It was you
on May 27, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: Hurricane Joyce
Characters: Head Alien, Joyce Brown
Location: Island in the Bermuda Triangle #2
I call bullshit on this! Head Alien would TOTALLY be about watching one of the abductees cry, especially one of his favorites. That’s like half the reason why he does anything.
NOPE STORYLINE OVER, GIVE YOUR BULLSHIT REASON AND SPLIT
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*Head Alien runs behind a one-way mirror and watches Joyce cry anyway*
EXACTLY.
No, see, it’s an insult! “Man your drama is mediocre, I’m splitting.”
“I want real suffering, none of this half-assed crap.”
“Sal even cries better than you. Maybe I’ll go kill her other parents to cheer myself up.”
Honestly, I figured he was getting away while the getting was good.
Once she feels better his head was probably gonna get smashed.
That’s the real reason, in my mind. The only one free from her restraints is currently sobbing, and the situation probably won’t get better from there as far as HA is concerned.
He may be lying, it’s something he would happily do.
Or he may not, also something he’d happily do, if it suited him.
Either way, it’s a great way to walk out and away.
Where are the rest of the guys anyway, waiting for Joyce to let them out.
Poor little thing. There are times in these old strips, when the emotion is very nicely portrayed. Black & white does work well for that.
I prefer color. It adds a level of realism, and I find that makes it easier to connect to what the characters are feeling.
Everyone else is like “Hey, can you please either unchain us, continue beating the shit out of Head Alien, or unchain us so we can beat the shit out of Head Alien?”
Head Alien needs a trap door he can escape down.
Naturally, one of his minions will fall down said trapdoor by accident at some inconvenient time. HA must surround himself with imbeciles to ensure nobody usurps him.
Just wait until she learns WHY her life was that horrible.
So what was it Head Alien needed, that he said he already got?
Drama.
He said at the beginning of this scene that he lost a bunch of information after his Bermuda base was destroyed. Apparently a copy of all of that information lies in the collective minds of the Abductees.
Or, it was important to Head Alien that Jason is identified as the one who isn’t an abductee? But why was that important to Head Alien? So he knew who among Semme knew about the Power Branch?
(Or was the Power Branch even a thing by this point in the story?)
It’s appeared, but basically just as a joke.
Yet his ‘download’ was interrupted, and the machine collecting it destroyed, when he was hurled bodily into it. So, most likely, he’s not walking away with any of that information. As Jarawara said, only thing he really learned is that Jason is not an abductee.
Maybe he needed to kill at least 4 agents?
HA almost died, Joyce could have killed him. Now she’s temporarily distracted and distraught, HA should say just as much as he needs to twist the knife and GTFO unless he had a different method of subduing Joyce up his sleeve.
Realistically, though… I think he could have salvaged the situation from here.
You know, when I watched the Steven Universe movie I couldn’t help but wonder . . . If Spinel hadn’t thought that Steven intended to reset her when it was convenient, might she have asked for the rejuvenator to be used on her? Might she have chosen to be happy and stupid rather than stay as she was?
Yeah, I think HA is just taking his chance to get out of there while Joyce is stunned, given that she was a finger-twitch from painting the room with his brains a moment ago.