OotS 452

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Strange... they're not all from Australia!

Crikey!

 

[Sound of Azure]

Crikey!

I think I'm gonna throw a shrimp on the barby!

 

[Elemental]

I'm surprised there wasn't a Wall of Something Nasty cast across the gap. It would seem an obvious choice for plugging holes in a seige.

 

[LordVyreth]

I think it says more about V's purchasing habits. Honestly, what high level wizard doesn't have a few dozen wands for emergencies? Or even a staff? Seriously, one decent wand/staff with fireball, a fly spell, a wall of force, and another dose of invisibility/protection from arrows would turn this whole crisis around.

 

[Piratecat]

Why do people respond to an observation by making absolute statements?

Try using less of a strawman and see where that gets you. "Why do you think that when events happen in a story, it is sometimes a conscious or unconscious commentary by the author?"

I swear, if you kids don't stop arguing, I'm going to turn this car right around and then there'll be no ice cream for ANY of you!

 

[Gez]

Why do people think when a fictional character does something in this strip, it's always an editorial on the part of the author?

'Cause it is? Lit 101: fictional characters are not persons (even when they are based on real persons), they are literary devices used by the author to convey something, a message or an emotion.

 

[Celebrim]

I swear, if you kids don't stop arguing, I'm going to turn this car right around and then there'll be no ice cream for ANY of you!

But Daaaaaadddddddyyy... SpoDDy is touuuching MY side!

 

[DM_Matt]

'Cause it is? Lit 101: fictional characters are not persons (even when they are based on real persons), they are literary devices used by the author to convey something, a message or an emotion.

You are behind the times. Our betters in the ivory tower have decreed that all meaning is subjective and it doesn't matter at all what the authors were doing. Those open-minded, progressive, lights unto the ignorant, materialistic, bougeois Western world have forbidden such barbaric, gauche thinking. OBEY YOUR PHD-HOLDING MASTERS!

 

[Doug McCrae]

Rich's whole 'lawful stupid' shtick is starting to turn into a rant.

Roy, lawful good, is presented in a very sympathetic manner and is shown to be very intelligent, often as a contrast to the stupidity of other party members. If any OotS character is a mouthpiece for the author, it's Roy.

I don't think paladins are ever portrayed as stupid. Miko, the worst example of paladinhood in the strip, comes across as deeply mistaken, but not dumb. Every other paladin has been shown to be pretty sensible, in fact at one point a paladin says that Miko is often sent away on long missions because the rest of her order find her unbearable.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I swear, if you kids don't stop arguing, I'm going to turn this car right around and then there'll be no ice cream for ANY of you!

I'm telling mom!