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57 . by: Seven November 27, 2017, 6:26 pm

Battery didn't ask how she did, he just told RG that he "didn't do anything she didn't like" re: denying that he forced himself on her, so RG wouldn't have justification for zapping him. Her response about the teeth was just an oblique way of telling him to fuck off.
56 . by: November 27, 2017, 1:30 pm

@53 oh dear I'm afraid you might be right about collateral damage. There's been a couple instances now that show that while Streaks is very competent at redirecting zaps aimed at him, he's very bad at controlling the power of the fallout and the direction it lands.

wow i realize that's a metaphor now, dang
55 . by: November 27, 2017, 11:21 am

Using the phrase tete a tete while pointing at her mouth was more than saying she preferred tooth action, it was saying she preferred equal action. Essentially admitting that roughing her around was an acceptable thing she was into, just would be better if she could rough him around as well.
54 . by: November 27, 2017, 10:59 am

Actually, Battery, if I recall correctly, Fig told you she prefers more biting, when you asked how good your performance was. No comment about your ability, just that she likes teeth.
53 . by: Magenta November 27, 2017, 8:18 am

I'll be shocked (no pun intended!) if Battery came out of this on top next page. My guess is that Greenie is not just going to fry him, but probably everyone else in the room as well (to some extent anyway), just to prove he can. He's that vile of a person.
52 . by: Botany November 26, 2017, 2:48 am

All other things aside,

Battery's so god damned swaggering proud of his knuckle dragger machismo to flex in spades.

It's actually a big fucking shame it had to be wasted on him and his pigshit narrative.

There's almost a Sylvester Stallone vibe that I'm getting off him from the eleventh panel.
51 . by: Furrama November 26, 2017, 1:36 am

1. Heheheh *rubs hands together*

2. You have too improved, fight me.
50 . by: Zack November 25, 2017, 10:58 pm

Hey Furrama,

Thank you for the foreboding and imperious picture of the boyfriend, XY. We will be seeing that "lightning" again soon.

Camila,

Thank you for the compliment, although, I do not think that I have improved much, if at all. What has changed, is that I no longer do the hollow frame outlines, and the page formats are now structured for print; Syconium pages are 150 pixels wider and 220 pixels longer than the normal format for 10%+.
49 . by: 9times November 25, 2017, 8:16 pm

"It's not a zap."

Daaaaamn, this guy knows his trade.

By the way, where's Cherry 2? How's she taking the VD's departure? :)
48 . by: Furrama November 25, 2017, 8:05 pm

@Zack At least there was a lot of fun lighting effects going on this page, so it could be easily mopped over and hand waved eh?

I feel bad for continually pointing out art continuity issues, so please have an art of the (occasionally) green man:

URL : http://furrama.deviantart.com/art/Oh-No-716959015
47 . by: camila November 25, 2017, 6:03 pm

@hmm, is it though? The VD saying "is that all that smell is?" sounded like he was suspecting/accusing Green. I guess I must have been wrong for reading it that way at the time.

@42. Comparing the art of 10%+ to these last pages, the art growth is amazing. Not that the art has ever been bad, of course. But there's many webcomics out there that have been going for a long time, and the artists never seen to improve. The layout design, specially now..., Zach makes these pages look effortless.
46 . by: Mutt November 25, 2017, 4:07 pm

Not rooting for either of them, but there's already a pretty good idea of how this is gonna turn out. No doubt Green's going to win.

Also I'm eons late, but I finally read Prime! I knew I was in for a ride, but I didn't expect my feelings to get stomped on, chewed up and spit out. It was great, but I read it too fast. I couldn't digest it one page at a time, and there was no community speculating the tiniest details of each page and arguing about said details. I felt lonely. :(
45 . by: November 25, 2017, 3:29 am

on who killed Boss rat, pages 129 -131 make it pretty obvious it was the VD

URL : http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-58-129
44 . by: Dani November 25, 2017, 2:59 am

*fight-or-die

**stoats'

...sorry ^^;
43 . by: Dani November 25, 2017, 2:58 am

I started re-reading from that page @42, and found some possible foreshadowing on pg. 26... with respect to stoat's "fighting to the death". Uh oh!!

URL : http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-50-26
42 . by: November 25, 2017, 1:37 am

Oh! So, I know this conversion was... last page, I think? Where people said they assume gay doesn't exist in the nofna universe.

I decided to reread 10%+ because I love it so much, and page ten confirms homosexuality exists in this universe. When the male coyote licks Meander, he exclaims he's "not like that." Referring to being gay.

So it exists, we just haven't had any lgbt characters yet.

URL : http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-50-10
41 . by: November 25, 2017, 12:36 am

"It's gross to wish for people to die"

They're fictional stoats and I hope these two both die.
40 . by: Dani November 24, 2017, 10:59 pm

Bye byeee Batteryyy~

Actually forgot about him, let alone as a contender for brothel ownership.

Green's actions here suggest to me that he enjoys receiving pain during sex as well. Might explain why he and XX were a good match--she the giver/biter and he the receiver--until she bit him too well, kek.
39 . by: Zack November 24, 2017, 6:03 pm

Hi Furrama,

It is true that I did forget to draw the boyfriend in his winter pelage. This has now been corrected, or at least, implied.
38 . by: Furrama November 24, 2017, 6:01 pm

@Juna "Oh, funny to see that in this page, you can see XX's Inquest to Entry's spitting image on the last panel."

HOLY FRICK.
CoooOOOOOOoooL.

"The passion of State! The figure of prominence... Towering, Arboreal." - Page 19
37 . by: Juna November 24, 2017, 5:18 pm

You know what, outside the sentries and the guards, they'd probably protect the knowledge required to replicate the alembics, to keep the rest of the brothel subordinate. I suppose that regular folk at this point know that styles, alembics specfically, aren't literal but treat them like black box inventions. The research needed to develop them in the first place sounds arcane enough, if we take Acai's backstory as an example.
36 . by: Juna November 24, 2017, 5:09 pm

Oh, funny to see that in this page, you can see XX's Inquest to Entry's spitting image on the last panel. And we're finally seeing this power grab come to a head after all the behind-the-scenes changes Greenie has been insinuating (well, killing his colleagues is pretty dramatic for behind-the-scenes but you know).

Also, I gotta wonder what's going through the other workers' heads during this exchange. Do they all know enough about metanoias to guess at what 'speaking through' the lightning style is? Even if they don't know enough to be able to deny it.
35 . by: November 24, 2017, 4:06 pm

Didn't some suggest Chestnut as a possible suspect? The theory was that, judging from her cereal mantle, that she may be working in a distillery now. A distillery that created the pine liquor, was ordered by the VD, and ulitmately was drunk by his brother?
34 . by: camila November 24, 2017, 3:52 pm

@Furrama, ???
"wat", what?
33 . by: Furrama November 24, 2017, 3:41 pm

...wat.
32 . by: camila November 24, 2017, 2:19 pm

Was it ever confirmed it was the VD that killed his brother? I thought it was ambiguous, and still up in the air that it could've been Pomelo.
31 . by: Botany November 24, 2017, 1:58 pm

27, Streaks is guilty of worse yet, but it was Fig Trees that had Battery "take first dibs"
30 . by: November 24, 2017, 11:30 am

Proxy murder is still murder.

URL : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_murder
29 . by: November 24, 2017, 11:16 am

Boss Rat was killed by VD. VD was killed by Fig.
28 . by: November 24, 2017, 10:38 am

"I love how they IMMEDIATELY dismiss control by courtesans, the best possible "employee owned" model, that would've let the people selling themselves control their situation."

God, yes. The ones who work the hardest are usually the ones to get the short end of the stick. I mean, why give your employees a decent wage when there's PROFITS to be made? Won't you think of those "poor" rich people?
27 . by: November 24, 2017, 10:34 am

The former prostitute is the one who pretty much handed his girlfriend over to the rapist in the first place.

As 24/25 said, both of them are equally horrible people.
26 . by: hazard November 24, 2017, 8:20 am

I love how they IMMEDIATELY dismiss control by courtesans, the best possible "employee owned" model, that would've let the people selling themselves control their situation.
25 . by: November 24, 2017, 6:04 am

Murderer vs rapist: who wins.
Nobody, because they're both horrible human beings.
24 . by: November 24, 2017, 6:04 am

Murderer vs rapist: who wins.
Nobody, because they're both horrible human beings.
23 . by: Botany November 24, 2017, 4:06 am

I'm sorry, but

What I see here is a former prostitute standing up to a rapist.

