Either that, or Elijah has been getting progressively angrier until something snapped. Disturbingly, I find that rather likely, judging by how often the news must have been hammering the point for Ethan to start predicting the pattern.
My best guess is that the tagging is by Elijah and then a separate entity (a new villain) uses those tags as a targeting mechanism. Elijah might or might not be aware of the second entity.
Kasaix
7 hours ago
Tim played the long game, it’s a callback to an arc from 2018. Bravo sir.
Daniel
6 hours ago
I believe it’s not just Elijah snapping, he wasn’t that violent in the first place. I bet it’s either a copier or Elijah under the influence of a new psych supervillain that inspire aimless rage and fear that make people take desperate measures.
If I could vote (and I surely can’t) his surname name should be Lynch .
Pointing to the link was useful and appreciated. I guess the downvotes are because of the second sentence, as if people didn’t want to bother to go check it by themselves. Personally, I didn’t even notice there was a link, before you mentioned it.
Thanks for the perspective. Plenty of people just want to get their question answered and not have to read a few comics themselves, so I added the second part to allow them to ask for a synopsis if they didn’t want to read up themselves. I’ll keep a mind of the other perspective in the future.
See the “Tagged” series. His brother was killed in a school shooting. He had the face mask and super speed and was painting “Poison Trafficker” on all game stores and gun stores until Ethan somewhat got through to him, stating that a person, not a thing, is ultimately what killed Elijah’s brother, and how he plays games for companionship and nostalgia. I probably wouldn’t tell Elijah how he plays hospital simulator though. Seems too easy and vague that this is Elijah. Although at the time the point was made that (much like the feedback effect… internet commenters take note!) Ethan… Read more »
Elijah was a speedster whose brother was killed in a school shooting. The shooter was using buzz words from Fortnight during his attack, so Elijah blamed violent video games and lax gun laws for the attack and death of his brother. In an act of revenge he began targeting game stores and gun shops, vandalizing them with a spray-painted graffiti tag: “Poison Trafficker.” Ethan and Lucas didn’t capture him, but convinced him that, at the very least, he was taking out his anger on people who had nothing to do with his brother’s death. The arc ended with Elijah switching… Read more »
Daniel
4 hours ago
Also, everyone here is so scared that Ben is going to become a tragic plot development, but I’m more afraid of Gameboy. Gulliable, little guy is gaming themed, and he stands no chance against a mob or a very determined supervillain. Hopes he’ll be OK
Darkhorse
4 hours ago
From our perspective it is easy not to want Elijah to be the culprit. Take his perspective and we can see it might be “justified”. He already blames videogames for the death of his 13yo brother and friends. At the end of the last arc he didn’t stop. He just changed tactics to flyering instead of spray painting shops. He was still very much convinced video games are bad. He only got the perspective that video games can be good at times. Now another school shooting has happened and video games are to blame. With the media taking video games… Read more »
Ha, as if geting rid of stores would help. As we see with criminals despite all legal restrictions they still get heir hands on them. Disarming lawfull citicens just arms the lawless. Now these things do wary country by country. But I’d say culture playes biggest role. Because if games were to blame youd thunk sone of the more heavily armed european nations would see the same rise, but at least over here in finland(in top 20 in terns of gun density) where vast majority of guns are registered, a very fucking vast majority if gun crime is done with… Read more »
Closing shops can help though. It is a fallacy that it wouldn’t. The same with digital security. There is no 100% security. Given enough time and resources you can always get through. We place barriers in place to make it more difficult and costly for criminals/state actors to procure break it. The same is true with guns. Reducing the legal selling points is reducing the illegal ones. Reducing the total amount of guns means less can be used by criminals and tracking them will be easier. Initially it might be a useless gesture, but do not forget that the criminal… Read more »
I don’t think it matters that it really won’t help. This is about feeling like you are doing something. And when people are hurting they do not have nice logical thoughts. Then add in that the news media loves to fan the flames with misinformation and it makes everything tougher to untangle.
Unfortunately, logic doesn’t really have to come up in situations like this. The mind is very good at convincing itself of illogical things in order to feel better.
When it’s too painful to believe a problem can’t be fixed, it’s disturbingly easy to believe that doing something extreme will fix it.
Chris
2 hours ago
Calling it now. This isn’t Elijah, but the work of someone who psychotically takes his graffiti seriously, or they use his graffiti as a smokescreen to murder those who have been tagged by it. This could also be the way that Ethan finds out he didn’t lose his powers anyways, when whoever it is murders him, and then he just respawns.
Phaet
1 minute ago
What’s with those comments about Elijah? Isn’t she a reporter? I don’t remember any graffiti.
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Calling it now: it’s not Elijah, but someone copying Elijah’s work.
I can only hope you’re right.
Either that, or Elijah has been getting progressively angrier until something snapped. Disturbingly, I find that rather likely, judging by how often the news must have been hammering the point for Ethan to start predicting the pattern.
