Level 6: #52
Chapter: Comic, Level 6 — Fangs for Nothing
This weekend, with the help of the R. clan (Dad R., Mom R., Brother R., Sister-in-law R.), we boxed up almost two hundred Rusty plushes. All the ones going to U.S. addresses have been shipped, so keep an eye out. International orders shipping out soon! Thanks again everyone!
Am I the only one who thinks that Madeline’s opposite might just be the sexiest thing alive?
That, or the shrimpiest.
No, as I find Madeline herself (to my own surprise and amazement) to be the sexiest thing alive. Her opposite would be such a turn-off that I would find religion and retire to a monastery.
ooooooh sheeeeeeeeeeeet
gah, wrong reply
that was meant to be a statement without context
It was the fuzzy hat, wasn’t it?
Wheee!!! We get to keep Madeline, AND see what the Python would do to her!
So I’m reading a comic that has a vampire using his python on a girl. Huh.
Madeline doesn’t have an evil side! Take that!
Gibbering mouthers don’t have a deep urge to perform Shakespeare. The Python will not be put off by a little thing like its nonexistence.
It wasn’t in her nature to have an evil side, but he used the rod on her, so now it is.
Will the Anti-Madeleine keep her eyes open when she strikes? Be highly intelligent?
Will be smart, but way too slow to get anything done?
Anti-Madeleine will be a sadistic, crude, highly intelligent… gerbil. I mean, I’m sure she *has* an evil side, but it won’t be very big, surely?
Oh, and it’ll suck at fighting. That’s all good Madeleine!
Evil twin will be her match, as Koenig said, so Evil Madeline will be rather dim, gullible, a supernaturally good fighter, iron willed… and microscopic.
“Well, I DID steal a piece of pie before dinner once…”
I’m calling it.
I can’t believe a -hipster- would pull out such a hackneyed old cliche. The Evil Twin has been done so often that it’s -mainstream-, you know what I mean?
Of course, maybe he’s doing it ironically.
Definitely a good thing that Madeline interposed herself here. Evil Cube would be like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. (In fact, -regular- Cube is like something out of H.P.L. now that I think about it. -Evil- Cube would be… um… really, -rilly- bad.)
He could do something triply ironic to make up for it.
Besides, isn’t it ironic for someone so hip to resort to a cliche?
STOP IT! My head can’t handle this many layers of ironic irony!
Sounds like a call for Rusty to handle all these layers of irony.
Say, if you had a rope, we could get him. He’d love all this high-iron stuff.
Skimpy black leather outfit ahoy!
Nah, it’s just going to be an evil mouse or something.
So what’s the evil opposite of a shovel?
Obviously a rake.
No, the rake is opposite of the hoe.
that deserves a gnome prize!
however saying it means it probably won’t happen. sorry
Arguably, a shovel digs holes down, and a hammer (with planks and nails) builds structures up.
The rake is more dissolute than evil, though. Still immoral, but more as someone who succumbs to temptation than as an active champion of evil. (Cf. “A Rake’s Progress”)
Now that I think about it what if our Madeline is actually evil one? In that case Anti-Madeline will be a very sweet, hyper intelligent, perfect mary-sue blackguard. That sound awful.
This is either about to get VERY interesting or VERY ridiculous. Same thing in this comic, mind.
Aww go Maddie! An evil cube would be hard to stop, and despite low int paladins are big on self sacrifice. If she turns into a blackguard that means she can join that other fella who was a guard for the mindflayer mob. Or maybe she’ll turn into an intelligent sexy evil sorcerress? :p
Come on Rusty – eat python already!
See, here’s the funny thing- how do we know Cube is GOOD? 🙂
“Are you a good cube, or a bad cube?”
“Baby, I’m the BEST cube!”
The Monster Manual says he’s True Neutral.
If GCube is True Neutral, isn’t the opposite. . . True Neutral???
It can’t be Lawful because that opposes Chaotic, and Good opposes Evil, so True Neutral opposes itself. Shoulda let the ray hit the cube.
Well, assuming that you take the “opposite” part of his speech rather than the “evil” part (I mean really, how stupid would it be to assume that only a good hero would oppose you when you’re literally out to break the world), the Helm of Opposite Alignment treats the opposite of TN as being “random out of LG, CG, LE and CE”.
A new amendment to the Evil Overlord list:
“If merely explaining My Evil Plan aloud makes me feel a little stupider with each phrase, I will not proceed with it”.
If Madeline does have an evil side, it’s probably a very, very small evil side.
Yay, evil twin time!!! I can’t wait to see Evil Madeline in action. She could be dangerously genre savvy… but a total wimp, all brain and no brawn.
And would Cube’s Anti self be a Gibbering Mouther since it talks and has lots of face???
Cube already has six faces!
Everyone comments about Madeline’s double.
The most interesting part of the page, for me, is the fact that cube is unambiguously recognized as the team leader 🙂
Time to rename the comic? 😛
Rusty’s never been the team leader.
Gahh — I just imagined what would happen if someone used the Python on Rusty.
Puke bread?
If he’s the leader, is he gonna have a plush toy too? Will there be a ludicrous legal battle if the makers of Plush Rusty go on to produce Plush Cube? I certainly hope the concept of a ‘cube’ is public domain, but the historical record suggests otherwise.
There is a cube plush, it has been manufactured for years under the trade name Jell-o…
Which side would be Cube’s evil side? He has six to choose from…
More worryingly, will their evil counterparts sport the traditional goatee?
I’m not sure that Madeline will change. Almost sounds to me like he’s saying the python will create an evil twin of her. Madeline the Paladin vs Madeline the Anti-Paladin.
Rusty was delivered today, is much cute, will be taking his spot next to the plush skunk of doom(tm) and shoulder dragon in my basement to guard the gaming table. I do hope he likes lots of paperclips, soda cans (empty) and various other items for snacking on.
Is this how Sir Malevolous was born? After which, Cube smacks him so hard he travels back in time.
Got my very own Rusty today. Thanks so much, it’s really cool.
Cannot WAIT for the next comic just because of my new favorite unsound effect: ANTI!
Got mine, too. Sitting across the room looking innocent even as I type.
Cool as it would be, there isn’t anything to fear from the anti-cube. Because an Anti-cube wouldn’t get things done.
Not sure it’s all that hard to dig up Cube’s inner evil. I mean, the guy literally snatches up random people and digests them on the spot; he’s already pretty darn evil.