PARANATURAL THREAD

Alright, Lucifer is giving me a feel. Not bad Zack you lazy fuck.

the second page has some cool paneling, but theirs really nothing that beat shown in it

>>79125883
Who's the mysterious hooded figure entering the lunch room on the right side?

Is Woolie just a character archetype now?

>>79126041
If you mean the guy at the top, he hardly looks like Woolie other than the dreads.

>>79126004
The vice principal

>>79125961

Well, it shows glasses nerd being upset about being friendzoned.

>>79125883
>i'm sorry that you got hit
>the guy that aimed for your head at the beginning of hurtball.

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>>79125883
>tfw no hot nurse

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>>79125883
She looks important.

>>79126463
Crazy Lunchlady best girl.

>>79126463
Hot teacher tho

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Anime Kid is jerking it in the locker room again.

>>79125883
> you let a petty grudge keep you from aid and an old ally
No, no, Zack. That's not how shonens do it. You must be even more vague and oblique, while still hammering the fact that you're hiding something. There's no need to be subtle, this is a shonen webcomic. Use an anvil and smack it on people's faces!

> Do you remember THAT PERSON? And THAT EVENT? Well, you should feel bad about THAT THING that happened and it's THAT SECRET that THEY CANNOT KNOW! Because if THEY do, then THAT TERRIBLE THING that happened before is going to HAPPEN AGAIN!

>>79125883
>cart of hitballs in the hallway

I wonder if he's literal when he talks about fishing him out of a lake

>>79127791
Probably, because there are more poetic ways to make that metaphorical.

It may also have a secondary meaning, but it probably does refer to an actual event as well.

>>79125883
>No Isaac.
>No naked Johnny in the shower.
Literraly why. What a worthless page.

>>79126384
He aimed for Johnny.

>>79125883
I'm assuming Jeff apologizing means he's still hijacked, since you'd think regular Jeff would still be trying to figure out what the fuck was going on.

>>79128247
Well yeah, that was made clear pages ago.

>>79126041
To be fair, Woolie has made himself into a pretty strong character design.

>>79128288
I figured I might get a response like this. Guess I'm not keeping close enough track of everything, I blame the erratically glacial update pace.

>>79127984
Well you got to see one of Ollie's nipples. That's something.

>>79127442
That's probably the equipment room down those stairs.

>>79128193
not the first time. He even did a 'tch.. i missed'.

>>79129339
I see it as the first shot not being personal so he didn't care. The second time he was wanting to kill Johnny and an innocent got hurt instead.

>>79129623
he aimed at Max's head and now he says he is 'sorry he got hit'. that's just weird.

I'm loving the crap out of the Lucifer verbal smackdown page. Gave me the "parent is angry because you really fucked up but he still loves you" vibe.

>>79131128
>you will never get so angry that your nose starts shouting

>>79127307
In the worst case they will have to use THAT.

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>>79125883
Should I know who this pedophile is?

Nice first page with Lucifer's rant, but I get the feeling that lectures no longer work on Spender like they maybe used to. It seems kinda forced that he said nothing at all just so we won't know his actual response to it.

Also I'm kinda shocked at how few items of interest/humor ZACK of all people laid out in that second page. Paranatural used to be full of wonderful mini-jokes in the background. Across like 14 rooms we've just got "Stairs Rule", fucked-up chef, and cute facial expressions in the gym changerooms.

Anyway speaking of background stuff, the first part's background and paneling method looks fucking awesome.

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>>79131465
...one of us?

>>79132941

You're not looking hard enough
>the cafeteria has a "CAF. A" sign

...I'm sure there's more

>>79132941
It was already a double-late page so I can't see him taking the time to go that extra mile.

This is good

I like this page, but I think maybe Zack should've done that sort of panel when it would help tell the story
In a situation where we're following a lot of different things happening in different places of the school
None the less good to see that he's still doing silly things

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This was a good page. I like Spender and Lucifer and their interactions, but the foreshadowing that >>79127307 mentions is getting a little old at this point.

>>79129339
He was aiming for Johnny the first time as well.

>>79127307
>>79134755
Was it not obvious he's talking about the Doctor? Zarei?
Am I the only who thought this?

>>79134824
No, I thought that was pretty clear.

>>79134824
The problem is that Zack keeps introducing/hinting new plot threads every two pages, then spends a year playing dodgeball or riding a train. At the rate he's going and with all the plot threads brought up by now, the comic won't end for another 10 years.

From this page we now need to know:
What his relation with the doctor is
Why he holds a grudge against her
Why Mayview is doomed
Why Spender almost drowned in a lake

And all of these will be told in flashbacks instead of pushing the plot forward.

