That narrator is going to get them killed before they ever reach the surface of Hero City. Or the city formerly known as Hero City. As an employee of Kickman, LLC I refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of Villain City.
You have to wonder about the skill set involved in being a comic book narrator. You have to have impeccable timing, an encyclopedic knowledge of the characters, and be able to place your text boxes with surgical precision. Then you have to remember not to make the boxes visible to the goons. This scene reminds me of the graphic novel Kingdom Come, where the Flash just snatches that pastor witness out of the astral plane because the Spectre got a little too careless in his role as an invisible observer.
I bet exactly zero of you were hoping against hope to see the return of one of Kickman and the hero formerly known as Generic Kung-Fu Superhero Sidekick’s very first super villains… Count Mole! In point of fact, I actually had to re-download my copy of the game from my Google drive and play the first few minutes to even remember his name. I wasn’t sure if it was King Mole or Mole King… and sure enough it was neither, so good thing I checked.
For those of you that don’t know, there is a Kickman Adventure Game for PCs that is available not only to Patreon members, but also can be claimed for Kick Points. I created it in RPGMaker a long while back, and it is actually pretty amazing and hilarious if I do say so myself. I just re-read the witty banter between Kickman and Matt in the scene with Count Mole. It’s awesome.
so can we assume that playing through the game now would assist in predicting the upcoming vilains?
Maybe…? I haven’t decided yet. I didn’t think of re-introducing Count Mole until a week ago. And he was kind of forgettable in the first place. I may need to re-play the game just to remember some of the jokes.
Do you know if the game works in a Windows emulator? I only have Linux on my PC.
I couldn’t tell you, I’ve never tried. It should work. I hope so.
There was a Kickman hunt-the-mug crossover some while back. I won the game with the power of observation! The game is real, if you want it. The balance is a bit off though – this game is Old School Hard, with superpowered bosses. 🙂
Right now I’m saving up for the Secret Bonus Pages. I intend to buy all of them at once, which assuming Matt doesn’t make more will cost me another 14 Kick Points. 😉
Yes, there are also no real instructions included. Be sure to save game especially in the “Dungeon of Eyes.”
Since you can run into the narration box and the minions can see it any chance the narrator can catch a bullet?
Not that I’m calling for violence, nope! nope!
The narrator cannot be destroyed by conventional means. They are like Toons in Who Killed Roger Rabbit.
. . . I can’t believe these minions actually sounded the alarm so quickly rather than doing some typically stupid minion stuff. Where does Count Mole hire from? Finding good help is so hard.
They are actually real moles stuffed into a human suit. Or perhaps real moles bitten by humans so that they turn into mole-man hybrids! Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket…