Not going to lie. I was pretty drunk when I completed coloring and “wording” this episode. Hopefully it makes sense. I won’t know until tomorrow morning.
I gave a couple hints that I was going to kill someone off. It had to be done. And it couldn’t be someone with a “real” super power, right?
Was this dramatic? It seems dramatic. But… I am drunk right now.
Just got word that the couple that I am cat-sitting for is coming home early. Because they are flying through Qatar, and Iran is showing the U.S. that they are tough by attacking Qatar (and Jordan and U.A.E.). I still have a week, but still… that makes a gap in my schedule that I need to try to fill. Also, something is wrong with the electrical system on my van, because I couldn’t start it or jump start it yesterday.
Sigh.
Superheroes!
Yeah, it’s dramatic.
Nooooooo!!!!
Let’s see if K & Matt’s values and restraint can transcend vengeance now…
Vengeance is coming! It’s the quantity of vengeance dispensed that will determine if they get to keep their hero cards.
Hmm. You know, I can’t help but think, if you don’t wanna kill someone DON’T CARRY A SHARP METAL STICK. Honestly, heroes and their safety violations. Also, I would like to point out that Cutlass also has no powers, just an observation.
Wait! So it’s not Cut Lass? *
* If so, what a Missed opportunity…….
No, no. She is Cut Lass. I should hop on that copyright now.
She normally has her cutlass set to stun.
Assuming that this is because of the shockwave from Sparta, and that Kickman accepts that, I wonder if Sparta can fly back from the moon like Superior Man could? Because I don’t think the Big K’s next kick towards her would be pulled one iota.
Yeah, this is not going to end well…But geez, didn’t see that coming, I thought someone else was gonna take the dirt nap…
Once I showed I was willing to kill off Persephone I think we can agree that ANYone is on the table.
Yeah, I Know, I just thought you were going to knock off Blue Bat…I totally missed on Blush.
Well, it definitely had to be someone’s love interest. I thought about having Sticky Buns make a late appearance in the battle as a wild card from the Rangers’ sleeve. Then two potential love interests of Grayhawk would be on deck for this battle…
Am I the only one who liked it better when Kickman was, er, kinda goofy? They must have been much harder to write but they were entertaining on many levels because of that.
It’s a big hit, but I’m absolutely sure that’s not Blush. There’s a payoff somewhere ahead.
– The Greyhawk here knows Kung Fu when the actual Greyhawk explicitly doesn’t (separate-ways 10)
– TurboFist came back online ~17 comics ago. Blue Bat and Greyhawk are intentionally ignoring their tech weapons
– If Sparta was actually iron, the EMP would have wrecked her neural functions. Also the blood in her eyes is a big tell.
– Luthor’s not an idiot and could drone strike the Justice Rangers here with zero culpability.
On the other hand, maybe there isn’t a plan and Aquarium’s suffocated under the ruins (doesn’t take that long) and Invisibully and Bluestreak are dead too (since they were already immobilized in the middle of the street near skyscrapers.) Duuno.
…I don’t remember where I was going with this.
I wanted to nip a couple of points on your checklist. First, Grayhawk the sidekick formerly known as Generic Kung-Fu Superhero Sidekick definitely does know kung-fu. Just because he told Alexander III that he doesn’t, is just a double misdirect. In that same chapter, he does briefly switch to Drunken Master kung-fu before passing out. Also, in one of the flashbacks from the same chapter, you can see he is training in Kick HQ with a Wing Chun Kung-Fu wooden dummy (p. 17), and later when fighting minions he is using a Wing Chun block and punch technique called Tan Dar… I think. (p. 20).
I’m not sure how EMPs work exactly, but I figured that all the “Bat” tech that is paper thin, probably wouldn’t have enough space for hardened circuitry. So their gear is permanently fried until they can repair it. But the Turbofist is a superhero tech artifact with redundant systems and such. So I figured it could reboot itself after an EMP. Well, anyway I saw Iron Man’s armor do it in a comic, so I figured it’s feasible.
Sparta WAS forged from iron, but then was given life by Ares. Just like Wonder Woman was sculpted from clay, but essentially became flesh and blood when alived by Zeus. That being said, enough trauma might cause her to revert to her base element, like what happened to Amazon. She punched Superior Man so hard that it effectively killed a part of her body, that’s when she began cracking. I also thought it looked cooler when she started to crack as marble.
Alexander III may yet launch a drone strike. But that would really tick off his Supreme Leader. Although, it’s a bad week for Supreme Leaders….
Huh, my mistake then
I try to balance the dramatic moments with the goofy. But since I am ramping up for a final battle with Supreme Leader I needed to raise the stakes, so I had to lean into the drama for a while. Also, I am calling it now: NEXT chapter will be Kickman Vs Supreme Leader!
Damn.
I’m in a bomb shelter here. but that last panel made my heart jump more than the latest round of Iranian drones.
Damn.
Dang, that’s right I forgot you spend half your time in Israel. I hope you stay safe.