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what else does the future bring
Hopefully she’ll beat them within an inch of their lives and leave them begging for mercy. I won’t be satisfied unless these thugs end up with broken bones.
Arming Dina would be a mistake. Only the fact that her hands are bound is keeping anybody alive right now. The duct tape is basically Kup’s cy-car. Or that madness suppressing patch that the Creeper wears in his civilian identity. Or the muzzle on that one Road Rover.
Fools, now Sarah has the power of the Old Testament God, who is also the Big Bad of Shin Megami Tensei. Sarah is going to use this divine force to do an Inglorious Bastards scene.
Honestly, I kind of keep expecting Willis to do a curveball to establish that Amber’s superhero fantasies are not healthy and it’s still the real world. The cops showing up, the protagonists rescuing themselves, or Amber passing out before she can save anyone.
I really need to accept it’s not that kind of comic.
Sure, but does that really mean anything when he goes right back to doing it straight?
Miri
He’s shown that Amber/AG has trained hard to develop her skills. She isn’t superhuman but she is running on adrenaline and possibly caffeine. She’s also good at maintaining obsessive/determined hyperfocus on a goal (and between her fandom hobbies, gaming, and AG activities, she’s probably used to running on relatively little sleep. If Ruthless got her to take a 20 minute nap, she’s probably awake enough to last until she can safely clock off.
Also in real life I have been so tired that I have fallen asleep while riding a bicycle – and woke up quickly enough to not fall off. Microsleeps can be virtually nanoscopic!
Geneseepaws
Clock off? Or Punch! Out!!?
Some1
As the strip goes on I’m starting to suspect that Amber wins fits less because she’s super badass and more because everyone she fights just kinda sucks. I mean she’s been mainly fighting other college students who are presumably roughly the same age as her, and who most likely have little to no actual fighting experience. Which makes me worry that if the comic continues to escalate at some point she will try to fight a seasoned fighter like a full blown fully competent mob stooge and get her ass handed to her.
thejeff
Forget the fights then and look at the stunts – the parkour stuff she does casually would get most people killed, even ignoring the car chase where we saw her push her own limits. The fights are no less believable.
She’s clearly super badass.
A last second rescue after the hero has saved the day is perfectly in keeping with comic book tropes.
The psychological fallout in the aftermath is where we see that it’s not healthy.
Luna
This thread kind of helps me pinpoint why I’ve been less and less engaged with the Amber/Amazi-Girl arc, despite it being one of my favorites closer to the start. I found the examination of how being a ‘superhero’ was a maladaptive coping mechanism that was only making Amber’s issues worse extremely interesting and well done, but like you say: we only see that criticism in the aftermath. The actual superhero sequences themselves require that they operate on comic book tropes and be taken at face value, or else they fall apart. But since the aftermath does explore the trauma these kind of violent situations can realistically cause, the fact that we’re expected to just shrug off concerns about what would ‘realistically’ happen in the middle of the sequence is jarring.
Basically, I can roll with suspending my disbelief for comic book tropes, and I can roll with a realistic examination of what those comic book tropes would do to a person reenacting them. I can’t jump back and forth between both, especially not when the consequences are generally very well-written and make me care about the characters, and the comic book hijinks keep escalating with no signs of stopping.
thejeff
For me it works because the consequences are primarily psychological trauma, which doesn’t actually conflict with Amazi-Girl being able to pull off the stunts. The action sequences can be over the top without affecting the realism of the fallout for me.
This one isn’t working quite so well as some in the past and I’m not quite sure why. It’s been kind of hard to nail down exactly how seriously we’re supposed to take the threat – which wasn’t at all the case with Ross’s happy fun gun times on campus, even with a superhero fighting to stop him.
The other shoe is still looming, just waiting to drop.
Some of that time will be spent with Becky and Ross, and maybe learning Mike’s fate. There will be fallout at the Brown household over this situation, but that deserves multiple chapters (if not books) of elbow room to play out.
jufreire
OH MY GOD THATS RIGHT Becky is still coming? What the hell is that gonna turn out to be
I don’t expect Amber to come out of this unscathed; maybe she won’t end up being hurt, but this COULD reveal her identity to the wrong people… like Blaine’s mafia family.
