I don't think they were ever fighting a real monster. I think it was all apart of their imagination as they played with the instructor.I think the kid who got his ribbon pulled might have died fighting the owl thing. The 3 in the last panel appear to be the blond one, tall one and the kind of pudgy one. Red hair died in the fight as he did in the training with the lookout master with the ribbons.
I don't think they were ever fighting a real monster. I think it was all apart of their imagination as they played with the instructor.[/QUOTE]I think the kid who got his ribbon pulled might have died fighting the owl thing. The 3 in the last panel appear to be the blond one, tall one and the kind of pudgy one. Red hair died in the fight as he did in the training with the lookout master with the ribbons.
True, but it's also apparent that this is the first time the group has SURVIVED the Cockatrice, as was apparent by all the statues in the clearing when they fought it. It always seemed to me that the entire thing was an elaborate means of sacrificing the children to it to appease it, gauging by the reaction of the elders when they got back and by how sad the leader was when he seemingly hid to let them confront the beast. Or at least that's how I took it.It's clearer if you've read the previous Lookouts story - basically, the man with the patch is teaching the boys how to survive against the real monsters that roam the woods. First it was the cockatrice, in this case it's the "Winter King" or Owlbeast. The part where the man is wearing the mask is training, juxtaposed with the actual hunt in the forest. Remember the Lookouts motto: "What a man will know, a boy must learn" - they learn here that even in success, there are losses, and that even making the mortal blow doesn't make you immune from falling yourself.
But that raises the question of why the cockatrice is still there, if their have been successful hunts in the past? Do they simply leave it's eggs alone when they kill it, thus ensuring the woods will ALWAYS be dangerous, even if it means they can teach again in a few years? Did another cockatrice happen to move into the EXACT SAME NEST as the previous one? It seems to me that they'd have wiped out any trace of the beast if the goal was really to deal with this sort of problem.No, that's not correct. Perhaps a boy or two from every time they faced a cockatrice (there are many in the woods) didn't make it - as the teacher told them "Look around, and see boys who did not pay attention to their Master." And the elders were mad because the Master intervened, distracting the cockatrice to help the boys kill it.
Well that's what they get for not fucking drawing it themselves like they said they would. Don't get me wrong, Automata was my choice too, but it's clear they wanted to do Lookouts.Gabe himself said that story wasn't in the 'continuity' because it did not go the direction they would have liked.
So, yeh, that story was like a fan fic.
Well that's what they get for not fucking drawing it themselves like they said they would. Don't get me wrong, Automata was my choice too, but it's clear they wanted to do Lookouts.[/QUOTE]Gabe himself said that story wasn't in the 'continuity' because it did not go the direction they would have liked.
So, yeh, that story was like a fan fic.
LOL. No kidding right?Has anything in Penny Arcade ever been canon?
Let us think on this.
I meant the current lookout strips. Not the horrible guest ones.Wait, you guys could make stuff out in the first Lookouts series? Looked like someone peed different colors on a piece of paper to me.