Well, Richard can't see Alternate Timelines... S'not his fault that Millions were saved...


Or was it?

HA! So, I guess this 'court' DOES go in favor of killing things. However, how did Richard know that he saves millions of lives?

In this court, who's to say that "I wish to stab him" isn't a reasonable objection?

Richard enjoys killing, odds are if he knew that the village would grow into a elite army of doom that would doom millions he would kill them out of a mix of Jealousy and boredom.

Indord! Or something like "The Prosecutor is a Lawyer with a Mouth where his Stomach ought to be! May I destroy this Crime Against Nature?"

I don't think he knew......

@_@

No wait...

I DUNNO! *explodes*

It's Time to Re-enact Back to the Future!

*Drives up in a DeLorean... With Majora's mask painted on the Hood, of course*

OBJECTION!

You knew somebody had to do it.

Goddamn, I love this arc. Its nice to see this comic take itself less seriously and rely on its characters rather than an overly convoluted plot again- and its more nice to see it be consistently funny again. Good times ahead at Dick's trial!

ok fine, i will just quote what i said from MY topic which is way much cooler than yours!



and of course, i totally agree with the belly mouthed chicken dude, that Richard should of let the village live. the Vulii kill, and killing is best!! ^_~

I love this.

Did Richard kill 2000 people just for bloody kicks? Or did he "sacrifice" 2000 people to save millions? Did he know what he was doing... or didn't he?

It's hard to tell. He's a complicated (dead) man.

This makes me wish today's court system was more like LFG's.

Me: *killsbalif*
Judge: Eh.
Me: I killed a small child and his immediate family.
Jury: *applaud*

Personally, I don't see how he knew that this village would have joined the Vulii, but I think he would have killed them either way. Think about it, he helped kill the King's Legion with no qualms, yet he still kills innocents....

He kills just for the kicks, methinks, ei. he swings both ways, baby!

How ironic it would be if everything Richard killed would have made the world worse had they have lived.....

Yeah, think of all the gnomes he slaughtered.... He was doing humanity a favor by offing those little buggers, so I guess... he's all about the good deeds, then, eh? x_X

Richard would probably fight to the undeath to prove hes evil

i'm sure he would

ehem.. pun not intended.. heh..

But, but... the gnomes! Think of the gnomes! ;_;

im betting Richard didnt know that killing those villagers would save all those people, but im also betting that SohLar arent just gonna leave us hanging with the Lord Ashendale thing... somehow Richard will get turned back into a mortal, for some amount of time.

Those villagers in Bertu looked awfully human to me....why would the Vulli employ humans? I thought they wanted to take over everything that wasn't theirs? And the image Chicken Mouth-Face showed could have been any badass blood-drenched warrior. Hell, he probably just took a screen-cap from 300.

I object!

Which brings me to my next point....with the mass amounts of pop cultural references smattered throughout the rest of the comic, not to mention everybody and their brother bringing it up the second a courtroom scenario was introduced, I'm really surprised that SohLar completely disregarded that chance to Pheonix Wright the masses.

Maybe it has something to do with them not being able to print the part where Pella sings Queen in the book.....

But even then, couldn't they have done the spoof here, where anything goes, and when it came time to print the book just put this version of the page up to avoid any sort of legal hassle?

Maybe they just don't like Pheonix Wright to begin with....or maybe they were disenheartened by the mixed response to the 'Dick 'Roll'd' page, and didn't want to encumber their work with yet another blatant meme.

SohLar truly work in mysterious ways....

Also, why am I more concerened with their intentions than I am with Richard's? Oh, yea. Because Richard likes. To. Kill. Things. Apparently it is not clear enough by now.

That'd be like, if SohLar showed us what's under his cowl ;_; /shudder

it would be interesting.....but i do hope Richard does return to his undead form after he gets turned into a mortal being

i like that picture, the one you have as your avatar, whenever i see it i get the impression Richard is confined to a box and unable to get out.

Richard-in-a-Box. Now that would be one deadly-ass toy!

probably won't sell that well though

Not if it killed all the children who bought it!

Then again, you could give it to kids you didn't like...

Probably one of the most legit reasons for an objection. Stabbing is a valid point of contention.

Can warlocks in the field, butchering innocents, read the waves of time-space as easily as the people in the plane of suck? Are they able to think about the future while they are killing? Do they worship death, or do they worship personal killing? Did his murder of the bailiff not prove that he is unbelievably powerful?

makes you wonder why some other toys don't sell that well.....perhaps Richard was hiding in one of those Tickle Me Elmo toys

We're going to get pages and pages of "What If"'s? I suppose it'll be good for a laugh or two, ala "I wish to stab him." and other witty input.
I guess this is the best way to counter all those "But Richard slaughtered thousands being with the group, WTF do you mean he's not evil enough?" questions.

Perhaps they should send Richard off on a quest "to prove his own evil."

That could be trouble.

