Off to the Fair Thumbnails
Shaenon: What the heck, here are some thumbnails from the previous storyline. We did a lot of slapstick in that one, mostly thanks to Jeff, although Tip swinging Nick around was my thing.
Channing: Shaenon’s being more steeped in comics lore than I am makes it far more likely for her to spontaneously suggest one character directly weaponizing another character. Fastball special, and all.
I AM HERE FOR THE SLAPSTICK. Well, and for the characters and scenes that make me spontaneously giggle in the middle of meetings at work… Tip smacking people with Nick’s meatbody had me doing that; I got some odd looks, but I work with nurses so yeah.
Yeah, the slapstick in those scenes was great! (and the Don Rickles reference)
I loved that rescue SO MUCH. <3
A rough of the action, we see, racked up to infernal degree. So slapstick, frenetic, electrokinetic, brings comedy here—that’s the key.
You, sir, have a gift.
I’m happy to have a second chance at using the word “electrokinetic,” something I missed the first time around.
Just gotta say, I love the sound effects – especially “POING”!
Nick’s line reminds me of a superhero RPG podcast that I enjoyed (now defunct) called Roll to Breathe.
In one episode the teen heroes are attacked by a rival group called the Haterz, and during the fight the team technopath, Epoch, gets mad and deletes the Haterz’ Grapevine (fictional social media) account, losing all of their followers, causing their leader to go into BSOD and lose the will to fight.