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10/07/2013

Oct07
by Aaron on 2013-10-07 at 12:01 am
Issue: Issue 47: A Boy and his Science

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  1. BloodPlum
    2013-10-08, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Wait for it, bounce, bounce, airbags.

  2. Me-me
    2013-10-08, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    Grabbing the helmet? Oh snap, this is going to be a SID reveal!

    That’ll be awkward~

  3. David Nuttall
    2013-10-08, 6:34 am | # | Reply

    Grabbing the face mask? That’s a 15-yard penalty.

  4. Kaian
    2013-10-08, 6:36 am | # | Reply

    How low are these rails that a pair of eight year olds goes over them that easy?

    • rag
      2013-10-08, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      considering it is a ship[ made almost exclusively for people who can fly id say that railings are overkill if anything

    • Prairie Son
      2013-10-08, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      It could be worse. This could be Star Wars, and there’d be no rails.

      Ron’s needed to vent some of his amassing anguish, and being de-powered, it’s a pretty good time. He knows he won’t accidentally kill someone.

      • Christopher
        2013-10-11, 5:25 am | # | Reply

        Middle-earth also has this “no rails” rule.

        But then again, this is a Argosian Ship. Where they average crew is 2 FISS and a bunch of robots.

    • Keiya
      2013-10-09, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      They’re for the robots, not the argonians. They can just fly, or at least slow their fall. They don’t *need* to be tall, just enough to be bump-detected

  5. Vercalos
    2013-10-08, 6:41 am | # | Reply

    I hope Ron gets over this issue. This is getting very tiresome.

    • Mjoellnir
      2013-10-09, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

      But then his name wouldn’t fit anymore. 😀

  6. Clell Harmon
    2013-10-08, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    – I know it isn’t going to happen, but Ron needs to get hit a little.

    – Not beaten, but smacked in the mouth the way boys that age resolve thier issues. His whiny ‘poor me’ routine is getting really old.

    – Tyler, who has lead a far harder life than Ron ever thought about, is just the guy to do it.

    • Daibhid C
      2013-10-08, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve always suspected Ron, like me, has some form of anxiety disorder, making the hardships of his life feel greater than Tyler, who seems to be able to cope with most things that have been thrown at him through the power of sarcasm.

      To the best of my knowledge, being smacked in the mouth is not a recognised treatment for this.

      • Clell Harmon
        2013-10-09, 8:33 am | # | Reply

        – Lots of things that work are not ‘recognized treatments’.

        – Assigning an ‘anxiety disorder’ to a fictional kid acting like a brat isn’t a useful thing. Over the last generation or so it has become fashionable to describe every personality flaw as a disorder of some kind. Back in the day it was called being a punk, and for the most part it required little more than ‘growing up’ to deal with it.

        – Ron is acting like a whiny punk, and has been for quite a while. This was an act that he could get away with as long as he was invulnerable. He isn’t any more.

        – So of course he’s pissed at the one person responsible to making sure he isn’t being kept in stasis while depowered.

        – It’s time for an attitude reset, and I hope Tyler delivers one.

        • leor613
          2013-10-09, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

          Clell, I really hope you don’t work as an educator or in another field that involves children. For that matter, I hope you don’t work in fields that involve treating people suffering from any recognized mental illness, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, anxiety, or autism. 🙁

          • Segev
            2013-10-09, 5:47 pm | #

            Let’s not start getting ad hominem, shall we? We like comments being possible on this comic.

            If you believe that we don’t over-diagnose “mental disorders,” particularly in children, that’s one thing. Implying that believing that we do means you’re unfit to be around children in a professional capacity is quite another. Particularly when the logical conclusion is that the fear expressed is rooted in a concern that Clell would harm the children through abuse or negligence based on that belief.

            While you may not have MEANT to basically tacitly accuse Clell of child abuse, that’s the implication of your post, and I strongly suggest we avoid even edging towards such personal attacks.

            Especially when dealing with a story about children whose treatment would, under circumstances less extreme than the plot foists upon them, be tantamount to negligent on the part of their guardians anyway! 😉

            (As it stands, only Tyler’s parents really seem truly in danger of such a charge being legitimate, and it’s played for laughs precisely because, well, the alternative would be rather horrific. Also, Revenant and the PS238 staff stand in his defense, mercifully.)

          • leor613
            2013-10-10, 8:32 am | #

            There is a difference between believing that behavioral disorders (such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) are overdiagnosed (or misdiagnosed) and denying they exist. Ron has been clearly shown, since issue #1, to actually have an anxiety disorder related to his ability to fly, and pressure from his father (however well meant) to become a hero. He was depicted on the cover of a previous issue being psychoanalyzed by Tyler, following the revelation of his parents’ divorce. This isn’t an interpretation that some readers have “added” to the comic, it is pretty clear that the author intended for us to interpret it this way.

            Suggesting that a child who is coping with anxiety and stress from his parents getting divorced needs to be smacked, usually sends off alarm bells. I happen to know how Ron’s story ends (at least for now) and I can definitely say that Moonshadow’s decision not to physically fight with Ron was the correct one.

  7. Frith Ra
    2013-10-08, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

    Every panel reveals several more ways that this could potentially go wrong.

    Pass the popcorn, someone.

  8. leor613
    2013-10-08, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

    That sofa was placed in a rather convenient place. Perhaps Forak used to arrange the furniture in such a way that if he got hurled over a railing by Dax-Ra, he could cushion the fall. (Remember, Dax-Ra didn’t let Forak fly, because he didn’t consider Forak “worthy” of Noble superpowers.)

    I see a few posts expecting Tyler to whale on Ron, with a few others expecting Ron to yank off Moonshadow’s helmet and mask. Me, I propose a compromise: Giant Dwarf with Hammer Squid.

  9. TomT
    2013-10-08, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

    I really like Ron and hope he does find some balance. I haven’t really like the fact that he has gone Praetorian because I do like him so much. And I feel for him. Ah well looks like he gets to get some of his aggravation and aggregation out of his system.

    • Shadur
      2013-10-09, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      I also suspect Praetorian wasn’t/isn’t terribly interested in creating stable, mentally balanced supers and figured that his anxieties would be most useful if they exploited them into a need to do perfectly at everything.

      • hswoolve
        2013-10-09, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

        I suspect Praetorian is interested in creating controllable supers, but that may be a bit spoilery of a guess.

        • leor613
          2013-10-09, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

          Providing a well-rounded education and a nurturing environment for their students, not to mention actually caring about their students’ lives, are not among the concerns of the Headmaster and his staff. The Headmaster has a secret agenda, and being the sort of principal who doesn’t deserve to be arrested on child endangerment charges (or worse) isn’t part of that agenda.

          Ron needed a father figure during his parents’ divorce, someone like Coach Rockslide or the Revenant. Instead, Ron’s mom was brainwashed into signing him up at a supervillain’s personal training academy. Ron would have gotten more TLC if she’d sent him to Taskmaster’s school. Taskmaster’s watched a ton of daytime TV, and he has memorized the therapy skills of dozens of psychologists. 😀

          • Segev
            2013-10-09, 5:48 pm | #

            Clearly, Ron needed Kent Allard!

            Because having Superman and Nightwing train under Batman together would never end any universes.

  10. zenmom
    2013-10-09, 10:06 am | # | Reply

    Foul! Facemask.

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