And we still don’t know what that smoking guy who was Sal’s friend had to do with this… (I don’t remember his name sorry)
Asher was blackmailed into pulling the fire alarm so Blaine wouldn’t tell his grandpa he stole mafia money for tuition since he was trying to leave the family. Asher was also told that the plan was to save money, not to hurt anyone.
I’ve been mentally comparing this to the other Really Big Superhero Sequences for AG, since this is really not all that far escalated from, say, To Those Who’d Ground Me. (Straight up supervillain with mask is new, but it’s a reasonably close equivalent. There was a LOT of broken physics there, and the fact that AG caused that much disruption on a highway at midday but didn’t kill anyone was straight-up miraculous in a “yeah the Author is God, and God says Becky’s getting home safe in the coolest way possible, dammit.” way)
In other words, my assumption is that AmbG will have one hell of a comedown after the fact, probably including both trauma and being physically WRECKED, but adrenaline/Hero Time are carrying her through for now. It’s been a consistent pattern of subtext that the superhero fantasies aren’t really healthy, and that about nine times out of ten they hurt more than they help (say, random beatdowns of bike thieves)… but that tenth time, the only thing that’ll save the day is a kickass action sequence, and boy does that day need saving.
(So that Willis can draw those kickass action sequences, because they fucking love a good shit-kicking with deep interpersonal stakes. Remember, the previous comic universe ended with villains from the Captain Crunch comics invading reality as a metaphor for forced homogeneity. The cute slice-of-life relationship comic eventually brought in an alternate universes/time travel storyline with a finale that got so damn ambitious it took YEARS to finish. The wacky mostly gag-a-day toystore/nerd strip had a sequence where a, for all intents and purposes, random toy store employee ended up fighting an alien who had absorbed omnipotence, and even though she didn’t win, she managed to actually hold her own for a good few minutes there and deliver one of the most kickass fight scene monologues possible.)
“… and that about nine times out of ten they hurt more than they help (say, random beatdowns of bike thieves) … ”
You say that as if there was something wrong about it. I’ve had more than one bike stolen in my career as a cyclist and let me tell you, if I’d have caught whoever did it I’d have strung ’em up from the nearest tree or lamppost, just they used to do to horse thieves and cattle rustlers.
Regalli
It’s the ‘wait, are we actually entirely sure this guy actually STOLE that bike? It’s a bit ambiguous’ that I seem to recall being an issue there. Beating up a thief versus beating up the owner of the bike who forgot to lock it (or whatever it was, I just remember it being one of those “wait. wait AG. wait a second there” scenes) are two very different things!
thejeff
I don’t recall the bike scene. There was a scene right after she broke up with Danny where she beat up a backpack thief to work off her tension that a lot of commenters found ambiguous – though that was at least partly because we didn’t see the lead up to it.
Regalli
That’d be it! I really need to do a deep reread one of these days.
Like, we have had bouts of Superhero Action (with bonus comedy) in the Dumbiverse before. Dina’s Clever Girl strip, for one. This one’s more explicitly superhero-y, but like. Escalating scale is definitely a thing that has happened in Willis comics, that’s for sure!
They’ve brought up over on the It’s Walky rerun site that they have periodic urges to bring Head Alien back in, this is WAY more easy to shift back to a relatively grounded status quo by comparison. (That said I will fully support the return of Head Alien, I love Head Alien, he’s so petty and wonderful.)
I think what you expect is already happening. Amber’s psyche is at her limit, AG couldn’t save Mike, she deprived herself of sleep trying to avoid AG’s appearance, she’s doing this because she’s forced to do it, cannot think clearly and it’s not doing a great job with it (except for her basic ability to punch and kick any kind of assholic thug).
Willis has admitted, in an interview, that sometimes he gets really angry and channels it into drawing Bad Guys Getting Punched. And he’s aware that it comes from a place that’s probably unhealthy… but he doesn’t really want to stop.
