PaRARGdox 137
“Co-operative”…: A quick diversion to Magellan USA (remember them?! It’s been a while, I know…) as Go!Anna and crew dust themselves off following the mega THOOM that dropped very nearby last page. We have Twilight here, who is normally an ethical telepath… except when it comes to psycho CEOs of evil corporations…
Update schedule: The good news is that I have built up a nice buffer of pages, and I’m hoping to roll those out twice a week for the time being. 20222 is off to a good start.
Happy New Year: 2021 was pretty rough on most of us, I hope you and your loved ones are safe, healthy and able to navigate the year ahead. It’s been pretty rough on all our Magellan characters too… might there be light at the end of the tunnel? I’m fully invested in telling this story and getting the voting incentive story back up and running. Not a resolution, but a firm intention! Thank you for reading Magellan – whether you’ve joined in the last week, been in and out for a while, or a hard core long term reader for many years, your enjoyment of this little comic I make is deeply appreciated!
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Next update: Wednesday, January 5, 2022: What went THOOOM??
A superhero costume I get… but the face paint… would be a bridge too far for me.
I think she may have been sweating and her mascara has run.
No, that’s how she looked before.
Twilight: You have the right to remain silent (I think Prometheus is in the States); I advise you to exercise that right. Anything you do say (or think) may be recorded and used as evidence against you in a court of law. You have the right to contact an attorney and have that lawyer present during any questioning. If you can not afford a lawyer (yeah, right!), the court may appoint an attorney at no additional cost to you.
Ms. Dion: Get stuffed! [ Starts singing some songs in her head.]
Twilight: Is that the Blue Danube Waltz? I am still docking to your brain.
[Ms. Dion switches songs to those from Jinjer and Disturbed. The Sounds of Silence is spectacular, but she can be Down with the Sickness! ]
Twilight: Let’s try this again. What made you think you could attack us with impunity?
Mind raping freak??? Can’t they come up with something else?
Well….
1) It’s been established that the upper ranks of Prometheus are not friendly to supers, and to Magellan in particular.
2) Underneath that mask of defiance, Miss Deon is probably terrified. The prospect of having one’s brain ripped open by (in her perspective) an amoral, unleashed telepathic freak is a very bad one.
3) Considering that Prometheus has, in effect, declared war on Magellan, and that Magellan is now fighting for their survival against invaders that Miss Deon, most likely, has useful information about, Twilight is well within her rights to perform said mind-ripping, and is probably at the end of her patience.
All that said, Miss Deon may not, in fact, BE capable of “coming up with something better” at the moment, because Twlight is at the moment busy telepathically splitting her brain open like a ripe cantaloupe.
And, of course, it’s ‘Dion’, not ‘Deon’. Sorry.
Happy New Year, everyone! And especially to you, Xmung! May the new year be a better one for you, and for us all!
I’ll second that.
Fifth panel, second to last, lower right side…
Is that Humpty Dumpty?
The Rarg equivalent – Rargty Rurgty…
Seeing as Ms. Dion literally had one of her prisoners disassembled and used untested power-suppression guns on them, she has little room to accuse others of being a freak. =_=
Interesting. I wonder if the power-nullifier wears off naturally or if they found tech in Prometheus that could reverse it. If it was the latter, I would have expected some of the remaining forces on Magellan Island to have realized it by now.
Ooops, that meant to say “If it was the former.” My brain’s a little fried from working New Year’s Eve.
The P-Tech device almost certainly wears off after some unspecified *but not too long* time, as evidenced by the fact that they saw it necessary to hold the Magellan USA team in power dampening cells on p75. The Rarg seem to have engineered an improved variant of the Promethean weapon. It’s unclear if it will wear off at all, but the effect has already lasted for some hours with no sign of abatement.