Anyone else wondering where Tyler got the mace? Did it come with the outfit? And why does it seem to be dissolving after he hit the Lance of Considerable Injury(TM).
It was hanging from his belt, on the left, in the second strip where he’s in the new duds (the strip after he goes: “What am I wearing?”). It’s haft is visible when he first looks at t.he object he’s holding in his left hand throughout todays strip.
That WOULD be funny, but I don’t think so. I think the potion for Tyler is P&G’s payment to TOBY for getting goo-covered Tyler to them so they could collect the goo.
I’m not convinced management is the problem, p & g seem to be trying to force things when they don’t understand what’s happening, and overreacting when Tyler is reluctant. Is Revenant the management as another of his fronts and ways to recycle oddities in a useful way? And using that weapon on kids probably will void their contract if he is boss. Things really need to start tying back together a little.
That mace melting seems to be more because of the powers of the OP gun. The shop looks to be a bigger problem, places like this are usually owned by wise folk and not these arrogant kids. (looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck… they are kids too)
It doesn’t feel like the Revenant is their manager. And “recycling oddities” this way strikes me as way too irresponsible for a guy who confiscates the same kind of items from those who misuse them. Even if he tells P&G who to give powers too, giving out powers seems more like introducing more chaos to the playing field rather than ensuring everyone gets a fair shake in life.
But I definitely agree that P&G are overreacting. More precisely, they’re rushing to conclusions- both that Cecil, Ron, and The Flea are indeed their intruders, or that fighting is the appropriate course of action.
If you have a round peg, and only square holes, you look for a round hole to give it to. ‘Recycling’ in this case would be a puppet master giving a powerful/ dangerous object to someone who could do good with it in exchange for something else that will help others. Not that I believe that’s what’s happening here, just explaining his point.
Oh yeah, not to mention that the Revenant would have to be directly and intentionally lying to Tyler about the place (ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2018-09-07/) if he was actually its manager.
I admit I was hoping we’d see someone already tied into continuity. Revenant has already given Tyler and Cecil powerful items, but they are being a bit more responsible than hauling out some weapon of doom to fire at children as intruders.
The crucial question to me is are P&G really kids, who are overreacting and the boss should be giving them a talking to for threatening customers? Or is the child for them only appearance, and they are fully culpable for their jerkery? I’m leaning that their boss is either more reasonable or nuanced neutral as I think they’re going beyond their mandate.
I believe they’re kids. In fact, their overreaction in the context of doing their job seems like a very child-like thing to me. That’s something you’ll see in children trying to do a job responsibly and well: a certain zealousness. From experience, it’s age and experience that tempers people and stops them from hastily making assumptions and picking a fight.
Well, usually.
Anyway, most stores selling precious commodities are very wary about people who enter it. Enter through the front door with the staff’s knowledge and you’re fine. Entering suddenly, without invitation or presenting yourself first to the staff, is behavior you see in a thief or someone else- like Charles unintentionally did (ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2017-07-24/).
And it doesn’t help that Cecil presented himself with a forceful demand as if he was a cop. He needs to realize that “Bureau of Assessment of Metahumans” is a childhood fantasy even if he’s following the noble and prudent task of watching the watchers.
So I don’t blame both P&G for how they acted. It’s all in keeping with them all being kids.
Kids is highly likely but I doubt the staff is replaced every few years / once a generation. Are they permanently kids, probably they stopped ageing when they started working there.
Management is probably parallel with paradox though I’m still believing that chaos and order chose those two though possibly indirectly. I believe it was said they had very limited / no influence on Earth for a long time. (Hence the required portal previously)
Some comments have said p&g seem irresponsible or chaotic but I believe the shown foresight of management and the interesting pricing system prove balancing when multiple customers are taken into account. They clearly want power wielded but (so far) aren’t preferential to any particular side including chaos, order, good or evil.
This is the age of superpowers and they are perpetuating there use as well as empowered items. Do P&G have influence beyond this age? Were they trading when dragons, witches and sword swinging heroes were around? It’s possible they are a necessary cog in the works keeping thing running and removing previous age items aiding changeovers.
P&G may not necessarily have been around long enough to require intergenerational staff. They do have an impressive inventory made up of rare items, but expertise can account for that. Start a business and you need a considerable stock to begin with. They certainly have the know-how to acquire super-powers to sell or trade for.
Note that while heroic ages have come and gone, it’s only very recently that the Earth got one that’s here to stay.
What’s curious is that the store is named after the two despite answering to a manager.
I’m pretty sure his hand is free of contact and making ng an unimpressed gesture, though with the perspective I can see it sort of almost look like it’s resting on her hip. Regardless, Flea doesn’t have to resort to such low and base tactics as groping to annoy somebody; he’s a master of irritation. Here he demonstrates a smooth nonchalant tackle-casual taunt combo, sure to bug (pun intended) the hell out of and adversary.
