Jul14
Not again
on July 14, 2012 at 12:00 amWe couldn’t make it to San Diego Comic Con this year, but we’re offering free shipping for all U.S. shoppers in the Namesake store this weekend! Plus, anyone who buys a print copy of Namesake will receive the ebook for free. Just grab a copy of the print book, and we’ll take care of the rest! No coupon codes needed for either offer!
I’m of two minds about thus. First: OMG Scarecrow! OMG black scary thing eeeee!! Second: shipper moment eeeeee!!!!
Me too.
I know I should be really concerned over Scarecrow, but then I reach that last panel and I just go “SAIL, SHIP, SAIL!”
I just need to say this comment just made my day
Yup. I’m going, “Warrick, if you don’t want to feed the shippers, you shouldn’t do things like that.”
Awwwww…he wubs her.
Also: OHSHITDON’TGETATEEMMA.
Scarecrow!
And the black monster things look similar but they’re also different than the thing that killed Adora. I’m wondering if they also have the ability to shift form like the other one did?
Also, i could not contain my inner fangirl at the last panel D:
You are probably right, “It” might have other forms as well. I also ship Emma x Warrick.
Everybody does. and it’s soooooo funny to read the comments, i must ask… why?
Hooooo boy this is getting intense. O.O WARRICK WHY U DO DUMB THINGS, BOY?! STOP ET!! >.<
I literally yelled when I got to the last panel. Partially due to yay!shipping, and partially due to OMG, Warrick, you brave and foolish thing, what are you doing?! Gaaaahhh!
I love the shipping but for some reason I don’t think this will end well for warrick.
And this was why the Scarecrow was all tied up in the vines.
The red slots were eyes! That’s creepy awesome!
Oh, yes!
This monster reminds me of the one with all the face masks too, a many-headed hydra. Could it too be a mish-mash of individuals? Classic fairy tales are often about finding your own self from the crowd, and namesakes could easily be sucked into thinking they are all part of one thing, losing their individuality when the story needs them to find it. That could make a story go very wrong.
Ooooh. Interesting. I’ll be pondering that for a while.
screams and cries
On one hand my shipper heart, but on the other EMMA GET OUT OF THERE
First: Why hasn’t Selva released Hercilia yet from her shoe form?
Seriously, a full powered Hercilia could be a huge boon right about now, magical napalm and all.
Second: The more I think about it, the more I realize that theory someone mentioned earlier might on to something. Namely, that the reason the Caliope organization is confused how an “Emma” could be a namesake might be because Elaine, Emma’s 15-year old sister, has not yet written the tale in which an “Emma” will be the main character. Or maybe she has…? Clearly, Elaine has some power in her ability to write. Elaine reminds me of that girl in Inkheart (like that movie with Brendan Frasier).
I had not thought of that, but it makes perfect sense. Elaine clearly admires and loves her sister, and one could see her writing fics with a special character “Emma” in them.
…it’s dangerous when an Author writes family-insert fanfic?
Well that could make Emma a “generic” namesake, who may have the ability to “Stand in” for Namesakes who either aren’t currently incarnated, or can be sent in to help if a Namesake is going to fail.
At least her name isn’t “Mary Sue”
I think Emma’s name in general, explains her role. Hope this isn’t a spoiler. But the name Emma means whole, universal; she can’t be held by one story.
A meta-namesake?
Hey! I didn’t order a Lovecraftian Eldritch Horror version, just the Giant Toothy Witch version! You sent me the wrong monster!
Jebus that looks bad.
And Warrick? You’re an adult Warlock now. Hit it with something BIG. The last time you were a little boy.
I also reiterate “TIME FOR HERCILIA”.
Now that I think about it: Out of all the Oz characters traveling with Emma, I think we know the least about Hercilia. We barely even know what she looks like. We know less about her than even Renge and we don’t know a whole lot about her.
I realize the need to keep the pace up to make for a good story and keep everyone interested. And Warrick and, to a lesser extent, Agha and Selva seem to be the main Oz characters. But are we ever going to get a more thorough backstory to some of the rest?
I think it’d be interesting to delve a bit into Hercilia’s past. Perhaps we’ll see a flashback or side story eventually? (Will we ever see more of Oz later down the road?)
