Not quite the usual reaction for happy-go-lucky Dan. I think he's learning the really ugly facts of life. I'm a little surprised that Destania wasn't able to better prepare him.
What is this? I've started two topics recently. Are all you guys asleep out there?
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Well, we'd let you start them all, but you seem to have troubles with the titles...
-- llearch
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D, don't you like my thread titles? *pout*
-- llearch
I honestly wasn't quite expecting the Amazons to be dead quite yet, but yeesh... I suppose it'd happen sometime anyways. I do wonder about the lack of noticeable blood though and why Amazons can't be considered maidens. I'm aware of their usual culture, however, I was under the impression that the whole "maiden" thing just meant virgin female and not like one be'd able to tell that just by looking... Gratz or however its spelled seems to have a different idea on the matter... or at the very least, DP does.
Quote from: Naldru on May 05, 2008, 02:36:53 PM
Not quite the usual reaction for happy-go-lucky Dan. I think he's learning the really ugly facts of life. I'm a little surprised that Destania wasn't able to better prepare him.
What is this? I've started two topics recently. Are all you guys asleep out there?
Destania left her old life, so I doubt she'd raise her son as an incubi. There probably are a few readers asleep(time zones and all) plus the strip only been up a short while. Some people lack the 'confidence' to start a new thread, I've only ever started one.
Aw, shame. Now we'll never get to find out what Pod-puppy's name was.
I wasn't thinking from the standpoint of training him as a cubi. However, if she knew that he was going to be an adventurer, I would think that she would have given him pointers on fighting evil.
Self-confidence? I don't have any self-confidence? I'm pretty confident of that.
NOOOOOO! Not the bhunny! *Sob.*
Quote from: Tapewolf on May 05, 2008, 02:52:59 PM
Aw, shame. Now we'll never get to find out what Pod-puppy's name was.
Maybe, maybe not. We haven't seen that all three are dead - just, we presume, the one with the red eyes. It's possible they saved the other two until later.
We'll see.
Of course, I expect we've already seen all we're going to see of them, and we'll never know what Miss Evergreen and Pod-Puppy are called. Shanna, on the other hand...
*Charline hmms* Soooo... Amber's into snuff now! Way to go Amber! *thinks* She must've seen both "Hostel" flicks. >:]
*Charles looks at the chains and Dan's comments and wonders* Has DP been getting pointers from Dr. Ink? :erk
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 05, 2008, 03:09:40 PM
Of course, I expect we've already seen all we're going to see of them, and we'll never know what Miss Evergreen and Pod-Puppy are called. Shanna, on the other hand...
IIRC Shanna was the reptillian and Hannah was the bunny. If we get another female name we may be able to deduce that it's Pod-Puppy.
Oh hell. The bunny's dead? By dismemberment and decapitation?
I didn't see that coming. That's humongously depressing, especially since I LIKED the bunny. D:
As a note, I find this sort of plot twist very worthy of the 900th comic title. >:3 Congratulations on reaching 900 comics, Amber!
~Keaton the Black Jackal
PS: The wallpaper war got quite a laugh out of me, though. Oh Abel. You and your feather boas.
Hmm... I honestly did not expect something like that to happen in this story. It seemed to be all fun and games... until Dark P decided to make himself a supper, apparently... I wonder if there is a hope that only Hannah was killed - she looked kind of undead already, so maybe she can still be put together. Either way, I'll go hide it the corner for a while. I liked Cuddles...
Dismemberment? Then what's keeping the body up? And what about her arm there?
Bunny girl's been decapitated and dismembered? Oh no! :cry
... though, of course, it does make the 900th strip special...
Quote from: Seth on May 05, 2008, 04:05:56 PM
Dismemberment? Then what's keeping the body up? And what about her arm there?
With the chains taut like that, it makes it difficult to have the body fall to the floor. You can actually keep a body up like that pretty good with enough support.
As for dismemberment, it could be others in there who are dismembered, or perhaps it was organs such as the heart that were removed. It could also be that Dan was just using a popular phrase or didn't clue in to what dismemberment was.
That body doesn't seem to be dismembered and...
Awwww! D: They're dead.
(And yay- Abel with a boa!)
Congratulations to breaking the 900 barrier!
WOW, this is indeed quite different from the last time dan used a light switch around there (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_149.php) (about 750 strips ago).
Is this really the same dark pegasus (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_148.php)? Seems more like Andariel from Diablo 2 now. The switch from cartoony villain to decapitation and dismemberment really seems like a light-dark contrast to me. This will certainly take some time to get adapted to, and im not talking about my retinas.
