Goblins XIV: Clerical Omission.

[Petrocorus]

Discussion of the Goblins Comic. We do it here.

Previous threads:

Goblins Thread 0
Goblins I
Goblins II
GoblIIIns
Goblins IV: Live Free or Die Horribly
Goblins V: It's Hard-Kore!
Goblins VI: How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up?
Goblins VII: I'm TOTALLY Gonna Pee On This Thing!
Goblins VIII: This Thread Contains An Unexpected Variable
Goblins IX: For that, you shall DIE!
Goblins X: Orcs fall, everybody dies (horribly)
Goblins XI: There ARE Goblins In This Comic, Right?
Goblins XII: Your Home for Magical Limb Replacement
Goblins XIII: Now With Goblins!


Current informations on Axe Of Prissan wielders:

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Wielders of the Axe of Prissan
Starting with the most recent

Big Ears - Male Goblin Paladin. One of the protagonists of the story and current wielder of the axe.
Saral Caine* - Evil Male Half Stone Giant/Half Human. Ally of Dellyn Goblinslayer and minor antagonist in the Brassmoon arc.
Dri Featherknife - Female Human Rogue/Paladin. She was killed by Goblinslayer and Saral Caine after uncovering their plot to frame the sherrif of Brassmoon for murder.
Flejj Hillmover - Male Dwarf. He fought Kore twice and survived. His family was not so lucky. He shaved his beard in shame.

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Felsibeth "Soot" Blackbringer - Young Female Human Paladin. Youngest to ever wield the axe.
Kelstride Blackbringer - Male Human Paladin. Soot's Father. Former chimney sweep. Killed by a Kobold stampede.
Drose - Genderless Golem Paladin. Drose passed the Axe to Kelstride Blackbringer to prevent the demon imprisoned within from taking control of his body.
Eled of the East - "Fat, over confident" Paladin. Was given the axe by Myorg.
Mryorg* - Evil Male Ogre. Beat (but did not kill) Vilias Red in combat and took the Axe from her. Used it to cause great suffering before eventually giving it to Elad purely to make the demon contained within suffer after coming so close to freedom.
Vilias Red* - Female Human Rogue. Was friends with Tivoth Fastfoot and took the axe after Tivoth died in battle with the intention of giving it to another Paladin.
Tivoth Fastfoot - Male Paladin. Encountered Vilias Red looting a corpse and assumed she had murdered the man. Once he realized she was innocent, the two became friends and traveled together.

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Kevitch Gritland* - Evil Male... formerly... Human maybe... Fighter/Wizard. Horribly mutated by an evil swamp. Killed Eldrock Cloudcry and claimed the axe as his own.
Eldrock Cloudcry - Known in name only.

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Cal - Male Gnome Paladin. Egotistic gambler. Had a powerful, icy magic effect.
Jelbin Crae - Male Human Paladin. Gave Cal the Axe willingly. Nothing else is known.

*Confirmed non-Paladin

Individual Magic Effects (IME's)

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One of the more frequent sources of confusion is what people are talking about when we're referring to IME's. Here is the comic's explaination of what they are. And now you know.

Shield of Wonder Effects List

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Shield of Wonder page 1

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Shield of Wonder page 2

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Shield of Wonder page 3

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Shield of Wonder page 4

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Shield of Wonder page 5

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Shield of Wonder page 6

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Shield of Wonder page 7

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Shield of Wonder page 8

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Shield of Wonder page 9

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[Silver Swift]

psst, you forgot the previous thread, also none of those appear to be links

[Daywalker1983]

To get this thing going with something other than speculation on THunt's fate, I wanted to Point something out:

In his first appearane Kore's Body was built rather different from now. I feel that his Handstand would look less egregious with this physique than with the current one.

Still a bit preposterous, but it might indicate quite a lot of preplanning on THunt's part, since the trick would originally have been plausible. Unfortunately he didn't seem to have considered that when developing his style.

[Petrocorus]

psst, you forgot the previous thread, also none of those appear to be links

I'm working on it. But there's some copy-paste to do, y'know. Gimme time.

[Anteros]

I felt like "lots of screaming" had more votes...but this one was my favorite anyway, so hurray!

[Giggling Ghast]

What if this is the last page of Goblins? It kind of works as a Bolivian Army Ending.

[Anteros]

Thunt's probably just trying to give us plenty of time to say goodbye to Forgath.

[TheSummoner]

Clearly the next three pages are going to be so mind-blowing that it's taking this long to finish them. Naturally I expect them to be fully animated and in 3d with both lens flare and motion blur.

[Aquillion]

Minmax has escaped from the story and is currently beating up Thunt to force him to save Forgath's life.

[Doc Kraken]

...that's my new favorite theory.

"Now do the story right, you jerk!"

He just better hope the GAP doesn't follow Minmax out to add their own opinion of current events.

[BannedInSchool]

He's following his dream of owning a cheese shop in London.

