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 Post Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:05 pm 
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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:40 am 
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Hum. It looks like the epilogue is going to be a full story.

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:17 am 
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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:41 am 
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I'm really enjoying the Epilogue. Very good writing Pete!

There are actual precedents for a social situation such as this. A group of proto-Indo European descent merged with an existing culture to form what were known as the Hurrians. The newcomers gained elite status among the resulting society. They had horses and chariots, and frequent contact with the Egyptians. Yet because of the primal nature of the Egyptian culture, they did not adopt the horse or chariot - at that time.

I very much like the way that you wrote Maloufo as the bloody Shepherd of Mokhadun. I might have been tempted to write it as a burden shared with others, but a single man bearing the burden works better.

Also, I really like the pencil art of the flashbacks, but as previosly stated - I wish that there was better contrast in those panels. For example; panel 4 on July 30th.

Maloufo still wears a ... collar? - with a camel insignia. I like how that shows that he is true to his humble roots. Were this a book, i expect a different insignia would be adopted, but for visual media, keeping the camel is necessary.

Macha. I like how his staff thingy looks like a T (you clever Pete, you). However, I am puzzled at how the scion of the manipulating God of Justice is .....
(yeah, maybe I'll hold onto that one in case of CROTCH!!!!)

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:07 am 
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Wait wait wait...a blind guy heading on a journey up the Nile, where he might encounter the Sphinx...I think a Greek tragedy will eventually be written about this

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:51 am 
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Yodimus_Prime wrote:
Wait wait wait...a blind guy heading on a journey up the Nile, where he might encounter the Sphinx...I think a Greek tragedy will eventually be written about this

North would be DOWN the Nile, toward the Delta.

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:00 am 
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erewhon wrote:
Yodimus_Prime wrote:
Wait wait wait...a blind guy heading on a journey up the Nile, where he might encounter the Sphinx...I think a Greek tragedy will eventually be written about this

North would be DOWN the Nile, toward the Delta.


It's only been a generation and they can't even get Rana's gender right. I don't think they're gonna quibble about cardinal directions :p
Hell, Oedipus wasn't even set in Egypt!

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:30 am 
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"We (who want to forget our past and pretend it never happened) are the people of THE NILE!"

I see what you did there, Pete. :pun:

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:38 am 
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We R teh people of de nial!!1! :pun:

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:35 am 
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"We (who want to forget our past and pretend it never happened) are the people of THE NILE!"

I see what you did there, Pete. :pun:

Heh... seconded.
KarlMonster wrote:
Macha. I like how his staff thingy looks like a T (you clever Pete, you).

I don't get it. What am I mything?

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:37 pm 
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CheeseWhisper wrote:
jaman686 wrote:
"We (who want to forget our past and pretend it never happened) are the people of THE NILE!"

I see what you did there, Pete. :pun:

Heh... seconded.
KarlMonster wrote:
Macha. I like how his staff thingy looks like a T (you clever Pete, you).

I don't get it. What am I mything?


I would say T is for Teiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes. Pete is now tying in as many world mythoi into this as possible, a Wold Newton type of thing.

Layers within layers within layers...

Very smartly done, IMO.

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