He was boasting about his ability to take blows to the head only last year, so it may carry over. How he would react to being shot in the stomach is less clear.
He certainly had a rep for being practically indestructible. As the two mad scientists / scary yaoi fangirls said of him and Dave, “Can you imagine killing one of them and getting the other to resurrect him?”
Either he’s just off the bottom of the frame, or A-Sig failed to realise that the rat in a little hat wasn’t just an ordinary rat and let him scurry away. Which seems about typical for them.
I can assure you, people who get hit by lightning ARE screwing up at the time. No exceptions. Don’t fix wire fences while the storm is moving in. Don’t shelter from the rain under a tree on a high hilltop. And if you are plowing a flat open field, that plow forms a darn good ‘ground’ in the circuit that runs through you to the sky.
And that’s just three generations of my family tree.
I moved to an area with weather that’s less violent. Probably a smart move but oddly, I sort of miss it. Days with no wind blowing seem spooky to me, and there’s something cathartic about howling crashing storms that seems amiss after years of weather that brings nothing but ennui.
Now that the two of them are Anasigma prisoners, maybe the Anasigma guys can’t spare someone to guard them, so they’ll make them sit and watch a “Babylon 5” marathon with the staff geeks…
Apropos of nothing, I just realised that the name Anasigma is secretly genius. Ana- refers to against, and Sigma is used in statistics to represent standard deviation. So the name means that they are Against Deviation.
Long ago, they thought him the best. Wrong although, now he’s just a pest. But a shot in the face gets them back in good grace. So much for a good house arrest.
I am so impressed with the way Echo and Alfa, whose character designs for so long functioned to position them as background goons without much personality, mostly there to get in the way, are animated and made individual by the way Garrity draws their body language. Their character designs are exactly the same, but now they’re *distinctive people*! It’s so cool what a cool.
This confirms my earlier suspicions 🙂
Heh. Reminds me of a worrisome typo I once saw in an elevator: “Smoking prohibited by local ordnance.” I didn’t want to find out if they meant it.
The local ordinance didn’t smoke. They used smokeless powder.
It IS a notable skill.
Ah, but if he was the best at being shot long ago, you shouldn’t shoot him, because now he’s terrible at being shot, probably.
He was boasting about his ability to take blows to the head only last year, so it may carry over. How he would react to being shot in the stomach is less clear.
See http://skin-horse.com/comic/ought-to/.
I do appreciate the way that EB got a notebook and pen from somewhere without any complaint from the person with the gun.
Is he related to Titus Misanthropie, best at being brainwiped?
Titus was only brainwiped that one time. Kinda hard to say he was “best” just from that.
He certainly had a rep for being practically indestructible. As the two mad scientists / scary yaoi fangirls said of him and Dave, “Can you imagine killing one of them and getting the other to resurrect him?”
Am I wrong that they seem to be sans Valiant?
Either he’s just off the bottom of the frame, or A-Sig failed to realise that the rat in a little hat wasn’t just an ordinary rat and let him scurry away. Which seems about typical for them.
I suspect Valiant is organizing a rescue of his own.
“And surviving, mind you. You’re like that dude who got hit by lightning seven times and lived, except he wasn’t screwing up at the time.”
Wasn’t Popeye supposed to weigh several pounds extra because of all the bullets in his body?
I can assure you, people who get hit by lightning ARE screwing up at the time. No exceptions. Don’t fix wire fences while the storm is moving in. Don’t shelter from the rain under a tree on a high hilltop. And if you are plowing a flat open field, that plow forms a darn good ‘ground’ in the circuit that runs through you to the sky.
And that’s just three generations of my family tree.
I moved to an area with weather that’s less violent. Probably a smart move but oddly, I sort of miss it. Days with no wind blowing seem spooky to me, and there’s something cathartic about howling crashing storms that seems amiss after years of weather that brings nothing but ennui.
Hurricanes are general purpose and impartial destruction.
Lightning bolts and tornadoes get personal (and, a tornado will follow you around)
Sorry, but there are exceptions. My uncle was struck by lightning while in his garage with the doors and windows closed.
I love how quickly Alfa goes from annoyance that Echo is fixating on this to a cheerful “Oh, yes, he’s great at being shot! I shot him earlier today!”
Now that the two of them are Anasigma prisoners, maybe the Anasigma guys can’t spare someone to guard them, so they’ll make them sit and watch a “Babylon 5” marathon with the staff geeks…
Apropos of nothing, I just realised that the name Anasigma is secretly genius. Ana- refers to against, and Sigma is used in statistics to represent standard deviation. So the name means that they are Against Deviation.
Nice!
“Turning you in will get me back in Central’s good graces.”
Which begs the question of what he did to get out of them in the first place? And would Anasigma have any good graces to begin with?
I wonder if our Anasigma speaker could be Steve? (shout out to Ogden Wernstrom)
By the time they turn him in, Tip alias Dr. Sanders may be in charge there.
Echo Bravo’s good, but not so good as Fearless Fosdick
Long ago, they thought him the best. Wrong although, now he’s just a pest. But a shot in the face gets them back in good grace. So much for a good house arrest.
I am so impressed with the way Echo and Alfa, whose character designs for so long functioned to position them as background goons without much personality, mostly there to get in the way, are animated and made individual by the way Garrity draws their body language. Their character designs are exactly the same, but now they’re *distinctive people*! It’s so cool what a cool.
Echo Bravo is one of several characters I would have designed more interestingly if I’d known we’d end up using him so much.
I like that “that guy” has become important, had he been more distinctive I might have seen it coming.
Agreed, Altarboy.