Last comic of January! As celebration: here, have an action comic!
Writing a script in terms of choreography rather than dialogue is always a strange experience. Though making this scene wasn’t quite as ridiculous as, say, the wasp battle scene with June and Maxx, it is the most intricate I’ve gotten with Maxx’s swordfighting. Dude has some serious moves. I think the overall flow works pretty well, though I’ve got some things to learn still.
Also, some of you might find it strange that I depict Cyril using magic that I never showed Flower teaching him. Here’s the thing: I don’t want to set a precedent where I have to explicitly show Cyril learning every spell in his bag of tricks, because having a ‘Cyril learns a spell’ comic every five comics would soon get very tiring for everyone involved. So… he learned it off-screen, ok?
-Jesse
Awesome as always!
Agreed, we need more comics of aley doing the BWEEEEN thing
“irony”
Love that.
Woah, cyril is amazing.
I’ll just add that Hannah was in danger and most movies show wizards using spells they don’t know to save loved ones from harm 😛 so no worries Jesse! as always keep up the good work.
sooo next comic is Cyril using BUNNYYYSSSSTTOORRRMMMMM!!!! right Jesse?
You have to admit, Maxx is good at fighting.
skelebreathXD
What exactly, might i ask, did cyril’s (totally awesome) spell do?
It was a spell that produced a red cloud of vapourised Bromine that turns all body tissues, including bone, into- well, a pile of body tissues.
Why not a cloud of cyanide?
Coz Cyanide is green, learn your stuff.
NOW I understand!
Come, followers, and behold my infinite intelligence.
However, the exact spell is named in the description of the next comic, It’s not exactly a good name, but it’s official.
AMAZING AND CANT WAIT A ‘TILL NEXT ONE!
What kind of spell is that, though? I see a ‘bomf’ and a lot of red, but I can’t really tell what’s happening, besides what’s probably quite a bit of owie.
Also, what was the ‘tink’ sound effect caused by? I know it’s indicative of the axe being lightly rested on his head, but to the best of my knowledge Cyril’s head ain’t made o’ metal, so what caused this hurr sound?
Perhaps Cyril learned a spell that replicates the effects of the ironskin potion.
Or maybe he has a chainmail fuzzy hat.
What kind of axe makes an irony noise? IT…SOUNDS…AWESOME!!!
I wanna see Hannah try and fight without using heels.
Can we still see Cyril learn the more interesting spells?
You already have ‘bomf’ and bunnystorm, that could one-shot a golem anyday.
When is the dryad and arms dealer ever gonna come back? It’s been ages since we last saw them
Skelebreath
Oh boy……
While I do like that Cyril is being useful, I’m not sure I like that he’s just casually flinging magic around. It seems like the sort of thing you would save for some crucial, game-changing moment, not just “Oh btw, Cyril’s compotent now”. Still a good comic though.
I agree, he stepped up from bunnies to vikings quite fast. A good recovery for this would be to have something un-expected come about because of it. (Ex: head on backward, fugi growth, change mod type, size change, etc. [for the viking, not Cyril])
Who knows? It might have had side effects… just not ones you can see or see yet. :O
I think the “BWEEN”ed Viking went from UN-dead, to RE-dead.
Great comic. I think ally and guidey are helping each other out on the concentration of their technique. No bunnies, no dead Tyrone; there on there way to becoming a great posse.
I’m glad it went to just dead instead of the vampire-zombie Redead from Legend of Zelda: OoT
sorry couldn’t help myself 🙂
Ok, it went from un-dead to never lived in the first place.
From what I’ve seen, bomf noises tend to come from explodey effects. Here’s a couple more things going bomf.
http://arcticcirclecartoons.com/comics/october-25-2013/
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3814
I think the Arms Dealer should be reintroduced while Hannah, Cyril and Maxx are still on the ship or near it. Either that they find him captive and free him, or he comes out of no where and saves the day.
Speaking of the wasp scene WHATS THE SECRET I’VE BEEN DYING TO KNOW
Which secret you think we know that you want to know?
It was the mega man reference. June made a dirt man and had him attack the wasps.
Hah, I can’t believe you brought that up again. No one’s guessed it yet 🙂 And I’m never telling you. Mostly because it’ll be a huge letdown if I do.
What’s mega-man? (And please don’t ban me.)
