Uh Oh!! Comic-countdown to doomsday!!

[TARINunit9]

Just thought I'd give my fellow forum-goers a fair warning. With six-hundred and sixteen comics, we're only 50 comics from the Armaggedon Comic!! double-check your lucky 666-proof underwears people!

I pity the fool who doesn't see my sarcasm
No, really! I pity him!

[The Minx]

In some early translations, 616 is in fact the number of the Beast, not 666. So we may already be there. :smallwink:

[TARINunit9]

In some early translations, 616 is in fact the number of the Beast, not 666. So we may already be there. :smallwink:

That's how I actually noticed it the first place!

[DeviledEggs]

Uh-oh!Hot dog!

Okay,seriously,but I think Rich is going to pull something like #600.

[TARINunit9]

Uh-oh!Hot dog!

Okay,seriously,but I think Rich is going to pull something like #600.

Would not be surprised in the slightest.

[Greep]

Uh-oh!Hot dog!

Okay,seriously,but I think Rich is going to pull something like #600.

can't do that too many times or it becomes lame tho :) Prolly will just outright ignore it.

[Trazoi]

There are demonic forces active in the story so far. It would be cute for a demon or devil to get a side joke in #666.

:sabine: What's my number?

[Tholok Razescar]

There are demonic forces active in the story so far. It would be cute for a demon or devil to get a side joke in #666.

:sabine: What's my number?

:belkar: 698. Get back in line, I'm killing THESE guys right now.

[SuperFish]

Perhaps hell and fire will be spawned to be released?

[NerfTW]

It would be amusing if Sabine or her employers managed to show up in that strip. And we are due for a Linear Guild cutaway soonish. We know they were heading for a gate, so maybe we'll see them setting up camp at Kraagor's gate for now?

(Although if Girard's gate is in the kingdom ruled by Nale and Elan's father, that wouldn't make much sense.)

[Hydro Globus]

There are demonic forces active in the story so far. It would be cute for a demon or devil to get a side joke in #666.

:sabine: What's my number?

That, or they (whoever's arc will be active at the moment) will just have a random encounter with a dinosaur. Or some other beast.

[someonenonotyou]

rich is probly going to have a fufu lovey-dovey one just to be funny :smallbiggrin:

[JaxGaret]

fufu

Frou frou.

[Liwen]

That would make a good end of book comic with some huge splash page of something really bad coming up for the next book, like

Redcloak and Xykon leaving for Girard's gate (about time)

[Starwaster]

We know they were heading for a gate, so maybe we'll see them setting up camp at Kraagor's gate for now?


They were headed for an ice cream parlor, first.

[Michaelart]

There are demonic forces active in the story so far. It would be cute for a demon or devil to get a side joke in #666.

:sabine: What's my number?

I have the feeling that Sabine would prefer #696 :smallbiggrin:

[Lord Seth]

In some early translations, 616 is in fact the number of the Beast, not 666. So we may already be there. :smallwink:I'm not sure how you can say they're "early translations" when the manuscripts in question are in the language it was originally written in...maybe you meant "early manuscripts"?

It's a tricky one as to which it is, though. IIRC, our earliest copies of Revelation (from the 3rd and 4th centuries) say "616" but Irenaeus, back in the 2nd century, wrote that according to people who knew the original author, "616" was a mistake and "666" was the correct one. Which one it is seems to depend on how much someone trusts in Irenaeus's writings.

[Arlion]

Maybe he will skip it,you know 665-667

[Assassin89]

Maybe he will skip it,you know 665-667

Or maybe there will be no theme for 666 as it could be part of a different story arc.

[planswalker]

somehow, i feel that that will most definitely be the case. The Giant will ignore it. but, something WILL happen on that day, something momentous for the beast. He will be BORN on that day!

[Needle]

#666 Qarr will appear as the new familiar of V, regardless if V was or wasn't back, but let's say something will happen to unleash this imp as V's second familiar, as it was so much speculated XP

[Haven]

I think I like 8-Bit Theater's approach. "It's just another comic, calm down."

[Hydro Globus]

I think I like 8-Bit Theater's approach. "It's just another comic, calm down."

Irregular Webcomic! did the same, but the random played a little with the author. One panel featured the DM with a rulebook and it - quite randomly - was a Beastiary. Since DMM is working with a huge buffer, I doubt he even knew that it's gonna be 666 (http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/666.html).

[Yoyoyo]

I think its too inviting a bad joke target not to be referenced. Ala, "Did you get the number of that beast?" that just ran over Elan, or Belkar making a sarcastic remark about someone's efforts in a single's bar or something equally horrible.

[Bedinsis]

My prediction(not so serious):

Someone's gonna cry in it.
In #222, Mrs. Dirtfarmer cried, in #333, Durkon cried and in #444, Haley cried.
Since nobody cried in #111 or #555, this is a rather uncertain prediction, however. Smells like a coincidence.

[Spiryt]

They will ecounter NPC called Bruce, who will shout " This can't go on, I must inform the law !".