While I definitely understand that impulse to seek catharsis, I worry that indulging it might come at the expense of the other, more grounded storyline(s). Per Matthew, “No man can serve two masters.”
Hey this is just the pilot for a new fan fic I’m testing out. If you’re new to this comment forum, this is just kinda my thing. Sorry. If your not knew and your wondering what happened to my old unfinished fanfic, I don’t know.
Magical Wilcox. Part 1-A
Things were not going well for Danny Wilcox. He didn’t have a girlfriend, Ethan was with other guys, and he hadn’t been an important character in months.
Danny: Perhaps some soothing ukulele will calm my nerves.
As he played, a girl no older than thirteen ran by. She wore a plated skirt and a white blouse with a blue tie. Her tied up hair was pitch black and contrasted with skin light enough to nearly reflect light.
Girl: Where is it? Where is it?
Danny (stops playing): Did you drop something?
Girl: Listen. Have you seen a sort of ball with a pyramid suspended in it? It’s about yea big.
She holds her fingers and thumb about four inches apart from each other.
Danny: I haven’t, but I can keep my eye out.
Girl: Thanks…I guess. Listen, if you find it, no matter what you do, do not open it.
Danny: Why?
Girl: I can’t tell you. Just go back to playing your uke and forget you saw me.
The girl ran off, slammed into thud a continued running. Danny picked up his ukulele and continued playing.
That night Danny lay asleep. He dreamed of a ball, made of glass, with a world suspended in it. The world whispered to him, although he could non understand what it said.
He awoke in a cold sweat and laid in bed, listening to Joe snore. He felt something round and cold his hand. Slowly he removed his hand from the sheet and in the darkness peered at a round glass ball with a pyramid that seemed to hover in it.
Magical Wilcox Part 1-B
Danny ran out of his room. He stood in the hallway panting and looked at the ball that lay in his hand. It glowed a sickly green and chilled his hand.
Danny: air, I need air.
Danny stepped outside and walked in the cool autumn air. The wind was cool and he shuddered, wishing he had brought a jacket with him. Sitting on the steps, he peered closer at the sphere. Around its edge was a thin line, like it was sealed at the center. Suddenly, he remembered the little girl and her warning about the sphere and took his hand away from the seal.
Then he dropped the ball.
Danny froze as the ball bounced down the cement steps, each bounce caused him to wince as he waited for the worst to happen. Finally, the ball rolled to a stop and stayed. Danny sighed in relief as he went to retrieve his burden.
He reached down to pick it up, and the bottom fell off.
Danny fell on his ass as green smoke billowed out of the now half sphere. An earsplitting screech resounded.
Danny watched as the green smoke formed itself into seven shadowy figures. Which eventually took the form of seven figures:
A beautiful nude woman with long blonde hair, she wore a pair of thin spectacles that lay across her breasts.
A gigantic man, whose stomach seemed rounder than the sun and who hand a long chin with curly brown hairs running down it.
An eight-foot-tall woman with a massive chest and arms, wore black leather pants and boots, with blood red metal covering her breasts and shoulders. She held a gigantic sword and her black hair was cut short yet spiky.
A young girl with pigtails, she wore a sleeping gown and her eyes were covered with a silk sleeping mask.
A tall man wearing a business suit. Gold watches ran up his wrists and covered his entire arms. Jeweled necklaces covered his neck.
Finally, there was a tall figure dressed in a long flowing robe of red and gold. The figure wore a white mask with a golden hood and their eye’s betrayed nothing but darkness.
“I thank you” the figure said with a voice just as ambiguous as the rest of it. “my Envy”
Hey, things arw going better than expected. Now if Amazi-girl can disarm Ball Peen(and maybe bash his head with it a few times) and take these guys down then maybe this won’t be so bad.
AG has effectively muzzled and blinded Blaine with her cape, he’s unlikely to be an effective combatant for the next 30 seconds or so. That should be enough time for her, Bat-woman, the Savage Raptor, and the Dad-Puncher to take the rest of these goons out.
178 thoughts on “Whammf”
Ana Chronistic
LEVEL UP
clif
The joy this strip brings will be paid for in future angst and DYW moments, but for the moment this is worth it.
