Gratuitous Flashback
Chapter: Season Eight
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This strip is a little talking head and copy/pastey. Deal with it, person already typing that comment. You have no power here.
AND OMG A NEW SHIRT!
Comments are closed.
HOVER-TEXT: did the eyes on that pic of Emma move?
Remind me, please: what was the beef between Sam and Dallas?
It’s been a while and a long build but Sam convinced her to appear in public and reveal her true self behind the “Dallas Noble” pen name. The reveal brought the shitlords to her doorstep and the backlash led to her contract being ended. She kind of blamed Sam (see also: looked for a place to put her anger/sadness) for the whole thing.
It is downright disconcerting to see Brett being all… mature, and reasonable, and insightful, and stuff. What happened to him during that year in the North Pole!
Not complaining, mind, Dallas and Sam needed an adult just then, it’s just freaking me out a bit as to who’s filling that role.
Right? Growth is weird sometimes.
Okay, good to know I wasn’t the only one shocked by this. You are right though, they needed an adult to move them past the awkward apology phase and try to get them back on track. Brett did have some serious growing up to do in that year though.
my question is did he say he wants her to teach him how to play her system cause he genuinely wanted to or because his santaness kicked in and he was trying to spread the cheer?
Why not both?
So… any chance this leads to an in-comic look at what Dead Iron is like? ‘Cause I’ve been curious to see what one of Dallas’s games looks like for years now, especially this one since it’s the straw that broke the grognard’s back.
From what little I recall, the “Bad” reviews were mostly by people who were somehow injured at fact that Dallas never actually said that she wasn’t a middle-aged male until the signing incident, as if nom de plumes haven’t been a thing for centuries by now. Nothing was actually said about the quality of the setting. So it’ll be enlightening to see just what kind of designer she actually is.
Which in turn, were mostly spearheaded by Dove, who as near as I can tell is very much of the misogynistic ‘no girls in gaming’ mindset. The little git has taken the idea that he is good at gaming to mean that his ideas and opinions are therefore correct, including outside the tabletop.
So basically Dove is the story equivalent of most of the vocal people on the internet.
Eeeyup. Have a cookie.
I love how Brett deals with folks on edge right now. This is the second time he’s done it that I can remember and I think he’s become my favorite character.
Sometimes, a jerkass cutting to the end is the best thing for tension.
Not always, mind you.
I have been waiting for this shirt for YEARS. #ORDERED
NOOOOOO I caught up too quickly, now I have to wait for new pages. This comic is soooo good i just started it like 2 days ago. can’t wait for more
Welcome to the fold, Derek. Yeah, I have that problem too when I find a comic I like, I plow through the archives to fast.
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Read it again. Read it again. Gooble gobble….
***Spolier Alert****
If I recall correctly, current 5th ed canon has Mordankainen currently looking for his marbles in Ravenloft…
Like, literally some sort of possibly enchanted marbles or we talking looking for his sanity? I haven’t played in so long and never really really sunk into the lore because I didn’t have my own books to mark up and read.
Why not both? It is entirely within the realm of possibility that they are magical marbles of sanity, and that after collecting a few of the shiny glass spheres, a player will headdesk and groan as they get the pun.
He went head to head with Strahd and lost. Shortly thereafter he lost his memory/sanity and has been in Barovia ever since.
Was this in CoS? (I haven’t but haven’t read much yet)
I’m curious; did you draw this pre-style update, or just revert for the sake of the flashback?
I reverted and it is already super weird.
I still love that name, “Dead Iron,” but I can’t help but picture it like a western.
A ‘pixar’ waffle iron with Xs for eyes.
Due purely to the word association aspect, every time I read “Dead Iron,” I can’t help but think of the “Steel Coffin” game portrayed in the comic “PvP”: http://pvponline.com/comic/another-nail-in-the-coffin
Not that this looks like anything Dallas would have written, and I’m sure that the subject matter and quality of these two fictional and nonexistent games are completely different, but again, the similarity in titles just gets that image from panel 2 in the link above stuck in my head.
Eh, that comment was supposed to be in reply to Stephen; sorry for screwing up the conversation!
On a completely unrelated topic, I just received my copy of the Dresden Files Card Game today, and it was great to see Ra. I always enjoy seeing your art in the wild, Brian!
What genre is Dead Iron? I went back through the archives, but all I could find was a gray book that said Dead Iron and THE WORST PUN A FAKE NEWSPAPER IN A WEBCOMIC HAS EVER RUN, PATTERSON…
The name makes me think Western…or something sea fairing with cannons. And Ghosts.
I now want all those things.