Troll also doesn’t seem to be the type of villain who would repeat a failed scheme. He already did the deadman switch and it failed because D-Pad saved the civilians.
Oyee
2 months ago
So the remote control to the Troll’s remote control, Alex ‘Black Hat’, can showboat now.
ReaverRogue
2 months ago
Well she’s about to get sideswiped into the vat by Elijah, no doubt.
ears
2 months ago
Troll: oh, you’ve dealt with the stick in my hands, but there’s another one in my pants
austindorf
2 months ago
He’s a troll, probably the remote BLOCK the mechanism, and noy they’re fucked
Daniel
2 months ago
Oh dear, second time where the heroes are distracted by fake detonator? When you have superspeed, you don’t even need remote control – Elijah can basically run three blocks away and click whatever he likes.
Also, why does she attack the Troll first? He’s not a threat at all at this point
Just because she’s a hero doesn’t mean she’s smart. The real question here is, Lucas has dealt with The Troll before…he knows better, so why’d he go along with this? Unless this is some sort of “I knew your plan so I planned around your plan to make you think your plan outsmarted my plan” thing.
Crazy thought, what if she’s on the Troll’s side, and totally planned this whole thing.
Admiral Ackbar
2 months ago
It’s a trap!
WereCatf
2 months ago
Personally, I think the moment you threaten the health of hundreds or even thousands of lives indiscriminately — mothers, fathers, even little babies — you lose your right to continue breathing.
Yeah, a nice quick “shunk” aaaaaaargh my arm would´ve been pretty satisfying at this point. Kill? Nah. Maim? Yah.
Prinny
2 months ago
I really don’t like the way the Troll is grinning in that last panel… it screams ‘hehe, exactly as planned!’
(It’d be nice if, say, this was a ‘gotcha’ getting a video of superhero brutality, and there’s no actual danger to the city. Then Elijah’s stance in particular becomes a lot more defensible – he’s not really willing to risk hurting hundreds of thousands of innocent people, it’s just a bluff 😅)
Mask…
You know, it’d be a fun twist if this is a fake, some poor sucker he’s strapped a bomb to or something, and is wearing a Troll mask with a built-in speaker so the Troll can ‘talk’ to Analogue and D-Pad. And that would lean into an angle of LOOK THEY’RE ATTACKING INNOCENT PEOPLE, MONSTERS! 😱
But I don’t think that works with the way he’s gesticulating 🤔
Glurglenuts
2 months ago
This was a poor decision. The Troll is absolutely a colossal bell end and has the personal charm of a mosquito with ebola but what he isn’t is stupid. If he brings out a big red button, it sure as hell isn’t the detonator his big plan depends on. Or at least not in the way you expect.
Steve
2 months ago
She’s called Thundress, but that is clearly lightning.
How this is anything other than Elijah blocking her and possibly knocking her towards the goo, i don’t know. Hopefully Lucas can at least catch her with an arrow before she gets dunked. Except Black Hat can possibly phase it.
Well wonder what that remote actually was for. Sadly for this “Troll” there will no doubt be several tricks up his sleeves, prob ones that are just outright annoying.
He didnt seems to care much about a registered hero being there but oddly he threatened no police. I wonder if he wanted other heros to show up instead of un powered cops.
Stix
2 months ago
I’m sorry, who is Alex/Blackhat? Did I miss a chapter?
He is a disabled teen, missing (or having undeveloped and too short) fingers on his right hand. He created the glove to be able to use his hand normally, discovered it lets him “hack” reality, and became a supervillain, because he thinks the world now owes him for all the bad stuff he had to go through before. Robbing banks and the like.
Oh man thanks for the link. So we know about four major supes now, Prime, Thunderess, Deathblood, and that teleporting bald Dude from another Troll arc. And we know that those arrows can be really big if necessary … and that Prime is really pissed at them because they snatched her news headline.
There was Red Miasma or something at the end of Ethan’s first romance arc, when they get into arguments about superhero fanboyism.
Jack0r
2 months ago
I must have forgotten some stuff over the decades. Who was she again?
(I’m getting old… It’s just like the time I was watching Infinity War in cinema with a few friends, all of us desperately trying to remember who Red Voldemort was.)
Apparently I missed the page 4 pages ago. I saw her on the other pages and wondered who she was but didn’t ask, because I thought she’s probably one of the troll’s henchmen, but this page here made it clear that she wasn’t, so I asked.
He would (likely) drown, and there are both moral and legal issues with that.
Ethan and Lucas don’t kill people (on purpose, dropping the Troll was not planned), so I don’t think they’d be willing to do that, even if they could get away with it legally.
