#753: "Prepare to be proved wrong!" [Archive]

Michael Morris

10-06-2006, 11:24 PM

Well, at least none of them have a sanity score to worry about. They all went nuts about 400 episodes ago - except black mage: he's always been out of his mind; and fighter: he doesn't have a mind.

Darkmoon

10-06-2006, 11:42 PM

It's gonna be great to see how this turns out. =D

And, cheers for referring to Day of the Tentacle in the title. That game is hilarious.

Truec

10-06-2006, 11:43 PM

*Looks at comic title*

Clevinger, for the love of God, TELL ME THAT DR. FRED IS IN THAT TEMPLE SOMEWHERE!

Or Weird Ed. I'm fully willing to accept Weird Ed. Or even Dead Cousin Ted. Not Edna, she scares me, but any other Edison is acceptable.

greed

10-07-2006, 12:08 AM

Y'know what I'm hearing?

Tentacle Rape!

Giggitty-giggitty ewww....

Ahh well probably beats the hammer, that ant hill analogy still gives me nightmares.

Maur

10-07-2006, 12:14 AM

I fully expecting the comic to switch to another few rounds of the Dark Warriors before we got to see whatever gets summoned (presumably the guardian of the next orb). I'm happily proven wrong.

bass_virus

10-07-2006, 12:14 AM

Panel 6 is the best ever, also u gotta love how they blame BM when this is more their fault than his. Also i just realized that Ur is the name of a demon from World of Warcraft.

MFok

10-07-2006, 12:33 AM

Absolutely brilliant Brian. Nyeh nyeh nyeh myeh myeh MYEH myeh myeh myeh. Perfect expression too :P

Also absolutely have to love RM's respons to Thief. "Prepare to be proven wrong!"

Chrismith

10-07-2006, 12:46 AM

Oh dear lord, that's not a tentacle!

(Seriously, what's the thing in the middle?)

Long-Haired Narcissist

10-07-2006, 12:50 AM

Y'know what I'm hearing?

Tentacle Rape!
I was thinking more along the lines of
:bbelt: That wasn't a tentacle! I'M NOT GAY!
all over again
edit:Gah ninja'd! Curse you Chrismith

greed

10-07-2006, 12:57 AM

Also i just realized that Ur is the name of a demon from World of Warcraft.

Technically Ur is the name of an ancient Babylonian(I think, somewhere like that anyway) god and a cool sounding name for a god at that, hence it's tendency to be the namesake of gods in fictional works.

Seran

10-07-2006, 01:05 AM

My eyes are burning with insanity.

Cybren

10-07-2006, 01:49 AM

Technically Ur is the name of an ancient Babylonian(I think, somewhere like that anyway) god and a cool sounding name for a god at that, hence it's tendency to be the namesake of gods in fictional works.
True story! Ur was one of the first cities in civilization itself!

Meister

10-07-2006, 02:22 AM

Last thing I heard Ur was even the oldest city they ever found. By the way, in German there's the word "uralt" which translates to "as old as ur." I see it as my duty to educate you.

greed

10-07-2006, 03:32 AM

Cool, I knew it was a Babylonian something though, just got confused by how often I've heard it as the name of a god in media, thanks Meister and Cybren.

Truspeaker

10-07-2006, 04:07 AM

I saw on the history channel once that Damascus was the oldest city in the world. Man I love that channel.

Mad Jack the Pirate

10-07-2006, 05:18 AM

Sky Warrior Bob

10-07-2006, 05:47 AM

http://dadott.reelfilm.com/

Well it does seem somewhat relevant.

SWB

Amake

10-07-2006, 06:43 AM

"Ur" in swedish means ancient, original or primal. Urd is the oldest of the Norns, too.

Heliomance

10-07-2006, 07:31 AM

What, like in Creatures?

BetaRuler

10-07-2006, 09:17 AM

Was I the only one to notice Black Mage wearing blood free clean robes in the last panel? Where does all that blood suddenly dissapear off to!?

Massacre

10-07-2006, 09:27 AM

Was I the only one to notice Black Mage wearing blood free clean robes in the last panel? Where does all that blood suddenly dissapear off to!?

The less you know about that, the better.

*Rolls dice for sanity check, curses, and then starts gibbering*

Can you guess what RPG book I found last week? :D

Sky Warrior Bob

10-07-2006, 09:36 AM

The less you know about that, the better.

*Rolls dice for sanity check, curses, and then starts gibbering*

Can you guess what RPG book I found last week? :D

Paranoia?

SWB

Massacre

10-07-2006, 09:41 AM

Paranoia?

SWB

Hmmm... That DOES involve sanity and gibbering, plus it's alot of fun (like Ninja Burger), but no! I was more or less referencing the comic by alluding to the fact that I have the Call of Cthulhu handbook, which features a ton of horrid abominable info and the original story by H.P. Lovecraft.

*Resumes gibbering as a 90-foot tall spawn of Shub-Niggurath ambles on by*

Hyarion

10-07-2006, 12:17 PM

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
'Nuff Said.

