Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

[Krim]

Maybe already been posted, but...

Elan, 7th panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0141.html

Tarquin, 5th (Thanks Windrider!) panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0753.html

I don't think it is pure chance, TBH! Elan and Tarquin have more in common than Elan would want to believe :D

[Shhalahr Windrider]

Tarquin, 6th panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0753.html

I think you mean 5th panel. The first is merely double-sized.

But yeah: Same pose as well as line.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Maybe already been posted, but...

Elan, 7th panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0141.html

Tarquin, 6th panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0753.html

I don't think it is pure chance, TBH! Elan and Tarquin have more in common than Elan would want to believe :D

Mind=blown. I really should stop reading this thread. My roommates are getting tired of cleaning my walls of projectile brain matter.

[bronnt]

I seriously never got THIS joke.

His name is Pompey. He's the opposite of Vaarsuvius.

[Bulldog Psion]

Maybe already been posted, but...

Elan, 7th panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0141.html

Tarquin, 5th (Thanks Windrider!) panel
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0753.html

I don't think it is pure chance, TBH! Elan and Tarquin have more in common than Elan would want to believe :D

I am literally stunned. You deserve some kind of prize for finding that.

I'm serious. I wish there was some way to give other people experience points, kudos, or whatever on here because I'd definitely vote for you to receive some.

[MesiDoomstalker]

I am literally stunned. You deserve some kind of prize for finding that.

I'm serious. I wish there was some way to give other people experience points, kudos, or whatever on here because I'd definitely vote for you to receive some.

You can. Its called cookies and internets

[Peelee]

I seriously never got THIS joke.

His name is Pompey. He's the opposite of Vaarsuvius.

One would think four years of Latin, including one in which the entire textbook is a fictional account of a family in Pompey, ending with their deaths in the the destruction of the city, would have led me to see things like that more easily. One would be horrifically wrong.

I think I might love you for pointing that out.

EDIT: One would also think I would know the proper spelling of Pompeii. One should really stop making these assumptions, as they are so consistently wrong

[The Linker]

I always did wish more forums had a gratification system. There was one place (SomethingAwful?) that had a system that let you give a post either a 'funny' thumbs-up or an 'interesting' thumbs-up. I totally thrive on stuff like that. Kinda why I'm into Reddit right now...

Annnnnnd there's about where I skidded off the road marked 'the topic'.

[MesiDoomstalker]

I always did wish more forums had a gratification system. There was one place (SomethingAwful?) that had a system that let you give a post either a 'funny' thumbs-up or an 'interesting' thumbs-up. I totally thrive on stuff like that. Kinda why I'm into Reddit right now...

Annnnnnd there's about where I skidded off the road marked 'the topic'.

This is a GitP forum. More specifically, a GitP forum about a comic based on DnD. "The topic" is lost within 3 posts and dismissed completly by the second page

[Derjuin]

Just noticed in #350, it looks like the rookie is making the siren sound with his mouth .

[bronnt]

One would think four years of Latin, including one in which the entire textbook is a fictional account of a family in Pompey, ending with their deaths in the the destruction of the city, would have led me to see things like that more easily. One would be horrifically wrong.

I think I might love you for pointing that out.

I forgive you for missing it. I always connected him with Pompey the Great, as opposed to Pompeii the doomed city. But then, it's even more brilliant because it's an intentional misspelling of Pompeii the same way Vaarsuvius is not quite Vesuvius.

Rich must be frustrated when he finds out we're missing stuff like this.

EDIT:

Also, since I hate to double post, I just made the connection between this strip and the final panel of this strip.

Seriously, I'm not doing so well at picking stuff up the first time.

[Raddish]

I seriously never got THIS joke.

His name is Pompey. He's the opposite of Vaarsuvius.

Huh I did not get that either.

Although I have an excuse. A football/soccer team near where I live is nicknamed Pompey so the pronounciation never entered my mind when I read it.

[kabbor]

Also, since I hate to double post, I just made the connection between this strip and the final panel of this strip.

Seriously, I'm not doing so well at picking stuff up the first time.

It is also linked to the Cracks in the ceiling. It's like foreshadowing, except after: Is that a recon?

