i have a feeling they are building up to it, slowly...but surely... i mean the arch mage is in the temple with his subjects with the group as well, the stage is being set to deliver the pieces of the puzzle.. Like with every book there is also filler, to let the reader come down from the high of one only to be raised back to another.. like we had alot of filler, then everyone got heated about the romance. and we came to these fillers about the all mighty bunny and bad richard jokes so again.. good things come to those who wait...even the bad jokes and the filler pages are still a good read...IMO

How serious Richard looks despite pretending to be a bunny tickled me

I'm still not seeing why the group aren't surprised as to why they worship this mysterious bunny that just happened to begin traveling with them.

they have had the rabbit for a while....Richard is quite fond of it, hence it isnt dead ...

They don't know he is the archmage, i believe they just think it's a coincidense after seeing the bunny statues.

Somebody should be thinking it's more than coincidence.

I'm hoping we get somebody asking, "So, do you worship all rabbits, or is there anything special about this one that we should know about?"

That would be nice.

Yeah, one of them should ask that question to the Matron.

Yep, i was thinking exactly the same thing... however i think the name(Richard+Bunny) should be... Richunny... mmh, no... Buchard? mmh, maybe... how do you think?

Guys, guys...it's OBVIOUS. It's...

OVER 9000.

...

I can't believe I'm the first nerd to do that.

THIS.
YES.
-giggle-

...anyways...

While after reading it the second time, I laughed, the first time through this page, the only thing that went through my mind was 'jeez Cale's cape's looking a little shiny there.'

Was it always that shiny...?

As a non native speaker I would like to ask: is "my name is now 'ye o lord'" a reference to anything? Or does it simply mean something along the lines of "You can call me god"? Just wondering.

I'm pretty sure it's just something along the lines of, "You have to refer to me by my title now". He's so lost in the possibility of being the lord of these people, that he wants everyone to refer to him in a proper manner.

To be fair, it's easy to judge as readers of a comic. We know something is up, and we tend to be very suspicious of any coincidences as we know they likely mean something. But if you look at it from the characters perspective, it isn't quite so obvious. While they might find it odd, to them this is the real world and coincidences happen for no reason.

As for my opinions on the comic, the joke here doesn't really fit my sense of humor. I also would prefer if we got more plot advancement here, with Richard jokes sprinkled within of course. Cuz really, Richard only needs a few lines to be hilarious, not a whole page.

These people are worshipping a rabbit.

Someone should be wondering if it's just rabbits in general or if there's a little something extra to the one they've been traveling with all this time.

And if it is the latter case, it would only be natural to wonder what that something extra is.

I don't much think of this as a matter of coincidence. More the sense that it would be wierd to go somewhere and have the people pick out your pet and start worshipping it. That sort of thing leads to a few questions, wouldn't you agree?

Maybe, but my point is their not likely to come to the conclusion that there is something special about their rabbit. They might just see it as them worshiping rabbits in general. Wouldn't be the first time people worshiped an animal, sorta like how followers of Hindu believe cows are sacred (albeit a bit more extreme than that). Also there is the issue of questioning these people's beliefs, something you definitely want to be careful doing. Anyways, was just saying that it's perfectly realistic for them not to come to the conclusion that we have.

There is a difference between questioning one's beliefs and asking about them. The latter is simply to gain information on a subject that you've come across.

It would be the equivalent of finding a Hindu who worshipped cows and saying, "Hmm. That's interesting. How did that come about?"

"O Lord" is proper... "Ye" is olde english for "the". I think "ye o lord" just sounds funny...which is why Sohmer used it.


EDIT: Also, I am amused by the juxtaposition of the very first comic (bunny=fwoosh) to this newest one (bunny=god)

i already took Buchard.... i copyrighted it

My response to this page was "Why are the sisters putting up with Richard?" They've just been standing there bowing for the last 900 commands

Maybe it's the fact that the object of their worship is riding on his shoulder and, as far as I can tell, enjoying it.

I suppose. But you'd think they'd want to hear from the bunny, not listen to Richard go on about stabbing people. Don't get me wrong, I like Richard, but this page felt forced.

I could live the rest of my life content if they made an entire comic about JUST Richard. Obviously without Richard this comic wouldn't be half as fun, nobody take offense to that it's just my person opinion. Second, maybe all the sisters were actually in shock that their god was back and so in a daze they just let Richard prattle on. Personally that entire page was great. You can tell Cale is very bonded with Richard and just has great fun around him. I mean come on, earlier in the comic he sets his hand on fire because he misses him. If they didn't have Richard lighten up things then it would be a depressing read.

Does no one else know off the Evil Bunny conspirary? I find it so hilarious, Evil Richard has an Evil Bunny. Hahaha.

Richard for the win!

"Ye o lord" comes out wrong for me. Ye o Lord doesn't even sound right by the standards of mangled Middle English in Thor books. I know it means "Your Lord" but it doesn't sound good, Richard should go by "Thine Lord"
Edit: @Richard's Soulmate: Unfortunately you fail to understand the essence of comedy. If you can laugh at Richard doing nothing and standing in a corner with no one else to interact with (and I know for a fact that some people on this very forum can) then you have a seriously maladjusted sense of humor. It's like laughing at a potato because its a potato. Unfortunately the common infatuation with everyone's favorite Warlock has made it so that he longer has to really be funny for people to laugh at him.
A story just about Richard would be banal. It'd be like how Happy Days started to fall apart after every episode centered on Fonzie.

