Families/Cемьи 10
The tenth page of a new voting incentive storyline Families/Cемьи is now available! And so is a link to all the previous pages – I’ve now started to collect previous pages into the usual easy to navigate and read format.
SPOILERS AHEAD – read the update first before reading what I’ve written below.
The Kremlin is not happy: Do I know what a real Politburo meeting in the late 1960s looked like? Nope. This is how I imagine it looked in the Magellanverse though!! There’s a significant point of note… their intention to look at the supernatural world for “loyal” weapons.
And also, as if it wasn’t already pretty obvious, the whole “we can get rid of your powers with a push of the button” thing is totally a scam!
Next update: Friday May 15… Abbadonauts!
ohhhh… i see where this is going… awesome!
This makes it even more sad for the two. Not only were they manipulated by their government, but they ended up in some way helping those who would bring about their own deaths, and that of Magnus Magellan.
Also, the hubris here, which many governments have: we don’t understand it, but it’s powerful, so we’ll try to control it. Why do I have a feeling that none of these quys will survive the Q’arth? I mean, it would be a fitting end for them. Or actually, is it too harsh even for them?
I should also say: the Q’arth have all the feeling of that boss you meet in a video game that you struggle endlessly to defeat, only for later levels to have them, at that same power, be a regular enemy you have to fight. In fact, if you made a Magellan video game (I’d think in X-Men Legends/Marvel Ultimate Alliance style), that could easily be what they are.
In the context of the comic, it truly feels like they are going to make a return at some point. Just like the inevitability of the Master Assassin eventually targeting Kaycee. In fact, the two could easily be tied to each other (Character Assassins summon the Q’arth?), possibly attacking near when Kaycee’s class graduates. That would be one heck of a storyline, and a threat that would have been built up for quite some time at that.
And now that I think of it, another threat still looming is the Vrax Japh (is that how it’s spelled?). I mean, it needs to be dealt with eventually, too.
Yeah, the Vrax Japh… everybody’s favorite MacGuffin! 😄 I’ve been needling for a resolution to that storyline for a while, but Grace is following her own script 🙂 Maybe it will be the next one? Presumably, Master Drake is diligently searching for the Vrax Darma and so staying quiet, so the Magellan people that should be looking for him aren’t having any luck.
It’d be nice to stop the evil mastermind from getting the final piece he needs to complete his doomsday device so you don’t have to do it just before he activates it.
Well, there’s this trope… You Can’t Thwart Stage One… 😀
It’s kinda late now, but I’d have been fine with this one being subverted😉
I’m afraid that these people survive because they would be safely hidden far away from any problem …
Most of the members should be in or around Moscow, and escape from the city would probably been a bit frantic once the incursion began, but… yeah, I’d expect at least most of them to have gotten away.
So they took their two best soldiers, gave them superpowers and failed to keep them loyal. After that you’d really have to question your organizations ability to keep anyone loyal – not just try again with even more powerful beings! But no. Well, they’re headed for a disaster, to put it mildly.
For some, ruling with an iron fist is the only way they know how to rule…
I can just see what is happening for the manufacture of the freaks for the heroes to fight for the cameras.
[From Russian] “What the?! You said I would get super-powers like Red Vlad! You turned me into a freak and I am no stronger, faster or tougher than I was before!”
“We did tell you this was an experimental procedure. We are still working out the details.”
“Change me back! I don’t want to like this the rest of my life. I want to be the way I was before.”
“As I said, we are still working out the details. We will see what we can do, but we can not make any guarantees. In the meantime, go with this man; he has a mission for you.”
You’re probably not wrong, but I suspect some subjects weren’t volunteers either.
Huh, from the earlier meeting I thought the guy in the middle kinda resembled Joe Stalin with glasses – some guy with poor vision seemingly wanted to emulate that look. The guy across from him, who has been featured more prominently, looks like Krushchev, although the one in the RW had been ousted from power by this time.
I’m guessing that more people would have been smoking at a real Politburo meeting.
ha – well, in the last frame there was originally about three ashtrays packed full of used butts, but the text balloon sadly had to obscure them!
Abbadon-nauts? Hell-sailors or -voyagers? Sounds like a risky profession!
‘Course, the *first* thing that came to mind was Boris Badenov 😀