Immovable object, meet irresistible force.
Sorry for the missed update last week. I was busy with moving and dealing with lower back pain from a messed up sacroiliac joint. Also, was never able to get hold of the physical therapy clinic near my next sit, so not sure when or if I’ll ever get a doctor to look at me.
If anyone can recommend a really good chiropractor in the Napa area, I’m all ears. Speaking of all ears, Happy Easter!
At the last frame I.m wondering if some Barry White is playing.
Anyone here old enough to understand that?
Um, I don’t get that reference…
Which just proves how old I am. For the truly young it was a 70’s thing (1970’s, not 1870’s). Barry was a Soul singer with a low melodic voice and the image was a couple on a date would return to one of their homes homes and have a drink on the couch with the lights low and some Barry White playing in the background, likely on an Eight-Track as it was the 70’s, and then one would lead the other to the bedroom. It became the standing joke at the time where a couple, or some mixed group, would meet unexpectedly with an uncertain outcome then some looks would be exchanges and the Barry White would start playing. Sometimes there would be a cutaway to an older couple going “and that’s where you kids came from”.
It was funny at the, long gone, time.
OH! OH! OH! Side kick bails and Kickman does that silly 3 point superhero landing that we see in the movies and shows why no one lands that way in real life!
Nah, he just needs to kick DOWN.
One the one hand I can’t quite believe I kind of called it, on the other hand it was a rather straightforward course of action. (Totally intended.)
Oh, and no worries about last week. Your back is more important, even to us, than your updates. (And sorry, I don’t know anyone in the Napa area, let alone a chiropractor. I could refer you to my osteopath who works wonders, but he’s in France so I don’t know that it would help you.)
Really, where in France? I just arrived there!
Nah, j/k, this is a winery in Napa County we just stopped at today….
Damn. Get well soon seems so f@$#ing inadequate. Still, hope it heals. We’ll be here regardless of pauses so no worries, just get healthy and stuff.
I’m working on it, thanks!
If the Supreme Leader is Succubus gone critical, then we have the extremely difficult question of how she is staying powered up. It would be enough to fog Pratchett’s Eric’s glasses over even when they are in another room, I suspect. Either her power has been… exercised… enough to Go Up All The Levels, or she has … exercised… enough to plateau her power on a higher level. The question is, what if the power hasn’t ratcheted? We know she has a crush on Kickman, so if our Supreme Leader keeps making poor choices it could mean it’s her. I think the question of… gaining… and retaining power levels is the big block to it being our aptly-named Succubus.
Naturally the theatre of the imagination will need the cutting room floor if it is her; there is, moving on, the option of a Floaty Skull Person, like Skullwick. A theory I’m considering is that Luthor Alexander has simply constructed the Supreme Leader as a literal puppet leader, which he certainly would be capable of – the difficulty here is the theatre of our Leader actually earning leadership, which would be difficult for a mere puppet, but Luthor Alexander would relish the challenge of solving the problem and would probably be capable of doing so.
You’ve surprised us before, Matt, and I think you may well do so again. The simplest way to not be predicted is to use the new, to use the advantage you have over all us readers and to actually invent. I’m genuinely interested in who the Leader is and why, so well done. you are definitely writing well.
The reveal might be quite a few chapters away. I shall give no hints until it gets closer to the big reveal. Well, I’ll throw in a few hints within the pages of the comic.
It’s totally us.
Foresight
That’ll teach me to villainpost at four in the morning
So basically, Maneuver 1 is the first thing they thought of when Kickman got his powers and were brainstorming what kind of cool hero moves they might do someday. But of course because it’s absurd and impractical, they never actually got to do it until now.
Make two villains unload on each other with their powers? Totally impractical! Unless you’re Nightcrawler or Kitty Pryde.