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Kaycee and Charisma… and Euro Magellan!!: OK, back to Magellan Island and Kaycee and Charisma. It’s been quite a few pages since we were with them last… back on page 7.64, in fact! However, from their perspective, no time has passed and we pick up right where we left them… which was with Charisma close to dying.
But wait, is it Euro-Magellan to the rescue? As noted on page 7.36, the European branch of Magellan superheroes were on their way to the island but delayed. Looks like they’ve finally arrived! But will that do Kaycee and, especially, Charisma any good?
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Next update: Thursday October 29: No time for schadenfreude…
That’s all well and good, but I’m sure she has a mini-flare gun in one of those pouches 😤
I always -did- kind of feel that Charisma was extra hateful of Jones’ norm status because Charisma likened Kaycee to Charisma’s mother.
I never heard of this theory nor had such a thought myself, but at first glance it seems to make sense. Will think more deeply about it on my next full scale re-read.
Based on page 7.08 I don’t like EuroMag’s odds
I assume you’re referring to their crashed ship? It looks to have been a good landing, considering the environment – I suspect a team of superheroes would have survived it easily. The fact that they’re not among the survivor group is another matter, but they may simply be elsewhere.
On the other hand, note that Charisma and Kaycee are there and Charisma looks better than now.
Whether or not Euro Magellan have their powers or their minds, I’m looking forward to seeing them. I don’t think they’ve ever been shown yet! Correct me if I’m wrong, please.
Other than one or two name drops, never seen… 🙂
When Sioni names the chapter at the end of Worst Fieldtrip Ever is fairly unforgettable. Can’t think of another mention, nothing in history. One page where a member or two could have showed up is the cover page of Redux: Gola Beh.
It’d be nice if they had a healer on their team!
Clearly Charisma is delirious in Panel 4 – but it does suggest that Evangeline was physically, as well as verbally, abusive to Charisma as a child.
Which qualifies her for a Darwin award. I think one of the earliest Magellan promo movies said that powers mostly manifest in your teens, so we’ll assume there was a time a normie could spank or smack Charisma without breaking their wrist. But that just means the kid you mistreated is likely to get superpowers around the same time their more rebellious puberty phase starts. You might not want to be on your child’s bad side at that time.
I doubt she thought about it that much.
What she wanted was not to raise a child, but to gain a foothold in Vlad’s life.
Well, since Vlad has the general ethos of old school superman as well as his power set, probably a bad idea to mistreat his child that you were hoping to use as said foothold. After all, all it takes is for Charisma to mutter the above in his earshot, and you’re gonna have a problem.
Except that you don’t award the Darwin to someone’s who’s dead, and I gather Evangeline is.
Yes you do. That is, in fact, what it’s awarded for.
Can you win it if you’ve already reproduced?
Yes, or at least on honorable mention… by killing your offspring. There was a section of those, too. They were usually less humorous, though, and kind of terrible.
Isn’t it more likely that her mother got really anxious around the time that her powers could manifest and started testing her for invulnerability everyday to see if she was a successful experiment.
Perhaps she noted Charisma’s vulnerability to electric shocks and acquired a taser. TBH it wouldn’t be shocking if rather than physical punishment she just routinely tested Charisma for invulnerability for Charisma’s ‘own good’.
*Looks up at comment almost exactly two years ago and almost exactly the same, which I missed when reading this chain* >.>
For daytime signalling, smoke grenades would be more useful. But i guess when all you have is a flare gun, one must make do.
I expect they have some sort of daytime shells for the flare gun, probably with colored smoke or dark smoke + bright colors.