Progress on Chapter 11 is a little slow due to scheduling and sick. I am about seven pages in, but would like to have more done (I'd like to be done with it and halfway through 12 by the time this chapter ends, but you can't always get what you want).
Mellie would have a fit if she saw what Narla was doing.....lol
ReplyDeleteI'm actually kind of scared of Narla: This far, all the other girls were scary, in a genuinely lovecraftian way, yes, but your Narla (if that is her) gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies... And we've seen more of her than the archaeoplasm at the same point in the chapter!
ReplyDeleteEver read English fairy tales? Like the old ones in books that smell like your old great grandmother? One thing I learned from them is that if a mysterious female suddenly asks you for something out of the blue like that, YOU DO IT OUT OF CHARITY. No questions asked.
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ReplyDeleteHmm... Lain comes to mind regarding the Internet girl... *wonders curiously*
I also wonder whether the bills-request being 'easy' was in the neutral-benevolent genie 'easy to get you enough untraceable money that you'll have as much as you could have wanted' sense, or in the the apathetic-{non-benevolent} genie 'easy to render you incapable of worrying about bills or anything else for that matter' sense... that car doesn't /seem/ to be on fire or smoking, but that could hypothetically be blood making the windows opaque... though there's none on the speaker... so probably deliberately ambiguous? Or maybe not ambiguous at all, and I'm just reading too much into it...? No, probably ambiguous, no matter whether there's a reveal later or not. Hmm. Somewhat mean-spirited if the second option given the 'anything you want' offer seemingly made and taken in good faith, but it sort of makes sense if interpreted as a favoured pastime. --Particularly if being on call not fully happily and enjoying twisting things to spite others as a hobby. I should probably just watch...
General pleasantness.
Narla is definitely one of the creepiest characters yet. I can't wait to see more of her. :)
ReplyDeleteI had /just/ been visiting The Unspeakable Vault, another Lovecraft inspired comic, where the shoggoth catchphrase is "oooh sooo coool."
...then, I switched over to Ow My Sanity just as the human-flavoured archeoplasm said the same thing. I don't know if it was deliberate or not, but I snorted my drink up my nose. ;-)
Love the comic!
Man, loving this comic! The contrast between the magical girlfriend bits that seem oh-so-familiar, and the terrifying and utterly alien cosmic horror really appeals to me. I think after reading it through the first time, I wound up with an expression of slackjawed glee/horror/utter rejection that such a thing could exist for the next half hour or so. AWESOME.
ReplyDelete1st panel: "huh, her arm's at an awkward angle, is Adam slipp...
ReplyDelete2nd panel: Ooohhh... Wait, WTF?
3rd panel: (Bartlett interacting with thing I thought was just a detail in the comic... he and I share a reaction)
About "bad protoplasm."
ReplyDeleteYou, sir, just made my day.
Just found the comic (via TVtropes... I suppose that, devart, and word of mouth are the only links in?) and I must say that anyone who can make sketches simultaneously this adorable and this terrifying is a genius. As is anything that becomes one of my favorite webcomics, alongside OotS, Sluggy, and Schlock, after less than a year's run.
ReplyDeleteI presume, a typo in the 12-14 comic, second speech bubble? was it meant to be, "...afford THE house myself right NOW, let alone TO take her out..."
ReplyDeleteEven that doesn't scan correctly to me, but it's speech so there's a lot of leeway. Also, the person speaking is probably insane in such a way it spins around back to seemingly sane, but still...
You are correct, that sentence is riddled with typo demons.
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