2015-01-21
Posted on 2015-01-26 by Aaron

121 thoughts on “2015-01-21”

  1. Wanderer

    Oh, dear… and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you never run someone else’s powers without fully understanding them.

    1. Torn

      A lesson that both telepaths and power-mimics everywhere could really stand to learn!

      1. Nightmask

        Depends on the power-mimic, most of them in comics manage just fine copying anyone’s powers. The only power-mimic I’ve seen ignore powers that require practice or care (like teleportation) was the Exiles version of Mimic from Marvel and that was more to nerf him (otherwise he’d have been running around with half Magneto’s powers like his evil counterpart, or half of Phoenix).

  2. The Aussie Bloke

    I think bubble-head is about get a dressing down from the little girl.

    1. Nobody

      They will be LUCKY if that’s the worst that happens. KA-THOOM looks decidedly unsafe for all involved…

      1. Faust

        I am guessing three dead. Then again, dead has never happened in this comic before.

        1. Allan Mills

          You mean aside from when Ambriel died? She did get better admittedly.

        2. enderlord99

          Dead has happened in this comic before, it just un-happened afterwards. You know, with Ambriel?

        3. Adahn

          Granted he was a villain, but I don’t think Dr. Irons survived the helicopter crash.

        4. Van

          But was he technically alive anyways?

        5. Nobody

          of course! He was made of plant matter at the time. IIRC anyway.

      2. Christopher

        Well, they got a mage that is currently focussing on some spell.
        A fire user that might not be able to resist phlogistons powers.
        Phlogistons who cannot control her power right now.

        The villain, Neuronet and 84 are propably going to be okay.

    2. Horatio Von Becker

      If by that you mean she very thoroughly the suit that makes him more than a psychic card reader, then hopefully so.

      1. ByTheFarmstead

        very thoroughly what?

        1. David Nuttall

          “Removed”? Leave the guy in his underwear.

        2. Horatio Von Becker

          I think I meant destroyed, but don’t remember for certain. How annoying.

    3. David Nuttall

      By dressing down, you mean a kick to the shin that makes him feel she nearly broke it, right?

      1. The Aussie Bloke

        “Nearly”?

      2. Van

        How about having him turn around, bend over like he is touching his toes, and she punts him into the loop around for the next several days?

        1. The Aussie Bloke

          Ooooh, nice

  3. With Respect

    Innnteresting.

    The next few panels just headed very, very much unlike anyplace PS238 has ever gone.

    1. Horatio Von Becker

      They’re probably fine. Right? Right?

      1. With Respect

        Fine?

        I legitimately do not know. Suffering the death of a friend — even a friend for four panels — while linked to their mind is a classic of the genre.

        It’s a bit.. dark for a child-oriented story, but even in the lightest and brightest of tales, ‘fine’ is not always good.

        Rastov’s an illusionist, this might be illusion, and he has to be rugged to have lasted so long. Phloe is a grown up hero of great achievement and plausible survivability. The Eggverse isn’t the real world. There are ways and ways and ways for ‘fine’ to eventually be revealed. But dramatically?

        Dramatically, “Not Fine” is quite justified.

        1. Sticks

          I would not say this comic is child-oriented. Child-centric, yes, but written for adults.

      2. Balance

        Phlogiston has said that she makes thing explode while in her plasma form. I suspect she does so by physically interacting with them–as seen in panel 2, where contact with her hand shredded the edge of Rastov’s hood. If so, she’s probably used to being at ground zero and not too much the worse for this boom.

        Conjuror is probably somewhat protected by the shield; he might be shaken up, but likely not seriously harmed. Neuronet is far enough away that he, regrettably, probably isn’t hurt at all. (Yet.)

        The real question is Rastov, and it depends on what he really is. If he’s just what he says–basically, a squishy wizard who was relying on the shield spell–then yes, things may have just gotten quite messy. However, he could also be something else in disguise, or even just a projection of one of the egg’s defenses/tests. If it’s testing for heroic traits, someone just failed. Badly.

        1. With Respect

          As I said. I have no idea. This is one of those moments were unlimited possibilities emerge from a single image. The aftermath is going to be interesting, no matter which comes about.

          An illusionist really dead in a magic egg from an accidental explosion of a mind controlled energy manipulator who herself was consumed in the blast while mentally linked to 84, mere feet away from Conjurer and Firedrake, when the theme is how squishy everyone who isn’t FISS can be?

          I have no idea where this goes.

          Exciting, isn’t it?

