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MichaelSomething
Legend
I would like to point out how all three of the splice souls said the same thing in that one panel. Nice touch.
(Psi)SeveredHead
Adventurer
Full agreement here.
I doubt V will kill his family, accidentally or otherwise. (And if he does, the only thing he'll learn is to be less careless with how he slings spells.) I wonder if he'll go mad with power and hold onto the powerup for a long time (at a gruesome cost to his soul).
On the other hand, it certainly would be a refreshing change of pace for one of Rich's subplots.
It wouldn't be so bad if the strip came out more frequently (say, the once-expected three times a week instead of the once, occasionally twice, we have seen in recent months). When you read OotS in big chunks, there is no part of it that I recall that drags the way, say, the first half of season 5 of Babylon 5 drags. (A few individual elements still get old, like Haley's cryptograms, but there's always enough else going on to keep it interesting.) It only feels that way with the new strips because we're having to wait a week, occasionally more and only very rarely significantly less, for the silly things.
And the main reason for that is Rich's health problems. I'm sure no-one would be happier than Rich if those were resolved. I don't know any specifics but the evidence, including his own statements, suggests it's some sort of chronic (and serious, but non-life-threatening) thing where that just isn't likely to happen. I wish it were otherwise just as much as you do. But, I'll bet, not anywhere near as much as Rich Berlew himself.
So I, for one, am willing to be as patient as necessary.
Anyone who is analyzing the tactics V is using here is completely missing the point of the last panel.
V casts Disintegrate because the dragon asked him to do so, one more time. Remember when it first showed up? And he was out of Disintegrates? This is a callback to that. It's saying, "Hey, I was out of Disintegrates when you came by before, but I'm stocked up now. Let's fight." It is in no way expected to kill the dragon in one shot.
If anything, it is a statement that V is so much superior to the dragon now that he can waste a 10th level spell slot for the sole purpose of taunting her.
V casts Disintegrate because the dragon asked him to do so, one more time. Remember when it first showed up? And he was out of Disintegrates? This is a callback to that. It's saying, "Hey, I was out of Disintegrates when you came by before, but I'm stocked up now. Let's fight." It is in no way expected to kill the dragon in one shot.
If anything, it is a statement that V is so much superior to the dragon now that he can waste a 10th level spell slot for the sole purpose of taunting her.
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WarlockLord
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SpoD for the win. V does seem to be flaunting his power a little too much here. The look on Mother Dragon's face is priceless.
That is a very good catch, SPoD!
Also, does anyone else thing it is ironic that a quickened spell in OotS, in this case Disintegrate, actually takes longer to cast than a standard spell? Seeing as you have to add the 'quicken' to it.
Actually, that look is from the Mordenkainen's Disjunction that V throw at him. If you look closer, you'll see that the Disjunction beam is white, while the disintegrate is green.
