Comics for January 8, 2014

[BadFoMo]

Who knew assassins were so small?

Well, he might be right behind you now.

[snakebug]

Ouch, that happens to everybody... At least he didnt have an audience when this happened.

[Schrodinger]

Squirrels; truly nature's most dangerous predators.

[JC the Supreme Tiger]

And he was so sure too...

At least [dbe]'s conscious.

[TinyVoices]

Yay! Finally!

The shading in this page is nice. Perfect opportunity to practice with scales that affect mood and all.

[Zylver]

Ahh, new year's first comic page! Excellent

Does this mean now we have been wrong all the time when we thought that the yellow eyes in the background belonged to Zen?!

[johny]

Lol this one was too funny lol i love the look the squirrel gives him lol.

[Josh.C]

There's no need to fear!

Sythe the Wolf is here!

Seems like Raine and Red are making progress again on understanding one another. Of course Scythe is a bit jumpy. Zen might not even attack yet. He may wait a couple of days for the situation to degrade their mental and physical health.

Heck, Zen's probably with a cup of coffee and a doughnut, trying not to laugh at Scythe.

[Hoppy]

That last panel is SO awesome.... but... what if that "squirrel" really IS Zen using an illusion disguise again??

[Stryder221]

That last panel is SO awesome.... but... what if that "squirrel" really IS Zen using an illusion disguise again??

If that was the case, I don't think he'd be able to stand on what is basically a twig without breaking it. Then again, it's magic, so pretty much anything goes.

A slight bit risky, though, as I'm sure that squirrels are edible.

I doubt it's him, I don't think Zen has any mana crystals to use, as he most likely used them all in his first attack.
[I'm not entirely sure about that, so don't quote me on anything. I'm just saying what makes the most sense to me.]

[AndreRhineDavis]

Yay, new comic!
Wow, Sythe sure looks tired in the second panel... poor guy's starting to go crazy with anxiety and anticipation of the impending attack!

[Zylver]

If that was the case, I don't think he'd be able to stand on what is basically a twig without breaking it. Then again, it's magic, so pretty much anything goes.

A slight bit risky, though, as I'm sure that squirrels are edible.

I doubt it's him, I don't think Zen has any mana crystals to use, as he most likely used them all in his first attack.
[I'm not entirely sure about that, so don't quote me on anything. I'm just saying what makes the most sense to me.]

Yup, that went through my mind as well If the squirrel is Zen, that twig could not endure his mass for sure

However, I'm curious, if the illusion spell does not just only change the caster's appearance, but also its mass... if it changes, that would explain something: Lady Nora was on board Eric's ship as a cat, and she could sleep on a shelf over the bed of Trace and Flora. If the illusion does not change her mass, she wouldn't have been able to sleep there, not to mention when she jumped on the ship from the pier, everybody would have felt that something just... boarded the ship
Of course, a dragon has more magical energy to perform a powerful illusion spell like this, unlike a broke assassin like Zen, so we could assume that there are more type of illusions as well

Back to work...

[EvilNinjadude]

Well well, so Sythe is not stupid or complacent. We all know how people in those situations get... easily startled, for one. No doubt Sythe heard its rustling before turning around.

[obi-wan]

Sythe have to leave the coffee, because apparently it gets very nervous

[MuonNeutrino]

However, I'm curious, if the illusion spell does not just only change the caster's appearance, but also its mass... if it changes, that would explain something: Lady Nora was on board Eric's ship as a cat, and she could sleep on a shelf over the bed of Trace and Flora. If the illusion does not change her mass, she wouldn't have been able to sleep there, not to mention when she jumped on the ship from the pier, everybody would have felt that something just... boarded the ship

Far as I know, Lady Nora, and presumably other dragons as well, are full-on shapeshifters - or, at least, that's what the cast page calls her. I would assume that an actual change of shape (rather than a mere illusion) would include things like becoming the appropriate mass for whatever you shifted into.

I really like the perspective in the third panel. It fits the theme of paranoia nicely, like something out of a horror movie.

One thing I have been wondering, though - where did Sythe's pants go? He had them when Raine was injured, but seems to have gotten rid of them somewhere along the way since. I wonder if he just prefers it that way? Keidran attitudes towards clothing have varied widely among the different groups we've seen; perhaps Sythe's tribe falls towards the 'less clothing' end. Or maybe he just wants as much freedom of motion as possible if there's a chance of getting into a fight.