The Electric Man
on August 10, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: It's Walky! Hundred Dollar Theatre
Characters: Jason Chesterfield, Jon the Alien, Machete, Merv the Alien, Monkey Master, The Electric Man
Location: power plant
Hey, everyone, look, it’s The Electric Man!
When I was in elementary school, he was an Ultra Car supervillain. He didn’t fit into It’s Walky!, and so I scrounged him up for It’s Walky!‘s costful coda. He’s… a man! Made out of electricity! He’s ridiculous and I love him. He’s The Electric Man.
That’s why we’re at a power plant for this story, I guess. Monkey Master was here to create him.
here’s that requisite cliffhanger again
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…okay, I’m just curious as to how a ten-meter-tall yellow-glowing humanoid made entirely of electricity could possibly be stealthy. 😛
He can travel along the electric wires to sneak into some where, I guess
Well, we all have our off days.
Your mind refuses to see it, just like you normally can’t see dragons.
Electric Man feels like a B-tier Silver Age comic book supervillain.
The Electric Man is exactly the kind of campy character I would make as a kid 😂
Oh, hey, there the Aliens are. Just offpanel from the last strip.
I’d be a lot more sympathetic to MM’s plight if I knew what gave him the impression he was being made a toy or a slave.
He could be assuming the human authorities would treat him the way Head Alien did, since that’s pretty much his only experience with authority.
On top of that, he could also be looking at how SEMME treated their own soldiers and be assuming the worst.
Now that you mention that, I wonder if MM treats the aliens better than HA (didn’t care if some of them got killed).
In HAs defence, he could always bring them back with Martian tech.
Joe’s company has started producing Dexter & Monkey Master action figures, and the courts refuse to recognize MM’s right to sue Joe over use of his image.
We’re coming up on a huge clue to Machette’s identity!
Machette is the offspring of Sal and Joe, back from the days when Sal would sneak into their dorm room when Danny wasn’t there. Did I ruin the surprise?
Absolutely!
I’m glad at least somebody had the sense to attack MM while he was monologuing.
If you’re a robot ape, wouldn’t you want to create your supervillian partners also in the form of apes, rather than in the form of the humans you feel are oppressing you?
I mean, if it’s electricity given an arbitrary humanoid shape, it seems like an Electric Ape would be equally doable (and continue the alliteration theme, to boot).
Well, with vowels would be assonance, though I think it has to be the exact vowel tone (if you said Ay-lectric Ay-pe)
I think also sometimes people get tired of following a trend, like how I was also given a J name like my grandfather, mother, and five(!) uncles, but then my brother got S.
Also maybe MM identifies more as “man” the same way I do: in the sense I want to be treated as a person in general
Well, I would think the robotic would be primary, not the ape shape. As alluring as Amperage Ape may be, Electrobot has its own charm.
I assume Jason is assuming it’s Sal until proved otherwise.