Hawt Angry Moonblade is Hawt! The glasses give her that stern librarian look. Bree *must* be disciplined 😉
More seriously, though – did the Moonblade have a soul of its own when it was created, or was the soul of a normal previously living hot-elf-babe bound to the physical sword to imbue it with intelligence and will?
Stab with what? They’re naked and unarmed, so it will just be a lot of grappling and slapping and scratching and hair-pulling. For the record, I am OK with that. 😉
I meant stab in the metaphorical sense of doing what rogues do best: kill you before you can even notice them. In other words: kick her ass and do it dirtly.
They’re like a Rorschach inkblot – everyone sees in them what they want to. For my part, I was paying so much attention to the Hawt Angry Librarian Moonbladebabe about to get in a catfight with the Naked Dripping Wood Elf, I didn’t even notice there was a background!
(Sorry, couldn’t resist to comment on Panel 1 – I like! The other jokes that came to mind were even worse or too complicated because they involved some witty remark about how the upcoming confrontation with the Moon Blade cries for a … close shave.
Well the Moon Blade is not a +1-5 to hit that’s for sure not with those corrective glasses. I wonder what the bonus’s are on it.
+3 whining and complaining
+4 ego +5 temper tantrum
+5 snotty snobbery
come on guys help me out here
Awww, have some sympathy for the poor Moonblade. She’s a humanoid spirit trapped, probably for centuries, in a mostly inanimate object, which means she’s gone for hundreds of years with no sex – you’d be awfully pissy too! Even worse, as a sword, what with all the stabbing, and sliding in and out of that scabbard, and getting repeatedly polished to keep her shine, she’s constantly reminded that she’s not getting any. I’m surprised her attitude isn’t worse.
Personally I would have her cane-cutting (that’s what machetes are for) 24/7 until she quits all that pseudo-chilvalric arrogance and prudishness. Some sort of Maoist re-education but with regular non-gratifying sexual service. O yeah, don’t bring the sadic in me out of the closet, please!
Interesting that Paraxyss is a psychotic sociopathic serial killer and people seem to love her, while poor Moonblade is just kind of a stuck-up jerk and it seems many folks are ready to melt her down for scrap. Not looking for any hidden meaning there, I just think it’s interesting.
Paraxyss is a hot and sexy vore monster with a fun, engaging personality. Psychotic, sociopathic serial killer, yes, but she’s so much fun! You kinda can’t help but love her, as long as it isn’t you she’s trying to kill. Moonblade, on the other hand, never does anything fun, nor even try to enjoy life, such as it is for a possessed weapon. On top of that, she clearly doesn’t like Bree, our protagonist, while Paraxyss seems to like her well enough, as long as their goals coincide.
Now personally, I kinda like Moonblade, and look forward to her eventually getting the stick pulled out of her (shiny metal) ass. Who knows? Maybe sharing Bree’s brink-of-death experience will be what it takes to start to untwist her metaphorical panties.
There’s nothing worse than someone who is evil out of trying to be “good”. The machete is guilty of Bree’s cuasi-death and she even wants to kill her completely. She’s some sort of Torquemada with ethereal boobs, don’t deceive yourself, there’s one term for it: “lawful stupid”.
I don’t sympathize with Paraxxys but she is what she is:
Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear,
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear
And he keeps it out of sight.
(Brecht).
Nobody expects her to collaborate, yet she does (on various reasons). I don’t even bother judging a more transparently evil character such as Nefice. They play their natural role in the story.
But the machete?! She and Bree have the same mission, the same goal and the same loyalties but just because of a matter of “manners”, she hates Bree. What is Bree, a rogue, supposed to do? Yell: “hey you” as in bad Hollywood movies and superhero cartoons? Yet the stupid machete does not just expect her to do so but has decided to kill her just for being a rogue.
I’m all for melting her into a pile of junk, really.
Ah, but that’s all exactly what I find so interesting – that people will have such a strong preference for the likeable monster over the person with a crappy personality when they’re characters in a story. It’s easy to do as the observer of a fictional scene – I think in real life people are generally going to chose the jerk over the psycho. Then again, maybe not – I admittedly have very little understanding of people in general. I suppose history is filled with charismatic psychos who amassed armies of loyal followers.
For my part, I will reserve judgement on Moonblade until we know more of her backstory, of which we currently have not much more than “was found on a dead elf”, and meanwhile will enjoy her rude, self-important, bossy, judgemental hotness.