Heres me hoping its just an shock-cliffhanger and not the real deal (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_175.php).
Dismemberment does not only apply to arms...
True, she may be missing the only her legs.
As for the death of the bunny... well we don't know if she's dead since she appeared undead. This could just be an extreme form of torture for undead. Torment of a thousand jars and such. Damaging the head is involved in rekilling an undead, according to their demonology article, so if you take it cleanly off... maybe she's "alive" and just really pissed.
Now as for why he's doing this, my best guess is that he is either A) experimenting on how to have non-freewill undead as a side project or B) teaching his daughter how to properly torture captives while waiting for the maiden he needs to sacrifice.
...what, don't tell me I'm the only person who expects Regina to appear in this story arc as DP's daughter? I mean, if not his daughter, who else do you think has been raising him from the dead so many times?
Quote from: Ryan_Galen on May 05, 2008, 06:30:59 PM
As for the death of the bunny... well we don't know if she's dead since she appeared undead. This could just be an extreme form of torture for undead. Torment of a thousand jars and such. Damaging the head is involved in rekilling an undead, according to their demonology article, so if you take it cleanly off... maybe she's "alive" and just really pissed.
Difficult to say. Whatever it is, Dan didn't stop to help - his immediate reaction was to switch the lights off, presumably to avoid seeing the mess.
QuoteI mean, if not his daughter, who else do you think has been raising him from the dead so many times?
His followers? He seems to have an entire country as a realm.
Quote from: BarGamer on May 05, 2008, 02:57:13 PM
NOOOOOO! Not the bhunny! *Sob.*
...What they said. ^
Quote from: AmberTrying to make up for the past month or so of complete blah by doing lots of productive fun things.
So long as they ARE fun things for you, go right ahead. Insert standard "don't overstrain yourself trying to be productive, we'll take whatever we get, we all loves you Amber" commentary here.
Hey, I don't need to say it all out to really mean it.
Judging from the hooks in the background, Amber may have meant disembowelment. Those terms can easily be confused at time >.> Or she could just be missing parts we dont see on the screen, like her legs, or left arm.
i am kinda startled, we barely knew them and theres kinda not much you can do with them anymore
furthermore- theres not much an evil overlord can do with them either, unless he just needs a buttload of blood and organs. overlords almost always keep their prisoners alive so they can USE them
*Charline om nom noms the bunny's innards* Nummy nummy! Eh? What's all yer problem? I'm just making sure nothing goes to waste! :zombiekun2
*Charles oooos at the wallpaper war* Will there be any hot girl-girl action goin on?! :eager Or it could be a whole male orgy if the other side wins. Meh. Well, gotta take what you get, I guess! I'm flexible. ;)
*Alondro walks in and catches both comments* :erk Aaand I'll just be off now... *trots back out quickly*
There might have been a hundred maidens in the room, suffering from various combinations of dismemberment, decapitation, disembowelment, evisceration, impalement, vivisection, and other unpleasantries.
Skin tone on the body seemed a little light for the bunny with the red eyes, but we'll find out more as things go on.
Sorry about the titles, but I go into shock when I see I'm the first to respond to an episode and am reduced to a blathering incoherence. (Or is that my normal state?)
Um...I am...quite saddened by this. Can't say I like today's strip, but if Amber's swinging this way, so be it. However, I have an idea that this (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLifeWritesThePlot), and more specifically, this (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorBreakdown) in regards to a...recent event...might have something to do with it, but this is just unfounded speculation. Please don't take too seriously, I'm not jumping to conclusions. I don't want to have Amber come and dismember me too :<
Glitch, your thinking too much into it.
While those certainly are possibilities and possible influences in what was to shock us, its more likely she just wanted to do something special for the 900th strip. What better way for it to be memorable then to, for sure, kill off in a horrible way the amazon we all loved so much.
Besides in the header for todays page she says its the "Darkest Sketch!". This would imply she only did it for shock value. Least thats how I see it.
We shall miss the bunny girl with the wondrous eyes!
Now if DP really wants to have fun with his victims theres always: dissection while alive, Columbian neckties, nail pulling, eye gouging, needles in eyes, small cuts across the body, burning, heat boxes, hair ripping, bone breaking, the rack, skinning while alive, extreme acid/base exposure/ingestion, and all sorts of little critters and big ones to have fun with them. :)
Quote from: Gamma on May 05, 2008, 08:22:21 PM
Glitch, your thinking too much into it.
