May 9th, 2017
9 May 2017 · page 699 of 1306
Hate to do this, but the next updates will be filler, as I'm at Toronto Comic Arts Festival all weekend! Come stop by and say hello if you're in the area, I'll have a whole bunch of books with me! Sorry to cliffhanger again, this should be the last stop before the end of this chapter.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik, The Butler, Verity Cunningham
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Yes, but what a fabulous way to leave us hanging!
Indeed! A wonderful cliffhanger -- or, as my younger sister used to call it when she was little, a cliff-off.
I think Verity just groaned and gave a stink eye to that pun. Ben might have, but he's too busy screaming about the muck inside his shoes.
Omg, the poison, that's how they beat this! He betrays Gluttony because of how shitty Gluttony has been to him.
Good thing Vee has her glasses on a chain!
There is a vial of poison, but Vee also threw something into the mix that looks a lot like a grenade...
While that does appear to be one of Verity's toys the look on her face suggests that it didn't go where she wanted it to go because of Gluttony unexpectedly turning them all upside down.
But its trajectory does look like it'll go into one of Gluttony's mouths. Wonder what happens when it eats a grenade?
Probably not much. From her expression, I think she dropped it before she could arm it and if the detonator doesn't go off, the main charge is pretty inert. It might even be edible. The detonator might be sensitive enough to go off when it contacts stomach acid, but since it would be in the middle of the charge, by the time that happens, most or all of the main charge will have been digested.
My money would be on a cartoon explosive burp followed by a stereotypical Italian themed food comment.
Why, do grenades taste like tomato sauce?
Hmmm...after careful consideration I believe that the poison and the (possible) hand-grenade are just misdirection's, the real murder weapon is the banana peel in the background of panel #2. Death by banana peel, a true classic!
Ah, the common error of failed dictators. Assuming you can mistreat your close personel and be certain they'll never rebel.
Yup, Gluttony has definitely not read the Evil Overlord list.
No time for reading, too busy eating.
And if you do treat them well, then they will want to seize power from you.
...there's no winning move, eh.
There's the trick used by 20th century Communist dictators where you have a purge to kill off all the henchmen before they can overthrow you and replace them with a new set. It works remarkably well, if you get the timing right.
And you photoshop them out of your photos.
Weirdly, I believe it worked for Stalin. But Gluttony just doesn't have it worked out.
if you call lying on the floor whilst having a stroke with nobody daring to enter the room because you told them before not to, working out then yes, it did
PS: if it's not on there yet, this needs to go on the overlord list too: never give the explicit order to not be disturbed
Well, ya gotta admit that they were too terrified disobey him. He succeeded in that aspect.
Mr Thackerey is going to be so traumatised by all that blorp that it will be far kinder to eat him.
You know, I was a bit confused by Ben in that first panel because it seemed so out of character for him to be cringing in fear, until I read your comment and realized he's cringing in ick instead. Which is a great little character detail, especially with Verity standing there protectively.
For someone as fastidious as Ben, a giant blob of slime would be worse than any of the things they've faced yet!
This be true. Not to mention being swallowed -- a fate most revolting.
Things could be worse...
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At least he doesn't have to wash himself with his tongue.
Verity in the last panel: "If I'm going to die, I'll die fabulously!"
Aw man, everybody's going to be at TCAF but me! Oh well, can't miss my friend's 40th, she'd manifest something worse than Wrath... Disappointment. ;)
The big guy actually has a brain.
And I thought he was just all brawn and blubber.
And soooo that cliche...
The Butler did it...
with the hummm... errr... poison bottle... in the ... let' see, the hall.
About brains, using Wolfe as a shield required quite a quick reaction from the big guy. He needed to realise what Verity was going to do and move Wolfe in the way as the dart goes off.
I must confess I really look forward to hearing The Butler speak and knowing his real name. :)
Well, many of those names may have been fake, but in his case, given that the hotel he founded is named "Gula" I had gathered it was his real surname. Or maybe he was just that dedicated to the theme that he openly named his hotel after gluttony. I'm not sure.
My question is, is Gluttony all mouths and no brains?
Throw it in! Throw it in! Throw it in! Throw it in!
I love Ben's expression in the second panel!
Instead of a cliffhanger, it's a blobhanger!
Did Ben and Verity switch places in the last panel? (Ben with one foot free, Verity with a wrench hanging from her hair.)
Ooh, yeah. Hm. Although, I think those are Vee's glasses, hanging by a chain.
oh indeed they did.
We're seeing them from a completely different angle, that's all.
Then why aren't Wolfe and Sidney reversed? In panel 3, all four characters are more-or-less in a line. You can go from A-B-C-D to D-C-B-A by changing your viewing angle, but not to A-B-D-C.
Well, they aren't two-dimensional, so how far away they are from the "camera" may also affect it... To be fair, I suppose Gluttony is a constantly-moving blob, so it may be shifting them around in its mouth as well.... gross.
Now, don't anyone say they didn't see what Mr. Gula is doing in the last panel coming.... :D
I like that little smoky skull popping out of the bottle when Mr. Gula opens it.... :D:D:D
"Of course, you know: this means war..."
All is fair in lunch and war.
LANCELOT SIDNEY ARTHUR OLIVER MALIK I EXPECTED YOU TO CHARM THE GOOP OFF THAT MONSTER, WHAT GIVES. adorably stern hands-on-hips (Srsly, though, I would have faltered too, in the face of Gluttony. At least Greed was amiable.)
Soooooooooooo many people called it.
Been expecting this guy to turn on his sin for a long time. Gluttony has been treating The Butler like a whipping boy since it's introduction, and I wondered how long he'd put up with that.
If only the poison's name was "Just Desserts"...
Literally leaving us hanging here!
Also, I believe "measly" is spelled with only one "e".