[NihhusHuotAliro]

Minmax has escaped from the story and is currently beating up Thunt to force him to save Forgath's life.

YES!
I LOVE THIS THEORY.

[Othniel Edden]

A feel good story this is not.

[MammonAzrael]

Minmax has escaped from the story and is currently beating up Thunt to force him to save Forgath's life.

So Thunt traded in his ability to keep to a consistsnt update schedule to really bring his story to life?

[The Glyphstone]

Didn't Tempts Fate already do this? And shortly afterwards, was consigned to ultimate oblivion? Not a good sign of Forgath+Co. are following in his footsteps.

[Dienekes]

So Thunt traded in his ability to keep to a consistsnt update schedule to really bring his story to life?

Whoever he traded with got suckered. Thunt has never had the ability to keep a consistent update schedule.

[Seerow]

Whoever he traded with got suckered. Thunt has never had the ability to keep a consistent update schedule.

Well yeah, you typically make those kinds of trades at character creation.

[Neoriceisgood]

Are there many comics that can actually update consistently without having a buffer?

I know DD did that, but outside of that one I'm not too sure. I know that having a buffer is helping me a ton personally.

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Are there many comics that can actually update consistently without having a buffer?

I know DD did that, but outside of that one I'm not too sure. I know that having a buffer is helping me a ton personally.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic updates nearly daily, but the art is deliberately unfinished. Rich Morris will "finish" some strips, but usually doesn't. Not sure how many strips he tries to keep in the buffer though.

Thunt puts a lot more work into each strip, and if you ever watch the Live Cam, you know he is pretty busy and focused on the art. Goblins is not something he cranks out during his lunch break, and he usually posts as soon as one page is done, then takes at most a day off before jumping onto the next.

[Gez]

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic updated nearly daily,

Fixed. Daily updates haven't been the norm ever since the birth of his latest child. For example, the current strip is still the March 4 one, and the previous was from February 27.

[Cen]

cyanide and happines, but they have like 4-5 authors...

Garfield, of course

and there was this one old daily webcomic about computergeeks... damn I don't remember what was it's name.. I remember there was sentient monster created from stuff from keyboard, and one guy made coffe that consisted of 100% caffeine... damn, what was it's name...

[Radar]

Garfield, of course

Copypasta should not count.

and there was this one old daily webcomic about computergeeks... damn I don't remember what was it's name.. I remember there was sentient monster created from stuff from keyboard, and one guy made coffe that consisted of 100% caffeine... damn, what was it's name...

It's UserFriendly. Surprisingly, they still update daily.

[Morquard]

Questionable Content updates almost every day (exceptions are when the author is on con, vacation, ill or otherwise unable to).

As for Goblins: Well, tbh, I'm starting to get a bit annoyed. Not at the lack of update, but the lack of information. Twice we were told Thunt would speak to us in the next day or so, and twice it hasn't happened.
The last time was over a week ago now, and nothing since then.

I wouldn't mind if Danielle or Thunt posted "Sorry, Goblin is on hiatus till the end of the month" or something like that, even. Don't want the details of what's going on if they think it's none of our business. But absolutely nothing?

I know that I'm not paying for the comic, so save your comments on that front please, but it is Thunt's job. Treating his readers like that can't be a good thing for him.

[Ibrinar]

I'm assuming that many readers use rss like me and don't even notice when a comic doesn't update. But maybe reading so many comics that some of them update every day is not the norm.^^

[Mobius Twist]

The update countdown clock now reads "Updates on hold for now! More info soon!"

At least someone's alive and well enough to make that change, if not blessed with an overabundance of free time to elaborate further.

[Alcibiades]

The update countdown clock now reads "Updates on hold for now! More info soon!"

At least someone's alive and well enough to make that change, if not blessed with an overabundance of free time to elaborate further.

It's been like that for almost two weeks now.

[Dienekes]

Are there many comics that can actually update consistently without having a buffer?

I know DD did that, but outside of that one I'm not too sure. I know that having a buffer is helping me a ton personally.

Ehh, I was just making a cheap joke. Honestly, the delayed schedule doesn't really bother me. I mean, I'm on the OotS board, where weeks can go by without an update, then suddenly we get three in one week. Different creators have different processes.

[satorian]

I don't think Schlock Mercenary has ever missed a (daily!) update in its decade of existence.

[Starbuck_II]

I don't think Schlock Mercenary has ever missed a (daily!) update in its decade of existence.

Well, that is because you can't really kill Schlock. He is the real creator (yes, the blob creature in the comic). Howard Tayler is his pen name.

[hajo]

Are there many comics that can actually update consistently .. ?

My list of current comics with "good, stable" update performance:

Daily:
* Dilbert
* SchlockMercenary
* UserFriendly

At least once per week:
* DataChasers
* FreeFall
* GirlGenius
* Gunnerkrigg Court
* Looking For Group
* RustyAndCo
* SandraAndWoo
* xkcd

Buffer? Don't know / dont care.
Why would that be important (to a reader) ?