There was a storyline in Marvel comics where Kingpin lost his business and was wanted by most of the law enforcement agencies in the country. He went from wearing rags on the train tracks to murdering his way back to the top of the New York underworld (bottom of the underworld?) after a few months/issues. H.T. might have a similar arc here. Hopefully with less murder. (Not counting on that.)
The thing where, while ASig has sinister designs, most humans are actually incapable of either organizing to attack them or even acknowledging their activities?
I mean sure, it sucks from a civil rights perspective, but most humans are basically helpless against them.
His biggest complaints about it so far seem to be that it stopped him from committing massive vote fraud and taking over Vermont with his turtle cult, and that he’s had to wear a clown costume to avoid being mistaken for a zoo escapee.
The idea that humanity forced H.T. to seek out bioweapons is patently absurd. He’s just mad that his objectively evil plans to seize power for himself got foiled by circumstance. It’s not as if humanity chose to suddenly become reality blind en masse. Rather, someone is pulling the strings for their own purposes – and we have no firm idea if that someone is human, non-human, or what.
Since I’m here, and since for some unknown reason I remembered, and since I just did a stroll through the archives to check dates…Happy Birthday, Shaenon!
Well, like *one* fox…
Face it, Sweetheart. You should have sent him 6 feet under instead of to the Cavern back when non-humans were their own judicial system.
It’s like it Lex Luther suddenly became a penniless hobo with only the shirt left on his back!
There was a storyline in Marvel comics where Kingpin lost his business and was wanted by most of the law enforcement agencies in the country. He went from wearing rags on the train tracks to murdering his way back to the top of the New York underworld (bottom of the underworld?) after a few months/issues. H.T. might have a similar arc here. Hopefully with less murder. (Not counting on that.)
Well, then he’d be zombie H. T. and agitating for zombie rule, too.
Vulpine like a fox!
Er, reality blindness plague, Sweetheart? Remember that thing?
The thing where, while ASig has sinister designs, most humans are actually incapable of either organizing to attack them or even acknowledging their activities?
I mean sure, it sucks from a civil rights perspective, but most humans are basically helpless against them.
He hasn’t seemed terribly bothered by it.
His biggest complaints about it so far seem to be that it stopped him from committing massive vote fraud and taking over Vermont with his turtle cult, and that he’s had to wear a clown costume to avoid being mistaken for a zoo escapee.
The idea that humanity forced H.T. to seek out bioweapons is patently absurd. He’s just mad that his objectively evil plans to seize power for himself got foiled by circumstance. It’s not as if humanity chose to suddenly become reality blind en masse. Rather, someone is pulling the strings for their own purposes – and we have no firm idea if that someone is human, non-human, or what.
How ’bout dropping a “b” and a “z” and have H. T. attacked by a lizard?
Like the one that attacked Cincinnati on WKRP!
Or Senator Mongorsky from Narbonic – he’s in-universe.
I see you, and raise you Loni Anderson!
Ah, yes… Mongor. I wonder if Artie still stays in contact with him. And does he still work for Helen Sr.?
The AP never lies!
Since I’m here, and since for some unknown reason I remembered, and since I just did a stroll through the archives to check dates…Happy Birthday, Shaenon!
Or, in the spirit of today’s comic, Hippo, Birdies, 2 Ewes!*
*Everlasting thanks to Sandra Boynton for this.
you know, i was wondering if HT came alone
A good villain never leaves his Smithers behind.