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Remembering his background makes his reaction a lot more reasonable (which does not seem to fit his laid back character). If you grew up in a place where people prey on the weak, you need to be defensive about people crossing the line. You learn to establish immediately you are not "prey" when they test your boundaries.
Of course the real let down is he know realizes he has no more chance with hotly half-dress then anyone else.
Is this whole same gender kissing thing a social experiment to see how your subscribers will react to it?
I think it is goofy, weird, and bizarre, but I guess overall funny... definitely weird though. LOL
But hey, this might become common in the very near future in any area controlled by democrats and democrat culture. LOL FREE LOVE!
lol no, nothing like that. I just wanted them to have a custom that would make him visibly uncomfortable when I was scripting, and I thought friendly kissing fit in with the hippie aesthetics of the wood elves in this world.
For the wood elves, it seems like kissing is sort of like shaking hands. It looks like they don't view it as something serious, romantic, or sexual (at least not in the kind of situation here) and would probably find calling it "forced" or "unprovoked" strange the same way you might think it was weird if someone got mad at you for a "forced, unprovoked" handshake.
And with handshakes, the hand is always held forward and awaits the other person shaking hands. It is part of the protocol of handshakes - you put your hand forward, and you wait for the other person to put your hand forward. If they don't put their hand forward, well, there's no handshake, and it might be rude of the other party. Such protocols, including consent and care, are very common in basic social interactions, and extra care is generally always taken with strangers (unless the action or intention is hostile, in which case protocol can be twisted, manipulated, skipped, etc.).
Any social situations, especially those that involve physical contact between people, should involve consent and care, but that wood elf guy seems pretty dismissive about how Ozzi feels.
Guest 27th Jun 2020, 2:58 AM: You write a number of weird or very weird things, framing things in an extremely strange way. And it wouldn't surprise me the slightest bit if you introduced such weirdness on purpose.
The whole situation is incredibly unrealistic and weird reg. the social aspects of it. Unless (as far as I can tell) the elves are fully aware of the wretched aspects of it and they use it as an excuse, cover and tactic to achieve various actions. And given the nature of what they do, as far as I can tell that does not allow many non-wretched and non-deeply-evil possibilities.
Many people use covers and tactics and manipulations; consider for instance this image, where a cover story is used to help achieve ludicrously extreme evil:
https://imgur.com/a/Mv7ZGD2
As an aside, what are your thoughts on that image from imgur?
The author stated in an earlier comment that he wanted the wood elves to have a part of their culture that would make Ozzi uncomfortable and fit with their hippie-like theme. The author has not flagged this comic as containing sexual situations on ComicFury, so I do not think anything beyond making Ozzi uncomfortable will happen here, as far as the kissing is concerned.
Based on the author's comment, I assume that the elf guy was telling the truth about what kissing means in their culture and not trying to be manipulative. I think that the elf guy should have checked with Ozzi (who, as a human, was obviously an outsider to their group) to see if he was okay with kissing him and should not have insulted Ozzi (the "tough guy" comment) and should not have brushed off his discomfort/anger as being unimportant or wrong. To the elves, the kissing is a normal, casual thing, but to Ozzi, it's more serious and disturbing.
If you are right about the elves actually being manipulative, we'll find out later in the comic.
Guest with "That imgur image is very disturbing.":
Yeah, but the setting, situation, etc. themselves are incredibly strange and weird, and even given the fantastical and fantasy setting, it does not seem meaningful or make sense at all in multiple different ways. The setting itself reg. the elves and their behaviour seem completely screwed up and unrealistic even by the standards and "logic" of the fantastical.
Darkening:
No, even by the standards of the fantastical and what is alien, this seems incredibly weird and nonsensical.
BookWyrm:
A kiss on a cheek is a very far distance away from sudden and forced kissing on the mouth.
Societies hardly ever actually operate that way, though. Or even anywhere close to that way.
Multiple people had to do things less-than-ideally to get to this point. Stella (leading Ozzi into this blind) and Ozzi (walking into it eyes closed and brain off) more than shirtless crafting elf. Who is, let's remember, not the first elf to surprise Ozzi with a kiss tonight...
