Hehehe Richard to save the day? I wonder how the Missionaries are going to take this. LoL Can't be too happy I'd imagine.

P.S. YAY!!! Topic Start!!!

THAT WAS EPIC!!

And now cut back to Ray'd


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"Pretty Pretty Unicorn, Indeed"

Ah, Richard, spoiling the epic moment only to make it more epic in the end.

So does the whole 'not able to die' thing only apply to the towns folk or to everyone in the town? Oh well just have to wait and see.

I have no idea if anyone else is making this connection, but the head missionary kinda of reminds me of Vorbis from Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods." Been wanting to say that about him since he showed up but just didn't lol

Ha, well, I guess the town's name isn't "A little village up the coast."

Still a very strange name.

The villagers don't really look to happy tk see Richard... I mean not angry, but almost solemn... Reverence??

Only townsfolk, I would think. They did kill the priest...that's why the guy is being executed in the first place. (or they're trying to execute him, anyway.)

Actually, I was kind of hoping for a little more...

On the other hand, the missionaries finally see what they're up against, so next time we come back to the village, I'm sure we'll see some fireworks. Literally.

And I say "next time we come back to the village" because I'm fairly sure Sohmer's going to cut to Cale's group now, to leave us hanging yet again.

And how'd the beheaded guy get his hands untied?

I like the name. I also like the fact that despite everything, they all bow before Richard. I guess that, as bad a governor as he might be, eternal life has its perks.

More importantly, I would think: What happened in the tomb? A family reunion, of sorts...but what...

I think anyone would be happy to see the one who has given them eternal life. The simple fact that one of the villagers went the extra mile to voluntarily kill a cleric shows their loyalty to Richard as well.

I wonder what Richard is hiding in his shirt there... I mean, if he is hiding something. Or maybe he's just going Napoleon on us

Edit -- Meh... nevermind me. Now I'm thinking it is just behind his back. He still might be hiding something, though

I love the little crony missionary hiding behind the book in the last panel. LoL

Fair enough, but their faces don't exactly speak gratitude....

Did anyone notice Maikos and felbunny right behind Richard.... Maikos FTW!
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*cough*

Whatever happen betweend Richard and his kin last week seemed to give him to confidence to be seen in public... guess it did give him power after all. Not a whole lot of guards in the village either it seems so t'is all going well.

Edit: Sorry, internet laggec between when I went to create this and when it appeared, please ignore this thread.

Yes, Sal, some of us did.

I can see a small trace of Sohmer's will of wanting to write for Deadpool...

I guess he did recieve his power back from last week... that or he is being extremely cocky thinking he can take on all the missionares...

I find it odd how the cleric immediately realises the entire town is crazy after seeing one guy live after decapitation. I mean, yea, he did say '...we don't have to pretend anymore.', but the priest shouldn't have even caught that. He probably should have been going OMGWTFDEMON!

Also, how did he (the priest guy) go from addressing the villagers while the execution was happening in panel 5 to standing over the decapitee in the next while the guy's still falling?

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QFT
and Roflmao....

Unless this sort of thing was rumored...he could have suddenly realized that the rumors were true!

*gigglesnort* Yeah, prolly.

AWESOME!!! I love the Richard storyline. I look forward to every page. Thanks!

Hehehehe. Awesome.

So are they all immortal or something? This is so great.

It seems we're at a point that is ripe with opportunities for answers to some of our burning questions. With so many of the characters reflecting on their current situation on the Cale front while Richard is exploring the source of his power for us to see, I'm just giddy with what I might learn next about this world.

Forget Rayd. I can't wait to see what happens on Thursday already, Im really hoping for something epic to come next!

Im really hoping to see Richard either give an epic speech then get a dagger through him (Who keeps throwing those?) or attacked with holy things.
Either way, the village is loyal to Richard, and any attacks and following battles that could come from this is likely to tilt more towards their favor. A very epic favor, might I add.


In other news, the villagers are almost always looking kind of...bored? Solemn? Bored?

So the "Family Reunion" was just a shot of steroids so Richard could take out the priests? I can't wait for the battle!

