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The New Comic Thread for Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Isn't a basilisk's touch also supposed to petrify?
I have no idea how they eat.
On the boys thing.....maybe it works as a good cover? I think the rest of the village might disagree with the arrangement the elders have.
You're right that it's not a big deal, but I do see where joel is coming from.
You're that guy at movies, aren't you?
OH FUCK THAT'S NOT REALISTIC IN THAT FILM WITH SPACESHIPS AND ALIENS AND GIANT ROBOTS
No, what you are referring to is called suspension of disbelieve. That's something else than suspension of logic.
Otherwise how could anyone tell that the scoutleader, seeing the blonde kid under the claws of the monster, leaping onto its back and blocking it's eyes so the other kids could attack it, is at all "saving the boy" ??? Or that a community would have old guys leading it ???
He's disliked the comics from the beginning, so he's not exactly reflecting on the comics so much as looking for minuscule things to scrutinize.
My Litchi is a beast now. You should play with me later.
Thinking, breathing, posting; there are many things you do which bother Druhim.
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it's natural for them to address him by name
that's all
Basilisks (fictitious creatures that apparently we can argue about for entire threads) kill or eat things in some way or another. Otherwise they would die.
These particular ones are appeased when fed children.
We don't need to go into the minutiae of exactly how a basilisk kills or consumes these kids. Maybe he turns a bunch to stone and eats just one? Maybe he can also un-petrify them to eat them at another time? Maybe he eats stone, but didn't want to eat the ones that are there?
Either way, it's not a real creature. As such, the authors are allowed to bend these apparently diamond-strength rules how they feel.
I want to get to the bottom of this mystery so I can potentially send the writer an angry email about how they are not following Lookouts canon.
I imagine basilisks using the boys as trading cards.
EDIT: I'm suprised that people are somehow using the fact that the scoutmaster got called by his name as some sort of criticism.
Your Litchi was scary already, and now I have a stick so I'm having to re-learn everything.
hence my asking if you're into astrology, since it's a practice based on reading non existent meaning into natural phenomenon
Only it's a really bad cook so most of the kids are overdone or still raw in the middle or something so he doesn't eat them, which is why there are quite a few stone kids in the woods.
Also, I think we should start a Cult of Druhim.
Looking back, one thing I missed was the comparison between his getting swept off by the vile chicken and, not far later, his incredible moves required to disable the beast. Had I thought about it more, I could have guessed that he was playing patsy and that the intention was for at least one of the boys to die.
I'll trade you a pudgy little dark haired stone boy for that goofy looking ginger kid statue.
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What now, brown cow.
A wizard did it.
They hate garlic.
They can't cross running water.
Silver kills them.
They feast upon the frightened essence of the boys once they turn to stone.
Rosebud was his sled.
It was the scoutmaster in the forest with the candlestick.
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Maybe it's just pay back for all the eggs the little bastards steal from the forest. It's about killing human children for revenge.
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I completely get that this, or something like it, is the intended story. But it comes out of nowhere.
There are enough pieces for us to be able to assemble something like a coherent story around them ourselves, but the fact that we have to is precisely why it's not good storytelling.
My entire point is that the "twist" is slapped on. A good twist would be if at least some signs were there all along and we didn't notice them until afterward, eg.
- significant glances between the elders as the boys set out (or any mention of the elders at all)
- any mention before the attack, however cryptic, that the blonde kid is the chosen food item
- the leader is the only one who *doesn't* get attacked by the basilisk
When the leader gets knocked out, and then jumps up at the first opportunity and kills the beast, that doesn't scream conspiracy to me, it's exactly what I'd expect him to do.
This was like a whodunnit where it turns out to be a character we don't even meet until the last page.
If you're already at Home Depot, then why not hire little Mexican el lookouts to do the job for like 1/3 the price.
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It seems like most of us have no problem putting two and two together here.
Actually, that's a fairly plausible scientific explanation. Oops.
I'd buy your petrification process theory though. It actually makes sense, if you think of it as a means of draining energy from the victim. He turns from something alive and energetic into something wholly immobile and dead.