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At least he had a soft landing :p
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And a crash it is! Hope bat boy is ok! Now will the jar survive or not? Larissa is still holding the bag up in the last panel so it might not hit the ground. We’ll just have to wait until next week to find out.
Not the kind of plan I would have done : the impact could injured them. Well, I guess when you are a teenager you are not always thinking what possibly could happen badly.
Bat-boy will be fine, the impact was cushioned, and no one cares about miss-psycho 🙂
I care. I suspect Gildor cares. There’s probably others.
To be clear, I don’t like Larissa, I don’t have a solution for her, but I still care about her. Life is already really rough for her, she doesn’t need more problems on top of everything else.
She does bring most of her problems onto herself, and there were limited options for resolving this one while retaining plausible deniability. I’m not particularly unhappy with this outcome overall. But I do feel for her and wish she could somehow find a better path.
I also feel for you and wish you could somehow find a better path. I don’t know your situation, but I do understand that wishing ill on someone generally causes a negative impact on oneself, and your response was consistent with wishing ill on Larissa while not wanting to publicly admit it.
I have no sympathy for someone who thinks attempted murder is the solution to any problem, and I think you should seek help if you do.
my, what wonderful crash pads he had chanced to land upon…
Well, I -would- agree with you -if- the crash pads did not belong to Larissa, and/or she was prettier. As it is, I would consider it more like, “Taking one for the team.” 😉 Now if it was Liz… 🙂
On the other hand, with Larissa being Larissa, the crash pads can be enjoyed in the brief moment without worrying about it messing up the chances of a long-term relationship, because you’re not hoping for a long-term relationship with Larissa. 😉
Sexual assault is still a criminal offense, even if the victim is someone you’d want to see taken down a bit. Better to simply run away and try not to do or think about it too much.
Crashing into someone and happening to get a faceful of mammary just before your nose broke against their sternum isn’t sexual assault, it’s just an accident. Worst batbud could get is a jaywalking fine. Jayriding fine? What’s the verb for skateboard?
@G:
Last I knew, the word you were looking for was `boarding`, or more specifically `jayboarding`. Depending on the jurisdiction, reckless boarding can be a pretty significant penalty; I know of at least one with a maximum sentence that includes 100 hours of community service. If you multiply that by the minimum wage you wouldn’t be getting for those hours, that’s significantly worse than the fine you could also get with that. That said, it’s probably not as bad as just having the criminal record you’d have, though depending you might already have one, and as entries on the criminal record go, reckless boarding isn’t that bad.
There may also be a separate penalty for actually having a wreck while boarding, and Larissa could potentially file her own civil suit and any injuries she suffers or credibly claims would factor into how expensive that is.
But, as I said, it depends on jurisdiction and what the local rules are for right here. If boarding is legal here and the jurisdiction is particularly friendly to it, it’s possible that there could be no penalties at all for it. Only Robin knows the full situation, if anyone does. But I’d guess that it’ll wind up fine for bat boy, as Robin doesn’t particularly seem interested in suddenly shifting the comic into a legal drama and risk unpredictable fan base changes.
@Some ED
*Local Mayor skateboards past*
“Huh, gnarly wipeout my young friend. May I recommend some protective headgear next time? Your next landing might not be as lucky…”
*Skates off, pulling off a few tricks like the veteran he is…*
@JonesNate and @G- I’m surprised JonesNate was the only one who had this thought as well. Now if he happened to crash into her and didn’t have control, yeah that wouldn’t be sexual assault. But it’s looking like this is a set up. Of course just crashing into and not making contact with a sexual organ or intimate part (pretty close to the words used in my jurisdiction’s statute), or incidentally, a more importantly, not intentionally or knowingly (again per my jurisdiction’s statutes) making contact with said parts, is not sexual assault. But if he crashed into her intentionally and and either intended or hoped he would face plant into her breasts or even just knew it was practically certain he would do so, that would be sexual assault. If she is under 14, it would be a felony regardless of his age. If she’s over 14 but under 16, it’s only a felony if he’s five yearrs older than her, which I’m pretty sure he’s not. Otherwise, it’s a misdemeanor. Again for my jurisdiction.
These characters are literally children.
Oh, I’ll say Larissa is fine and pretty enough, she just have a very dour evil personality that unfortunately cancels a lot of that out…
One kid has the breast of luck
and saves his neck on her.
He needs to get up and run
or, next week, we’ll see flying fur.
I wonder how Dinah will laugh
at this novel interruption?
And will the reaction end up
causing a mighty eruption?
New work entering, collision style,
knocking Lala down, out of sight.
If we’re lucky (doubtful, I know)
he may have just knocked out her fight.
Best faceplant ever. I think they have to start dating now or Larissa’s reputation is ruined.
