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2016-04-08

Apr11
by Aaron on 2016-04-11 at 4:59 am
Issue: Chapter 2

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  1. Messenger
    2016-04-11, 5:25 am | # | Reply

    “A gadget nut in a cape…” Could it be our resident Alan Parson Project fan? 🙂

    • thatonesun
      2016-04-11, 6:19 am | # | Reply

      no its revenant

    • RequiredField
      2016-04-11, 6:20 am | # | Reply

      The real question is: is anyone brave enough to go back through the archives and see if we’ve seen his fight during a Tyler pep talk.

    • Mike
      2016-04-11, 6:51 am | # | Reply

      Methinks you’ve hit the nail on the head.

    • Simon
      2016-04-11, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      He does tend to collect confiscated toys, so yeah, probably.

    • Veritas
      2016-04-13, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

      Honestly I think it unlikely. “A gadget nut in a cape” could cover any metahuman whose abilities come from bits of technology, who has a cape, and – in context – who happens to be at least something of a good guy. “Gadgets” don’t immediately make me think of toys, except in that his/her equipment might be CALLED “toys” as a pejorative or similar. (e.g. Joker, from the first(?) Batman movie: “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”)

      • Rock
        2016-04-15, 11:52 am | # | Reply

        I have the weirdest suspicion that a Von Fogg did this to boost his own powers, or just to figure out how the thing works… or just for evil kicks.

  2. Messenger
    2016-04-11, 5:27 am | # | Reply

    Also, art critique: Dr. Newby’s head looks way too small for her body. 🙁 I mean, even if she’s meant to be tall, that’s way too inconsistent with her previous depictions at the least.
    Meanin’ no offense. Hopefully, this could be corrected?

    • Marie
      2016-04-11, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      I kinds agree a little, but I wonder if we’re seeing a bit of foreshortening since the camera is below her.

    • Wanderer
      2016-04-11, 8:15 am | # | Reply

      Possibly him? Isadore is a male name; the female equivalent in Isadora…

      • M. Northstar
        2016-04-11, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, at first I thought it was a guy. Then I remembered Newby was the name of the school doctor and assumed it was her drawn weirdly. But maybe it’s actually her brother.

        • Wanderer
          2016-04-13, 9:17 am | # | Reply

          No, I went and looked… Her given name is Isadore… so it’s her. But I’ve still never heard of a woman named Isadore; it’s not like Jordan or Taylor which can be either…

    • rylen
      2016-04-12, 10:11 am | # | Reply

      My guess, Dr. Newby had stretching or growth powers. They would explain her noticeable height and odd proportions. Their loss would help her connect with others in the group.

      • Khime
        2016-04-12, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve always assumed Dr. Newby had healing powers, otherwise why have her as staff at PS238?

    • Anubis
      2016-04-12, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      She might literally be a voodoo head shrinker.

  3. Chris
    2016-04-11, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    2016-08-2016? What kind of date is that?

    • Me-me
      2016-04-11, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      It’s Thursday the two-thousand-sixteenth of August, four months and two-thousand-four days from now. What’s the problem?

      • Me-me
        2016-04-11, 8:45 am | # | Reply

        Sorry, two-thousand-five days from now. I can’t even count out the date, what’s wrong with me?

    • David Nuttall
      2016-04-11, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      August 2016, 2016, that’s what. I have always wanted summer to last a lot longer (especially seeing as how winter is trying to stick around well into spring this year), but this might be too much of a good thing.

      • Wanderer
        2016-04-13, 8:45 am | # | Reply

        Assuming that the months work just like normal, except for being x100 times as long… that’s a 26 years summer! Talk about the “summer of your life”… You’d be quite old before summer came again.

  4. artificer-urza
    2016-04-11, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    The guy had magic powers we couldn’t even dream of and I bet all he used them for were robbing banks.

    • pf
      2016-04-11, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve always thought the “you couldn’t even dream of” qualifier as a bit arrogant and presumptuous. That’s exactly right for a resentful ex-villain on parole, but it’d be nice to see this claim in a context where it actually applied. Maybe something like “I had mind-control powers you couldn’t even dream of (unless I allowed it).”

