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Secrets, p24

November 22, 2024 by Tim


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foducool
foducool
10 months ago

“I. AM. INVINCIBLE!!!”

Mor
Mor
10 months ago
Reply to  foducool

Yeah, I’m getting that “the stage is set for the final test” vibe as well. Ethan will enter the “full overconfidence” mode and we’ll be there to witness the tense buildup up to the very point of a full respawn. Either that or a drawn out period of getting injured and being frightened to go out anywhere again.

Luckily, April 1st is a long time away, so there shoudn’t be any “oh, he did not respawn” troll-type comics anytime soon. 😉

I begs the question: why are we giving those ideas at all? 😀

Ethersalad
Ethersalad
10 months ago
Reply to  Mor

So what I’m hearing is there is about to be a swap to the Players, then return on April 1st for the death reveal.

Entercoven
Entercoven
10 months ago
Reply to  Ethersalad

I feel it is WILD that right after this comic, we went to normal stuff (wrong about Players) which gives us a STRONG chance to come back with Ethan being shot on April 1st and dying!

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
10 months ago

Again, step by step. Next a bottle, next a missile…

Just noticed that Lucas and Ethan histories are not in the same time line. Lucas is in later afternoon and Ethan. In early night…

Jack0r
Jack0r
10 months ago
Reply to  Gonfrask

The city is just really big and they are in different timezones.

Seldrick
Seldrick
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

Thats my least favorite time to drive in a part with less light. The sky still has some light but on the ground it’s dark as hell…

Freddie!
Freddie!
10 months ago

Still waiting for the Dodgeball references.

Maybe I should see that movie sometime …

GeorgeV
GeorgeV
10 months ago

Sweet, free crowbar!

WereCatf
WereCatf
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

That’d certainly make Gordon Freeman happy!

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

Now an hour arranging the inventory

Dagroth
Dagroth
10 months ago
Reply to  Gonfrask

Only an hour? Lightweight. 😉

Will B.
Will B.
10 months ago
Reply to  Dagroth

With the unlimited inventory hack I had for Fallout 4 I could waste an hour, easily! Heh.

jack
jack
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

the zombies dont stand a chance now.

MAC089
MAC089
10 months ago

Good arm. I can’t imagine it’s easy to throw a crowbar that distance.

Thomas
Thomas
10 months ago
Reply to  MAC089

Call of Duty rules. Or Hitman!

Logan
Logan
10 months ago
Reply to  Thomas

Homing crowbars!

John
John
10 months ago
Reply to  MAC089

That’s what I was thinking! Just, *boom headshot* with a crowbar from like, 10-15 feet. I feel like we should probably worry about this guy.

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
10 months ago

We must destroy this new technology at once, lest the Xen discover and claim if for themselves, which would surely doom humankind.

Steve
Steve
10 months ago

Ethan, he’s* very slowly getting away!

Darkhorse
Darkhorse
10 months ago
Reply to  Steve

Is the star because you’re not certain they are male? They is a perfectly good alternative! Easy to use and avoids semantic pitfalls.

Tortuguita
Tortuguita
10 months ago
Reply to  Darkhorse

English is not my first language but I find the use of they are for a single person is very confusing.

zox
zox
10 months ago
Reply to  Tortuguita

I mean, there’s lots of correct things that can be confusing, but you’ll figure it out eventually

Darkhorse
Darkhorse
10 months ago
Reply to  Tortuguita

Same for me, but I got used to it.

“Did that guy kiss a celebrity yesterday?”

“They did not.”

leduk
leduk
10 months ago
Reply to  Tortuguita

English is not my first language either but I find it’s absolutely not confusing.

Steve
Steve
10 months ago
Reply to  Darkhorse

Yeah I was fairly confident but not 100% sure.

Although the asterisk was because I was going to pre-emptively get in front of this topic (100% of A+D villains have been male, as far as I know, unless you count Z.K. in murder-bot mode) and then apparently I deleted it.

Daniel
Daniel
10 months ago

This is a hell of a throw, judging by the crowbar’s orbit. Only the momentum should knock him down. Either the helmet is very good, or Ethan is just very strong

Alex
Alex
10 months ago

Everyone is worried about Ben dying, wouldn’t it be a great plot twist for Ethan to have actually lost his powers and get killed, then Ben teams up with Lucas as his replacement?

Thomas
Thomas
10 months ago
Reply to  Alex

It’d certainly be a plot twist, and probably a great one for a big superhero franchise, but for this webcomic…? I don’t know if I’d have the heart to keep reading myself if it became clear he wasn’t coming back. Ethan’s always been the main character for me..