Del Cox
2 months ago
Well, nice to know we’ve got a classic villain in Alex for a change, rather than the modern ethical-dilemma trope of a guy doing bad things because he thinks he has no other choice. Don’t get me wrong, it’s healthy to recognize that good and evil can blur with perspective, but sometimes it’s satisfying want the comeuppance of a “punk” bad guy driven only to please himself in simple terms.
The classic mustache twirling villain is actually more believable because he’s with the Troll. The Troll would feed his, “More for me, the rest of you are just chumps” mindset.
On the surface he might be a classical villain. Is he though? He’s a kid without a hand, bullied all his life. He made the glove, and thought that getting rich would solve his problems. And from a kids perspective, why wouldn’t it? Online you’re often being fed that money solves problems, and he’s probably seen a popular rich kid or two with groupies that hope to get some crumbs that fall off the whale. If not friends, it can afford some protection against bullies if you have enough. He was caught and brought to justice, away from the only… Read more »
He didn’t think it would solve his problem, he thought he was taking what compensation he was “owed”. It’s no different than a bully beating up kids at school because his dad beats him at home. There’s nothing righteous about passing the buck.
I’m not sure what you’re going for. Nobody said it was righteous. I agreed that he did it to balance the pain society wrought upon him. The thing is, few people want money to just have it. They envision something with it. They can get something they haven’t got yet. He’s probably too young to think “financial security and no mortgage.” His disability is already “solved” by himself with powers to boot. Unless the argument is “I never seen someone crying in a 1.2 million car, it’s probably got something to do with the whole reason he steals money in… Read more »
Hamste
2 months ago
Even if the Troll doesn’t have a back up somehow, there is literally a speedster and a person who specializes in hacking right there. You can toss that remote as far as you want it won’t matter.
Though I am guessing he either has a back up or that remote did nothing and he is going to claim it disarms the gas.
VibrantEvolution
2 months ago
“everything rigged to…” anything but this remote he’s holding probably. Maybe let the guy finish 😅
James
2 months ago
And that is where it blows and turns her into a giant gree rage monster
jonathan corbett
2 months ago
This is the problem SO many heroes fall into.
“Oh no, you knocked it out of my hand. Oh, if ONLY I had a dead man’s switch installed.. oh, wait! I DID!!!
And that’s why Hancock did the smartest thing in such a scenario: make sure to keep the villain’s hand on the dead man’s switch, but seperate said hand from the rest of said villain.
Or the dead man’s switch and a separate timer, that he didn’t tell the heroes about until now.
That totally exists, it’s not like The Troll would be lying, right?
Bionix
2 months ago
Alex? Dude? Where in this scenario do you get any money out of this?
This scenario has two outcomes, (as said by The Troll), either Analog and D-Pad get mutated, or the entire city gets mutated. Nowhere in that was a ransom mentioned.
Maybe the troll pulled out a component of his power glove (or claimed to) and he gets it back when this job is finished, then Alex/Black Hat can get back to bank robbery.
I assume it’s just part of their team-up arrangement. Troll helped Alex by getting him his glove back, and in exchange Alex is helping Troll with this scheme.
The money comes later, once they’re done here and Alex is free to resume his robbery spree (and with two less heroes around to try and stop him.).
Phire
2 months ago
This is very obviously what the troll wants.
The idea is to do something he would not expect.
Extreme
2 months ago
He either doesn’t look very concerned, or his face is just stuck like that. Maybe both.
M D
2 months ago
So does he have another dose of the serum, and it actually takes her powers away?
Even if Troll’s last serum was real, it was supposed to be crafted from Analog’s DNA and presumably only meant to work on Analog specifically. It shouldn’t affect other Heroes, at least not beyond the usual health hazards from injecting mysterious glowing green goo.
I’d assume it’d have caused a much bigger uproar if it was a way to remove any Hero’s powers. Of course, that’d have also made it a lot easier to verify if it worked…
I thought he had the black market mostly do the mad science involved, but I admit I don’t remember every detail exactly. Again, I think there’d be a bigger city-wide crisis if ‘depower any hero’ goo was so easy to obtain that even a relatively low-tier villain like Troll can do it. And regardless, even if we assume it is somehow possible to replicate it for any Hero, the point was it is an incredibly targeted weapon. Troll spent weeks (Months? Comic time is hard).preparing his alleged anti-Analog goo. It’s plausible he might’ve done the same for D-Pad by now,… Read more »
Giggity Goo
2 months ago
Ok… mebbe it’s just me, but I would have used an arrow to slice the vent so even if they release it it doesn’t leave the building…
D-Pads arrows can get large if he wants, so he could´ve done that I think. But it´s the Troll, he usually has something horrible rigged as backup to have the possibility to tell people they did everything he wanted them to, even if they didn´t.
