2016-10-05
Posted on 2016-10-06 by Aaron

49 thoughts on “2016-10-05”

  1. Van

    Girl, you seriously need to build a translator so we can all understand Prospero.

    1. Stickmaker

      I have more trouble understanding her than him.

  2. Rock

    … He affects CHANCE?!

    1. Faust

      Um… Ball control? So far we have only seen him effect balls.

    2. Xero

      Could be passive could be acctive could be like domino from x force where its semi passive (a shot taken at her will miss but only if she tries to dodge)

  3. Prospero

    PROSPERO: Our calculations contained no errors.
    ANGIE: Yeah. If we’d goofed up the math, sump’n would’ve exploded by now.

    PROSPERO: At least he didn’t explode.
    ANGIE: F’real.

    1. Korenn

      This is entirely correct. I only just now realised prospero’s speech is character substitution. I guess that means Aaron simply has a custom font that he applies to the prospero speech bubbles 🙂

      1. Tarkas

        Prospero’s speech is lettered by typing the words in a particular font. I can’t remember the name of it, though Aaron did tell us what it was in one of the letter columns.

      2. Stephen R. Bierce

        The font is called “camouflage” and is readily downloadable from a number of sources.

        1. TheGalator

          Yay. I Just Translated It All By Hand.

  4. Wanderer

    Well, now we know the trick. The portals were set up as a network, such that you had to hit the right one at the right angle and speed to hit the bottles. Except that something went wrong, so it came out at the cup-and-ball booth.

  5. Owlmirror

    Hm..

    I am remembering that when Ron lost his powers (archive comic page for 05032013), he accused Moonshadow of being “bad luck” (and elsewhere, I think, he called Moonshadow a “jinx”).

    I wonder if that was supposed to be foreshadowing of Ron having secret good luck (or probability-affecting) powers?

    1. CountryMage

      I still think it’s high reaction speed, trained up for dealing with high-speed flight. That or his super power will be whatever vector analysis thing, that Action Man had in his cartoon.

  6. SFI

    Aaawwwww, Ron has a doll of his father!!! <3

    1. ThatOneGuy

      Sad thing might be that the doll might have been there for him more than his own father.

      1. Segev

        Going forward, perhaps, but it’s a little unfair to imply Atlas hasn’t been there for him before the whole “go back to Argos” thing. Until the Praetorians started deliberately screwing with his parents’ relationship, Atlas seemed like a fairly decent father. Not perfect, but he cared, and he wasn’t “not there” for Ron by any indication that I remember seeing.

        1. Rock

          Agreed. Atlas is generally a good guy, and he cares about his family.

        2. TeChameleon

          While I’ll agree that Atlas is a good guy and does care about his family… he’s never been shown to be very good at the whole ‘dad’ thing. He never really twigged to Ron not really wanting to be a superhero, had a bit of a disconnect with his wife, I’m not sure he ever even knew that Ron transferred to Praetorian, and, well… there was also the time he tried to ‘train’ Ron when Ron was about 4.

          By throwing him headfirst at the badguys, hard enough to embed him halfway through an engine block (tried to find the page to link it, but can’t remember which storyline that was in, so didn’t have much luck).

          I suppose it’s only a mercy that Ron didn’t actually HIT any of the badguys, since unless they were high-end FISS-es themselves, he would’ve punched straight through them like they’d been hit by an artillery shell. How’d THAT be for trauma for a preschooler who was already afraid of his own strength?

        3. SFI

          Answer to Chameleon but it won’t let me reply to you for some reason: Atlas DID know Ron transferred. They were talking about it during the chapter where the kids are on that Zodon-space-station-thingie-mabob

        4. Prairie Son

          There’s a limit to how far we can branch on comments.

          If memory serves, the scene where Ron was in the engine block was part of the “Tyler judges the metahumans” arc, so like issue 30 or so.

        5. Rock

          For all his undeniable faults, Atlas tried. He didn’t play the supremacy card or just abandon his family. Things went sour, but that was not solely his fault.

        6. WJS

          Atlas has not always been there for Ron.

        7. Messenger

          Also agreeing with you, and adding:
          At the least, a much better parent than Tyler’s.

        8. Prairie Son

          That bar’s so low coal miners are digging down to it.

    2. HEB807

      Is Atlas’s skin really that dark? I had sort oc assumed that it was a monkey. A playful animal sidekick like the space-monkey Gleek.

      1. SFI

        The skincolour seems sorta like what Ron has (and I’ll assume what his father has)… It’s the hair that’s a bit wrong :/

        Doll-physics? Cheap Knock-off of Brand Dolls? XD

      2. Ed Rhodes

        Am I the only one who remember Bippo the Super Monkey? Part of the Legion of Super Pets (Comet the Super Horse, Krypto the Super Dog and Streaky the Super Cat!)