I hope that’s a joke…
Knew it.
Panel 7 and 8 Maxx defies gravity.
I’m defyyyying gravittyyyyy~
SCREW GRAVITY!
Gravity is realative. Maxx isn’t defying anything.
TomSka
I just thought about a theory: Maybe Aley was a former pirate. It sang it’s own version of the drunken sailor song. It gives ale and I don’t know if pirates like ale but I know that pirates like rum and I don’t know the difference between ale and rum. Aley had a fake beard to maybe hide it’s gender since female women used to dress as men to become pirates. You can find a lot of kegs on a pirate ship so maybe Aley slept in one of those. It probably got kicked of the ship because it destroyed it with it’s lazer beams. Sorry for the wall of text.
BRILLIENT
BWEENIENT
Wow… Maxx… and Cyril and Aley.
ALEY’S BWEENING AGAIN. BEWARE.
and Skele(br)death!?
OR MAYBE instead of Cyril learning the spell off-cam Flower just told him, right then, some magical incantation for him to improv on. His dialogue was just never showed.
Or maybe he just learnt it off screen!
When did Cyril become a mystic?
What was he trying to do exactly? It looks like his spell raised the beheaded zombie viking captain; but that couldn’t have been his intention (and he didn’t seem to expect the logical consequence, so it really couldn’t have been that).
Maybe he bomfed some other zombie viking, but given the layout of the ship I don’t see how it arrived there. Maybe it just spawned off screen while the camera was focusing on Maxx. Cyril, for your safety, you should **always** stay right in the center of the panels. Monsters can only spawn off panel, so when **you** are off-panel, a monster can spawn right on top of you.
I think Hannah’s gonna need to learn some fighting skills.
Awesome! a battle of consisting undead vikings against maxx with the legendary blade of grass(and a gravity potion, panel 7&8), mythical ale fairy, a guide with arcane nature’s gift and an NPC that can insta-heal them. well i saw a not balanced battle here but still the fight we’ve wait is here. good post jesse
Great comic…as always!
Nothing… just enjoying the fighting.
Anyone notice the irony in one of the panels?
First of all,
what was the magic supposed to do? Second of all, where did Maxx get the gravitation potion? Last of all, where is the dryad and the merchant and all the other people?
You forgot? June, the Dryad, left them because she lost all hope in them. The merchant and Demolitionist are sitting in Maxx’s town because they don’t do the fighting.
That ‘irony’ sound effect was brilliant.
You’re good with sound effect humor
Like that rabbit. That said ‘rabbit, rabbit’.
Thanks! I believe the term TvTropes uses for such things is unsound effects.
Well it was derpaherp and since no-one called it, FIRST.
I like pie.
Skelebreath vs Skeledeath. Ha.
Great comic! I love the choreography! Maxx does indeed have some amazing moves, and Cyril and Aley certainly hold their own XD Though it seems the leader of the vikings isn’t going to go down that easily o.o
Man…Im so waiting until cyril will use the “Rabit Storm” :p Awesome comics
Please do these more often 🙂
I just realized that Aley could have very well bweemed Maxx.
Dedicating a whole comic to Cyril learning a spell would be a bit much, but adding a extra panel or two every now and then would be neat especially if spells are amusing like the ones in Progress Quest.
in panels 4 to 8 maxx is using his left hand with the blade of grass. is he lefthanded, righthanded, or both handed?
probably ambidextrious
thats the word i was looking for. coudnt think of it, it means both handed right?
All halfhearted explanations aside, I honestly never even think of which hand characters are using tools with. I just go with what will make the pose look the best, since otherwise the sprites would get even more confusing and less readable 😛
lol ok. just something i notice a lot in comics. its a very nice comic btw ty for making it 🙂
Just from the “Tink” from the axe, I am guessing he used a spell that gives him the iron skin potion effect
Well… the tink may be just the metal tapping on his bone. Take a screw-driver or something then tap it on your forehead. Makes a noise.
WE NEED THIS!!!!1111111111111
Irony!YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
This was made on my birthday…
It would be kinda cool if you could have Cyril learn some spells on screen, but not as a point of focus, like with smaller text and stuff. Kinda like that comic where Maxx finds out Cyril’s name and starts pondering about it being girly and stuff, while June and Hannah are talking about Cyril being dead as the main plot.
Bomf?