Yeah, I do have a tendancy to do that, which is why I said, "don't take it seriously".
I liked the bunny girl with the crazy eyes.
She had that eerie yet calming effect... shame Dark Pegasis and his goons went that far. I wanted to see more of her lovely deminer.
*picks up his combat gear, rockets off into battle*
Quote from: Madmann135 on May 05, 2008, 09:04:44 PM
I liked the bunny girl with the crazy eyes.
She had that eerie yet calming effect... shame Dark Pegasis and his goons went that far. I wanted to see more of her lovely deminer.
She pulls people out of mines? Where did it say that?
... oh, did you mean demeanour? Ah, now it makes sense...
Firefox, with built in spell check. It's how my articles stay nice and concise! :U
The heatboxes that I talk of would make your cardboard haven burst into flames. >:3
The new James Bond movie introduced to me an interesting and yet simple and effective way to torture someone. It's like the ultimate balltap torture >.>
Oh my god... I LOVE DAN'S EXPRESSION IN THE THIRD PANEL! xD
Not the Bhunny Girl!!
:cry :cry :cry :cry
What I wonder the most about is why its automatically assumed that Amazons wouldn't be "maidens". Just what kind of maidens does DP want? Obviously couldn't be the general female virgins if it'd be automatically assumed that they weren't maidens.
Maybe DP needed pure maiden "souls"? If thats the case, I don't think the Amazon's souls would have been quite pure enough.
Well the bunnymis probabbly an empty shell now. :bunny
and wallpaper wall? i havnt see that more than half a year! :kirby
Before this happened, Dan may have been content with simply getting out of the castle and leaving DP to whatever mischief he sees fit. Now, he also has a motive to smack DP up for killing the Amazons who were actually nice to him.
Agree with everybody above about the (probably) dead bunny (and probably her dead fellow Amazons). :cry
And I also agree with those who love seeing Abel with a feather boa :giggle
It kinda makes me wonder if the Girl Groupshot would feature Abel and Danielle, too xD
Quote from: Madmann135 on May 05, 2008, 09:04:44 PM
I liked the bunny girl with the crazy eyes.
She had that eerie yet calming effect... shame Dark Pegasis and his goons went that far. I wanted to see more of her lovely deminer.
*picks up his combat gear, rockets off into battle*
Just because the bunny's dead doesn't mean we can't get to see her again..... just saying.
Quote from: Sid on May 06, 2008, 05:59:54 AM
It kinda makes me wonder if the Girl Groupshot would feature Abel and Danielle, too xD
Merbel, Danielle... Azlan in a bikini?
Quote from: Psaakyrn on May 06, 2008, 06:09:52 AM
Quote from: Madmann135 on May 05, 2008, 09:04:44 PM
I liked the bunny girl with the crazy eyes.
She had that eerie yet calming effect... shame Dark Pegasis and his goons went that far. I wanted to see more of her lovely deminer.
*picks up his combat gear, rockets off into battle*
Just because the bunny's dead doesn't mean we can't get to see her again..... just saying.
We are seeing her again right here. And over there, and a little bit of her over there.(Sorry, couldnt resist)
Quote from: Sid on May 06, 2008, 05:59:54 AM
It kinda makes me wonder if the Girl Groupshot would feature Abel and Danielle, too xD
I am actually confused about which side we have to vote for to get Abel :3
If the bunny is undead, I can see it now. Dan clicks lights off, then 'Hey! Turn those back on, get the hades over here, and unhook me!' And Dan flipping out or running from the room. Though why would there be an undead amazon? You would think amazons would be as intolerant of undead creatures as the next fur.
Though it's all PR. Add an 'f' and everything would be fine! 'Eeek! Undead!' "No, no, I am Fundead!" 'Oh, ok!':boogie :boogie
isn't chaining and mutilating too much trouble to do with girls they didn't need in first place?
For that DP is apparently too rich, too evil, too stupid, or all of the above.
edit: sadly, apparently decapitation did refer to the bunny-like girl. her hair and ears should be visible if her head was in place
:mwaha Ehehehehahahaha! Looks like bunny lost her head.
Stop looking at me like that. I liked her, too.(I seem to have a thing for insane and creepy. Yay for Gasai Yuno.)
Maybe DP needs maidens' blood for his project.
