We should all make deathday cards for Dick =D

Well, Cale is still in one piece it looks like.

Also I declare every October the 8th from now on to be known as "Richard Day"

I second the motion!!! [color="#48D1CC"][/color]

Oooooh, I second that!

Great idea, 2 holiday's in the month of October =D

Lets see... this time he was late because he was boning the green chick. What about the other times?

Awesome, I love how Benny got protective when Richard was being a well... a dick. The Death-Day thing made me laugh too

lol death day funny....
Rest of the comic.....I'm betting all the destruction is an illusion; that or the sisters and the sons did it themselves to cover there moving out of the temple......To where...? Hmmmmmmmm.....Let us think a moment.......Duh!

Well, do you see the Legion anywhere?

Well, actually, no trees, either. It's either an illusion, or everything got trashed and they moved on, perhaps to that "new prison".

I reckon the blue people are just elsewhere. Maybe they went to Kethenecia and want to try and take Cale's kingdom away from him?

I'm laughing so hard on Richard...GJ richard gj..

Well, if Tah'Vraay was with them, I think she might know Cale's end plan for saving the North is "Bring everyone to Kethenacia". Hell, she even knows where it is, since she was the one to take him and the group. She's more than capable of leading the way.

Wouldn't have been late if you weren't boning, Cale.

Think about that. D:

I am reminded of several comics I've read on the subject of husbands forgetting anniversaries, and their subsequent punishments. Poor, neglected Richard! Also, where oh where has the blelf army gone?

Happy Death Day Richard!

Also Cale you're always late because you're boning either yourself or someone else

Well looks like Krunch didn't squash Cale.

The looks on the team at "deathday" were hilarious!

Either this is another illusion or the fusion they talked about was an epic fail.

But currently disapointing readers is a recuring theme. Cale and Benny get close and kiss, lets see what Richard is doiing. They seem to be more than kissing, lets see what is hapenning at the temple. They are preparing for an epic battle, lets see the people getting there after we missed the epic battle. AAAARRRRGG

Also, I just have a new question... how are benny's shoulders pads staying there?

My first thought upon reading the comic was What the hell? Did I miss a strip or something?

Then I remembered the sister's gift of illusion and magical shit, so I understood that.

But then I was all like why the hell does Cale not look to be roughed up in the least bit? I was denied my morning after strip. This angers me.

But then I thought about Richard and his death day and I laughed, and there was much rejoicing.

And then I looked at the panel after Richard says "He forgot my death day" where everyone is looking at him weird and I looked at Krunch and Pella's expressions and I laughed again, and again there was much rejoicing. Not so much about Benny's expression though, hers just wasn't funny.


And then I looked at the strip again and realized that the Sons and the Sisters must have won because, despite their temple appearing to have been destroyed, I only see one dead blue elf and a lot of dead Legarians.


Edit:


As much as I hate to criticize the great god SohLar, I understand and somewhat agree with your argument.

Also, her shoulder pads are staying there the same way her black shirt/bra thingy is staying on.

Panels two through four all have quite dead legionnaires, though not as many as one would expect. I wonder what happened to Mook One and Mook Two. Suppose they were smart enough to get while their underlings made themselves useful and acted as one large meat shield?

Love Pella's face in the 5th panel it's the perfect "Wait... what?" expression

Also, The "Death Day" thing gave me a huge flashback to Nearly-Headless Nick.

Happy D-Day, Richard!

...That doesn't sound right, does it?

Was anyone else extremely put off by this page?

For one thing, it confused the hell out of me. As someone else said, it's changing gears way too fast. Surpriseromancewtfsexsceneomgfusionlookattheblueguysepicbattlecomingroflcopterba
ttleover. I seriously had to hit the previous page button because I thought I missed a page.

And is it just me or does the art style of the comic look really strange?

I don't know. Maybe I'm just tired, but this whole page seemed very wrong to me.

You and me both.
I actually clicked on the BACK link to see if there had been an extra page.


Well that was my second thought, but then I guess, for whom would they keep up an illusion if they'd won?

There's only one dead blue elf that we get to see in the close-up panel. That doesn't mean there aren't more. The whole hill might be littered with bodies. Or the survivors were taken away in chains.

But yeah, I hope they won, otherwise the whole story-arc and long build-up about freeing the Brothers and reuniting them with the Sisters and freeing the North was a total waste of time. So based on that bit of meta-logic, I guess there will be a Big Reveal next page.


Krunch either doesn't know or is too mature to act like a sitcom father.
On the other hand, some exchange, even just a glance, between him and Cale, would be nice. Some acknowledgement that Benny making out with Cale hasn't been a weird dream.


Meh, Richard reminds me more and more of an immature roleplayer. I'm sure you know which kind I mean, the player (male or female, doesn't matter) who is such an attention-whore that they cannot stand anyone else getting "the spotlight" or even the attention of the gamemaster even for a second, so they try to draw attention to themselves by goofing off or having their character do something loud and annoying, even if it totally destroys the atmosphere of the scene that everyone else was getting into.

She has an invisible minion whose job it is to keep them up. She rented the minion from Richard.

I wonder who else is gonna be "late"...Hmmmmmmm? *blink, blink*

I would throw a fit. I think if cale and benny getting together wouldn't ruin the comic, that certainly would

Ooh, that's a good one.

For me, the Death Day gave me flashbacks to both Harry Potter (as someone else mentioned) as well as the Mad Tea Party and the "Unbirthday". Can't really say why exactly.

On the other hand, if every reader is expecting the "fusion" to be epic and powerful and a guaranteed victory card etc etc... then showing that the elves lost and all got slaughtered anyway would be quite a grim reality-check cementing the Empire's status as neigh unbeatable, and ancient prophecies be damned.