      3. james

        It’s a moiré patteren as result of digitising a print image it looks a reasonable “human pink” to me

        1. swiftgold

          it’s the “new” atlas not ron’s dad

    3. Lucario

      What are the other two dolls? One is a TMNT, the other is…?

      1. Ed Rhodes

        I know this doesn’t make sense, but it looks like a Domino’s Pizza Noid!

      2. Xero

        Plushy gummi bear maybe

      3. Lucario

        My first guess is Super Meat Boy, but I don’t think that’s it.

        1. Rock

          Super WHAT? 0_o

        2. Lycanthromancer

          Youtube it. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=playthrough+super+meat+boy

        3. Lycanthromancer

          Youtube it. I had a Youtube link for this, but the commenting program kept marking it as spam.

        4. Lycanthromancer

          …and the internet gods laugh at me again. It said it didn’t post that first one, and I didn’t bother to fact-check beforehand.

  7. Ninjaswordmaster

    When it comes to Prospero body language can be pretty useful.
    Panel 1: calmly awaits to be proven right
    Panel 2: displays mild surprise
    Panel 3: ponders results
    4: looks at Ron’s prizes
    5: “Well that was weird.”

  8. Andorxor

    But i wanted orbital bombardment of the ballboth

    1. Delver

      I thought these events were indoors but the background in these phrases looks decidedly outdoors.

      1. Van

        So? If you use sufficient orbital bombardment, being indoors or outdoors does not matter.

      2. Faust

        I thought this was supposed to be hosted in their headquarters in orbit. There is nothing stopping one thing in orbit from bombarding something else also in orbit. Is the background holographic?

  9. Messenger

    Slightly off-topic but ultimately appropriate:

    All this makes me wonder about the Headmaster’s agenda of preventing the ultimate super form being born, particularly the part about supers showing themselves off to attract a similarly powerful or more powerful mate, thus producing even more highly-powered children. TBH, I thought it was some sort of elaborate ruse to throw off Alexandra or, at most, a bunch of lies with certain verified facts, while the Headmaster continued with his real agenda.

    But all this- carnival games that ordinary humans can only win purely by small chance- really does speak volumes of the elitism that Sovereign and Ultima have. It’s a kind of noble racism- they are above ordinary people thus they protect and take care of the latter since they can’t do that themselves. With these games, they’re starting the super-children on this path early, but at least none of the kids so far are showing that kind of thinking.

    1. Rock

      The Powers are big examples of what we might call “the superman’s burden”….

    2. SFI

      While Ultima and Sovereign are certainly elitist, did you perhaps consider that the fact that these games are build on powers has a far more innocent reasoning: Metahumans cannot truly participate at their full potential in ‘normal’ carnival-games as they will either be boringly easy (think X-ray eyes for the cupgame) or get broken (Strength for that one hammer-game). Here – theoretically – purely among their peers, they can go at the games to their heart’s content without needing to fear breaking them or winning boringly easy (granted, some would certainly like either of those, but plenty will still like some kind of challenge to winning say a giant teddybear).

      1. trlkly

        Yeah, but that means they still forgot about Tyler. Or they think having hard stuff will make him get powers–one or the other.

        1. SFI

          Sometimes I feel like people demonize those two way too much. Yes, they are abyssal parents. No, not everything abyssal parents do has it’s origin in said abyssal parenting. I would know, I had a mother like that. I’m sorry if I’m offending anyone with this ‘advocating for the devil’ I am doing, but it just seems like people don’t even LOOK for nice or good reasonings they might have had when doing things.

          For example they – or Pistonic – could have come to the logical conclusion that if there are almost 30 metahuman-kids, one potential (Tyler) and maybe two or three normals (any friends Tyler brings) that most of the things should be aimed the metahumans. After all, the normals still have the games in the Rec-room which I assume are RocketLeague and the like and therefore Normal-suited, the food, drinks and general fun interactions with the other kids.

          I would of course stand corrected if it’s shown that no, they are just assholes. But right now, they don’t NEED to be.

        2. trlkly

          That’s still making sure Tyler can’t play.

          The thing is, they are bad parents. There’s no way in which they are not. They pretty much don’t know he exists anymore. Remember, Toby is the one who asked them, because Tyler can’t even get into their headquarters since he has no powers.

          And, don’t forget, the idea was never to have 30 metahuman kids in the first place. That’s what happened when Tyler wanted to invite his “normal” friends over. And, no I don’t think Toby screwed it up. He knew what Tyler wanted, and he likes Tyler. He clearly knew the 30 kids thing sucked.

    3. Xel Unknown

      Perosnally I hope those are legit fears Headmaster has, just the realistic ballpark of the timetable is up in the air. The theory is honestly in my opinion 100% sound by Comic Book Logic. Hell it seems like a theory that’d fit in mainstream superhero comics.

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