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Zillatain
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Post Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:01 pm |
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It is Halloween today. So it will give you a Trick or a Treat --depending on your constitution-- about the Eye-Gouger series. Warning: It is a long read, but it does have surprise at the end. Secondary Warning: This will contain some mild spoilers for the webcomic Homestuck. Tertiary Warning: Homestuck is over 10000 pages long and has something like 3 or 4 novels worth of dialogue.Part One:I really had no idea what I was going to do. Only had the idea that Riff had no glasses/eyes and Torg would draw "something" in place. Tried "Torg eyes", googly eyes, x-ray eyes, anime eyes, but couldn't really come up with something that really worked. After trying that for awhile, it finally occurred to me that Dirk's glasses from the webcomic Homestuck were very similar to Riff's glasses. Dirk talks a lot, acts very cool, and is actually very smart. And eventually he becomes the "Prince of Heart".
Only problem with going this direction was that most people have no clue what is going on and now it became a series and not just a one-shot comic as originally thought. Also the entire run was going to reference Homestuck. No idea how long though.Part 02:The red glasses are from a troll named Terezi. She is blind and has enhanced her senses of taste and smell to a degree that she is now able to "see" color with those senses. She has a quirk where A, E, & I are replaced with 4, 3, & 1 respectively. I don't think she ever tried to lick someone's face but she has sniffed some people a little too much and creeped them out.Part 03:With Torg's blue crayon, he turns one of the lenses blue. Now Riff has the powers of the Troll named Sollux. He has telekinesis which he rarely is see using. Also because of his incredible psionic abilities, he hears the "Voices of the Doomed" all the time. His quirk is doubling all "I"s, replacing S with 2, and using two instead of to or too.
Riff hears the voices of the doomed...tacos (which you can see as well if you look closely) and uses his new telekinetic ability to restrain Torg on the ceiling so he can't get the tacos. At this point I knew exactly how the last panel of the last strip was going to end and it was going to be about 6 or 7 strips long.Part 04:Had to make many alterations to the original artwork to make this one work. Tried to find a better Kiki to use but had to make due with what was close enough and alter as needed. The Poppers like the tacos were calling out to Riff for him to eat them. But unlike the tacos they are a bit more...well, you can see what they are saying if you look closely. Also I'm not sure if it's clear, but Riff is levitating the book for Kiki to read. Kiki has very good taste in reading material.
Torg is getting tired of being stuck on the ceiling so he draws and throws Equius' glasses down, and cracks them. Equius is a Troll who is monstrously strong. He unintentionally breaks things all the time. One reason his glasses are perpetually cracked. He has a quirk where he uses horse and cow puns when speaking.Part 05:This one became way to wordy and I really should have split this one up into two to bridge from this one to the ending. Equius sweats profusely when he is uncomfortable about something. Seeing a bucket laying out in the open in someone's room would be one of those thing to most Trolls. Not wanting to give away too much, but seeing a bucket would be somewhat equivalent to seeing porn magazines laying all over the place in a human's bedroom. He has no problem with the towels.Part 06:Not much to say here. It is pretty self explanatory that sweat, drawn glasses, and a towel do not mix. Though we are now in a loop. Pete didn't forget to draw his glasses, Riff wiped them off because they were only drawn by Torg which are not nearly as good as Pete's ink.Well there you go. I do not really expect to revisit the Eye Gouger Saga.  This should be playing back smoothly. If not, you probably have something in another tab messing with it.---- Vote for Sluggy Freelance at Top Web Comics. Remember to vote EACH day.
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FullMetalArchivist
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:10 am |
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Okay, Roberts is definitely a little crazy.
Maybe we will finally find out what Schlock wants with the fire.
Also, how does Roberts even hide his face in the shadows like that when there aren't any shadows? Must be a Dr. Steve clone thing.
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I wonder if this has been about K'z'k this whole time.
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slightlylooney
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:14 am |
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Roberts looks a touch deranged in panel 4.
Also, poor Oasis. All these people wrestling for control over her. Have any of them actually considered that she might have an opinion about things?
Hmm, Oasis, Daedalus and Roberts all consider Dr Steve to be their father. So they must be, at least, half-siblings. Sasha/Kusari also calls Oasis sister so she is a sibling of theirs too. This is a really strange family we have here. It does sound like a perfect set-up for a sitcom.
