Absolute Eschaton
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Absolute Eschaton
25th Aug 2016, 11:01 PM in Season One - Part 6: Edison Endgame
Average Rating: 5 (11 votes)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
Hmph, he can talk big, but in the end... We all know Autumn Bay won't be one season long ;)~
Meerrrrccccccy!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Are you ready for Autumn Bay Season Two: Hellish Wasteland of Eldritch Ickyness?
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Hey... HEY! Eschaton is a term specific to Christian theology! Does Doc Nestor just not care about accuracy, or is this a glaring--perhaps even pseudointellectual--failure of his knowledge?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yes, you could, if you so chose, chalk his usage up to a failure in his knowledge. He is accomplished in many sciences, but theology is not one of them.

To be perfectly honest, in this instance it was reverse engineered from eschatology, which is an area of study relating to many religions.

Note: there is a lot of syncretic elements in this work, none of which is used lightly.
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anonymous coward (Guest)
I'll be honest about my theology limits: I mostly look up things to figure out what other people are talking about and steal things for use in various forms of fiction. That said, when people start misusing words that are in the dictionary that's usually one of my danger signs for someone who either is less knowledgeable than they think they are or shamelessly trying to snow you with words they don't understand.

If this was you deliberately planting an easy to make mistake of fact in his speech to make Doc seem a little more fallible/human, then I applaud that: It isn't easy to model differing kinds of mistakes that people make--according to their background, personality, training, etc--without being very crude about it.
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Microraptor
Microraptor
That word makes me always think of the Egyptian Pharao Echnaton (aka Akhenaten). Though as far as I can tell, there is no etymological connection...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
It comes from the Greek word "eskhatos", meaning "last".

Ankhnaten breaks down to "living image of the sun". So no, unfortunately no connection.

Egyptology might come up in this work... :)
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melaredblu
melaredblu
Guuuaaah...please just kill it, Mercy. I do NOT want to look at this thing for another dozen pages.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Would that be a "Mercy killing"? :P

Thing is, there are only a dozen pages left TOTAL in this season...
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sigpig
sigpig
GREAM! (a sound combining both a groan and a scream, most often heard after a particularly horrible pun - Spider Robinson).
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argylefox
argylefox
Stop trying to worm your way out of this, Nestor!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
He'll worm his way into everybody's hearts... :P
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ZeroGee
ZeroGee
Heart worms? :)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Those would be kind next to what he has in mind...
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azureXtwilight
azureXtwilight
I wonder if he can metamorphose...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Hmm... So far all we've seen is his "human"-ish form and his true form...
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sigpig
sigpig
Don't you pour salt on grubs to kill them?

EDIT: That would really be pouring salt into his wounds...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
That would make him salty... :)
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Microraptor
Microraptor
Panel 2 makes me think of this specific TV Tropes trope...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I thought of that trope when I was drawing it! :)
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HeSerpenty
HeSerpenty
TALK IS CHEAP, BUG MAN! But......................then again....I want it to stay cheap so nothing happens to Mercy :'D........
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
It's a good thing it's cheap, since we use so much of it here... :P
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NeilKapit
NeilKapit
To be fair, she's probably had a few hangovers that feel like that, so she's used to it
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
She's had hangovers where she WISHED the world would end... :)
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Miaubol
Miaubol
Oh dang is he ugly! xD

The appearance alone could suffice to defeat his enemies D:

But not Mercy of course ;)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
It drove one person mad! XD
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AugustaCaesar
AugustaCaesar
I have to say that this whole back-and-forth of funny versus doom forthcoming has been quite intriguing! :)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thanks!

It helps that Mercy, for the most part, doesn't intimidate.
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