Don't forget we've got WoG confirming kissing people to say "thanks" is part of fey culture. We've already seen so many cases of people generally dismissing other cultures in the story, it shouldn't surprise us when it happens here.
As for a sudden handshake being weird, I guess nobody has ever seen a movie where a character does something praiseworthy, and the person they helped grasps their hand and thanks them profusely? Or, heck, a kiss isn't that far removed from a hug, and it's not like sudden hugs as thanks are all that weird.
It is true that Stella was the first to kiss, but a male forcefully, suddenly kissing someone is considerably different than a female doing so. Likewise as for the satyr forcefully, suddenly kissing Colleen. It is weird and strange for a woman to do so, at least forcefully and suddenly, but it is much worse and incredibly weird and strange for a man to do so forcefully and suddenly, for men have much greater muscle strength on average than women IRL, and forceful, violent rape are generally done by men, apart from general dominance, violence, violent murder, and violent threats.
(and don't claim that women have the same muscle strength on average as men, for that does an extreme disservice to women and makes it much more difficult for them to be prepared and aware and defend themselves. In (light-hearted and silly?) make-believe situations such as RPGs, who cares, but in more "realistic" situations... you do acknowledge that in real life, women have much smaller muscle strength on average than men, right?).
For humans, this is all certainly true, but we haven't seen enough of the Feynest inhabitants to know what degree of sexual dimorphism is present. Certainly, the elves seem to be somewhat androgynous, leaning toward feminine, meaning there may be much less difference in strength, making it less of an issue there. Additionally, the male fawn/satyr that kissed Colleen looks like he'd probably lose a contest of strength with the female fawn/satyr we saw a couple pages ago, although that could just be a difference in age (the messenger did look fairly young).
Don't forget, from what we can tell the culture of Feynest evolved largely absent of humans. I don't think Ozzi's reaction was entirely inappropriate here, given where he grew up (where, as you note, a man forcibly kissing someone could be a prelude to something much worse), but I suspect he'll calm down pretty quickly now that things have been explained. He'll probably be a bit crestfallen to find out Stella's kiss was just her saying "thanks" rather than her saying "OMG human rogue you are so hot," but I suspect he'll get over it.
Varyon: It could also be the case that rape and sexual assault and the like are "normal" in the Feynest, which seems like a much more likely explanation than what you present here. And your explanation here does not explain multiple other considerable factors. Of course, this is an imagined world, so even providing slightly feasible theoretical explanations may well not be possible. But this kind of "thanking custom" is incredibly weird, even given what is described of this imagined world.
A satyr is also more "beastly", and in many settings more "mythical", though, given the female satyr in this setting, it may well be that they are more a "people" than "mythical". And satyrs are also associated with rape according to Wikipedia:
> They often attempted to seduce or rape nymphs and mortal women alike, usually with little success. They are sometimes shown masturbating or engaging in bestiality.
Satyrs are also described as "male" spirits, making them more mythical and not quite a "people" as far as I can tell. So, the given satyr being "rapey" makes sense (though it doesn't make it less wretched, especially in this part of the setting where it seems much more "people-like" and much less mythical). Fauns seem similar, though less sexual and more foolish, at least from what I can skim from Wikipedia.
And a lower level of sexual dimorphism (or sexual dimorphism in the other direction) would not exclude rape or sexual assault at all, instead simply make it more feasible for women to rape men. Which might make Stella's actions considerably/much more reprehensible and threatening, though she would still be the one to risk pregnancy (except elves and humans cannot interbreed in this settings as far as I recall, though maybe that will be changed reg. the setting or I remember wrongly - as I recall, the author wanted to avoid the "1/8 dragon 3/8 aquatic elf etc." stuff and the large tables reg. such from D&D).
> He'll probably be a bit crestfallen to find out Stella's kiss was just her saying "thanks" rather than her saying "OMG human rogue you are so hot," but I suspect he'll get over it.
