#157: DUN DUN DUN

Sewa_Yunga

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Wait, is this comic still alive? Did I horribly misinterpret Grey's tweet two comics ago?

Woohoo!

Anyway, I think I figured out the Ancient Ones' plan:
1.: Crush 'em up and mix them into a soda that almost everone drinks
2.: Wait for a bit until enough crystal essence has accumulated inside people's bodies (because that stuff probably doesn't get metabolized)
3.: Get some idealistic but easily misguided and incompetent people to start a rebellion against the soda company to cover your tracks
4.: Assume direct control

Boom. World domination.
 

Chimpzy_v1legacy

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I love how Crystal-Gunny and Not-Sephiroth are just standing there in the background of panel 4.

Gunny: "Uhm, hey over there, we were about to engage in combat. Can we proceed? ... are ... are we being ignored?"
Not-Seph: "Dialogue. Gotta wait till they're done talking."
Gunny: "That doesn't seem tactically sound."
Not-Seph: "I have no idea what you're talking about."
 

Kenjitsuka

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Chimpzy said:
I love how Crystal-Gunny and Not-Sephiroth are just standing there in the background of panel 4.

Gunny: "Uhm, hey over there, we were about to engage in combat. Can we proceed? ... are ... are we being ignored?"
Not-Seph: "Dialogue. Gotta wait till they're done talking."
Gunny: "That doesn't seem tactically sound."
Not-Seph: "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Ooh, you're right! That's the rules; no attacking during dialogue! :D
Makes perfect sense now ;)

Good twist there too. Darn evil crystals!
 

Quellist

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Now this twist i am really liking! Things were going a little too swimmingly of late, now this bag of grit gets thrown into the works :D
 

LenticularHomicide

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Sewa_Yunga said:
Wait, is this comic still alive? Did I horribly misinterpret Grey's tweet two comics ago?
Yes. There was an entire forum thread on it [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.944041-There-goes-EDA], actually, where I helpfully pointed out that Grey was still Tweeting out linework on yet-to-be-published strips (in fact, the linework was for this very strip). Though I did also have a small nugget of doubt lingering in a dark corner of my mind (wow, that sounds so melodramatic now that I'm writing it out).
 

Jacked Assassin

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The only way this plot twist can get worse is if Ancient Ones have a past of doing this like the three goddesses in the Legend Of Zelda.
 

Eric the Orange

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LenticularHomicide said:
Sewa_Yunga said:
Wait, is this comic still alive? Did I horribly misinterpret Grey's tweet two comics ago?
Yes. There was an entire forum thread on it [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.944041-There-goes-EDA], actually, where I helpfully pointed out that Grey was still Tweeting out linework on yet-to-be-published strips (in fact, the linework was for this very strip). Though I did also have a small nugget of doubt lingering in a dark corner of my mind (wow, that sounds so melodramatic now that I'm writing it out).
Wait wait wait? Grey did a pic parodying the RD2 teaser picture and people thought he was stopping writing the comic, why? And why not just ask grey for clarification, that seems a lot more reasonable than getting yourselves all worked up.
 

CaitSeith

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I'm FFXIII lore flashbacks out of this. Are you sure you aren't a halftime writer for Square-Enix?
 

Riddle78

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I'm pretty sure someone called this once per strip ever since the CEO's introduction. Still,how Erin so nonchalantly handles this is gold.
 

Xan Krieger

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So basically the crystals had a plan to take over everyone else, getting inside by being in the soda like if the flood were tiny spores, then mutating and taking over. Good job crystals, I just hope the soda tasted good.
 

Darth_Payn

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Are we sure he wasn't just trolled by one of the other Crystals.
And I wonder how the other captured rebels/freedom fighters/terrorists are doing...
 

Sewa_Yunga

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Eric the Orange said:
Wait wait wait? Grey did a pic parodying the RD2 teaser picture and people thought he was stopping writing the comic, why? And why not just ask grey for clarification, that seems a lot more reasonable than getting yourselves all worked up.
Showing characters against a setting sun often means something along the lines of THE END. That's why I was getting worked up.

I'm glad that I was wrong, though!
 

JCAll

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Ooooooh, I get it now. Not-Sephiroth isn't the main villian, he's the comic relief mini-boss!
I guess that makes him Not-Gilgamesh instead.
 

Imp_Emissary

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I did expect the crystals to be kind of evil, but I didn't expect them to be behind their own colafication. <.<

Maybe they get control of those who drink enough of them and maybe get to live on in those who become crystallized.

Guess we'll find out later. :)