Author: Matty Boy

A bilious and vitriolic cartoonist living in Atlanta, who pines for the days of great fantasy comics. You know, before everything was a corporate icon, and before cartoons looked like advertising for breakfast cereals.
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#347

October 8, 2017

NOTES

  • The dialogue in the first two panels is loosely referencing lines from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
  • The rocks are the collapsed bodies of the Gargrudgen, under which miles of towns and people are buried; the capitol spires are clearly visible in the distance
  • Essul’s “extendable legs” are something of an inside joke, to explain his mild changes in height over the course of the strip
  • Essul probably gained perfect sight (which he has displayed previously) through forbidden knowledge
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#346

October 1, 2017

NOTES

  • Karbunkel explains Yotatonic Theory and the two timelines to Cornelius
  • Karbunkel has met with Yotatonic people before, in #80 and #123; here we see him contacting them when he was younger than Cornelius, indicating the length of time it took for the Garblemen to arrive
  • By showing Cornelius a “flashback”, Karbunkel changes a memory from Perceptive to Narrative timeline (it’s out of Karbunkel’s memory, and now part of the depicted narrative)
  • In panel 2, young Karbunkel has a piece of Smisland spar, which is used to power his telescope (panel 1), and that’s Mogol next to him
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#343

September 4, 2017

NOTES

  • Who was Xandinculus, after all? Did he come from our world, and was he really a “dangerous Plagiarist” as he was labeled? 
  • Karbunkel knows how to “unshrink” objects
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#341

August 20, 2017

NOTES

  • The Quondrian Questioneer interrogates a captured Graver in the Bismuth Building, in the capitol spires of Midiria
  • Y.L.Y.L. means “You laugh, you lose”; “Glory contrata” is a Shoadomite slogan
  • The Graver bites a “quit line” in panel 6, triggering a catastrophic explosion
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#339

August 6, 2017

NOTES

  • Spalpeen has commandeered Curdelbludd’s body, which was beheaded by Bromance way back in #160, and which is being pulled towards Refusaleth in panels 1 and 2
  • In panel 4, Spalpeen alludes to his encounter with Bromance in the purgeon (#191)
  • Refusaleth crushes Spalpeen’s head to the relative size of Pip?
  • Do the fragments of the Prime Resinate appear to have letters on them in panel 8?
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#338

July 30, 2017

NOTES

  • “D.R.I.N.K.” is clearly visible on the desecrated portrait of the Midirian Empress; what could this mean, and what work of Nefaria’s was Darkana continuing?
  • Darkana believes that Nefaria was responsible for the genocide of the Glowborgs; this was actually the work of Refusaleth, which Nefaria took credit for, to gain power (“The truevil, I know”)
  • Nefaria names all four Dark Unmentionables; Holocough, Obsolesmus, Abysma, Xenihilo
  • Nefaria calls Mogrum by his original name, Mogol; doing so causes one’s current form to disintegrate, from doubt