  4. =Tamar

    I wonder… Phlogiston’s colors are the same as that jewel on his staff.

    1. Horatio Von Becker

      If her powers are actually magical, this could get interesting.

  5. Nightmask

    Really bad form treating 84 as nothing but a distraction, FISS or not (although at least he FINALLY used her super-hero ID and not something dismissive like ‘girl’). I also imagine what we see is the results of him losing his connection to her as her brain crossed the boundary of the force field and I might just have been wrong about no one getting hurt this early in the story.

    1. Van

      I think at this point everyone should be considering how Julie aka 84 is going to hurt him for doing this to her and Phlogiston.

    2. Prairie Son

      I’m not sure we can really hold him (or the others) not saying ’84’ against them. We forget that we’ve had years of time to get used to calling Julie by her code name. These people have had, what, 20 minutes?

      1. Nightmask

        Except he manages to remember everyone else’s names just fine, outside of Phlogiston everyone refers to 84 in some dismissive fashion by not using her super-ID. Four new people to deal with and the only one he fails to use is 84’s and fails consistently, even when he dislikes the person.

        1. Prairie Son

          Except we have no idea how much these others have interacted before appearing in this issue. Maybe they attended one of the Nuclear Family’s barbecues or something.

          We are assuming facts not in evidence, which should always be done with caution, lest we ignore real evidence.

      2. =Tamar

        Her name is on her suit in large clear numbers. The others aren’t wearing nametags.

        1. Van

          Sure they are: Jerk, Dirtbag, and Schmuck. Apply them which of the three you choose.

        2. Enoon

          I hope they’re interchangeable. I’m horrible with names

        3. Nightmask

          Which was what makes it clear he’s intentionally dissing her by not using her hero ID, can’t claim to have forgotten someone’s super-ID when they have it right there on their uniform and it’s in plain English.

        4. Van

          Which is why we shall call him “douchebag”.

  6. Foradain

    So, 84 was moving away from ground zero, and has that “I” going for her. Phlogiston, I hope, has some resistance to her own powers, if that was just her powers going out of control…

    I don’t expect the guys to come out of this fiasco in anywhere near as good shape as the ladies. But unfortunately I expect Neuronet didn’t get hurt as badly as Conjurer and Firedrake.

    Yet. ^_^

  7. CF_Azaka

    Taking control of your team members without their consent isn’t a moral gray area, it’s just evil. Even more so when you use them as ‘diversions’. It’s fairly hard to use mind control powers without approaching the ?is this evil? area. Not sure how he made it to super hero status without finding out the hard way that people don’t like to feel helpless.

    1. Paddy

      Legit uses of mind control without consent would be limited to something like the following:

      a) Self defence (in the most immediate and urgent sense)
      b) A person being out of their mind and unable to give consent; restrained for their own safety and that of those around them.
      c) (Very briefly) to move someone out of the way of imminent danger.

      None of which apply here, of course.

      And I’m a tad worried that he may have kept his hero status by conveniently editing peoples’ memories.

      1. Mechwarrior

        A case could also be made if mind control were used to stop a conflict without harming anyway (for example, forcing a hostage taker to release the hostage and set his weapon down, allowing team mates to restrain him without needing to beat him up first), but it would be very tricky and extremely easy to misuse powers in this situation.

        1. Van

          Then he has blown it totally at this point.

  8. Robert S.

    So, Phlogiston became material in the middle of a shield. She is either cut in half, or the field that keeps her together was interposed with the sheild, big bada boom, or both. Hopefully the chaos god wants to keep them alive, or offers their restoration as a favor to 84, because I can see all but 84 being turned to pink mist by this.

  9. Rens

    Who wants to bet that Neuronet’s going to try blaming any casualties on 84 and Phlogiston’s inability to do as he told them to?

    1. Van

      He will certainly be able to blame them for the headache they both intend to beat into him for this.

  10. DreamPen

    If Neuronet was a supervillain (or an evil person pretending to be a superhero), I’d say he was taking advantage of the situation to eliminate some of his competition.

    I am so fed up with the recklessness, pettiness, arrogance and blatant disrespect The Conjuror and Neuronet have shown. Firedrake I’m giving the benefit of the doubt as just same rash idiot who basically still means well. I feel so sorry (and proud) for 84 and Phlo working hard and going through a lot of crap to do the right thing, to be heroes.

    Specifically, I’m guessing Neuronet has done this sort of thing before- hijack someone to use their powers in a super-fight. If so, he should have at least known better than to just rush in. He should have checked the memories of the person he was mind-controlling to see the intricacies and full effects of their powers.

