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Friday, 3 August, 2007 by Dol
                    
                    
                    
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@ "See! I told you it would work!"
@ "Rot in hell..."
@ "Let's clear this place!" 
The earth elementalElementals are manifestations of the basic nature of the
universe.  There are four known forms of elementals:  air, fire,
water, and earth.  Some mystics have postulated the necessity
for a fifth type, the spirit elemental, but none have ever
been encountered, at least on this plane of existence.

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@ "Heh. Nice to see Someone Else get Touched. But there's worse coming."
@ "Nonsense!" 
You succeed in      
unlocking the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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@ "No, really. These guys have killed me several times before. Ready?"
@ "Entirely." 
                    
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@ "Empty?"
A "Sorry. This is Pestilence[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four
beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white
horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given
unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

[War:] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the
second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another
horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon
to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one
another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

[Famine:] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the
third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black
horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his
hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say,
A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

[Death:] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and
behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,
and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
[ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ]

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@ "Oh please!"
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Skyrock August 3, 2007 00:06
First comment: 26 July, 2007 41 comments written
What a lame punchline... And the stuff leading up to it is neither interesting nor funny.
Antheridium August 3, 2007 03:41
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
The mysterious force prevents me from giving it anything but an E.
Wuf August 3, 2007 08:50
First comment: 3 August, 2007 1 comments written
Yeai. For some reason, I felt giving E myself too.
Nameless August 3, 2007 10:14
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
"Oh please!" not strictly necessary, but I'll give it an 'E' just because I can honestly say I didn't say that one coming.
Mordae August 3, 2007 14:12
First comment: 11 May, 2007 116 comments written
Nice way to cut through the suspense with a little "irony".
Roger Barnett August 3, 2007 15:10
First comment: 7 April, 2006 143 comments written
I like this storyline :)
Antheridium August 3, 2007 20:06
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
By the way, I just realized. At first I assumed it was Dudley saying "Oh please" in the last panel, but... was it really him? Or was it Rodney? I guess this is what we get for using the @ symbol in the dialog.

(Also, is it really Dudley playing here? He seems frighteningly... competent, in these strips.)
videocrazy August 3, 2007 20:44
First comment: 25 March, 2007 10 comments written
Irony is my second favorite type of humor.
(Puns are my first)
Grognor August 3, 2007 21:08
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Oh godGoddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole
pantheons of nine or more (see Religion). Most of them claim
to have made the world, and this is indeed a likely claim in
the case of threesomes or pantheons: Fantasyland does have
the air of having been made by a committee. But all Goddesses
and Gods, whether they say they made the world or not, have
very detailed short-term plans for it which they are determined
to carry out. Consequently they tend to push people into the
required actions by the use of coincidence or Prophecy, or just
by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next:
if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until
there is only one choice left to you.
[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

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The punchline threw a smile at me and it landed on my face.
Callie August 5, 2007 01:01
First comment: 16 July, 2007 31 comments written
Could have ended it at panel 3 with an appropriate punchline about how most things have killed Dudley several times before.
Fathead August 5, 2007 19:18
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Not bad, but not good. I give it an eff.
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