AbscondWithAPie:
I did tell her to do some copy and pasting. You guys wouldn’t have minded that, would you?
Also I’m sick so talk to me too.
Altermentality:
Sorry this comic is up later than usual, guys. Go ahead, ask me what kind of day I’ve been having! (Warning: DON’T ACTUALLY DO IT)
I didn’t want you to have to wait any longer for this, although Victor isn’t answering my calls because he’s at work right now. He’ll comment on it later, but I’m going to hazard a guess at a little preview: “I told her just to copy and paste the minions, but NOOOO.”
Hey, that little fish in the back looks familiar! Where have I seen him around here? I wonder if he might wind up being important.
…What, you don’t think giant floating betta fish would make good baddies? Those guys are AGGRESSIVE, don’t you know? They don’t call them “fighting fish” for nothing. (…They’re also pretty.)
…TALK TO ME guys, today has sucked.
I like the fish. He reminds me of myself. :3
i love all the detail on this page! i like the idea of the shark-themed villain having fish minions… funny. also the fish look really cool with all the colors and the little one in the background is so cute! i hope the rest of your week goes better than today
Thanks. Already I feel better; in fact, I feel pretty good, the type of good and fresh you can only experience after coming out of a really crappy time.
Yeah, and the cool part is their colors are all based on actual colorations that betta fish can have. I have one of my own back at home, a pure red one like that guy in the second row. His name is Sweeney. :3
I’m starting to wonder whether Skärva actually eats fish at all; it would be pretty great if he didn’t. Unlike his father, he doesn’t exactly embrace the whole shark thing.
You’re right about the beta fish. I had betas in college, and I unwittingly put two males together. It ended in blood and tears.
I think these guys are a little better behaved than your standard fishbowl variety, or Derk wouldn’t have to try very hard to make this meeting exciting…
@ panel 4: Hey, it’s my Social Issues course all over again! Actually, most of my classes are pretty quiet whenever the professor asks a question, it gets pretty awkward from time to time.
I’ve been having pretty crappy days too since I started college. And I know EXACTLY what you mean in the above comment about that I’m-done-working-and-it-feels-GREAT feeling. It’s like my schedule always shifts from having a bunch of work due to nothing at all. Probably because I never get started on next week’s assignments during the weekends…
But hey, glad you’re feeling better!
P.S.: Get well soon Victor.
I know the feeling too, in a lot of my classes. It’s probably the same way everywhere, I’d guess.
the minions seem to not like derk as much as they probably like skarva
Most of them just aren’t very enthusiastic about their jobs, period. If your work involved “facing off” against a hero with a holy sword and countless hours of dungeon-crawling expertise, and then later after you’ve respawned, having to sweep up the wreckage and get ready to do it all over again, you probably wouldn’t be that thrilled about either Derk or Skärva. It’s really a dead-end job, but hey, it pays alright.
It’s ok Derk. We, the readers, like you.
Indeed. He is aderkable.
…And it’s ok, it’s really not HIM they don’t like, it’s just his enthusiasm is a little hard to match for most minions.
Woo. staff meeting
See, THERE’s the enthusiasm we’re looking for! (…It’s at least more than most of those minions up there have.) You’re hired!
woo hoo!
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and the awkward moment when ur the only one talking
the blue fish guy…..and also u just kinda rushed in the guys in the banner on the left side
Hmm, what do you mean by that? You haven’t met any of them yet, not really.
…But you’re right, they’re all going to come in very quickly now. As makes sense, because they all work in the castle together. You should be happy, you’re always asking when new characters are gonna show up.
…Although you’ll have to keep waiting on that princess! AHAHAHAHA
feel the wrath of my randomize beam.
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Actually there’s only a small chance of the feeling being wrath, considering it’s random.
I lol’d.
I happy’d.
*clicks on each of author and artist, opening up a verb coin, and selects “talk” for each*
Awww – Derk continues to be cute and loveable!
So… Skärva’s forces are composed of smallish-looking minions, ghosts and flying fish (albeit reputedly aggressive flying fish)… Are we really still surprised that Blank keeps making it through the castle?
Ah well, at least he didn’t take on a different sort of fish – these are “betta”.
As to the rest of the minions, having read your explanation to A random person regarding their lack of enthusiasm, I have a question: are minions immortal? If so, does this apply too to the fish shown here? (The ghosts are another question.)
Victor, I do hope that you’re feeling better soon. ^_^
(If not, then pet one of those fish. ;P)
Well, the- I don’t know if Victor wants me to spoil the name of their race yet, it’s not that big a deal but just in case – the goblin-lookin’ things are innate magic users. That makes them a bit more intimidating I guess, but they’re still not the scariest things in the world, I know.
But yeah, these are his main forces. Skärva does hire out some other scarier guys to guard important rooms in the castle sometimes, but they wouldn’t be on his regular staff. I think there was some giant spider demon who really wanted to stay on as a cook but once Skärva found out what he was putting in the soup, he had to go.
Oh man, that betta pun was bad. I approve.
We haven’t 100% established it yet, but I think certain races of Idenau – see the demons, like Davis from comic 2, if we’re to hope the wizard was telling the truth and isn’t just actually a sadistic murderer – can take some pretty heavy hits and reincarnate or heal themselves in a relatively short time, no Lorelei required! Respawning, they call it. It’s always made them ideal soldiers, lucky them. Of course they’re not exactly immortal though; as they get older or sick they lose their ability to respawn. And of course, humans aren’t like that, when a human’s dead they’re dead. We’ll work on that or I’ll let Victor get back to you with some canon.
“Cook! Cook! There’s a fly in my soup!
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Oh, I see. Um… Nevermind, then.”
As to the “Betta” pun, which one? ;P (Although I suppose that they were essentially the same pun.)
As to the regeneration of certain species/races, that’s an interesting take on the idea – I don’t think that I had expected the effect of aging (but then I suppose that that explains the differences found in a game’s sequels, perhaps)…
(The description reminds me a little of a mildly similar setting that I came up with for a potential (never-started) webcomic: in that, as I recall, -nothing- died (or rather, everything was returned to initial health) while within a certain section of the world. This resulted in game-style dungeons, with adventurers enjoying the challenge and action of dungeon-diving in safety (save for those that went for dungeons with a (known) policy of dumping bodies just outside of the region, giving us Roguelikes).)
By the way, did you see my reply to your question regarding Skype?
I <3 Mysterious Fish
I also loved how quickly Derk went from 0[]o to ._.
STAFF!
this comic is awfully lively today lol
it aint been in a while
Oh Derk. We love you.
And we love you, too, Courtney. I hope your days get better! <3
Victor = crying
Yeah, they will. It’s been a rough week, but it’ll pass. I have fall break to recover while also recovering from getting my wisdom teeth pulled!
All the minions are probably thinking “The boss let Derk MC a meeting again?”.
Well, ok, that was just a guess.