    Accidents like that are the stuff that sets off comic book storylines like Marvel’s Civil War (or the PS238-verse’s Kid Powers’ twisting of reality when he’s not careful).

    (That’s all praise for Aaron Williams’ writing and characterization.)

    I just hope to see a happy ending for this story.

  11. TomT

    That did not look healthy for anyone involved. 84 is out of the immediate blast radius but …

    1. Van

      Think how unhealthy it will be for Neuronet if Phlogiston is injured, and 84 decides she needs to express to Neuronet her displeasure over Neuronet’s actions.

  12. Mechwarrior

    Given that PS238 definitely falls on the optimistic side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs Cynicism, I’m not worried about whether or no Phlo survives, though she is at quite a large risk of permanent impairment.

    Neuronet, if he’s very very lucky, has only made an enemy of 84.

    If he’s unlucky, he’s just made an enemy of a trickster god.

    What happens when the trickster god decides that it’s no longer funny?

    1. aqua

      he plays a very long very dark game

      1. Mechwarrior

        Exactly.

    2. kentda

      We’ve all suggested that maybe he’s testing them, not just on terms of their skill and power, but the Integrity of their character. What if the Eye itself has a ward around it that can only be bypassed by those with a true sense of Integrity and Worth?

      So it could very well be that the only one who Can retrieve the Eye is someone who understands at a deep level what it means to be a Hero, or truly Wants to understand what it means.

      1. Nightmask

        So from what we’ve seen currently only 84 and Phlogiston are qualifying to meet those standards.

        1. kentda

          Unless the others experience an epiphany and do something like a Heel-Face Turn except instead of Evil to Good its absolute jackass/tool to someone who understands what it means to be a hero.

        2. Horatio Von Becker

          Hey, the only one we have good reason to believe doesn’t would be Neuronet. The others, Phlogiston and 84 excepted, just seem to have no idea how to be polite/classy.

        3. The_Rippy_One

          Now wait a bit – Fire Dingbat may also fit the description, and just monumentally sucks on execution – if the emphasis is “tries” and “wants,” he seems to pass. His jerk-ness seems more unthinking than malicious, and he might feel bad, and agree to try to do better, if someone pointed out what he’s doing wrong.

        4. kentda

          Rippy, my apologies, you’re right. It’s too easy to forget about Firedrake with how front and center Neuronet and Conjurer seem to be.

          While Conjurer’s dickery has only been demonstrated by what he’s said, Neuronet has demonstrated he’s a tool / jackass both by what he’s said and what he’s done.

          Firedrake … he comes across more and more as the unthinking simple sort. He comes across as a jackass as a result at points, but you are right, he’s doesn’t seem to be trying to be one.

    3. Van

      Think how Neuronet will get to enjoy a few years as a frog, in a elementary school for children with super powers.

      1. Debra Hanson

        Hopefully at Praetorian Academy instead of PS238. The Headmaster and his teachers are not as much into making the students “play nice.”

        1. Van

          Either one would not be a fun experience. Imagine a frog with Wolverine’s healing powers getting dissected all the time.

  13. John Whiting

    [shaking head] “Telepaths. They never knock before entering.”

    1. Van

      They do after someone beats some manners into them.

  14. Kolth

    So…. umm…. yeah. I was angry enough with the last update. But this….

    There will be a reckoning.

  15. KMorisato

    When Julie really focuses, I’ll bet that she can shake off Neuronet the next time that he tries something like this. Remember that she once knocked out a telepath with their own psychic shackles.

    1. Mechwarrior

      She needs to add the Alan Parsons Project to her playlist.

      Not just Eye in the Sky, either. I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You should be there was well.

  16. Leo Orionis

    “What? Of COURSE there’s a risk, but” I’m way over here and I’M not in any danger, so do what I tell you, girl.

    I was already pissed off, but now he might have gotten Phlogiston killed. Payback time!

    1. CraigR

      If Phlogiston has actually died, Neuronet has done more than “gotten her killed”. He KILLED her. He pushed her into the situation, he was warned beforehand her powers were not easy to control, then he threw her in in such a way that if he lost control of those powers, she would *explode*(assuming that is what happened).

      I can only hope, if that is actually what went down, that this is all happening in a virtual reality and at the conclusion we find that no time has passed and that Phlogiston is fine. I don’t fancy being Neuronet in that situation, either.

