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Level 6: #41

Chapter: Comic, Level 6 — Fangs for Nothing
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  1. Mary
    October 24, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Off with her head!!!

    That’s gotta sting. So cliche.

    (And the small problem with divide and conquer is that if they can conquer you individually, dividing will do nothing much to help.)

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    • Brilliand
      August 14, 2019, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

      She really shouldn’t have gotten separated from her brother.

      • Jess J
        November 12, 2021, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

        Nor should she have gotten her head separated from her body. Rookie mistake.

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  2. Timber
    October 24, 2012, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    But… but we never found out her name…

    • Mary
      October 24, 2012, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      She’s just lost her head, nothing more — patience is clearly needed.

      A lot of patience if it falls over the side of the stairs.

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  3. youknowdawg
    October 24, 2012, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

    I knew that vampire was getting ahead of herself.

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    • Potatohead
      October 24, 2012, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      She should have quit while she was ahead.

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      • Tab
        October 24, 2012, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

        For a moment, it seemed she was going to win, but Madeline headed her off.

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        • Baldric
          October 24, 2012, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

          Something tells me this discussion is heading towards a lot of silly puns.

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          • Jimmy_Piranha
            October 24, 2012, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

            Our necks are on the line at this stage.

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          • Tab
            October 24, 2012, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

            I guess we better cut this short.

            1
          • Doc Savage
            October 25, 2012, 9:14 am | # | Reply

            Knock it off. [couldn’t resist]

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          • InsertNameHere
            October 25, 2012, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

            She’ll need to see her neckromancer about that! At least she won’t be creating any vampire spawn now she’s been spade.

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            • Mike R.
              October 25, 2012, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

              Holy Crap.

              InsertNameHere

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          • mantimeforgot
            October 26, 2012, 4:27 am | # | Reply

            To be fair I don’t see this conversation or the comic as making any headway… (sorry couldn’t resist). Somehow I don’t think this is the last of our vampiress… nor the last of the silly puns either.

          • David DeLaney
            October 27, 2012, 8:24 am | # | Reply

            I think this thread is about caput…

            –Dave

          • Kabanzai
            October 29, 2012, 3:18 am | # | Reply

            Oh c’mon guys, she’ll do great. She’ll always be a head in undeath now.

  4. bear
    October 24, 2012, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    Nice foot in panel 2, many artist can’t do them well, cause they aren’t shown that often, but that one is well done. Proves a good craftmanship.

    • Jon
      October 24, 2012, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      Mike just likes to one-up Rob Liefeld. http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-15-2/

    • khade
      October 24, 2012, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      She wears flipflops? Isn’t that overdone? Not to mention incredibly hard to run in?

  5. Viva Wereboar
    October 24, 2012, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

    That was very well drawn. I actually winced. Now, gather round, chillun, and hear the terrifying tale of the Headless Hipster of Sleepy Hollow!

  6. KD
    October 24, 2012, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    I notice that she fights with her eyes closed.

    If you took the Blind Fighting feat, might as well use it, huh? 🙂

    • Mary
      October 24, 2012, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      She always fights with her eyes closed, inspiring long comment threads about the possible reasons.

      • Jimmy_Piranha
        October 24, 2012, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

        STAND BACK! She has her eyes closed!!

      • ConfusedUs
        October 25, 2012, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

        Because she believes in a fair fight.

    • Cerberus
      October 31, 2012, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

      Well, let’s see…

      She fights blind…deliberately…

      She leaps over giant monsters with the greatest of ease…

      She seems to prefer either cleanly beheading or getting her opponent to surrender…
      (The wounds in panel 3 make it appear that she’s targeting the neck, and don’t make me start more puns with the word “disarmed”, just look at panel 2.)

      She senses ranged attacks from behind…

      As has been pointed out before, she prefers parrying to dodging…

      And now, after being hit with a mace the size of a tree trunk, she….well, just LOOK!

      It’s all becoming clear now…

      She’s not JUST a paladin…

      She’s a JEDI!