ValdVin
I didn’t put in Amazi-Girl yet, but here’s the movie poster pitch.
ValdVin
(Note that I already gave Sarah a bat-centric name two days ago!)
BBCC
FUCK YEAH. Sarah has a bat!
These guys are SCREWED now.
abysswatcher1993
She beat the shit out of Rayn. These guys are doomed.
abysswatcher1993
Ryan*
DSL
Beat him so hard she scrambled his name!
Rayndel
;_; What did I do to Sarah?!
Kyrik Michalowski
Hopefully she’ll beat them within an inch of their lives and leave them begging for mercy. I won’t be satisfied unless these thugs end up with broken bones.
SillyGoose
This is when the police arrives, isn’t it.
When the black girl is beating up a bunch of blond dudes with a bat.
thejeff
That definitely makes Sarah’s earlier fears a lot more likely than when they were tied up in the basement.
Deanatay
Okay, so Amazi-Girl handed Sarah the bat, otherwise TOTALLY CALLED THIS.
Sarah has a bat, the fight is basically over.
Doctor_Who
Sarah being given a bat.
Arming Dina would be a mistake. Only the fact that her hands are bound is keeping anybody alive right now. The duct tape is basically Kup’s cy-car. Or that madness suppressing patch that the Creeper wears in his civilian identity. Or the muzzle on that one Road Rover.
Yes, I just referenced the Road Rovers.
Bicycle Bill
The look on her face in panel five … all I could visualize was something like this.
auroki
Thanks now I have the Road Rovers theme song in my head, again! Also I think his name actually was Muzzle.
Killer Klown
Don’t be a weirdboy.
Diane
Happy Birthday indeed, Sarah.
MrBookBoy
Well, I mean…
Her birthday was yesterday.
But that’s pedantic. Happy Birthday, Sarah!
Reltzik
She’s Bat-woman.
…. I’ll show myself out.
Stephen Bierce
Bob. GUN.
jeffepp
Yeah, but she’s not gonna do what he did to Bob.
That was one of the movies that helped to read the book first.
Nono
Hm, is this the first time Ethan’s actually seeing Amazi-Girl fight?
Well, aside from when Amber was tussling with Sal.
Shane
Stabbing Sal in the hand with a knife is technically a one-move fight.
Wizard
That was Amber. AG didn’t exist yet.
Deanatay
*girls lay into the bad guys*
Ethan: Should… should we be.. doing something?
Walky: Naaah, we’re lovers, not fighters. I found some popcorn, though!
Ethan: OOOH… *mounch mounch*
Suet
With what’s to transpire, it’s still unbelievable that it has only been less than 36 hours since the party.
Nah, alt-text, she STILL won’t allow it.
Suet
((also, there probably goes my guess that Battle Ready Joyce magnets would be up next))
Night-Guy magnets?
Giguioto
Awww, she remembered!
This does bring back memories
abysswatcher1993
Fools, now Sarah has the power of the Old Testament God, who is also the Big Bad of Shin Megami Tensei. Sarah is going to use this divine force to do an Inglorious Bastards scene.
Renadt
Also, for anyone who’s played Yakuza 0, Goro Majima’s Slugger fighting style.
Michael Steamweed
Let. The. Ass. Kicking. Commence.
DanLovatClark
Hey, uh, Willis? Holy SHIT that is some good super-hero badass banter.
Regalli
Seriously. Three separate amazing one-liners in maybe a minute.
emeraldbeacon
Amazi-Girl’s hero-speak has pretty much always been on point.
Mordecai
Agreed
Sporky
They say one way to become better at writing is to read a lot. That way you’re constantly seeing new ways to write a story.
Well, David Willis has read (and watched) a lot of Batman. Like, a lot.
C.T Phipps
Honestly, I kind of keep expecting Willis to do a curveball to establish that Amber’s superhero fantasies are not healthy and it’s still the real world. The cops showing up, the protagonists rescuing themselves, or Amber passing out before she can save anyone.
I really need to accept it’s not that kind of comic.
