Poor Sangwine…He can't help the fact that he's rather squeemish when it comes to killing relations. =(

Gah!!! You've got to stop doing this to us! Now I have to wait until Tuesday to find out what just happened?!?! Of course, knowing your sneakiness you might just decide to switch scenes … please don't do that.

You shouldn't have said anything… >.>;

aaaaaaghh!!!!!!! O.O

oh i bet she will switch scenes anyway! terrible cliffhanger, BUT…isn't this why bactine was assigned as sangwine's personal bodyguard? i'm curious to see how zedwig will react to this, but bactine will surely heal him, unless fang's got more bullets including one for her…

HAD sangwine gone ahead and killed fang, then taken over the empire, would anything really have changed? in that case, his morality would now be in question, no?

Oh shoot!~

First rule of handling weaponry: never brandish a weapon you are not prepared to use.
And this is how Fang will find out that Bactine is a healer.

Oh God, oh God. No matter how I look at this it cannot be good!
1) Sanguine gets shot – and dies
2) Bactine jumps in the way – and dies
3) Sanguine is shot – Bactine saves him, but now Fang knows she is a healer. She is forced to heal Zedwig, she or both die.
4) Bactine jumps in the way and heals herself… progressed rather like 3.
5) Zedwig jumps in the way.
6) Fang misses – Hah! I found a good solution. This gives Sanguine an excellent reason for beating the living s*** out of him without anyone dying.

Emotional response: GAH!

Technical response: Fantastic page. I love Sangwine's confusion over the gun, especially. And Fang's cold, unemotional response to the situation – a chance to finish what he started just jumped right in his lap. Of course he's going to take it. Well scripted, well drawn, well paced – I love it.

Now back to the emotional response. GAH!

(8) Wouldn't Zedwig, theoretically, have the power to just stop the bullet? One would think after all these years that Zedwig would know what a gun is, and that Fangline has one.

Though, personally, when I first read it, I assumed #5.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nooooooooooooo!!!!! *cry cry cry*

Oh, Sangwine! “What is that?” ACK! It's too horrible!!! BAM! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Sangwine in the sixth panel just breaks my heart. So helpless . . . Poor Sangwine!!! Now I have to wait to see if I am mistaken, and if something else magically happened! HEY! Maybe Zedwig saw it coming and deflected it with magic, and it ends up killing him instead and then Bactine has to save him . . . but then she dies T.T

Okay, I should really go sit apprehensively somewhere where I won't bother people.

Fang in the third panel is also very good.

By the way, Nightlyre, I was trying to just normally comment, and I guess I accidentally replied to your comment O.o Sorry. Gotta get used to the comment system. *sniff*

*goes back to being apprehensive*

And he does it with a smile. How are you going to work this one out, Colby? GAH, I've got to wait until next week to find out!! Cliffhangers!!!!! The angst!!

That's why Fang is shooting Bactine instead. He may not know she's a healer, but Sangwine rather innocently showed Fang that she matters to him a lot. And I don't think Fang would find it entertaining enough to just shoot Sangwine right out.

Or maybe he's shooting Zedwig, which would also make sense. Either way I just don't think he's shooting Sangwine.

Fang is so crazy. Lulz.
I expect Zed will jump in front of whomever Fang is shooting….And in any case, whoever he shoots will probably be healed by Bactine. Unless she's shot, and can't heal herself.

Colby, have you seen the movie they made of Hogfather? Because I watched it yesterday and OMG, Mr. Teatime looks so much like Fang! Except for the eye. But still… It was freaking me out all movie. Hmm. Wonder if I can find a link to a picture.

http://images18.fotki.com/v375/photos/1/1064226…

Seriously…

http://images18.fotki.com/v346/photos/1/1064226…

Thank makes Fang AND Mr. Teatime even scarier…
http://images18.fotki.com/v375/photos/1/1064226…

snerk!

Oh, just thought I’d mention that, deepling inspired by the genius that is Lint, I have started my own webcomic: http://epicfail.xepher.net

oh no, i hadn't even thought of that! agh! i hope you're wrong, how can bactine heal herself? i wonder about that. i am certain he would NOT have taken a shot at zedwig, though, that's just absurd. fang loves zedwig, in an almost romantic way. fang either shot sangwine, because he's been gunning for him all along as his single competitor for the role of king, OR he shot bactine to inspire sang to kill him, to give sang the guts to do it, because he's really ready to die, doesn't want to be exiled or reformed, but on the balcony has just started to feel bad about what he'd done and ready to have it be over.

