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    The showdown between Darth V and Xykon takes less than a minute from start to finish. So... about 18 seconds per page?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Zero View Post
    You're not the only one to give that frowning prisoner a double-take in retrospect. And I don't think your hypothesis is a stretch at all. In fact, I tend to think it probably was The Giant's plan all along. And a little Easter egg to observant readers like us.
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    Vampire Gontor's eyes glowing when he says "I will provide you with a fight more befitting the proper order of things" in strip 1013. It actually creeped me out a bit when I finally noticed it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeliren View Post
    Vampire Gontor's eyes glowing when he says "I will provide you with a fight more befitting the proper order of things" in strip 1013. It actually creeped me out a bit when I finally noticed it.
    And it seems his eyes were glowing because he was summoning the pack of rats in strip 1014.

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    In page 56, Xykon says "don't get your hopes too high. She's a blonde." I thought he was referring to the zombies groping Lirian and talking to them as if they had been teenagers trying to hit on her, and telling them that it's hard to get a blonde, but now I wonder if he meant "No brains there, she's a blonde", because they were saying, "brains".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vinyadan View Post
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    In page 56, Xykon says "don't get your hopes too high. She's a blonde." I thought he was referring to the zombies groping Lirian and talking to them as if they had been teenagers trying to hit on her, and telling them that it's hard to get a blonde, but now I wonder if he meant "No brains there, she's a blonde", because they were saying, "brains".
    That's how I always interpreted it.

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    In Page #191, when Xykon says
    : I once went down the shore for the weekend, and when I got back, three manticores and an umber hulk were hanging new drapes in my living room
    he uses a phrase that's widely considered a classic marker of the Philadelphia dialect (i.e. "down the shore"). This, in turn, makes me think he talks like a bonier version of
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    Quote Originally Posted by lurkmeister View Post
    In Page #191, when Xykon says

    he uses a phrase that's widely considered a classic marker of the Philadelphia dialect (i.e. "down the shore"). This, in turn, makes me think he talks like a bonier version of
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    Rich is from Philly, isn't he?I remember it coming up before b/c I noticed a Girard Ave while in Philly, rembered he lived there and wondered if that might have been where Girard's name was taken from. (The consensus, fyi, was that it was a common enough name that it was probably a coincidence.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaggerPen View Post
    Rich is from Philly, isn't he?I remember it coming up before b/c I noticed a Girard Ave while in Philly, rembered he lived there and wondered if that might have been where Girard's name was taken from. (The consensus, fyi, was that it was a common enough name that it was probably a coincidence.)
    I don't know if he was raised there, but he is certainly living there now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaggerPen View Post
    Rich is from Philly, isn't he?I remember it coming up before b/c I noticed a Girard Ave while in Philly, rembered he lived there and wondered if that might have been where Girard's name was taken from. (The consensus, fyi, was that it was a common enough name that it was probably a coincidence.)
    I've heard he is.

    Also Girard is not a very common name 'round these parts. It sounds funny and slightly foreign (mostly because it is). We use it for a street and a school and that's about it...But the street is an important one and that keeps it in our subconscious forefronts. It would fit the general naming conventions of a D&D-esque world -- foreign-ish, but not too foreign -- quite well.
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    In 950 the Mechane has a bumper sticker stating that his other airship is a carpet

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    Quote Originally Posted by lurkmeister View Post
    In Page #191, when Xykon says

    he uses a phrase that's widely considered a classic marker of the Philadelphia dialect (i.e. "down the shore"). This, in turn, makes me think he talks like a bonier version of
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    That phrase (I believe) is also used in Jersey and Xykon IS Evil so my bet is he's from there. He was probably even friends with The Situation once.

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    Since the art upgrade, vampire "Durkon" no longer has visible bite marks. You can't see any on "Gontor" either.
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    Tarquin's fatherly love is truly unique... or at least I hope it is!
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    First, I'm impressed that this topic went so far off topic that it ended up back at The Order of the Stick.
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    Man, I never paid any attention to why the apple-selling girl rushes off when the adventurers come... it's to change into a more appealing outfit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    Man, I never paid any attention to why the apple-selling girl rushes off when the adventurers come... it's to change into a more appealing outfit!
    I also never noticed that they put a price on the tumbleweed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodin View Post
    I also never noticed that they put a price on the tumbleweed!
    ...oooh, I just noticed something else! The "adventurer-friendly" Temple of Freya says "Missing Limbs - 25% off". If a generally humanoid being loses a limb... then 25% of their limbs got cut off! Eh? Eh?

    ...okay, I'll see myself out

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    It might be foreshadowing a LONG way in advance, or it might just be accidental, but look at what V says in the 8th panel of this comic:

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0338.html

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    It's certainly deliberate. The Giant had pretty much plotted out the entire arc by then.
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    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0170.html

    I've never noticed it before, but at the bottom of the giant gold tankard, there are the letters WWTD? (What Would Thor Do?)
    After almost 100 strips from this http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0073.html Durkon finds it applicable, after all.

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    Long time, no post. But I was reading through for the umpteenth time, procrastinating my exams, and I realized that spittle that flies from Malack's mouth when he shouts "I will not put my family below yours!" in strip 854 is not spittle, but is, in fact, blood, possibly the remains of his last meal.
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    Oh, sweet Freya. I never noticed that.

    I wonder if it was fixed in the print edition, which is what I mainly read now when I do an OOTS back-episode marathon?
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    I never noticed how in 886, when Roy kills Xykon in Girard's illusion, Redcloak helplessly looks upon the act behind a force cage, much like Eugene looked on master Fyron being slain by Xykon. It's somewhat creepy how in Roy's "perfect scenario" he wants to make Redcloak "suffer" similiar to how Roy's father did.
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    Given the relative insignificance of Redcloak in that whole scenario, I'm not sure it's intended to be a parallel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    Given the relative insignificance of Redcloak in that whole scenario, I'm not sure it's intended to be a parallel.
    Yeah, the Order is almost completely unaware that Redcloak is at all important. Except Belkar, for some reason
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    The back of the Throne of Regrets represents a stream of tears descending from stick-figure sad eyes.

    The design certainly bespeaks the clear mental discipline of a near-epic interior designer.

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    I don't see a stream of tears, but it is the same shape as the King's eyebrows.
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    Which are one of the standard OOTS ways of showing someone crying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    Given the relative insignificance of Redcloak in that whole scenario, I'm not sure it's intended to be a parallel.
    I also doubt Roy thinks Redcloak feels any real affection for Xykon, considering how vile Xykon is, and I'm pretty positive that Roy has no inkling of the Plan. In the unlikely event that Roy spared a thought for how Redcloak would feel after it was over, I'd expect that part of the illusion to go,
    Oh no! Lord Xykon is destroyed!
    I'm purposeless! Motivationless! Have no one to tell me what to do!
    I'm...free? Free! Ha ha ha ha ha! *skips off into the sunset*

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    Actually, it seems to me as if he were putting his father in the cage to watch while he does what he couldn't. Dreams can skip some passages and have people being someone else.
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