Isaac's painting looks clearly like an unsheathed sword. And we know the sword Hiro had was a fake, so it was sheathed. I'm not sure which picture you're looking at.

And we know the sword Hiro had was a fake, so it was sheathed.

But the screencap doesn't look sheathed. It looks silvery.

Okay, did go back and watch. Need a job. At some angles the scabbard is pretty indistinguishable from a sword, because of the sheen to the wood.

Yeah, so we know now that Isaac's visions can be more of...impressions.

I'm willing to give him more credit for accuracy than that. There are some frames that look just like a sword. The scabbard is reflective all the way.

And Niki seems to really view it that way, that Jessica is truly a separate entity.

Isn't that how people suffering severe dissociative personality disorder regard their other personalities, though?

Pardon for interrupting the Heroes talk, but can someone who's familiar with the books explain something about Dresden Files to me? What's the deal with Bob? I get that he's a ghost who's "stuck" with his skull and can't go far away from it. But where did he come from? Who made him like that, and why? Was he a magician too? Could someone else who was able to see ghosts in general see him too, or can only Harry see him? I'm sure all these questions will be answered, but I don't want to wait. I also don't want to read the books. Sorry.

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In the books I think he's just the skull. The apparition we see was to make it more engaging for TV.

As for seeing--I wondered that. The skinwalker definitely could, and they're not good sorcerers, he said. No one else registered him, I don't think.

Zenkitty,

In the books, Bob is actually a spirit of air and intellect. He was bound into the skull centuries ago by some wizard or another and basically functions as a magical computer, as he has a pretty-much unlimited memory and remembers everything he reads or is told. He's also got an unhealthy obsession with human sexual relations. Harry often gives him gifts of romance novels, Victoria Secret catalogues and the like in exchange for his services.

Bob's natural form is simply a cloud of orange light, though existing in the material world tires him, so he mostly spends his time living in his skull and speaks through it when he converses with Harry. He does have the ability to take possession of physical bodies, but Harry rarely gives him permission to possess anything beyond Harry's cat Mister when Harry needs Bob to investigate something for him.

Bob also apparently seriously pissed off Queen Mab (who is the ruler of the Unseelie faeries) at one point in his existance, but he hasn't told Harry what he actually did to earn her wrath.

Harry picked Bob's skull out of the ashes of Justin DuMorne's home after Harry burned it down around the head of his foster-father when Justin tried to magically enthrall Harry.

In the TV series, Bob is the ghost of Hrothbert of something or other, a medival wizard who turned to using black magic and was executed by the High Council for violating the Laws of Magic. His spirit was then bound into his skull, for reasons that haven't been explained so far. The skull eventually came into the possession of Justin Morningway, and was apparently claimed by Harry after Harry "self-defensed him to death" (or not.)

Thank you for posting the youtube link, Sumi!

Oh, that's an episode clip from next week. It looks way cool and thus I will not watch it because this show is SO much better unspoiled!

Are you sure it's from next week? That entire Heroes clip is identical to this week's online comic.

It says episode 13. This was episode 12. I haven't been reading the online comics.