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Post by edzepp on Mar 19, 2008 4:59:03 GMT
Whoa.This isn't going to end well for Eglamore is it? I mean, it didn't even graze her face.
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 19, 2008 5:05:14 GMT
But it kinda looks like it DID hit her face.
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Post by edzepp on Mar 19, 2008 5:09:19 GMT
Hurt it, I mean.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 19, 2008 5:12:19 GMT
*insert the duel theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*
I wonder what's the significance of the gesture Eggers is making with his free hand in panel 3.
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 19, 2008 5:13:46 GMT
yeah. i guess not.
but im more interested in her shift in stance. its like she's doing elemental bending there.
mezz: looks like a method to focus energy. who knows with these guys.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 19, 2008 5:56:57 GMT
Tom's used the "skang" sound effect before. Looks like the sword is just bouncing off her face. Elemental bending? As in Avatar The Last Airbender elemental bending? I'd guess that Jones is bending reality, but it's too early to say for sure. |
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 19, 2008 6:08:40 GMT
if you see ysengrin arm in the last panel. its actually cut a little. not much damage to wood, tho.
yes. as in Avatar.
Reality bending is cool too.
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Post by Tenjen on Mar 19, 2008 6:59:38 GMT
looks like she was hit but it bounced off or was made to bend away but contact has been made or been really really close. Now while eggs is still thrusting and has yet to pull out, she's grabbed his weapon.
I think he knew what was going to happen from his reaction in the far bottom left panel.
Either that or he's really stressed cause he knows what he's facing.
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Post by Refugee on Mar 19, 2008 7:20:57 GMT
The way the sword bends reminds me of the way Jones reached up to caress Eglamore's hair earlier [376.3,4]. |
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Post by tonie on Mar 19, 2008 9:25:39 GMT
Huzzah, the fight is on! Great page composition. I wonder if Eggers didn't graze her a little, his eyes in that second to last panel look worried (for her, not him, I think)... Though she is taking control in the last panel, bending his sword, and Eggers is losing his balance. Or is she just dodging? Her movements definitely remind me of the bullet dodging in Matrix, as someone on the front page commented.
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Post by eightyfour on Mar 19, 2008 9:40:25 GMT
What a collusive game! He knows he can't possibly hurt her! He isn't even properly paying attention but watching the audience instead (see his eyes in the bottom left panel). I bet they're only doing this to see Annie's reaction.  |
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 19, 2008 9:42:00 GMT
Now that we are bringing onomatopoeia into the picture, it would seem Tom's official reference for a sword cutting thru flesh would be swit. |
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Post by ren on Mar 19, 2008 12:06:20 GMT
As if I didn't think this fight could be sexual enough in its possible undertones, someone has to go and say something like this.  |
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Post by Boksha on Mar 19, 2008 12:26:52 GMT
Note also that this is how one fights sword at long range.  |
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Post by Tenjen on Mar 19, 2008 12:55:49 GMT
I wasnt even thinking of my statement in those terms, i should be more careful.
Notice how a certain excitable girl has her arm on a certain well eyebrow endowed boy in the 2nd panel. SHe's probably holding on realy tight from excitement.
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Post by King Mir on Mar 19, 2008 15:06:10 GMT
All Eglamore has to do is make a small circle with his blade, so that it's on top again. Question is, is he fast enough. I wonder what's the significance of the gesture Eggers is making with his free hand in panel 3. It looks like a pretty typical hand position to me. Now while eggs is still thrusting and has yet to pull out, she's grabbed his weapon. Pulling out would be too slow. he just needs to move his blade around Jones's arm. Or slice at her legs. |
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Post by rc5 on Mar 19, 2008 16:12:19 GMT
I don't know what's going on, but its definitely cool. As if I didn't think this fight could be sexual enough in its possible undertones, someone has to go and say something like this. AHAHAha |
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Post by Midnight Meadows on Mar 19, 2008 17:20:53 GMT
Jones officially wins the badassery award of 2008.
She deflected a fscking sword with her FACE.
I'd like to see someone try and top that...
(5 bucks says that in the next page she grabs the sword, ties it in the fashion of a balloon-poodle, and eats it! *OM NOM NOM*)
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Post by cenit on Mar 19, 2008 22:34:51 GMT
I think he actually managed a hit...whetever he caused damaged or not, we'll have to see....
Also, I don't understand Egg's move...did he jump forward to hit and then backward? Did he project his sword from where is standing?
This is getting interesting
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Post by fr4tbrn on Mar 19, 2008 23:14:36 GMT
It looks like she's cut in the same place where Annie was cut by the Ghost with the Sword.
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Post by gdwarf on Mar 20, 2008 0:18:52 GMT
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 20, 2008 0:28:55 GMT
She makes me happy.
I want a girl that can kick MY ass. Lucky eggers.
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Post by popo on Mar 20, 2008 2:21:09 GMT
Because Jones is a vampire. |
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 20, 2008 2:39:42 GMT
It's a sparring match. Clearly he knew he wasn't going to hurt her seriously this way.
Which makes her even more awesome. Midnight Meadows called it.
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Post by fr4tbrn on Mar 20, 2008 3:38:59 GMT
Well, I tried.
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Post by ren on Mar 20, 2008 12:12:46 GMT
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Post by Boksha on Mar 20, 2008 13:11:44 GMT
Not to mention if he could get far away enough he'd probably be able to do some sort of sword supercharge. |
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Post by popo on Mar 20, 2008 19:40:30 GMT
I think on that page he was using his special magic sword.
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Post by gdwarf on Mar 20, 2008 20:46:09 GMT
Hmmm, now that I re-read that comic, I wonder why he kept his sword wrapped. Is that normal practice?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 21, 2008 0:34:05 GMT
What a collusive game! He knows he can't possibly hurt her! He isn't even properly paying attention but watching the audience instead (see his eyes in the bottom left panel). I bet they're only doing this to see Annie's reaction. Interesting possibility. Or maybe Eggers is embarrassed about Surma's daughter seeing his inevitable butt-whupping. Notice how a certain excitable girl has her arm on a certain well eyebrow endowed boy in the 2nd panel. SHe's probably holding on realy tight from excitement. I'd guess she's punching him or grabbing his cheek, but there's no telling with that girl. Hmmm, now that I re-read that comic, I wonder why he kept his sword wrapped. Is that normal practice? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was a special glowy sword (all the better for fighting sentient shadow-men). Either keeping it hidden helped preserve its glowy power, or Eggers kept it hidden so the glow wouldn't give him away to the forest-folk. |
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