On the other hand, this is a fantasy comic about a small ragtag band of intrepid adventurers led by a Hero with a capital-D Destiny going up against the Evil Empire, and so on, with Richard-jokes and funny torture scenes and dancing Ewoks. Suddenly veering off into deadly-serious Orwellian story territory where every hope is crushed would give the reader major mood whiplash.

????

Such as Sparkles the Pole Dancing Dwarf

Chuckled at that, would have lol'ed if my roommate wasn't asleep right now.

It's a pregnancy joke. He's implying that Benny may be late when her... "time of the month" comes up, which will mean she got pregnant.

This has been your lesson for the day.

Join the club, I have no idea what they are talking about .

Heh our group gets a little weird around midnight. Ship encounter and our dwarven thief (she said if we gave her too much grief about that she'd play a dwarven wizard next) grabbed the mast for dear life... since some members of our group have twisted imaginations and too much time on their hands we got Sparkle's the pole dancing dwarf from the same people who came up with the inflatable love chicken

why are my posts always so slow????????

You're just trying to get me to wake my roommate up aren't you? Well its not gonna work cuz im going to sleep right after...

Just because the temple is smashed doesn't mean the elves lost, if the goal was to break through the enemy army and escape the siege they very well could have succeeded. I'm sure the gnomes old home is in about the same condition. And considering these guys ability to obscure the truth with magic who says the temple is even destroyed. It could simply be an illusion to convince any enemy reinforcements that there is nothing to be found here.

Awwww
I Had a Deathday card to show eveyone but i can't get it on here. Lamesaurus!

Cale! How could you?!
Pella looks so godawfully stupid in panel 5...

And more on-topic: I don't think Legara won, simply because their forces were led neighter by Aellon nor Commander Kickass but just Captain-Random-Idiot...

Heh, your group sounds like mine. My character is the group nutjob, Ash Lee J'Williams, the tiefling chaos sorcerer descended from Rakshasa, and his talking raven familiar Raimi. (Bonus exp to whoever gets the reference)

(Our drow cleric) Lera: Why are you naked Ash..?
Ash: "Well we're going through the sewers of Sigil, I don't want my robes to get dirty."

Another favorite moment.
Ash: "Do you guys ever feel like you're being watched? Like somewhere, out there, a group of pasty faced berks are sitting around a table covered in books, deciding everything we do with a roll of the dice..?"

He recently multi-classed to bard too, which will no doubt lead to more hilarity.

For the rest of existance of the universe forever; October 8th= Richard Day!!!

I'm pretty sure the Temple was owned by Legara as was initially implied, since the previous page showed Captain Who-Cares was all, "OMFG RUN!"

But yeah, I totally felt like I'd missed a page.

We're not allowed to have universal solvent anymore... not since one of the guys used the entire bottle to attack a dragon. Apparently the stuff can melt anything and he was feeling a little creative. And apparently a dragon isn't much threat when it's missing it's torso... pity I only heard this second hand as I wasn't playing at the time... being six and all.

Oh and shortly after they came up with the inflatable love chicken a new player (who works at a turkey shop) came in uniform... the back of his uniform shirt read "Turkeys need love too"

Funny, our DM requires all players in a group with me who want to play paladins carry universal solvent at all times ever since one of my characters decided to Sovereign Glue a paladin to himself. He tried to holy smite me, but it was so worth it.

Our DM's rule with paladins is mainly which deity are they paladins for? Depending on the deity you could have a truly evil paladin running around. Granted with the paladins and clerics come their own set of rules based on the religion that character follows, as my brother found out when his cleric was married in order to be able to get to level 10 or something.

He was fifteen at the time (brother not character) and got kissed more than the rest of the group. LMAO first was what he SAW as a beautiful priestess, those who made their will saves saw an undead preistess so far gone the maggots were'nt interested. Then of course was his later to be wife who kissed him as part of a ruse to get us out of the temple safely when we accidentally came in through the back door.

*waves*
here´s another one who clicked the back-button because she thought she´d missed a page!
from a comic-techniques perspective, it would have been better to have a staring panel with no action, showing us "time passed". would have helped with the rythm, i feel.
also yes, confused and slightly disappointed for the same reasons that have been mentioned - harhar, talk about a "morning after scene" - after the battle, yes.
my first thought then was also, maybe it is an illusion. i find it a bit weird to see the temple destroyed, beacsue the shocked face of the legara captain and the awesomeness of the blelf army leaving the temple seemed to indicate a sure defeat of the legion...
so, what´s the deal?

of course, richard was funny. loved the card.

also, let me say that i thought the drawings on this page very accomplished. sometimes they can look a bit rushed, but not here. nice colouring job, too.

now what???

Richard's Death day is 2 days behind my B-day.
Screw mine, Richards D-Day is much more important XD!
I hope Richards Dead day exceeds ''talk like a pirate day''
That would rock so much.

And add me to the list of people who thought there was another page before this :/!
Great joke but would've been better at a different time.
if I look at the last 3 pages I get the same feeling after watching LOST S1.
Which is WTF?

~ poke poke ~

Take talk about roleplaying and D&D to General Discussion please. Thanks.

*gets an idea*


*commits this to memory*

And yeah, I had to go back a page too just to be sure I didn't miss a page. Meh.

Love the facial expressions though.

Edit: I also got a chuckle out of the "cards" he got. Am I the only one who isn't too sure they're celebratory?

I believe they are of the hostile type.
Makes you wonder what he do this time?
Or is that still retribution from the giant eyeball and riding on the bloodrage insults?

The blood on that card still looks wet....