I find it nice that Elijah still tries to get cooperation, about ten pages into the fight. He really doesn’t want to hit the kid, apparently.
I still hope he’ll change sides, so there will be a speedster vs speedster fight.
No, that’s a lie to appease his own twisted morals from “needing” to hurt GameBoy before the fact.
In matters of morals and intentions ‘adding “but” in there proves everything you said prior to be a lie’.
It’s toxic blame shifting. No better than R-ists that say stuff like ‘well if she didn’t wear such a revealing outfit I wouldn’t have had the urge’. Elijah’s lost, and needs to be locked up.
Exactly. It’s wild the lengths people are going to in order to continue justifying Elijah, even after the previous story where he was revealed to be a serial killer. Guy is completely evil, stop making excuses for him.
Yeah, at the time I was so hoping that he had a stalker who was doing the killing. This storyline I was so hoping he had been partially tricked by the Troll and he wasn’t ok with random death, as at “least” he wasn’t only doing targeted before. But looks like is just lost to be a standard tier super villain now
I’m really confused by this. How is Deathblood any better? He’s a serial killer. When I pointed such things out people vehemently defended him.
From Elijah’s perspective it really isn’t different. He sees an evil in the world. He tries to stop it by any means necessary.
People seem hung up on the fact that he’s against something they like. Games. They defend games without consideration whether it is harmful or not. In this universe it could very well have a much darker side than our own. That thought is given no consideration at all.
I didn’t see anyone defending Deathblood so much as defnding his views on corruption in the justice system. None of them condoned his methods that I saw, only his statements that justice has a way of miscarrying.
Some major differences: -Elijah attacks civilians, based on imaginary rules he himself made up.. Deathblood doesn’t create his own laws, he specifically targets criminals that break the law, and only those that continue breaking the law after encountering the justice system. -Deathblood has a consistent moral code. Meanwhile Elijah ‘protect the children, protect the town’ is actively gearing up to beat up a child, and joined a terrorist plot to gas a chunk of the town. -Deathbloods actions have an demonstrable logic behind them, whereas Elijah’s entire cause is based on a nonsensical claim that games are somehow causing all… Read more »
Deathblood is WAY better… Both are going about things the wrong way, but at least Deathblood is actually targeting hardened criminals. He’s killing people who have killed people, thereby protecting other innocent people from being killed. Elijah is preparing to kill a teenager just for being in his way of horribly physically altering potentially thousands or tens of thousands of completely innocent civilians just harm two “super heroes” because they support video games, which might possibly in some way potentially lead people to being violent or simply desensitized to violence… The two are worlds apart.
You seriously can’t comprehend that what someone feels they need to do takes precedence over what they want to do?
The guy has completely lost sight of the fact that he’s threatening similar violence and justification as a school shooter, but that’s a pretty narrow view if you can’t tell the difference between delusion and a lie.
Yeah, “cooperation” in a way a tyrant asks you to get out of his way and bend to his will, only because that will make his work easier.
No compromise, no real negotiations, just a threat of violence if you don’t do what he says.
Nah, it´s the standard “don´t make me hurt you (more)” of all agressors against their victims who resist.
Risky
26 days ago
You need to find a better way to start a conversation about firearms than holding a WMD over people’s heads.
JozMk.II
26 days ago
Oh really, Elijah? You don’t want to hurt him, yet just a moment ago you nearly made him fall to his death on purpose? You are not thinking clearly, dude.
It isn’t a sign of strength if you need to blow up your argument out of proportion. Fall to his death? He isn’t that high. He would need to land very unhappily for it to be his death. And it very much makes sense for a talk. Earlier his bargaining power was limited, with Gameboy flying around and Lucas still in the game. Elijah has shown he can absolutely wreck someone by crashing into Lucas. Gameboy is now at a big disadvantage as he’s on the ground seemingly without support. It absolutely makes sense to talk now. One on one.… Read more »
It seems plenty high to me. And regardless, that it could potentially be a survivable fall doesn’t stop it from still being potentially lethal if they don’t get that smooth landing you’re thinking of. (And let’s not pretend Elijah would try to prevent a neck snapping impact.) Also note that Gameboy was hovering above a vat of presumably lethal chemicals, so it’s not just the height to be concerned about. I’m confused (and a little concerned) why you think bargaining power makes sense for a talk. Holding a massive threat of violence over somebody really isn’t part of any normal… Read more »
Dude, they’re in a theater. Gameboy was pretty close to the ceiling above the stage. If it’s a proscenium theater (which it looks to be) then that’s a drop of somewhere between 40 and 70 feet, with the standard being around 50 feet. You probably won’t get out of a 25 foot fall without some broken bones, but that’s survivable. By 30 feet, survivability is down to how you land. By 50 feet, death is a common and well-understood outcome. So yes, Elijah intentionally performed an act that a reasonable person would know carried a high likelihood of death. The… Read more »
It’s not about Game Boy killing Elijah, it’s about all the force behind Elijah transferring to Game Boy during the pause. In one of the past issues, Game Boy was visibly hurt but overall still okay from pausing something else that was moving fast. Basically: Game Boy will hurt himself pausing Elijah.
