I dunno if Jeff’s ever seen a desert, let alone a desert home. My descriptions + Google images yielded the above… Well, the owner hired an interesting architect!
So I pretty much gave it away, but who’s been able to pick up on the logic behind the team’s, er, “interesting” new (and thankfully temporary) codenames?
I feel I’m legally obligated to reference a SWAT film reference or something. Happy Holidays and a great new year. :3
On a personal art note, if you are interested in commissioning me, check out my journal HERE.
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December 24th, 2011 at 2:57 am
I did actually, major cities/sports teams for the first half and mythical elemental creatures, mostly if not all Greek based, for the latter.
December 24th, 2011 at 3:01 am
Plus you blatantly gave it away in the 4th panel anyway.
December 24th, 2011 at 5:13 am
This is interesting…Can't wait to see where it goes~
December 24th, 2011 at 6:21 am
Close, but it's a bit more tight (see 4th panel) and there's a second (small) note in the page that plays along the same themes.
December 24th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Hehe, gnome
December 24th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
The owner of that house must be obscenely wealthy. The A/C plant needed to keep a house with that much glass cool in the Arizona summer heat would be enormous!
December 24th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Said owner is, although I won't say more until the next page!
December 24th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
As an Australian with a borderline case of Asperger's syndrome, i can safely say that whatever you're referencing with the first part of their names went so far over my head I'd need to skydive to intercept it.
Mythical creature names I got, though. Three of them are summon spirits from Tales of Phantasia (which I have played), if not others as well.
December 25th, 2011 at 3:54 am
The first names each have an NFL team with the corresponding cat as their mascot – Bengal Tiger (Cincinnati), Lion (Detroit), Jaguar (Jacksonville) and Panther(Carolina), each appropriately assigned to the character that transforms into said animal. The second names refers to the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus and the mythical creatures he dubbed elemental spirits – Salamanders (Fire), Undine (Water), Gnome (Earth), and Slyph (Air). Wikipedia is a hell of a drug, kids.
December 25th, 2011 at 5:45 am
Very well done (and appropriate post name!). The only thing you missed is then what "Commissioner" refers to.
And there's one more mythology reference on this page, too.
December 25th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Jacksonville! Despite being a proud Texan, Jacksonville Jaguars are my favorite football team, thanks to NFL Blitz 2001, where they're one of the best teams.
December 25th, 2011 at 8:53 am
Phobetor, god of nightmares. According to the myths, he made shapes of beasts appear in dreams. I'm still not sure of the Commissioner reference.
December 25th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Again, good work. Phobetor was a god who appeared in dreams in the shapes of beasts.
To sum it up: the Commissioner is the head officer of the NFL. Combine that with Paracelsus–who was the first to identify the four elemental beasts–and you see how the names of the command officers match the team's dual codenames.
December 25th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
I root for the Jags, too (but, like Fletcher, I'm a proud Pats fan, having grown up somewhere near the fictional town of Bridgedale.) It has not been a good season for them, however. I really hope they ditch Gabbert and find someone who can throw a pass within twenty yards of his receiver.
December 25th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
We have Aussie readers, sweet!
December 26th, 2011 at 6:25 am
hey im new to the comic but when does it update?
December 26th, 2011 at 8:02 am
Typically sometime during the day on Friday. I'm hoping to get us back to more than just once a week but I've been making very poor progress with writing this chapter. Storyboarding action scenes while simultaneously constructing environments–all in text form–can be tricky, and then sometimes Jeff turns in something entirely different than I envisioned and there are hasty redraws and rewrites.
December 26th, 2011 at 8:15 am
Would that be the elements associated with the creatures
? Tho tbh I never really thought about gnomes being earth based… [don't know much about them...]
Nice touch, DZ.
December 26th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
It's the four elemental beasts as described by 16th-century alchemist Paracelsus (also known as "von Hohenheim," for all you FMA fans out there.)
December 26th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
thanks
December 28th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Is it bad I got the Alchemical beasts before I got the football teams?
December 29th, 2011 at 12:32 am
Nope just means your smart and your heads in a different place than some people. I'd say that's a very good thing =)
March 21st, 2012 at 2:46 pm
(First of all, Aussie over here, too! ^_^)
Is it weird at all that the first thing that I thought of when I saw the elemental code names was this really old game (with many sequels etc), Tales of Phantasia? Elemental spirits (Salamander, Sylph, etc, and many others) can be kinda summoned/used in battles…and yeah. =D
March 26th, 2012 at 3:42 am
I've heard of that game, but never played it! I stumbled over the names while doing various research on elementals, and liked them enough to toss it into the comic.