*Cue Japanese Anime “must marry her to preserve your honour” storyline here…*
Larissa has a reputation? That’s good? Charon is only 9 so that ain’t gonna happen at all, especially if Larissa doesn’t wedgie the poor kid so hard he’ll stay 9 for the rest of his life!
You keep calling this guy Charon. Is he a crossover from Jessie’s Adventure, or are you just begging to get #Jossed?
I don’t know Joss; but, Charon and his two sisters are known as “The Bat Brats” in the chat for Robin’s Sunday art stream. They are kind of side-characters he’s been playing with and I believe this is a first appearance in TD for any of them. (Robin more-or-less confirmed it would be one of the brats here during the last stream.)
Well, that is one way to temporarily change the sociopath target to the Batboy and therefore letting someone else dispose of the jar.
How many Agents does Nate has in his Employ? Is the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Head of MI5? Like sheesh!
Nick Fury is training him to be his future replacement… 😛
For some reason, I get the feeling that didn’t go quite as planned.
I think it went -exactly- as planned. 🙂 Now can Nate grab the jar before it hits the pavement?
Either that or make it hit the pavement hard, breaking the glass jar. So, if Larissa doesn’t want to go to the hospital for glass shard treatment (or emergency surgery) she wouldn’t be able to eat the fish.
I’ve had a glass jar about that size break while in a plastic bag like that. It was full of rather authentic kimchi, so while the smell was not nearly as malodorous as Larissa’s jar likely is, it was still pretty intense. The accident happened in a hallway in a university building, and I then deposited said bag in the nearest trash can. A week later, there were still people making comments about the smell in that section of corridor. Some of the white people making comments made some not very friendly comments, though none of the ones I heard sounded like they had any clue what the smell actually was.
Summer kimchi? I’ve never encountered that. It is said to be impressive.
Larissa was never planning to eat the rotten fish heads. The problem that a broken jar would cause to her is that it would become much more difficult to hide the yucky stuff and smuggle it into the food. Having glass added to the mix would by itself only improve her plan. If she could spread a rumor that Due Draghi’s food contains both rotten fish heads and glass shards, that would be even better from Larissa’s point of view.
However, it now looks unlikely that she’ll get that far either way.
I hadn’t thought of that; mostly because I thought her plan was to eat it and do a reaction video, rather than just showing off a plate and saying, “Look how gross this is!”
yeah, going by nate´s not-reaction i´d say that totally was the plan – along with the glass shattering and covering her in its smelly contents, and the whole scene ‘accidently’ ending up in the background of the clip that lovely fur model is currently making
Geez, how did that guy not see either of them? He must be blind as a b-oh.
Actually, bats generally have pretty good eyesight, even those that are more active at night. They just include high-frequency sonar to compensate for the low light levels.
Oh I’m well aware, I was just making a joke. Even if bats were blind, the comic has shown that the hybrids are mostly human and don’t have their animal counterpart’s limits like canines not being able to see as many colors as humans or so.
Action scene!!! Right in the bust!
I like the added touch of the bat design on the bottom of the skateboard.
Or as some would say; “BUSTed!” 🙂
I think the bat-boy needs to fly and fast, but wings that small will not get somebody that big airborne.
Well , seems as an accident …….. But no ^_^”
“Batman” has intentionally targeted Larissa : this is “proved” by Nate staying quiet
Not to mention, he was right between them one panel earlier. He moved very quickly.
Yea , too
Daniel here. Bottom left panel has Nate quickly stepping out of the way, if you look at the speed lines above his head. Wouldn’t have to be fast, just well timed. Then Batboy just crashed into LaLa, passing in front of Nate & leaving him unaffected…
You seem to be right. I didn’t notice those squiggles among all the horizontal lines.
Am I the only one to notice that the skateboard has the bat signal on it?
Do you not read others’ posts? Look 3 above yours. 😉
Well, those implications went from “Nate’s backup” to “fortuitous encounter” in, like, 3.5 seconds.
I wonder if Nate has a back up plan ready if this “accidental” crash doesn’t break the jar.
He’s gonna grab the jar and Charon (likely by the leg or the seat of the kid’s pants), then use the Joestar secret technique: RUN AWAY! RUN LIKE HECK! Perform a tactical retreat to lose the wicked witches two and dispose of the fish heads while preventing Kai & Kaya from finding out he kept this from them and making them upset enough to cry. Though that may help them earn money if Dragon Hybrid tears can crystallize into diamonds like their reptile halves do in some European myths…
So, does Nate or our as yet unnamed bat boy get the nickname “Batman”? This sort of planning is exactly why everybody fears Batman. Be funny if his name is Bruce. Depends on his parents sense of humor.
I’m still betting on “Charon”. 🙂
Bruce Wayne Smith. If Robin can resist that (other than Smith), she’s better than I.