[Thorin]

Nha. all the number-based prediction normally mean nothing at all. I mean, just check #600 (or #100)

[TARINunit9]

rich is probly going to have a fufu lovey-dovey one just to be funny:smallbiggrin:
:smallbiggrin: LOL!! That would be great!!! :smalltongue:


Maybe he will skip it,you know 665-667
Would not be surprised if that happened. I mean, on the west coast, lots of buildings skip the 13th floor...


I think I like 8-Bit Theater's approach.
"It's just another comic, calm down."
Although the least funny, that is one of my favorite possibilities.



My prediction(not so serious):

Someone's gonna cry in it.
In #222, Mrs. Dirtfarmer cried, in #333, Durkon cried and in #444, Haley cried.
Since nobody cried in #111 or #555, this is a rather uncertain prediction, however. Smells like a coincidence.
Hmm... not a bad idea!


Nha. all the number-based prediction normally mean nothing at all. I mean, just check #600 (or #100)
The most widely predicted possibility.

[Decoy Lockbox]

Perhaps hell and fire will be spawned to be released?


They will ecounter NPC called Bruce, who will shout " This can't go on, I must inform the law !".

Iron Maiden references for the win!

Speaking of that seminal album, I just found out that Dream Theater covered the entire album at one point.

[pendell]

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that 666 was probably not originally written in arabic numerals? If written in Latin, it is every numeric letter from 500 down, descending. Like so.

DCLXVI

What that means I have no idea. But it's a nifty progression. Of course, the original author probably wrote it in Greek (whatever that would look like), so it's probably moot.

Hmm .. what would 616 be ..

DCXVI

So it's precisely the same number, without the "L". Easy to see why that might be a typo.

Except, of course, that's latin alphabet and I'll wager the manuscript is in Greek.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Corwin Weber]

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that 666 was probably not originally written in arabic numerals? If written in Latin, it is every numeric letter from 500 down, descending. Like so.

DCLXVI

What that means I have no idea. But it's a nifty progression. Of course, the original author probably wrote it in Greek (whatever that would look like), so it's probably moot.

Hmm .. what would 616 be ..

DCXVI

So it's precisely the same number, without the "L". Easy to see why that might be a typo.

Except, of course, that's latin alphabet and I'll wager the manuscript is in Greek.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

Like the vast majority of the New Testament, Revelation would have been originally written in Greek. (Koine Greek specifically. Even in the Empire, educated people usually wrote in Greek even when day to day work was done in Latin.) The symbolism and numerology (and the associated coded messages to other Jews/early Christians) behind it were strictly Hebrew.

[Bedinsis]

Another interesting fact about the number 666:
It's the sum of every wholenumber from 1 to 6^2, i.e. 1+2+3+...+35+36=666.

[mroozee]

[regarding 616 and 666 in Roman numerals]
Except, of course, that's latin alphabet and I'll wager the manuscript is in Greek.

You may want to pick your language first, and then find your justification. Some early manuscripts use 616, which could be a code for either Caligula (Gaius Caligula Caesar) or Nero (Nero Caesar) transliterated into Hebrew, while others use 666, often thought a code for the Greek name of Nero (Neron Kaisar) transliterated into Hebrew. If it really was meant to be in latin, it could be an acronym about Domitianus Caesar. And no, I don't really know that much about all of this... but I do have access to Wikipedia :)


Another interesting fact about the number 666:
It's the sum of every wholenumber from 1 to 6^2, i.e. 1+2+3+...+35+36=666.

It's also the sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers.

[TARINunit9]

Another interesting fact about the number 666:
It's the sum of every wholenumber from 1 to 6^2, i.e. 1+2+3+...+35+36=666.

It's also the sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers.

So what, math is evil now? :smalleek:

Again, sarcasm. I know it's obvious, but I don't want anyone taking my sacasm seriously; they're a real headache to sort out

[Dublock]

nah, in that comic Roy will finally be brought back to life:smallyuk:

[OOTS_Supporter]

I think this will happen:

The same banter in #600, but the last panel is a cut-away to something terrible, like a well known character death.

[EmperorSarda]

So what, math is evil now?


Now? Math has always been evil. If you don't believe me, take a university level calculus class.

[pendell]

Or Pythagoras. In addition to making a well-known theorem, his view of mathematics was quite -- metaphysical.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Optimystik]

I think I like 8-Bit Theater's approach. "It's just another comic, calm down."

There's my vote.


Now? Math has always been evil. If you don't believe me, take a university level calculus class.

The horror... The horror...!

[Kilbia]

No love for Questionable Content's treatment of the phenomenon?
(WARNING: If the title of the strip makes you hesitate, then don't click. It's probably not as bad as you fear, but I have no idea how badly you fear. =)

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=666

[TARINunit9]

Now? Math has always been evil. If you don't believe me, take a university level calculus class.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight........ .............

Oh, sorry! I forgot that humans don't have the advantage of a TI-97 in thier brains. :smallredface:

[CrimsonAngel]

i think belkar does samoething evil :belkar:

[Dave Rapp]

On #666, the Snarl's prison suddenly fails, it breaks out, kills everybody.