>>97886323
I'm still waiting for whatever is supposed to make Nale's return worthwhile. Other than just padding the comic out so Rich doesn't have to get a job in this economy, of course.

>>97886423
As always, the Linear Guild is a foil. They're the only player on the world stage that is operating entirely for petty reasons. Everyone else has a higher calling, some awareness of what's at stake, or a reason to give a shit. Nale is coming at this the exact way the party came at the first few Gates, in just as clumsy a manner.

>>97886566
Yes it's a comic about them.

>>97886566
Well, duh.

>>97886323
Never really liked Serini, and this comic just keeps reminding me why. The “old hag that berates everything you do” gag got old after the Order kicked her ass, and it’s getting more old than Xykon’s bony butt now.

>>97886323
oh shit is Nale a demon now?
is durkon still a vampire?
are they still in hueco mundo?

>>97886943
Yes, no that got fixed like a decade ago, and no but they are still on the boat

>>97886949
when the comic finally ends I'm gonna go back and read it all start to finish

did they ever convert to 5e or are they still in 3.5? I 'member like the first joke in the whole comic being "guys, we 3.5 now LMAO!"

>>97886958
The good news is that even with the atrocious release cadence when you read it as an anthology the comic has extremely good pacing, though there's no getting around the multiple decades of webcomic trends causing strange eddies. They're still on 3.5, though there was a fun non-canon side comic where they fought their 4e dopplegangers. The direct references to game mechanics and the overall structure have dropped off as the plot has picked up, so it also matters less.

>>97886977
cool TY. Man there are so many webcomics I used to read that I just... don't, anymore.

>Girl Genius
>Gunnerkrigg Court
>Questionable Content man that one got REALLY shit after the robot fight club arc finished though

The more I look back the more I'm glad my first webcomic Bob and George finished its run, wrapped, and went to look back over what it'd done from a cliff overlooking the city, as befits a megaman credits sequence.

>>97886943
>hueco mundo
Oh boy, that brings back memories.

>>97887008
>Gunnerkrigg Court
I can't fucking believe this is still going. I've kept up and I'll probably re-read when it's finished, but I think I'm going to come to a conclusion like "drop it when Tony shows up".

>>97887008
Girl Genius is out of the castle through a series of side castles and onto another castle which is on fire.
It helps the Foglios are old hands at comics and can actually pace things when read over a monthly/yearly basis. Pointless adventure sidestories aside.

>>97887008
>Questionable Content
That one's good again and by "good" I mean there's a googirl with fat tits and a drawfag that frequently puts them in lascivious positions.

More and more I feel convinced that Serini's going to be the one to destroy the Gate out of spite against everyone else.

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>another wasted strip

>>97886708
She reminds me of Kreia

>>97886977
>there was a fun non-canon side comic where they fought their 4e dopplegangers
Where was this

>>97887189
Not Nietzschean at all.

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>>97887199

>>97887212
where do you read this

I'm sick of Serini's constant bitching

>>97886323
What are the little red people floating around Nale supposed to be?

this comic is nearly a bigger meme than grrm or gaben (meaning hl3) in terms of just dragging on forever
the story should have wrapped up ages ago
even fucking one piece is gonna wrap it up before oots at this rate

>>97887533
wotc might actually pull out 6e D&D before this 3e-era comic wraps

>>97887499
Souls from the fountain in the lower planes, they're powering him up and it's what turned him into a demon.

>>97887205
Both are annoying cunts

>>97887269
Going to my shelf and grabbing the book

>>97886977
This anon is basically right, though the pacing definitely starts to drag in book 6, with unnecessary subplots and even a few filler strips.

>>97886423
This time Nale is here as an agent of the IFCC, not as his own man. The payoff to Nale's return is likely that he'll serve as the fall guy for whatever the three fiends' REAL plan is (I have a hunch, but w/e)

>>97886949
The boat sailed off over a hundred comics ago now.

>>97887008
Is darths&droids still active? Have they finished rpg-ing the original trilogy?

>>97888350
Yup, they're now on the last of the Rey Sequels.