    2. Wanderer

      No fair rewriting Aaron’s script, thanks. Neuronet seems to have thought he could co-ordinate 84 and Phlogiston into a fight-ending double-team. Less risk to everyone involved. Unfortunately, he didn’t check the magical force field for anti-psychic effects, much as he started bragging before when his entire team combined couldn’t even find where Veles’ mind was located. (Being a deity means a fleshly body is essentially a puppet; Veles is no more that body than Mxyzptlk is really a short man wearing a bowler hat.) End result: His control of Phlogiston is disrupted as she passes through the field, resulting in exactly what she’s been warning everyone about since this started. Her powers are very effective at going BOOM in large and destructive ways, and it’s a good thing for everyone but her (and Rastov, of course) that she was contained by Rastov’s shield when she detonated.

      I have a feeling 84 and Phlogiston aren’t the only ones who are about to tear Neuronet a new one.

      1. kentda

        Sorry, but taking Control of something that You Don’t Understand is in and of itself a Risky Endeavor. He even admitted that her attack was a Risk. Had she done it on her Own Will, the risk would have been lower because she understands better how to Control her own powers. Him hijacking her body only Increased the Risk Factor, it does not Reduce It.

        As to his control of Phlo, I think its more the fact she went boom than anything which severed his control over her.

        In a way I’m hoping that Veles’ is displaying key moments to the world from their time inside the egg to show what some of the “heroes” are actually like.

        1. Antigone

          A trickster deity? He’s probably live-streaming the whole thing, with special captioning for the telepathic conversations and free popcorn.

          … which could bite Neuronet once he gets out, because his teammates are presumably watching, and I find myself wondering just _how_ he got the post of team leader.

        2. Horatio Von Becker

          Who says he’s team leader? Veles probably just grabbed the guys he thought would be funniest from the teams without obviously viable candidates.

        3. Andorxor

          He probable overpowered the others with his mechanical booster and made them his puppets.

  17. toughluck

    Did we just skip a page here, maybe?

  18. Delver

    I’m betting phlogiston is going to be in a vapor state for quite a while. Literally and figuratively.

    1. Mechwarrior

      Are you saying that you think she’s steaming?

      1. Delver

        Well I bet she is the jagged greenish blob in the last frame so yes of a sort, and if she survives to reform, she will be steaming mad I bet.

  19. Pietro

    This is why we can’t have nice things!

  20. Someguy

    I felt the need to drop rocks before, NOW I feel the need to bury Neuronet headfirst into a pile of fresh excrement and send him into a ‘poonado’ spin :<

  21. Grantwhy

    My guess?

    1) “She’s dead Jim”
    2) death is only for ‘within the egg’. When this is over and the survivors leave, any that died will be restored.

    1. Van

      You left out:
      3) And those that died will be extremely displeased with the one who caused their death in the first place.

  22. Matt [in Middletown]

    “Vent gas to prevent explo zee on.” -Homer Simpson

  23. luagha

    Phlogiston! NOOOOOO!

  24. Rock

    ._õ … *TWITCH* … Hello, Neuronet. I want to introduce you to a friend of mine: Mr. Trash Compactor. If you keep your stupid mouth shut, I may allow you to take off your suit before I toss it in.

  25. Thunderfoot

    The real problem is what Senator Headmaster has been worried about – pride. When you think you are better than everyone else, you act like it and trash those of lesser ability under-foot. While it’s obvious that Headmaster is a super a-hole, I think this little foray into the minds of the supers shows it is also not entirely unfounded.

    Humility is not a very well developed trait in those that are told they are awesome all the time, which is why 84 is the perfect person for this, she always thought of herself as an afterthought, not a whole lot of pride to lead to her fall. Well played Aaron, well played

  26. Vinny Havoc

    Anyone else notice that when Phlogiston passes through the wizard’s shield bubble, the white aura around her is negated? Look at her reaching arm and the top of her head, which is clearly meant to be exiting the shield, and the portions of her body inside. The white aura is gone. I suspect that it’s some kind of containment field intended to prevent Phlogiston ever coming into direct uncontrolled contact with the atmosphere.

    Maybe that’s what she meant by difficult to control. Her powers are as much a burden as a blessing, as she must carefully control her own little pocket of atmosphere, to both permit her respiration, but also prevent her from spontaneously detonating. Whatever her plasma is made of must interact violently with oxygen, as so many materials do.

