PLOT (Erfworld 16)

[Drascin]

Okay, *PLOT!* is one of the best onomatopoeias EVER, right there with *TELEPORT NOISE! (possibly bamf)* from Goblins. I'm not one to be amused easily, but that managed to make me laugh. Awaiting eagerly for next strip ^^.

[Druid]

Somehow I missed the giant PLOT the first time I read it. Now I feel dumb.

[Sarge.Ludicrous]

The forth wall was made to be broken.

[Captain van der Decken]

I think that's one of the best so far. It was great.

[Tekren]

Eposition on our new warlord: Good
Having him removed from his existance at the speed (and sound) of Plot: Awesome
His friends calling dibs on his dice: Classic

Buildup of 15 pages to get to this (admittidly fantastic) page:hmmm....

Don't get me wrong. I'm a VERY forgiving reader, and read through every strip in the local funny pages.(except mark trail, that has no comedy whatsoever) I LIKE Erfworld. I'm just not sure if everyone else is willing to wait 15 decent pages for 1 fantastic one.

Hopefully, the fatasticness(new word!) has just begun.

... after some thought, the fanatsticness(If 'dubya' can do it, so can I) is once about every seven or so. The Ancient tool of the Ancients turns walnuts into pidgens? Comedy.

Well, at least I think it's comedy.

[TheAnimal]

"Just snap my fingers and teleport in? Absolutely. Bam! Seeya."
*PLOT!*

Pure gold.

[Enoch_6211]

i'm not gonna lie, i started out a bit skeptical of erfworld. this strip definately dragged me in. i'm now on the bandwagon and here for the long haul...

[Altair_the_Vexed]

*PLOT*



That's just great! It actually is the sort of noise a person instantly magically vacating their universe might make, too.

Oh yeah - to the "Erfworld is too slow and I don't get it" people:
We were warned this wasn't a gag-a-page comic - I've found the best way to read it is in batches, rather than each page as it comes out. It flows as a story from panel to panel, not page to page.

[Idris]

originally posted by Tekren
I'm just not sure if everyone else is willing to wait 15 decent pages for 1 fantastic one.

I didn't feel like that at all - the first strips left me a bit puzzled but it's been growing on me the whole time, although it was the real-world strips that made me sit up and take notice. I read through again from the beginning and that's when I realised how damned good it was.

this last is the cherry on the icing though - it's funny, ironic, and Parson is great - the sad geek who does all his living inside his head because the world doesn't often reward his kind of brilliance.

Erfworld is now up there along with OotS and Goblins as the comics I have to read

[Fenix]

*plot*

Omg :))))))

[teratorn]

What really cracks me up is that he is going to be on the side of all that is vile and unholy, not to mention unspeakable. I think that if I were in his shoes I probably wouldn't mind if that meant I could date Wanda.

Not everything was good though. I third these two comments

So... who's going to update Hamstard now?

But who will update his webcomic!?! WHO?!

Oh, won't someone PLEASE think of the webcomic!

But the worst was this comment from TinSoldier (happy birthday by the way)

Good thing that no one can post in his forum, otherwise they would be constantly complaining about his lateness, eh?

We can not post in that forum???? What the...

[Xaspian]

That was definitely the best and funniest erfworld yet.

I play DnD alot so "Dibs on his Dice" killed me

Also, anyone notice that the white thing in panel 4 closely resembles a wii?

I said it was a Wii! The nunchuck is in front of the main console, and connected by a wire to the main remote.
You can't deny that it's a Wii now! Aha!

*ahem*
"A condemned hole. For squatter hobbits".
That alone would have made this a good strip. But all the rest...
Thank You. And Well Done.

[Nerd_Paladin]

Oh..my...god...can't...stop...laughing!

That's by far the funniest Erfworld, in fact, one of the funniest things I've seen in months, and that's counting that montage of clips from "The Wicker Man" that's floating around YouTube ("My eyes, my eyes!!!").

[Mystery_Cat]

All other jokes aside - and there're a lot of good ones - look at the first frame. 'Dibs on his dice' is wearing a Kippah (if that's the correct term) with the bloodstained Watchmen smiley on it...

[Demented]

I've been wondering what that yellow thing was. Half the time it couldn't be seen on the guy's head.

[Ikkitosen]

OK, I feel I must comment.

I loved this comic. It has some funnies, and some significant plot development (as opposed to scene setting, which is what we've had up until know - in the large part).

I know we all saw strategy boy becoming the warlord, but that's only due to the weekly page format. After all, we saw it coming by, what, a page? That's a pretty big suprise if we'd had the whole book.

Anyhow, I think Erfworld's starting to hit its stride. I'll be watching!