What more to say than:

"ROFLMAOLOLOLOLOL!!! Good one!"

CU
SaM

Richard will be funny again you just have to give him time...or people to kill which ever comes first hopefully people cause hes funny when he kills like in the first 30-100 pages just give him time

Richard was funny in the first 150 strips or so because his humor wasn't as centered around puns or the mere fact that he's Richard.

Richard is always funny. ALWAYS! Its a fact. Look it up.

So if there were just five straight strips of Richard sitting down and twiddling his thumbs without saying a word I suppose you'd laugh your ass off all the way through and never get tired of it.

You know me so well.

As long as you've come to terms with your hopelessness it's all good I suppose.

I think Richard knows about the Archmage and wants to force a reveal. Events have been building towards that- Cale is building his kingdom, just as the AM and dragons planned. He's confronted Pella about the Mechastone incident and learned that she is following someone else's orders, which in turn means that he knows he's being manipulated. Richard probably heard about the incident from someone (or heard the argument himself), and we already know he knows about the Archmage and his plans. By messing around and being annoying in the center of the AM's power, the place where the AM has a religion devoted to him, Richard might be hoping to provoke the AM and make him show himself to the group.

The way I see it Richard probably doesn't want the AM to be exposed. After all he seems pretty on board with the plan and even he's not stupid enough to ruin it by opening a Pandora's Box. I mean if the AM was revealed to be the Bunny Cale would start asking a lot more questions and eventually the whole thing would fall apart. It's going to be priceless once Cale realizes that the child he killed wasn't real.

I would, mostly at the responses of people like yourself to those five strips, I'd find that quite hilarious actually.

Its still unclear if they actually worship AM or not. They could just worship bunnies, or magic bunnies. It looks like the sisters aren't going to move until they hear something from their lord, so I'm expecting something to happen in the next page. Whether its a reveal or not, I'm not sure.

Well, if I were the one writing it, I'd go with Felbunny just twitching his nose.

Old Blue Hag: "The lord has spoken! Prepare the sacrificial alter for the pink one!"
Cale: "Prepare the what for the who now?!"
OBH: "No hard feelings, but what the lord wants, the lord gets."
Richard whispers to Cale as he's being bound and carried away: "Don't worry, I have a plan." Richard pulls out an ornate dagger and hands it to OBH with a tear in his eye socket: "Here, use this, I used it on my father and, well, I've been saving it for a special sacrifice." He turns to Felbunny: "This is the proudest day of my unlife!"

You fail sir. Richard would have them use the Pillaging Shovel for any hypothetical sacrifice! And you call yourself a Richard fan.

The pillaging shovel is for after they're dead, though he might offer to help fwoosh Cale, again.

Good for us you aren't then, ..the Archbunny is the one that they worship.
Bow to the Bunny!

Hrm, do you suppose Felbunny would prefer blood, or burned offerings? I'd personally say blood, just because Cale's already been fwooshed once, twice if you count the time his ass was set on fire.

Ever seen Monty python? Yah. The bunny wants, no, NEEDS blood.

I actua;;y think this could be a valid point. It fits with what we know of Richard.

But, come on, Richard as Evil Bunny? Rawr. Seriously. This is something that Richard would do, when trying to make some point, no matter how convolute (at least, in my opinion).




Win.



No, no, no. The Pillaging Shovel is used for pillaging, and for burying important ritual sacrifices.


Night of the Lepus!

Richard hardly needs a shovel for sacrifices.

I think the whole "Lord Bunny"-thing works like that: Few hundred years ago, the archmage ruled the Sisters/Brothers (maybe some Kethenecia survivors or sth.?), and had to leave them, but left a prophecy that he'll return in Bunny-form. Of course their mystical abilities allows them to see that its exactly that bunny.

Oh and about them generally worshipping/bowing before bunnies: C'mon. You can't be serious about that!

Why not? It would be funny.

Just a thought, what if they worship Felbunny as a fertility god? You know what they say about them rabbits after all...

don't know if it's been said before but Richard's adorable in the 5th panel, it's like "But it's my bunny, stay away from it" look ^^

I don't see that, I think the pose is some desperate attempt on his part to avoid losing his "cynosure" status.

Waaaaaay back on page one. (Okay, not all THAT far way perhaps) Sixth post, I also said more or less the same thing.

I think this just provide more proof that archmage is Richard... I mean he's the bunny, they are worshipping the bunny... WITH the pillaging shovel? Who do we know with a pillaging shovel with enough power to be worshipped as a god.. I know I am already worshipping the bunny as a god... And besides. Richard love the bunny. Isn't he concived enough to only love himself? And

Richard isn't completely self-centered. He probably divides everything into two groups: Richard's Circle (Cale, the Bunny, his village, the rest of the Group) and everything and everyone else. If you're in Richard's Circle you can feel (mostly) safe around him. I mean its like the Joker, sure he lets them live now but one day he may just decide it'd be funny to push them off a cliff.

Actually, considering he's still tried to kill Cale, usually following a Dick joke, he'd probably still ice Cale (Possibly in a very literal sense.) in order to amuse himself, especially if it was in his own best interest, but as long as Cale continues to provide him with things to kill, he'll probably keep his pointy eared pet around.