    By becoming intangible, she was able to pass through the shield, but her own personal atmosphere aura was disrupted.. I imagine that, if Phlogiston had been in control, she’d phase through the shield and make sure to reconstitute her atmospheric aura herself, keeping the two or more portions of aura flush with the wizard’s bubble, a difficult feat even while standing still, a master feat of coordination when moving. Something Nutterbutter over there didn’t take into account, likely assuming Phlogiston’s ‘Necessary Secondary Superpowers’ are automatic and reflexive.

    1. TxGator

      Interesting theory. But if that is the case, it does beg the question, why be a super hero if a minor disturbance to your field causes you to explode? Sounds rather like being a boxer with a glass jaw.

      1. Nightmask

        It’s not unknown though, there are supers around who can go up like a nuclear bomb if their containment suit is damaged sufficiently that still run around getting involved in super-heroics rather than going ‘gee if I fight the Hulk and he breaks my suit I’ll kill everyone in NY state better let someone else fight him’. Sure logically it sounds incredibly non-heroic risking everyone’s lives going out like that but it does happen.

      2. Vinny Havoc

        A lot of heros have such weaknesses. The Marvel X-men mutants have many with dangerous side effects, Cyclops comes to mind, as does Rogue. On the DC side, Captain Atom is very much like Phlogiston, as damage to his suit can be catastrophic.

        It’s likely Phlogiston only became a hero after she was confident in her ability to control her power well enough to not spontaneously detonate like that. It was Neuronet’s interference that led to it. If Phlogiston had been left in control of her abilities, that likely would not have happened. Heros who have debilitating weaknesses work hard to cover or account for them, but that doesn’t mean they can’t still be exploited by extenuating circumstances, like an overconfident and overbearing bodysnatcher who has no idea what he’s doing with powers he has no experience with.

        1. Nightmask

          Well Cyclops and Rogue aren’t really ‘minor bit of damage unleashes vast destruction’, Cyclops can just close his eyes and Rogue’s powers require she touch someone to drain them she doesn’t explode if you damage her costume. Now Captain Atom is more suited, particularly the original version since minor damage meant he’d release dangerous levels of radiation into the area around him although his DC revamp it takes a lot of damage to make him a threat (like in Kingdom Come when Parasite ripped him apart).

          Phlogiston’s likely self-taught like most heroes, and circumstances required she learn how to master her powers so she wouldn’t be a threat to others. She’s bound to have had mishaps, and likely couldn’t engage in a mental battle with Neuronet because of the Catch-22 since trying to resist him would take concentration away from managing her powers in her plasma-state so had to go along and due to his haste she simply couldn’t impress on him the dangers fast enough to prevent this disaster.

          So we see what happens when you engage in well-intentioned but thoughtless actions.

  27. Frith Ra

    Obviously, I’m too late to say anything new, so I will sit this conversation out.

  28. Pneumonica

    Huh. So, mass-shifting the electromagnetic interaction between matter so that one body of matter doesn’t interact with another body of matter is “nothing fancy.” I really need to look up “fancy,” because I had thought that was something fancy.

  29. Paddy

    An extra-wrong thing about Neuronet is that he could have contributed to this fight in a far more legit way – since his power suite isn’t limited to telepathy, but also includes telekinesis (http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2014-12-01/).

    1. kentda

      Paddy, another fun thing, that might have been missed. What Grigor said.

      “You have the full use of your abilities, for all the good they’ll do you.”

      Which either means their powers are effectively useless in the challenges ahead, or the enemies are so strong it won’t matter. I’m leaning toward the former personally.

      1. Mechwarrior

        Or that Veles knew that they wouldn’t think outside the box and instead go exclusively for the all-solving hammer for every problem, yielding failure when a more novel use of their powers could have resulted in success.

      2. kentda

        Telekinesis is a wonderful wonderful tool that can do a lot of things. Of course this is only if you’re willing to take the box, turn it into a paper crane, light it on fire and then smile.

    2. Leo Orionis

      Very true! For instance, he could have grabbed the shield and shaken whatsisname in it like dice in a cup (assuming the “shield” has some kind of “surface” which can be gripped; Aaron can play the physics of that any way he wants to). Failing that, he could have reached through the shield with his TK powers, and played “bounce the baddy” back and forth between the inside walls of the shield (assuming the shield permits “TK powers” to pass, and assuming it has an “inside wall.” If it doesn’t, the baddy goes flying out of his shield.

      1. Paddy

        And even if the shield both blocked and was immune to his TK (and telepathy), he could have used TK to break the rock hands, or used it to shield his allies, or used it to try to wear down the shield by just throwing stuff at it.

        That this terrible use of his powers was his first idea seems a really, really bad sign.

