Hi Richard's Dad?



Guess he wasn't kidding about having killed him fondly :x.

"You're looking well." Heh. From behind, I can see the family resemblance.

Never know...could be the mother as well but..I wonder who the robe figures are

SQUEEEEEE~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonder if that's an immediate relative or just a 4th cousin twice removed who supplies Richard's power or something?

D.....Daddy Ashy?? o-o
Im hoping it's Daddy Ashy! *family nicknames, FTW*


I was expecting more Cale and co., nice move SohLar.
Also, you dont need to post the page on the topic itself...just the number, kills us dial-up users.

If Richard's family are in the coffin then who's skulls are scattered in the tomb? Their enemies?

Is what he was doing to the corpse giving it power or renewing his own? Heh, it almost looked like he was doing his own version of CPR or something, maybe Monday we'll see him/her talking!!

Assumption time!

Assume the whatever in the sarcophagus is Richard's father. Assume as well, Richard is as old as he claims/hints at. If Richard said he killed his father, and that is assumedly his father in the tomb, and his father's corpse that is assumed to have been there for a really, really long time....

Then Richard's father was really, really, mind-blowingly powerful. Assumedly.

I mean, if the guy has been the source of Richard's power for this long, and still has more than enough juice in him (metaphorically, of course) to warrant Richard takin a break from what he was doing to go and recharge so he has enough energy to save his town...

Ya know, if that scenario is correct, that's another catch-22 to add to the list. If Richard's father was powerful enough to provide him with power ages after he was killed, how could Richard have killed him if he gets his power from his father posthumously? Owell, we'll see.

Curiouser and curiouser....*rubs chin*

Let the rampant unfounded assumptions begin!

Edit: Oye, my guess father, i know someone guessed that earlier... props to him

Rather than father or mother or other relative of sorts, perhaps it is Richards own dead body. One could assume that what we see of him, is not his 'real' body, but possibly a form projected from his crystal. Afterall, both times his body vanished -willingly- he went inside the crystal.
It would also mean, he's using his own power, rather than taking it from a dead relative.

I realise he did say something about 'family reunions', which would make you think it was a relative rather than himself. But, as he isn't using that body anymore, he really wouldn't think of it as himself entirly, but rather, a relative of sorts.

I think those are just statues.

Damn I love this comic.

hmm, to me, the hooded figures seem to incline some kind of order or clan - the order of warlocks or something? I mean, Richard seems to have command over them...
I smell some ancient pact between the townsfolk and said order, somehow involving draining power from dead "Daddy Ashy" (yeah, let's make that one official! )

Though his father didn't like his choice of profession, that doesn't mean that his father didn't like Richard. If it is indeed his father, or even not, if his father was that powerful, there is a chance that he LET Richard kill him.

+1 experience points

Handing those out like candy, eh friend? hah.

I'm more prone to the idea that it is Richard's body. I mean, sure, he's a warlock and could transport himself into the crystal... but the projected image idea is rather likeable.

Maybe it's Richard's father, who is the Archmages son, ergo Archmage is Richard's grandfather.
Archbunny had the green crystal's on him when he transformed, Richard has red crystals, when richard recharges his powers in another dimension his color of magic is red, maybe the archmages color is green.
Then maybe archmage is Richard's father, but that doesn't make sense since Archmage isn't dead and is in the bunny who's standing right besides Richard.
Richard must be somehow related to the Archmage, my guess is grandfather.

I am not handing them out more easily, neih, there are simply more posts deserving of them rightn now

I keep a log of the points, and every time someone accumulates 10 experience points they get a level up, every time someone levels up they get a cookie over email. It is very meaningful

So far Devanaustra has the most with 3.
Rip Van Ishmael has 2
Some others have 1,
all you other sad-sacks have 0.... thats right, you all suck.

I really like this idea! It's something out of the ordinary, but it makes sense. Very well thought through! I like! I initially thought it was his father, but if this is at all possible, it seems highly plausible.

I agree on the corpse having some relation with the Archmage, since both seem to give off green magic, and Richard did mention he looked familiar.

Maybe it's his wife and she is really, really ticked at him for not visiting sooner

Or mother. "Why didn't you at least call?"

In the 3rd panel, Felbunny reminds me of Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) when adults are around. He looks like a stuffed bunny. I don't know why, but I felt the need to say that.

I suppose we will learn the meaning of today's page at some point.

Erm... i think Richard could get himself a hotter wife.

Okay, so, going on what we know:

1) Richard chose a profession that his father had ample qualms about. That is to say, Richard chose to study something his father found ill-suited for a member of his family.
2) Richard murdered his father. Why, we don't know yet.
3) Richard was turned to the undead. This implies a fight.

Now, what I can extrapolate from this page is that we might be looking at Richard's back story all wrong. If Richard went totally evil and murdered his father, why would his tomb have the same dark, demonic colors that Richard now wears? Up until now, we've pretty much assumed that Richard just straight up set the old man on fire because he wanted to see what color his hair would glow when immolated, but seeing now that Daddy Ashendale's tomb is giving him at least some of his power--his dark power--that theory goes right out the window.

Given that I'm partial to the idea that Richard's current state stems from a good deed gone horribly awry, my crackhead theory is currently:

Daddy Ashendale was an evil overlord that tormented his town relentlessly. Richard dedicated his life to doing good, bucking his father's will and power. Something transpires that results in the death/murder of Daddy Ashendale. Richard, perhaps seeking to save his townspeople or keep that power from going to the wrong hands, takes on some of those powers himself. Doing so corrupts him, smothers him in evil and apathy, and the Richard we know and love is born.

All in all, whee Richard!

Yipes... I think I hit the wrong button and sent a PM. I can't get this thing to quote for me for some reason...