Maybe it’s privative to the public of this comic (incidentally: do you live in “the Bible Belt” or Saudi Arabia?, if so your social experience may be rather exceptional, not the rule). But then what about that hyper popular book and TV series, Game of Thrones. I have only watched one or two chapters but for what I understand it’s liked because there are no “good guys”, something that is at least innovative to some extent and totally against the traditional and often boring Hollywoodian (or classic comics’) “morals”.
In general I’d say that there is an increase of interest for less plainly “good” or “lawful” characters. If Superman was launched now, nobody would buy it: too simplistic and moralistic.
What happened with the Western genre too? That in the end a more “morally dubious” type of story became much more likeable and John Wayne got old. I’m always glad to watch a Peckinpah, but not really to watch a classic western.
This has been going on for some time: added ethical complexity is more interesting.
The moonblade is just too simple, too old fashioned and worse: she wants to kill Bree! If her old-school morals would cause hilarity, we may even like her, but she’s like Bin Laden: wants to kill the wrong people for the wrong reasons altogether.
You may have a point about changing societal preferences with regard to morality, though I would argue with the reasons for that change, but as far as wanting to kill Bree, Paraxyss hunted down Bree, and Teal as well, and shot both of them with an arrow through the chest! (technically Bree fell on the arrow, but the murder attempt was valid) The worst Moonblade has done so far is to be unhelpful and make a veiled threat.
Welcome to soul space. Bree being both well aware and oK with herself appears as Bree (good on her). The sword appears as a representation of its owner, which it is not happy with – elf – but also as myopic (glasses, more importantly though world view, behaviour, uncompromising) and blue – cold, an item – an opposite to Bree’s skin colour (which would be green, but close enough). Bree better watch out …
You know, I kind of thought the Moonbladebabe was taking a form representative of her former master, whom she still has not gotten over.
By and large, I like the additional opposites you pointed out between the two.
Well, that kind of line always goes: “if you expect a job well done, you have to do it yourself”. It’s plain and obvious. I’m willing to be surprised but in principle she means to kill Bree herself.
Not too concerned – unless she’s got a bunch of levels in “Monk” I doubt she can do too much naked and unarmed aside from putting on a rather entertaining show for the viewing audience. Based on the poll, it seems that 78% of the voting audience agrees.
Do you really think that Bree could not defend herself against a simple attempt to grab her throat and strangle her by someone untrained in unarmed combat? We’re not talking about whether an unskilled fighter could kill a random person in unarmed combat – sure, that can be done – but how difficult it would be to kill Bree with no weapon and no unarmed combat skill, which I would label as nearly impossible unless she rolls a long series of “natural 20s” on her attacks and Bree simultaneously rolls “natural 1s” repeatedly. Statistically unlikely.
Though now that you mention it, if they’re not physically but merely spiritually there, it might not be possible for anyone to kill anyone by any means at all, weapon or not, in which case this catfight might go on for a very long time. I am OK with that.
Ed, you’re the best. Some quite funny comments down here. XD
I really do not think that it’s going to be polite at all. Possibly Wormius is struggling right now with the positions of the bodies in the catfight (thanks in advance, Wormius).
Now, I can imagine that at some point in the fight the misunderstanding will be cleared and the Moonblade will see the light and switch sides to a more collaborative stand. But I’ve been wrong before…
Hawt Angry Moonblade is Hawt! The glasses give her that stern librarian look. Bree *must* be disciplined 😉
More seriously, though – did the Moonblade have a soul of its own when it was created, or was the soul of a normal previously living hot-elf-babe bound to the physical sword to imbue it with intelligence and will?
i think that’s how the spirit of the sword WISHES to appear!
Then she and I are in concurrence – that’s just how I wished her to appear also 😀
it may be that she’s the portion of the spirit of the hot as hell elf chick that made the item
Naked? o_O
Oh man, the talking machete is not just stupid and prudish (yet paradoxically naked) but totally evil! Kill her, Bree: stab, stab, stab!
On the good side, she is not actually dead.
Stab with what? They’re naked and unarmed, so it will just be a lot of grappling and slapping and scratching and hair-pulling. For the record, I am OK with that. 😉
I think he meant “stab” in a different way than what you first thought.
Hmmmmm…..whatever could you possibly mean 😉
No, not that. Or whatever… really.
you know Ed8, that might be a good way for them to bound and become friends! 😀
I’m sure you meant “bond”, though if there’s some rope around there, someone might end up bound 🙂 In which case, I like your suggestion 😀
Why not both! 😀
I meant stab in the metaphorical sense of doing what rogues do best: kill you before you can even notice them. In other words: kick her ass and do it dirtly.