Seldrick
2 months ago
I’ve decide to reread from the begining since I’ve stopped a long time ago, and funny enough, first thing Lucas says almost, is he wish he had big baddies vilains to fight.
I’m sure he regrets it now 😂
Banjo
2 months ago
So Black Hat is in this for… money? What money, exactly? Does the Troll have some funding coming in from somewhere?
This is an interesting question. It doesn’t seem like he’s going to directly profit from working with the Troll, so you might say that he owns the Troll for freeing him and get his glove back. But in this case, it not exactly “for money”, right? More like loyalty, or bargain for freedom.
It might refer to lodging, though. Alex lived with his Mom and never was able to be a full-time villain. Maybe a deal was made that as long as Alex works with the Troll he have food and safe place to be in
If he goes back to stealing from banks (and is successful again) he could just get all that stuff with money.
Though I suppose he has to stay somewhere in the meantime, and his mother would probably try to take away the glove and/or call the police if he just went home.
Cypher
2 months ago
No matter what happens next, always remember trump gave a blowjob to someone named bubba.
Alpha-00
2 months ago
There is no way he didn’t predicted it. And he looks particulary trolly in last panel. I doubt his whole scheme didn’t involve blowing chemicals anyway, whole point was to blame Analog and D-Pad from the start.
leduk
2 months ago
*that smile meme*
B B
2 months ago
Apparently the competency has spread to superheroes. Since you’d think a professional would have a plan better than just believing a villain named the troll about the big obvious switch he’s very deliberately highlighting.
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I sure hope Troll doesn’t have a failsafe that’ll disperse the chemicals anyway. Or maybe he already did Ozymandias-style.
If there are even chemicals and the green goo aint just mountain dew… its a troll after all
Wouldn’t it be more dangerous if it’s mountain dew?
It’s not mountain dew. The mountain dew is in the fridge, duh.
But where are the cheetos?
IF THERE ARE CHICKS THERE, I WANT TO DO THEM!
Nice cliffhanger for the weekend
If it was a death man device…
But that wouldn’t be trolling enough
Troll also doesn’t seem to be the type of villain who would repeat a failed scheme. He already did the deadman switch and it failed because D-Pad saved the civilians.
So the remote control to the Troll’s remote control, Alex ‘Black Hat’, can showboat now.
Well she’s about to get sideswiped into the vat by Elijah, no doubt.
Troll: oh, you’ve dealt with the stick in my hands, but there’s another one in my pants
He’s a troll, probably the remote BLOCK the mechanism, and noy they’re fucked
Oh dear, second time where the heroes are distracted by fake detonator? When you have superspeed, you don’t even need remote control – Elijah can basically run three blocks away and click whatever he likes.
Also, why does she attack the Troll first? He’s not a threat at all at this point
Just because she’s a hero doesn’t mean she’s smart. The real question here is, Lucas has dealt with The Troll before…he knows better, so why’d he go along with this? Unless this is some sort of “I knew your plan so I planned around your plan to make you think your plan outsmarted my plan” thing.
Crazy thought, what if she’s on the Troll’s side, and totally planned this whole thing.
It’s a trap!
Personally, I think the moment you threaten the health of hundreds or even thousands of lives indiscriminately — mothers, fathers, even little babies — you lose your right to continue breathing.
I think you’d be surprised at how many ppl breathing today that fit that description.
*side eyes the US government* Nope, none come to mind. None at all…
It would have been funny if D-Pad severed the Troll’s entire arm off instead
I was actually expecting that
Yeah, a nice quick “shunk” aaaaaaargh my arm would´ve been pretty satisfying at this point. Kill? Nah. Maim? Yah.
I really don’t like the way the Troll is grinning in that last panel… it screams ‘hehe, exactly as planned!’
(It’d be nice if, say, this was a ‘gotcha’ getting a video of superhero brutality, and there’s no actual danger to the city. Then Elijah’s stance in particular becomes a lot more defensible – he’s not really willing to risk hurting hundreds of thousands of innocent people, it’s just a bluff 😅)
It looks like the same grin in every panel that shows his face. Is he wearing a fixed mask?
