Author: Matty Boy

A bilious and vitriolic cartoonist living in Atlanta, who pines for the days of great fantasy comics. You know, before everything was a corporate icon, and before cartoons looked like advertising for breakfast cereals.
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#164

November 25, 2013

NOTES

  • First appearance of Tortureskulls (panels 1-5)
  • Cornelius awakens after the conveyance accident, in another part of Creepwood
  • Who is the mysterious yet familiar masked stranger?
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#163

November 19, 2013

NOTES

  • Waywardo is probably being maniplacated (by whom?); note the reaction of “are you calling me a liar?”
  • There are Bogstanders visible in the background of panel 1
  • The farmer calls Dedurum “a stranger”
  • Sortle are cattle; the singular form is a sort
  • “DRINK”, “HOAX”, “Xenihilo”
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#162

November 10, 2013

NOTES

  • Faddlegas’ relationship with Aga Regata is different than Bromance’s; why is that?
  • Essul has a crisis of conscience regarding Zaz
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#161

November 3, 2013

NOTES

  • First appearance: Snyfus in Sector 53, part of the crew that maintains the engines deep within Insanus’ island
  • The earpiece Snyfus is speaking into (panel 2) is based on the depiction of Frith-of-the-Hills from Watership Down (1978)
  • Darkana is asleep next to Insanus in panel 3
  • Insanus explains the risk involved in using your own body to conjure another (panel 6); Refusaleth displays it (panel 9)
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#160

October 27, 2013

NOTES

  • Curdelbludd mentions the Solstera in panel 3, then the Void, while sticking his weird tongue on Bromance’s cheek
  • Bromance defeats Curdelbledd with his bare hands, instead of using his sword
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#159

October 22, 2013

NOTES

  • Bromance recognizes Curdelbludd as the Overkeeper from way back in #11
  • Curdelbludd knows the price of Bromance’s power, in panel 8
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#158

October 14, 2013

NOTES

  • Bromance and Pip officially enter Creepwood; there is a Bogstander visible in the background of panel 1
  • Bromance again sheathes his variblade upside-down and backwards, panel 2
  • What happened to the trapfly that everyone was riding in? (Panel 3)
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#157

October 6, 2013

NOTES

  • Creepwoodian wizards: Vill & Baskor (panel 1), Pfane & Tsellow (panel 2)
  • Another mention of a “creeping tower”
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#156

September 29, 2013

NOTES

  • Refusaleth can move his teeth independently, for no apparent reason other than to disturb, and has numerous tongues
  • Refusaleth is not wearing a septum piercing; he has an actual ring through his nose, blocking his nostrils completely
  • Shiraadh is finishing off the Imperial infantry and air force; her ululation in panel 3 is the same as Ehren McGhehey’s in the beginning of the “Terror Taxi” prank in Jackass: Number Two (2006)
  • Dedurum has been pinned to a wall by propellers and detritus from fallen Imperial nanowings, in panel 4
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#155

September 22, 2013

NOTES

  • The wall tapestry in panel 3, which Karbunkel drapes himself with in panel 9, has pictograms depicting the Sacred Testament
  • Who is Karbunkel’s mother?
  • The Prime Resinate piece was providing King Reclinus V with arcane power, which allowed his lineage to rule over Inway since Perceptive Times
  • In panel 9, Karbunkel is enthralled with himself, and the gravity of what he can now accomplish