The momentum of Elijah moving is likely applied to the brace as well, so I don’t think that would help. But there are chairs in the room, assuming they aren’t fastened to the floor (it looks like at least some aren’t), GameBoy could perhaps pause one of them in the air in Elijah’s way. If he manages to do it fast enough, maybe Elijah crashes into it with more force than a regular running human does and is knocked out or at least off balance for long enough to be paused. Or GameBoy’s mom somehow talks Elijah out of it… Read more »
It is definitely “Mom… I may not be able to come home after all…”
Steve
26 days ago
I thought Gameboy has to touch things again to unpause them, and Elijah just KO’d the one guy who could actually get him back up there.
Also Omnitropolis is a weird city. I’m not aware of many giant cities chock full of gun shops. They’re usually quite restrictive about guns in general, and they’re about the last place I’d choose to try to shop for one (though, technically, I have always owned zero by choice anyway, and have only ever used one about four times in my entire life).
Virginia has a metric ton of gun shops everywhere, and due to how lax the gun laws are they are not even remotely restrictive. Hell it’s one of the few states you can buy a firearm without any background check. We’ve had plenty of guys we had to fire because of them leaving them in their trucks on job sites.
Ok but outside of Alexandria and Richmond (and DC although that is not technically VA) how much of Virginia is an urbanized metropolis? I have driven through it to NC, and it felt pretty rural most of the way. Elijah is targeting the CITY laws, not state or federal law. And I’m saying there really just aren’t many gun shops in dense cities where I live (northeast), and certainly none that are particularly lax about background checks.
There is no commercial store in the US that doesnt require a background check to buy a gun unless its a black powder gun. If they are selling without checks its kinda turbo mega illegal
It is federal law that gun shops must run background checks on all purchases, states don’t get a choice in that. If you’re doing a private sale, you don’t have to have a check in most states, but you can go to a gun shop and do one if you chose.
Curious
26 days ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I think an entire comic is missing. We seem to have jumped the comic that is listed on Patreon as Wednesday December 10th and jumped straight to the one listed for December 12th on Patreon. I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but it could result in a disconnect in the storyline for free users.
Please disregard my earlier post. Patreon was acting weird for me and jumbling tiers together.
Bionix
26 days ago
I didn’t think much of it when Game Boy showed up originally, but I really like the idea of a kid superhero who has his mom as mission control. That’s just cute.
Boof
26 days ago
Honestly, I would tell the kid to un-pause it. If Elijah needs the bomb as leverage, he will be unlikely to blow it up immediately. Even if the troll blows it up preemptively, you’d have Elijah and all the other supers to try and contain it- in any case it’s not worth a kid getting blown up by a speedster. (Or accidentally blowing up a speedster.)
Ultimately, he wants to change gun laws, but he also attributes video games as a major reason why people kill other people with guns, since a lot of video games glorify gun violence. So if video games are gone, then to him that equals a high number of gun shootings, since for him video games lead to gun violence.
But his logic is flawed, because if he wanted to stop all video game-related deaths, he’d be advocating for the removal of plumbers, swords, magic, technology, space exploration, and the list goes on.
DerGrimmigeZwerg
25 days ago
That moment your mom argues that you shouldn’t pause a multiplayer game…
Nightdagger
25 days ago
Nope.Elijah has crossed the point of no return. He just threatened to hurt a child in the name of “the greater good”.
Fuck him up, Gameboy. Show him who’s boss.
