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· Comics / Grimm Universe
TALLUS'S DEFENDERS Tallus puts Sela and her companions in a horrible position. Orcus is outside the city, and he offers the frightened people a bargain involving the very people who might help defend them. Suddenly, being on the same side o...
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The Dream Eater also leaves consequences beyond the immediate confrontation. Wonderland loses the Queen of Hearts, creating an opening in a realm where the question of who rules is already dangerous. Destroying a powerful figure doesn’t set...
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Pan’s response is a useful contrast. Even with this thing coming, he is looking for a way to recover his own position. He sees the possibility of regaining power where other people see something they need to stop. That tells us about Pan, b...
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The explanation Sela and Belinda receive makes the creature even more disturbing. It exists as a response to evil becoming too powerful, but its destruction reaches both sides. Being one of the people trying to help doesn’t automatically pu...
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The Dream Eater brings a different scale of danger into Grimm Fairy Tales. The conflict that leads to its release is already serious, but releasing it creates a problem that spreads far beyond the people making that decision. Thane goes to...
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The danger doesn’t always stay contained in Neverland, either. In the early Hook follow-up, monstrous crocodiles make it through a portal, and Nathan has to deal with them on Earth. That’s a different situation from choosing to enter their...
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Tales from Neverland puts the crocs in the realm’s seas and waterways, with a history of killing its inhabitants. Going into their territory alone is presented as an exceptionally dangerous thing to attempt. Pan’s decision to face one ties...
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Croc belongs with the Neverland side of Grimm Fairy Tales. He’s one of the creatures that makes the danger of that place feel physical. Nathan Cross loses an arm to the Croc, and the injury becomes part of the identity we know as Hook. That...
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That’s the consistency in Pan across these early stories. The surroundings change, and his power rises or falls, but he keeps trying to arrange things so somebody else absorbs the damage. Nathan Cross gives that damage a human face. For Pan...
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Losing Neverland doesn’t suddenly make Pan harmless. By the Dream Eater period, he’s stuck on Earth with only a fraction of his old power. His position has changed dramatically, but he still wants the throne back and still looks at other pe...
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The early Tales from Neverland stories give some background to how Pan gets into that position. Tiger Lily’s history with him involves deception that damages her standing with her own people. His arrival has consequences for people who alre...
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Pan’s refusal to grow up has a much uglier meaning in Grimm Fairy Tales. The children brought to Neverland are what allow him to preserve himself. His version of eternal youth depends on taking away the futures of people who have barely sta...
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I’m going to post a couple of the characters in Grimm Fairy Tales as I’m still catching up on some of the stuff I’ve been reading.
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On Kingdoms of Deliverance, if you're trying to do the DLC quest "Honeyed Words," when you go to pick up Hans Capone, it glitches and it'll load forever. You have to wait until exactly 21:00 on the time thing and then it'll let you. If you...
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Writing goes back a long way for me too. I was probably typing things out as far back as Windows 3.1, and I've been writing for a really long time. I've always loved it.
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I also have a very rich history with comics. I've been reading them for about four decades too. I started with Calvin and Hobbes, which is one of my favorite comics of all time. I've read every single one of those strips dozens of times. Sn...
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I've got a pretty good track record with more recent games too. I've played and beaten basically all the games in these series: A Plague Tale, Assassin's Creed, Grand Theft Auto, Dishonored, DOOM, Far Cry, Gears of War, Halo, Hotline Miami,...
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I still have more gaming history I want to talk about. That last thread was about the systems I grew up on and the ones I've played over the years, but one thing I didn't get into much was PC gaming. My PC gaming goes back to DOS and Window...
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The Xbox Series generation started on November 10, 2020, with the Series X and Series S launching together. Microsoft offered two different entry points from the beginning. The original Series X was the more powerful model with a disc drive...
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Xbox One launched on November 22, 2013, in 13 markets, including the United States. Microsoft put a lot of emphasis on making it the center of the living room. Games, television, entertainment apps, and Kinect voice controls were all part o...
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