You Can Lead a Thief to Wagon

posted by Chris on 2013/1/18 (Comics)

Hello everyone! It's your humble illustrator Dyluthus here again at week's end with another new issue of anti-HEROES where we find Aldran settling into the local fleabag motel, Keriss and Lana picking up provisions for the road ahead, and we get to be reacquainted with a mysterious figure in black we only saw once and haven't seen since...

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WJS - 2016/10/16
Another comic that they swore wouldn't interfere with this one. I would hope that they stick to that, and the stuff is miscellaneous life stuff, not the other comic. To ditch a comic you have a prior commitment to in order to start a new one would reflect really poorly on the pair.
Reno - 2016/4/14
It's spooky how clever some ppl are. Thksna!
Night Templar - 2013/2/11
They've got ANOTHER comic they're working hard on, and they've explained it. Honestly, be patient.
Avetzan1 - 2013/2/11
I don't think that's anything against Team DyPen, just a great thing for Rich Tongue
The Ancient One - 2013/2/11
It is official: Rich (even with an injured thumb) can produce OoTS quicker than the team here.
Kronos - 2013/2/10
So, what's up? Been over 3 weeks since the last update, is the comic dead again?
loosefoot - 2013/1/31
So tell me, how did Aldran put his wings away?
Dyluthus - 2013/1/30
Hey everyone! It's your illustrator Dylthus here and I just wanted to say that though Pen and I have hit some busy times collectively, we're still doing our absolute best to get new issues out as often as we can.

So sorry for the slight pause between new issues, and we'll make it up with new issues just as soon as we can Wink
Avetzan1 - 2013/1/30
What does that symbol on the book mean? Also in the second panel. I've seen it on "captain crunch's" hat when the story was on the other two. Also, is that the same cloaked person from comic 274?
Mordae - 2013/1/28
I am a particular fan of the subtle second panel Happy
Superdark33 - 2013/1/28
Yes, bu what about the fleas?
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/1/25
I still very much feel like "brazen" itself is just a weird word to use in general given the scenario. It's a colorful, descriptive adjective that (in my opinion) works best when it's actually being attached to a noun, and not in a short, muttered-under-your-breath sort of comment the way I perceive Lana's reaction to be. I feel like it would be better if you just omitted it entirely, maybe replacing it with a "Wow, really?" or "...Seriously?" sort of reaction -- allow the brazenness of the cloaked figure's actions to be a connotation of Lana's comment, rather than something that's outright stated.
Me - 2013/1/24
Maybe if you flipped the 7th and 8th panels it would help show what Lana is looking at. As it is, it's confusing at best.
leakingpen - 2013/1/24
Xykeb, would, That's brazen, or, Brazen little... work better for you?
angelina - 2013/1/24
Well I liked it Happy
Night Templar - 2013/1/23
Oh. Oops. Wrong name copied. Sorry about that.
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/1/23
Uh, did you mean to respond to what DukeGod said? I wasn't talking about skills or hiding, I was just talking about Lana's odd choice of wording.
Night Templar - 2013/1/23
Xykeb Zraliv: There's just one problem with that last bit: There is no stealth skill. There's Move Silently and Hide, and the latter is what he would have to use. Besides, the only people who would care are the cart owners, who would find him anyway if he showed up, so he probably figured there wasn't a point to hiding.
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/1/23
I guess, but it's still pretty weird to describe somebody with a single word and an ellipsis, especially when that word is one that you don't often hear in day-to-day conversation. It's the equivalent of going to a comedy show and just looking at the stage and saying "Wow. Humorous..." It just doesn't strike me as something somebody would really say in this situation.
DukeGod - 2013/1/22
As an adventurer? She expects people to rummage through her cart, just not while she's nearby
Or at least, that he'd have put more ranks in Stealth before doing so
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/1/21
That should be made clearer, then -- it's not obvious she's even looking at the cart. She could be commenting on something Keriss said, for all I know.

Also, "brazen" is a really weird (though I guess appropriate, definition-wise) term to use to describe an unknown cloaked figure rummaging through your cart. You'd think she'd react with more shock/anger than just going "wow, that guy's pretty brazen, isn't he?".
Exuberant Panda - 2013/1/21
Xykeb, I can't really comment on the rest, but as far as Lana's comment, she is saying that the fellow rummaging through the cart is being brazen.
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/1/21
I'm honestly with "Me" this time -- I just don't get this comic. The dialogue just feels really stilted, and I think part of it is because there's only one sentence that is both complete and grammatically correct in the entire strip. I'm assuming it was an attempt to sound casual and conversational, but it just comes across as bizarre shorthand, like the kind you'd see in texts but never in actual oral conversation.

The one sentence where the meaning is just out and out lost to me, though, is Aldran's "If the others don't screw up." As an if-then statement, you have to actually have a "then" part, or at least make the intended "then" part obvious. As it is, I'm not really sure what he's trying to say. If the others don't screw up, he'll be happy? If the others don't screw up, he'll be able to work? If the others don't screw up, he can advance his plan? All of the above? I'm also kind of lost on what Lana is calling brazen in the penultimate panel.

As for this hooded character (whom I can't remember at all, despite the commentary's note; maybe I should go through the archives at some point), I'll definitely grant you that there are clear differences, but as the most immediately obvious part of the body, the gray head/hood is really easy to associate with Aldran, so I can understand why some people might think they look alike.
Irillan - 2013/1/20
At first I thought it was the possibly unintentional pun made in the third-to-last panel...
Mad Lemmey - 2013/1/20
Nice one lads! Believe she is referring to the theft or the mention of food?
Me - 2013/1/20
I don't get it. Is this supposed to be funny somehow? Why the huge panel to show an empty room? What is Lana talking about that's so brazen?
DuckTrain - 2013/1/19
The at-a-glance difference was pretty obvious to me. Other than that they both have hoods and are dressed in gray (and even then, different shades) they don't have much of anything in common.
Alex - 2013/1/18
You don't seem to understand what artistically different means.

Duh, the details are different, but people don't want to have to study a figure to understand who it is, just glance.
DukeGod - 2013/1/18
Come oon, they ARE different. The new guy is in black shirt and pants, and his got a hooded cape
Aldran wears that ragged robe, no cape, and he's got the gray thing as a belt
Paeris Kiran - 2013/1/18
Ehm... did Keriss buy a new fancy cloak? Or is there someone I can´t rememeber?
TallyHo - 2013/1/18
I was thinking the exact same thing, Tatsu.
Tatsu - 2013/1/18
Yay Comic (Also please try to keep the two characters dressed in black artistically different, because at first I was wondering what Aldran was doing with the wagon.)
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