  5. Ed Rhodes
    2016-04-11, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    And think about this, magic powers you can’t dream of an she got taken down by our favorite masked guy with NO powers! That’s gotta hurt. I wonder if “Sarah” is missing this meeting because she’s over at P&G’s?

    • Mechwarrior
      2016-04-11, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Why would Sarah get called on if she was visibly not there? This is supposed to be the next morning, so Sarah’s probably going to be showing off her new toy.

    • unknown
      2016-04-11, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      hey ed! why did you say “she” got taken down, I thought he was a he.

      • Ed Rhodes
        2016-09-03, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

        ’cause sometimes I’m an idiot and don’t watch what I’m typing.
        Mis-typing… that’s my superpower.

  6. HEB807
    2016-04-11, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    I think its cool that ex water power’s face sort of looks like aquaman’s. I also wonder what you have to do to be considered “unworthy” by the lords of lemuria.

    • Nightmask
      2016-04-12, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      Well given he mentions a big oil spill over their sunken continent and how he’d wish another over it if he didn’t care about the environment he might have been responsible for that happening (he could have ended up an eco-terrorist who’s well-intentioned extremist behavior did more harm than good forcing them to remove his powers for everyone’s sake).

    • Sweeper
      2016-04-12, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

      Lemuria… Once I heard about the “Origins” of that continent, I can’t help but chuckle every time I see it.
      From what I found out, Lemuria was the name given to a hypothetical landmass that would explain why there are Lemurs in Madagascar and in India, but nowhere in between. 😀

      • HEB807
        2016-04-13, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        Which would mean that he got his powers taken away by a bunch of angry aquatic lemers.
        I love it! Head cannon accepted =)

        • Leonidae
          2016-04-13, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe he didn’t like to MOVE IT MOVE IT

  7. Unmaker
    2016-04-11, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    Sarah? Why do you look so smug? Does it have anything to do with that suspiciously glowing artifact? I think this is no longer the group for you.

  8. David Nuttall
    2016-04-11, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    Sarah: For the last several years, I have been hunted the assassination machines from the future. They usually look human, but are almost entirely machines. My son and I have have been on the move all over the place to avoid them, but it is often not enough. What I lost was one of those machines reprogrammed to defend my son and me; in some ways she was like a daughter I never had.

    That and high ratings but they did not recover from a writers’ strike.

    • David Nuttall
      2016-04-13, 9:30 am | # | Reply

      Ah, nuts! “hunted by assassination machines”

  9. David Nuttall
    2016-04-11, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    Is the Manacle of Nyrathos the left-handed gauntlet on the table from the last page?

  10. Segev
    2016-04-11, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    I’m with those betting “Sarah” is our mysterious customer of Power & Glory, LLC.

    Am I the only one for whom “Riptide” rings a bell? I know from context here he’s the Aquaman expy, but I can’t recall if we’ve seen or heard of him before. I feel like the name is familiar from some earlier arc, though. …was he perhaps at the job fair?

    Also, I wonder if any of Moonshadow’s occasional sidekicks will wind up with the Manacle of Nyrathos. Cecil already is building a collection of power-objects. As is Ambriel.

    • David Nuttall
      2016-04-11, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      Mindmistress has a whole underwater society, the Drown-Towners, one of whom used the code name of Riptide.

    • Knug
      2016-04-11, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

      Riptide was a TV investigative show – during reruns, it was on right after Simon and Simon, which was on after Magnum P.I. but that was damn near 30 years ago

      • Stephen R. Bierce
        2016-04-11, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

        It was on NBC along with The A-Team and Remington Steele.

      • Mechwarrior
        2016-04-12, 12:29 am | # | Reply

        Riptide was also the codename for one of the Marauders in the X-Men comics. He severely injured Nightcrawler and Colossus during the Mutant Massacre event.

  11. TB
    2016-04-11, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

    Actually, anyone who could accurately predict weather a week ahead of time would probably have her own money bin. Commodities applications alone are boggling.