What i want to know is what Richard meant by "A work in progress". That doesn't make any sense whatsoever

He may have been being sarcastic. It's a village with evilness and darkness and people who can apparently get chopped up yet still survive, and it's on it's way to being more "pretty pretty unicorn" esque.

That's what I got from it.

Richard being Richard.

OR he's training them all to be his meat-shields, taking the shots for him while he "Fwooms" everything

I didn't know you could train people to survive decapitation. I must learn that skill.

Depends on if you connect it with the "pretty pretty unicorn" statement, I think..

OK,Richard.Go kick the collective asses of those Cleric like you always do.
If a villager can do it,why can't Richard?

Woo-hoo. It's been a while since Richard got to do a nice mass slaughtering of his enemies.

With regard to the 'pretty, pretty unicorn' remark, I think that makes it pretty obvious that the name of the town is...

Pony?

Oh, man! You just might be right

Is that one of the Mythbuster guys standing in the background of panel three??

I'm thinking there will be some high placed guy saying "We have been waiting for you" and than gives a speach what they are planning to do with the village

The image of dozens of villagers led by Richard screaming their war cry ... "FOR PONY!!!!"

By the time my eye saw the words "pretty pretty" i actually read "pony" in my head


love the face of the decapitated guy on panel 8, its like saying "huh? whats there to be shocked about"

The first thing that went through my head was:

"Beware, for bad things are about to happen."







Ah, yes. Good times.

does anyone have the comedy skit of Monty Python's holy grail running thru there head, i.e the black knight and Arthur fight?

when the black knight looses all parts. this just popped into my head when they decapitated the guy after his head said "ummm, ow."

Um, no, not really. But if the carpenter guy had kept falling into the saw over and over and eventually tried biting the boards in two. Or maybe if the executioner had very bad aim. "Oh, sorry, got your arm that time." "No problem. At least you are getting closer to my neck. Why don't you have another go at it?"


I don't think he ever lost it. He was worried about loosing his power, but it wasn't clear that he had yet. EDIT: Timemonkey (next comment) may have a good point, though. EDIT: Manddragoran has a good counterpoint. I have no idea what, if anything, happened to Richard on the previous page.


That was my reaction at first. I think he is really reacting to seeing Richard and deciding that he can stop pretending, but your point still stands. This is probably putting way too much thought into this, but I suppose having his head chopped off would have been a nuisance for him because he would have had to stay hidden in order to pretend that he was dead.

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Meh, I was hoping "pretty, pretty unicorn" was a line from some movie, but Google isn't coming up with anything interesting. As far as the village being a work in progress, the villagers seemed to be busy building stuff in the previous pages. At first I thought it was specifically for the clerics (a church?), but now I think it is for Richard (or at least it's Richard's plan). As far as the villagers looking happy to see Richard, they look respectful, but that's all. But that may just be normal. They usually look unhappy and dead tired, unless something particularly interesting happens. Maybe that comes from being dead. Zombies just don't seem to have a lot of fun, I guess.

I guess for Sohmer, it's a big deal that this is Richard's town and that Richard has a project going on there. That's they only reason I can think of that would explain why the priest is so fixated on what kind of town it is. I'd be a lot more worried about the headless body and talking head if I were him. It wasn't just OMGWTFDEMON (bad enough), it would have been OMGWTFPRIESTKILLINGDEMONONTHELOOSE, after all. I suppose it's a good thing for him that the guy didn't seem to mind having his head chopped off, though.

Probably because Richard is undead. If these guys are real priests with priestly magic backing them then Richard may have some serious probelms dealing with them. The comic has shown to have some basis from the D&D game and one of their primary purposes is to deal with undead. Of course maybe Richard's visit to his family tomb will make him resistant to that for a while.

I think that the townsfolk are also undead, or half-deads or something..

And i must say, Richard look epic in the last panel. =)

Does it really matter if the priests have powers against the Undead? I mean you all are forgetting that Richard still has a secret weapon, Sooba is walking along behind him and Im pretty sure he can rip the throat out of any priest that tries anything against Richard before it gets to serious!

it's "Rejoice...for very bad things are about to happen"

And good times were had by all indeed...