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2016-06-15

Jun17
by Aaron on 2016-06-17 at 11:48 am
Issue: Chapter 2, Ps238 Volume 11

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  1. Radecliffe
    2016-06-17, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

    Well that should be interesting.

  2. Sewicked
    2016-06-17, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    In a curse (may you live in interesting times) kind of way.

  3. Nobody
    2016-06-17, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

    Well if even HALF of them show up, poor Aaron. He’ll have to draw them all. :p

    • Mechwarrior
      2016-06-17, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      Most of them will be off panel.

    • Lucario
      2016-06-17, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

      Or he could draw like this:
      http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/12/05/0534-fifty-eight-thousand-six-hundred-twelve-raccoons/

    • Messenger
      2016-06-20, 9:52 am | # | Reply

      Yes, it’s going to be a heavy task, BUT- it’ll mean seeing all sorts of possibly interesting new characters that Aaron may one day write about. For example, we still don’t know who flying fiery girl and alien boy from the last story are.

      Also, it’ll give us an idea of who’s still enrolled in PS238 after the exodus of some students to Praetorian Academy. I hope to see Satori Deacon and Kent Alec again.

      Lastly, most Praetorians will have the same looks anyway.

  4. evilkumquat
    2016-06-17, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

    My GOD his parents are just… just awful.

    • Someguy
      2016-06-19, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

      So they invite every kid with powers & leave out the two who don’t… Those Meta-Supremacists disgust me.

      • Clell
        2016-06-19, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

        does this invitation to Meta-kids mean that Tyler isn’t invited to his own party?

        • Dr. Watson
          2016-09-07, 9:38 pm | # | Reply

          They probably got caught up in throwing the slumber party and forgot about him again…

  5. tremor3258
    2016-06-17, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    What’s worse than forbiddance? Acceptance.

    (Man, Tyler’s parents.)

    • Owlmirror
      2016-06-17, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      This isn’t acceptance. This is taking Tyler’s request/idea, and changing it to be all about themselves (and probably Toby, although I’m confident Toby had no input on this either).

  6. Owlmirror
    2016-06-17, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    I suppose that technically, Tyler and Ron can find one room (or large closet, even), move a game console in there, and just avoid the screaming chaos of a mob of kids they mostly don’t know, other than to make occasional pizza raids and bathroom breaks.

    No doubt while they do so, Zodon and Von Fogg (and other villains on the make) will be using the chaos to probe the defenses and technology of the Earth Defense League, plant various backdoors and Trojan horses, and otherwise get up to mad shenanigans.

    • David Nuttall
      2016-06-18, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      With Angie coming up after them, “fixing” things to not be quite so world-conquering, but no less dangerous.

  7. Prairie Son
    2016-06-17, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, show of hands: Who did NOT see this coming?

    *raises hand*

    Also, making book on whether Toby’s powers just flared up again. Ante is a pint of blood to the Red Cross.

    • Messenger
      2016-06-20, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      *Raises hand.*

      I doubt this is Toby’s work, though. This is the kind of well-intentioned but actually cruel thing I’d expect from Tyler’s parents.

  8. BloodPlum
    2016-06-17, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

    Whelp, let’s go over the possible reasons shall we.
    Misunderstanding: They actually think they are helping Tyler by inviting all of his possible classmates, maybe because if he hung out with them outside of school he’d be more likely to be in situations that’ll give him powers (and then they would have two superpowered sons).
    Competition: Any parents can have a normal sleepover, let’s show how great we are by have the biggest best possible sleepover.
    Overcompensation: They can sense on some level that they are bad parents, so when given a simple request from their son who is at this point almost completely independent of them, they jump completely over do it.

    These three seem most likely to me.

    • Lucy
      2016-06-17, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

      All of the above?

      • Stephen R. Bierce
        2016-06-19, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

        Another possibility…
        Favoritism: Tyler knew his parents wouldn’t listen to him so he asked Toby to make the request on his behalf, but the parents are making the sleepover the way they think TOBY would want it.

        • HappyHead
          2016-06-23, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

          Or a worse possibility, they thought he _was_ Toby asking them.

