Superior Man’s superior ego is under attack. Also, his nads.
There has been a lot of speculation on how Team Kick has been manipulating this battle. Rest assured you can find out that one mystery next week! The big reveal as to the source of Superior Man’s power won’t happen until way towards the end of this chapter. Which at one page a week won’t be for another couple of months maybe. Unless of course some random person sends me a check for… um… two thousand dollars! If that somehow happens, I’ll publish two pages a week until the end of the chapter and not feel guilty about shirking my other responsibilities. Hey, it’s worth a try. I might have a millionaire or billionaire Kick-fan out there. Like when Jeff Bezos saved the series, The Expanse.
In the meantime, enjoy the kicking.
‘Superior Man’ is too superior for common sense.
If he had superior, or even *average* intelligence, he would refuse the rochambeau contest, and simply kill Kickman.
He could zap him with laser vision, or grab him and fly up to fifty thousand feet and drop him into the Pacific. Or just punch Kickman’s head off.
Oh, he definitely could. But with all the Superi-Cams in place and the world watching, he would have to admit that someone is better than him at something. He has superior pride!
That patch on the forehead in panel 4… is Superior Man injured?
Nah that is the anime vein-bulge for when comic characters are very, very angry.
Oh come one. Am I the only one to see the Kickman boot print on the left nad area of Superior Man’s junk, or am I just the first to comment on it. Cause I’ll admit, I looked. I am secure enough in my masculinity to say, “Yes, I WAS looking at his junk”.
Oh. And I think I know how they are talking. It has to do with those BIG goggles of Kickman’s, and possibly how often his hands are behind his back. I will say NO MORE!
That is indeed a boot print on Superior Junk.
Actually, it was revealed in the comments last week how the heroes are communicating. MerlinofTheTower guessed it and earned 5 Kick Points.
Last chance for anyone to figure out how Superior Man keeps missing with his kicks before it gets revealed next week!
It has to do with belief. And or praise.
I am confident that you are afraid to kick.
Publicised put that thought in people’s head.
Nope.
He’s nearsighted? All his “superior” moves are activated so it’s possible that he has some sort of accuracy problem. His personality would keep him from noticing.
Nope. He has Superior vision. In fact all his senses are superior.
I had been supposing that he misses because Blue Streak moves Kickman just enough to cause a miss. Is that it?
Nope. :o)
You mean texting with smart glasses…
I am probably not the first to guess this but Superior Not had a similar power to my Dr Everything. The more people believe/praise him the more powerful he is. It explains the power fluctuation. I.e. superior acting.
Nope.
I’m going to stick with the physiological and psychological explanation. Kickman’s power is his kicks, and he’s very accurate with them, but a kick involves a lot of things besides your leg-for example, the tendons, muscles in the core, glutes, lower back, and your nervous system. Kickman’s FIRST kick landed on Supey’s left nut back when the kicking contest started and to deliver an accurate kick requires muscles to work in balance. By repeatedly injuring his groinal area right where those key inner groups are, Kickman is keeping Supey off-balance both physically, and mentally.
as a result, he’s unable to accurately place his kicks, and the repeated pain stimulus makes him less and less inclined to get close enough to be kicked again, which ALSO throws off accuracy and power, since moving them legs?
HURTS.
there’s a reason a nutshot makes you shuffle, and Kickman’s kick is hard enough to get through Supey’s invulnerability.
Nope, the heroes are in fact cheating. Stay tuned next week.
I’m not sure if someone’s guessed this before, but are the heroes using Cecil Alexander’s cane’s Inertial Deflector Field Capacitor to nullify Superior Man’s kicks? Or rather, the technology rather than the cane itself. Depending on how it works, it might not even matter if Superior Man’s kicks have Superior Inertia or whatever, because the Deflector Field might just be redistributing the inertia in the opposite direction back at Superior Man, which would mean rather than trying to overcome something else, he’s actually trying to overcome himself.
However, if all of the force is instead being shunted into one of Cecil’s Kinetic Capacitor’s… Superior Man might just be getting a taste of his own medicine pretty soon. Can Superior Man’s Superior Durability hold up against a half dozen Superior Kicks, possibly all delivered at once to his left nut? We might just find out.
Good guess. That was a $15 million cane that Kickman destroyed. It is reasonable that Blue Jay could have had one constructed using Alexander’s schematics.
But, nope!
Isnt the anouther the equivalent of Wonder Woman from this comic? The one that some strips earlier puncher herself to death on Superior Man? Did Lana (the news lady) got her wardrobe or is this an avatar or something? I am confused.
Lana Lewis-Lane was forced to wear the Amazon costume by edict of Superior Man. Kind of weird that no one questioned that up until now. I’m wondering if everyone just assumed it was part of S-Man’s random acts of tyranny.
I was assuming Superior is unhealthily trying to ‘replace’ Amazon and left it at that. I wonder if Superior’s power comes from *believing* himself better than others? It would explain so much.
Ahaa! Way too late, and I think there was a clue long ago. The guy from the commercial is helping him win! Right?
He is playing a minor part, which we will see tomorrow. Last week MerlinOfTheTower guessed his role and earned five Kick Points
Darnation. I thought we’d finally be able to make sense of S getting the stormtrooper syndrome (I never heard the term, but I can bet my only boots it already exists and there are people using it).
Is that it? Did they change his documented hero name to Stormtrooper Man?
That’s a myth that Stormtroopers have bad aim! They “let” the rebels escape from the Death Star!
Dammit, I’ve read the archives and now I have a cliffhanger!