(9) Fang shoots Sang, Bactine goes all goddes-of-retribution, and blasts Fang off the balcony, then heals Sang.

I know, it could never be. It's too tidy. *le sigh*

Where's #7?

That's it! #7 is who got shot!

Uh oh….

I will be like the others here and guess.

…..No matter what, Bac dies. Is this how you are getting rid of the impossibility of Sang and Bac together? Bac dying! Nooooooo….Saaaaad….Horrible….. I mean, really, Bac needs to leave the picture otherwise the kingdom is ruined both ways.

This is depressing….

I've never seen that movie, but maybe I should!

Congrats on an exciting new endeavor! Nothing like the feeling of starting something new… gee… sure has been a while…

What about Color of Magic?

No killing the main characters! Please!!! >o<
#10 It magically hits Sang's pendant and the Pendant does ?

I've read the book! Does that count?

Oops. >_>

This page gets the honour of being the first time a comic has made me yell something I won't repeat, out loud. And that look on Fang's face right before he pulls out the gun is scary.

Oh yeah, and to join in the wild theorising…
Fang's shooting point-blank. Either he misses on purpose, or Bactine had better have it in her to raise the dead.

Okay, this page has made me run around the basement of my house and yell for at least 5 minutes. Then I shook my sister badly and told her she could not live another minute without reading LinT. Which she did. Then we went “AAAAH” together.

And it's only now, about 6 hours after the initial post, that I manage to dare look at it again and post. That was awesome, unexpected and it makes me want to timejump to Tuesday like never before. Except perhaps when Al'bert went all awesome en-garde-y. That was awesome too.

I suppose THAT's why this chapter is called 'Sacrifice' and there's a picture of a very dead looking Bactine on it…
I, along with most everyone else, have been hoping otherwise, but it seems our brunette heroine might soon become the former brunette heroine.

Hehheh, no worries.

Well, okay, worries for Sangwine, but no worries about accidental replies.

There's just one thing that's egging at me about this… why would the resistance knowingly have Sangwine go up to deal with Fang, knowing that he has the gun? They've witnessed Fang execute others with it; Fang made sure of that. So that makes me leap to the idea that maybe they've prepped Sangwine somehow? …Without describing the gun to him?

…This makes me very worried for both Zedwig and Bactine. I'm not fearing for Sangwine so much. And no, that's not just because I like Fang better, ahem. >.>;

Thanks Colby

That would be extremely surreal O_o

It's very possible he was prepped about it, in fact Gaffer mentioned it when he told him the story about Fang leaving Schloeffelonia. However, if you've had a gun described to you but have never seen one, I'm not sure that'd be enough to make it instantly recognizable. Also there are a lot of distractions going on in Sangwine's mind at the moment… maybe he wouldn't put two and two together, especially split-secondly like that. Well, he wouldn't… Sangwine's a bit of an innocent airhead. He doesn't understand the way Fang thinks and so the last thing he expected was to get shot with a strange weapon. Last, the only people in the resistance who have actually seen the gun are Geeves and Gaffer. Fang used it once: to kill his father. Everyone else was killed by Zedwig (his preferred weapon, except for killing blood relations). It's a rudimentary gun; one shot and it has to be painstakingly reloaded. (Hope that's not a terrible spoiler, since that narrows down a few of the possibilities of what can happen next)

The movie has Sean Austin in it.

Oh, and Terry Pratchett actually appears in both movies. It's awesome!

Hmn, good ideas for sure. Shooting Bactine would certainly inspire Sangwine. I thought it was *possible* Fang would shoot Zedwig due to his recent mutiny, but I suppose that depends on Fang's level of insanity. Since it does sort of seem like he was ready to give up, he might not do that.

Okay, that's more or less what I figured, taking Sangwine's character into account and all. Excitement! I love these kinds of cliffies.

ACK!

Wild theorizing ahoy – There's no way Fang can miss – he's too close. I'm hoping that the bullet either hits his pendant – it was for protection, right? – or his sword, which looks to be in the same vicinity of the pendant.

Nice job, as always. Fang's face in the 5th panel is some serious crazy.

Terry Pratchett is so yay.

By the way, I forgot to mention how incredibly honored I am that you actually replied to my post! *feels special* I've been reading LinT forever.

Oh, have you seen the BBC Jeeves and Wooster? With STEPHEN FRY? (Whom I love.)

