Mar31
The Day Ecta Learned What Happiness Is
on March 31, 2012 at 1:08 amAbscondWithAPie:
For once, tonight, I am the one with stomach problems. Help me feel better by promoting our comic!
Altermentality:
Derk put up that sign in the back because he’s concerned. It’s not directed at anyone in particular, of course, and if it was it’s not like that person would listen anyway.
I’m not quite sure why Skärva looks so derpy in the last panel…
If you use The Hanged Man’s trick of scrolling to where you can just barely not see Skärva’s eyebrows, it’s particularly good on the fourth panel. Just realized.
“Look, daddy! I made a love potion!”
And then when it failed, Skarva grew an extra pair of eyebrows from the pain of never being loved.
That’s a pretty impressive side-effect.
THIS PAIN… IT MUST BURST FORTH FROM ME
IN THE FORM OF EYEBROW HAIR
Oh, and speaking of wide-eyed idealists, Kid Icarus Uprising is amazing. Take the whimsical humor of Paper Mario, make it all the time throughout every single level. Take the character focus of Phoenix Wright, make every single character introduced absolutely spectacular with character flavor. Then give it a twisting, fairly lengthy plot and you have Uprising. I highly recommend it to you and AbscondWithAPie.
Victor has it but he hasn’t been playing it D: Because we’re busy. But I’m going to demand my turn when he’s done. It looks so good and your recommendation excites me even more!
Except I’m going to be thinking of Rufina the whole time. TROOPS, MOVE OUT
I can’t remember this being answered anywhere else, but why is Skarva’s right eye socket purple?
That’s…probably an odd question, but it’s 2:30 AM and I got nothin’ else.
It’s a permanent black eye. It has a little backstory of its own that we’ll explain some day when we need a diversion, maybe during a particularly climactic part of the overall plot to torture you.
Is the ghost in the first few panels a guy? I think that’s the first time I’ve seen a male ghost in Castle Skaerva…
Excellent, as always. Perfect metaphorical Band-Aid to help fix my craptastic day at work.
And yay for derpy Skaerva and Derk’s sign!!
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'was inifit' is my Captcha today!
I’ve drawn a couple male ghosts before. I just like drawing female ghosts more so I can make them curvy and shapely.
Dudes have to be more rigid, and that’s no fun.
I’m glad we made your day better! Me and Victor have been having some craptastic days lately too… drawing does help me cope with the stress of looking for an apartment…
has Floyd tongue always been green? this is the first time i noticed. Either he’s got some horrible disease or Lurkins have awesomely colored anatomy. ecta in second to last and davis in last are amazing! i think thats my favorite picture of Ecta so far!
Uzukin’cho- yay for ghost guys! you and your job… will you ever get along?
He just ate too many apple Jolly Ranchers.
But really…
Look here: http://thefourthcomic.com/?p=406 Lurkins and demons have green tongues.
your right! haha i also noticed just now that davis has a green tonge in the banner at the top.
captcha: boafting Tgroups.
whoever is in the t groups- your boafting.
I don’t know. We have a hate-hate relationship based around money, so…
That “Right Away” note there in panel 4 made me laugh. Love spoofing time passing, even when it doesn’t really.
Why is it whenever Ecta is happy, Davis is upset? And vice versa? That should go over well in the group dynamics lol.
Yay for happy Ecta face too. And funny Davis scowl face. And for ghost guys with awesome sideblown haircuts. And panels after panels of textured purple goodness. And for the fact that we might finally see some action from our comedy sideteam.
And, you know, just for this comic and its creators in general.
Correlation does imply causality to a fair extent, there.
But this time, Davis is just upset because he sees the truth in what Skärva is saying, and it’s back to the grind… time to die again! Ecta doesn’t have to worry about that.
The new ghost’s name is Horatio.
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Has Horatio been dead for less time than Ecta? He looks more opaque.
Did Captcha give you that, or are you just naming background characters now? Fine with me.
Good observation! Yes, he is less transparent for that reason, although ghosts do fade at different rates based on how they lived their lives. We really should explain more about ghost mechanics sometime…
Yeah, it said something like “Horaso authors.” I just realized that it looked like Horatio.
That is a very purple love potion. I wonder if it works as poison as well?
‘lershg action,’ uh what?
Like the flower it was made from, and like Skärva’s eyes, although I’m pretty sure that’s just a coincidence.
Probably.
Now I’m very interested what that sign says. I see “keep hair back” and “capes are dangerous too”, but I can’t read the rest of it because of Skärva.
LAB SAFETY. Please keep your hair back in the lab!! Capes are dangerous too! Use common sense, please don’t hurt yourself. -Derk, head minion
Skärva seems to be breaking all of these rules.
“Tsoleho soil”… was that one of the ingredients? xD
Yeah. That’s the humor of it.
To be fair, I’m not sure Skärva CAN constrain that hair of his…
and it all comes down to this….the long awaited potion
BUM BUM BUMMMM!……..
His concern for their welfare is hilarious.
I love his nonchalance, it’s such a nice change.
“offlowa vacancy”