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jjjj2 from Arrakis Since: Jul, 2015
#2126: Sep 29th 2024 at 2:44:25 PM

A broken eraser. I love it.

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#2127: Sep 29th 2024 at 4:54:59 PM

Anya got the intended message of the movie - in love sometimes you've got to punch a mofo out.

jjjj2 from Arrakis Since: Jul, 2015
#2128: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:11:37 AM

New chapter... Well that's decidedly not sinister...

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Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#2129: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:14:27 AM

Damian manages to be the only normal person in his family by loving his father too much to not notice how little he gives a shit about anyone else. If only he directs that towards his mom. Melinda seems pretty stressed and afraid of Donovan, but still tries in vain to act like a wife to him. Someone get the other two eye drops, they need it for staring at nothing all the time.

Edited by Ikedatakeshi on Oct 13th 2024 at 11:15:59 PM

BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#2130: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:15:51 AM

Okay, I’m not the first to make this deduction probably, but Desmond probably has psychic abilities like Anya. He’s able to communicate with or control his wife and older son - they could have all undergone some sort of procedure, and only Damian hasn’t yet. I dunno. Just my train of thought.

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Jcppcntn98 (Pilot) Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#2131: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:30:10 AM

Or maybe he can access people's memories rather than their present thoughts like Anya does, so he essentially used the family dinner just to get caught up with the manga.

Edited by Jcppcntn98 on Oct 14th 2024 at 3:30:59 AM

Comun Since: Jun, 2012
#2132: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:47:14 AM

Yeah, this definitely feels like fodder for the psychic Donovan theory. That's what I'm getting out of the meaning of "productive evening" getting questioned. It's also the first time I noticed Donovan has stitch marks running through the back of his brain. Have we ever seen him from an angle that let us see that before?

darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#2133: Oct 13th 2024 at 8:59:49 AM

[up]AFAIK they've been visible since his first appearance.

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MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#2134: Oct 13th 2024 at 9:37:59 AM

My mind is racing.

He actually does seem to mean it when he says that the evening was worthwhile.

He took note of something during that charade of a family dinner and is pondering about it in private. But what?

The page where they are all shown separated was strong.

And I'm already loving Mary Jane. I find the buttlers are so interesting.

Edited by MrSeyker on Oct 13th 2024 at 9:43:53 AM

Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#2135: Oct 13th 2024 at 2:21:56 PM

Awkward barely even begins to describe that dinner. That family is so weird.

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#2136: Oct 13th 2024 at 4:46:07 PM

The pages with the Desmond family members sitting in the darkness really makes their isolation from each other hit home.

And yeah, Desmond likely has psychic powers of some sort, considering his comment about the dinner being "productive."

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2137: Oct 13th 2024 at 9:24:13 PM

If Donovan is psychic, what do we make of him having talked to Loid?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#2138: Oct 13th 2024 at 9:34:50 PM

I get the feeling if he does have mind reading power it's not on the same level as Anya's, or at least requires longer contact than a brief face to face conversation.

That he even has stitch marks on his head while Anya has no obvious signs of tampering suggests that whatever he went through was cruder and less effective than whatever Anya went through to get her powers.

My guess is that it's because Anya was modified from a young age — possibly since birth or even before that — to gain her abilities, while Donovan was operated on as an adult.

Edited by M84 on Oct 14th 2024 at 12:39:18 AM

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MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#2139: Oct 13th 2024 at 10:18:20 PM

I figure there's another possibility.

If Donovan was indeed enhanced by whatever procedure caused those scars, it may be that the supernatural hability he developed are of a different nature than Anya's.

The Apple experiments did give Bond an entirely different set of supernatural powers after all.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2140: Oct 14th 2024 at 12:32:55 AM

[up][up]Here's a similar idea in the opposite direction: Desmond has natural psychic powers and the scar is from testing that was used to induce them artificially.

We ever seen Desmond in the past?

Edited by thatother1dude on Oct 14th 2024 at 2:33:20 PM

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#2141: Oct 14th 2024 at 2:36:11 AM

[up]He showed up as a student in Henry's flashback. He didn't have any surgical scar back then.

@2138: Anya's head is covered with hair though, if there's any signs of tampering, it'd be obscured by those.

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The Master of Tediousness
#2142: Oct 14th 2024 at 11:49:55 AM

[up] Anya does have those horns on her head, if that could imply something related to her powers.

Actually, Anya notes that she doesn't have her powers on a New Moon. If Desmond has similar powers, could that mean a similar limitation?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2143: Oct 14th 2024 at 6:57:35 PM

Anya's head is covered with hair though, if there's any signs of tampering, it'd be obscured by those.
If Anya had huge scars under her hair, her parents should have noticed by now.

Anya notes that she doesn't have her powers on a New Moon. If Desmond has similar powers, could that mean a similar limitation?
I don't expect the lunar cycle thing to come up again. The concept is pretty blatantly more magical than science-fictional (the shadows the Earth cast on the moon somehow affecting what is presumably a brain function), and the story's pretty much replaced it as a Drama-Preserving Handicap with Anya not doing well in crowds.

IniuriaTalis Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Love, football, the arts, the occasional pint
#2144: Oct 14th 2024 at 8:00:13 PM

It does seem like a bit of Early-Installment Weirdness now, though since Ania vs. Anya was specifically highlighted and explained I wouldn't be shocked if it still came up eventually. Just like how Endou only recently seemed to remember that Becky and Damian also have dogs.

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Shadow-Whisperer Comedy guy from Tacoland Since: Jun, 2022
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#2145: Oct 14th 2024 at 8:06:09 PM

[up] Speaking of dogs, I can't decide if the fact Rex (the Desmond's family dog) has the same eyes than Demetrius and Donovan is just a visual gag, or if there is a reason behind that (maybe another dog that was experimented on?).

lavendermintrose (Long Runner) Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#2146: Oct 17th 2024 at 12:16:35 PM

Well, the musical is getting a second run in October 2025.

Interestingly, the musical Mata Hari (by the composer of Death Note) is also back next October.

Meanwhile we're still waiting on that other spectacular 2023 manga-based musical. (Not Attack on Titan, that's back in January).

(...this one)

KZN02 The Master of Tediousness (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
The Master of Tediousness
#2147: Oct 17th 2024 at 3:28:38 PM

@thatother1dude Makes me wonder if the early limitation with crowds was something Anya eventually grew to handle better. For all we know, her powers could be strengthening and evolving over time.

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skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
#2148: Oct 27th 2024 at 8:03:16 AM

Chapter 107:

Aww, man! A Melinda-Yor meeting interrupted for a whole month?!

Edited by skan123 on Oct 27th 2024 at 8:03:22 AM

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#2149: Oct 27th 2024 at 8:14:55 AM

So Anya is finally going to be in contact with Melinda as well. This'll be interesting. Hard to wait for but definitely worth it. I wonder if maybe Melinda is or rather has been given some actual clairvoyance somehow, but that it doesn't really work so it's useless most of the time.

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#2150: Oct 27th 2024 at 8:18:15 AM

Anya just being able to read Melinda's mind would probably be pretty enlightening.


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