>>97888350
It's how I am experiencing the sequel trilogy.

>>97888360
Jesus i must have read it last time like...10-12 years ago, ending college

>>97888350
I'm pretty glad that I dropped it at the end of episode III.

>>97888350
Huh, I could swear I heard the guy died a year or 2 ago.

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>>97887205
>Kreia
>Nietzschean
She's Max Stirner in space.

>>97887726
Might?
I'd assume it is certain at this point.

>I don't think can't heal

>>97889271
Rich is in a rush, he doesn't have time to double check every phrase. He's living fast and furious.

>>97887008
Rip to the whole Bob and George webring I used to read. Starslip, MS Paint Masterpieces, the like. Including the living horror that is Questionable Content. OotS is the last one left.

>>97889271
Elan is concussed

>>97889373
kek

>>97887008
I remember I used to read Paranatural because the premise was interesting enough, but lost interest because the pacing was even worse than OotS's is and they spent over a year playing fucking Dodg-I mean Hitball.

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>>97886559
>They're the only player on the world stage that is operating entirely for petty reasons. Everyone else has a higher calling, some awareness of what's at stake, or a reason to give a shit

Xykon already fills that role, though.

>>97889670
Fair, but I'd still distinguish that by saying Xykon doesn't care what's going on and thinks he's above it, Nale is getting involved without knowing the terms.

>>97889670
It’s mostly the difference between someone trying to end the world to give a middle finger to the gods, and someone trying to end the world to get paid a hundred bucks. Nale doesn’t care about the world ending since he thinks he’ll get to live on in Hell with Sabine and be allowed to plan out his brutal petty vengeance against his dad and/or Elan. If that were threatened, he’d be coward enough to reconsider what he’s doing. Xykon wouldn’t. He’d hear that the structure of the universe is at stake and not just the world, and his plans wouldn’t change. He’d be willing to go down with the ship if it meant spiting the gods unless he gets something out of any acquiescence part, and possibly not even then.

>>97887008
I still keep up with GG. It's still ok in my opinion although I really do wonder if the Foglios will keel over before it's done.

>>97886323
You could have an entire tournament complete with rests and advertising between rounds in the time it'd feasibly take to say all those WORDS.

>>97889923
And a half-time show or two, as well.

>>97889565
>MS Paint Masterpieces
is that officially over? I thought it was just on a forever hiatus

>>97889861
>Xykon wouldn’t. He’d hear that the structure of the universe is at stake and not just the world, and his plans wouldn’t change. He’d be willing to go down with the ship if it meant spiting the gods unless he gets something out of any acquiescence part, and possibly not even then.
maybe, maybe not
Xykon might as well decide that he wants the world to continue so he can wreak havoc in it
he's the biggest wild card of them all, his actions are unpredictable

>>97890070
I don't fucking know man, I stopped checking for updates after like three years of radio silence. It wasn't the first Bob and George sprite comic to just end without notice (RIP to Metroid Prime Third Derivative) though it might just be the last.

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>>97886323
Thog.

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>>97889271
thog got to him

>>97890192
damn he got there before me too

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>>97890260
>AM!
Alright you got me motherfucker

>>97890260
Very nice.
I don't get the kenhado part.

>>97886423
A new set of gates will be revealed and the Order will have to team up with Xykon to stop Bigger Xykon.

>>97890993
some new zoomer spelling of hadoken?
dunno

>>97890108
Metroid Third Derivative, that one was good and also a math joke.
Also Jailhouse Blues was fun.

>>97889763
no xykon said it himself he doesn't want to destroy the world, after all some of his best evil was committed here. he's just not aware of the situation (as far as we know. I'd not be surprised if it turns out he knew about the nature of the gates and helps the gang in protecting the last one, just as a fuck you to roy)

>>97891079
That would be great, actually

>>97888452
I think i lasted up to Rogue One/New Hope.

OOTS around the time Durkon was a vampire and they had a big meeting of the gods...maybe sometimes around #1000?

