Erfworld 140 The Battle for Gobwin Knob, Page 127

[surtt]

Parson will find that the hamster dance raises his bonus to epic levels... he'll be able to truly snack on gwiffons and rip apart cloth golems with his bare hands.

I picture them doing the Chris Farley - Chippendales dance from SNL.

[Jeivar]

Am I the only one who finds Wanda disturbingly masculine in her new outfit? Even with the cleavage?

But transsexuality aside, I'm on the edge of my seat as much as anyone :)

I just love the eight panel. A funny reminder of how puny Erf-humans are next to Parson.

[teratorn]

I picture them doing the Chris Farley - Chippendales dance from SNL.

That would croak even his own troops...

[Simanos]

HELL YES!

Also, Wanda manages to make even dancing zombies fanservice.

That was too hot for Erf!

[SteveMB]

The towering in that one panel with Stanley (last panel) is perspective. Compare to when they are standing next to each other (panels 6 and 12). Stanley is easily as high as Parson's waist. Wanda is leaning and still comes up to Parson's ribcage.

Jamie's art has used perspective to emphasize, deemphasize, or neutrally depict Parson's stature relative to Erfworlders generally, as the situation demands. Getting an accurate picture requires you to make sure that you're looking at a "neutrally depict" example.

[elrod13]

Bravo!
Excellent Commic, superlative strip, Magnificent Art and Writing!
I've been reading Erfworld since the begining, and loving it all... except the waiting. But it has always been worth it.
The authors are among the best in the industry.
YES. I WILL BUY THE BOOK.
And I'm really looking forward to it, too.
Erfworld. May it never end...

[Vorkaj]

Pure win. Comic Gold.
The yellow eyes and the black and red outfit Michael Jackson wore from the Thriller video are great - man, I can't wait to read the next one.

[SpaceCowboy]

Quite a "Thriller" of a comic today! (I know I am so clever)
Great new hamster helmets!

[Yellowchopstick]

That would croak even his own troops...

friendly fire on, AOE shockmancy? Maybe it would just cause mass blindness

[Simanos]

For those of you who don't get the disclaimer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

See you next Wednesday! XD

Any similarity to people alive or dead (or undead)...
LOL that was funny in the end credits.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

That would croak even his own troops...

I dunno...

Uncroaked wouldn't care. Wanda is too busy with her Uncroaked to notice, and probably wouldn't care. Bogroll would likely join in. Sizemore is too busy popping in and out of the ground to notice. The Thinkamancer is busy up in the tower doing Thinkamancy stuff. About the only ones it might adversely affect are the KISS that were left behind.

I was going to make a Sailor Faye reference, but there are some things that not even 4chan will touch..

[moxproxy]

Am I the only one who finds Wanda disturbingly masculine in her new outfit? Even with the cleavage?

Yes. Yes, you are.

[Simanos]

I think they might have thrown us a curve. I think Wanda is dancing to "Bad" not "Thriller" based on the sound effect on the next to last panel.

I mean "Thriller" would have been too obvious, right?

Good point. Does the arms up position (that we see in the comic) appear in BAD or in Thriller?

[moxproxy]

Good point. Does the arms up position (that we see in the comic) appear in BAD or in Thriller?

In Thriller the arms are never fully raised, just flung from side to side, and slightly upwards, IIRC.

The arms fully raised position does however appear in both BAD and Beat It. Personally, I thought of Beat It when I saw the last two panels.

Absolutely awesome, in either case. Maybe we'll even get to see a medley.

[Zak3056]

Dance, undead puppets, dance!

It's a cold grave, nobody understands the music you can't keep inside?

[ShneekeyTheLost]

In Thriller the arms are never fully raised, just flung from side to side, and slightly upwards, IIRC.

The arms fully raised position does however appear in both BAD and Beat It. Personally, I thought of Beat It when I saw the last two panels.

Absolutely awesome, in either case. Maybe we'll even get to see a medley.

In "Bad", where the sound effect is more prevelant, he's wearing a black outfit. The red outfit was in Thriller. In "Beat It", they don't do the arms raised thing.

This is either a Thriller reference, or a combination of M.J. references.

EDIT: from this version of Thriller, from 8:51 to 9:00 is likely the part they are referencing, sliding up making a hissing noise, and clapping over their heads.

[vrellum]

It seems that it has references to at least a couple of different songs. The costume and undead certainly seem to reference Thriller, but sound effects seem to reference Bad, even the Shhhhh, which comes near the beginning of Bad.

