Failing Saves Thread 2 - The Melee of Madness

[Almighty Salmon]

Thanks BRC Added that to the first post

Anyway, I bring (remixed) comics!

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Comic 2:

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Comic 3:

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The old first three comics were before I had drastically changed Korul's art, so I thought it would be wise to redo them. Plus we got to wipe out those pesky grammar faults. Hopefully i'll be able to make a brand new comic tonight.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Hurrah!

[banjo1985]

Yay finally an update! They do look much spiffier I must admit.

[Lunaya]

Wow, they look great guys! I lol'd...if that's even a word.

But aww, Korul and Delrek's mom died? Now I'm sad. So if the boys were raised by their grandmother, does that mean they didn't live with Kerdir?

[Fawkes]

Actually, "color" is the Americanised spelling. The actual spelling is "colour".

Lying, why do you hate America?

[Lyinginbedmon]

Lying, why do you hate America?

I'm gonna walk away from that one...it's just too easy...

[Fawkes]

Bandit Keith is displeased with you... In America!

[Shas aia Toriia]

Just going to say, rerealeasing those three comics was like getting three all new ones!
Supa funny, and, dare I say it, funnier then your more recent ones.

[memnarch]

I like them.

[Half-blood]

They are as A dusty old wooden statue, cleaned and recolored, with the wood...dammit. sorry, sketched into another "poem." Still though. Good comics.

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Looks good, and looking forward to the new strips!

[sheepofoblivion]

Just going to say, rerealeasing those three comics was like getting three all new ones!
Supa funny, and, dare I say it, funnier then your more recent ones.

That would be saying that Salmon is funnier than Undertaker, due to the fact that they would be doing bits of the other's jobs now! Undertaker is going to hunt you down in kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!! If he wasn't busy making AWESOME comics....

great new comics, love them!

[kpenguin]

Well, Lying, as I pointed out, Wikipedia disagrees with you that the true spelling is "color" its "Americanized spelling" is "colour"

-our, -or

Most words ending in unstressed -our in the United Kingdom (e.g., colour, flavour, honour, armour) end in -or in the United States (i.e., color, flavor, honor, armor). Where the vowel is unreduced, this does not occur: contour, paramour, troubadour, are spelled thus everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur.[17] After the Norman Conquest, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or.[18] The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings.[19] After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or termination; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th and early 17th century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only.[20]

Webster's 1828 dictionary featured only -or and is generally given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the US. By contrast, Dr Johnson's 1755 dictionary used the -our spelling for all words still so spelled in Britain, as well as for emperour, errour, governour, horrour, tenour, terrour, and tremour, where the u has since been dropped. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform and for the most part simply recorded what he found. For example, documents [2] from the Old Bailey, the foremost court in London, support the view of the OED that by the 17th century "colour" was the settled spelling. Those English speakers who began to move across the Atlantic would have taken these habits with them and H L Mencken makes the point that, "honor appears in the Declaration of Independence, but it seems to have got there rather by accident than by design. In Jefferson’s original draft it is spelled honour. " [3] Examples such as color, flavor, behavior, harbor, or neighbor scarcely appear in the Old Bailey's court records from the 17th and 18th century, whereas examples of their -our counterparts are generally numbered in hundreds. One notable exception is honor: honor and honour were equally frequent down to the 17th century,[21] Honor still is, in the UK, the normal spelling as a person's name.

[Baras]

Well, Lying, as I pointed out, Wikipedia disagrees with you that the true spelling is "color" its "Americanized spelling" is "colour"

Umm... (not quoting the whole article) doesn't that article say exactly the opposite...

[Tre of the Wood]

I love these new strips! Almost my favorites!

[Yeril]

*prods salmon*

I know its been nearly 2 months, but what ever happened to the new year thing?

[Lunaya]

Shhh..don't distract him from making the next update.

Take your time, Salmon.

[CommodoreFluffy]

Yes take your time, because then it will spark better discussion, and bring more laughs from your loyal followers, I'm one of them, just so you know...You knew that right?

[Almighty Salmon]

*prods salmon*

I know its been nearly 2 months, but what ever happened to the new year thing?

Well, I had originally dropped that. But I may look back into it

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[Lunaya]

Yay, update! *happy dance* Oh good. Korul's okay, and we might get to find out what happened to his mother.

Thanks, Salmon!

[Ichneumon]

It is great, but would the gun crack the other way around, physically speaking?

[Lyinginbedmon]

This promises to be a wonderful tale

[memnarch]

In a plot exposition or continuation of the story?

[sheepofoblivion]

It is great, but would the gun crack the other way around, physically speaking?

Sorta... If a piece broke off near the tip, then it would fly away, so yes it would, but if it was a crack in the middle, perhaps it flexxed back then with the momentum, it would fold over at the point of impact, cracking the way it did... (I think...)

[CommodoreFluffy]

I was about to say that that didn't make any sense, because they mention their mom in the first few ones, but then it hit me: you edited it BECAUSE you wanted a new plot twist in the story, so you DIDN'T contradict yourself.

[Lyinginbedmon]

At some point, I might end up making fan art to the tune of Korul's Amazing Science lectures

[Szilard]

Shorter than usual, but still cool.

[Lunaya]

I was about to say that that didn't make any sense, because they mention their mom in the first few ones, but then it hit me: you edited it BECAUSE you wanted a new plot twist in the story, so you DIDN'T contradict yourself.

Well, even if they hadn't edited the first few strips, it would still have made sense. Korul had merely pondered what their mother (and father) would have thought of their career choices. It didn't hint at her being alive.

[Morty]

No offense, but that was so unsurprising it actually surprised me.

[Lunaya]

At some point, I might end up making fan art to the tune of Korul's Amazing Science lectures

Hehe, like he's trying to do an episode of "Mr. Wizard". I can see Korul's grandma sitting there with an approving smile on her face (even though she can't hear a word) and Delrek looking bored out of his mind. That'd be cute.