I think ALL the kids want to be Prime.
on February 1, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: The Seventh Power
Location: Mexico somewhere
no no, joe, they want prime to be their dad
Here’s Mike, being a hero, keeping Will from embarrassing himself, through, uh, punching. Mike uses punching to solve a lot of problems for people.
Naturally, Joe started fitting a little more into my wheelhouse when we started highlighting his more insecure, uncertain side. Jason’s art is also selling Jackie’s reactions, and David’s basic idea for this scene does the rest: young ingenue Jackie has something to teach “experienced” Joe about women, something that even applies to the casual encounters that define him but will also start to send him on a different course.
Man, after reading Dumbing of Age, it’s hard to remember that Walkyverse Joe and Sarah were ever together… and to picture Sarah laughing at things. But she was the closest thing to a long-term commitment we’d seen him have up to this point, so her inclusion isn’t accidental.And let’s all just ignore what’s going on with the unconnected “Yes, girls do” and the “Dextrous” word balloon’s tail, pls thnx
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Before I finished reading the author commentary I was gonna compliment the long word balloon tail in the last panel – I guess we’re not on the same wavelength. I suppose it is a little messy.
I also love Mike punching Will. He knows it’s not going to hurt him, but he’s doing it anyway. Because the fact that it’s totally pointless and yet he keeps doing it is really annoying and he knows that.
My experience with reading author commentaries is that my favorite parts are usually the ones they’re the least satisfied with.
Mike does have an ulterior motive here, if memory serves correctly.
Mike is an abductee. All abductees have super strength. Will is a normal human. Mike absolutely can hurt Will which means he’s choosing not too.
It was literally said by Walky in a few strips back that Mike was at human level. Just because it was retconned later doesn’t change that
And the conversation under that strip was that Walky was either unaware of Mike’s strength or intentionally lying. Willis confirmed quite a ways back that he decided all abductees must have super strength to explain why they could survive jumping off of a building. It wasn’t retconned later, it was retconned much earlier.
Sarah laughed! …maybe… or that could’ve just been a brief smile?
Why? Because he’s Mike.
Like I said Joe why wold be a complete package be a down side ?
I like how the comment Rikk’s quoting also answers Will’s question.
Mike and Will here remind me a lot of that one episode of Spongebob where the bully can’t hurt Spongebob but keeps punching.
I only provide the most sophisticated and cultured of references
The only Spongebob episodes I like are the ones from Squidward’s perspective and the one with the bus. (Coincidentally, this is the very episode referenced in that one particular episode of Bojack.)
BAP!
Mike: “I will find a way to hurt you, even if it KILLS me!”
Jackie is flirting with both her right then her left pigtail. Serious signaling going on.