Quote from: Akisohida on May 06, 2008, 08:28:31 AM
Though it's all PR. Add an 'f' and everything would be fine! 'Eeek! Undead!' "No, no, I am Fundead!" 'Oh, ok!':boogie :boogie
...eew.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like a decapitated and severely mutilated body would be a bit difficult to actually identify. I'm kind of hoping that in his haste to leave the scene Dan just assumed that he was looking at his amazon friend and not some other poor gal with brown fur.
Though the dress is the same, so maybe I am being too hopeful here. Heck, being that this is a flashback such details are not necessarily remembered accurately. Maybe all this time Dan thought she was dead but didn't know the truth! :U
/crazy
(looking around, a little lost) Are you sure this isn't Abel's Story? I could've sworn DMFA was less dark...
But nicely done. That was...very unexpected.
Quote from: Ryan_Galen on May 05, 2008, 06:30:59 PM
True, she may be missing the only her legs.
As for the death of the bunny... well we don't know if she's dead since she appeared undead. This could just be an extreme form of torture for undead. Torment of a thousand jars and such. Damaging the head is involved in rekilling an undead, according to their demonology article, so if you take it cleanly off... maybe she's "alive" and just really pissed.
Now as for why he's doing this, my best guess is that he is either A) experimenting on how to have non-freewill undead as a side project or B) teaching his daughter how to properly torture captives while waiting for the maiden he needs to sacrifice.
...what, don't tell me I'm the only person who expects Regina to appear in this story arc as DP's daughter? I mean, if not his daughter, who else do you think has been raising him from the dead so many times?
(reads the first two paragraphs) sound reasoning, would explain the black-and-red eyes, but it doesn't explain the lack of decomposing...
(reads the second two paragraphs) .... :erk ... I think you just revealed an unintentional spoiler if you guessed right.
Any chance we could get a 180 degree rotation on that image? :mowninja
Nah, that would just be screwed up... :<
Quote from: Slowtini on May 06, 2008, 06:07:20 PM
Any chance we could get a 180 degree rotation on that image? :mowninja
Well, if you insist...
(http://www.landrymanor.com/ragefactor/images/180rotation.jpg)
i really hope that the amazons are alive... anyways the (dead) body is facing to the right of the strip, so that would mean that if there was a head it would show up because of the position of the body. the fur on the arm(s) are overlapping the shackles which could mean that there might have been a struggle at some point, or the (dead)body simply settled into rigor mortise(sp) and settled furthur into the shackle, thus meaning that the amazon has been dead for a long time, the fur overlapping the shackle could also mean that if said amazon is dead then she didn't go down without a struggle. brave amazon.
now that i am done looking too far into this comic, i think that it's either going to be the best cliffhanger since halo 2, or the strangest plot twist since dan becoming an incubus. hehe zombie bunny :bunny :zombiekun2
Well looks like a moment your sposted to fight hard as you can. Dont give up now over that death or others..Be glad have your hide right now and just get the hells outta there!
If the Amazons were trying to rescue kidnapped fellow Amazons, it could be that the bodies in the room were relatives of the Amazons we saw a few days ago. That would explain the similarities in appearance.
With regard to decapitation, perhaps that is Dark Pegasus's way of getting ahead of the situation. After all, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. (Anyone remember the Wild, Wild West episode with the brains in jars?)
Quote from: Volfram on May 06, 2008, 06:42:14 PM
Quote from: Slowtini on May 06, 2008, 06:07:20 PM
Any chance we could get a 180 degree rotation on that image? :mowninja
Well, if you insist...
(http://www.landrymanor.com/ragefactor/images/180rotation.jpg)
rotate around which axis? (I see no image there)
Quote from: Naldru on May 06, 2008, 10:33:04 PM
If the Amazons were trying to rescue kidnapped fellow Amazons, it could be that the bodies in the room were relatives of the Amazons we saw a few days ago. That would explain the similarities in appearance.
With regard to decapitation, perhaps that is Dark Pegasus's way of getting ahead of the situation. After all, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. (Anyone remember the Wild, Wild West episode with the brains in jars?)
I don't think they were on a rescue mission, they were captured like Dan was, with no accounting for whether they were maidens or Amazons or anything else.
As for bunny-girl, she may not be the dead one(s) Dan noticed, he did after all say "decapitation
and dismemberment". A dismembered body is difficult to hold up together between stretched chains, and we are seeing at least one arm still attached, as well as an apparent lack of blood marring her fur and dress.
EDIT: ok, sent too late (forgot to send when I wrote this), poor bunny :mowsad