I just noticed, in the second to last panel, Black Mage says, "...by the the gods..."

That's weird... Oh well. Typos do happen.

Unless it's a hidden meaning... Perhaps BM is starting to stutter. It could be a result of the Blue Magic eating away at his brain. Or something.

Probably a typo.

Probably a typo due to getting 3 hours of sleep followed by Airport Hell, and being thoroughly exhausted by the time I had a chance to sit down and do the comic on my laptop.

Nice comic - interesting to see that a Blue Mage uses a monster skill at apparently many times the power of the original source. Also, did anyone else notice in the nuclear explosion picture a small cloud line that seems to be moving towards the explosion in the lower pat of the screen? This might just be coincidence, but i'm chalking that up to BM's firey run of kicking doom. Last, I think this is the first time they mention where they crashed/landed - and apparently it happens to be an island - with a monster on it.

A sort of, Monster Island if you will...
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Gojiraaaaaaa!!!

As for the demon letter, I'm betting U.K. Das stands for Upendra Krishna Das, I'm also guessing he's NOT part of our movement (weak guess tho - there's some crazies out there why does that not sound surprising?) as we do not capitalize das, so it's probably his last name, and the language is either badly written Bengali or some Southern India script, not Hindi (remember, there's like 40 languages and a dozen a dozen a dozen *smacks head* different scripts in India). I'll print it out and get some of the cooks here to look at it and tell me what they think.

I can help with that.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/index.html

It's just part of the fireball. On the link I provided, click 'Ivy' and scroll to the bottom to 'Ivy King'.

Orly?

Although Kick-in-the-Nerts has never been an FF technique, Goblin Punch has worked in a variety of different ways. In FFTA, it does random damage. In FFVII, it does a ton of damage if the last digits of the attacker's and defender's levels are the same. In FFT, the damage is the puncher's Max HP - Current HP (Aerostar's FFT Battle Mechanics Guide).

In fact, any of these "Goblin Punch" mechanics could explain the difference in power between Squirk's kick and BM's kick.

FFTA: Squirk got an unlucky kick that did relatively little damage. BM was much more lucky.

FFVII: BM's and Squirk's levels were different when Squirk kicked; after Squirk kicked, it gained a level, making their last digits equal, thus making BM's kick explode.

FFT (the best one, IMO): Squirk's kick brought BM's HP so low that BM's Kick-in-the-Nert's was several orders of magnitude more powerful.

Thanks monkeybonk.

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*shivers*

I HATE nuckear bombs...
.____.
Poor victims.
Poor planet.
Poor Einstein.
Poor humanity.

Same here, Celebren. Nuclear weapons are what endanger everything we live in and for.

Which is probably the reason Nuclear here is spelled Nuklear.

Feh, just wait for CERN to perfect the creation of antimatter with a way to create it large-scale and then we'll see some real fireworks.

And I always assumed it was spelt 'Nuklear' because it was supposed to be some cheesy Russian 1970s stereotype thing.

I'm kind of ashamed to say I think I know what test that was (without googling)- Ivy King, ~500 kilotons, airbursted about 1500 feet above the surface on November 15 (1952?), somewhere in the Enewetak Atoll.

So BM delivered the nuclear kick to the nerts, Ivy King style.