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Post by Aspen d'Grey on May 4, 2007 5:33:38 GMT
Well. Go Aly. He just became my favorite male character in the series. By a LOT! I wonder, is this like superhuman speed or does it just seem like that? I'm going for just 'crazy fast'. What do y'all think? Poor Annie... She looks a little better than Kat & Wllie, but only just.  Edit: Cleared it up a bit and used Tom's title for the strip. |
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Post by 0masamune on May 4, 2007 7:02:26 GMT
okay thaaas just not normal >_>
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Post by fjodor on May 4, 2007 7:03:11 GMT
Not bad for someone who wears gloves indoors...
I don't think it's just 'crazy-fast'. His jump is abnormal too. At least now I understand why the basket was drawn so incredibly high.
My money is on aly-werewolf. Maybe he'll be good friends with Reynardine by the end of this chapter.
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Post by Jarakin on May 4, 2007 7:07:08 GMT
Right, I'm with the robot theorists. That hoop is about thirty feet off the ground.
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Post by neal on May 4, 2007 7:16:20 GMT
What kind of demon games director would put a basketball hoop so high? Mr. Eglamore is evil, based soley on that impossible basketball hoop!
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Post by yeochild on May 4, 2007 7:37:06 GMT
Okay, still trying to link this in with Sacrifice. Umm . . . Flame Minions can speed themselves up . . .
Soo, with that paralell, he'd be a student that Elgamore allowed the robots to 'upgrade' . . . though that doesn't explain the umpteen layers of clothes . . . maybe he only functions under warm conditions? Beats me . . .
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Post by todd on May 4, 2007 10:27:53 GMT
You've got to admit, as schoolboy revenge goes, it's a lot more civilized than punching Winsbury in the nose.
But this definitely adds a whole new angle to the mystery that is Alistair. Now we're going to need to figure out what superhuman skill at basketball has to do with wearing increasing layers of clothing.
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Post by Yin on May 4, 2007 10:58:52 GMT
I think I shall join the camp of people who believe Aly's changing physically.
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Post by boredomman on May 4, 2007 11:45:50 GMT
Yeah, me too. Well...that wasn't expected, I thought he might turn into this mutant and eat the guy. haha...
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Post by CoyoteKing on May 4, 2007 12:39:34 GMT
Well. Go Aly. He just became my favorite male character in the series. By a LOT! I wonder, is this like superhuman speed or does it just seem like that? I'm going for just 'crazy fast'. What do y'all think? Poor Annie... She looks a little better than Kat & Wllie, but only just. Edit: Cleared it up a bit and used Tom's title for the strip.People always seem to look like that in the background. I suspect Annie's a lot less suprised than she seems, I mean she wasn't one bit suprised with the minotaur, or Morty, or really any of the wierd things that are going on. |
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Post by Boksha on May 4, 2007 13:17:53 GMT
I think I shall join the camp of people who believe Aly's changing physically. Maybe he's slowly changing into Michael Jordan? Obviously when the transformation is complete he won't have to be attending school anymore, seeing as he'd be a fully adult 2m tall basketball player. Anyhow, from the looks of it it's not just superhuman speed... it's supernatural speed. I get the idea the whole scene happened in about a second or so (perhaps excluding that jump) In related news, that's one weird-ass pose Aly's in while slam dunking. |
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Post by eggie on May 4, 2007 14:50:26 GMT
He is Bitey of Brackenwood...
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Post by todd on May 4, 2007 16:24:26 GMT
I doubt that he's a robot, simply because the chapter immediately preceding this one featured them. More likely either his unusual traits come from a fantasy-based source (as per the werewolf theory) or he's been experimented on by a mad scientist (probably not Dr. Disaster - he's more a Quatermass than a Moreau or a Jekyll).
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on May 4, 2007 16:34:57 GMT
I don't like this were wolf story, but yeah, I'm kinda agreeing on the supernatural speed vs just really fast.