Except she definitely sought to lure him, at least reg. her later actions. Whether she was/is "interested" in him at all is independent from her luring him.
As a sidenote, I don't want to know the level of STDs here, such as herpes............... hopefully these elves and satyrs are immune to all/most STDs and cannot spread them to non-elves and non-satyrs........
Finally, if this is a tribe, where are the children and the elderly in the tribe? Or will they come later? Or is that different for elves/satyrs in this setting? I didn't quite see them. The camp seem much more like "hippie"-inspired, but they also seem to be presented as a tribe. Though I might remember wrong with them not being a tribe. And the elderly might be old but still look young. And there is a surprising amount of variety for the elves, which makes sense for hippies but not necessarily so for a tribe as far as I can see (unless maybe there was a (widespread?) empire once? I don't know.).
"It could also be the case that rape and sexual assault and the like are "normal" in the Feynest, which seems like a much more likely explanation than what you present here." I mean, if you want to insist the Feynesters are a bunch of rapists instead of assuming the author is telling the truth, I guess you can do that. Are you going to be upset if a minotaur shows up that isn't the result of a queen bonking a bull her husband was supposed to sacrifice, just because that's the way it was in the original myth?
"Except she definitely sought to lure him, at least reg. her later actions. Whether she was/is "interested" in him at all is independent from her luring him." Eh, I think she could tell he was pretty stressed out but was a decent guy, so figured she'd invite him to the party to unwind. She also wasn't very insistent when he initially opted out; I'm pretty certain she was legitimately just trying to wipe the dirt off her bag, not lure him with dat ass, but I suppose the latter is possible.
"where are the children" Assuming this group brought kids with them, I'd imagine they put them to bed prior to having their party.
Varyon: The author is not viewing another world and describing it, the author is constructing and building up another world, world creation, which can be extremely challenging and difficult. It is extremely easy to end up describing a world that in multiple different regards do not make sense (not considering stuff like magic). And thus, from the presentation of what has been constructed, what makes the most sense socially, "civilization"-wise, "mechanically", etc., taking into account the magic of the world and the alien histories, etc.?
See also https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shandification and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0 .
Now you know how I feel whenever somebody wants to shake my hands. Even worse than people just grabbing your hand are these reaching out and waiting, looking at you expectantly, putting preasure on you.
"I've got you now, do you want to feel disgusted and disturbed or seem like an ill-mannered asshole?" is what they must be thinking in their heads of evil.
someone: Yeah, kissing on the cheek as a greeting between family and close friends is normal in parts of the world, but kissing on the mouth as a greeting is very different from kissing on the cheek, and kissing on the mouth as a greeting is incredibly rare and only between those that are close to each other as far as I know, and I have not heard about such a greeting between foreign strangers. The article you link to confirms this: "In rare cases, when the two leaders considered themselves exceptionally close, the kisses were given on the mouth rather than on the cheeks.[2]". Not just common people, but leaders, and leaders that were "exceptionally close", in no ways strangers to each other.
Yes, this is very weird by our standards, and Ozzi's, but you're trying to apply that to an alien culture shaped by inhuman entities like fey and elves that likely have entirely different standards on what is uncomfortably intimate for them. They certainly don't seem to have a lot of nudity taboo given how they're dressed. So while this could be a prelude to a dark, disturbing reveal, I suspect it's just the author trying to write a distinct fantasy culture.
Frankly it's not as weird as most people are making it out to be, its fairly common in several cultures to greet each other with a kiss on the cheek (even though if you are slow you can sometimes get an accidental peck on the lips) most people just laugh it off.
Perfectly reasonable reaction. Might be a good time to say "That's extremely weird, no offense meant... sorry, but I am going to leave, have fun and take care." and leave their camp.
The most silly part of this is that I can imagine this being in a branch-dialog-including computer RPG with at least a bit of plot branching as well.
Seems time-consuming if nothing else. There's probably some nuance to their customs but imagine the wood elf sitting next to you during dinner asking you to pass the salt. Bam, half-chewed-food kiss 'thank you'.