>>79135064
The flashbacks /will/ push the plot forward you dolt.
We're technically at a Max perspective here. We know just about what he knows, and a little more. Of course we won't start the story know everything that happened to these characters. It's jsut as reasonable as not knowing what will happen.
In fact, if we real quick solved all these flashback questions, there'd be whines of Show Don't Tell and Muh Exposition.
And it's not like pther questions weren't answered in the train and hitball arcs. It's ghosty adventures, not kiddy detectives. We find out as we go along, that's how stories work.

That's actually some fucking good dialogue. I'm kind of surprised, after all the ZACH THE HACK stuff i sort of forgot he had it in him.

Especially if you read it in a posh old british butler voice like i've been giving Lucifer.

>>79135430
I like that Lucifee is kind of like Gotham Bruce's Alfred. A passive voice offering guidance but taking no shit all the same.

>>79135478
>Lucifee
Shit, I sound like one of Cinderella's mice

Why is violet in the teachers lounge?

>>79135775
It's not violet, it's that one teacher.

>>79135854
Oh yea I forgot about her

>>79135854
>>79135881
I used to think She was Spender's mentioned love interest. Now I wonder if it was maybe Zarei? What with all the potential set up. Idk.

>>79134824
They're clearly talking about Zarei, yes. It's even more clear if you remember that she literally was mentioned in the previous page.
People is just bad at reading comics, but that doesn't prevent them from blaming the author for "bad writing".

>>79136089
Yeah. It also doesn't help that ever since the Habbening PNat threads have been lower quality. Even the people who aren't vicious enough manbabbies to go full-on MUH 4CHUN have been pessimistic and picky over the comic. The only real issue it has is Zach's multiple "haha whoops sorry guys you'll never guess" stuff, but even then webcomic artists make mistakes and have lives outside of their work. I don't blame him too harshly for it, he just needs to make a decent buffer.

>>79136246
Well, to be fair, this last year Paranatural has been complete garbage. We're slowly going back to previous plot points and it's showing on the quality of the newer pages.

>>79135430
>"You enshrine shallow reason"

I would expect that sentence from Forge, not Luci dearest. It seems that all powerful or especially ancient spirits hold moral philosophy and codification as highly important after all. I though Lucifer would be the exception, given his "path of cold reason" mentioned in the cast page, but now I wonder what his moral code is.

I also wonder if he expects the same of Splenda. It's likely that spirits are potentially immortal, making ethics a huge concern for them. Do they see humans as needing the same standard? Will it turn out that all of human morality, the basis of civilization, originated from spirits teaching or interacting with humans? What would the comic's world be like if humans and spirits never met?

okay zack, I'll admit it: this update was awesome.

>>79125883
Why no Isaac?

>>79133305
Every time I see this I have to go find that picture.

>>79125883
Holy shit Spender got fucking rekt

>>79136774
He's trying to say that Spender's logic is shallow, not the logic and reason are shallow, unworthy concepts in themselves.

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>>79131319
More like his nostril flared up from anger. Now this is an animation hurdle right there

>>79135430
>>79135478
I'm thinking a more humanized JARVIS, as said in the last thread. (Series JARVIS or movie JARVIS, I don't care.) I originally thought of Anthony Daniels, but he's my headcanon Doorman now.

>>79127984
>>79137272
The better the suspense (see pic).

>>79133904
...and it's pronounced "café"...

>>79125883
p. gud writing, zach
i may start following this again

You know, I'd have no problem with all of this character development, if we JUST had like, a first two missions or something to get everyones character down pat. I'm still annoyed that Max has been there for two days, and he's already had a big fight with Isaac and shit.

Also that isaac's character is different than when we first met him.

>>79134755
>He was aiming for Johnny the first time
and he was just counting that a weird voice would tell Max to duck?

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>>79127791
>>79127817
>>79135064
It's obvious Spender got caught in the whirlpool, aka the Mayview Maelstrom.

The question is what Lucifer already his tool, and thus used their communion state to lift him out of there, or if he was still 'alive'.

Probably a tool already? But that'd require Shota Spender to still have his shades on somehow while drowning and not lose them.

>>79140741
I think the Mayview Maelstrom likely has something to do with the shadow monster? Like maybe Spender was caught in the crossfire with whatever killed shadethulu, and for whatever reason Lucifer decided to save him?

>>79135430
I recently realized that the voice I read him in is more or less that of Belle's father from Beauty and the Beast

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>>79140741
Let's review and contrast this with Spender backstory allusions from 7 months ago.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from%3Aparanaturalzack+until%3A2015-06-03
https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/605388739477680128
https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/605450023703322624
https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/605457656480964608

His first tool may or may not be his shades.

