Class and Level Geekery VIII (spoilers ahoy!)

[FujinAkari]

Even when Thog uses Roy as a sledge hammer, we can see him bashing Roy against the wall with a vicious CRACK! sound at the same panel that shows the already broken wall.

Yet when Roy uses Thog to weaken the structural supports the collapse doesn't happen for five panels.

Rich said it himself, OOTS moves at the speed of plot, if something will look better being in a separate panel, it will be shown in a different panel. While it is rarely the case that action is more comprehendable spread out, it is still an option, and one Rich has used in the past.

The fact that Roy does not remember anything beyond the Big Golden Gate does not means that he has not learned a new cool sword move.

Umm... he HASN'T learned it. It don't mean a thing if you ain't paid for that swing. Thats the whole -point-, all the knowledge Roy gained in heaven doesn't and can't go into his leveling process.

Anyway,I may be wrong, but I don't think that XP works the way you think in OotS-verse. It is possible to level up just by checking one's XP total - long after than the XP has being actually awarded. You don't need to remember it to level up.

Don't confuse metahumor with plot :P

Let's not forget that Roy had plenty of time to defeat all those monsters that are just strong enough to really challenge you,

There is no evidence Roy did any of that. If leveling in the afterlife WERE possible, why were the IFCC's three most powerful souls all people who went epic while they were still alive? Shouldn't it just be whoever had been dead the longest?