Uh oh.
Well, if I’ve learned anything from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s that superheroes need to fight other superheroes. It’s the way of the world.
Half the roster of this team owes their livelihood to Kickman and Grayhawk. Look at their faces. Most of them do not want this battle. But the entire team did cross over the Villain City border to confront them. There’s no telling how this will play out. As in, I’m not going to tell you.
Are the Justice Rangers actually willing to follow orders and bring in Kickman and his crew?
Can Grayhawk bring himself to fight against Blue Bat? What about vice versa?
Are we finally going to see what the heck Jade Detective can do?
And who is that busty chick?
All these questions will be answered in the next chapter: INJUSTICE! (Cue the guitar chug!)
Bringing up a new one when we haven’t had NEAR enough time for snarky comments on “Prelude to Injustice 9”.
Now there’s your injustice.
I know. It will be even worse when I start publishing a new strip daily!
Won’t be so bad for The Real Bitches of Hive Valley as that one doesn’t get the comments it deserves anyway….
Speaking as an international lawyer, I’ve got three problems with this comic.
1. Since when is Villain City a sovereign nation? Where’s the Montevideo Convention when you need it?
2. How did the superheroes cross into Villain City without at least ONE villain trying to settle a score?
3. Since when does ANYONE listen to the United Nations?
Long time ago, but I think these cover the international situation
https://kickmancomic.mattslawblog.com/comic/villain-city-10/
https://kickmancomic.mattslawblog.com/comic/villain-city-11/
Also, wow. Nearly everyone was on-board with invading Villain City directly- gonna be a heavy fight
(I can’t find the specific comic, but I could have sworn their territory had a bridge out of the city. That or Persephone (rip) tunnels?)
And look! Look at how happy Greyhawk was!!
https://kickmancomic.mattslawblog.com/comic/villain-city-8/
(and thank you for introducing the Montevideo Convention!)
Oh, I had to approve this post, I think because it had so many hyperlinks. Which is weird because all the links are actually to comics on this site. Which reminds me, I have something I forgot to announce. I’ll do it in the comments next comic page. Which should be the cover art for Injustice: Kickman, LLC Vs The Justice Rangers. ‘Nuff said!
1. It happened almost immediately after the New Justice Rangers formed. Go back to the Villain City chapter from pages 8 to 10.
2. Well, Team Kick did clear a path to vacate able-bodied refugees. Green Ring probably flew them all across the MacFarland Bridge. Although he could have also just deposited them from orbit.
3. Well… this IS fiction… 🙂
It’s honestly a tricky situation that could have its whole storyline. The villains -didn’t- conquer by force of arms. The heroes did, while planning to nuke the city as a backup plan. At which point the conscripts expelled the invading army and declared statehood. I’d guess the Western (electable) governments were too busy reassembling themselves (with all the inevitable jockeying or power) and Luthor diplomatically blitzed them, forming alliances with “nations of similar interests”.
And reading through the articles, they’re in possession of territory, a (liberated) populace, government in-line with their uh… traditional morals, and they were in trade/research sharing talks with BRICS nations. Most importantly, their leader might be able to tank a nuke and respond in kind.
…actually, can they risk killing Luthor? If I was him I’d have my Aladdin destabilize the markets as a dead-man’s switch.
Man, the art’s improved dramatically over the arc, but this one’s especially fantastic!
They’re hosed!!
Does good art make the heroes tougher…? Actually that makes sense! No wonder modern Superman is so much more powerful than Golden Age Superman!!!
Ok, Yes, I second Vadan, how did all of the above happen? I know we can hand wave and say it happens off panel, but I really want to know, how did all this happen without Greyhawk not finding out. It should have been big news if they sent the Justice idiots after Kickman.
It’s a covert US Meta-Military action. In the comics, there are no leaks. 🙂
Again, who’s the busty chick? Did Amazon have a sister or a now very annoyed mother back in the game?*
*Why didn’t someone else ask the important question?