  7. David
    October 24, 2012, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

    Moral: do not mess with left-handed paladins.

    • Cassadar
      October 24, 2012, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      she could the head off while holding the shovel in her right…. i’d guess she can fight with one or the other…. doesn’t matter…
      also i want her shovel…. or is it a spade? i forgot…

      • Otookee
        November 10, 2012, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

        I was always told that shovels were the pointy ones, and spades were square-tipped… but then why are spades (the card suit) pointy? Maybe it’s handle style – all the spades I’ve seen have short shafts with a T- or D-shaped end handle while shovels have all had long shafts with no end handle … In either case it would seem Madeline’s weapon is a shovel. (So useful when fighting undead – you can kill and re-bury them with the same implement!)

  8. Hoplomachi
    October 24, 2012, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me or does Madeline have the most graphic on screen kills? Her sweet disposition and wholesome attitude while covered in blood is rather disconcerting.

    • The Occupant
      October 24, 2012, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      In this case, it is hers.
      ***
      I love you, Madeline!

  9. Wyvernhand
    October 25, 2012, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    Q: What sound does a vorpal blade make when severing the head of a hipster vampire?

    A: You’ve never heard it before.

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    • Mary
      October 25, 2012, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      But the sound of a vampire’s healing is a “ssssss” hiss, in purple.

    • Kenshin Ryuu
      October 25, 2012, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      It SHOULD be snicker-snack, but I seem to recall Vampires being immune to the beheading power of Vorpal blades unless it’s a natural 20, maybe I”m wrong though.

      • schroedinger's lolcat
        October 25, 2012, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

        A vorpal weapon requires a nat 20 to function at all (and a critical confirmation roll). It also requires a head, and golems are immune, as well as undead, except (and it specifies this) vampires.

  10. Doc Savage
    October 25, 2012, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    As rusty once said, when she called it a vorpal halberd, “who am I to argue?”

    • 3llense'g
      October 26, 2012, 11:05 am | # | Reply

      Rusty is the rust monster! Mimic is the… I guess it’s obvious. 🙂

      • Doc Savage
        November 1, 2012, 9:17 am | # | Reply

        whoups. You’re right. I always was bad with names. 🙂

    • GreatLimmick
      October 26, 2012, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      And she beheaded the Remorhaz too… Maybe it really is vorpal because she believes it’s vorpal?

      • mechwarrior
        October 28, 2012, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        Great, a Paladin Signer.

        (Planescape joke, for those who are members of the Clueless)

  11. Sus
    October 26, 2012, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    She makes quite the compelling counter-argument.

  12. Starker
    October 28, 2012, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    I can honestly say I wasn’t expecting this kind of face off.

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    • Starker
      October 28, 2012, 11:32 am | # | Reply

      I mean… I thought she would take the vampire head on.

  13. Nebulous
    October 31, 2012, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    I’m sure that the Vamp was telling the absolute truth.
    The beheading didn’t hurt at all.

  14. Hoolo
    October 31, 2012, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    And then the body grew another head, and the head another body. Oh dear.

    • Mary
      October 31, 2012, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      Then all you have to do is point them at each other. Divide and conquer — and slip away while they fight about which is the original and which the pale, cliched copy.

      (Hmmm. looks at time. One suspects that someone may have gotten a visit from Sandy this week.)

  15. Volkov
    November 1, 2012, 3:48 am | # | Reply

    Why no update?

  16. Laurie
    November 1, 2012, 4:42 am | # | Reply

    Hope you weren’t caught up in Sandy! Prayers going out for everyone affected.

    • Mike R.
      November 1, 2012, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      Thanks to everyone who left inquiring comments and email. I’m fine and my friends and loved ones are all fine too. Lots of power outages and some property damage and shaken pets, but we’ll be okay.

  17. Squark
    February 5, 2013, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

    Just thought I’d point out that if you count Critical missives, this is the 200th Comic. Congratulations!

  18. Auyan
    May 12, 2015, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    Bet you a dollar?

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