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    I don't get the last panel.

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    Amusing as always, Giant. Thank you!

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    Or mabye she was bitten by a radioactive ninja. I'm still laughing. Also, the batman and Odssy jokes were great too.

    I have some of the old batman comics, and jokes like that crack me up.

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    "Greg initiative"?

    Did I just see a LOST REFRENCE?!
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    Arf so great Rich I loved the last panel with Odysseus and the Cyclop I had to laugh out loud !

    And that explain the title too :D
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    I don't get the last panel.
    It's a joke from the Oddesy, where they land on the island full of cyclops.
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    Yeah. hahaha.

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    any one here get the lost referance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSK View Post
    I don't get the last panel.
    Its Odysseus meeting the CYCLOPS. heh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSK View Post
    I don't get the last panel.
    From the Odyssey, Odysseus going to the island and meeting a Cyclops.

    Rather than the regular Cyclops he ends up meeting Scott "Cyclops" Summers of the X-Men.
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    Great comic, I love the still not evil when she uses detect evil
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    Nice, Cyclops, I shall become a ninja!
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    In anwser to your question......................

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    Hilarity, Elan is still a moron. Go ninja superhero chick too.
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    Heh, I liked they Odyssey reference. And the "radioactive ninja" line. And the "Still not Evil" thing. All in all, a good comic!

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    Great, staying up late payed of in more than one way.

    Good comic, but I too didn't get the last panel. Now, it makes sense. Lost refference was good and overall, good comic. However, I hope they get around to main plot soon. Elan idiotism(personal opinion) is starting to get on my nerves.
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    Generally, I think that Order of the Stick is the best webcomic ever, but sometimes it has strips that are just painful for me to read... The Therkla/Batman panel was especially painful. And I still don't get the connection between the final panel and Odysseus, though that's mostly because I don't remember the details of that incident. I just now got the full meaning behind the title, though.

    EDIT: Okay, I just now found the "Greg Initiative" thing, and even knowing it's supposed to be a Lost reference (I don't watch that show), I don't get "Station 32: The Smiley Face" at all...
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    Oh, that was ****ing hilarious, Rich. Sorry for the cuss words, but that was ****ing hilarious.

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    okay, Elan's getting a bit annoying now. Like the X-Men refrence, although I saw that in a foxtrot...
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    Great comic as always!

    I don't know any Ninja-Clown-Pirate-Robot-Monkeys out there... but Kingdom of Loathing has a mean Ninja-Pirate-Robot-Zombie.... oh the horror!

    The Ninja falling though the window made me laugh... I just finished re-reading Batman the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller last night... Good stuff!

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    Wonderful as ever. The cyclops part at the end was comedic gold.

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    Since are people who don't get the references, try these links:

    Panel 1: The logo is that of the Dharma Initiative from the TV series Lost, which takes place on an island very much like this one.

    Panel 4: "The Greg Initiative" is both a reference to the above, and the sitcom Dharma and Greg. The "cowardly and superstitious" criminals line is a reference to the wording of Batman's origin story.

    Panel 5: A replica of the famous panel from Batman's original origin story, where a bat flies in the window and inspires him to be Batman. The dialogue is a direct lift from the panel, with "ninja" substituted for "bat".

    Panel 6: Elan also references Spider-Man's origin, substituting "ninja" for "spider".

    Panel 10: Diago refers to the fact that the TV show Lost uses frequent flashbacks to earlier parts of each character's life.

    Panel 11: Odysseus, the bow-wielding hero of Homer's Odyssey, encounters a cyclops shepherd on his way back to Ithaca. Here, that cyclops is instead played by superhero Cyclops (a.k.a. Scott Summers), leader of the X-men.

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    Is that a Latern character (Lighthouse of Rhodes, ancient wonder)?

    EDIT: Foo, I was thinking of Alexandria (which had the lighthouse). Okay, now that makes sense.
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    Oh my, that was freaking hilarious! I loved that last panel joke! The title joke too! YAY comic book humor!

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    I don't get the Rhodes thing, but a decent comic in terms of moving the plot along and making a few jokes along the way.
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    Many thanks to SPoD above for analysing the references, they had me quite confused there.

    As for the greengirl, she's a real ninja alright. Notice how she confuses her enemies just by running in front of them without even saying anything

    Also, X-Men reference ftw!
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    Yay for ninja themed superheroes....way better than a stupid bat or wolverine or some other weird animal


    and nice dodge on the detect evil
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