Ah, so then we’re back to the “grappling and slapping and scratching and hair-pulling” that I mentioned – which I am still very OK with!
I see squishy wet internal-living-wall type looking texture on the ground, and am excited. More vorishness, mayhaps?
I’m disappointed that LordCrimson didn’t notice first!
Yeah Vore didn’t come to my mind, since I thought those were Brain membrane or something!
To me they look like tentacles, which if that is true I like where this is going. 😉
They’re like a Rorschach inkblot – everyone sees in them what they want to. For my part, I was paying so much attention to the Hawt Angry Librarian Moonbladebabe about to get in a catfight with the Naked Dripping Wood Elf, I didn’t even notice there was a background!
Some souls have bad eyesight and need corrective eyewear apparently.
Why else would a talking sword need someone to wield it?
The wielders are pretty much seeing-eye dogs.
Bree Bluebush!
(Sorry, couldn’t resist to comment on Panel 1 – I like! The other jokes that came to mind were even worse or too complicated because they involved some witty remark about how the upcoming confrontation with the Moon Blade cries for a … close shave.
Okay, I shut up already, back to lurking now.)
Not the first time we have seen Ms Blue’s bush (does Bree have a last name? maybe ‘Bluebush’ can be her lastname)
Well the Moon Blade is not a +1-5 to hit that’s for sure not with those corrective glasses. I wonder what the bonus’s are on it.
+3 whining and complaining
+4 ego +5 temper tantrum
+5 snotty snobbery
come on guys help me out here
Awww, have some sympathy for the poor Moonblade. She’s a humanoid spirit trapped, probably for centuries, in a mostly inanimate object, which means she’s gone for hundreds of years with no sex – you’d be awfully pissy too! Even worse, as a sword, what with all the stabbing, and sliding in and out of that scabbard, and getting repeatedly polished to keep her shine, she’s constantly reminded that she’s not getting any. I’m surprised her attitude isn’t worse.
She deserves much worse for all I know.
Personally I would have her cane-cutting (that’s what machetes are for) 24/7 until she quits all that pseudo-chilvalric arrogance and prudishness. Some sort of Maoist re-education but with regular non-gratifying sexual service. O yeah, don’t bring the sadic in me out of the closet, please!
Interesting that Paraxyss is a psychotic sociopathic serial killer and people seem to love her, while poor Moonblade is just kind of a stuck-up jerk and it seems many folks are ready to melt her down for scrap. Not looking for any hidden meaning there, I just think it’s interesting.
Paraxyss is a hot and sexy vore monster with a fun, engaging personality. Psychotic, sociopathic serial killer, yes, but she’s so much fun! You kinda can’t help but love her, as long as it isn’t you she’s trying to kill. Moonblade, on the other hand, never does anything fun, nor even try to enjoy life, such as it is for a possessed weapon. On top of that, she clearly doesn’t like Bree, our protagonist, while Paraxyss seems to like her well enough, as long as their goals coincide.
Now personally, I kinda like Moonblade, and look forward to her eventually getting the stick pulled out of her (shiny metal) ass. Who knows? Maybe sharing Bree’s brink-of-death experience will be what it takes to start to untwist her metaphorical panties.
There’s nothing worse than someone who is evil out of trying to be “good”. The machete is guilty of Bree’s cuasi-death and she even wants to kill her completely. She’s some sort of Torquemada with ethereal boobs, don’t deceive yourself, there’s one term for it: “lawful stupid”.
I don’t sympathize with Paraxxys but she is what she is:
Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear,
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear
And he keeps it out of sight.
(Brecht).
Nobody expects her to collaborate, yet she does (on various reasons). I don’t even bother judging a more transparently evil character such as Nefice. They play their natural role in the story.
But the machete?! She and Bree have the same mission, the same goal and the same loyalties but just because of a matter of “manners”, she hates Bree. What is Bree, a rogue, supposed to do? Yell: “hey you” as in bad Hollywood movies and superhero cartoons? Yet the stupid machete does not just expect her to do so but has decided to kill her just for being a rogue.
I’m all for melting her into a pile of junk, really.
Ah, but that’s all exactly what I find so interesting – that people will have such a strong preference for the likeable monster over the person with a crappy personality when they’re characters in a story. It’s easy to do as the observer of a fictional scene – I think in real life people are generally going to chose the jerk over the psycho. Then again, maybe not – I admittedly have very little understanding of people in general. I suppose history is filled with charismatic psychos who amassed armies of loyal followers.
