Comic #550: Innate Abilities

Remiel just keeps digging his own grave deeper and deeper, huh?

I considered having Mike deliver a final zinger in the last panel there, but in the end decided that the comic worked best with Remiel’s line being the last. I think it was xkcdsucks that coined the term “post-punchline dialogue”, and ever since reading that blog I try to avoid PPD whenever possible.

(Don’t read xkcdsucks if you’re underage. It’s extremely inappropriate.)

For anyone wondering about the future of LoM: between settling into a new job and planning a wedding (mine), I’ve been very busy lately. But, I’m resolved to draw new comics whenever I find the time, and hopefully after things settle down I’ll find that this happens more and more often.

-Jesse

157 thoughts on “Comic #550: Innate Abilities”

  1. Keelak Kitten

    “Remiel just keeps digging his own grave deeper and deeper, huh?”
    But like isn’t he already in heaven though?

    Congrats on the wedding by the way.

    1. Well using some baseless logic, if you die in life and you’re evil, you go to hell (down a layer) and if you die in life and you’re good, you go to heaven (up one layer).

      Therefore I can assume that if you die in heaven and you are evil, you should go down a layer to real liiiiiife….

      Waaaait a minute!

      If my logic stands firm *could Ina come back to life?*

      1. Eh, prolly not

        Knowing Jesse it’s probably something not that baseless. I’d say something will be revealed to Ina about something and that something means something.

      2. Hold up, if your logic does stand firm in the world of The Legend of Maxx and say hypothetically, you die in heaven and you were good, you’d go up a layer, so would you go to Heaven 2?

      3. Y E S ! ! ! !

        However, if you eventually reach heaven 5, be careful, as using a dimensional trap door might send you to the limbo.

        *The first person to get the reference gets $10,000, unlimited access to alpha and beta versions of Automation ++ and my eternal gratitude.*

      4. Wait! Better idea!

        If in terreria, the NPCs are like a football team where people are slotted in to perform certain roles? Therefore, what if someone *left* this team? You know someone who dies way to frequently?

        Not cyril, I’m talking about Tyrone…

  2. Congrats on your new job and on getting married! I wish you the best of luck in the future.

    But seriously, tell us about the grief. It sounds awesome.

    1. We know what the Grief is, though. A long time ago, all of the original angels died somehow or other, leaving these inexperienced interns in their place. I assume it had something to do with a mortal seeing what was under an angel’s mask, but that’s only conjecture at this point.

      1. To me, the plot point of the Grief seems fairly new. I believe it might be Jesse’s way of dealing with the more recently added Hardmode content in Terraria. This comic did start way before that stuff was in the game, so the original plot stuff probably didn’t cover all of it.

        tl;dr: The Grief=Everything Past the Mech Bosses.

  3. Remiel, teach me your ways of saying things so… colourfully… that I can speak and people can hear the color. Teach me… I’ve been up here for centuries and I need something to do man.

    Amazing work as always Jesse. Hope your knot-tying goes well! Early congrats man!

    1. Doing so would destroy all of humanity

      And break several laws of physics

      And I am out of foot cream!

      1. I can see the first, wonder about how the heck the second would work, and pretend the third doesn’t exist.

  4. oh yoo congrats on getting hitched
    or on how you’re going to be
    either or

    anyways
    hope that you’ll have a rad marriage (verb) and a rad marriage (noun) and all the parts of the sentence in between

    can’t remember how many though

  5. Should have shown Mike and the others in the same panel so we could see how close they were.

    1. well, if you looked at panels 5 and 6, you can see how close they are. the green book on the bookshelf behind them shows up in both panels

    1. Actually, more like 11/12ths to comic 600.

      Unless you mean halfway between comic 500 and comic 600, which would make sense then.

      Just say’n

  6. Congrats on the engagement my dude. Great to see this comic up and running again. I should probably read it all again but. psshhhh

  7. Congratulations Jesse!
    Also even though you’re busy, you’re still making really fun comics so keep up the good work when you can!

  8. Hey Jesse, I have a serious question to ask: If Ina isn’t an NPC what is she? Also if she’s can cheat death does that mean Maxx can too?

    1. Ok I messed up there, I had two questions and I meant “Also if *she* can cheat death…etc”

  9. Greeting Jesse congrats on the wedding. Remember in comic 182 when Maxx found the cursed demonic artifact the kills one of your love doesn’t ones every time you make a horrified expression? You should use it more it looked cool.

    1. What about those goblins from the same comic?

      Kidding.

      Not sure why I’m still typing this.

      Ok this is getting really awkward

      Ummmmm…..

      Ok, I’m done now.

      JK LOL

      No I’m really done now.

  10. Don’t feel like you need to focus on making comics. Take as much time as you need off, i mean, it’s your wedding, for damn sake

    Hope you two are happy together!

    1. That’s probably a different section.
      If you could find all knowledge in there it would have to be big and if it was all the same it would get boring.

  11. Hey Jesse.
    I just wanted to say thanks for letting us know whats going on right now because it was kinda hard waiting like that without a reason.
    also, good luck with both the wedding and the new job!

  12. Ai - T.a.S.A.I.

    Whew! It’s been a while! Thanks Jesse for telling us what’s going on, and keep up the great work!

    It’s been a while. What’s happened in the comments so far? Last thing I remember was the Lenny Wars. (used to be ruiwen2002)

  13. I suspect in a could become an NPC that would leave the party girl or the hair stylist or hard mode leaning toward the hairstylist

  14. Wow, I had a dream last night that there was a new Legend of Maxx out, but I’ve come here only to find out it was not true 🙁

  15. Jesse, in your comic #1 I added a comment but accidentally put the wrong username. Could you please change it? Thx in advance!

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  18. Jesse, you haven’t posted anything in over a month. I understand if your busy, but could you at least spend some time on it now and then? Maybe write the dialogue, then draw some sketches on paper, then over a few days draw it up in whatever program you use using your few minutes of free time per day I’m sure you have? Shouldn’t be too hard.

      1. Ah. Well, he still may just be busy with his new job, because I’m sure that that already happened. I know he didn’t just forget about this comic, and I’m sure there will be a #551

  19. Maybe Ina becommes party girl, rertrictions are, having lot o balloons, confetti bombs, and dyed hair with pink clothes.

  20. Since your last one, the anniversary of the 911 attacks have passed. It has been 13 days and 30 minutes and we are all growing impatient Jesse. Please post.

    Sincerely,

    An angry fan

    1. infinite number of days lol. Actually, he could surpass xkcd if he kept going even for years after xkcd stops, which probably won’t be happening anytime in the near future. Or the far future. Or ever.

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