#159 reposted 19dec17
158 just dragged on too long. I am particularly proud of the last part of the last panel when I made the text fade out. It’s really hard to convey sound via webcomics.
If anyone doesn’t get the reference: https://youtu.be/E7WQ1tdxSqI
#156 and 157 reposted 14dec17
Neither of these were worth posting alone. How is Vindalf moving in those last two panels? Clearly whoever drew this isn’t paying attention because his weapons switched hands, like twice.
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#155 Reposted 12dec17
Vindalf’s Berserker rage is the fanciest special effects I had ever tried. Also, probably not what real Berserkir did back in the day. Fighting like a mad beast high on mushrooms isn’t a good plan for victory. Fighting like some sort of norse shaolin monk, blessed by Odin is a good idea. Unfortunately, unless The Doctor would like to lend his TARDIS to some lucky historians, we will never be entirely sure what they did.
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#151 and 154. Reposted 7dec17.
152 and 153 were junk, so I am leaving them unopened in the archive. The way it’s presented here, it sounds like Vindalf got a girlfriend and didn’t have time to draw for a while. I encourage you all to believe that version of events.
Alas, actual 2006 Vindalf was way too pathetic for that to be true. If I ever get to borrow a time machine, I’m gonna have to wedgie that neck-bearded nerd so hard it’ll break causality.
#150 Reposted 5dec17
I wonder what I wrote in the fine print? It must have been something silly. We’ll never know because I didn’t note it anywhere except the long lost vindalf website.
The robot was programmed to destroy all Humans. Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, et al are safe.
#149 Reposted 30nov17
Loki, god of fire! God of Tricksters! God of Quantum mechanics! Quantum? Well, who else would switch photons between waves and particles when you’re not looking?
Many moons ago, one of my re-enactor friends had a silly pet peeve about the Frisian hats that people were wearing for their norse personas. He went on for several minutes about how the cultures were distinct and the right hats for everyone. Therefore, I ensured that Loki was wearing the wrong hat just for you, Mike!
#148 Reposted 28nov17
Right, the giant robot…
#147 Reposted 24nov17
I found the right one this time!
Why is it that the monsters never just step on the power rangers while they’re morphing? Why don’t the monsters attach while Sailor Moon is getting changed? Sure, it fills time and saves on animation, but there are certain logical problems.
Trying to draw Elf with a more feminine shape was very difficult because, at that time in my life, I didn’t have much experience with the female shape. Most fantasy artists clearly have never seen a woman up close in real life.
Fencer’s first line is sung to the Final Fantasy victory music. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/164193?id=164193
Right, so I’m kinda dumb.. I am on a trip to Toronto collecting some stuff that has been in mom’s basement since I left. I made a reminder in my phone before I left to bring today’s Vindalf with me.
And I forgot to load it before I left.
So then, I texted my beautiful wife to send me the comic so I could post it.
And I asked her to send me the wrong one. I noticed this long after she has gone to bed. I am not going to text her and wake her up, because I want to stay married.
Please enjoy this photo of a T-Rex instead of the scheduled Vindalf.
#146 Reposted 16nov17
Psionic brains-in-a-jar are deceptively easy to defeat. It is a known law of physics that wizards have much lower HP than fighters. This is partly due to game balance in RPGs, where every bonus needs a trade off. In Skyrim, you can break this system if you use the right skills and see how it gets too easy.
It is also re-enforced by the idea of the mind/body split good old Rene Descartes liked to talk about. The idea is that mind and body being distinct things, and our spirits wear bodies like pilots in a giant fighting robot. (Probably not how Descartes thought about it, but much cooler).
We see it all over popular media that nerds must be weak, and pretty people must be dumb. It’s supposed to be a shock if the pretty person happens to be smart, or it makes them into a super hero.
I manage to buck this trend by being both ugly and dumb*, take that society!
*joking. I’m adorable. But if I was half as smart as I like to think I am: I would have better things to do than posting old comics on tumblr.
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