Leorale
He kinda did that already, that time AG passed out and Sal dragged her to safety.
Sporky
Sure, but does that really mean anything when he goes right back to doing it straight?
Miri
He’s shown that Amber/AG has trained hard to develop her skills. She isn’t superhuman but she is running on adrenaline and possibly caffeine. She’s also good at maintaining obsessive/determined hyperfocus on a goal (and between her fandom hobbies, gaming, and AG activities, she’s probably used to running on relatively little sleep. If Ruthless got her to take a 20 minute nap, she’s probably awake enough to last until she can safely clock off.
Also in real life I have been so tired that I have fallen asleep while riding a bicycle – and woke up quickly enough to not fall off. Microsleeps can be virtually nanoscopic!
Geneseepaws
Clock off? Or Punch! Out!!?
Some1
As the strip goes on I’m starting to suspect that Amber wins fits less because she’s super badass and more because everyone she fights just kinda sucks. I mean she’s been mainly fighting other college students who are presumably roughly the same age as her, and who most likely have little to no actual fighting experience. Which makes me worry that if the comic continues to escalate at some point she will try to fight a seasoned fighter like a full blown fully competent mob stooge and get her ass handed to her.
thejeff
Forget the fights then and look at the stunts – the parkour stuff she does casually would get most people killed, even ignoring the car chase where we saw her push her own limits. The fights are no less believable.
She’s clearly super badass.
thejeff
A last second rescue after the hero has saved the day is perfectly in keeping with comic book tropes.
The psychological fallout in the aftermath is where we see that it’s not healthy.
Luna
This thread kind of helps me pinpoint why I’ve been less and less engaged with the Amber/Amazi-Girl arc, despite it being one of my favorites closer to the start. I found the examination of how being a ‘superhero’ was a maladaptive coping mechanism that was only making Amber’s issues worse extremely interesting and well done, but like you say: we only see that criticism in the aftermath. The actual superhero sequences themselves require that they operate on comic book tropes and be taken at face value, or else they fall apart. But since the aftermath does explore the trauma these kind of violent situations can realistically cause, the fact that we’re expected to just shrug off concerns about what would ‘realistically’ happen in the middle of the sequence is jarring.
Basically, I can roll with suspending my disbelief for comic book tropes, and I can roll with a realistic examination of what those comic book tropes would do to a person reenacting them. I can’t jump back and forth between both, especially not when the consequences are generally very well-written and make me care about the characters, and the comic book hijinks keep escalating with no signs of stopping.
thejeff
For me it works because the consequences are primarily psychological trauma, which doesn’t actually conflict with Amazi-Girl being able to pull off the stunts. The action sequences can be over the top without affecting the realism of the fallout for me.
This one isn’t working quite so well as some in the past and I’m not quite sure why. It’s been kind of hard to nail down exactly how seriously we’re supposed to take the threat – which wasn’t at all the case with Ross’s happy fun gun times on campus, even with a superhero fighting to stop him.
King Daniel
We still have two months left in this chapter.
Plenty of time for things to potentially go wrong.
Needfuldoer
The other shoe is still looming, just waiting to drop.
Some of that time will be spent with Becky and Ross, and maybe learning Mike’s fate. There will be fallout at the Brown household over this situation, but that deserves multiple chapters (if not books) of elbow room to play out.
jufreire
OH MY GOD THATS RIGHT Becky is still coming? What the hell is that gonna turn out to be
JetstreamGW
Willis’ comics, while dramatic, are still pretty fundamentally comedy.
C.T Phipps
Not a complaint, love Willis’ stuff in every comic he does, just me needing to adjust my expectations.
clif
Let’s see if it’s still comedy when Becky finds her dad in the basement.
Foxhack
I don’t expect Amber to come out of this unscathed; maybe she won’t end up being hurt, but this COULD reveal her identity to the wrong people… like Blaine’s mafia family.
And we still don’t know what that smoking guy who was Sal’s friend had to do with this… (I don’t remember his name sorry)
BBCC
Asher was blackmailed into pulling the fire alarm so Blaine wouldn’t tell his grandpa he stole mafia money for tuition since he was trying to leave the family. Asher was also told that the plan was to save money, not to hurt anyone.