    • Jon
      2021-04-18, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Possibility 4: they’re actually being controlled by alien mind worms deliberately trying to cause the Headmaster’s Omega-1 scenario, and inviting all the children lets them scout out other gene lines aside from Toby. Mind you, this might just be wishful thinking on my part…

  9. Eric
    2016-06-17, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    That’s not “kind of crazy”, that’s “a lot crazy”.

  10. Sean Duggan
    2016-06-17, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

    ^_^ I know it’s probably a minor art-goof, but part of me wants these cards to sense orientation and switch between portrait and landscape in panels 3-5.

    • Lucario
      2016-06-17, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      It’s perspective. Note how the text is horizontally compressed in panel 3.

      • Gr3y3lf
        2016-06-18, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

        Yep, it’s probably just perspective… But I wouldn’t put it past Tyler’s parents having a Techwiz create a postcard that changes orientation landscape / Portrait. Just to show how extra-special their party / sleepover will be.

  11. SFI
    2016-06-17, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

    And there go my hopes and dreams…

  12. Yu Blueit
    2016-06-17, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

    I hope that they included Cecil in the invitations.

    • Lycanthromancer
      2016-06-17, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      I’d be surprised if Tyler was even allowed home that day.

      • Lucario
        2016-06-17, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, unless you count Cecil’s collection (and detection) none of the three have powers.

        • Richard Grayson
          2016-06-19, 8:34 am | # | Reply

          Do Tyler’s parents know that Ron is depowered? Because they might have meant to invite him and the invitation got lost in the mail or something.

  13. trlkly
    2016-06-17, 9:06 pm | # | Reply

    On the bright side, maybe we’ll get to see all the kids who switched schools. What is Angle like now, for example?

    • Lucario
      2016-06-17, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t know who you’re talking about. Guardian Angel still attends PS238 and while Angie hasn’t been mentioned in a while I’m fairly sure she didn’t switch schools. What I’m wondering is if Charles Brigman will get/accept the invitation. He knows who Tyler’s parents are, so…

      • trlkly
        2016-06-27, 6:35 am | # | Reply

        Don’t know what you’re talking about. They did a deal saying that multiple people switched schools, and then we never saw Angie again. We know that they were taking the kids having problems. The excuse for us not seeing them was that they switched schools.

  14. Marie
    2016-06-17, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

    I have a feeling this will be a bigger trial to Ron than Tyler. And Charles will be a beast to both… maybe getting an overdue bigger fish lesson? What Tyler really wants and needs is just plain acceptance from his parents, and that lack can warp one.

  15. SFI
    2016-06-18, 4:21 am | # | Reply

    This is painfully like my own mother was… Though the Powers are actually still LESS bad than she: at least they do not in any form or way say to Tyler’s face that he is useless and stupid for not living up to their expectations…

    Aaron is driving me to fanfic, at this rate, just so I can deal with all this.

    • Wanderer
      2016-06-18, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      True. They just have a very bad habit of implying it, whether they mean it or not. Remember when they sent him to occult studies, and everyone figured they were hoping he’d get bitten by a werewolf or something?

      • Nightmask
        2016-06-18, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        How about when they signed off on the radiation exposure form for the moon trip explicitly saying that they’d like to see Tyler exposed to cosmic rays so he’d get powers? Talk about child abuse.

        • Faust
          2016-06-19, 12:44 am | # | Reply

          That was conveniently slightly before and potentially good timing for if something did happen.
          That form was open ended regarding both time and the nature of danger with power giving potential.

          • Wanderer
            2016-06-19, 8:46 am | #

            Yep. And, honestly, the reason they want him to have powers likely has nothing to do with his self-worth at all. More than likely, they know just how badly they relate to non-powered people and want to find some way of relating to their son. Tyler’s mom and dad don’t seem to have any mundane experience — they literally don’t know anything about “normal”.

          • Nightmask
            2016-06-19, 9:27 am | #

            Tyler’s parents are suffering from a god complex, they see themselves above the puny mortals that they watch over and as a result the idea of having a mortal son is inconceivable to them, they MUST have a child of power because they’re that special and it would violate everything they believe about themselves particularly their belief that they and everything they do is backed by cosmic Destiny. It’s why they spend all their time with other ‘gods’ and like in this case want their offspring to spend time with other godlings by taking his sleepover request and raising it up to Eleven.