Okay, okay, I'll stop clogging up the comments. Lol.

There's always Hope…

Wow, that's a great pun you got there!

AAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't see that Sangwine's morality would be in question. I get so tired of our curren culture's 'a real hero never kills anyone' ethos. Sometimes, the bad guy needs to die! Fang is too powerful, too twisted, and had caused too much pain, suffering, and death to be spared. What else is Sangwine going to do? Lock him up? Ya, sure, that would work. Exile him? How long would it take for him to regroup and come back? Squeamish or not, Sangwine needs to put on his big boy pants and do what needs to be done.

Either way, it doesn't look good…

Yes and I love that series with about ten shiny pink hearts.

He's shooting Bactine! I swear he is! Everything points to it and she's the only one who knows about the gun from Gaffer! Don't kill the ELF!

Another way huh? Well, if Fang wasn't already crazy, Sang might have threatened to cut his hair. That worked on Al'bert. Hmm, maybe if he threatened to shave Fang as bald as an egg….

That looks like it's drawn to resemble a flintlock pistol (which would fit the setting better than a more modern gun). If that's the case, Fang COULDN'T have a second shot for anyone, unless he had time to reload (which he doesn't).The flint mechanism itself is off, but that's just a technicality, really. The art gets the point across.

All that to say, Fang had only one shot. Like Captain Sparrow…only opposite, since he's the bad guy. Yes. *shifty eyes*

…This almost makes me feel bad for snerking at ignominious deaths.

*jaw drops involuntarily*

YES! Kill that little sod, Fang!
Hail the Emperor!

“Surrender the kindom Fang, or I'll shave ur head 'till u look like an egg!”
O.o plz kiddo, teach me more of that clever dire threats (quite sure Im gonna regret this, but, coudn't help it) :3
but yeah, when u are claiming ur kindom from an evil and madman dictator the last thing u hope to see is a deadly pocket weapon, well sure is that Sanguine can't die, because if he dies…

Good thing Bactine is there to do some kind of super-energy-draining healing stuff.

OK, this comment made me watch the movie. And… ever try reading Fang's lines in Teatime's voice? So wrong.

Fang! You can't just ignore bad-guy etiquette like that! You explain what the thing does- THEN you shoot him! Or at least say something like… S: “what is that?” F: “Your DOOM!”
Tsk tsk.
I also like how there's no /BANG/ for the gun. It makes it more dramatic.

Always nice to see a villain who knows when to quit gloating and get on with it

Aw c'mon, where is your sense of humor? Admit it dear, it would have worked on you. Anyway, if it is a choice between dying or being shaved with a sword, there might not really be a difference in the end, especially for an elf.

Fang isn't the gloaty type… he's the swift application of means-to-his-ends type. His favorite weapons are surprise and aggression, and he'd never give his opponents the advantage of knowing what he plans to do next, so you'll never have a scene with him where he tells his whole plan to the protagonist he's about to kill in some elaborate way.

“Your DOOM!” made me snicker. I need to make one of those kinds of bad guys sometime.

I can't help but wonder about Bactine, what with the things she learned from A'lbert and all..

But how would Fang know that Gaffer told her? Or are you saying it makes sense in the “dramatic plot and irony” sense?

Ok. It's the end of wednesday and by now, I'm officially stir-crazy!!! *wail* I can't handle large amounts of suspense!!

It will be tomorrow. I'm sorry! When you see the page you'll probably see why it took so long.

Ohh… Epic. Just epic. And major cliffhanger. Definitely major cliffhanger. Ah, but I'm glad I read (and reread) it now instead of earlier so I won't have as much time to wait. And, of course, I would comment on this but everyone before me has done that (and much more) already. o.o Amazing page.

Clearly Fang read the Supervillian's Guide to Conquering the World.

Do not elaborate on your grand master plan while conversing with the hero. Simply shoot him.

*Shudder* No, the voice would have to change.

if that the only gun how many bullets can he have?

Rudimentary pistol: one shot then (painstaking) reload.

lol “What is that” hilarious!!

Oh… wait… GOD DAMN YOU TO THE DEEPEST PITS OF HELL, FANGLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its actually one of three, made by… weird goblins, i think… oh wow… i read these things better than i thought!!! YAY!!!!

lol “What is that” hilarious!!

Oh… wait… GOD DAMN YOU TO THE DEEPEST PITS OF HELL, FANGLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its actually one of three, made by… weird goblins, i think… oh wow… i read these things better than i thought!!! YAY!!!!