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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!
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Written by Scott T. Hicken with art by Antipus, the comic updates Mondays. Please check out the Archive to enjoy the earlier adventures of Typh and Peonie!
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You thought Typh had it bad? HOO BOY! What we saw of her had her lose control a bit, but she was still fully conscious of what she was doing and why, and clearly capable of strategy and tactics.
This… THIS is a SERIOUS mental disorder. Not only did Mel have a complete breakdown and loss of control, he had a blackout, and doesn’t remember what he did, or more importantly, why. Granted, this is a medieval setting which makes therapists unlikely, but he needs help, BADLY.
One of the things I had initially planned through a back story sequence was that the Pyro rage affected each barbarian in slightly different ways. Tiffany/Typhan-Knee had the more “common” version of just being a nigh-unstoppable berserker machine, though she still had some higher thought processes that you could see.
Raviner effectively turned into a cross being an angry wolverine and a Tasmanian devil… completely out of control and as much of a danger to his allies as his enemies (it was meant to be an interesting note that he rarely ever did so for precisely that reason).
Wyll was intended to have a more rare side effect of the rage, that while he seemed more rational than other enraged barbarians (being able to identify friend and foe, able to hold conversation, if curtly), his short term memory suffers, and as such is unable to retain much of what happened during that rage.
While that (and many other back stories) wound up cut from the main comic (had I done everything I wanted to do, we’d probably be looking at another two or three years worth of comics in this storyline), the concept itself still remains.
Looks like Neils and Diana are having a chat too. I really hope hes telling her who he is; she deserves to know her mother wasn’t forgotten by her southern kin.
I do recall Tiff mentioning she wasn’t full blood when the topic of pyro came up. So maybe the “half-breeds” can sometimes be more sensible than the full-bloods because they do retain some common sense while a full-blood pyro, like Raviner, is simply a indiscriminate killing machine.
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“And then, I finally turned back into Dr Bruce Banner and came to my senses.”
See, now we need a storyline here where Tiff turns into she-hulk.
She did punched the King..
Got a feeling a lot of other guys missing the old days of Rape and Pillage are in the Graveyard. Courtesy of Diane..
You thought Typh had it bad? HOO BOY! What we saw of her had her lose control a bit, but she was still fully conscious of what she was doing and why, and clearly capable of strategy and tactics.
This… THIS is a SERIOUS mental disorder. Not only did Mel have a complete breakdown and loss of control, he had a blackout, and doesn’t remember what he did, or more importantly, why. Granted, this is a medieval setting which makes therapists unlikely, but he needs help, BADLY.
One of the things I had initially planned through a back story sequence was that the Pyro rage affected each barbarian in slightly different ways. Tiffany/Typhan-Knee had the more “common” version of just being a nigh-unstoppable berserker machine, though she still had some higher thought processes that you could see.
Raviner effectively turned into a cross being an angry wolverine and a Tasmanian devil… completely out of control and as much of a danger to his allies as his enemies (it was meant to be an interesting note that he rarely ever did so for precisely that reason).
Wyll was intended to have a more rare side effect of the rage, that while he seemed more rational than other enraged barbarians (being able to identify friend and foe, able to hold conversation, if curtly), his short term memory suffers, and as such is unable to retain much of what happened during that rage.
While that (and many other back stories) wound up cut from the main comic (had I done everything I wanted to do, we’d probably be looking at another two or three years worth of comics in this storyline), the concept itself still remains.
Don’t forget that Tiffany beat down Niels in three panels. She-hulk she is.
I’m trying to figure whether this counts as additional times he went pyro, or still the first.
Looks like Neils and Diana are having a chat too. I really hope hes telling her who he is; she deserves to know her mother wasn’t forgotten by her southern kin.
I do recall Tiff mentioning she wasn’t full blood when the topic of pyro came up. So maybe the “half-breeds” can sometimes be more sensible than the full-bloods because they do retain some common sense while a full-blood pyro, like Raviner, is simply a indiscriminate killing machine.
@Brandi Agreed I was getting scared Neil was doing the Nobel let her live her life with out knowing stick.
@chemiclord Speeking of witch will we ever see Tiff southern family?
@Jonathan Wint: Yes.
“During this entire time, I was played by Steven Seagal, for some reason.”
@chemiclord 🙂 YAE!
@Dean;
Being dubbed by an even worse actor.
Well took a few hours out and read from start to finish, glad I did too. They really do paint a solid world for their characters.
Thanks so much! 🙂
I just Noticed in the Last Panel his heads got shaky lines around it.
And he holding his hands behind him..
Looks like past is upsetting him.
But is it anger ? Guilt? Or fear?
Yes.