          • Rock
            2016-06-20, 6:32 am | #

            So… the two supremacist morons aren’t ignoring Tyler’s existence completely anymore due to Toby’s existence and b0rked-up powers?

            …

            That would be improvement if they weren’t still pulling these meadow muffin stupidity stunts…

          • Mike
            2016-06-21, 7:48 am | #

            Nightmask, I think that’s the best summary of the Powers’ mindset offered so far.

    • Jon
      2021-04-18, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      I’m sorry you had to go through that, btw.

  16. Faust
    2016-06-19, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    So, praetorian kids being evil, headmaster scheming, the competing evil kids, and with all the kids in one place and masses of super teams in the town with EDL back door access via PS238 (which might get broken), I’m expecting a big plot involving kid rescue.
    If I’m right then the massed super teams will decide it was an error to put all their eggs in one basket and go back to where they originally were based.
    Oh, and because it’s obvious, moonshadow saves the day and nobody knows how he got there.

    • Faust
      2016-06-19, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect we will see the space station under PS238 going back into space for the rescue, the destruction of the school will probably be required getting it out. A teleporting hero helping during the rescue and the pupils from PS238 needing to attend praetorian for a while.

    • Rock
      2016-06-20, 6:34 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, most of the Praetorian kids we’ve seen weren’t actually evil.

  17. Rock
    2016-06-20, 6:35 am | # | Reply

    *facepalm*

    If I could choose two characters to be permanently depowered, I’d be hard-pressed not to pick the Powers over any of the greater villains, like Victor and his sister, or the Headmaster…

    • Sweeper
      2016-06-20, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      The Von Foggs aren’t superpowered per se, they’re just highly intelligent, aren’t afraid to use their intelligence to achieve their goals and have some rather cliche ideas on how to do it. Heck, the sister wields a remarkable ace in the hole by knowing who The Headmaster actually is and what he’s doing in the senate; if she were so inclined, she could incite a school-wide shutdown not to mention one heckuva political scandal.

      Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately), Von Foggs simply don’t work that way.

      • Mike
        2016-06-21, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        Their intelligence is their superpower; back in issue 50, the Headmaster noted that Lady Alexandria’s “parents were meta-level intellects”, and that her genes “contain markers that show alterations by whatever is the root cause of metahuman abilities”.

      • Messenger
        2016-06-21, 9:17 am | # | Reply

        Also, it’s not so one-sided in Alex’s favor as you say. The Headmaster and the Proctor are already setting to motion their plans to take over the Von Foggs’ wealth.

        • Rock
          2016-06-22, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

          I feel a bit torn on that subject.
          On the one hand, the Von Foggs are more than due being taken down a few hundred pegs.
          On the other, the Headmaster is dangerous enough without additional funding. 0.0

          • Mechwarrior
            2016-06-22, 8:50 pm | #

            Best-case scenario is that the Von Foggs go after Praetorian Academy at the same time that the Headmaster goes after their money and the whole thing ends up in a huge wreck that robs both of them of significant resources.

      • Rock
        2016-06-22, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

        She’s overestimating her ability to deal with the Headmaster…
        Apart from anything else, she’s a little girl. Provided the Headmaster can suppress, bypass or overwhelm her gadgets somehow, she’d have less chance of surviving a direct attack than Tyler would.

    • Nightmask
      2016-06-22, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      If nothing else they could use some time (like a few months minimum) totally depowered and having to deal with living like the powerless people they see themselves above and who shouldn’t even try to solve the world’s problems because that’s for those with powers to do as they see it. Have them learn what it’s like (because clearly they’ve had powers long enough they can’t remember NOT having them) might help save their souls in the end and improve their heroics by having them actually understand what it’s like being a non-powered mortal (much like how Crusader from Love And Capes strives to live like a mortal being an accountant and loves his eventual wife because she helps keep him grounded rather than coming to see himself above everyone like the Powers see themselves).

  18. Library Samurai
    2016-06-24, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

    My guess is that either Tyler and Ron will attend, feel out of place, and bail on a grand adventure (possibly with Cecil and the Flea), or that Ron will go in an anonymous, face-covering costume. I kind of vote for the costume. Whether he knows it or not, I’d like for him just once to feel what Moonshadow feels.

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