Anyway, about the hot wife thing -- maybe that's why he keeps her in a box

Whoever it is in that tomb, judging by the fact that they just zapped the crap out of Richard, I might have to feel really sorry for those Legion guys.

For me it is a tough call between Daddy Ashendale and Richard's own decayed human body. The thing that negates the his own body theory though is the fact that he said family reunion, if it was his own body he would made some sort of crack in regards to it because that's just how Richard is. However, if it is his body my guess would be it is like an anchor to his current body. If that body gets destroyed we can say bye bye to Richard because it would either down right strip him of all power and leave him as nothing but a mass of undead or he would just down right vanish given the his current body is a projected form theory. Well, that is my two cents on it.

Richard said that killing his father was an amusing time, so i doubt that he did it while fighting for control over the village.

Richard gets hit with the green energy stuff when he reaches into the coffin, so im thinking hes trying to take something from whoever is in it and they wont let him. Hes the chief warlock of the brothers of darkness, so maybe whos in the coffin is the father/mother of darkness and their defenceless to clerics so richard has to protect them.

just a thought.

He is right.. they are awkward, when you haven't seen a family memeber in a long time hehe

Um, hon, there's a topic for today's comic already. Been there for over three hours.

Aack! sorry

man how did i miss this thread..lol

Maybe you didn't notice it because you were expecting it to be stickied already, or were expecting it to be the first topic on the list below the stickies? I know for an hour or so, the fanfics kept pushing it down with new replies.

I second the, grabbing stuff out of the coffin idea. I want to see what shiny richards going to get, something that will help splode missionarys? should be interesting to see

Wow. Compared to Richard's, my family reunions are sweet. (No electrocution)

Well, if it IS his own body and the thing we've been looking for is just a projection, it would explain his apparent immortality: If you hack and slash through a hologram, the source still remains intact, right?

Maybe that's what he thinks is hot.

-shrug-


That would make sense, yes. Though I think it's more of an advanced hologram, as in not a simple projection as it is conjured mass. Then again, Richard is a walking sack of dead flesh, so... it might also be due to, uh, that. But, then again, the reason he's a walking sack of dead flesh might also be due to the fact he's conjured mass. Who knows, eh? May the theories devour our brains.

Also- I am reminded of the time he fought shaman.

I don't think Richard was getting power, not at all.



That's more like it.
i mean, Richard is smoking in the last panel, and in panel 7, he's facepalming i wonder if that always happens with his family reunions

Maybe it is his father, but perhaps his father was GOOD or something, and Richard killed him, and now uses him as a conduit for his dark power or something, wich makes his father powerful and displeased

However, as people were staring at Richard, nearly no one seemed to notice the other TWO WARLOCKS standing there with candles. Someone said they're statues. Why would Richard tell them "leave me", then? Richard is the chief of the brotherhood of warlocks... Am i the only one who thought: OMG he's gonna call on a whole army of Richards!? Seriously, the moment i saw those two, in my mind i immediately pictured Cale in a battle, in trouble, and Richard arriving with a careless expression and one of his remarks while the whole bunch of warlocks immediately burn Legara's legion to cinders I suppose he needs to save his village first, but seriously, imagine... Richard x 30 = ...a whole bunch of Dicks

Hi guys, First Post I've done, had to sign up when i thought of this.

Isn't he the Cheif Warlock of The Brothers Of Darkness??

Could it not be that the brothers are inside there??

And they're going to come out and cause all sorts of nasty inflictions upon some 'Missionairies'....'of the Gods'

I Hope so

1000 bucks says it's one of his brothers.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGdadddyriiichhaaard!

.. I need to lay off the coffee. *holds hand to head*

but yeah. That is TOTALLY Richard's dad in there.

Oh and since I'm now signed up,

Krunch is fine and well, he was fighting Audibot in LICD in the crossover event! Don't know if anyone noticed...

Yeah, I think that he was talking to the seemingly big silhouette of Maikos behind him.

I do not deny the possibility that they are real, if merely for the fact that they're full color and I don't think people paint statues in LFG.

he was not talking to the statues he was talking to maikos ...and yes i say statues muhahaha statues of richard in his temple to himself

I also don't think that he was draining power from the corpse, but rather that he activated some kind of ward that attacked him, I'm not sure why he did it, maybe to break it?

Or maybe he gave power to the corpse, perhaps to maintain some kind of enchantment.

The reason that I don't think he drained power is: He didn't exactly look like he was full of new awesome power, but more like he was kind of emptied. Right after he did it he fell to the floor, he did that "fingers/hand to the eyes" thing some people do when they are in pain or really tired, and he was smoking in the last panel, that kind of indicates he got burned or something.

no one thinking of his teacher?

interesting idea... but i think teachers and Richard just don't mix if he was a wizard, maybe. But he does not say any incantations, spells, etc. he just uses the power he has in seemingly nearly any way he wants. I mean, when he got his abilities cancelled in the demon's court he was surprised to see his power gone. It's like he's doing it without any special effort, like, he just thinks "Fire!" and fwooshes someone. And what with the power source and whatnot, i do not think Richard actually has any real magical lore. Or much of it, anyway.

Maybe its not a teacher but an old head of the warlocks circle. A family reunion in the sense of the circle he belongs to that claerly has some sort of relevance to the town could work.

The way I see it, from all said here it could be the following:

Actual family-AKA pops

His own body-Power source

An old warlock or archmage of some sort

Did I miss anything?

It can't be a projected body , less likely a projected 'image'

there were times where Richard was "tired" from all the epicness and Sleeping a looooong time for being stressed out. If its some kind of projected w/e, oh.. i dunno he got disconnected? like a signal or something? lol

"family reunions are awkward"

Well said Richard well said.