It'll be even better when the Zalias are added into the mix as adopted family.
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Spirantz
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:09 am |
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slightlylooney wrote: Roberts looks a touch deranged in panel 4.
Also, poor Oasis. All these people wrestling for control over her. Have any of them actually considered that she might have an opinion about things?
Hmm, Oasis, Daedalus and Roberts all consider Dr Steve to be their father. So they must be, at least, half-siblings. Sasha/Kusari also calls Oasis sister so she is a sibling of theirs too. This is a really strange family we have here. It does sound like a perfect set-up for a sitcom.
It'll be even better when the Zalias are added into the mix as adopted family. Photoshoppers! Get your Brady Bunch meme on!
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Silverwalker
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:07 am |
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Noo! I hope Oasis didn't hear that last order. Things were going so well, with the "free yourself from your binds" order, and the "buy more bitcoins and sell when they increase in value" order.
Oh wait, maybe that last one was only in my head. Oh well, time to go currency speculating. I guess THAT spec is allowed at least.
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:30 am |
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Happy Halloween! I like the new Halloween banner for sluggy.com Schlock's face looked as surprised as mine did yesterday! slightlylooney wrote: Roberts looks a touch deranged in panel 4. Just a touch
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:06 am |
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Of course, Chen dropped the phone, so the watch won't hear him.
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Spirantz
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:49 am |
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Given the situation, I would have done the same thing as Roberts.
And I'd have expected a raise afterwards. Not a scolding.
Beware, Schlock! Nobody likes poor management!
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Rombobjörn
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:13 am |
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slightlylooney wrote: Hmm, Oasis, Daedalus and Roberts all consider Dr Steve to be their father. So they must be, at least, half-siblings. Well, a clone is basically a child who inherits all their genes from a single parent. (Almost. If the cloning technique used is that of replacing the nucleus in a fertilized egg cell, then the child inherits their entire nuclear genome from one parent and the mitochondrial genome from another parent, but the mitochondrial genome is so tiny that I'll disregard it.) Steve was Daedalus' and Roberts' only parent (if Chen told the truth), and he was a man, so that makes him their father. If the Oasis bodies are clones of Sin'Thea La'Mort, then Sin'Thea is their only biological parent, but Oasis was apparently raised by Steve (if what he did can be called "raise"), so he can be considered her adoptive father. That makes her an adoptive sister to Daedalus and Roberts.
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gevmage
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:30 pm |
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Kesandru wrote: I wonder if this has been about K'z'k this whole time. I have spec about this in the WOHPAOH thread in Chat.
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Rreed423
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:23 pm |
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Is that the Great Pumpkin at the top of the comic page?
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:46 pm |
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I’m totally fine with the comic not being every day, but I wish I knew when to log in. Little disorienting to miss a few days and not know if you’ve missed a comic or not (at least on my mobile browser, I can’t just hit ‘back’. I have to go back a chapter, scroll through, then click ‘next chapter’ to get to the next-to-last). It’s also disorienting with the pace- I’m losing track of things that happened a month ago that would have been 9 days ago. Been reading Sluggy for 17 years and want to see this through, but the uncertain schedule sure has made that tough.
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Zillatain
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:56 pm |
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Lauren_In_Cali wrote: I’m totally fine with the comic not being every day, but I wish I knew when to log in. Little disorienting to miss a few days and not know if you’ve missed a comic or not (at least on my mobile browser, I can’t just hit ‘back’. I have to go back a chapter, scroll through, then click ‘next chapter’ to get to the next-to-last). It’s also disorienting with the pace- I’m losing track of things that happened a month ago that would have been 9 days ago. Been reading Sluggy for 17 years and want to see this through, but the uncertain schedule sure has made that tough. That seems like an odd way you are doing it. Clicking on "View in Archives" then scrolling up to a strip you remember I think would be easier. Of course there is another way that would make it less likely for you to "spoil" things for you. Use your Bookmark on the last strip you read. Go to your Profile and click on the bookmark and it will take you right to the last one you read. Just remember to re-bookmark it when you get to the end.
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