Zilcho

10-07-2006, 03:03 PM

"Prepare to be proved wrong!"

I think that's one of the greatest lines by RM in quite a while.

8-Bit Idiot

10-07-2006, 07:33 PM

FINALLY!!! Krakken makes himself known!

Monstructor

10-07-2006, 07:41 PM

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
'Nuff Said.

We speak English in this country. And French.

Monstructor

10-07-2006, 08:00 PM

Also, Wikipedia says that Ur was a city sacred to the moon goddess, Nanna. Interestingly enough, Nanna was the name of Balder's wife in Norse mythology.

Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope

10-07-2006, 09:37 PM

Y'know what I'm hearing?

Tentacle Rape!

I hope he asks where the nearest Japanese school is. I would die a happy man is i were to read those words on Tuesday.

DarkLadyNyara

10-07-2006, 10:01 PM

I hope he asks where the nearest Japanese school is. I would die a happy man is i were to read those words on Tuesday.
That would be great. :D

voodooKobra

10-08-2006, 04:04 AM

This Ur reminds me of the Cthulu-like beast Black Belt fought, only flipped horizontally. And of a better color quality.

Nucleus

10-08-2006, 05:31 AM

Because the gods are 16-bit.

paladinz_dude

10-08-2006, 10:52 AM

Is it just me or are the Light Warriors all trying to take the heat off of themselves lately?

http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060729
http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060826

Khael!

10-08-2006, 03:22 PM

Funny, I figured Ur was short for Jnn'efur.

Zuntrios

10-09-2006, 08:47 AM

Funny, I figured Ur was short for Jnn'efur.
That's what I thought too.

Kurosen

10-09-2006, 09:46 AM

Me too.

Massacre

10-09-2006, 12:26 PM

Me too.

Hey hey hey! You're not allowed to have revelations like that! You created the comic and wrote the gags! Saying you had a revelation of knowledge that you already had is like taking Thomas Edison's lightbulb from the past and bringing it to the future to proclaim it's yours and causing a temporal incursion and false premise of causality which-

Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.

:ninja: And now, I'm a Ninja-Burger employee.

Khael!

10-09-2006, 02:58 PM

Naah, it happens like that all the time. The artist's characters and world evolves to become so in-depth that sometimes, the revelations get out of sequence.

Like I get this little picture in my head of my antihero saying something incredibly cool and plot-related, and then I go "Oh, shit! He's sending mercenaries against the capital city already!? Now what am I supposed to draw??" Who had the idea first? Me or the character?

revelation + :rmage: = world go boom

...this is why you shouldn't try to understand the guys with negative sanity scores. Or the one guy who's sanity score is represented by a complex equation of awesome power.

Myst

10-09-2006, 03:42 PM

Hmmm... That DOES involve sanity and gibbering, plus it's alot of fun (like Ninja Burger), but no! I was more or less referencing the comic by alluding to the fact that I have the Call of Cthulhu handbook, which features a ton of horrid abominable info and the original story by H.P. Lovecraft.

*Resumes gibbering as a 90-foot tall spawn of Shub-Niggurath ambles on by*
Which one, the original or the D20 remake? I've been wanting to track down either, just curious. Also, where'd you manage to find something that horribly scarring?

13leafclovers

10-09-2006, 05:00 PM

Sorry to interrupt the flow of the conversation, but I just have a question. Maybe it's just me, but weren't the Light Warriors' souls supposed to go to that other dimension "where nothing good ever happens" to become fuel for Ur's summoning? They WERE standing on top of the summoning circle square.

Massacre

10-09-2006, 05:38 PM

Which one, the original or the D20 remake? I've been wanting to track down either, just curious. Also, where'd you manage to find something that horribly scarring?

I'm going to assume that it's the remake because of the D20 rule and the fact that it's labelled "Sixth Edition". I procured it at a Phantom of the Attic that was geared towards games and such, mostly. There are apparently a number of these around the Pittsburgh area. It may have also been at Games Unlimited (another local place I know) but I never looked there.

As for the summoning squircle, it's clear that the Light Warriors are effectively the summoners and that the Cthulhuloids BM slaughtered are on their way to a place where nothing good ever happens.

Of course, when you think about it, isn't that THIS WORLD?

KillBill

10-09-2006, 11:15 PM

Big bunch of flesh; no problem for Fighter

13leafclovers

10-12-2006, 12:10 AM

As for the summoning squircle, it's clear that the Light Warriors are effectively the summoners and that the Cthulhuloids BM slaughtered are on their way to a place where nothing good ever happens.

Of course, when you think about it, isn't that THIS WORLD?

Well, Mary Poppins wouldn't say nothing good ever happens here. "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.", remember? And she's practically perfect in every way! (Just like RM!!!!)

And then, of course, she'd start singing and dance with the furniture. And talk to her umbrella.

PS thanks for clearing that up for me. Makes sense now.