You guys did better than us Patreons. We couldn’t even remember who Elijah was, haha. It has been 4 years!
My best guess is that the tagging is by Elijah and then a separate entity (a new villain) uses those tags as a targeting mechanism. Elijah might or might not be aware of the second entity.
Tim played the long game, it’s a callback to an arc from 2018. Bravo sir.
I believe it’s not just Elijah snapping, he wasn’t that violent in the first place. I bet it’s either a copier or Elijah under the influence of a new psych supervillain that inspire aimless rage and fear that make people take desperate measures.
If I could vote (and I surely can’t) his surname name should be Lynch .
Kudos to the people who predicted Elijah
My memory is terrible. Can someone remind me who Elijah is please?
Check out the link that Tim helpfully put under the comic. If you do not want to take the trouble someone can update you I’m sure.
Not sure why there’s downvotes? Guiding someone to the link to the original story so they can experience it again is bad?
Pointing to the link was useful and appreciated. I guess the downvotes are because of the second sentence, as if people didn’t want to bother to go check it by themselves. Personally, I didn’t even notice there was a link, before you mentioned it.
Thanks for the perspective. Plenty of people just want to get their question answered and not have to read a few comics themselves, so I added the second part to allow them to ask for a synopsis if they didn’t want to read up themselves. I’ll keep a mind of the other perspective in the future.
See the “Tagged” series. His brother was killed in a school shooting. He had the face mask and super speed and was painting “Poison Trafficker” on all game stores and gun stores until Ethan somewhat got through to him, stating that a person, not a thing, is ultimately what killed Elijah’s brother, and how he plays games for companionship and nostalgia. I probably wouldn’t tell Elijah how he plays hospital simulator though. Seems too easy and vague that this is Elijah. Although at the time the point was made that (much like the feedback effect… internet commenters take note!) Ethan… Read more »
*might be “backfire effect” or “backlash effect”
Elijah was a speedster whose brother was killed in a school shooting. The shooter was using buzz words from Fortnight during his attack, so Elijah blamed violent video games and lax gun laws for the attack and death of his brother. In an act of revenge he began targeting game stores and gun shops, vandalizing them with a spray-painted graffiti tag: “Poison Trafficker.” Ethan and Lucas didn’t capture him, but convinced him that, at the very least, he was taking out his anger on people who had nothing to do with his brother’s death. The arc ended with Elijah switching… Read more »
Also, everyone here is so scared that Ben is going to become a tragic plot development, but I’m more afraid of Gameboy. Gulliable, little guy is gaming themed, and he stands no chance against a mob or a very determined supervillain. Hopes he’ll be OK
From our perspective it is easy not to want Elijah to be the culprit. Take his perspective and we can see it might be “justified”. He already blames videogames for the death of his 13yo brother and friends. At the end of the last arc he didn’t stop. He just changed tactics to flyering instead of spray painting shops. He was still very much convinced video games are bad. He only got the perspective that video games can be good at times. Now another school shooting has happened and video games are to blame. With the media taking video games… Read more »
Ha, as if geting rid of stores would help. As we see with criminals despite all legal restrictions they still get heir hands on them. Disarming lawfull citicens just arms the lawless. Now these things do wary country by country. But I’d say culture playes biggest role. Because if games were to blame youd thunk sone of the more heavily armed european nations would see the same rise, but at least over here in finland(in top 20 in terns of gun density) where vast majority of guns are registered, a very fucking vast majority if gun crime is done with… Read more »
Closing shops can help though. It is a fallacy that it wouldn’t. The same with digital security. There is no 100% security. Given enough time and resources you can always get through. We place barriers in place to make it more difficult and costly for criminals/state actors to procure break it. The same is true with guns. Reducing the legal selling points is reducing the illegal ones. Reducing the total amount of guns means less can be used by criminals and tracking them will be easier. Initially it might be a useless gesture, but do not forget that the criminal… Read more »
I don’t think it matters that it really won’t help. This is about feeling like you are doing something. And when people are hurting they do not have nice logical thoughts. Then add in that the news media loves to fan the flames with misinformation and it makes everything tougher to untangle.
Logically, you are correct.
Unfortunately, logic doesn’t really have to come up in situations like this. The mind is very good at convincing itself of illogical things in order to feel better.
When it’s too painful to believe a problem can’t be fixed, it’s disturbingly easy to believe that doing something extreme will fix it.
Calling it now. This isn’t Elijah, but the work of someone who psychotically takes his graffiti seriously, or they use his graffiti as a smokescreen to murder those who have been tagged by it. This could also be the way that Ethan finds out he didn’t lose his powers anyways, when whoever it is murders him, and then he just respawns.
What’s with those comments about Elijah? Isn’t she a reporter? I don’t remember any graffiti.