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Lookouts Part 5 of 6 for Wednesday, May 5, 2010

scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    :D!

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    And then they ripped off the massive owlbeast's face and antlers, to run back to the village holding it aloft in triumph.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    god I can't get over how beautiful this arc is

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Woooooooooooooooo

    I really really can't wait for the last one

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    Birthday comic.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I want the last one so I can read through these as a set.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I wonder which one will be revealed as the jester :(

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    oh god the last page is going to be so horrible to contrast this feel-good moment

    we already know one of the kids is fucked

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    definitely gonna have to go back and read these all in one go

    pretty, though

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Judging from the first comic I want to say it's
    the fatty

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    noooo I just want it to stop here nooo children

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  • DidgeridooDidgeridoo Flighty Dame Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I don't get the impression that anything bad is going to happen! I honestly think that they are just having fun and playing in the forest with their mentor.

    Of course, the fact that i think this probably means one of them is going to die horribly in the next comic.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    This is like that

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh god I can taste the foreshadowing in my mouth. It is a thing I am tasting right now and it is thick and viscous.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Didgeridoo wrote: »
    I don't get the impression that anything bad is going to happen! I honestly think that they are just having fun and playing in the forest with their mentor.

    Of course, the fact that i think this probably means one of them is going to die horribly in the next comic.

    I wish I could believe this

    I wish I could be in this bubble and stay happy, and never read the last comic where one of the children is definitely going to be horribly murdered

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    This is like that

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    oh god dammit

    when is that coming out, anyway

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    this year? sometime?

    ps3 exclusive everything into my arsehole

    GRRR

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    :whistle:

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  • FalxFalx Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Lookouts should be an RPG for kids.

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    STEAM
  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    So the series switches between them playing with trainer dude and the actual battle?

    Or is it all just pretend and the snow scenes are in the kids' minds?

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Or is it all just pretend and the snow scenes are in the kids' minds?
    It's looking like it.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    No, the snow scenes are when the boys are older.

    It's when they are performing the task they are being unknowingly trained for.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'm with DP

    no way is this not going to end in tragedy

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  • EfesellEfesell Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I really don't see anything horrible happening at all, not striking me as that kinda tale.



    Cut to Friday with the Owl monster eating everyone..

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Looks like they got him!

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  • DrCongoDrCongo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    I have to say that

    Four went up to the frosty crown
    but three came tumbling, tumbling down

    strikes me as pretty damn ominous D:

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  • IvarIvar Oslo, NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    DrCongo wrote: »
    I have to say that

    Four went up to the frosty crown
    but three came tumbling, tumbling down

    strikes me as pretty damn ominous D:

    Maybe three of them makes it back alive, the jester being the one kid who gets eaten.

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    No, the snow scenes are when the boys are older.

    It's when they are performing the task they are being unknowingly trained for.
    Are you sure on that? Look at the transition in part 3. Kid looks exactly the same. So far it looks like the leader and the four kids went out, leader chased pair one, pair two yelled and distracted him then the first pair pounced on him. Much joy and delight followed. Unless a tree falls on a scout or we get some sort of surprise basilisk I'm not seeing it.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    JAEF wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    No, the snow scenes are when the boys are older.

    It's when they are performing the task they are being unknowingly trained for.
    Are you sure on that? Look at the transition in part 3. Kid looks exactly the same. So far it looks like the leader and the four kids went out, leader chased pair one, pair two yelled and distracted him then the first pair pounced on him. Much joy and delight followed. Unless a tree falls on a scout or we get some sort of surprise basilisk I'm not seeing it.
    how are you not seeing this?

    The parts of the story with the adult are in the fall, when the kids are training for their task. Then we transition to the winter, when they're executing the task they were trained for. Whether or not the kids look older doesn't really matter, since it's likely just the very next season.

    So the first part shows them playing with the adult acting as the monster. Then we see them transition to hunting the actual monster. And now they cut back to show us exactly what the kids are expected to do in order to kill the monster. Everything about the tone and foreshadowing tells me the winter shots are real and it's very clearly being set up for at least one kid to die. Maybe he will or won't, but if this is just a straightforward pretend-fun-happy-times thing I will eat my hat and be very disappointed in the story.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh for the love of

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=14706133&postcount=167

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Thanks Gatsby.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hey it'd help if people referenced Gabe's post directly when they're explaining to other people what's happening in the strip!

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Henroid wrote: »
    Hey it'd help if people referenced Gabe's post directly when they're explaining to other people what's happening in the strip!
    i didn't actually remember seeing that post, so good to know it's there!

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    it really shouldn't have to be explained because it's pretty easy to figure out

    shame Gabe has to come in here and kind of Buckley it

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    So I suppose the two greetings - "Please/thank you" and "How do you do" represent the lure, catching the creature's attention, and then grabbing the apple represents snatching the prize that is potentially the point of the whole enterprise, and then at the end the jester takes one for the team... but I am still trying to figure out what the 'apple' is going to be. What are they after? Just catching the creature? I want to knooow.

    (Of course there is the possibility that I'm terribly wrong about everything, also.)

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Just because only three kids come back doesn't necessarily mean one of them dies. Maybe one of them tames the owlbeast and ends up staying in the woods as a ranger of justice type riding around on his awesome owlbeast mount.

    Alternatively, death.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Am I the only one who thinks "tumbling down" might itself mean 3 die and only 1 survives?

    Because if that turns out to be true then D:

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Am I the only one who thinks "tumbling down" might itself mean 3 die and only 1 survives?

    Because if that turns out to be true then D:

    Years later, fatty is still traumatized by survivor's guilt.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I imagine none of this would have really needed explaining if we were able to read all of them at once.

    Or if you guys weren't so terrible at webcomicing

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  • Pixel BluePixel Blue Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    :( The little blonde kid comes into the frame for the jester line on this page.

    And he almost got eaten by the basilisk, too. Live, blonde kid!

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