His whole thing is wanting to protect kids, though. One can maybe justify killing adults if in some deeply roundabout way it protects kids, but killing kids to protect kids? That’s full Heart of Darkness there and the point where you might as well acknowledge that your values are meaningless now.
he wanted to protect kids yes but if “they have chosen a side” like here with analog and D-pad, then he won’t hold back.
Shy Hot Prince
1 day ago
Just two more pages to “resolve” this arc? This will be interesting. I don’t see any combination with just two pages where the heroes are winning.
Feels to me like it will end on a cliffhanger. Either with the villains winning and releasing the toxin (unless that is a fake) or Elijah stumbling towards the vat during his attack and one of the heroes rescuing him from falling into.
Or the Gameboy pauses Elijah, but inherits his momentum, which throws him towards the vat. And that’s where Ethan will respawn, while trying to save him.
Were only going to get Ethan getting dumped in the vat though. Remember, the chems are not lethal necessary. There the same ones that made the Troll. At least, that’s according to him, it could be mountain dew and cornstarch, but even if they are real they don’t necessarily kill you. Ethan may be set with the choice of living disfigured or killing himself and hoping the respawn works. Either way, that story will be in the next book. We are reading a serial after all. 🙂
Ethan (as Analog) has literally saved Gameboy’s life, temporarily dying in the process. Children/minors saved: Analog 1, Elijah 0.
And Elijah may have left some kids fatherless or motherless from his murder spree. If those kids know a supervillain murdered them and the government was useless, that could eventually make more Deathbloods, or Deathblood fans.
Well, now it’s time to kick a horrified, helpless teenager, Elijah. He might or might not remind you of your own brother getting shot. Good luck with that.
Also, we know well that you don’t actually need this mask, since your identity isn’t secret and you don’t need it for your power. Separation, maybe, between you and whatever you’re doing?
Speaking of: colliding with another person hard enough to send them flying should have a pretty high chance of doing significant damage to yourself. That shoulder check could have dislocated his shoulder, broken a clavicle, or cracked his own ribs.
Frost
23 hours ago
Shit, Elijah is about to murder a child, isn’t he.
I just wish Tim had been able to hold off one more month. I don’t like having autorenewing subscriptions for optional budget items. WAY too easy for it to get out of control if I start allowing myself to do it a lot (Example: the ten or twenty Substack subscriptions I’m tempted to do would be way too big a big chunk of change to justify collectively). Especially when prices can just inflate anytime (although Patreon may be a bit different due to the tiers). And they’re not a tradeable asset like a car, house, or even a used board… Read more »
Darkhorse
23 hours ago
If GameBoy freezes Elijah he’ll get a higher burst of momentum than Lucas did.
Instead, what if he freezes his own armour? If Elijah hits the frozen armour and not GameBoy’s face, he’ll basically run into something stronger than any wall in existence.
In this case, he would be carrying a folding umbrella, summoning bullet-proof shield at will. I can only assume that he also receives the momentum of things that hit the frozen items, even though the umbrella method is still effective this way (bullet’s momentum is not that high)
GameBoy using his power on himself (or objects he’s wearing) is potentially dangerous. If he ever would pause himself, noone ever would be able to unpause him, unless its just not possible for him to pause himself of course.
His powers aren’t well defined. He’s been able to freeze weird mixes of items, yet not others. He can do only the grapple that Ethan is holding on one end and is tied to the Duke’s armour on the other. He can freeze whole thieves or Ethans, including clothes. He can freeze a large tank of gas and the receiver of the remote on it, while not freezing the buildings. They are intentionally not explained in detail, so Tim isn’t writing himself into a corner. If the plot requires him to freeze only his armour, I guess it would be… Read more »
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Come on Elijah, you gotta decide if you wanna dash straight trough the moral event horizon, or keep dancing on it like the edge of a blade.
He already dashed through it in his last arc. The man is a serial killer.
His whole thing is wanting to protect kids, though. One can maybe justify killing adults if in some deeply roundabout way it protects kids, but killing kids to protect kids? That’s full Heart of Darkness there and the point where you might as well acknowledge that your values are meaningless now.
He doesn’t want to protect kids. That’s just the fig leaf on his full bore revenge desire.
he wanted to protect kids yes but if “they have chosen a side” like here with analog and D-pad, then he won’t hold back.