“She”? 😉
Robin, the author of this comic is a man from Belgium. I’ll admit I made the same mistake, since I knew a lady librarian named Robin, also.
I thought he was Dutch.
Nope, he is indeed from Waffle Town (at least according to his DeviantArt profile).
Just a guess. No insult intended.
I personally default to “they” online until I know one way or another. To be fair it’s because I subscribe to the “we’re all just avitars on a screen here” approach to internet socializing
Now that I think about it, it is somewhat common for this sort of name to split into 2 types, eg “Robin” & “Robyn”.
Still, I was being lazy. Hey, I had my gender flipped on police report once. Parking incident.
Ok, bat-boy has a cool design, but it makes *no* sense – so far, all the hybrids we’ve seen have had human skeletons with slightly misshapen skulls, potentially with the addition of a few more tail vertebra (which isn’t entirely out of the question for humans), but he’s got 3 brand new bones per arm, and not even bats have those bones – a bat’s wing is effectively a fairly human arm with really long, webbed, fingers, with the webbing extending to the abdomen, and also in the crook of the arm. Granted, that’s all exteremely impractical for using them as arms, but so’s bat-boy’s design, given he’s in a world of tables the right height to lean your forearms on.
Homeobox (hox) gene expression. It’s why it MIGHT be possible to see wings on a hybrid, and why we see tails instead of the vestigial coccyx. But hybrids also have varying levels of gene expression.
It’s not really a question of whether hybrids can have wings though, as bat-boy here doesn’t have them – he’s got bone-like elbow spines with webbing, which (to the best of my knowledge) doesn’t happen in any animal.
If bat-boy was mimicking bats, then he’d have the standard bone set with webbed arms, as bat wings are essentially long webbed fingers that get webbed all the way to the torso – In my opinion, the most realistic way a bat hybrid could happen without turning their whole hands into wings would be to have what would effectively be a natural wingsuit, but that’s getting awfully close to looking like a sugar glider hybrid (and would make clothes a pain to design).
That said, this is not my comic, so Robin gets to do as Robin wants, and I have no say in the matter.
“Nobody knows why hybrids happen.” If nobody knows why they happen, then it doesn’t feel to me like there’s a particular reason for them to really model after the animal in question.
I viewed Charon’s (just going with what the people who watch the Sunday art sessions are saying) faux wings as something similar to what some of the dinosaurs supposedly had.
Then again, I also follow SuperCell, so it’s possible my level of accepting artistic license is a bit higher than normal.
Daniel here. My guess for the “wings” would be cartilage or stiffened skin, I’d doubt it would be bone. Leaning towards cartilage personally. We have cartilage in our ears and noses to allow them to hold their shape yet remain flexible. And considering he’d have to have larger sleeve holes to allow bone “wing “struts through while cartilage versions would flex through easily, I’m counting that as another sign…
I’d say his wings are “vestigial” (for lack of a better word I can think of) instead of faux. Since they’re a fusion of human arms and bat wings, I’d say his are structurally similar to pterosaur wings, claws and extra carpal bones projecting from the forearms. I say his wings are “vestigial” because they’re too small to catch any air currents and provide lift, so they’re as useless for flight as penguin flippers, chicken, and ostrich wings.
The survey requires signing up for a google account, so… nope.
In theory, you could make a throwaway account. Something like tdfan479@gmail, or some other random username you’ll not use again.
With all the ways that Google track people, it would probably take more countermeasures to prevent them from connecting that account to all your past and future web browsing.
I for one have never given Google any permission of any kind, and I want to remain able to say that.
Create account, fill out survey, delete account, perform cache wipe of browsing app (or just use a browser you usually don’t use), reboot device
Didn’t expect this to be the kind of comic that does “marshmallow hell”, probably just an accident though.
It’s especially Hell since those “marshmallows” belong to Larissa the psycho. No matter how good looking she is, her personality nullifies it through sheer sociopathic malice.
Glad I’m not the only one who’ll admit that a personality can make someone unattractive.
What’s that Human saying?
If your looks are a 10, but your personality is a 3, guess who gets a 3…?
We may not expected it, though the comic has shown (mostly in side art and Gamer Dragons) Kaya’s panties a few times and, in this very chapter, what looks like a black bra under Cleo’s sleeveless, button-down shirt. Not to mention the waistband of Kai’s white underpants…
And the latest hybrid shown to us does make it clear…echolocation is ONLY sensory, it cannot be used to direct one’s path!
Nate: “A fortuitous intervention, my chiropterean friend!”
Bat-kid (muffled): “Well, Joker, I see you are employing a new chest-mounted device!”
Larissa: “You…are…both…going…to…die.”