I note that these guys never bothered to ask what the kids were doing there, just immediately escalated to heavy ordinance. For the most part the kids also only seem to be defending themselves as well. Even if you find someone in your house you really shouldn’t just shoot them straight off, perhaps prepare to defend yourself*, but first ask what they are doing there – and these kids showed up in the bathroom of a store, not someone’s bedroom. Hell, maybe they just needed to pee?
*No, I’m not an American. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t assume lethal force is the correct response to seeing a stranger within 3 blocks of their house.
If you ran a store full of nuclear football briefcases, and someone randomly appeared out of your bathroom without you seeing them walk the space from there to the front door and without your knowledge, you’d probably be at least jumpy. If they then showed you a fake badge and tried to act like an authority figure, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are dealing with crazies.
Besides, the Lance of Considerable Injury isn’t the Lance of Certain Death. Perhaps it is specifically a non-lethal weapon.
What you said, Kat. As much as I think P&G are overreacting, I understand why they’re behaving that way. It doesn’t help that this may well be the first intruder alert they’ve ever had.
Gotta point out, though, that while “Lance of Considerable Injury” =/= “Lance of Certain Death”, getting something like a limb blasted off by a super-powered gun isn’t necessarily death either.
It’s certainly got some degree of punch. The center panel shows a blasted spot on the floor and the rug cut into two pieces (the top panel of the previous page appears to show the rug in one piece).
Ace Of Mace!
presses button – I summon super upper management! Beware our PR desk and lawyers that shall soon fall from the skies!
In reality – summon random mook possibly grade 3.
Grade 3 as in Third Grade (counting up from Kindergarten)? Or like third-rate, two tiers of super below first-rate?
Or — “[ascending] degrees like burns or [descending] degrees like orders?”
Hopefully the lawyers forgot their parachutes
Anyone else wondering where Tyler got the mace? Did it come with the outfit? And why does it seem to be dissolving after he hit the Lance of Considerable Injury(TM).
It was hanging from his belt, on the left, in the second strip where he’s in the new duds (the strip after he goes: “What am I wearing?”). It’s haft is visible when he first looks at t.he object he’s holding in his left hand throughout todays strip.
And it looks like, whatever that “weapon” was made of, is dissolving it!
I don’t know – is Tyler’s mace dissolving, or is it just dripping stuff from the Lance? The color makes it look like the latter to me.
So I’d guess a bunch of people are relieved to see that Tyler has not yet partaken the potion, so that question has not been avoided yet.
Tyler doesn’t need potion-bought powers.
He’s shaping up to be awesome just the way he is. ^_^
Bonus points if it’s just soda. Because “management” has a sense of humor (or is aware of the futility).
Ooh. I like that twist. 🙂
The Revenant: I sometimes think access to c̶a̶s̶h̶ Caffiene is the greatest superpower of all.”
Lester: “Don’t knock it, kid. Having three cups of coffee is the closest I get to metahuman powers these days”.
Tim Drake: Coffee is a human necessity.
That WOULD be funny, but I don’t think so. I think the potion for Tyler is P&G’s payment to TOBY for getting goo-covered Tyler to them so they could collect the goo.
I’m not convinced management is the problem, p & g seem to be trying to force things when they don’t understand what’s happening, and overreacting when Tyler is reluctant. Is Revenant the management as another of his fronts and ways to recycle oddities in a useful way? And using that weapon on kids probably will void their contract if he is boss. Things really need to start tying back together a little.
That mace melting seems to be more because of the powers of the OP gun. The shop looks to be a bigger problem, places like this are usually owned by wise folk and not these arrogant kids. (looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck… they are kids too)
It doesn’t feel like the Revenant is their manager. And “recycling oddities” this way strikes me as way too irresponsible for a guy who confiscates the same kind of items from those who misuse them. Even if he tells P&G who to give powers too, giving out powers seems more like introducing more chaos to the playing field rather than ensuring everyone gets a fair shake in life.
But I definitely agree that P&G are overreacting. More precisely, they’re rushing to conclusions- both that Cecil, Ron, and The Flea are indeed their intruders, or that fighting is the appropriate course of action.
I genuinely hope someone calms them down.
If you have a round peg, and only square holes, you look for a round hole to give it to. ‘Recycling’ in this case would be a puppet master giving a powerful/ dangerous object to someone who could do good with it in exchange for something else that will help others. Not that I believe that’s what’s happening here, just explaining his point.
Oh yeah, not to mention that the Revenant would have to be directly and intentionally lying to Tyler about the place (ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2018-09-07/) if he was actually its manager.
Ok, my fall back choice, is the Management is actually the time travelling kid and/or Paradox.
I admit I was hoping we’d see someone already tied into continuity. Revenant has already given Tyler and Cecil powerful items, but they are being a bit more responsible than hauling out some weapon of doom to fire at children as intruders.
The crucial question to me is are P&G really kids, who are overreacting and the boss should be giving them a talking to for threatening customers? Or is the child for them only appearance, and they are fully culpable for their jerkery? I’m leaning that their boss is either more reasonable or nuanced neutral as I think they’re going beyond their mandate.