Mask…
You know, it’d be a fun twist if this is a fake, some poor sucker he’s strapped a bomb to or something, and is wearing a Troll mask with a built-in speaker so the Troll can ‘talk’ to Analogue and D-Pad. And that would lean into an angle of LOOK THEY’RE ATTACKING INNOCENT PEOPLE, MONSTERS! 😱
But I don’t think that works with the way he’s gesticulating 🤔
This was a poor decision. The Troll is absolutely a colossal bell end and has the personal charm of a mosquito with ebola but what he isn’t is stupid. If he brings out a big red button, it sure as hell isn’t the detonator his big plan depends on. Or at least not in the way you expect.
She’s called Thundress, but that is clearly lightning.
How this is anything other than Elijah blocking her and possibly knocking her towards the goo, i don’t know. Hopefully Lucas can at least catch her with an arrow before she gets dunked. Except Black Hat can possibly phase it.
And Thor is not the God of Hammers
*Insert “I understood that reference” meme here*
Even better since it was a reply to “Steve”
Well wonder what that remote actually was for. Sadly for this “Troll” there will no doubt be several tricks up his sleeves, prob ones that are just outright annoying.
He didnt seems to care much about a registered hero being there but oddly he threatened no police. I wonder if he wanted other heros to show up instead of un powered cops.
I’m sorry, who is Alex/Blackhat? Did I miss a chapter?
You might’ve forgotten him, iirc he was the first guy they caught, one of the earliest chapters.
He is a disabled teen, missing (or having undeveloped and too short) fingers on his right hand. He created the glove to be able to use his hand normally, discovered it lets him “hack” reality, and became a supervillain, because he thinks the world now owes him for all the bad stuff he had to go through before. Robbing banks and the like.
Here’s a link because the archive stinks on this website. https://cad-comic.com/comic/analog-and-d-pad-02-11/
Oh man thanks for the link. So we know about four major supes now, Prime, Thunderess, Deathblood, and that teleporting bald Dude from another Troll arc. And we know that those arrows can be really big if necessary … and that Prime is really pissed at them because they snatched her news headline.
There was Red Miasma or something at the end of Ethan’s first romance arc, when they get into arguments about superhero fanboyism.
I must have forgotten some stuff over the decades. Who was she again?
(I’m getting old… It’s just like the time I was watching Infinity War in cinema with a few friends, all of us desperately trying to remember who Red Voldemort was.)
The good news is your long-term memory is probably fine.
The bad news is your short-term memory might have some issues.
This isn’t some older character from decades past. She showed up 4 pages ago, and she’s been on 3 out of 4 pages since.
Dementia is starting 🙂
Apparently I missed the page 4 pages ago. I saw her on the other pages and wondered who she was but didn’t ask, because I thought she’s probably one of the troll’s henchmen, but this page here made it clear that she wasn’t, so I asked.
Throw him in the vat, glue bomb so he Stays put.
He would (likely) drown, and there are both moral and legal issues with that.
Ethan and Lucas don’t kill people (on purpose, dropping the Troll was not planned), so I don’t think they’d be willing to do that, even if they could get away with it legally.
Well, nice to know we’ve got a classic villain in Alex for a change, rather than the modern ethical-dilemma trope of a guy doing bad things because he thinks he has no other choice. Don’t get me wrong, it’s healthy to recognize that good and evil can blur with perspective, but sometimes it’s satisfying want the comeuppance of a “punk” bad guy driven only to please himself in simple terms.
The classic mustache twirling villain is actually more believable because he’s with the Troll. The Troll would feed his, “More for me, the rest of you are just chumps” mindset.
On the surface he might be a classical villain. Is he though? He’s a kid without a hand, bullied all his life. He made the glove, and thought that getting rich would solve his problems. And from a kids perspective, why wouldn’t it? Online you’re often being fed that money solves problems, and he’s probably seen a popular rich kid or two with groupies that hope to get some crumbs that fall off the whale. If not friends, it can afford some protection against bullies if you have enough. He was caught and brought to justice, away from the only… Read more »
He didn’t think it would solve his problem, he thought he was taking what compensation he was “owed”. It’s no different than a bully beating up kids at school because his dad beats him at home. There’s nothing righteous about passing the buck.
I’m not sure what you’re going for. Nobody said it was righteous. I agreed that he did it to balance the pain society wrought upon him. The thing is, few people want money to just have it. They envision something with it. They can get something they haven’t got yet. He’s probably too young to think “financial security and no mortgage.” His disability is already “solved” by himself with powers to boot. Unless the argument is “I never seen someone crying in a 1.2 million car, it’s probably got something to do with the whole reason he steals money in… Read more »
Even if the Troll doesn’t have a back up somehow, there is literally a speedster and a person who specializes in hacking right there. You can toss that remote as far as you want it won’t matter.