>>97891079
It wouldn't surprise me if Xykon fucks Redcloak by making a deal with the IFCC. By now he's certain that Redcloak is lying to him about the ritual, and the fiends could offer a pretty good deal - break the gate, and they'll make him a demon prince, except he doesn't have to listen to the Gods, and he can just fuck around doing evil shit for all eternity. Would be pretty lol for Xykon and Redcloak to reach the gate only for the former to just instantly break it

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>>97890192
Super clean. No info lost.

>>97892195
Thanks.

>>97889861
Given that some of the Evil gods are onboard with saving the world (and some of the Good ones are in favour of ending it), how do you think Xykon would answer if he was just straight-up offered Godhood by the Pantheons in return for abandoning the Gates plan?

>>97886323
I can't for the real heros to show up and save the day.

>>97892515
Four White Mages? It'll never work.

>>97892529
just keep drilling for mana

>>97886323
oh no, shouldn't have mentioned the secret words, the epic rogue halfing was halfway into ditching the oots and teaming up with demonnale, now that you mentioned her berserk button she's gonna LET IT RIP SERINI!

[thgee months latehg]

YOU FUCKING SUCK SERINI!

>>97892482
>how do you think Xykon would answer if he was just straight-up offered Godhood by the Pantheons in return for abandoning the Gates plan?
He's already immortal and any proffer would only serve swell his ego to the size of a small continent; he has no taste for the responsibilities or tedium of godhood and just the idea of being a threat large enough for the gods to collaboratively destroy all of material existence rather than risk him succeeding would give him a metaphorical boner hard enough to saw through adamantium. He knows that he's currently probably the biggest swinging dick in the world, but being enough of a badass for the gods themselves to get off of their square asses and become personally invested in stopping you is on another level entirely. All that the gods getting involved would do is make him push harder.

>>97893332
lichdom is only a temporary immortality
godhood gives true immortality, in fact it gives meta-immortality spanning universes
if Xykon's own words are to be believed, he's big on avoiding death, so he should at least consider it

>>97893570
Xykon would only ever accept that offer if he becomes the boss of ALL the Gods, instead of just another God in the system who now has to obey all those pesky rules they set without him.

>>97893712
eh, I don't buy it
I don't think the narrative is that unequivocal about him
I think you're inventing things a bit to fit your image of the character

>>97893721
I can assure you I am not Tsukiko. If anything, I'm not sure which part of my description of Xykon is being referred to as an invention.

>>97893570
>godhood gives true immortality, in fact it gives meta-immortality spanning universes
A bunch of the gods died, so that's definitely not true. The gods aren't even unique in surviving the destruction of worlds, the outsiders do that as well, so a powerful lich could probably manage it via dimensional fuckery.

>>97890260
truly Carthesian

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>>97890260
I'd have edited the n in last panel to a d but maybe that's just me

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>>97890993
Ken, alongside Ryu, is a character in Street Fighter. Ryu and Ken both use a martial art called Ansatsuken (assassination fist) which revolves around controlling a spiritual force known as Satsui no Hado (basically, killing intent). The move Hadoken, emblematic of all fighting game fireball moves, is a release of the hado.

>>97893960
Yeah, Gate spell inti Nine Hells, bargain for a villa on their olane and just live your life through the destruction of the world.
Presto chang-o

>>97893960
at the very least it gives much greater immortality than a phylactery
and "certainly become a god" beats "maybe survive dimensional wipe through unspecified shenanigans"

I'm not saying he would certainly go for godhood
I'm saying he might

>>97894044
>at the very least it gives much greater immortality than a phylactery
It's still immortality with an asterisk.

>>97894163
>>97894207
Sorry, didn't mean to post that twice, captcha is being really shitty and I can't delete one of the posts for some reason.

>>97893721
Xykon made it very clear he does not want to follow any rules, period. I could easily see him turning down godhood because it would heavily restrict what he is and isn't allowed to do which goes against everything he stands for.
That said, even with that I doubt the gods would make any deal with him anyways. They're already being incredibly stubborn about the idea of working with the Dark One even though his help could end the threat of the Snarl for all of eternity, and Xykon's even more of a wild card who would try to cause more problems.

