Oots 419.

[Jdvn1]

I don't see fast healing or regen listed for succubi. Only thing is DR. Did she snap another succubus or what?

I figured she just caused a few points of damage. What do you think happened there?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I have to admit, my respect for Miko just went up a couple of notches.

Also, I might have to agree with Glyfair -- I seem to recall she has levels of Monk, as well; she's not totally useless even if she doesn't turn Blackguard.

How does having Monk levels make her _not_ useless?

 

[Gez]

I thought it was funnier that everyone clapped for Miko after Belkar mentioned it

Belkar completely stole the show.

So you think Miko wants Lord Hinjo's junk?

How could she not want it? It's so big and wide and beautiful; and it's just hanging out there on the docks, waving gently in the morning breeze...

"You're in a dungeon, and not the kind with inexplicably placed monsters and enormous piles of treasure."

I don't know -- there's an orc and a fiend, after all.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Anton Chekov would be proud.

I thought it was Pavel....j/k

 

[Thunderfoot]

Miko as a Blackguard, I don;t see it, I did before this point, but she's just a jerk, not a vengeful, coniving, evil piece of filth...okay, maybe she is vengeful, but definiately not evil and coniving, at least not yet.

I agree with Henry, I think she has to do something to not only regain the blue at the moment of her death but does so to save Roy so that he always carries that eternal flame for her (which is currently just a wet matchstick.) Of course, what would be even funnier is if later if Roy finds someone new she descided at THAT monet to come back as a 'ghost' like Roy's dad and nag him constently. "I saved your life and this is the thanks I get, you chasing some obvious floosey..." Hint, Hint Rich, I want royalties.

 

[Knight Otu]

I don't know -- there's an orc and a fiend, after all.

Ah, but their placement is quite easily explained by the preceeding strips, thus isn't inexplicable.
Now the guy behind Sabine's wings in the third panel, I believe he is new, so his presence is inexplicable.

 

[LoneWolf23]

Miko as a Blackguard, I don;t see it, I did before this point, but she's just a jerk, not a vengeful, coniving, evil piece of filth...okay, maybe she is vengeful, but definiately not evil and coniving, at least not yet.

I agree with Henry, I think she has to do something to not only regain the blue at the moment of her death but does so to save Roy so that he always carries that eternal flame for her (which is currently just a wet matchstick.) Of course, what would be even funnier is if later if Roy finds someone new she descided at THAT monet to come back as a 'ghost' like Roy's dad and nag him constently. "I saved your life and this is the thanks I get, you chasing some obvious floosey..." Hint, Hint Rich, I want royalties.

Uh, that ship's gone and sailed.. Roy is currently in a long-distance relationship with Celia the sylph paralegal. He's waaay over Miko by now.

I do agree that Miko becoming a Blackguard seems less likely then her someone redeeming herself before death at some point.

Here's a scary thought.. What if, during the invasion, the Hobgoblins break into the jail and Miko and Belkar are forced to work together to fight them?

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Here's a scary thought.. What if, during the invasion, the Hobgoblins break into the jail and Miko and Belkar are forced to work together to fight them?

Now that would be amusing. And would also make a lot of sense from a story POV. I think we can all agree that whatever happens, Miko is unlikely to stay in jail for long.

Plus, this would allow the Linear Guild to escape as well - they, too, are too interesting to be stuck in jail.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Maybe Miko can inadvertently flip Balkar's hate/lust switch...

 

[orsal]

Funny! And beeeeetter than the last one...! And... "friendly contact"!

Regrettably, that is not the official text. The literal requirement is peaceful contact.

Which this encounter clearly isn't.

Personally, I lean toward the view that Rich did this strip just to tease everyone fixated on the prospect of Miko as blackguard.