We don't really know how much interaction they've had with humans since they only recently moved close to the city. Clearly they do know it's different in human cultures but maybe not how different or he just didn't think about it while stoned.
Well dang, here I was hoping he'd be far less inclined to have a negative response just over the shape of a person in relation to their actions, almost like he's not led by his dick or something.
Pride Month? What is caring and consensual about this? And did the comments not also react strongly when the satyr forcefully and suddenly kissed Colleen? What would be "homophobic" about being against a satyr forcefully and suddenly kissing a young woman?
True, a lot of comments are crappy here, but which comments is it that are crappy?
And the people organizing Pride Month tends not to care about homosexuals or bisexuals and the like, instead using them for their own goals. And a lot of homosexuals and bisexuals go along with it, not caring about the world or society overall, only themselves narrowly, and even then only in the short term. And awfully little time, energy and effort is used to combat NAMBLA and the like, such as in this picture: https://imgur.com/a/jxgfyWT .
Why celebrate Pride Month when that time, effort and energy could be spent on combating things such as https://imgur.com/a/Mv7ZGD2 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal ?
What are your thoughts on these images?: https://imgur.com/a/hDS5Rsj . Or will you seek to ignore them?
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So you censor things fully intentionally, and you lie about your reasoning and action as well.
Those images were posted in response to this comment:
"Nobody here's clicking your links to child porn. Give it up."
And you remove the comment that proved that it was definitely not child porn and prevented people from being discouraged and deceived into not looking into the images. Not giving a warning or similar first. Etc.
It is clear now that it was extremely wrong and irresponsible of me to ever help you or donate money to you. But that is my responsibility and my fault.
I am here reposting the images, rescaled, since they (unlike what was lied, distracted and manipulated about to an incredible degree by the other commenter) are not child porn at all.
"Good job proving him right, lol": Yet I didn't prove him right at all. And you distract from the arguments and don't provide any yourself. Would you happen to have any thoughts on these images?:
https://imgur.com/a/hDS5Rsj . Or, as you did just now, will you seek to ignore them?
Yeah, sorry, the image scaling command on my hosting site ComicFury doesn't work in the comments (or at least, I can't figure out how to get it working). I'll bring it up with the site owner this week. In the meantime, thanks for scaling it down yourself.
In the future, it's preferred if you post links to images on image hosting sits like Imgur and the like rather than embedding images directly into the comments. Thanks.
Rocktopus: To be clear, the images were first posted as links, but another commenter claimed that the images I linked to were child porn, and so I embedded the images, in part to prove that the images were not child porn and in part to prevent him from discouraging people from viewing the images.
Why the fuck do you think the comments section of a dungeons and dragons based webcomic is the appropriate place to post that shit? Fuck off. Go post that conspiracy theory garbage on Reddit and let the rest of us laugh at the hilarious hijinks of Colleen
I would have felt the same but not found myself in the situation since I'd have retreated when the elven woman kissed him before. Kissed by a stranger is always bad to me, even without any social implications just for the things living in mouths.
I would comment on how, since they have an elf in their party, he probably should have known a little of their customs, but given what we know about Sera's lineage, it's probably a fair bet that not all elvish cultures are quite as hippie-ish. In fact, I kind of wonder if Sera would have a similar reaction. This custom might be just as foreign to him--which would be hilarious, considering his, ah, "chosen identity."
people have the right to not read things that they don't like and go where they don't have to look at them...
if they choose not to exercise that right, they have the responsibility of being polite to the author...
there's entirely too much foolishness going on in the real world right now with people burning and destroying things just because they don't agree with them, we don't need it dragged into what the rest of us see as an entertaining work of well drawn fiction and ruin our appreciation of it.
unless they see elves in RL too ?
The custom of men kissing is pretty alien to him.
Of course the real let down is he know realizes he has no more chance with hotly half-dress then anyone else.
given that Colleen grew up far from any 'giant city'.