Larissa: *Slowly raises her head to her chest and stares at Bat-kid* “I’m gonna…wedgie…you..soooo…hard…your junk is..gonna..be up your gut…and you’ll be squeaking for the rest of your life without going through puberty… And when I’m done… beating the stuffing…out of this…£#¢℅!*& brat with his own arms..I’m gonna stuff him up…your go√π£¢€ ass,… you &#%%@#+* !@+#&@©£¢ Fish cake!”
*As Larissa threatened and swore, Nate (holding the skateboard under his arm) stealthily/sneakily walks close enough to Larissa to grab both the Bat-kid and the jar of fish heads*
Bat-kid/Charon: *Face still in Larissa’s magumbos and with his ears bleeding from Larissa’s language* “I don’t even know what she just said, but it’s scaring me!”
Nate: “Don’t worry Bat-kid, old chum! We just need to perform a technique passed down nearly a hundred years and taught to me through Anime!”
Bat-kid/Charon: *Muffled by boobs* “What’s that?”
Nate: *Grabs the jar and Charon’s leg* “I’m glad you asked! RUN AWAY!” *Turns a full 180 degrees and starts to sprint, but his grip on the Bat-kid slips as Larissa grabs Charon by the shirt*
Larissa: *Snarling with an angry face straight from One Piece, blank white eyes and a gaping mouth of fangs*”Get back here!”
*Nate Turns and quickly grabs the seat of Bat-kid’s pants, before breaking into a run, causing Bat-kid’s shirt to slip out of Larissa’s grip, and yanking his undies into a wedgie. Charon’s eyes bulge and go white with tears as he squeals in pain at a very high pitch (every Hybrid in the food festival with the ability to hear high pitches start wincing in pain and some even howl) as the two hot foot it from Larissa.*
Nate: “Sorry about the super wedgie, please don’t tell your sisters about this part. Hey, I see your briefs have the same logo as your skateboard!” *Charon/Bat-kid gives a small, proud grin about proudly wearing the symbol on his undergarments, albeit with a whimper.*
Ahahahahahhaaaaaa wipeout~ (Insert, surftastic song*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgHEDNQB1DU
Soft landing, you say?
On that flat-chested beeyotch?
I think not, Robin
Look again. Not flat chested at all. Isn’t she the 16 year old?
Where are you getting this flat-chested claim from? All visual evidence points to the contrary.
You forgot to add the Piece of toast in the bat’s mouth
I’m just wondering if next week we’ll see another animé reference. You know, that awkward moment one where they freeze up for a second because the guy is on top of the girl, and they both kinda just sit for a minute because they’re unsure what to do. Of course, the Batboi probably won’t grab anything, but here’s what I mean:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1025870-anime-manga
I saw that coming. I called it on Charon crashing into someone or something, I just didn’t expect to see him land face first into Larissa’s not-so-fun bags and him falling derierre over head. Looks like Charon’s (accidental) use of Takedown was super effective and a critical hit (to Larissa’s boobs)! He really is a Batmissile, one you can rely on to crash into things no matter how much he tries to avoid doing so. He better get out of their before Larissa gathers what little wits she has and gives him a super wedgie so painful he won’t grow past age 9, as well as strangling the little bat a la Bart Simpson in before giving him a brutal beating. Nate better grab the fish heads AND Charon before that and run like neck to somewhere, just be sure not to grab the Brat Bat by the seat of his pants or he’ll still get a wedgie*…
Sorry if I mentioned wedgies a bit too much, but I thought of it being something Larissa would do to someone smaller that her and angered her as a way to attack them since she’s a bully and short tempered.
The “kick flip” implies that it is not an accident.
Maybe, but the “Watch out!” and subsequent crash into Larissa’s dirty pillows say that his landing wasn’t planned. He should get out of there before Larissa recovers enough to take unjustified retribution over this accident, she’s not known for her reasoning and cool temper.
Call me weird, but I find it funny how his shoelaces just went poof, gonzo from the last comic. Ain’t no wonder her crashed
Oops. Artist error.
Will we ever get to see a gay couple?
You’re nearly six years late.
Chapter 2, buddy. Benji’s parents are a gay couple.
He just spun out the way, best kind of dodge.
Perfect faceplant, there, batboy!
>>Turtimus: … I say his wings are “vestigial” because they’re too small to catch any air currents and provide lift, so they’re as useless for flight as penguin flippers, chicken, and ostrich wings.<<
Common barnyard chickens -can- fly; just not very far. (yes; I have personally witnessed it several times.)
But they can probably help him control direction when boarding/skating/skiing/etc
If there are any consequences for Bruce (I can’t resist), he won’t be able to avoid them, he’s bound to be unique.
Gotta say, I’ve stopped by a few times during the week, it’s Sunday now, and the comments section during the week has gotten up to 91 comments. Guess that means we got a active group of fans here. Yay for us… 🙂
My boy’s got aim!