For my part, I will reserve judgement on Moonblade until we know more of her backstory, of which we currently have not much more than “was found on a dead elf”, and meanwhile will enjoy her rude, self-important, bossy, judgemental hotness.
Maybe it’s privative to the public of this comic (incidentally: do you live in “the Bible Belt” or Saudi Arabia?, if so your social experience may be rather exceptional, not the rule). But then what about that hyper popular book and TV series, Game of Thrones. I have only watched one or two chapters but for what I understand it’s liked because there are no “good guys”, something that is at least innovative to some extent and totally against the traditional and often boring Hollywoodian (or classic comics’) “morals”.
In general I’d say that there is an increase of interest for less plainly “good” or “lawful” characters. If Superman was launched now, nobody would buy it: too simplistic and moralistic.
What happened with the Western genre too? That in the end a more “morally dubious” type of story became much more likeable and John Wayne got old. I’m always glad to watch a Peckinpah, but not really to watch a classic western.
This has been going on for some time: added ethical complexity is more interesting.
The moonblade is just too simple, too old fashioned and worse: she wants to kill Bree! If her old-school morals would cause hilarity, we may even like her, but she’s like Bin Laden: wants to kill the wrong people for the wrong reasons altogether.
You may have a point about changing societal preferences with regard to morality, though I would argue with the reasons for that change, but as far as wanting to kill Bree, Paraxyss hunted down Bree, and Teal as well, and shot both of them with an arrow through the chest! (technically Bree fell on the arrow, but the murder attempt was valid) The worst Moonblade has done so far is to be unhelpful and make a veiled threat.
Ah or the original “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer”. There’s another, lesser known verse that was later tacked on by Brecht that’s my favorite:
There are some who are in darkness,
And the others are in light.
And you see the ones in brightness.
Those in darkness drop from sight.
Seems appropriate to Bree and Delve overall.
So the carpet DOES match the drapes!
We found that out back at Tit for Tat
Welcome to soul space. Bree being both well aware and oK with herself appears as Bree (good on her). The sword appears as a representation of its owner, which it is not happy with – elf – but also as myopic (glasses, more importantly though world view, behaviour, uncompromising) and blue – cold, an item – an opposite to Bree’s skin colour (which would be green, but close enough). Bree better watch out …
You know, I kind of thought the Moonbladebabe was taking a form representative of her former master, whom she still has not gotten over.
By and large, I like the additional opposites you pointed out between the two.
So, is anyone else concerned about where Moonbabe’s last line is going?
Well, that kind of line always goes: “if you expect a job well done, you have to do it yourself”. It’s plain and obvious. I’m willing to be surprised but in principle she means to kill Bree herself.
So “stab, stab, stab”, I insist.
Not too concerned – unless she’s got a bunch of levels in “Monk” I doubt she can do too much naked and unarmed aside from putting on a rather entertaining show for the viewing audience. Based on the poll, it seems that 78% of the voting audience agrees.
You don’t need to be a “monk” to strangle someone to death. Assuming that air is meaningful in that ethereal plane…
Do you really think that Bree could not defend herself against a simple attempt to grab her throat and strangle her by someone untrained in unarmed combat? We’re not talking about whether an unskilled fighter could kill a random person in unarmed combat – sure, that can be done – but how difficult it would be to kill Bree with no weapon and no unarmed combat skill, which I would label as nearly impossible unless she rolls a long series of “natural 20s” on her attacks and Bree simultaneously rolls “natural 1s” repeatedly. Statistically unlikely.
Though now that you mention it, if they’re not physically but merely spiritually there, it might not be possible for anyone to kill anyone by any means at all, weapon or not, in which case this catfight might go on for a very long time. I am OK with that.
Why does it feel like a catfight between two hot naked chicks is about to start?
Wishful thinking on our part. This dispute will surely be settled by a polite game of rock-paper-scissors.
Ed, you’re the best. Some quite funny comments down here. XD
I really do not think that it’s going to be polite at all. Possibly Wormius is struggling right now with the positions of the bodies in the catfight (thanks in advance, Wormius).
Now, I can imagine that at some point in the fight the misunderstanding will be cleared and the Moonblade will see the light and switch sides to a more collaborative stand. But I’ve been wrong before…
While I’m normally anxious to get to the next strip, by all means, Wormius, take your time with this one, that positioning is very critical 😉