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

[ti'esar]

Something I only just realized after seeing it mentioned in the Backer's Choice thread: Jirix refers to the Dark One's realm as being on an iron plateau. Given the indications that the OOTS-verse uses the Great Wheel cosmology, that puts it on Acheron. Kind of a cool little nerdy detail.

[SavageWombat]

Something I only just realized after seeing it mentioned in the Backer's Choice thread: Jirix refers to the Dark One's realm as being on an iron plateau. Given the indications that the OOTS-verse uses the Great Wheel cosmology, that puts it on Acheron. Kind of a cool little nerdy detail.

That is nice and nerdy. It also makes the Dark One LN(E), not really LE as expected.

[MesiDoomstalker]

The Black Dragon is chasing a bunny! V is good! S/he saved a fuzzy wuzzy bunny wabbit so s/he must be good! /sarcasm

For clarification, its the dragon below the underwater dragon.

[Gilphon]

Bah, it was probably a Chaotic Evil bunny.

[Hironomus]

Eric is in strip 113.

[factotum]

Eric is in strip 113.

Is that Eric or Julia, though? There's about 7 years between Roy and Julia, IIRC, and an eight-year-old Roy behaving as he does in that panel seems consistent to me.

[MoonCat]

Julia never wore orange, Eric did.

[Flame of Anor]

Is that Eric or Julia, though? There's about 7 years between Roy and Julia, IIRC, and an eight-year-old Roy behaving as he does in that panel seems consistent to me.

I'm thinking "Yay! Thwack! Thwack!" is quite a bit too simplistic for an eight-year-old with excellent mental scores to be saying.

[factotum]

Julia never wore orange, Eric did.

We've seen Eric *once* in the strip. I don't think we've ever seen Julia as a child apart from possibly the panel we're talking about. How on earth can you say that she never, ever wore orange? Or that Eric only ever wore orange?

[Gift Jeraff]

Roy is 12 years older than Julia. But I do think the younger sibling was originally intended to be Julia, but has since been sorta-retconned nicely.

[Hironomus]

I think its Eric because it looks exactly like him in all of his appearances. This doesn't necessarily prove anything and it is probable that this strip was simply meant to establish that Roy was not an only child (I don't think either Eric or Julia had been explicitly mentioned at that point).

Regardless I still never noticed the baby in that strip

[bertoltus]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html
On the second page, Eugene jokes about the "secret martial arts master who lives in the afterlife" - who, as it turns out, does actually exist.

[ti'esar]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html
On the second page, Eugene jokes about the "secret martial arts master who lives in the afterlife" - who, as it turns out, does actually exist.

I picked up on that too.

[The Linker]

On the Julia/Eric thing, I do remember that before Eric was even revealed, a lot of people were realizing that it wouldn't make sense for that to have Julia, given the respective ages. People were already wondering who that child was.

[Dark Elf Bard]

I just noticed that the Lizardfolk forum avatar has three toes on one foot, but only two toes on the other. I wonder how he lost that toe. One would hope in some glorious battle with a PC and not something like he tripped on a rock or something...

[NoobForHire]

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned.

A couple days ago I noticed that the names Vaarsuvius and Pompey are straaangely similar to a certain volcano and city destroyed by said volcano.

[Flame of Anor]

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned.

Many, many times, but whatever.

[Pory]

I notice that the bear-hood of the chief ogre in this strip opens its eyes when it's stricked by Xykon's lightning

[Flame of Anor]

when it's stricked

struck

[Flame of Anor]

when it's stricked

struck

[Ron Miel]

stricken

[rbetieh]

Panel 9, the Giant uses a Lamp instead of a light bulb....never noticed that before.

[SpaceBadger]

Just re-reading some old strips again, and I never noticed before that Dorukan's reason for allowing Summon into a Cloistered area was Lirian. Probably because I hadn't read SoD at the time I first read that strip, I didn't recognize her from the Order of the Scribble and just assumed it was some generic girlfriend of his.

[Onikani]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html

Kuboto is reading a 4e DMG.
And he has the PHB and MM in the Amazon box next to him.


EDIT -
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0568.html
just a few pages later Belkar mentions turning the oracle's head into a litter box for Mr Scruffy. Yeah i prolly noticed it the first time, but it's funny in light of recent events...

[Ron Miel]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html

Kuboto is reading a 4e DMG.
And he has the PHB and MM in the Amazon box next to him.

There's slightly more to it than that. That comic came out the very same day that the first copies of the book were delivered to customers through Amazon.

So, people who got their copies that day would see Kubota had got the same.

Or so I've heard.

[Flame of Anor]

stricken

I love it when people know the proper forms of words! I would have said that, but I didn't want to be too pedantic.

[stormtemplar]

I love it when people know the proper forms of words! I would have said that, but I didn't want to be too pedantic.

Nope.

One says stuck by lighting. Not stricken by lighting. Stricken in used in contexts of a disease, or similar. Sudden, violent destruction is usually struck (Struck down, Struck by lightning)

[The Linker]

Clearly he was stricken with a terrible case of lightning to the face.

[Math_Mage]

Having just read SoD, I just noticed that Panel 4 here is a continuation of

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Eugene's encounter with Lord Xyklon the Consequential.

[CanisLupus]

In #32 there is a refence to Wizards of the Coast...
A bit subtle....