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

[Flame of Anor]

In the strip with all of the prophecies, I just realized that the three panels of Xykon and his army match up to form a continuous picture.

Yeah, that took me a while, too.

[Ron Miel]

But did you notice something similar in #606?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0606.html

(there's a faint picture of Belkar the background)

[CloakedDancer]

But did you notice something similar in #606?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0606.html

(there's a faint picture of Belkar the background)

I'll admit I hadn't. That one's pretty cool.

[Flame of Anor]

But did you notice something similar in #606?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0606.html

(there's a faint picture of Belkar the background)

Yes, in fact.

[Dr. Gamera]

Not sure if it's been discussed in the discussion thread for A Dish Best Served Warm, After All (#835), but Belkar first mentioned using a kobold's head as a litter box in A Sign That You Have a Problem (#568), decided against it in Justice Can Be a Messy Business (#569), and then had his memory wiped in Clean Slate (#570). Apparently his kobold-head litter-box impulse was so strong that it reemerged 265 strips later.

[Dr. Gamera]

When the archfiends tally up their times, we can see that Haerta's time was a multiple of 6 seconds, since she broke loose on V's turn, but that Jephton's and Ganonron's time is not a multiple of 6 seconds, since they broke loose on Xykon's turn.

Further, in A Lot Can Happen in Ten Minutes (#650), the running total for Jephton's and Ganonron's time, given after Haley speaks but before Vaarsuvius speaks, is just under a multiple of 6 seconds. In fact, the difference between that running total and the final total in Mending Wounds (#667) is a multiple of 6 seconds, which I suppose could theoretically signify that Jephton and Ganonron break loose on their own turn, rather than Xykon's turn, or instead that they had the same initiative rolls as Xykon.

[Spacewolf]

Not quite as mathmatical but i never noticed the possible Holy grail shout out in 782 along with the Blue and browny red joke of the first two fighters

[oppyu]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0379.html

Early foreshadowing of Belkar and the Scruffinator.

[Dark Elf Bard]

Just noticed this on a read-through from where DStP ended:

#680 Panel 6 is the same person as #725 Panel 4

I thought it was quite cool how it matches up.

[martianmister]

Not quite as mathmatical but i never noticed the possible Holy grail shout out in 782 along with the Blue and browny red joke of the first two fighters

Explain it.

[Flame of Anor]

Explain it.

I don't get it either. The other names are Offpanelo (he's off-panel), Notseenicus (he's not seen), and Evisceratus (he's eviscerated).

[Kish]

There are certain inevitable similarities between works of parody, but it is, as best, unprovable if Rich was thinking of Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Movie when he named Notseenicus.

[SpeakerftDead]

Belker mentions knowing a guy that knows a slaver way back in #171 about a guy that knows a slaver who we found out later is in fact, the leader of the desert bug bandits as seen here.

[Cazaril]

Belker mentions knowing a guy that knows a slaver way back in #171 about a guy that knows a slaver who we found out later is in fact, the leader of the desert bug bandits as seen here.

It being Belkar, it's entirely possible that he knows multiple guys who know slavers, though...

[Miaow]

I've been re-reading my copy of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, and I just noticed that in the strips with the goblin teenagers, the one with glasses also has braces on his fangs.

[Flame of Anor]

It being Belkar, it's entirely possible that he knows multiple guys who know slavers, though...

I think it's implied that Buggy Lou is whom he was referring to, though.

[Nightmarenny]

I think it's implied that Buggy Lou is whom he was referring to, though.

Yup. Notice that Lou mentions that Belkar was best pals with his best supplier. Belkar says he knows a guy(his pal) who knows a guy(Lou)

[Xelbiuj]

541, MitD bets O-Chul will "Escapes and lives happily ever after.
661 MitD uses Escape on him & V.

Probably just reading too much into it. :P

[Dark Elf Bard]

I've been re-reading my copy of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, and I just noticed that in the strips with the goblin teenagers, the one with glasses also has braces on his fangs.

Hey! YOu're right! Tennagers... braces.. goblins... fangs!

[ti'esar]

Not really the same kind of "thing", and possibly just my imagination, but I've only just noticed what appears to be a shout-out to Babylon 5 in strip 212 - Belkar's "satisfying thump" line in panel 9. Kinda neat.

Edit: And I also never noticed that we actually hear said thump later on.

[ThePhantasm]

When Elan first begins to suspect his father is evil, Tarquin receives a small cut on his chin that is a little reminiscent of Nale's goatee. Interesting that that is where the cut appears, just as Tarquin begins to resemble (for Elan) his evil son...

[rbetieh]

I may be looking too far into this, but every panel in the latest comic (840 - Thief's Tool) looks to fit the definition of a TRAPezoid....

[Flame of Anor]

I may be looking too far into this, but every panel in the latest comic (840 - Thief's Tool) looks to fit the definition of a TRAPezoid....

You pretty certainly are, but it's still kind of cool.

[Bogsworth]

I never noticed that the now sorely-missed Tsukiko used to carry a Xykon doll around with her. How I never noticed it before, I'm not quite sure. Though I do suppose it means she used to sleep with Xykon whenever she wished, or at least an effigy of him. Though if she had someone animate it as a construct...

[ti'esar]

Two from 501:

When Daigo and Kazumi smooch at the beginning, the little hearts that appear are Azurite blue instead of red.

Elan's tears in the last two panels are coming from both eyes - good way to set up that he's only wearing an eyepatch to look cool.

[fergo]

Just noticed in this comic the boxes say 'Imported from Greysky City' and 'Gouda', which is a fantastic throw-back joke .

[Flame of Anor]

Elan's tears in the last two panels are coming from both eyes - good way to set up that he's only wearing an eyepatch to look cool.

Lack of eye does not necessarily imply lack of tears.
I think.

[Hardcore]

In the latest strip, 841, there is runes on all the walls.

[sr123]

runes on all the walls

And on the faces of the dead. At first I thought they were just cuts, and the walls were graffiti'ed; now I think there's some foreshadowin' afoot. Intruder alert?

[The Linker]

The runes on their faces are just a family thing. Girard has one, Orrin had one, it's safe to presume every one of Girard's extended offspring would have one.