    • Sora2455
      2016-04-11, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

      Wasn’t that the entire point of the Rainmaker program?

      • uaeoaeoeoi
        2016-04-11, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

        Yes and no depending on what version of the rainmaker program you mean.
        Current version yes.
        Original version would be to take someone with who is born with her current abilities and use unethical experimentation to turn them into her original abilities. She effectively is stuck with the opposite result of the original rainmaker program.(I find that somewhat funny)

  12. The Gorram Batguy
    2016-04-11, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    I want to believe that Omnius here was featured in one of the vignettes of Revenant fighting villains while on the phone with Tyler. I don’t want to dig through the archives looking. Anybody have any strong recollections on this?
    Also, now that he’s no longer a villain, what do you suppose he does for his day job? Whatever it is, I hope it’s something where he can get away with calling himself “omnibus” when nobody’s listening.

    • Unmaker
      2016-04-12, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      I like your thinking and would like to believe that Aaron is that on the ball, but I don’t have time for an archive trawl either. After all, there are so ~!@#$%^&*()_+ many of Revenant’s vignettes.

    • Mike
      2016-04-13, 11:48 am | # | Reply

      I’ve finally finished trawling the archives in my off-moments, and unless I missed something, only one of the villains we see the Revenant fighting or otherwise interacting with even comes close. That would be in Issue #33, at the last meta-run company Allard/Revenant takes Cecil to visit; one of the villians has a power aura around one hand, and his build and general appearance are somewhat similar to Wilcox/Omnius’. I don’t think it’s anywhere near close enough to call a “match”, though (granted, I’ve been wrong a lot more than once when speculating about these kinds of things…).

      • Prairie Son
        2016-04-13, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

        Since that’s the exec from Absolute Zero, and Cecil got a cryogenic vibe off him, no.

        • Mike
          2016-04-14, 7:02 am | # | Reply

          Hmmm. Could be – they don’t quite look the same to me, but that funky little mini-chin-beard does give your theory credence.

  13. LookielouE1705
    2016-04-11, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

    So, what’s the missing superpower origin story, lab accident? Presumably Sarah will have a different origin category from the others, for the sake of variety. She perhaps got powers from a lab accident, grew comfortable with them, was eventually “cured” and wants to get back to what she once was? Presumably she’s not supposed to be doing this, otherwise she’d have no reason to hide her identity while meeting Power & Glory, who otherwise have seemingly no interest in concealing their activities.

  14. TheGalator
    2016-04-11, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

    This Is A Gravatar Test

    • Foradain
      2016-04-12, 4:48 am | # | Reply

      The results seem to be negative for you.

      • The galator
        2016-04-12, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        Hardy Har Har Har

      • The galator
        2016-04-12, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

        Hardy, Har Har Har

  15. Messenger
    2016-04-13, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Only occurred to me now:

    Would all this be happening without Tyler making the choice of “Yes” to the question of “Will people go on having superpowers on Earth from now on? If not, another time, then.” Could Glory & Power have been able to set up shop like they did had Tyler said “No”? And since Tyler did say “Yes”, does that mean metahumans lose powers all the time but that, overall, people continue getting and having superpowers?

    This and many other questions I haven’t though of yet from the big picture of the PS238-verse. Discuss! 😀

    • Richard Grayson
      2016-04-13, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      I think that you’re overthinking this a bit. Just like in actual comic books, people probably gain and lose superpowers all the time in the PS238-verse. Tyler saying yes just means that, big picture wise, people with powers will continue to pop up more and more often…so I think it’s the latter half of your comment.

  16. HardWearJunkie
    2016-04-13, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    They set up shop a block away from the clinic. That’s like a Dunkin’ Donuts setting up right next to a Jenny Craig.

    It’s diabolical and genius at the same time.

  17. Marie
    2016-04-20, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    Rereading this, disaffected former supers… with bitterness, denial, and anger that the Headmaster might like to tap. Actually I think he might be less a problem than the other two adults.

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