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Post by aidan on May 4, 2007 18:34:29 GMT
What kind of demon games director would put a basketball hoop so high? Mr. Eglamore is evil, based soley on that impossible basketball hoop! In some gyms there are extra hoops that can be lowered so that a lot of people can practice of skirmish, and raised again when there's a full court game (or for doing things other than basketball). It almost looks like that, except i don't see any lower hoops. (yeah, i know someone's throwing a ball at the high hoop in the previous panel, but people do that  ) Oh, and umm, wow. |
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Post by nickgoodway on May 4, 2007 19:49:17 GMT
Aly's outfit matches the colour scheme of DC's golden age Flash, all he needs is a steel helmet with wings. Perhaps the layers of clothing are to protect him from air friction, or conversly from wind chill.
But to go with the changeling thing, wasn't Teenwolf really good at basketball?
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Post by todd on May 4, 2007 22:36:30 GMT
If you look closely at the slam dunk panel, you can see Aly's wrists between the gloves and his sleeve-ends, and they look normal. So the sudden shift in clothes probably has some other reason than hiding a bodily metamorphosis.
I hope that Tom doesn't skip ahead to Thursday in the next instalment; we've got to see the immediate aftermath of Aly's feat. Not just the other kids continuing to gape about it and wondering "How did he do that?", but I'm also hoping that Kat confronts him over it. She might not be too keen on his keeping his "super-powers" secret from her (and, yes, I know that this crops up a lot in super-hero stories, but it's still the most likely response that one would make to such a situation).
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Post by Boksha on May 4, 2007 23:06:40 GMT
We're seeing awfully little of his wrist though.
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Post by owl on May 5, 2007 0:20:49 GMT
Nah, I think Kat'll be like "Woah. That was cool. Why din'tcha tell me, huh? Huh?"
Aly: *shrug* Din't wanna show off.
Kat: Pff. *lets it go*
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Post by 0masamune on May 5, 2007 2:32:30 GMT
sounds like orc mischeif to me...
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Post by Count Casimir on May 5, 2007 6:09:28 GMT
All I can say is this:
BLOODY
F(expletive deleted)
AWESOME!
He is my new favorite character, because he is magic.
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Post by mrw on May 5, 2007 14:39:43 GMT
You've got to admit, as schoolboy revenge goes, it's a lot more civilized than punching Winsbury in the nose. But this definitely adds a whole new angle to the mystery that is Alistair. Now we're going to need to figure out what superhuman skill at basketball has to do with wearing increasing layers of clothing. I'm warming up to Aly a lot more lately. He's been pretty nice in general, especially to Kat, but also by not judging Annie. It seems to me like he's been trying to conceal any abilities he might have. If that's the case, Aly's reacting to Winsbury by revealing himself rather than just punching him in the nose may show that Aly has a noble side. After all, revealing himself like that may pose future risk for Aly, but he was willing to take that risk rather than cause injury to someone else. On the flip-side, maybe he just felt that stomping Winsbury in sports would be more effective than a mere pop in the honker. But I hope it's the former - just showing off isn't worthy of respect in my opinion. I'm curious if he's going to be steaming or something when he lands - if so, maybe he needs all the extra clothing because when he's not moving very quickly he can't keep his body temperature up. He could be "super-efficient", so to speak. i.e. very little "waste" heat generated by his body. And I liked the way Tom did the speed effects. Way more effective than those overused speed-line backgrounds, yes? |
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Post by todd on May 5, 2007 21:43:36 GMT
I don't know if Aly has been "not judging Annie" for certain, since (aside from that silent glance that he gave her a few pages back), he hasn't responded to her at all. (As far as I could tell, he wasn't even aware that his pop culture conversations with Kat had driven her away.) For all that we know, he might be judging her on the inside.
Incidentally, Tom used that same kind of speed effect (in the first panel) in the scenes in Chapter Twelve when Annie was galloping about on Reynardine's back.
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Post by Goatmon on May 6, 2007 19:12:55 GMT
Nothing says "Owned" like a slam dunk.
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Post by yeochild on May 6, 2007 19:56:37 GMT
I would like to publicly predict that Elgamore shows up at some point during the next week.
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