Edit: Oh, and Stuff keeps breaking (Panel 5) Looks like Giant speaks truth when he says he plans ahead...

[rewinn]

I just realized Tsukiko is wearing rather skimpy attire. What with the action and tension buildup, I never noticed the see-through negligee before

While I'd noticed on the 1st reading that she was wearing nightwear (...from having been awoken by the boys making noise...) I just noticed, from looking again at your prompt, that her slippers match her eyes: one of each color!

What a detail!

[Lord Torath]

I just noticed that Tsukiko has a Xykon doll she sleeps with instead of a teddy bear!

[bronnt]

I just noticed that Tsukiko has a Xykon doll she sleeps with instead of a teddy bear!

I always found that rather cute. She also has portrait of him on her wall.

[Yxylu]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0755.html

On the second page (5th panel overall), there's the obvious reference to Sesame Street, but a deeper meaning occurred to me a couple of days ago. I originally saw Felix the Mensch just as the opposite of Oscar the Grouch, but then I realized:

Oscar and Felix

It's the Odd Couple.

[Hardcore]

I always found that rather cute. She also has portrait of him on her wall.

It is cute only for perverts. She LOVES him remember.

[mini_magician]

Here The mouse doesn't just jump off the wall, he jumps several times down the wall. It's just funny to watch his trail as he bounds down the wall. Maybe he is magnetically attracted to the wall!

[DreadPirateDB]

After just getting the first book, I noticed that in this strip., and actually all others with both characters, Thog and Roy's big boots are never on the same foot, respective to each other. As in, if Thog's big boot is on his left foot, Roy's will be on his right. The first panel doesn't show it, but the book changed that so it keeps with the different foot theme. Very subtle way of showing "opposite," possibly, like Elan and Nale's sashes hanging off opposing shoulders

They're on the same foot on the last panel in that page, too. The big boot is supposed to be the foot closest to the viewer to give a subtle amount of perspective. After the fight between the Order and the Guild starts, Thog and Roy face each other whenever possible which puts the big boot on opposite feet.

[Gift Jeraff]

There doesn't seem to be any particular logic to characters with big boots.

My best guess is that the big boot indicates which leg is moving (or doing the more dramatic movement), and when they're idle, the bigger boot is the one closer to the audience. Though that isn't the case with Yor, though that could mean he's holding Celia in a certain way. EDIT: And it wasn't the case when Thog was sitting. I don't think there's any real consistency to this bit.

[Dark Elf Bard]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0639.html


Right before Haerta casts the spell, she says "I do indeed."

Is it just me, or are her words bigger than the other two souls?

[The Linker]

They are. She's 'coming up to the front' -- Vaarsuvius is directly talking about her and is about to use her spell. Rather than hang around behind V quietly snarking as usual, she came out to threaten the dragon right alongside V, since she was the subject of interest at the moment.

[Blisstake]

So they're bigger in that particular instance, but not usually.

[bertoltus]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0649.html

I always thought that thing that destroys Golem-Roy was just a random monster that had moved into the fortifications. Now I realized it's actually shapechanged Vaarsuvius!

[Dark Elf Bard]

No, you're right, a huge pink dragon just wandered by crushed Roy's golem, and left!!!

[MesiDoomstalker]

No, you're right, a huge pink dragon just wandered by crushed Roy's golem, and left!!!

Its on the random encounter table. You have to roll 100 first then roll 100 again for both rerolls. Or DC 200 if you prefer.

[Nyes the Dark]

It's probably a little silly of me, but I never noticed (until somebody pointed it out) that Tsukiko has two differently colored eyes, one for both the kinds of spells she can cast.

EDIT: I also never noticed that Comic 49 had a little detail in the last panel. I thought it was a nice touch when I saw it.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0049.html

[Peelee]

It's probably a little silly of me, but I never noticed (until somebody pointed it out) that Tsukiko has two differently colored eyes, one for both the kinds of spells she can cast.

I also was unaware of her different-colored eyes until stated earlier here, but I just figured it was a slight oddity. I never connected it to the thought that they represent the two different magics she has.

[MesiDoomstalker]

I just realized that Belkar got his wish from this strip in the arena! XD