Regalli
I’ve been mentally comparing this to the other Really Big Superhero Sequences for AG, since this is really not all that far escalated from, say, To Those Who’d Ground Me. (Straight up supervillain with mask is new, but it’s a reasonably close equivalent. There was a LOT of broken physics there, and the fact that AG caused that much disruption on a highway at midday but didn’t kill anyone was straight-up miraculous in a “yeah the Author is God, and God says Becky’s getting home safe in the coolest way possible, dammit.” way)
In other words, my assumption is that AmbG will have one hell of a comedown after the fact, probably including both trauma and being physically WRECKED, but adrenaline/Hero Time are carrying her through for now. It’s been a consistent pattern of subtext that the superhero fantasies aren’t really healthy, and that about nine times out of ten they hurt more than they help (say, random beatdowns of bike thieves)… but that tenth time, the only thing that’ll save the day is a kickass action sequence, and boy does that day need saving.
(So that Willis can draw those kickass action sequences, because they fucking love a good shit-kicking with deep interpersonal stakes. Remember, the previous comic universe ended with villains from the Captain Crunch comics invading reality as a metaphor for forced homogeneity. The cute slice-of-life relationship comic eventually brought in an alternate universes/time travel storyline with a finale that got so damn ambitious it took YEARS to finish. The wacky mostly gag-a-day toystore/nerd strip had a sequence where a, for all intents and purposes, random toy store employee ended up fighting an alien who had absorbed omnipotence, and even though she didn’t win, she managed to actually hold her own for a good few minutes there and deliver one of the most kickass fight scene monologues possible.)
Bicycle Bill
“… and that about nine times out of ten they hurt more than they help (say, random beatdowns of bike thieves) … ”
You say that as if there was something wrong about it. I’ve had more than one bike stolen in my career as a cyclist and let me tell you, if I’d have caught whoever did it I’d have strung ’em up from the nearest tree or lamppost, just they used to do to horse thieves and cattle rustlers.
Regalli
It’s the ‘wait, are we actually entirely sure this guy actually STOLE that bike? It’s a bit ambiguous’ that I seem to recall being an issue there. Beating up a thief versus beating up the owner of the bike who forgot to lock it (or whatever it was, I just remember it being one of those “wait. wait AG. wait a second there” scenes) are two very different things!
thejeff
I don’t recall the bike scene. There was a scene right after she broke up with Danny where she beat up a backpack thief to work off her tension that a lot of commenters found ambiguous – though that was at least partly because we didn’t see the lead up to it.
Regalli
That’d be it! I really need to do a deep reread one of these days.
Regalli
Like, we have had bouts of Superhero Action (with bonus comedy) in the Dumbiverse before. Dina’s Clever Girl strip, for one. This one’s more explicitly superhero-y, but like. Escalating scale is definitely a thing that has happened in Willis comics, that’s for sure!
They’ve brought up over on the It’s Walky rerun site that they have periodic urges to bring Head Alien back in, this is WAY more easy to shift back to a relatively grounded status quo by comparison. (That said I will fully support the return of Head Alien, I love Head Alien, he’s so petty and wonderful.)
Sombrero
I think what you expect is already happening. Amber’s psyche is at her limit, AG couldn’t save Mike, she deprived herself of sleep trying to avoid AG’s appearance, she’s doing this because she’s forced to do it, cannot think clearly and it’s not doing a great job with it (except for her basic ability to punch and kick any kind of assholic thug).
StClair
Willis has admitted, in an interview, that sometimes he gets really angry and channels it into drawing Bad Guys Getting Punched. And he’s aware that it comes from a place that’s probably unhealthy… but he doesn’t really want to stop.
While I definitely understand that impulse to seek catharsis, I worry that indulging it might come at the expense of the other, more grounded storyline(s). Per Matthew, “No man can serve two masters.”
Some1
Hey this is just the pilot for a new fan fic I’m testing out. If you’re new to this comment forum, this is just kinda my thing. Sorry. If your not knew and your wondering what happened to my old unfinished fanfic, I don’t know.
