‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 746

Don't forget the Dude!

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The page seems broken, it’s not loading.

The comic isn’t loading. I get the header and footer bars but nothing’s between them on my phone. The previous page loads fine.

Comic page is not loading for me.

Hmm, not sure if it’s just me or not, but the page doesn’t seem to be loading D: Anyone else getting that?

looks empty o-o

Its easy to forget, what you cannot see 🙂 (image is missing…)

There’s no comic, in spite of there being a page for the comic to be at.

The page isn’t displaying for me

There’s no picture:(

is there supposed to be an image there right now? there isn’t one for me, but I don’t know if that’s intentional or not

Man this team is so f-ed, this is the third time someone got a teamkill xD

Darn it, Dude. Overdid it!

…rest of the chapter: Dude running for his life screaming (or shrieking).

Hmm, that’s a gutsy move for the Dude. Considering how scared of every one he is 🙂

Somebody had to plant their face in somebody’s boobs; its a required trope! Bonus points if it’s the worst possible couple.

Did the Dude kill Jane? To save Danny? If so… wow, I wonder where this is going.

Am I the only one who can’t see the comic?

I figured Bandit would grab her from behind. He’s had plenty of time to recover by now. But way to go, Dude!

uh-oh.

Did Jane just “die” within range of Kat?
I hope Kat’s lack of an esone means she can’t gain or lose %, otherwise she’s gonna be upset…

Well, Jake only told Brandon to not let _Kat_ kill anyone… he never said to not let anyone die by other means.

But now that you mention it, Dude must have gained some Morto points now. He better be more careful from now on if he wants to stay Cardista.

You mean any more upset than Bandit finding out that she hacked and must therefore be Keiko? 😀

Also, don’t worry, she’s in limbo and can’t gain or lose % without Esone.

Can’t say I expected the Dude to act.

I think the only person more surprised than us was Jane herself!

I think the Dude killed her by puncturing her lung with his nose, possibly her solar plexus. 😉

Also what did she plan to do with her dolls? I completely missed them 2 pages ago. Those things must be able to do more than what we saw in the tournament. Since they’re 4 programs tied together I assume 3 abilities and 1 core program to manage everything.

I recall a page after the tournament where she tried to activate her dolls and they failed. I think they’re broken.

You’re right, I remember that now, too. And iirc did Jane later ask Kat to repair them when she revealed her backstory. But I can’t find those pages anymore.

If you’re looking in the achieves, there’s a skip (it’s missing pages 514 to 637, at least), meaning you won’t find it that way. What you’ll have to do is load one of the pages, and change the number after page-, on the url. — The page number you’re looking for is 615.

Oh shoot I completely forgot about the gap by now. Thanks! XD

So… did the Dude take a level in bad-a*** and off Jane himself? Despite usually being absolutely terrified of her? Dunno if he’ll ever get over this if he did…

And nine months later a dudette is born!

Dude breaking character and killing off Jane! Just wait, next page will show the Dude freaking out to reestablish his image of comic relief.

Worst team ever.

It’s starting to feel like my DND party.

My group had a character not unlike Jane. Long story short, I no longer allow chaotic evil characters at my table.

That sounds like this characters was crazier than Belkar from OOTS.
But CE is susprisingly difficult. My DM told me there was a player who played is CE-character as chaotic/stupid, i.e. he picked fights with everyone.

He wasn’t chaotic stupid though, he was just disruptive enough that the other players killed him.

I feel like it should be noted that in double gravity a bad fall can kill, with emphasis on bad. plopping down into the sand on your back is very very likely to not cause any harm at all. the majority of the risk as I understand it comes from things like landing on arms knees or other weird angles and having the joints not be able to keep up with the added weight. flat on back means there’s no actual stress on her joints or anything going on, just more pressure than she’s probably used to. maybe she’ll get some bruising from the pressure but that’s all. Dude landing on her however is a whole different thing, I could see broken ribs or damaged organs from that, just please dont make it death by fall when it really shouldn’t be

That’s a good point in real life. However, they are in a game right now. I could see it being a pure points system based on which parts get “hit”. Could be something like:
dmg_from_fall*head_hit_penalty*double_gravity = dead level 1

I stick to my assumption that he punctured her lung with his nose. 😀

Good point, but… When she hits the ground, her head has enough speed that the sudden stop is likely to cause her a concussion even if she landed on rather loose sand. And in double gravity I expect loose sand to be packed slightly less loosely, not much mind you. If there happened to be stone where her head fell her skull would probably.be cracked.

Didn’t expect Dude to do that, but then again he has a major distrust of her, and with her just attacking the party and all.
Of course, maybe he didn’t think she’d get killed from just the fall, and that might be right, but he unintentionally used her as a landing mattress and squashed her pretty good while reducing his own damage.
I’d say that was a great plan by him, but he doesn’t seem to be the type to plan much of anything.

The Dude who avoided Bandit’s attack by having Danni push him off a tree by trying to hug her is most likely a genius planner like Irresponsible Captain Tylor or in Dragon Ball when Kami participated in that tournament. 😉

So, yeah, I’m certain that the landing mattress was intentional.

Death by lucky pervert trope, don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

He’s not a perv, folks.

If you look at panel 1, he’s shoving at her at full arm-length. That’s too far away to have faceplanted in her boobs.

If you look at panel 2, he lands below the level of her hair, which is as long as her bra band (below the boobs).

If you look at panel 3, he’s clearly too short along her body to have faceplanted in her boobs. He faceplanted in her stomach.

If you look at any of his past interactions with Jane, he’s clearly afraid of her, and has shown zero signs of interest in her from either a romantic or sexual standpoint. Zero interest. And lastly, he was saving the lives of both Kat and Danni, so…not a perv.

*All of this means Aneeka did an excellent job of figuring out how to draw the body positions realistically, at the right distances, to follow the action from start to finish, throughout all 3 panels. Way to go!!

Yes, Aneeka’s great.
And I was just cracking a joke. The lucky pervert trope, played straight, afflicts someone who is, in fact, not a pervert and often causes them to fall upon someone they are on less than friendly terms with. Kind of like Dude and Jane, or Dude and Kat, or Dude and Danni… Dude really does not get along too well with his female coworkers. Well, I think he is at least on better terms than Bandit and them, despite or perhaps because of his crippling fear of them.

Dude! Get a room!

She went see through?… I’m getting the idea that’s not normal sand.

Becoming see through likely means she died.

Or she activated a special ability: “Fade Into the Shadows”… or sand, in this case.

Yeah, too easy a death imo. She fell into SAND after being kicked once by a low level pacifist. Sand said pacifist was going to use against anything that attacked (so it wouldn’t kill). Something isn’t what it seems. 🙂

Do not try and see the comic, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there is no comic. Then you’ll see that it is not the comic that you see, it is only yourself.

(comic is fine for me, I just wanted to abuse the quote)

Not sure what Jane intended, but I don’t think death was the goal.

oh, death WAS the goal I think, just not JANE’s death…

I wonder if Dude just claimed the bounty on Jane.