You know what to do.
on October 17, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Kill Your Friends
Location: Duct tape table, Washington D.C.
A couple earlier attempts at this sequence had lots of talking and wining and dining by the Head Alien.  Then I though, oh, hey, what about the silent approach?  Yeah, I like this.
I lost a panel where Head Alien was playfully inching the gun forward with a finger while he lay chest-down cross-legged, but oh wells. Â The sequence works better shorter.
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“Oh no. I have kicked a gun away. I hope no one uses it to shoot Tony, thereby saving Walky. That would be terrible.”
If I was Sal I’d wonder if shooting the alien who’s mind controlling the abductees in the head might free them from mind control. I mean, it’s worth a shot.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/kill-your-friends/
She’s been explicitly told that it won’t.
She was told the mind control device is what turns off the signal. She was never told what killing the Head Alien would or wouldn’t do.
Sal never makes smart choices.
If I was Sal, I’d probably use it to shoot the massive hunk of manmeat who’s slowly crushing the life out of me, not my boyfriend who’s finally strangling Professor Doc’s annoying lab assistant.
Beef isn’t crushing Sal. As per Head Alien’s instructions from a strip or two back, he is merely holding her down. Head Alien specifically requested she be kept alive.
The silent approach is really cool and it feels NOTHING LIKE HA’S MO.
[still really cool tho]
really? i think it fits it pretty well. HA’s always really joking, but also loves being sadistic as well. It seems like he’s kind of Joker-ish, but actually tries to make his jokes/gags funny.
Jesus. How can Head Alien actually get WORSE than he originally was?! oO
This.
I freakin love this new, detailed look at Head Alien.
Oh no. I got chills.
This moment gas reminded me of several other moments from when I read the original series. That is why the Head Alien is going in my list of Top 10 Favorite Villains (one of my many Tops 10s I plan I publishing in the future).
That’s just stupid, what if she decides to shoot Head Alien.
Then Walky dies?
What if she decides to shoot Walky?
can’t she shoot both? or in this case, the three of them?(Though I really love the scene)
Well isn’t her mind set right now to sacrifice one life to save others ? She was about to kill all the Semme to stop Head Alien from using them to take over the world.
More about Tony will be revealed later.
He’ll get better.
Why does Sal even care about saving Walky? She would shoot Beef first, then Maim HA until he released the Agents.
She and Walky are brother and sister….do they know that here, I can’t remember? Darn.
Well, her goal originally was to take out Beef and have Tony take out Robin…but best laid plans..and all that. So guess she could shoot Tony and Beef and still have time to wing HA…she’s trained.
They don’t know they’re related at this point
No. Walky thinks Beef is his brother, and Sal is just another SEMME agent. She is currently known as “Sal Walters” not “Sal Walkerton”.
For the record I am loving HA in the redrawn strips. It took a lot longer in the original ones for him to go from Saturday morning cartoon villain to scary as hell for me.
I mean this honestly, I do not know if I have ever encountered a more perfect villain.
I have to admit, I’m a bit disappointed that I don’t get to see the lost HA panel. It sounds glorious! But this is still pretty awesome.
H.A.’s first rule: “Never, ever pass up a chance of messin’ with someone, no matter what damage it may do to your plans.”
famous last words.
Man, I kinda remember the original strips and it was always goofy and hard to take seriously. The emotional weight that the narrative implied wasn’t there in the artwork. The tear in Sal’s eye and the look on HA’s face really sell this though. HA comes across as very Joker-esque here.
TL;DR: I hate this HA way more than I did the first time around. Kudos.
I have to say, I like this version. It explains why Sal does what she is about to do to Tony a lot better than the original version.
Also makes her justification (something like “Saviors don’t do much good when they’re dead”) a lot more plausible.
Just wing him Walky.
…. You son of a word I don’t use!
Head Alien… I finally take you seriously.
Toldya. Although, I actually told you after you made this post, so… Potato?