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Comic Watch: Shakes and Fidget explain the Burning Crusade races

by Akela Talamasca Feb 26th 2008 at 7:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Opinion, Comics, Races, Humor, Comic Watch

Oskar Pannier & Marvin Clifford are the creators of 'Shakes and Fidget', a webcomic set in the World of Warcraft universe. Shakes and Fidget are a human and gnome, respectively, and they travel Azeroth for the sole purpose of getting into trouble, apparently. This works out well for all of us, as seen in this strip, entitled 'A New World', as they travel through the Dark Portal and meet the two new races from the Burning Crusade expansion.

I have to hand it to any author who uses the word 'invidious'. In fact, I'm gonna start up a webcomic wherein every episode features a ten-cent word for your reading pleasure. The main character is a dinosaur named Thesaurus Rex. You can make Paypal donations to my personal email address.

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Tags: azeroth, burning-crusade, comic-watch, comics, dark-portal, marvin-clifford, oskar-pannier, paypal, shakes-and-fidget, thesaurus-rex, webcomic, world-of-warcraft

One Shots: Opening the Dark Portal

by Elizabeth Harper Jan 27th 2008 at 2:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Screenshots, One Shots

Reader Furret of the World of Warcraft realm Alleria sends in this shot of Medivh opening the Dark Portal -- a major story in Warcraft lore. In game we can only access this area through the Caverns of Time, where the Keepers of Time allow us to travel to the past, striving to put right what once went wrong. (And whether we're confusing our fantasy worlds with our science fiction worlds or not, that is the premise, more or less.) However, Furret notes an inconsistency with this scene, telling us, "According to lore, Medivh summoned the portal first, then the stone gateway was erected around it. According to this, it happened the other way around." Oops!

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Tags: black-morass, blizzard, caverns-of-time, dark-portal, medivh, one-shots, world-of-warcraft, wow

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