Cernunnos
25 days ago
Unless gameboy needs to touch something/someone to pause them, then surely pausing Elijah before he starts running, building up a tonne of kinetic energy, would make sense?
Del Cox
25 days ago
I like how the angle of the mask gives the illusion of his eye expression.
Lily
25 days ago
When I sort of imagine what ‘could’ happen, I think it would be too graphic for the comic. So I imagine is something far less extreme.
Drew
25 days ago
This would require extreme luck on Gameboy’s part BUT if he were to tag Elijah from behind to pause him then he shouldn’t get hit with a kinetic force backlash since the momentum is already being carried away from him.
Hawk
24 days ago
Man, Elijah is officially lost.
You’d think hearing a kid literally call for his mom would give someone with his trauma pause (no pun intended). If this doesn’t stop him, nothing will.
He’ll step from “I’m unable to cope with loss, so I’m lashing out at an unjust system”, into “I have only my hate and my need to force others to feel my pain”.
For his sake, I hope the next panel is of him at least hesitating.
Bryan
23 days ago
Honestly I had Dean’s voice telling Sammy not to do it instead of a mom lol
24
This is where GameBoy is gonna become GameMan.
You win the comment section for the day.
Or mom comes charging in revealing her secret superhero identify to prevent Gameboy from being seriously hurt.
Not a crazy idea actually.
Either Mom is completely delusional, or she has enough power to be more than just “guy in the chair-ing” for Junior.
Though I could see more “retired supervillain” than “superhero.”
I should hope so. I really hope Tim doesn’t pull the rug on us and turn him into GameOverBoy.
That’s it, boy! Game over, boy! Game over!
Just nuke ’em from orbit.
Problem solved.
Well…the immediate one of course, but the Fallout (See what I did there.) would be problematic.
Don’t know why…but I’m foreseeing a jail visit of Sam’s mother…with Elija’s mother
I was thinking hospital visit, myself.
oh my.
The title of this issue is sure real to the max!
yep, it’s definitely part 25 alright
I find it nice that Elijah still tries to get cooperation, about ten pages into the fight. He really doesn’t want to hit the kid, apparently.
I still hope he’ll change sides, so there will be a speedster vs speedster fight.
No, that’s a lie to appease his own twisted morals from “needing” to hurt GameBoy before the fact.
In matters of morals and intentions ‘adding “but” in there proves everything you said prior to be a lie’.
It’s toxic blame shifting. No better than R-ists that say stuff like ‘well if she didn’t wear such a revealing outfit I wouldn’t have had the urge’. Elijah’s lost, and needs to be locked up.
That being said, if he charges Game Boy, and Game Boy freezes him…
… I’m picturing Elijah becoming the superhero version of Truls Hellevik. 🫢
If you’re squeamish, don’t look up the story on the Byford Dolphin accident. 👀
Exactly. It’s wild the lengths people are going to in order to continue justifying Elijah, even after the previous story where he was revealed to be a serial killer. Guy is completely evil, stop making excuses for him.
Yeah, at the time I was so hoping that he had a stalker who was doing the killing. This storyline I was so hoping he had been partially tricked by the Troll and he wasn’t ok with random death, as at “least” he wasn’t only doing targeted before. But looks like is just lost to be a standard tier super villain now
I’m really confused by this. How is Deathblood any better? He’s a serial killer. When I pointed such things out people vehemently defended him.
From Elijah’s perspective it really isn’t different. He sees an evil in the world. He tries to stop it by any means necessary.
People seem hung up on the fact that he’s against something they like. Games. They defend games without consideration whether it is harmful or not. In this universe it could very well have a much darker side than our own. That thought is given no consideration at all.
I didn’t see anyone defending Deathblood so much as defnding his views on corruption in the justice system. None of them condoned his methods that I saw, only his statements that justice has a way of miscarrying.
