#493 – In Mysterious Ways
December 2nd, 2014 |
So this is a default behaviour of Google. Unbelievable. How is this useful to anyone? It’s basically going, “Oh, you you want black cats? Here are all cats. You’ll have to find the black ones yourself, I can’t be arsed”.
Well, I finally thought to Google the problem, and actually found a useful result on the first try! Usually takes me four or five rewordings of terms these days, what with all Google’s “helping”. This Chrome extension defaults searches to Google Verbatim. Which is their name for “please actually look for the thing I asked you to instead of spitting out some vague, barely related bullshit I have to rummage through for fifteen minutes”.
So that’s nice.
That cult leader sounds like stereotypical corporate middle management: “I get paid more than you, so I get to boss you wankers around…but damned if I know what the fuck’s going on in this here corporation.”
Then again, Patternari Daemons are all about red tape…and killing! Let us not forget them killings.
Always knew Middle management were demonic assholes, this just proves it.
Lothar seems to be a bit off his game.
Also, Fairly certain arachnophobi-waaaah is not going to improve performance in the pre-sacrificial events. Unless she enjoys golden showers. There is that.
I think he’ll be well and truly tapped out by then.
Firstly, gross, & secondly, you’d figure Vitani would have some power that would allow her to force Eastwood to perform & enjoy the pre-sacrifice ritual, though that could be considered a form of rape, I don’t think that would stop a daemon from trying.
That sounds more like a what-was-the-name-of-the-other-one-whois-definitely-not-Slaanesh demon power.
I dunno.
TzeentchThe Patterner probably offers general mind control powers that serve as well as whatever desire manipulationSlaaneshthe Soulthirster can grant. Heck, evenKhornethe Hound’s followers can probably mess with people’s heads enough to whip them into a murderous frenzy.In short, purple and blue are both prone to mental domination through Warp-fuckery.
Lothar looks very put out in the first panel.
And as predicted, Horatio has made a daring escape to get help; meanwhile they look like they tied up a cyborg with rope. Hope it’s good rope.
Why show herself now? Because nobody believes in her. So she can do all sorts of things and other daemons get blamed.
Not appearing much: Eastwood because his reaction to being told what he has to do next would be a distraction from the plot as he caroms around in front of the word bubbles.
I’m incredibly amused at the fact that the guy talking about heads getting chewed off after getting some is a mantis.
Indeed, he knows what he is talking about ;)
Dudes, she’s a demonic black widow. It fits with her “appetite” and mood swings.
Dude, preying mantis mating habits. Can’t say any more without ruining the joke.
Wait, does that mean Vistani is going to bang them all? Now I just have no goddamned clue what’s going to happen. Kudos gents.
Eastwood is probably the exception. He’d be too scared out of his mind to get it up, so she’d probably just eat him immediately.
I doubt they’ll die unless the comic’s wrapping up. Which makes me really curious as to what’s going to happen next. Remember there’s a metric crap ton of agents that can come out and save them, and a whole bunch of Deus Ex Machina, some of it literal no less.
I’m just wondering how it’s going to happen.
But now that I’ve had time to think on it, if it’s not some outside force that saves them it’ll probably be East running at Matrix level speeds due to his sheer panic. Remember earlier even Vitani was downright shocked at how fast he was. Couple that with him basically sprinting through whatever mazes she was making and still getting to Lothar and Rogue with good time? Fast. Which is useful.
Death by Snu Snu? Death by Snu Snu.
Dafuq happened to my picture? I used to have a badass little demon imp! Now I get this striped shit with an O face?
I suppose you could say the change is… Blasphemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMPAH67f4o
Strictly speaking it’s “Death by being eaten by a spider-demon immediately after snu-snu” but that’s a minor detail.
But you get snu-snu!
Death after snu snu
Wait, hold on… Is Virus getting a second round, or is she skipping to killing him?
alright virus. round two.
…
I’m not sure what’s coming next, but I do want to know. Somehow, I doubt they’ll get to the sacrifice chamber without at least trying to escape.