And I’d like to know why Chiseri seems such willing and faithful companion to Warrick, considering that Warrick used to be such a self-centered jerk before meeting Emma. I’m thinking that Chiseri later felt guilty about how he hurt Adora Chopper and he saw a lot of himself in what Warrick became. (The Chiseri we see today seems to genuinely care about others. Where’d that change of heart come from.) So he decided he wanted to be with Warrick, see him grow up, and try to influence and guide him in a positive way. At least, that’s the way I imagine it. Or… maybe his change of heart has to do with his weird but cute “cupid” form?
We DID get to see what Hercilia looked like as a human, it was during the “Funeral for a Dorothy” pages.
I was expecting a sort of full-page update with something of the monster and the characters, but I’m glad I was wrong and it has a few more panels.
The only thing I can safely answer is … spoilers.
Seriously though, this is going to be a fairly lengthy story — even after we’re done with this arc. Eventually, questions are going to be answered. Just maybe not within the next few pages.
Translation: Hercilia is going to come with Emma when she leaves Oz. Am I close?
This one’s different…
Evil Isameg! Crushing our shipper hearts like that! I’m sure Warrik will either sacrifice himself to destroy the thing or else everything will be resolved some other way, but at the end of course Emma will return home and they’ll never see each other ever again <\3 :'(
okay, rant over, but seriously you guys are evil!
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How can you say such a thing? They are not guys; they are ladies. You are right about the evil though.
Complete Warrick’s last line: No! Not again! You won’t get someone I love!
That moment just took over the horror of the evil black monster pouring out of the scarecrow.
It’s pages like this that remind me why I love this comic. My brain, currently is thinking something along the lines of: ‘Oh no this is bad – aww that’s cute – but that thing is terrifying look at that – so sweet’.
I also love the way the colour’s been used on evil-black-horror-monster’s eyes. Just in case we didn’t know it was bad news…
my inner fn-gril just exploaded!!….eeee! >w<
*fan *girl
SO MUCH CRAP HAPPENING, IT CAN’T COMPUTE! I can’t even write a half decent comment about this! CURSE YOU ISAMEG, BLESS YOU!
The hideousness and size of the creature is such a shock. This is another moment like the appearance of the closet monster (which is, I assume another version of this) that is nightmare worthy. Warrick is prepared to sacrifice himself, and I don’t think that Meg n’ Isa will give us an easy resolution to this. What a powerful strip!
I agree with xspacetrue that we need some backstory on Chiseri, at least. “Warrick n’ Selva, I’m your father!”
Something that ugly with that many heads needs a Taiyo-Ken followed by a Kame-Hame-Ha, or at least a Rasengan.
The question is, how well Warrick’s “healing factor” can stand a many-headed monster taking a few bites out of him.
*flails* AHHHHHH!!! The shipping! The monster! The suspense!! I can’t handle it!
Have you guys seen the trailer to “The Great & Powerful Oz” coming in 2013? Looks exciting. Considering the subject matter here, I thought I would mention it. I just wonder if L. Frank Baum would approve. (Some of his stuff was pretty dark, though.)
It looks to be the most promising of the three (yes three!) Oz-based movies due out in the next couple years. That’s not saying much — this one is a prequel and looks to be trying to make Mr Diggs (the real name of the Wizard) out to be a hero. We KNOW what he did, and it wasn’t nice. The Oz books, being written for children, rather gloss over certain details, but if you look at what we KNOW he did, you can imagine just how … cool his welcome was in Ozma’s castle when he first returned, and that it wasn’t nearly as simple as Baum showed for him to gain her trust again.
Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember. What he did to Princess Ozma was just about as mean as one can get without getting violent. And for what? A noble purpose? Nope. Just power.
I saw the trailer at Comic Con. It was cool, I can’t wait for it to come out next year. I’m a huge Oz fan, I think Mila Kunis plays the Wicked Witch of the West before she became wicked.
AHHHHHH MORE MORE MORE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I need more…
Looking at it from a non-shipping POV, the ‘not again’ is very important. To this monster (or something like this monster), Warrick lost his mother, Ozma (who he a. had a crush on and b. who was the beloved princess of Oz), and technically through the monsters release his heart and his sister. So while the last panel is adorable (seriously. I may have to print it out and hang it on my wall.) it also shows that he really cares for Emma – whether as a friend, or romantically – and his Uncle, and that he doesn’t want to experience the same loss again.