WHAT IF: Cale was really the Anti-Christ and Richard has been unknowingly prepping him for his role? Therefore his Non-Death could be justified, as not killing him would lead to so many more deaths.

I don't think that particular sentiment pertains too closely to the theme of this comic.

Maybe when he was unconscious and within the Beholders realm he was given a subliminal message to kill all of the villagers; and the Archmage was inside of his dream- since he's working with the Beholder.
-giggles insanely at crack pot theory-

However this turns out, I'm kinda hoping to see a mortal Richard. (whatever the hell he is) And if that does happen, I hope he stays that way for a couple of issues. I can see why a chibi form can't last too long- but simply a mortal version would be a great thing to drive around for a while.

I want to see mortal Richard briefly too. I bet he was hot.

I hope he has black hair... If he's a magical mortal, would his eyes stay yellow?

Black hair and brown eyes is my guess. But who knows? Could be anything!

I can see mortal Richard using more meat shields than per usual.

Well it is understandable where the prosecutor is coming from they probably all saw him do the Suicide\Murder to himself BY bending space and time so he could have known that there would be millions of deaths if the village lived BUT now follow could he have killed the vilage to save the millions so Richard himself could kill the millions and since it was millenia before it would turn to where he could butcher in the billions so by doing one itty bitty act of good to save millions he will kill (probably in a more gruesome way each time) in the Billions in the years that follow.
Well watchu think?

http://lfgcomic.com/page/154

Semantics. One could argue that by detaining Richard and keeping him from killing people that they themselves are performing acts of heroism by (potentially) sparing another life(more like lives). I object! That prosecutor should be on trial!

I want to stab him.

Well don't we all cuz i think most of us are richard fans cuz he is the best character ever, and the writers know that so they aren't going to do something that pisses the hell out of all of us to where each one of them has an angry mob attack them, you know.

Its probably just me, but I'm kind of dissapointed that it went from an exciting idea like mortal richard to just more talk about why he's not evil. I was hoping for some kind of follow-up. On a side note, I'm surprised they havent mentioned the child he saved

arguing what might have been is no valid argument, so it's probably going to work. lets face it, Richard is as doomed as the last folks to be tried by someone in that garb the judge is wearing. Reminds me of the Trial of a Time Lord with its altered evidence and mockery of logic (anyone? anyone? fifth doctor - colin baker and the brickyard err valyard. a show trial like any other) can't wait to see the prosecutor's trump card - the boy richard saved who grows up to be a benevolent king saving countless lives and spreading prosperity. Richard can't win!

THey probably will, but here is a side note Ricahard is a textbook sociopath to where he is bored alot now there are two paths it should take, 1. he gets bored in the trial and his mind wanders to where he remembers his past, 2. they get to the end of the trial and then do that mortal thing or 3. my favorite , he gets sooo bored he finds a way to get his powers back slaughters all the demons and stuff there gets back to the others and Cale pisses him off with a Dick joke like" There you are, i thought i lost my Dick" then Richards fries him like in the first comic, Huh?

That child could have a desire to grow up to become like Richard, who named himself as Death to the child. Thus: The child would become like death and kill millions. C'mon, isn't anyone else using their evil noggins here?

doesn't pass my mustard. Death saved him, so killing can't be the answer. He would, IMO grow up to save others from death as did for him.

I think the prosecutor is off his rocker - like a chicken with its head cut off, so to speak.

That's why being Chaotic Evil is fun - you can kill whomever you want, whenever you want to kill them. Bad guy? FWOOM. Good guy? FWOOM. Neutral guy? FWOOM x2 for the hell of it.

That's part of the reason I like Richard - he's just like how I am when I play MMORPGs. It's probably no coincidence on his name, because I am a real dick (pun slightly intended) when I play. I like games that let you PVP/Agro/Attack/whatevertermtheyuse your own side as well as the "enemy" and "monster" sides, because then when I get bored, I can randomly attack and/or kill my own teammates. It's funny as hell, even though it is not so amusing to those whom it happens to and I don't stay grouped long for that reason. I also favor Undead type characters, and some sort of mage/wizard/warlock/necromancer for a job. Games that don't have that combo I usually end up an elf or troll or something - as long as I'm not human. It doesn't work so well toward actually completing goals in a game, but other player reactions can be entertaining.

There's no real way to be "good" when you're all about making other people miserable - the prosecutor here has no case as far as I can see.

A lot of us have good even great points but we kinda have to wait and see dont we?

Well yeah, but that's the case with any story that isn't completed. Fans of manga, like me, know that all too well. Discussion boards are for entertainment in between installments. Fan fiction/doujinshi are for entertainment after the canon's been laid out. (Though, I must admit I've been sorely tempted to put together a short Richard/Pella fic or doujinshi while this trial is going on. )

Ok dude Just say manga cuz i have been on th internet long enough to affiliate the word doujinshi with porn or otherwise known as hentai but of a very wierd nature so in future refences say manga so my mind isnt put in places that severely creep me out plzz and sorry for the off topic thing but it had to be said.

I know people who would buy it.