        1. Nightmask

          Well we have no idea what level of power Neuronet’s Telekinesis has, while he managed to fly around he may not be able to do more intense stunts like chucking large rocks (and given Firedrake was right up close to the field he’d have had to worry about hitting a team mate that he didn’t have issues with).

  30. Lenhardt

    Much pain incoming towards bubble-head.

    1. Van

      84 could always administer a full on atomic wedgie.

      1. Mechwarrior

        Or a cephalo-wedgie.

        1. Van

          Atomic wedgie with a super powered nougie?

  31. Dorcus

    Well, at least now there’s no sense of guilt in wanting to see Neuronet get killed.

  32. Someguy

    Also, body-jacking is only OK when fighting an Omnicidal Multi-Dimensional Cosmic Space Worm that also happens to be the Source of your own superpowers, NOT when the adversary is just a run-of-the-mill chained guard dog!

    1. Stasis

      Ehhhh, I wouldn’t call that situation ‘okay’. Understandable under the circumstances, perhaps, but definitely not 100% above board. I’d classify it as more ‘well-intentioned extremism’.

    2. Gullwhacker

      And even then, there’ll probably be people who want to put a bullet in your head for doing it.

  33. Debra Hanson

    Neuronet was “talking” to Phlogiston and probably used Julie’s correct super-hero ID to keep Phlogiston’s “yammering” to a lower level.
    (While we were only “hearing” Neuronet’s side of the conversation, it sounds like Phlogiston was trying to reason with Neuronet instead of just protesting.)

    1. Nightmask

      Yes, Neuronet was clearly not following one of the basic rules of super-heroing, you are not an expert on someone else’s powers so should listen to them especially when they have dangerous powers that require strong mental focus to keep under control. Rarely does another hero have a better idea how someone can use their powers than they themselves have especially when their own powers are unrelated to the powers in question (not everyone can be a smug Reed Richards able to instantly tell everyone how they can use their powers better).

  34. Zombatar

    Yep, definitely a merchant banker. Neuronet would fit right in at Goldman Sachs.

  35. JJ Swiontek

    Forced control of others was the ability of the Slaver race in Larry Niven’s Known Space universe. The Slavers had most of the galaxy in their control until they were overthrown and destroyed. Neuronet has crossed a very taboo boundary in civilized society. Regardless of circumstance, involuntary use of someone else’s body is (calling it what it is) mind rape.

    1. John Whiting

      Taking geeky nit-picking to a new low, I would argue that the non-consensual reading or alteration of a person’s thoughts and emotions is “mind rape”. Forcing someone’s body to perform an action might be more accurately termed “mind slavery”.

  36. Nico

    I am pretty certain that semi-tangible business counts as “something fancy.”

    What a moron.

  37. mrtt

    on the one hand, i like her and hope she is alive
    on the other hand, this would be significantly more weighty if she died

  38. Wanderer

    IF her power makes her explode, then exploding won’t kill her (she’d have died long before, if so). The same is certainly not true of Neuronet. This little trick should result in damage (mental – he was inside her head when this happened) and physical (as the others kick his butt – unless he lies). And then, Julie can point out that she haven’t demonstrated stupid previously, and this certainly was…

    1. mrtt

      the issue isn’t her power, but the interaction between her power and a magic shield.

  39. Gene Nygren

    the Explosion could take out every one But 84, Neuronet, and Phlogiston. Leaving the group smaller and more harder to do the next test.

  40. Marianom

    84 is a lady superman. she will not harm that crazy guy, but she will tell someone as soon as she can and then the guy will get his guts out…

    Besides that guy must follow the freakangels rule “no touching their minds unles a gun is in your head”

  41. With Respect

    We have been making too little of the title of the piece, then, haven’t we?

    Who are the Ones Before?

    FISS 1 thru 83?

    Rastov?

    The Stone Sentinels?

    Veles and his wandered-off nemeses? (Must be a pretty dull entertainer, as Tricksters go, if he keeps losing his audiences.) Including Eggmaker?

    Phloe, Neuronut, Congee, & Fireduck? (You’d think a classic five hero team would mold together at least one time without Complications, given they’re in a Magic Egg.)

    All of them? Is this a generational saga? Is 84 destined to step into the shoes of the Ones Before and become just like them? Can she break the cycle?

    All these questions, and more, in the next exciting episode of As The Egg Turns. (Over Easy)

    1. Leo Orionis

      … unless it just got scrambled!

    2. MattStriker

      The olds gods would be my guess.

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