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Parable - 54 - HD
🕑 Added 2020-01-10 04:01:00 +0000 UTCThe most dangerous of all video game adversaries!
EDIT - Typo fix
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OF COURSE HE'S NOT TEDD WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT
*Ahem*
This guy is loosely based on a generic "big bad" fantasy character I came up with when I was much, much younger. There was basically nothing to him beyond being an evil necromancer and using a very poorly drawn Scythe as a weapon (it was essentially a staff with a scythe blade).
He used to have shorter hair. It was combed the same way, but shaved along the sides, so it was only on top of his head. I wanted to make it long and unkempt, which resulted in some "is that Tedd" reactions to the last comic (d'oh).
He always had a scar over one eye. He was a generic big bad necromancer drawn by kid me. Of COURSE he had a scar over one eye.
Also, I named him "Racnar", because I thought it sounded cool. That doesn't seem to be a real name, and might be what some dinosaur-like monsters in the MMORPG Everquest were called? So that's a thing.
It's possible younger me heard "Ragnar" at some point and thought to put a spin on it. Or they thought it actually was "Racnar". That was way too long ago for me to recall.
Speaking of names, I was looking for some variation of "Necromega" to call the demon, but the world being what it is, that, and several variations of it, had already been used a lot, so...
Necromegatherium Edgelordumus.
That's a thing now.
Comments
James C
... Is it wrong that I want the demon to actually be "Negromegatherium Edgelordumus", and the only "dark" thing about him is his skin colour? A chill dude, on the side of good, and thoroughly displeased with this cult.
ZekeStaright
RASPBERRIES !
ZekeStaright
Just set a few things on fire
Fenrir
It's a Fable parody: he can definitely *claim to pee* Also, when in doubt: it'd happen just-off-panel.
John Trauger
Quick susan, find the [esc] key!
Chordat
hehe, yeah, I was so used to this being a thing that after I beat the final boss, I was not aware you could shoot him in the middle of his dying speech until someone told me you could do that. Because I thought it was a cutscene! Also, they worship a giant sloth skeleton?
James C
Video game logic though: can he even pee?
Jon Krupp
Woah, woah. Chill. They're just poking at you. It's all good. Let's just ease back off the incendiary throttle a bit. Maybe start with just poking them with sharp sticks. Skipping right to setting everything on fire is a big jump. You know, baby steps.
Jon Krupp
"So that's a thing now..." 🤣
Joe Blue
XDDDDDDDDDDD Not even Susan can escape the power of the CUTSCENE!
Stephen Gilberg
Now that I see him up close, he kinda reminds me of Damien.
Dan Shive
Fixed now
Paul Rendell
First speech bubble has too many I's.
Dan Shive
(Sets everything on fire)
Emtu
Nah, that's clearly Lord Tedd.
