2017-05-19
Posted on 2017-05-21 by Aaron

30 thoughts on “2017-05-19”

  1. Simreeve

    Oops!

    ^_^

    (“What’s this liquid in the cup that I’ve brought down?”)

    1. Nobody

      Given we clearly see the underside of his pants in that last shot, I’m going with your joke doesn’t work. :p

      1. Prairie Son

        Wrong fluid. Tyler was trying not to throw up last page, remember?

  2. Lucario

    See his grip in the last panel? Revenant has trained him well.

    1. junkymagi

      Yep, he really really doesn’t want to fall when he’s not got his bag O goodies with him.

    2. Messenger

      Honestly, it’s too bad the only time we see future Tyler is while he’s doing the more humdrum part of vigilante detective work as opposed to the awesome, exciting part.

    3. Dstaal

      I’m not entirely sure of that – arguably, he grabbed the wrong rope.

      1. Sean Duggan

        Did he? I doubt it was severed close enough by that he could have snatched the end that Cecil was holding.

      2. TB

        Don’t think so. If Cecil was strong enough to fly with Tyler’s added weight instead of just towing a balloon, they’d have done that in the first place.

        1. Nightmask

          He’s managed something like that for short periods but it left his coat whimpering. In the shrunken state it wasn’t possible to actually fly both of them such a vast distance relatively speaking up against gravity.

        2. Segev

          Ironically, that should be exactly the opposite. Due to the square-cube law, shrunken, the area of the coat should be able to more easily carry the reduced volume/mass of the kids.

        3. Nightmask

          Ah but the distance is now, relatively speaking, far greater than it was before. There are trade-offs after all. Things improve in one area and drop in the other. The main benefit being that Tyler likely could survive a fall from that height without more than a few bruises due to his greatly reduced size and mass making air resistance able to slow him much more.

  3. SFI

    Is it bad that all I wanna say is ‘bbbyyyyyeeeeeee’?

  4. MrBookBoy

    What kind of blasts do you think there are? I can see fire, and some sort of laser, but besides that I cannot tell.

    1. Mechwarrior

      Well, the one on the far left is definitely Emerald Gauntlet’s.

  5. Jenora Feuer

    “This is probably bad.”

    Well, at the very least, Cecil has demonstrated mastery of the art of dramatic understatement.

    1. Knug

      Only the Sith deal in absolutes.

      1. Ed Rhodes

        It’s been pointed out that that statement in and of itself is pretty absolute.

      2. Weatherheight

        And most retails liquor outlets…

        1. Weatherheight

          Someone kill the previous post and put it out of its misery.

      3. Weatherheight

        And most retail liquor outlets…

  6. Kaian

    They are shooting balloons to get what is dangling from them.
    Sure invite your friend for another balloon ride. . .

  7. TeChameleon

    Y’know, that raises the question of how much fine control Cecil has over the shrink ray. Why not just make Tyler even smaller, shove him in his pocket, and off they go? Or, if he can’t do that, and now that things have gotten good and chaotic up there, likely preventing *too* detailed an observation of events in the local airspace, un-shrink himself enough to fly while carrying Tyler?

    … also, how has the Flea not realized that Tyler is Moon Shadow yet? I’m pretty sure that he hasn’t been in totally bug-free areas every time he’s changed…

    Of course, knowing the Flea, he’ll reveal that he’s known for a while that Tyler is Moon Shadow, and didn’t bring it up because ‘you didn’t ask’.

    1. Stephen Bierce

      Or the always plausible “I was playing along with the ‘mystery’ because it’s fun watching everybody else flail around in their own confusion” ploy.

    2. HEB807

      That or Flea has never thought to ask bugs to do a recon and report on Tyler, and bugs who just happened to see him change didn’t think it was odd enough to tell Flea without prompting. After all, humans change their funny outer skins all the time.

    3. Prairie Son

      We’ve seen the results from when someone tries to shrink something that’s already been shrunk. They’re rather explosive.

  8. David Nuttall

    “Oh, yeah. Hang On.” Does Tyler really have a choice but to hang on. Especially with how much he has wrapped the rope (actually thread) around his arm like that.

  9. Moe Lane

    Ironically, Tyler could probably just let go and he’d be fine. He only weighs as much as maybe a mouse right now, right?

  10. Marie

    NPR is doing a comics survey. http://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/527975066/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-our-comics-and-graphic-novels-reader-poll

  11. Nightmask

    No surprise why he’d hate party games if this is indicative of how they were growing up, always set up and themed for supers rather than non-supers.

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