Some major differences: -Elijah attacks civilians, based on imaginary rules he himself made up.. Deathblood doesn’t create his own laws, he specifically targets criminals that break the law, and only those that continue breaking the law after encountering the justice system. -Deathblood has a consistent moral code. Meanwhile Elijah ‘protect the children, protect the town’ is actively gearing up to beat up a child, and joined a terrorist plot to gas a chunk of the town. -Deathbloods actions have an demonstrable logic behind them, whereas Elijah’s entire cause is based on a nonsensical claim that games are somehow causing all… Read more »
Deathblood is WAY better… Both are going about things the wrong way, but at least Deathblood is actually targeting hardened criminals. He’s killing people who have killed people, thereby protecting other innocent people from being killed. Elijah is preparing to kill a teenager just for being in his way of horribly physically altering potentially thousands or tens of thousands of completely innocent civilians just harm two “super heroes” because they support video games, which might possibly in some way potentially lead people to being violent or simply desensitized to violence… The two are worlds apart.
You seriously can’t comprehend that what someone feels they need to do takes precedence over what they want to do?
The guy has completely lost sight of the fact that he’s threatening similar violence and justification as a school shooter, but that’s a pretty narrow view if you can’t tell the difference between delusion and a lie.
Yeah, “cooperation” in a way a tyrant asks you to get out of his way and bend to his will, only because that will make his work easier.
No compromise, no real negotiations, just a threat of violence if you don’t do what he says.
Nah, it´s the standard “don´t make me hurt you (more)” of all agressors against their victims who resist.
You need to find a better way to start a conversation about firearms than holding a WMD over people’s heads.
Oh really, Elijah? You don’t want to hurt him, yet just a moment ago you nearly made him fall to his death on purpose? You are not thinking clearly, dude.
You don’t want to hurt him, but you’re willing to mutate a city of full people?
Great job at protecting the innocent!
It isn’t a sign of strength if you need to blow up your argument out of proportion. Fall to his death? He isn’t that high. He would need to land very unhappily for it to be his death. And it very much makes sense for a talk. Earlier his bargaining power was limited, with Gameboy flying around and Lucas still in the game. Elijah has shown he can absolutely wreck someone by crashing into Lucas. Gameboy is now at a big disadvantage as he’s on the ground seemingly without support. It absolutely makes sense to talk now. One on one.… Read more »
Psychopaths always have ways of justifying their actions it’s why they’re psychopaths, and yes even Deathblood is a psychopath.
It seems plenty high to me. And regardless, that it could potentially be a survivable fall doesn’t stop it from still being potentially lethal if they don’t get that smooth landing you’re thinking of. (And let’s not pretend Elijah would try to prevent a neck snapping impact.) Also note that Gameboy was hovering above a vat of presumably lethal chemicals, so it’s not just the height to be concerned about. I’m confused (and a little concerned) why you think bargaining power makes sense for a talk. Holding a massive threat of violence over somebody really isn’t part of any normal… Read more »
Dude, they’re in a theater. Gameboy was pretty close to the ceiling above the stage. If it’s a proscenium theater (which it looks to be) then that’s a drop of somewhere between 40 and 70 feet, with the standard being around 50 feet. You probably won’t get out of a 25 foot fall without some broken bones, but that’s survivable. By 30 feet, survivability is down to how you land. By 50 feet, death is a common and well-understood outcome. So yes, Elijah intentionally performed an act that a reasonable person would know carried a high likelihood of death. The… Read more »
‘Hi mom, killing someone today, bye.’
Mom: 👀
It’s not about Game Boy killing Elijah, it’s about all the force behind Elijah transferring to Game Boy during the pause. In one of the past issues, Game Boy was visibly hurt but overall still okay from pausing something else that was moving fast. Basically: Game Boy will hurt himself pausing Elijah.
Only if he pauses Elijah, in theory he could say, pause his leg brace and not him.
The momentum of Elijah moving is likely applied to the brace as well, so I don’t think that would help. But there are chairs in the room, assuming they aren’t fastened to the floor (it looks like at least some aren’t), GameBoy could perhaps pause one of them in the air in Elijah’s way. If he manages to do it fast enough, maybe Elijah crashes into it with more force than a regular running human does and is knocked out or at least off balance for long enough to be paused. Or GameBoy’s mom somehow talks Elijah out of it… Read more »
Oh good, that’ll just tear Elijah’s leg off and traumatize Game Boy with PTSD.
And judging by the tone of the conversation, it isnt going to be “ow… thats gonna leave a mark”. Its gonna be “I might not survive this”.
It is definitely “Mom… I may not be able to come home after all…”
I thought Gameboy has to touch things again to unpause them, and Elijah just KO’d the one guy who could actually get him back up there.