I think it is goofy, weird, and bizarre, but I guess overall funny... definitely weird though. LOL
But hey, this might become common in the very near future in any area controlled by democrats and democrat culture. LOL FREE LOVE!
The whole situation is incredibly unrealistic and weird reg. the social aspects of it. Unless (as far as I can tell) the elves are fully aware of the wretched aspects of it and they use it as an excuse, cover and tactic to achieve various actions. And given the nature of what they do, as far as I can tell that does not allow many non-wretched and non-deeply-evil possibilities.
Many people use covers and tactics and manipulations; consider for instance this image, where a cover story is used to help achieve ludicrously extreme evil:
https://imgur.com/a/Mv7ZGD2
As an aside, what are your thoughts on that image from imgur?
The author stated in an earlier comment that he wanted the wood elves to have a part of their culture that would make Ozzi uncomfortable and fit with their hippie-like theme. The author has not flagged this comic as containing sexual situations on ComicFury, so I do not think anything beyond making Ozzi uncomfortable will happen here, as far as the kissing is concerned.
Based on the author's comment, I assume that the elf guy was telling the truth about what kissing means in their culture and not trying to be manipulative. I think that the elf guy should have checked with Ozzi (who, as a human, was obviously an outsider to their group) to see if he was okay with kissing him and should not have insulted Ozzi (the "tough guy" comment) and should not have brushed off his discomfort/anger as being unimportant or wrong. To the elves, the kissing is a normal, casual thing, but to Ozzi, it's more serious and disturbing.
If you are right about the elves actually being manipulative, we'll find out later in the comic.
Yeah, but the setting, situation, etc. themselves are incredibly strange and weird, and even given the fantastical and fantasy setting, it does not seem meaningful or make sense at all in multiple different ways. The setting itself reg. the elves and their behaviour seem completely screwed up and unrealistic even by the standards and "logic" of the fantastical.
Darkening:
No, even by the standards of the fantastical and what is alien, this seems incredibly weird and nonsensical.
BookWyrm:
A kiss on a cheek is a very far distance away from sudden and forced kissing on the mouth.
Multiple people had to do things less-than-ideally to get to this point. Stella (leading Ozzi into this blind) and Ozzi (walking into it eyes closed and brain off) more than shirtless crafting elf. Who is, let's remember, not the first elf to surprise Ozzi with a kiss tonight...
As for a sudden handshake being weird, I guess nobody has ever seen a movie where a character does something praiseworthy, and the person they helped grasps their hand and thanks them profusely? Or, heck, a kiss isn't that far removed from a hug, and it's not like sudden hugs as thanks are all that weird.
(and don't claim that women have the same muscle strength on average as men, for that does an extreme disservice to women and makes it much more difficult for them to be prepared and aware and defend themselves. In (light-hearted and silly?) make-believe situations such as RPGs, who cares, but in more "realistic" situations... you do acknowledge that in real life, women have much smaller muscle strength on average than men, right?).
Don't forget, from what we can tell the culture of Feynest evolved largely absent of humans. I don't think Ozzi's reaction was entirely inappropriate here, given where he grew up (where, as you note, a man forcibly kissing someone could be a prelude to something much worse), but I suspect he'll calm down pretty quickly now that things have been explained. He'll probably be a bit crestfallen to find out Stella's kiss was just her saying "thanks" rather than her saying "OMG human rogue you are so hot," but I suspect he'll get over it.
A satyr is also more "beastly", and in many settings more "mythical", though, given the female satyr in this setting, it may well be that they are more a "people" than "mythical". And satyrs are also associated with rape according to Wikipedia:
> They often attempted to seduce or rape nymphs and mortal women alike, usually with little success. They are sometimes shown masturbating or engaging in bestiality.
Satyrs are also described as "male" spirits, making them more mythical and not quite a "people" as far as I can tell. So, the given satyr being "rapey" makes sense (though it doesn't make it less wretched, especially in this part of the setting where it seems much more "people-like" and much less mythical). Fauns seem similar, though less sexual and more foolish, at least from what I can skim from Wikipedia.