And I don't want either of them dead, but if one's got more to prove than the other, and doesn't deserve, but should, win over the other,

Then it ought to be Streaks and not the rapist.
22 . by: November 24, 2017, 3:37 am

There's a lot to take from this page, but hey: Green and Fig broke up at some point confirmed.
21 . by: November 24, 2017, 1:25 am

HOPING.. SOMEONE DIES.. IS GROSS... what??

It's a comic about talking animals, get over yourself
20 . by: November 24, 2017, 1:17 am

Battery and the bird on the previous page have VERY similar speech colors. Was a little confused for a second.
19 . by: Kaidona November 24, 2017, 1:04 am

I'm wondering if Streaks says he doesn't have the power because he's aware that what he's using is actually a corruption of Acai's alembic, making it almost a different skill altogether.

URL : http://kaidona.deviantart.com
18 . by: 14 again November 24, 2017, 12:52 am

@16, oh yeah, I completely forgot that Greenie's coat should change much like (S)XY's did. Thanks for reminding me about the coat changes.
17 . by: November 24, 2017, 12:27 am

Battery and the other guard might be martens?
16 . by: Nobody November 24, 2017, 12:15 am

greenie has changed color previously, but i don't think battery is white here; i don't think he's a stoat? because he seems pretty huge for one, and the other guard that's the same size as him is much darker than the white mice in panel 1. maybe a different kind of weasel that doesn't have a seasonal coat change.
but yeah, i think furrama's right, greenie should technically be... not green, here.

(also @8 i'm glad i'm not the only one still rooting for a pomelo deus ex machina lol)
15 . by: November 23, 2017, 11:41 pm

@ #5: its a comic about talking stoats, my friend, im not actually genuinely rooting for someone to get killed. lolsnfjkdsfd
14 . by: November 23, 2017, 11:28 pm

@Furrama, what do you mean by the "being white" thing? (S)XY is white now, but haven't Battery/(E)XY always been a consistent color?

Also, (E)XY's dialogue seems a bit off in panel 12: "I been taking...".

Anyway, I'm liking his show of confidence, and I'm really curious to what "[he's] been taking" all his life. Well, that and what power is (E)XY referring to? Battey is definitely referring to the lightning alembic, which (E)XY then says he doesn't have, which is odd, because he's certainly used it. Is (E)XY saying he doesn't have ownership/possesion of the alembic like Battery does, but uses the same alembic in a different way (speaking through it)?

This page is leaving me with some questions.
13 . by: November 23, 2017, 11:22 pm

yeah it's a given that greenie is going to win but that doesn't mean he's likeable enough for most people to want him to
12 . by: Ñire November 23, 2017, 10:32 pm

I really hope Battery doesn't kill Green.





.... Because I want XX/Fig to be the one to do that. Slowly and painfully!

(In all seriousness tho, I definitively see Green winning this one, as his defeat should come in her hands, and no one else's).

URL : http://nothofagus-obliqua.deviantart.com
11 . by: Camila November 23, 2017, 10:02 pm

Battery going for the THAT'S NOT WHAT YOUR MOM SAID TO ME LAST NIGHT... bless.
10 . by: Furrama November 23, 2017, 10:01 pm

Well, Battery's dead.

Shouldn't (E)XY be white right now? Battery is, (S)XY is.

Title is: Red power to pierce through. (Although, it's the Thunder Force page...)

Heh, what does that mean? Those space shooter games? But ooooh, red vs blue.
9 . by: Seven November 23, 2017, 9:31 pm

Hope they roast each other. But I think Greenie's gonna win this one. It's gotta be Fig who takes him down for good.
8 . by: November 23, 2017, 9:28 pm

inb4 pomelo kites them both and wins the brothel

(zach please can't both battery and greenie zap each other to death?)
7 . by: November 23, 2017, 9:14 pm

Greenie apologists are at it again.
@5 do you realise this is a comic, right?
6 . by: November 23, 2017, 9:13 pm

I can't believe I'm rooting for Battery. HIT HIM, HARD!!
5 . by: November 23, 2017, 9:02 pm

Hoping someone dies is awfully gross of you, jfc
4 . by: November 23, 2017, 8:46 pm

I'm surprised Streaks doesn't have Sherry behind him for intimidation factor.
3 . by: November 23, 2017, 8:45 pm

as much as i hate battery, he does have such a fun design. that said, KILL EACH OTHER
2 . by: November 23, 2017, 8:41 pm

Hit him and please kill him.
1 . by: Vulli November 23, 2017, 8:39 pm

hit him!!!