Kickman: 3, Superior Man: 0.
Happy 7-11! Thank you, come again!
The Rochambeau is heating up now! Can Kickman keep the pressure on? Will he pull a hammy before Superior Man succumbs to his pelvic injuries? Will Superior Man ever have children? Will those children become heroes or villains?
Tune in next week, as Kickman continues to put Superior Man’s superior testes to the test!
My, my! Superior Man sure looks testy right now.
Nice one!
Can’t punt without a pun, am I right?
Aggh! Enough with the punishment!
The harem will have a night off, it seems…
You know, I’ve heard if you get kicked in the nuts enough, it turns into a fetish…
Eww. Superior Man may end up joining the Kickman fan club. Currently the only member is the villainess, Succubus from Chapter 15: Criminal Minds.
And there were great cries of remorse through the halls of the harem.
Somehow I doubt that.
Superior Douche seems like he would be a brutal and selfish lover.
Well, we’ll have to check the Kickman fan-fiction sites to find out for sure.
Ball Four! Batter, take your base! LoL!
See, now there’s a CORRECT use of a baseball metaphor.
I gotta ask, with all that but contact, has kickman gotten to second base?
Oh yeah, Kickman gets the ladies.
This reminds me of Daredevil #7, The Man Without Fear vs Sub-Mariner. With the Avengers, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man out of town, Matt (!!) has to protect the city from the King of Atlantis. He’s out matched, to say the least, but he keeps trying and Subby keeps handing him his head. and Matt keeps coming back. Namor finally gives up saying that any city that has such a valiant defender must be worth saving. Wow.
Of course, in this version, the underdog (with help) is serving the Superior Foe a nut-souffle. But the dynamic is the same. 🙂
I doubt Namor would have put up with that many nut shots from Daredevil. He’s a King after all…
Well, Daredevil dropped a building on him and electrocuted him among other things, but he barely staggered the guy. Sub-Mariner was truly OG, being the second oldest original superhero (after only the Kryptonian) in newstand comics. Back when invulnerability meant something. 🙂
This storyline in Kickman has the feeling of the early days of Stan Lee’s Marvel, and I wanted to mention that. 🙂 Your inking keeps getting better, too. 🙂
Thanks, Joyce! You are the wind beneath my wings!
I think I understand why Kickman’s hitting him only on the left testicle. It throws S-man’s aim off because of residual flinch-hence, causing the miss, this is in part because the caped asshole is inexperienced at overcoming pain and discomfort. That lack of experience means as long as Kicky keeps refresing the pain, superiorjerk’s gonna be inaccurate and weak with his return kicks.
Thus proving that Generic Kung Fu Sidekick’s got better-than-batman brains.
A good theory, but how do you explain Superior Man missing with his initial kick…?
Green and ‘Stop Right There’ is important. Psi-hawker might have set up psychic communications as a means of bypassing Superior Hearing, but deflecting Superior’s kicks is a puzzle. The only thing I can think of like that is Luthor’s neck fan, but that’s for low-velocity projectiles. It is possible he’s made a high-velocity version that can cope with Superior’s kicks. If green is Blue Jay, then getting there on time and where things are set up is important, so we’re either dealing with crazy speed or teleportation or both, probably combined with prearragend checkpoints.
So we have four unsolveds: Why is Superior missing? How are they communicating? How does Kickman get to checkpoints so damn *fast*? How were they set up ahead of time?
Also, hypnotic neural scramblers were a countermeasure. I’ve probably used up my guesses already, but I will hazard another one: Superior has a weakness to the psychic dimension – can’t hear telepathy, can’s see psi invisibility, can be made to miss, can’t sense psi teleportation. It would be an interesting counterpoint to Superman’s dislike of magic.
I’m refining my official guess on his power source. If he thinks he’s better than others then he is and the insecurity complex at the core of my guess is ‘fixed’ by our mysterious bestower. But he’s focusing on being better than everyone else *and himself* – hence the acting out and diminishing power. He can’t be better than himself, so the power’s cutting out – not because his power source has gone, but because he is trying to better-mirror himself. I thought that would amplify his powers, but it might cancel out to a diminishing effect instead, yes?
Blush will be crucial to this. Whatever his power is, he’s embarrassed by its source, and if Blush has a latent power for telling *why* someone is embarrased then it would be a Moment of Awesome that is well overdue for her. 🙂
Try not to hate me too much Matt. I’m *good* at plotlines. 😛
5 Kick Points for MerlinoftheTower! You are correct on the Psi-Hawker connection. The different colored narration boxes show the psionic chat between all the heroes that are coordinating to take down Superior Man. They needed a way to communicate that couldn’t be overheard and operates at the speed of thought. That’s one of several pieces to Plan Kick Superior Man’s Butt.
No comment yet on the rest of your theories.