Resistance is Futile
Despite my usual nagging of the series, I did like his way of taking care of the hammers, especially since he didn't even like that gag anymore.
The foreshadowing in this strip...I shall remain skeptical for now.
edited 26th Apr '10 1:44:01 PM by A_H_R
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Heh, that caught me by surprise. I was thinking it had something to do with her not being at peace of mind or something like that - how she's in a stage of questioning her convictions and trying to find herself, and she can't summon magic because of the inner turmoil.
But even better, now we might get to see yet another character-as-Indiana-Jones segment, this time with an actual temple and traps and such, and with Susan, which would be hilarious.
edited 26th Apr '10 1:50:01 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Resistance is Futile
That also puts Susan as more useless than Justin 
edited 26th Apr '10 1:52:49 PM by A_H_R
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^She can still do the thing with her hair. Which, admittedly, is still pretty useless.
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she can still do the puppy dog eyes, it frightened Justin and disturbed Elliot a few rooms away. If I recall correctly
^ Of course, when she's not trying to do it
, it's possibly the most powerful attack in the whole comic. So powerful even she's scared.
edited 26th Apr '10 2:48:46 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
YOSH!
I see this as a fantastic opportunity to see exactly what magical powers Susan gleaned from her trip to France with Nanase. an Indiana Jones-esque quest for the fallen artifact is a perfect chance to show this off. All we know for now is that she can summon a sword.
Who knows, maybe she can create melee weapons.
And since Nanase is out of commission there's no way Susan can ask her to do it.
When All Else Fails, you have fun and flirt wit da ladies, dats da Drawings way!
Something tell me this storyline's going to be very entertaining.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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Not Actually Indie
Are Elliot and Ellen over eighteen now?
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Resistance is Futile
Hrm. Was this ever mentioned before? The shrine thing?
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YOSH!
Nope, only mentioned now. It was the question nobody asked for the longest time and because it was meant to be a joke, no shrine was ever needed to be mentioned before. This is obviously kinda-sorta made up on the spot.
When All Else Fails, you have fun and flirt wit da ladies, dats da Drawings way!
Hence the joke here.
Resistance is Futile
Oh riiight. Ok. Still, seems a bit odd y'know? I mean, not the shrine part, but how Susan found out about it...
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Well, we've gotten hints about some interesting bits of Susan's past before, and as of yet it remains a Noodle Incident.
edited 29th Apr '10 3:24:11 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Resistance is Futile
Dammit. Curse you foreshadowing! I hate it when you poke through my logic. 
That's only partially a joke. I read El Goonish Shive, but it's a guilty pleasure.
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What kind of monster earthquake was that if it was enough to wake people up in Moperville and knocked an artifact off its pedestal somewhere that's sixteen hours away by car?
Or eight hours, even, if Susan is counting the return trip.
If Susan's correct, then it's pretty much completely flouting the laws of geophysics, although that's hardly unusual given the sort of comic this is.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
If the epicenter was closer to the pedestal, it would be stronger there and possibly knock over the object. By the time the waves propagated to Moperville, they were only strong enough to wake people up. However 16 hours of driving is roughly 880 miles at highway speed, which is pretty far. I think it's a technical goof.
Revolution of Ruin
Dan states in the commentary for that very strip that it's 16 hours round trip.
You've lost. You're the Bomb Squad after the bomb's gone off. I'm the blast ongoing.
Who wants to be stuck in a car for 16 hours, 8 hours there and 8 hours back. That is what was said... mostly
I see the Awesomeness.
And the epicenter could be half way between.
Fight smart, not fair.
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The epicenter would most likely be somewhere between the two, possibly closer to the pedestal than to Moperville if it were going to knock the artifact off the pedestal, but that's still an unprecedentedly broad earthquake. With the amount things were shown shaking in the comic, the earthquake looks to have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.0-5.0 in Moperville. For it to have had a comparable effect where the artifact was housed, the epicenter must be hundreds of miles away.
How powerful that would make it at the epicenter depends on how deep the hypocenter was, but it would clearly have to be more powerful than any known earthquake.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Bet it has something to do with Chaos
I see the Awesomeness.
Is the trip linear? If they have to treck through heavy traffic, that might seriously slow down their progress.
Fight smart, not fair.
She hesitated in the first panel. By the fourth panel she was ready to go all John Henry on them, but found it didn't work.
edited 29th Apr '10 4:17:38 PM by Daremo
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.