I believe they’re kids. In fact, their overreaction in the context of doing their job seems like a very child-like thing to me. That’s something you’ll see in children trying to do a job responsibly and well: a certain zealousness. From experience, it’s age and experience that tempers people and stops them from hastily making assumptions and picking a fight.
Well, usually.
Anyway, most stores selling precious commodities are very wary about people who enter it. Enter through the front door with the staff’s knowledge and you’re fine. Entering suddenly, without invitation or presenting yourself first to the staff, is behavior you see in a thief or someone else- like Charles unintentionally did (ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2017-07-24/).
And it doesn’t help that Cecil presented himself with a forceful demand as if he was a cop. He needs to realize that “Bureau of Assessment of Metahumans” is a childhood fantasy even if he’s following the noble and prudent task of watching the watchers.
So I don’t blame both P&G for how they acted. It’s all in keeping with them all being kids.
* is behavior you see in a thief or someone else without good intentions
Kids is highly likely but I doubt the staff is replaced every few years / once a generation. Are they permanently kids, probably they stopped ageing when they started working there.
Management is probably parallel with paradox though I’m still believing that chaos and order chose those two though possibly indirectly. I believe it was said they had very limited / no influence on Earth for a long time. (Hence the required portal previously)
Some comments have said p&g seem irresponsible or chaotic but I believe the shown foresight of management and the interesting pricing system prove balancing when multiple customers are taken into account. They clearly want power wielded but (so far) aren’t preferential to any particular side including chaos, order, good or evil.
This is the age of superpowers and they are perpetuating there use as well as empowered items. Do P&G have influence beyond this age? Were they trading when dragons, witches and sword swinging heroes were around? It’s possible they are a necessary cog in the works keeping thing running and removing previous age items aiding changeovers.
P&G may not necessarily have been around long enough to require intergenerational staff. They do have an impressive inventory made up of rare items, but expertise can account for that. Start a business and you need a considerable stock to begin with. They certainly have the know-how to acquire super-powers to sell or trade for.
Note that while heroic ages have come and gone, it’s only very recently that the Earth got one that’s here to stay.
What’s curious is that the store is named after the two despite answering to a manager.
And the coat feeds… again!
One day it shall consume us all.
Apparently, only if we’re all made of ethereal material!
Button on a box? I’m guessing it’s a “Forcefully Eject All Non-Personnel” button. They’ll probably get shunted out onto the street outside.
Those kids would be sent to the principal’s office if they got caught doodling a picture of that lance going off, lol.
One of the Flea’s hands is cupping his chin, what is his other hand cupping ? , whatever it is it has not put a smile on her face.
I’s cupping perspective.
It looks more like a gesturing hand than a cupping hand, sort of like what Lester was doing in panel 1 of the 2019-11-20 page.
Agree. It looks like he’s casually gesturing in the direction of the “box with button” Glory is holding.
I’m pretty sure his hand is free of contact and making ng an unimpressed gesture, though with the perspective I can see it sort of almost look like it’s resting on her hip. Regardless, Flea doesn’t have to resort to such low and base tactics as groping to annoy somebody; he’s a master of irritation. Here he demonstrates a smooth nonchalant tackle-casual taunt combo, sure to bug (pun intended) the hell out of and adversary.
And in any case, aren’t they still a little young for that?
From such children you get children?
I really wanted to see him shoot the coat.
“Nom, nom, nom..”
“Is that coat getting bigger?”
I note that these guys never bothered to ask what the kids were doing there, just immediately escalated to heavy ordinance. For the most part the kids also only seem to be defending themselves as well. Even if you find someone in your house you really shouldn’t just shoot them straight off, perhaps prepare to defend yourself*, but first ask what they are doing there – and these kids showed up in the bathroom of a store, not someone’s bedroom. Hell, maybe they just needed to pee?
*No, I’m not an American. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t assume lethal force is the correct response to seeing a stranger within 3 blocks of their house.
If you ran a store full of nuclear football briefcases, and someone randomly appeared out of your bathroom without you seeing them walk the space from there to the front door and without your knowledge, you’d probably be at least jumpy. If they then showed you a fake badge and tried to act like an authority figure, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are dealing with crazies.
Besides, the Lance of Considerable Injury isn’t the Lance of Certain Death. Perhaps it is specifically a non-lethal weapon.
What you said, Kat. As much as I think P&G are overreacting, I understand why they’re behaving that way. It doesn’t help that this may well be the first intruder alert they’ve ever had.
Gotta point out, though, that while “Lance of Considerable Injury” =/= “Lance of Certain Death”, getting something like a limb blasted off by a super-powered gun isn’t necessarily death either.
It’s certainly got some degree of punch. The center panel shows a blasted spot on the floor and the rug cut into two pieces (the top panel of the previous page appears to show the rug in one piece).