Though I am guessing he either has a back up or that remote did nothing and he is going to claim it disarms the gas.
“everything rigged to…” anything but this remote he’s holding probably. Maybe let the guy finish 😅
And that is where it blows and turns her into a giant gree rage monster
This is the problem SO many heroes fall into.
“Oh no, you knocked it out of my hand. Oh, if ONLY I had a dead man’s switch installed.. oh, wait! I DID!!!
Just because I’m crazy doesn’t mean I’m STUPID!
And that’s why Hancock did the smartest thing in such a scenario: make sure to keep the villain’s hand on the dead man’s switch, but seperate said hand from the rest of said villain.
Or the dead man’s switch and a separate timer, that he didn’t tell the heroes about until now.
That totally exists, it’s not like The Troll would be lying, right?
Alex? Dude? Where in this scenario do you get any money out of this?
This scenario has two outcomes, (as said by The Troll), either Analog and D-Pad get mutated, or the entire city gets mutated. Nowhere in that was a ransom mentioned.
Maybe the troll pulled out a component of his power glove (or claimed to) and he gets it back when this job is finished, then Alex/Black Hat can get back to bank robbery.
I assume it’s just part of their team-up arrangement. Troll helped Alex by getting him his glove back, and in exchange Alex is helping Troll with this scheme.
The money comes later, once they’re done here and Alex is free to resume his robbery spree (and with two less heroes around to try and stop him.).
This is very obviously what the troll wants.
The idea is to do something he would not expect.
He either doesn’t look very concerned, or his face is just stuck like that. Maybe both.
So does he have another dose of the serum, and it actually takes her powers away?
Unlikely.
Even if Troll’s last serum was real, it was supposed to be crafted from Analog’s DNA and presumably only meant to work on Analog specifically. It shouldn’t affect other Heroes, at least not beyond the usual health hazards from injecting mysterious glowing green goo.
I’d assume it’d have caused a much bigger uproar if it was a way to remove any Hero’s powers. Of course, that’d have also made it a lot easier to verify if it worked…
He also mentioned getting the DNA from a black market or something. So if it was true, then he certainly could have a serum for her as well.
I thought he had the black market mostly do the mad science involved, but I admit I don’t remember every detail exactly. Again, I think there’d be a bigger city-wide crisis if ‘depower any hero’ goo was so easy to obtain that even a relatively low-tier villain like Troll can do it. And regardless, even if we assume it is somehow possible to replicate it for any Hero, the point was it is an incredibly targeted weapon. Troll spent weeks (Months? Comic time is hard).preparing his alleged anti-Analog goo. It’s plausible he might’ve done the same for D-Pad by now,… Read more »
Ok… mebbe it’s just me, but I would have used an arrow to slice the vent so even if they release it it doesn’t leave the building…
D-Pads arrows can get large if he wants, so he could´ve done that I think. But it´s the Troll, he usually has something horrible rigged as backup to have the possibility to tell people they did everything he wanted them to, even if they didn´t.
I’ve decide to reread from the begining since I’ve stopped a long time ago, and funny enough, first thing Lucas says almost, is he wish he had big baddies vilains to fight.
I’m sure he regrets it now 😂
So Black Hat is in this for… money? What money, exactly? Does the Troll have some funding coming in from somewhere?
How many online personalities get donations or run Patreons or Kofis?
Now try to tell me this comicbook world doesn’t have some dark-web equivalent for super villains.
In his original appearance, he was wall-hacking to rob banks. Now that that Troll freed him and got him his Power Glove again, he can resume that.
This is an interesting question. It doesn’t seem like he’s going to directly profit from working with the Troll, so you might say that he owns the Troll for freeing him and get his glove back. But in this case, it not exactly “for money”, right? More like loyalty, or bargain for freedom.
It might refer to lodging, though. Alex lived with his Mom and never was able to be a full-time villain. Maybe a deal was made that as long as Alex works with the Troll he have food and safe place to be in
If he goes back to stealing from banks (and is successful again) he could just get all that stuff with money.
Though I suppose he has to stay somewhere in the meantime, and his mother would probably try to take away the glove and/or call the police if he just went home.
No matter what happens next, always remember trump gave a blowjob to someone named bubba.
There is no way he didn’t predicted it. And he looks particulary trolly in last panel. I doubt his whole scheme didn’t involve blowing chemicals anyway, whole point was to blame Analog and D-Pad from the start.
*that smile meme*
Apparently the competency has spread to superheroes. Since you’d think a professional would have a plan better than just believing a villain named the troll about the big obvious switch he’s very deliberately highlighting.
Bring me THE TROLL! *thunderclap*