When appeals to self-preservation fail, there is always the buyout option.
Remember, Team Kick did score a pretty big financial windfall off of Mayor Death Jester and the faked assassination attempt by that pseudo-Canadian assassin. Sure, they’ve been spending money on feeding and relocating refugees and also buying black market food and gear for their Kick Boy army. But Grayhawk probably knows a thing about investing in cryptocurrencies and in Jaguar-themed stocks. If we go back in time, where did I tell everyone to buy JAGX stock? When it was $0.059 USD? As of this Sunday it is at $0.88!
Full disclosure: That is not as impressive as it sounds, I think they had a 4:1 reverse stock split at one point. It’s still almost a 4-fold increase.
Always bet on Black Jaguars!
Speaking of sure things, always be sure to invest in Kick Points. Here are the winners of the name-a-villain page from a couple of weeks ago. All in one image!
10 Kick Points each for Swimsquad and John B for coming up with two super villain names each. As the official sponsors for these villains you now need to create back stories for each of them in a 3-panel comic format. All rights and merchandising for said villains still remain the property of KICKMAN, LLC. Thanks for your hard work!
Retrovision
Life has never been easy for Fred Drover. Ever since he was small he’s been obsessed with black and white movies and vintage collectibles. This obsession would often alienate him from his peers and invite teasing and verbal abuse.
Until one day a group of school bullies stole his collection and destroyed it. After that he began his search for the fabled 1962 video game, “Deal with the Devil.” For rumour had it that if someone did a perfect run in the game, the devil would give them one favour.
He found the game and took three years to complete his perfect run. The devil burst through the screen and asked what Fred wanted. All Fred said was “I want vengeance.” With that the devil gave him the strength of a hundred men and the power to turn anything into an antique. Fred Drover got his vengeance and the world got Retrovision.
Cannonbomb
While most girls were fantasising about being princesses and unicorn riders, Abigail Dubois dreamt of one thing, being a human cannonball. She was so driven by this desire that she built her very own cannon in her own backyard, so she could practise her flying. She had planned everything, down to the smallest detail. She even made her own parachute for her descent.
Unfortunately for her, she didn’t know that human cannons operated with jet propelled cylinders as opposed to actual gunpowder. The resulting explosion not only took her legs but also launched poor, slightly flaming, Abby into the nearest firework factory. No one could explain how but, Abby did not perish in the explosion.
Granted, she spent several months in the hospital and had trouble learning to walk with her prosthetic legs. Instead she gained the power to become an actual human cannonball and with this, as well as her reckless endangerment charges, the law saw fit to brand her as a supervillain. With this Abby was outcasted by society and was forced to take the name “Cannonbomb” and find work as a minion for other villains. She still dreams about joining the circus to this day.
Wow, these are great!
Well, mine is a twofer…
1st panel Methane as a norm, buying drugs outside of a pop up club in an abandoned factory
2nd Panel Ice Lady as a norm DJ’ ing in said club.
3rd panel methane dancing in a rave getting hot, catching fire
4th panel fire suppression going off but it’s old, and strange chemicals leaked into it
5th panel the DJ and the club is incased in Ice.
6th panel there is a huge explosion of Fire and Ice, and the only people to get out are Methane and Ice Ice Lady
Nice work man. I like how you linked both of your villains together. Also the fire suppression as a power trigger is very cool 😎.
Well done, both of you!