You know you can just put your search in “” marks? I’ve found the best way is to put recognizable names/words/easier to google phrases in, then include the harder stuff outside the quotes.
snmp “actiontec v2000h ”
For instance, gets a number of results (Admittedly mostly from discussion forums)
Also feelin kinda sorry for Virus. I almost thought they had something special…
Yeah, I know. But I used to get decent results from Google in one go, instead of four or five while I fiddle with different combinations of quote marks. I’m actually still experimenting to see if Verbatim really does give better results for me. It may end up being too narrow, opposed to the default’s too broad. The Chrome plugin can be toggled on/off with a button by the address bar, so it’s easy to dip in and out.
On a related yet unrelated note I sense the return of NSFW porn traps with google. Or at least an excuse… the possibilities are endless.
But if it’s always E621…
But, that’s why smart people refer to them as anthropomorphic comics. You mention the word furry the immediate thought is Pr0n not high concept fantasy. Although, to be fair I am a fan of transformation and there is fair amount of dehumanizing torture, sadism, mental illness and ignorance involved. But, there’s a ton of crazy funny stuff, like ‘Ranma’ or ‘Gonna Be the Twin Tail’ that’s innocently evil. Don’t believe me check it out…
http://www.hulu.com/gonna-be-the-twintail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-AFFnuNNbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB666OjIQx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk6GZlqV_2Y
Hey, isn’t that mantis the host from that Taikan game show they watched way back when?
What? Because all mantises look alike? Way to be speciecist dude :p
Why kidding yourself? They look exactly the same.
I respectfully disagree with the statement all mantids look alike, except they would have to otherwise they wouldn’t be mantids… still they come in a variety of colors based on their environment. But, I’m pretty sure they stick out like neon signs until their first eudoxus. Like the ninja from Naruto, nature apparently forces them to ridiculously call attention to themselves until they become efficient assassins, and then they get new threads.
Different mantids. Russ is right; for shaaame. (I should’ve tweaked the green further than I did)
Great strip ! I like the cult leader :)
What species is he ? Komodo dragon ?
The prospect of partaking in Vitani’s “pre-ritual” must be so horrifying for Eastwood…
Komodo indeed!
I believe that also answers the question of whether Wolf survived answering… “The Question.”
well this is mess up…
I love the fact that this strip was basically a double act with Lothar and Virus handling all the banter. Which is great, since they’re fast becoming my favorites of the four. For someone as gung-ho and snarky as Lothar… It’s strangely kind of moving: to see him bloodied and beaten down, with none of his usual humor, just grimly defiant and resigned to his eminent death. He has the look of a man who’s ready to walk out and face the firing squad.
My money is on the demon being too lazy to go bar hopping, so she set up the cult to feed her a steady stream of sacrifices/booty calls.
10 quid says Vitani and her cult are responsible for the invention of online dating services.
My money’s on actually wanting to settle down and have some kids, and setting up the cult in order to find someone worthy enough to be the father rather than just a random sex-then-snack.
Ha! Good one!
Wait wait wait wait
Was Vitani Virus’ FIRST!?
Where’d you get THAT idea? But it WOULD be freakin’ hilarious if it were actually the case. XD
Wait wait wait, ignore my previous response, that was just me being a grammar idiot. DX
You may or may not know this, but putting quotes around any search term requires the exact phrase to be included in every result. So a search for, I dunno, “noun” without the quotes might return “noun”, “nouns”, “nouning”, among others, while a search for “noun” with quotes will only return results for exactly “noun”.
Whenever I see google cross off an important search term I usually place it in quotes. So your search would be:
actiontec v2000h “snmp”
After the “…need to be virgins?” it sounds like Virus is trying to get the focus away from the apparent fact that he was a virgin before the dæmonic encounter. Or am I reading that outburst wrong?
