out though

I don't see that happening though. I mean even if Richard did get his spirit "broken" I'm picturing him more as the, dare I say, emo type. Just along the lines of him being really quiet and brooding. Richard can be kind of moody in the first place. It's only in the most recent comics that he's loosened up and acts a little more friendly around the others (relatively speaking).

good point there Lunaya

I don't understand why people delve so much into the comic and the personas.

It's funny, but i'm not going to spend hours upon hours analyzeing what every minute thing could do to effect the storyline.

On an actual note of the comic, I love Richard in the 4th panel.

Hey, it keeps us entertained and occupied with something, when there is nothing else to turn to.

We suppose that could be true, but it was only a scenario that came to mind. We may have watched 'Cool Hand Luke' too many time. >.<

I think he will fwoosh a hole into the earth and say something about how is small size is a plus, and after getting outta the hole he hits a water elemental and pulls it over and runs underthere feet as the two opposeing forces of nature (and there is a druid around somewhere) end up defusing each other.

Funny thing is, it only took me about 30 seconds to come up with my assessment. It's a gift I guess. ^^


Ooh, maybe the bunny mount happened to have dug a hole right where Richard was standing. The next issue will have the two of them sitting in the hole, laughing at the stupid elemental.

Hey, yeah, where's the fuzzy mount? I didn't even catch that he wasn't riding his bunny. Good thing too, or it would have gotten flattened! Richard has a much better chance of being alright than his bunny would have.


I'm sure Richard will be okay. He's had HUGE holes blasted through him and he's been alright! The man is undead, after all. I think the Elemental is the one who should be worried.

Why does Kale look like he's flying?

I'm guessing he pulled a Legolas. Climbed up the thing, did a flip, chop-chop and back down.

Richard: It still only counts as one!

Hello again o.o

I have an idea of what's gonna happen, but I don't think it's brilliant. Perhaps Richard ( Because he's all fire) gets sucked in the elemental, and either a) turns to ice and freezes the bugger or Somhow takes over the elemental? O.o

That, or hammer time, you guess =P

I'll guess hammertime. Perhaps he might of gotten squashed. Richard won't die... he had a large bolt in his chest. He said he wanted to lose his baby weight.

It's a distraction technique, elementals have tickly feet!

Guys, it's pretty simple.

Richard did a barrel roll to escape.

If that didn't work, I'm sure he tried a somersault.