Things You Never Noticed VI: The Undiscovered Detail

[Ron Miel]

I just noticed that the Deva disappears along with Durkon. Does that mean the Deva will be present when Durkon is resurrected.

No more than the limosine appeared when Roy was rezzed.

[martianmister]

how hard it it to tell front and back in a stick figure comic.

Is that a thing?

[Ruck]

By my calculations, it takes thirty escaped slaves on fire to spell "ELAN," which puts Vaarsuvius' estimate on the conservative side.

[martianmister]

By my calculations, it takes thirty escaped slaves on fire to spell "ELAN," which puts Vaarsuvius' estimate on the conservative side.

Interestingly, there is exactly 26 freed slaves, if we count them all as seperate persons, in here.

[Gift Jeraff]

Presumably the guard Haley knocked out and the 3 guards hit by V's spell were executed for their failure.

[ti'esar]

Pulling a "you have failed me" specifically to meet an aesthetic goal does sound extremely Tarquin.

[Resileaf]

Tsukiko's slippers are the same colors as her eyes.

[Aveline]

Roy really does resemble the King of Nowhere.

[Mad Humanist]

Belkar's alibi for the dinosaur escape is that he was "taking the biggest dump since Elan assigned his Intelligence score". I always thought this was an unlikely excuse since Belkar had been living on prison food.

Then I remembered that Belkar was actually sitting at the head of the table as far as prison food goes. In fact he had never eaten so much bread in his life.

Ironically today I walked into a houseblock office to find the prison officers discussing how one of the prisoners had managed to block his toilet.

[Caerulea]

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Eugene is finally ready to fulfill his blood oath against... Zyklon the Consequential!
And then Tarquin calls that sub-boss that Elan is so worried about Zyklon.

[Laze]

You can see Hilgya at the seventh panel with a cart of gold. It took me three times looking at the page to notice it.

[Kish]

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Eugene is finally ready to fulfill his blood oath against... Zyklon the Consequential!
And then Tarquin calls that sub-boss that Elan is so worried about Zyklon.

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The hordling was Xyklon. X, not Z.

[Caerulea]

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The hordling was Xyklon. X, not Z.

Dang it, memory. That's what I get for not checking before posting.

[godsflunky]

On the other hand, Caerulea...

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Rich may have made the name similar but not identical, as just a few panels before, Tarquin essentially describes the montage in On the Origin of PCs, only flipped in who's rejecting whom.

Or heck, maybe Rich made the same mistake you did!

[Caerulea]

On the other hand, Caerulea...

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Rich may have made the name similar but not identical, as just a few panels before, Tarquin essentially describes the montage in On the Origin of PCs, only flipped in who's rejecting whom.

Or heck, maybe Rich made the same mistake you did!

I choose to believe that's what happened.

[Procyonpi]

In 436, the arrow at the beginning that bounces off the Zombie Tragon and V's protection from Arrows spell isn't just a random arrow, but the poison one the guy Belkar killed tried to use against Hinjo. If you look carefully it was fired in the previous strip as Belkar was knocking him down. I had previously assumed it was just never fired.

[Peelee]

In 436, the arrow at the beginning that bounces off the Zombie Tragon and V's protection from Arrows spell isn't just a random arrow, but the poison one the guy Belkar killed tried to use against Hinjo. If you look carefully it was fired in the previous strip as Belkar was knocking him down. I had previously assumed it was just never fired.

It narrowly misses a lot of the people that were in Belkar list of killable people that the Oracle predicted he would kill. It was a really big tease at the time (or if its your first read through and you catch onto it).

[Vinyadan]

It narrowly misses a lot of the people that were in Belkar list of killable people that the Oracle predicted he would kill. It was a really big tease at the time (or if its your first read through and you catch onto it).

Nice, I had never noticed it had anything to do with the prophecy,

[jwhouk]

You know, taking a fiftieth look at the last panel of 1149, that's a sneaky commentary/author-self-insert with Hilgya's comment, Mr. Burlew...

[Turin_19]

In 938, Julio states he 'needs a wardrobe change'. Next we see him, in 943, he indeed changed pants and shirt.

[D.One]

You know, taking a fiftieth look at the last panel of 1149, that's a sneaky commentary/author-self-insert with Hilgya's comment, Mr. Burlew...

"I'm Rich now..." LOL

On the other hand, I've just now noticed this "footshadowing".

[Fyraltari]

"I'm Rich now..." LOL

On the other hand, I've just now noticed this "footshadowing".

Do you mean this one?

[D.One]

Do you mean this one?

WOW. That's indeed one of the oldest foreshadowings of the comic.

[Ron Miel]

I don't get it. What is being foreshadowed, or even footshadowed? In either comic?

[Fyraltari]

Haley's boots of speed. It's more of a Chekov's gun if you want to get technical, though.

[Resileaf]

Haley's boots of speed. It's more of a Chekov's gun if you want to get technical, though.

If you mention the boots of speed on the third page, you must have them referenced hundreds of strips later and finally used for a minor boss character hundreds of pages even later.
It's the oldest trope in the book.

[Gift Jeraff]

The boots' later return is a callback to that old strip, not the other way around.

[D.One]

The boots' later return is a callback to that old strip, not the other way around.

A callback to a foreshadowing... OMG! We have an infinite loop of references

[Lord Torath]

On the other hand, I've just now noticed this "footshadowing".

I just noticed that Haley's charictaristically-out-of-place strand of hair (panel 7) is not out of place in that "footshadowing" strip! Possibly because her hair's not in a ponytail.

[snowblizz]

Oh and to add to the footwear thing. What is young Haley wearing here?

She has owned the fore ages and not used them due to a petty squabble with another girl. And the basis of their mutual hatred. Fashion.