And a lower level of sexual dimorphism (or sexual dimorphism in the other direction) would not exclude rape or sexual assault at all, instead simply make it more feasible for women to rape men. Which might make Stella's actions considerably/much more reprehensible and threatening, though she would still be the one to risk pregnancy (except elves and humans cannot interbreed in this settings as far as I recall, though maybe that will be changed reg. the setting or I remember wrongly - as I recall, the author wanted to avoid the "1/8 dragon 3/8 aquatic elf etc." stuff and the large tables reg. such from D&D).
> He'll probably be a bit crestfallen to find out Stella's kiss was just her saying "thanks" rather than her saying "OMG human rogue you are so hot," but I suspect he'll get over it.
Except she definitely sought to lure him, at least reg. her later actions. Whether she was/is "interested" in him at all is independent from her luring him.
As a sidenote, I don't want to know the level of STDs here, such as herpes............... hopefully these elves and satyrs are immune to all/most STDs and cannot spread them to non-elves and non-satyrs........
Finally, if this is a tribe, where are the children and the elderly in the tribe? Or will they come later? Or is that different for elves/satyrs in this setting? I didn't quite see them. The camp seem much more like "hippie"-inspired, but they also seem to be presented as a tribe. Though I might remember wrong with them not being a tribe. And the elderly might be old but still look young. And there is a surprising amount of variety for the elves, which makes sense for hippies but not necessarily so for a tribe as far as I can see (unless maybe there was a (widespread?) empire once? I don't know.).
"Except she definitely sought to lure him, at least reg. her later actions. Whether she was/is "interested" in him at all is independent from her luring him." Eh, I think she could tell he was pretty stressed out but was a decent guy, so figured she'd invite him to the party to unwind. She also wasn't very insistent when he initially opted out; I'm pretty certain she was legitimately just trying to wipe the dirt off her bag, not lure him with dat ass, but I suppose the latter is possible.
"where are the children" Assuming this group brought kids with them, I'd imagine they put them to bed prior to having their party.
See also https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shandification and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0 .
"I've got you now, do you want to feel disgusted and disturbed or seem like an ill-mannered asshole?" is what they must be thinking in their heads of evil.
The most silly part of this is that I can imagine this being in a branch-dialog-including computer RPG with at least a bit of plot branching as well.
They need to warn a guy first, some people won't take it anywhere near as well as he did, and violence could ensue.
And the people organizing Pride Month tends not to care about homosexuals or bisexuals and the like, instead using them for their own goals. And a lot of homosexuals and bisexuals go along with it, not caring about the world or society overall, only themselves narrowly, and even then only in the short term. And awfully little time, energy and effort is used to combat NAMBLA and the like, such as in this picture: https://imgur.com/a/jxgfyWT .
Why celebrate Pride Month when that time, effort and energy could be spent on combating things such as https://imgur.com/a/Mv7ZGD2 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal ?
What are your thoughts on these images?: https://imgur.com/a/hDS5Rsj . Or will you seek to ignore them?
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So you censor things fully intentionally, and you lie about your reasoning and action as well.
Those images were posted in response to this comment:
"Nobody here's clicking your links to child porn. Give it up."
And you remove the comment that proved that it was definitely not child porn and prevented people from being discouraged and deceived into not looking into the images. Not giving a warning or similar first. Etc.
It is clear now that it was extremely wrong and irresponsible of me to ever help you or donate money to you. But that is my responsibility and my fault.
I am here reposting the images, rescaled, since they (unlike what was lied, distracted and manipulated about to an incredible degree by the other commenter) are not child porn at all.
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https://imgur.com/a/hDS5Rsj . Or, as you did just now, will you seek to ignore them?
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if they choose not to exercise that right, they have the responsibility of being polite to the author...
there's entirely too much foolishness going on in the real world right now with people burning and destroying things just because they don't agree with them, we don't need it dragged into what the rest of us see as an entertaining work of well drawn fiction and ruin our appreciation of it.
unless they see elves in RL too ?
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