Magical Wilcox. Part 1-A
Things were not going well for Danny Wilcox. He didn’t have a girlfriend, Ethan was with other guys, and he hadn’t been an important character in months.
Danny: Perhaps some soothing ukulele will calm my nerves.
As he played, a girl no older than thirteen ran by. She wore a plated skirt and a white blouse with a blue tie. Her tied up hair was pitch black and contrasted with skin light enough to nearly reflect light.
Girl: Where is it? Where is it?
Danny (stops playing): Did you drop something?
Girl: Listen. Have you seen a sort of ball with a pyramid suspended in it? It’s about yea big.
She holds her fingers and thumb about four inches apart from each other.
Danny: I haven’t, but I can keep my eye out.
Girl: Thanks…I guess. Listen, if you find it, no matter what you do, do not open it.
Danny: Why?
Girl: I can’t tell you. Just go back to playing your uke and forget you saw me.
The girl ran off, slammed into thud a continued running. Danny picked up his ukulele and continued playing.
That night Danny lay asleep. He dreamed of a ball, made of glass, with a world suspended in it. The world whispered to him, although he could non understand what it said.
He awoke in a cold sweat and laid in bed, listening to Joe snore. He felt something round and cold his hand. Slowly he removed his hand from the sheet and in the darkness peered at a round glass ball with a pyramid that seemed to hover in it.
Magical Wilcox Part 1-B
Danny ran out of his room. He stood in the hallway panting and looked at the ball that lay in his hand. It glowed a sickly green and chilled his hand.
Danny: air, I need air.
Danny stepped outside and walked in the cool autumn air. The wind was cool and he shuddered, wishing he had brought a jacket with him. Sitting on the steps, he peered closer at the sphere. Around its edge was a thin line, like it was sealed at the center. Suddenly, he remembered the little girl and her warning about the sphere and took his hand away from the seal.
Then he dropped the ball.
Danny froze as the ball bounced down the cement steps, each bounce caused him to wince as he waited for the worst to happen. Finally, the ball rolled to a stop and stayed. Danny sighed in relief as he went to retrieve his burden.
He reached down to pick it up, and the bottom fell off.
Danny fell on his ass as green smoke billowed out of the now half sphere. An earsplitting screech resounded.
Danny watched as the green smoke formed itself into seven shadowy figures. Which eventually took the form of seven figures:
A beautiful nude woman with long blonde hair, she wore a pair of thin spectacles that lay across her breasts.
A gigantic man, whose stomach seemed rounder than the sun and who hand a long chin with curly brown hairs running down it.
An eight-foot-tall woman with a massive chest and arms, wore black leather pants and boots, with blood red metal covering her breasts and shoulders. She held a gigantic sword and her black hair was cut short yet spiky.
A young girl with pigtails, she wore a sleeping gown and her eyes were covered with a silk sleeping mask.
A tall man wearing a business suit. Gold watches ran up his wrists and covered his entire arms. Jeweled necklaces covered his neck.
Finally, there was a tall figure dressed in a long flowing robe of red and gold. The figure wore a white mask with a golden hood and their eye’s betrayed nothing but darkness.
“I thank you” the figure said with a voice just as ambiguous as the rest of it. “my Envy”
Kyrik Michalowski
Hey, things arw going better than expected. Now if Amazi-girl can disarm Ball Peen(and maybe bash his head with it a few times) and take these guys down then maybe this won’t be so bad.
Kyrik Michalowski
Also, Sarah has a bat, woo!
Deanatay
AG has effectively muzzled and blinded Blaine with her cape, he’s unlikely to be an effective combatant for the next 30 seconds or so. That should be enough time for her, Bat-woman, the Savage Raptor, and the Dad-Puncher to take the rest of these goons out.
Achallenger
Did she tape his cape to his face?
Bicycle Bill
No, just looks like she pulled it down over his head and wrapped a quick loop or two around the neck with the duct tape to hold it in place.
Gee, I sure hope she didn’t wrap that tape around his neck too tight…. ;^)
Delicious Taffy