We’ll be introduced once the fight starts and she monologues her origin to lose a tactical advantage…
Kickman, LLC, should tell the Justice Traitors to “F*** OFF! RIGHT NOW!”. They abandoned “Villain” City, AND ALL OF IT’S CITIZENS who did not want to be subjected by tyrannical criminal groups, and were loyal Amer-* (this takes place in an alternate U.S.A., right?) Americans! and wanted to remain Americans. They, and all the governmental/diplomatic groups they represent have NO jurisdiction, or moral right to even criticise Kickman and his friends.
I know, right! This is all a great big… injustice….. wait…. I think I see why the chapter title is what it is.
Also, the Supreme Leader welcomed Kickman LLC as villains in his city, so they are actually fully legal right now. This statement was public as far as I remember.
True! Nothing stopping him from walking it back though, under the time-honored technically legal whining of “We didn’t -actually- think they’d take us seriously.”
Oh, by the way. 10 Kick Points to Archives for calling the Justice Rangers Vs Kickman scenario. Not just in the comments from last page, but all the way back in the comments for Lewd Interlude, page 11, 204 days ago!
https://kickmancomic.mattslawblog.com/comic/lewd-interlude-11/#comments
If there’s one thing I learned from comic books, it’s that you -always- send superheroes to subjugate nuclear-equipped belligerent nations.
(Post 9-11 comics were so good)
Blue Bat doesn’t seem as deep and thoughtful in her plans as Black Bat was, probably stops at just her contingencies having contingencies.
Unless this is a (clumsy?) feint and cover for what’s really going on.
Blue Streak is a speedster, and one of the things she handed Team Kick when they went into Villain City was a molecular adhesive. Unless she’s sandbagging (not unlikely) or setting invisibully up for something funny, this will be over as soon as it begins.
Sorry, one of the things Blue Bat handed team Kick (mb)
Idk how strong Green Ring is, (Looking back, Superior Man might have disabled his force field before throwing him out the space station) but Bluestreak’s definitely comes in just below fellow speedster (and best girl!) Velocity.
That said, I really really really want this fight to go on long enough to see Kickman vs. Turbofist.
I did notice there is too much blue on this team.
I thought (and if anyone asks me later) you were cleverly signaling Blue Bat’s control over her reluctant teammates
?? Was there ever a scene where some villain was Cursing Blue Streak?
(Dad Jokes Rule!)
They’ll be cussing her out by the end of the fight!
This battle will be determined by who has the deepest bench of contingency plans. Also, in a Blue Bat Vs Grayhawk scenario, they spent a full month inside each other’s heads. So they know how the other thinks. So someone better be willing to go WAY outside the box in their contingency plans. And by someone I mean Matt, because he also has a much smaller bench worth of superheroes.
Oh son of a gun, he has all the equipment from the villains they killed.
The villains they “killed”. No one knows, or is telling, what happened to them.
Yeahhhh… Spared Polly, went nonlethal on Gemini, but how do you -contain- something like Gemini? Let alone Taurus and Aries. Blind drop on the other side of that bridge?
… if they did hand ’em off, Blue Bat can deploy the villains against Team Kick*. Shoot, that could be why the Justice Rangers are in now; the formerly defeated villains are standing on the other side of that bridge as “the real” (“liberation”) wave. (a deliciously twisted option for Luthor if he chose to take it)
*there’s precedent
Something to consider here is how much they diverged mentally from the time they were inside each other’s heads.
Blue Bat was operating as usual in that time (I guess), while Grayhawk was fighting a guerilla warfare against a wide variety of villains, organizing a viable fighting force in such conditions, maintaining proper security, logistics and so on and so forth. He never did anything on this scale before, so I’d assume he has gained much more experience in that time giving him a possible edge.
On the other hand, Blue Bat was more likely to keep close tabs on what team Kick was doing, their capabilities and standard operations. If so, she would have an advantage of tailoring specific fighting protocols against Grayhawk and Kickman.
Also important, sheer number of supers advantage and how some of those powers are immensely difficult to counter with mundane means.
Sayyyy, it was over a week ago you were talking about a daily strip….