Alex
Alex
10 months ago
Reply to  Thomas

Lol Ethan is Tim, he obviously wouldn’t kill himself off

GeorgeV
GeorgeV
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

Next chapter: Tim introduces The Writer, a sometimes villain, sometimes helping the Heroes, trying to kill whomever they feel whose death would create the most dramatic story arc.

Marseyais13
Marseyais13
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

oh, I have no idea if that concept exists already (it probably does^^) but the idea of a “villain” whose whole gimmick is setting up “good story” material, which would make him self defeating most of the time similar to The Riddler because usually, these stories would have the heroes come out on top is quite intriguing.

Dagroth
Dagroth
10 months ago
Reply to  Marseyais13

Not quite in a superhero story (though D&D is still about heroes etc.), but in “Order of the Stick” D&D webcomic there was Tarquin, a story tropes obsessed villain, insisting on the events going how he things is the good story should, considering himself a Big Bad of it (he wasn’t), and throwing a fit if the events didn’t match his preferred narrative.

7eggert
7eggert
10 months ago
Reply to  Marseyais13

Character Assassins from Magellan

Amy
Amy
10 months ago
Reply to  Marseyais13

Elan’s dad in Order of the Stick?

Crestlinger
Crestlinger
10 months ago
Reply to  Marseyais13

Like the guy in the last bit of ‘Undead/Unluck’ anime, but evil.

Last edited 10 months ago by Crestlinger
Dagroth
Dagroth
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

And talking to a “camera”, Deadpool-style? 😉

Dom
Dom
10 months ago
Reply to  GeorgeV

Jesus, what a great idea for a character. Metaphysical or reality bending powers.

leduk
leduk
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

that ethan, ok, but the first ethan?

Alex
Alex
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

My bad, I thought I remembered you saying that, back in the beginning. Don’t mind me lol

Thundervolt
Thundervolt
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

on that note, Ethan had died on the first version of the story.
Why did you reboot with the same characters in a new story instead of a new story with new characters?

It never crossed my mind to ask that question, but your comment made me think about it.

Cristiano
Cristiano
10 months ago
Reply to  Tim

If i may, Tim, Ethan and Lucas were amazing characters in several different levels. Letting them disappear would be sad and i am glad they were recreated on a more modern and “adultesque” setting. They had a very slapstick, kid-comic based personalities and stories and now they live adult obstacles, feelings, experiences and dilemmas, which is also amazing. But i don’t think one should exclude the other. Old Ethan and Lucas could coexist as separate stories with neo Ethan and Lucas. I really love both versions and i wouldn’t mind that those universes crossed themselves a few times (of course,… Read more »

Ocramot
Ocramot
10 months ago

Wait, this is page 24? Is this the last page of the batch?

Boof
Boof
10 months ago

The Power!
It does feel good to be in Armor.

Marcus
Marcus
10 months ago

honestly, with all the ways ethan has died, he has probably built up quite a tolerance to pain in general. with some adrenalin pumping he would probably take a bullet center mass and keep going fairly comfortably… for a minute or two.

Ben
Ben
10 months ago

Okay but that was a pretty impressive throw. Crowbars aren’t particularly aerodynamic, but he really nailed him right in the dome.

7eggert
7eggert
10 months ago
Reply to  Ben

They aren’t very air catching either and they are heavy. The old German hand grenades were like that, too.

Glaedien
Glaedien
10 months ago
Reply to  7eggert

Always did love the design of stick grenades. I know at one point certain grenades were designed to be of similar size/weight to a baseball and were intended to be thrown as such, but the flinging throw of a stick grenade always worked better for me.*

*I say having never thrown an actual grenade, but having thrown plenty of playground appropriate proxies.

Seldrick
Seldrick
10 months ago

Can you imagine if the troll made him even more Super.
Maybe too super …
Maybe enough to make him a vi…. Nah… Nah…

Dagroth
Dagroth
10 months ago
Reply to  Seldrick

Vi- what?
I honestly didn’t get it.

Shadowcaster
Shadowcaster
10 months ago

How ironic would it be for Ethan to finally die and realize he respawns, from a random arrow?

chargersfan
chargersfan
10 months ago

Imagine him running into Deathblood. I wonder if Deathblood would recognize him.

It would probably be better if he did, because then he would think that shooting Ethan is a pointless waste of ammo.

Dom
Dom
10 months ago

Where’s the shield?

The Gamer's Grotto
The Gamer's Grotto
10 months ago

I think for a twist it’d be interesting if Ben was a shapeshifting villain and the real “Ben” was a career criminal and not the cop he claims to be lol ..

But yeah… no idea where this is going now as all my assumptions were false.. But hey! FREE CROWBAR!!! 😀

Bobbobingtonthethird
Bobbobingtonthethird
10 months ago

Build up an immunity to missiles by starting with smaller slow moving ones.