Just two more pages to “resolve” this arc? This will be interesting. I don’t see any combination with just two pages where the heroes are winning.
Feels to me like it will end on a cliffhanger. Either with the villains winning and releasing the toxin (unless that is a fake) or Elijah stumbling towards the vat during his attack and one of the heroes rescuing him from falling into.
There is still the anti-hero route for Elijah.
Or the Gameboy pauses Elijah, but inherits his momentum, which throws him towards the vat. And that’s where Ethan will respawn, while trying to save him.
Were only going to get Ethan getting dumped in the vat though. Remember, the chems are not lethal necessary. There the same ones that made the Troll. At least, that’s according to him, it could be mountain dew and cornstarch, but even if they are real they don’t necessarily kill you. Ethan may be set with the choice of living disfigured or killing himself and hoping the respawn works. Either way, that story will be in the next book. We are reading a serial after all. 🙂
Ethan (as Analog) has literally saved Gameboy’s life, temporarily dying in the process. Children/minors saved: Analog 1, Elijah 0.
And Elijah may have left some kids fatherless or motherless from his murder spree. If those kids know a supervillain murdered them and the government was useless, that could eventually make more Deathbloods, or Deathblood fans.
Not necessarily. A+D “#6” ran 32 pages.
Well, now it’s time to kick a horrified, helpless teenager, Elijah. He might or might not remind you of your own brother getting shot. Good luck with that.
Also, we know well that you don’t actually need this mask, since your identity isn’t secret and you don’t need it for your power. Separation, maybe, between you and whatever you’re doing?
Face protection is still useful to have, especially when you’re running into potentially anything at super speed.
Speaking of: colliding with another person hard enough to send them flying should have a pretty high chance of doing significant damage to yourself. That shoulder check could have dislocated his shoulder, broken a clavicle, or cracked his own ribs.
Shit, Elijah is about to murder a child, isn’t he.
Seems to be the theme of anyone masked these days.
Welcome to the last day that the free comic is still equal to the paid one.
I just wish Tim had been able to hold off one more month. I don’t like having autorenewing subscriptions for optional budget items. WAY too easy for it to get out of control if I start allowing myself to do it a lot (Example: the ten or twenty Substack subscriptions I’m tempted to do would be way too big a big chunk of change to justify collectively). Especially when prices can just inflate anytime (although Patreon may be a bit different due to the tiers). And they’re not a tradeable asset like a car, house, or even a used board… Read more »
If GameBoy freezes Elijah he’ll get a higher burst of momentum than Lucas did.
Instead, what if he freezes his own armour? If Elijah hits the frozen armour and not GameBoy’s face, he’ll basically run into something stronger than any wall in existence.
In this case, he would be carrying a folding umbrella, summoning bullet-proof shield at will. I can only assume that he also receives the momentum of things that hit the frozen items, even though the umbrella method is still effective this way (bullet’s momentum is not that high)
He didn’t seem to receive any from Demolition Duke’s mech suit once the grapples to hold it were frozen.
Exactly. Once it grappled him, he could apply force on it, but not momentum, as he was unable to move
I don’t think Gameboy’s power has that precise of control.
Pause Elijah’s heart? Running would turn to flailing then.
He can’t touch the actual heart.I don’t think Gameboy can pause anything specific in someone’s body by touching the body
GameBoy using his power on himself (or objects he’s wearing) is potentially dangerous. If he ever would pause himself, noone ever would be able to unpause him, unless its just not possible for him to pause himself of course.
His powers aren’t well defined. He’s been able to freeze weird mixes of items, yet not others. He can do only the grapple that Ethan is holding on one end and is tied to the Duke’s armour on the other. He can freeze whole thieves or Ethans, including clothes. He can freeze a large tank of gas and the receiver of the remote on it, while not freezing the buildings. They are intentionally not explained in detail, so Tim isn’t writing himself into a corner. If the plot requires him to freeze only his armour, I guess it would be… Read more »
That’s a horrifying potentiality. I wonder if it would keep him up at night, fearing he may pause himself in his sleep.
Could be an interesting plot move in a different story- Gameboy traveling to the future by way of pausing himself.
He already said he needs to be “conscious and ALIVE” to hold the pause. Pausing is never a risk when he’s asleep.