>>97894276
It's not just you, the entire site has been insanely sluggish the last few days.

>>97894296
I know, it's extremely frustrating, and I always get frustrated when technology doesn't work properly for me, and it's even more frustrating because I can still see other people posting so it feels like I'm being singled out, which also pisses me off.

>>97894163
>It's still immortality with an asterisk.
whereas dimensional fuckery is oblivion with an asterisk

>>97894868
You remember Xykon's whole speech to V about how power isn't something you put on and take off like a jacket, it's something you just are, and that if you can lose your power by blowing two will saves, you never really had any power to begin with? Same goes for immortality. If there's any way to render you killable, you aren't really immortal. You've just indefinitely delayed the inevitable, you haven't actually escaped it.

>>97894896
okay? I don't disagree with you on that
but it doesn't change the fact that godhood means delaying the inevitable for much, much longer than mere lichdom
play your cards right and you extend the "escape" literally millionfold

>>97888660
That was the DM of the Rings guy.

>>97894896
>>97894919
I think the takeaway is that if Xykon is presented with an opportunity to become "more immortal" than he already is, he's going to take it.
Probably.
>>97888660
He did. His son took over the family business. So the comic is still going but it's a different writer now.

>>97895118
>He did. His son took over the family business. So the comic is still going but it's a different writer now.
Interesting to know! But no, >>97895039 got it right, I did confuse him with the DM of the Rings guy.

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>>97895039
RIP Shamus

>>97888350
>>97895039
Wait, those were not made by the same person?

>>97895297
Darths and Droids was inspired by DMotR and the guy who makes it is (according to Wikipedia) still alive, unlike Shamus Young who died in 2022.

>>97895297
>>97895315
Darths and Droids is a team effort, but mostly by David Morgan-Mar, the guy who also makes Irregular Webcomic.

>>97895118
he'd constantly seethe about all the things he's not allowed to do and has to empower a (((mortal))) to perform
just the way I like it

>>97892482
Unless Xykon could manifest a new pantheon color I don't think the gods would be interested. The only reason they haven't already wiped this world is because the dark one might bring something new to the table.
godhood just to get him to abandon his plan? I don't think either party would go for that... Which pantheon would even take him?

>>97886323
To be fair, he's got a good point

The only people he cares about are a succubus and a guy who was happy in hell anyway. His choices were either "destroy the universe and become an immortal demon prince" or "get punted back into the river styx"

>>97895964
I don't know, maybe getting to drink shitty coffee again would brighten his day.

>>97895964
He could drink shitty coffee again though!

>>97896217
>>97896410
>refresh page
>reload page
>go to catalog and back to thread
>nothing
>"okay guess I'll post again"
>post
>two posts go through
I hate this stupid site

>>97896411
best part is, those two posts are over an hour apart
I figured there is some weird queue/delay at the moment, but yours is an extreme case

although it is interesting seeing the edits anons make when they get to post the same message again

>>97886566
bot nigger

>>97895118
David Morgan-Mar is still alive as I understand it.

>>97890095
>Let me assure you, I do not want to destroy the world – that’s where all the best slaughter takes place, you know

>>97890108
It has a few updates. like 2 pages every other year or something.

>>97896157
>Which pantheon would even take him?
The evil exotic one, duh.

>>97902372
I would have said he could do like Vecna and basically just ascend for the sake of telling the other gods where they can stuff their rules and regulations and form his own pantheon with blackjack and undead hookers.

>>97902586
I think in that event, the other Gods sharing his quidity would simply gang up and kill him since the "rules and regulations" are in place to prevent the creation of another snarl which they are gravely afraid of.

>>97903125
Admittedly, I consider it more of a hypothetical since Xykon doesn’t strike me as the godly type, but you have a point. Even if I’m not sure they would have to fear a Snarl like that, anyone who would be part of a pantheon started by Xykon would be petty and greedy enough to kill him for his followers and stuff anyways.