Hey, monkey boy, catch.
on June 16, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Characters: Anti-Head Alien, Head Alien, Jason Chesterfield, Mike Warner, Monkey Master, Robin DeSanto, Sal Walters, The Cheese
Location: Final battle wasteland
As HA says, he transmogrified Anti-Head Alien’s body and outfit to match his latest pre-death look. It’s mostly because I’d grown to dislike the older, shoulderpadded Head Alien design, and didn’t want to have to be stuck with it for the finale. But also because it shows off Heady’s new godlike powers. He’s always been a theatrical bongo, but now he’s a whole theater troupe.
We also see Monkey Master continuing to make decisions re: allegiances. Here he disobeys a direct order and sets Sal down gently.
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I love HA at his most dramatic. Brings out the best in everyone else.
Well, it’s nice to see that HA has some awareness about how these things play out. Not keeping his consciousness in the same body that has the godlike power would be a very Thanosy way to lose.
Um, his consciousness *IS* in the same body with the powers. He’s just puppeting Anti-HA’s body.
That’s why Cattleprod specified not keeping his consciousness in the same body with powers was what did Thanos in. IIRC, near the end of the original Infinity Gauntlet storyline, Thanos’s mind ascended to a higher plane of existence…but he left his now-defenseless body, which still had the Gauntlet, behind in the process.
Head Alien is being pretty smart here. I’m just waiting to see how he’ll fuck it up for himself this time.
He fucked it up when he didn’t immediately kill everyone once he took control of the Cheese’s body. Only a fool laughs in their victim’s faces.
But what’s the point in even *having* nigh-unlimited power if you can’t laugh in people’s faces about it?
If you don’t get to ham it up, what’s even the point of being a supervillain?
Some things are more important than victory.
Looks like Monkey Master has his honor after all
It’s interesting to see how my partially informed knowledge of this strip, from SP! and occasional peeks at the wiki, sometimes misinform my perceptions. There was a certain HA spoiler I assumed had come about because Willis killed off HA prematurely and regretted it. Obviously that was wrong. A related development with another character that I assume happened in IW! clearly must have happened in Joyce and Walky instead. I was wondering how it was going to fit in before the end given how relatively slowly that plotline developed.
I’ll never know how it would have felt to have come to the strip completely clean, but I have to say I enjoy reading it with the level of knowledge I have. It can actually increase my enjoyment when the strip built up in my head varies wildly from the real strip.
I gotta say. The whole power to match his ego line is just excellent, more shows and comics etc need to use something like it.