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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#337

July 23, 2017

NOTES

  • Darkana confirms the perks of Nefaria’s monstrance, but not whether she used them or supplied them (for example “the petrified Nard”, Faddlegas), other than the elevator 
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#336

July 17, 2017

NOTES

  • Tiscinivel has been promoted to Imperial Inspectorate, and meets with the head of the Estimen Briguild in the capitol spires of Midiria
  • The Estimen displays a sonic shotgun (without actually firing it), which projects a focused sonic blast through a rotating disc, firing coin-sized holes in rapid succession at the target
  • The air pirates have “been taken care of”?
  • The air pirates are in Murderwings (highly customized and armored Nanowings, with extra firepower), and the Warhead mothership is visible at upper right in panel 7
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#335

July 9, 2017

NOTES

  • The ship the Codefathers are using slowly becomes more defined
  • Ponymus is the ancestral and protected home of the unicorns (“thousand-year law” forbids “unsanctioned” entrance of their walled borders)
  • First (current) appearance of Sky-Shindigo, the blue unicorn (panel 4)
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#333

June 26, 2017

NOTES

  • Professor Harshon is based on John Houseman, particularly his role in The Paper Chase (1973)
  • Where did Cornelius learn the answer he gives? (See #46, panel 5)
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#332

June 18, 2017

NOTES

  • Did Waywardo actually fall this time (from Insanus’s walloper), or is he stuck on repeat?
  • Hugturd notes that Waywardo’s legs are broken
  • Pip arrives with Irata in panel 7, in expanded form and carrying a “Mr. Blindy”; what are they planning to do with Waywardo?
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#331

June 11, 2017

NOTES

  • Refusaleth remade Shiraadh after she died the first time (#127; note how her eye-frames didn’t fade), so her death wreaks an unimaginable toll on his physical form, as well as his Fortress, which he rebuilt from a Literalist ruin (#136)
  • Darkana and Demandice are revealed to be sisters
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#330

June 4, 2017

NOTES

  • Wouldn’t it be crazy if, starting with the first page of the Fargon Saga (#289), the first word of each page formed a secret message that concluded with this page?
  • Was Karbunkel lying about being in contact with Nefaria? What else could he be lying about?
  • Shiraadh’s eye-frames disappear as she loses power and dies
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#329

May 28, 2017

NOTES

  • Shiraadh of Fargon meets Nefaria the Red Queen, in Bonehenge
  • Shiraadh averts her eyes and formally addresses Nefaria in panel 6, delineating how Nefaria sank the continent of the Gargiles, and massacred the Glowborgs (which is actually inaccurate)
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#328

May 21, 2017

NOTES

  • The Boneguard is inspired by Kenner’s “Bone Age” toyline (1987-1988)
  • Crybdeth and Marrowort’s console resembles a DJ’s turntables (panel 6)
  • Nefaria can pass through anything but resinate or bone, meaning she can’t pass through a person’s body