The Monstrous Misadventures of Rusty & Co.

[Anarchic Fox]

I think it's likely we get to see the Derro circus again later down the line, there's still two verses of Derro names to go through. (We met Steak Knife, Card Shark, Con Job, and Boot Cut in Level 7.)

That is a fantastic reference, thank for pointing it out.

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-57

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the safest place

[Anarchic Fox]

I like how, on the previous page, the two antagonists have distinctive speech bubbles reflecting their personalities (one twisty, one blockish).

[Lord Torath]

Update: Level 11-59
Obviously something big is coming!

[lord_khaine]

It seems clear some jerk has animated the castle.

[Anarchic Fox]

I thought it was shaking because it was infested top to bottom with fungus, and got sprayed with a potent fungicide a few pages ago.

[theangelJean]

I thought it was shaking because it was infested top to bottom with fungus, and got sprayed with a potent fungicide a few pages ago.

The potent fungicide was given to Malevolus for future use - the Viscount was spraying something else on the castle in 11-55. Someone pointed out in the comments for that strip that the fungicide was green, whereas the spritz the Viscount was using is blue. They reckoned it was the golem dust...

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-61

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RUN AWAY

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-62

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the Castle is running too

[Forum Explorer]

Update: Level 11-62

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the Castle is running too

That's one way to steal the treasury I guess.

[Pax1138]

Just finished binging the archives, and thought this comic was pretty good! Art and writing has greatly improved as the comic has gone on, and the author seems dedicated and consistent, which is always nice. He even throws in little audience participation moments, like voting which characters would show up in this chapter, and that kind of thing is always fun.

[theangelJean]

That's one way to steal the treasury I guess.

Is there anything important IN the treasury? They just recovered one Artifact but haven't brought it back yet, a second has just been stolen by an impish little thing, and the magic 8 ball was already replaced by a fake before it exploded, right?

[Forum Explorer]

Is there anything important IN the treasury? They just recovered one Artifact but haven't brought it back yet, a second has just been stolen by an impish little thing, and the magic 8 ball was already replaced by a fake before it exploded, right?

I mean they are going to have some problems paying to rebuild the castle without a treasury.

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-67

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Rhino to the rescue

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-71

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(How to) Stop it ?!

[Lord Torath]

Update: Level 11-73

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Never mind, it stopped itself! Now the question is how to get it back in place. Although, I suppose Angellissa might be able to help.

[theangelJean]

Will that be enough, though?

[Lord Torath]

Will that be enough, though?

You mean for stopping the shell? I suspect so. But we'll just have to wait for (at least) two weeks to find out.

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-74

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Bing

The end is near ! Last questions, please !

[theangelJean]

That's one powerful being.

Rusty and Mimic's quest was to find powerful artefacts. Cube's quest was to ... root out the conspiracy? Which he was clearly working very hard on, but I don't know how much progress we've seen. The events of this Level may have given the audience a little bit of a look, but I don't know if the characters are going to learn anything. Not that that detracts from the story, just keeping track of where we're up to.

Comic page commenters seem to be assuming the fungus is separate from Oozanka. I wonder if she noticed it.

[Lord Torath]

New strip!

Negotiations can be tricky!

Also, rather difficult to post comments without a "captcha". Although maybe that's just me.

[Laurentio III]

Also, rather difficult to post comments without a "captcha". Although maybe that's just me.

Me too.

By the way, this is probably the biggest estate moviment before the Castle of Howl and after that one time Uncle Scrooge put tracks under the money bin.

[hajo]

Update: Level 11-76

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Bagel-delivery is a bit late

[theangelJean]

Yeah ... I'm still waiting to see where this is going. This chapter has been an adventure and we learnt something, but I'm still not really sure what is going on.

[hajo]

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next chapter soon

[theangelJean]

I always forget that Critical Missives is a week of mailbag comics, not just one, and they come out on days other than Wednesday. (This chapter we've had #56-#60.) For some reason I keep expecting them to drop only one a week.

[hajo]

Update: Level 12-3

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Stakeout-ettiquette

[Agi Hammerthief]

Update: Level 12-3

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Stakeout-ettiquette

she probably only knows „steak out“ etiquette.

[Lord Torath]

Update: Level 12-5

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Sometimes one princess just isn't enough!

[theangelJean]

Update: Level 12-6

Completely tangentially, I love the perspective in the last panel.