I like Thriller a lot more than Bad, but I could see Wanda saying something like "The whole world has to end some right now 'cause I'll tell you once again who's bad." I suspect she'd be alright with the world ending a bit...

I don't think the arm position really appears in any of the videos.

[Prince_Rohan]

I do not believe in MJ either, but I do believe that Sasha Grey would look great in that outfit.

[moxproxy]

In "Bad", where the sound effect is more prevelant, he's wearing a black outfit. The red outfit was in Thriller. In "Beat It", they don't do the arms raised thing.

This is either a Thriller reference, or a combination of M.J. references.

EDIT: from this version of Thriller, from 8:51 to 9:00 is likely the part they are referencing, sliding up making a hissing noise, and clapping over their heads.

In this version of Beat It, appr. 4:03, they raise their arms several times, more so than in both BAD and Thriller combined.

The red outfit Wanda wears is obviously a reference to Thriller (although MJ also wore a red jacket in Beat It). So are the uncroaked. And since most dancemoves MJ ever did has popped up in almost all of his videos, this could very well be called a combination of references. :)

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Tyrael]

In the first panel, Parson is missing his 3D glasses.

[Ragamuffin]

What if....Parson and Bogroll started dancing too? To Thriller, or even, dare I say, the hamster dance?

....Would that count as Shockmancy? :P

DOUBLE

TRUFFLE

SHUFFLE

*insert gif here*

[Rockphed]

In the first panel, Parson is missing his 3D glasses.

They are in his left hand.

[Limos]

DOUBLE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE TROUBLE

[Cpt. Sqweky]

In the first panel, Parson is missing his 3D glasses.

No, they're in his hand. He just hasn't put them on yet.

[Justyn]

I continue to believe there is a max limit on stack size. I have other beliefs about stacks, but they're speculation.

You know, a limit on stack size has been show to not be the case several times (125/113 implies that all of the dwagons are in the same stack, the final panel of 140/127 implies that there are far more than eight units in Wanda's stack, and the penultimate panel in 135/122 and the first panel in 120/108 both show 9 golems with Sizemore, and ), if you would just bother reading the comic. And of top of that, the way that Parson worded the statement does not imply a limit on stack size, but only a cap on the bonus given to large sized stacks.

[Lemarc]

I'd made up my mind early on (before page 50 or so), but I'm making it up again, just for the hell of it. Wesnoth is the primary/initial(/both?) influence on the creation of Erfworld. <_<

They're both hex-based, although in Wesnoth only one unit can fit per hex. Units can level in both, although in Wesnoth they change into new units when they do. That's... pretty much the only similarities I can see.

You know, a limit on stack size has been show to not be the case several times (125/113 implies that all of the dwagons are in the same stack, the final panel of 140/127 implies that there are far more than eight units in Wanda's stack, and the penultimate panel in 135/122 and the first panel in 120/108 both show 9 golems with Sizemore, and ), if you would just bother reading the comic. And of top of that, the way that Parson worded the statement does not imply a limit on stack size, but only a cap on the bonus given to large sized stacks.

He didn't say he thought the stack size maxed at eight.

[DevilDan]

Odd little side-note: Stanley would appear to be way, way stronger than Ansom.

Who knows? Stanley probably has a lot of experience and has leveled a few times.

Ansom is a noble and thus probably started off with much higher stats than Stanley the piker. Nobles and royals also level faster.

Then there's the matter of the arkentools; Stanley is aligned with his. Ansom is not. That adds further complexity.

[TheMutant]

It's gotta be Thriller. Look at the MJ 'occult' note at the beginning of the music video ShneekyTheLost linked- the one in today's strip is obviously referencing it. (Unless there is such a note in Beat It and that other song, too?)

[Laharal]

Brilliant!
No really it made my day.
Fun, impredictable for that strip even if some forecasted a Thriller spoof.
Also, what is fun about Erfworld is that the rules of the world just keep being added every now and then: master-class croakamancer can dancefight
Please continue to be original and funny like that!

[fendrin]

The "WOH-PAH" is definitely from Bad. It's even included in the parody Fat (@1:17).

The outfit, cat eyes, and dance moves (including the hiss from the leg slide) are clearly Thriller. (in "Beat It" the jacket had white bits, not black; and he wore black pants, not red.)

Oh, and MJ had a great choreographer. The dance moves are largely standard dance moves, just strung together in a unique way. A professor of mine in college pieced together bits of Britney Spears videos to recreate most of the dance.