Kindermage
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Kindermage
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
I'm only half joking when I say I could take this format (Mercy and Ghoul in the car) and just start churning out strips with that. They would probably not be as important to the main story, though...

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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
-SNERK-
That last panel made me laugh~ Ahh, yes, the bonding begins! I'd totally read a comic in this format...~
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yeah, she actually really likes Ghoul. This is just the excuse to show it.

I will keep that in mind, though.
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lirvilas
lirvilas
Last panel: yaaaas yaass, that's the stuff!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
So, I take it you approve...
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anonymous coward (Guest)
I'm not sure if this is it, but someone has to be the person shipping Mercy and Ghoul?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
...fire torpedoes?

Yeah, didn't think so...
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junoro
junoro
Ghoul and Mercy are my two favourite characters so far! You should make a side series about them on a road trip or something!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Duly noted. :)

I could probably do it pretty easily. It would pretty much be a bunch of recycled images, mixed and matched to the gags...
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sigpig
sigpig
Taking a cue from your partnernemesis-in-crime? lol
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Just doing the thing... :)
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lirvilas
lirvilas
And who the hell would that be?

--> Third panel, first bubble.
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azureXtwilight
azureXtwilight
Hey, that's actually a lot nicer than saying "noob"!
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Using "noob" is so very flavourless. I recommend substituting, "saibot," to make the reference more solid.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Methinks I have found a fellow acolyte of the Fatality...
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Given long enough, perhaps the terminology we use here will stick and people will be making Autumn Bay references the way we make Harry Potter references...
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anonymous coward (Guest)
This is an excellent setup for some serious absurdist stuff. If you want to do some seriously easy hack-work with this setup that'll have people going, "Oooh!" and "Ahhh!" at your work I recommend searching through the script of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for a few scenes to just outright steal. Going on from there into something more deep might be worth the effort for building up a buffer of strips to just drop in the pipeline when your schedule slips or you have trouble finishing the normal strips for some other reason.
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Delta-v
Still calling him "Kid" though. It's probably a measure of how much she impresses him that he doesn't object--or even seem to notice. :)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
People have a tendency to just roll with it where Mercy is concerned... :)
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argylefox
argylefox
This is the start of a beautiful friendship, kid.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
It really is... :)
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Casscade
Casscade
I'm finally caught up. ;.;
Man, I can't decide which of these two I like more. I definitely need to draw one of these two one day, they're too awesome to pass up. lol X3
Great work so far~
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thank you SO much! I'm glad you like it so far!

And I am DEFINITELY glad you like the characters! Mercy and Ghoul are a LOT of fun!
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S.A. Sims (Guest)
I just got into this comic today and I am loving the characters.

Occasionally while reading I come up with theme songs for the characters and here is the one for Ghoul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7avmJfFUDGQ
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
First of all, WELCOME! We're happy to have you aboard! Glad you like the characters!

Second: I love that song and that band. "To Them These Streets Belong" is a huge influence on parts of the story (especially the Unwanted). It's interesting to apply "Savior" to Ghoul, but I can definitely see it. I'm adding it to the playlist for the comic. :)
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S.A. Sims (Guest)
It helps if think of the "She" in the song as applying to Lady Liberty or the American Ideal. That's the angle I was looking at it from.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Aw, dang... I will listen again with that in mind...
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Miaubol
Miaubol
Two dudes on a coach is out, two dudes in a car is the thing now! ;P

"Kindermage" is just so endearingly adorable. ..so I can totally see why Ghoul doesn't like it xD
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yep, it does appear to be a thing...

At first, he didn't necessarily get what the term was. Now it annoys him. :)
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Shirokuro
Shirokuro
hah! there it is! thé fuck I was expecting xD
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yes! :D
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melaredblu
melaredblu
You gotta bond over the little things, man.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Yeah... They're pretty much friends because they hate Corvus... :P
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Caley Tibbittz Collopy
Caley Tibbittz Collopy
This is a great page. Am I wrong it feeling like it was heavily influenced by Let It Ride?
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thanks! That means a lot to me!

I have read and re-read Let It Ride, so there is likely some influence there. Also, Pulp Fiction and the Blues Brothers, among others...
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Fig
Fig
this is literally my favorite page of the whole comic. it's too good.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thanks!

I am still occasionally tempted to start a comic that is nothing but Ghoul and Mercy in the car...
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AmeliaP
AmeliaP
At least they agree with their rage against the "old man" XD
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
He's really easy to rage against.
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