[Om]

Oh well executed. Very well executed. It takes something special to take a twist that most people saw coming and turn it into a gem like that.

I said it was a Wii! The nunchuck is in front of the main console, and connected by a wire to the main remote.
You can't deny that it's a Wii now! Aha!

*Waves hand*

This is not the Wii you're looking for...

[Nad]

Hope you don't mind me using the PLOT sound effect in my game, my players could use it!

On a side note, FINALLY a story where the character isn't going to be trying to get home! I'm sure he'll miss his friends but as we can tell, he pretty much designed the PCs around them anyway.

The real problem is now that he's in the game... who's going to update his webcomic?!?!?!

[zeratul]

this changed my opinio on erfworld, i didnt like it that mutch befor but in the last four comics it's gotten realy good. i realy understood the "I game because my life sucks" thing.

[charles]

I have this image of Wanda in my head, unrolling the very expensive, MASSIVE spell scroll and finding it to be a single power word...

PLOT
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0306.html

[jlawson382]

Ahhhhhh - so that's what a plot device sounds like. I always wondered...

[Om]

You know, I wonder how Parson is going to react to leading the "vile and unholy" hordes against all that is "noble and decent".

[hewhosaysfish]

You know, I wonder how Parson is going to react to leading the "vile and unholy" hordes against all that is "noble and decent".

I think (once he gets over the culture-shock... reality-shock...) he'll be too intrigued by the stategic complexities of taking command of this out-numbered, out-maneuvred, surrounded, economically crippled force. The fact that they are meant to be vile and unholy, not to mention unspeakable, probably won't phase him much (especially as in the mockingly twee environment he has designed on Erfworld) as the aren't actually that bad, from what we've seen.

[TheAnimal]

Ahhhhhh - so that's what a plot device sounds like. I always wondered...

What a shameless Batman rip-off.


...

[Harr]

Good strip. Now, if this had been the first strip for Erfworld, followed afterwards by all the passive/slowish background and setting pages, the authors would have saved themselves a whole lot of unneeded criticism and grief.

Always remember one of the classic rules of good game-mastering: Lead with the cool stuff. With Erfworld the authors tried to make the readers wait through the world history to get to the cool stuff, and the result was much the same as when a dungeon master tries to do the same thing to his players.

Anyway, looking forward to a good fish-out-water adventure now, and that's nothing but good I guess.

[jami]

Good strip. Now, if this had been the first strip for Erfworld, followed afterwards by all the passive/slowish background and setting pages, the authors would have saved themselves a whole lot of unneeded criticism and grief.

Always remember one of the classic rules of good game-mastering: Lead with the cool stuff. With Erfworld the authors tried to make the readers wait through the world history to get to the cool stuff, and the result was much the same as when a dungeon master tries to do the same thing to his players.

Anyway, looking forward to a good fish-out-water adventure now, and that's nothing but good I guess.

In the immortal words of cultural scholars, Bevis and Butthead:

"You gotta have stuff that sucks to have stuff that's cool! Ehheee hehehhe."

[Eldhrin]

Wonderful! I laughed out loud for quite a while.

[Gamebird]

No real message, just saying, that's all.

[teratorn]

Good strip. Now, if this had been the first strip for Erfworld, followed afterwards by all the passive/slowish background and setting pages, the authors would have saved themselves a whole lot of unneeded criticism and grief.

Not really, the authors would just have gotten a different kind of criticism and grief. I confess that I got a kick from many of the critics. They were so candid in their "hatred" of the strip. The passion in some of those nasty remarks made me save a few of them.

With Erfworld the authors tried to make the readers wait through the world history to get to the cool stuff, and the result was much the same as when a dungeon master tries to do the same thing to his players.

It's a question of taste. I was immediately drawn to the strip, the view of the dwagon on the top of page three is still my favorite moment in the strip. I did enjoy the setup, in fact I'm almost sure I would have been less impressed if the story had started like this. And the summoning, as it is, is way more dramatic.The shock of seeing that loser (well I'm not that much better) sucked into the game, now that I'm already attached to Wanda, is an order of magnitude higher. It would be interesting to have a comment from someone who just started reading Erfworld now, and went through the 16 strips. My guess is that they would flow perfectly.

[TinSoldier]

But the worst was this comment from TinSoldier (happy birthday by the way)

Thanks!

We can not post in that forum???? What the...

Well, it's not like the author will be reading it since he has been transported to another reality and all...

There is a thread on this forum somewhere about hamstard.com

In the immortal words of cultural scholars, Bevis and Butthead:

"You gotta have stuff that sucks to have stuff that's cool! Ehheee hehehhe."

Heh. Heh. Heh. I love that album!