Maybe, but I leaned more to the “He’s trying to trick them into letting him go and sacrificing us? Screw that! You’re dying with us, asshole!” interpretation
So, I’ve just been rereading the entire archive, and… Did you notice that with the exception of the Father Ocean arc, the longer stories are nearly always about Patterner cults? With the exception of the ones confronted by Blasphemy, and the Dog of War that Morth sabotagedly summoned, we haven’t seen anything by the Hound. There’s the little coven from the very beginning and two pages in the middle, but that’s all we’ve glimpsed of the Soulthirster so far (except it personally at the table of the Dark Gods). And, well, the Daemon Hunter village was infiltrated by a Fernex worshipper, and there’s the father-and-daughter pair dispatched by the B-team, but that’s it as far as memory serves, and that was… four pages? Maybe five?
But then there’s two Silas Morth-arcs and the current one. I do smell a conspiracy… fittingly… And a needless absence of kinky depravity.
Well, look at the Dark Gods. The Patterner is pretty much the only one with an attention span not measured in milliseconds.
I’d disagree; even the Hound has by now turned into General Hound, and as for Fernex and the Soulthirster, they may not be the master schemers that the Patterner is supposed to be (although so far he hasn’t done much but reward Silas Morth for capturing the Dog of War), but they haven’t proven themselves as particularly bumbling, either.
Yeah, but tell that to the followers.
Odds are they’re still the “Blood for the Blood God!” bullshit.
It is because the Patterner is the only god !
The others are mere puppets in its scheme that he manipulates to think they are equals ! After all, the Hounds’ strategies are but Patterner’s threads applied to the domain of war, the Soulthirster’s schemes are the same applied to lust and depravations and as for Fernex’s complex machines, they would be nothing without … patterns of cables and circuits !
… but more honestly, I believe it is simply because Patterner cults fit more the stories that the writers wanted to tell. Patterners are very adaptable. Hound cultist would try to cause war like the Spectre in James Bond, Fernex would inevitably imply a rise of the machines / cyborgs and Soulthirsters would … erm… yes… moving on.
All in all, I am certain that in time, all the big fours will have their time in the spotlight ;)
Huh… Why do I feel like getting into a theological debate over a fictional pantheon, especially one that has no scripture or history that I have access to?
Thing is, there are several more types of story that I could think of. Fernex cults could indeed work towards a “rise of the machines” apocalypse, and we’ve seen an example of that already. They could also work toward a merging of man and machine, purging the weakness of the former. Hound cultists could indeed work towards war, but they could also work towards anything that fosters violence. As the hound has already stated, a brawl on the parking lot is just as much his domain as is war, and he already has a daemon at hand for that. His domain may incorporate strategy, but doesn’t necessitate it. And as for Soulthirster cultists, they may sometimes dispense with plans and tricks even more so than the Hound. The den of depravity from the very beginning seemed to operate rather successfully with little more than “Go here for kinky times” before our antiheros kicked their door down.
So no, you do not get to weave your Patterner web of lies around me.
It was Morth’s personal ties to Eastwood that necessarily made him a bigger starring villain than any before, setting him up for a longer arc and a recurring role. Patternaris had an unfair advantage with a player like that on their team.
Now if we’d planned things out methodically, we may have had more representation from the other factions in the interim. But EN is in large part made from whatever we had lying around, and Morth and Vitani are both older than the comic. We wanted to work her in too, and it’s better to have characters and plots that interact strongly and personally with the characters than to force a balance between factions just for sake of having such a balance.
I think part of the reason is that the Patterner underlings and human adepts rally have nothing to do other than plot and scheme, and try to get ahead. Thus, one is likely to see more plots from that lot.
Lothar seems to sympathize a little with the cultists in the fifth panel. Almost as if he had a “tough gig” with a Daemon once.
And the first time he appeared in the comic he was chilling out in the headquarters of a Daemonic cult.
I wonder if we’ll ever see a flashback about his times as a hired gun for some heretical organization.
Considering what his dad taught him, probably not. Cultists never pay their bills.
so will this comic finally give in to the porn… well officially i mean?
*crickets chirp*
They all seem to be cannibalistic species.