Also Omnitropolis is a weird city. I’m not aware of many giant cities chock full of gun shops. They’re usually quite restrictive about guns in general, and they’re about the last place I’d choose to try to shop for one (though, technically, I have always owned zero by choice anyway, and have only ever used one about four times in my entire life).
*By choice, I suppose if he’s unconscious it unpauses. Unless it requires active concentration?
Page 19 of this very story, GameBoy says he has to be conscious to keep something paused.
Yes I just mentioned that. In the original GameBoy arc (Turf), the pause was touch to pause, touch to unpause.
I am asking if there is also a concentration requirement to maintain the pause, or just a consciousness requirement for it to continue.
Virginia has a metric ton of gun shops everywhere, and due to how lax the gun laws are they are not even remotely restrictive. Hell it’s one of the few states you can buy a firearm without any background check. We’ve had plenty of guys we had to fire because of them leaving them in their trucks on job sites.
Ok but outside of Alexandria and Richmond (and DC although that is not technically VA) how much of Virginia is an urbanized metropolis? I have driven through it to NC, and it felt pretty rural most of the way. Elijah is targeting the CITY laws, not state or federal law. And I’m saying there really just aren’t many gun shops in dense cities where I live (northeast), and certainly none that are particularly lax about background checks.
There is no commercial store in the US that doesnt require a background check to buy a gun unless its a black powder gun. If they are selling without checks its kinda turbo mega illegal
It is federal law that gun shops must run background checks on all purchases, states don’t get a choice in that. If you’re doing a private sale, you don’t have to have a check in most states, but you can go to a gun shop and do one if you chose.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think an entire comic is missing. We seem to have jumped the comic that is listed on Patreon as Wednesday December 10th and jumped straight to the one listed for December 12th on Patreon. I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but it could result in a disconnect in the storyline for free users.
Please disregard my earlier post. Patreon was acting weird for me and jumbling tiers together.
I didn’t think much of it when Game Boy showed up originally, but I really like the idea of a kid superhero who has his mom as mission control. That’s just cute.
Honestly, I would tell the kid to un-pause it. If Elijah needs the bomb as leverage, he will be unlikely to blow it up immediately. Even if the troll blows it up preemptively, you’d have Elijah and all the other supers to try and contain it- in any case it’s not worth a kid getting blown up by a speedster. (Or accidentally blowing up a speedster.)
Time to nut up or shut up, kid.
Man we’ve got some negative, toxic people in this comment section. It’s a line from Zombieland, people..
Why am I getting, “I don’t feel so well Mr. Stark” vibes?
He doesn’t have to pause Elijah. He only has to pause that brace on his leg. He’ll crumple like a disposable cup.
Wait. I thought Elijah was out to ban video games, not change gun laws.
Ultimately, he wants to change gun laws, but he also attributes video games as a major reason why people kill other people with guns, since a lot of video games glorify gun violence. So if video games are gone, then to him that equals a high number of gun shootings, since for him video games lead to gun violence.
But his logic is flawed, because if he wanted to stop all video game-related deaths, he’d be advocating for the removal of plumbers, swords, magic, technology, space exploration, and the list goes on.
That moment your mom argues that you shouldn’t pause a multiplayer game…
Nope.Elijah has crossed the point of no return. He just threatened to hurt a child in the name of “the greater good”.
Fuck him up, Gameboy. Show him who’s boss.
Unless gameboy needs to touch something/someone to pause them, then surely pausing Elijah before he starts running, building up a tonne of kinetic energy, would make sense?
I like how the angle of the mask gives the illusion of his eye expression.
When I sort of imagine what ‘could’ happen, I think it would be too graphic for the comic. So I imagine is something far less extreme.
This would require extreme luck on Gameboy’s part BUT if he were to tag Elijah from behind to pause him then he shouldn’t get hit with a kinetic force backlash since the momentum is already being carried away from him.
Man, Elijah is officially lost.
You’d think hearing a kid literally call for his mom would give someone with his trauma pause (no pun intended). If this doesn’t stop him, nothing will.
He’ll step from “I’m unable to cope with loss, so I’m lashing out at an unjust system”, into “I have only my hate and my need to force others to feel my pain”.
For his sake, I hope the next panel is of him at least hesitating.
Honestly I had Dean’s voice telling Sammy not to do it instead of a mom lol