I'm guessing not, since he's keeping it vague.

Hypothetically, it's even possible his first tool was the shadow monster's original prison, and shota spender Dun Goofed by healing it and letting it free, until he paid the price by sealing it within his own boyflesh.

>>79140905
How does that dovetail with him getting credit for defeating God?

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>>79127984
>>79137272
>>79139399
Consider that Isaac was thirsting for Max's hard throbbing friendship since before first period, but he never even seemed to take the opportunity to poach him at lunch time in the cafeteria.

It's obvious. Isaac is busy eating his lunch angstily on the school roof like all anime loners.

>Show an expanded view of part of the school
>Still no Isaac
Not even an Isaacfag

>>79126041
I laughed heartily at this comment

>>79126468
Are you joking or is that a callback to the first time we saw Isabel? Because she doesn't look important at all.

Wow, when did Parantural start being good again?

>>79143066
when planball ended

>>79140905
I still think it's Stormo since that would have to do exactly with his power.

>>79125883
Why is math teacher so damn cute

>>79131465
Somebody's dad

>>79135661
Use the letters provided you

>>79144395
I don't have enough skill or the paint program to do an edit that would maintain the integrity of the gradient backdrop

Why did Zach delete the comment section?

I forgot why, but I remember that people were pretty clever there.

>>79146702

exploit that allowed people to comment on future pages

Fucking christ I am so god damn sick of the pedo shit on this site. Fucking disgusting. Yall deserve the shit you got in highschool and the ostracizing you experience now. Yall belong here, I hope you rot and die alone.

>>79146721
Why does that matter?
Why does he care?

>>79146777
nice trips madfag

>>79146924
>Why does that matter?
>Why does he care?
Because it's stupid and you had the people who knew how to do it making a lot of stupid replies yucking up how clever they were and being retarded. There was no way to stop it from happening so he just removed them.

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>>79146777
There's been like. One or two posts about lust for pnat characters in the thread and they were fairly jokey at our collective expense and not serious.

Of all threads to go full soccer mom on you chose this one? Why do you think that is?

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>>79146777
>Yall deserve the shit you got in highschool and the ostracizing you experience now
wat

>>79147449
That shota has eyebrows

Whatever happened to Max's old friend from out of town? The one he was talking to on his cellphone at the beginning?

Zack the Hack.

>>79147645
He came up at the beginning of the chapter. Max's dad offered to drive Max to see him, but Max had to worm out of it because hes stuck inside the barrier.

>>79147645
He talked to two friends in chapter 1.

It's only been 3 days. He's a bit preoccupied.

>>79146924
>Why does that matter?
>Why does he care?
every future page already had a hundred "FIRST" comments, months before an update was posted to go along with it

it was dumb and made the comment section worthless

>>79141750
Or maybe Mayview MS is just REALLY BIG, and the pages can't show the bigness of it without sacrifying detail for writing the main story which revolves on 1 character's POV. Don't be so gullible.

One does not simply become a loner as is. Was he actively seeking for it? Was he, say, not liking the noisyness of the hallways or canteen? Was he such a bookworm that he frequents the library often? We don't know!


Heck, we don't even know how Isaac acts around his classmates beyond one Supernormal strip...and I for one would be glad to see more of his POV to wholely make sense of the character before drawing into conclusions, and steering myself away from some baseless circlejerk.

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>>79147564
Well of course. It's "noeyebrow." Singular. The plural is allowed.

>>79139399
Reminded me of the bit were Gandalf is shouting at Bilbo and his voice softens at the start of fellowship of the ring.

>>79140741
I wonder if he slept naked would he be naked in BL land?

>>79146702
The on site comment section was fucking daft.

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>>79150403
>naked in BL land
>BL land

>>79131436
That?!

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>>79147564
That's just the entirely non pornographic artist's pen name.

I don't like that apparently nobody is actually in control on the human side. there should be some trusty power on their side to balance the story or else all attempt at serious storyline will be killed before it builds up.

>>79150942
But nobody on any side really knows what they're doing and how to really deal with the 3+ other factions in this clusterfuck.

Doorman sweats at the schemer's return and lost his best muscle, Forge got BTFO by an angry nerd, Agent Day is oblivious to Spender's secrets she should be ferreting out, and who knows what things look like to the death cultists.

Everyone is ignorant and plotting at least partly in the dark. Doorman and Nin still live in fear of Spender, thinking he's Super Saiyan 2 instead of lucky or clever.

>>79150574
>rainbow dream world filled with other men
I need more gay Spender in my life.

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>>79151418
Zack the Hack is 60 weeks overdue on that now.

>>79151454
Delicious gay teachers spinoff when.