driving a hard bargain
Can’t change what you can’t change, Cleo xD
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I can guarantee my presence
but not my mood that day.
You’ll have to wait and see
what face comes out to play.
Money’s an issue for me
and I have to get it right.
I don’t know what they like.
It’s not as though we’re tight.
Thanks for the head’s up, Cleo;
I know not to plan that day…
Unless there’s a match, of course,
then I can’t come any way.
Big phones are a blessing
when your ears are right up here.
Using the mobile types
is harder than it may appear.
Heh, I’m liking the banter here! Whatever face it is then for Rex!
I love seeing Cleo so cheery! It’s bringing a smile to my face.
And I’m enjoying the convo here. Rex will be Rex, no matter where he’s at.
I wonder if we’re gonna see another DnD adventure at the party
Would be cool to see 🙂
“You’ll have to make do with any face I have that day. Even if it’s not my own. But I’ll bring extras.”
“Wait, what?”
Hannibal Ruthor? Rex Lector?? 😉
“Brain, you remember that scene from ” Silence of the Lambs” where Hannibal Vector escaped the police? Well, my escape was just like that except I didn’t have to steal anyone’s face for a disguise! My hands did that for fun…”
I was thinking more Arya Stark.
I’d guess extra faces brought could include Nate McThunderpants if extra faces were to be brought. Given the genre of this comic, I’d expect any extra faces would continue being attached to the rest of the associated bodies and still operating under the control of the usual entities.
Ha! I wouldn’t be surprised if Rex could smile like a normal half wolf half human being! This our first time “hearing” one of Rex’s parents in the main comic, his mom sounds like a nice person. Imagine if Rex’s parents were the opposite of him personality wise, openly nice and polite, plus quite jovial! Cleo may have to smile for both herself and Rexy, it might be too big of a smile for her (or not, if she can dislocate her jaw, snake style). I wonder if the Twins will get a gag gift of two, and what would they be?
By the way Cleo and Rex, you may want to be careful about Larissa learning of Kai and Kaya’s birthday, otherwise she may do everything in her limited brain power to sabotage it as brutally as possible. I’d suggest hiring McThunderpants security ahead of time so you don’t get any surprise fees.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Rex couldn’t smile like a normal half wolf half human being!”
Sorry, had to correct myself here!
Hmmmm, I feel like it’s too soon for Larissa to show up yet again to try and ruin the day. If she’s back with her uncle at the fish market again there’s little chance for her to learn of this and try to make ill conceived plans to muck things up. Dinah learning of the party and texting Larissa about it is perhaps one way it might happen but that has a pretty low chance of happening. However this might be a good opportunity, perhaps with Nate’s help, to mend the relationship between Cleo and Elizabeth. I could see Nate setting up a meeting between them, explaining that Liz tipped him off to Larissa’s plan to sabotage the food truck as a way to indicate that Liz really does want to make amends, then leaving to let the two of them talk.
I wonder if Dinah might be juuuust aware enough to realize that if she texts Larissa about the party, Larissa will almost certainly give Dinah some sabotage assignment that will get -Dinah- in trouble and not Larissa..?
Then again, Dinah would just be stumbling around trying to sabotage them with no affect.
~Correction: “no effect”
You can always rely on Thunderpants Security to keep you safe from trolls and jötnar. Just don’t forget to have barrels of mead at hand to pay for their lightning services.
Thunderpants Security, also known as Bright Crack* Security, Mjolnir Surveillance, Aesir Insurance, and Odinson Protections.
*Bright crack comes from the English translation of Thor’s hall in Asgard, which is named after a kenning (an ancient Norse descriptive/poetic name) for lightning.
It definitely sounds like something Nate would name a business.
Wait, his name is Rex Ruthor?
I now need to see him in Scooby Doo inspired Kryptonite armor and doing battle with Superman.
It’s a shame Scooby-Doo And Guess Who? ended before the gang could team up with Superman.
If Rex is Lex, does that make Nate “The Joker?”
I would suspect him to be ‘The Riddler’ before ‘The Joker’…
Nate’s too smart to be ‘just’ the Riddler. 😉 (I read “somewhere” loong ago that Riddler was always intended to be a Joker-fan-wannabe, but never quite up to the task.)
All they need is a feline hybrid for a real Catwoman
“He is self-conscious about his name, Rex Ruthor. His parents must have a special kind of humor to make his name rhyme with a famous supervillain.”
Ah, so this week’s topwebcomics vote incentive marks the start of some more world building? Neat!
… it doesn’t sound bad, but I was looking forward to Jesse …
Don’t worry. Jesse’s Adventure isn’t going anywhere. I just need some time to plan out the next chapter, and the world guide in between will give me plenty of time for that ^^
“My least grumpy face? Do you want to ruin my reputation?”
You mean the reputation about you being a grumpy, short tempered, lone Wolf jerk who’s a really mean jock to people trying out for the basketball team and is a sore loser, Rex? Are you sure you want to keep that reputation? Well, the actual wording is pretty harsh, so I had to summarize and sanitize it for you.
He explained his reason and is now a good friend to the guy who was trying out for the basketball team. (Kai)
Well, his reputation outside of his friend group. For being half pack animal, Rex isn’t very good at socializing, he could have easily set up his test without having to act extra jerky. Plus, Rex is of choleric temper, as shown when Kai’s immunity to his “Shrimp” insults (Kai just calmly reacted to them by saying he’s a Dragon Hybrid) ended up making Rex the angry/insulted one instead. He hasn’t really been shown hanging out with any friends outside of the main cast and Nate.
I request an arc for Rex , to know him more
The twins have met Rex at his training and at the museum , but why they never meet him at school during the rest ?
I think he’s a year or two older, so he won’t be in the same classes.
But all classes mixes during the school break , normally ……
He’s probably training during any free time that isn’t already assigned to friendship duties. At least he isn’t obsessed to the point of ignoring his social life completely.
They’ve eaten lunch together: https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/gaining-an-edge/
And played Catacombs and Frames together (reluctantly on Benji’s part).
Yes , but the lunch and the game were planned
This week’s offerings are perfect.
I gather Jin’s next on the list? And, by unwitting extension, Katsumi?
Unwitting, and probably “unwilling” too! 🙂
Ruh-roh, Raggy! It’s Rex RuThor!
🤣🤣🤣
So this makes it 9 pages without the twins. Let’s see if Robin will go the extra mile and make it ten!
Maybe it’s a complete perspective shift for the chapter? Seeing all the prep work and efforts to hide that they’re happening from a pair of twins that 1) have big ears and 2) includes kaya.
For those unsure of what kind od thing Rex is using in this strip, I have learnt it is called a “landline telephone”, an ancestor to todays mobile phone, also known in some places as a cell phone. The handset connects to the base unit via that twisty line thing, the handset cable, the base unit connects to a socket in the wall similar to a network connection via another cable, and the wall socket is connected to the landline phone network. This is how phone calls were done long, long long long before mobile phone technology was invented…
Daniel the Human has some of these landline phones around at his place, but since nobody uses them the landline isn’t connected. As Megsy’s Ship’s former electrical engineer, I was interested in this old tech. They even have a version with a spinning dial thing instead of buttons. Daniel the Human offered me AUS$100 if I could ring his mobile from it before the landline was disconnected, but I couldn’t do it. He still hasn’t told me how it works. Well, not without confusing me…
The truck isn’t that out of date yet, I don’t use them anymore, but I remember the times when you couldn’t use the internet and make a phone call at the same time, and I’m technically a millennial. (I say technically because I was apparently born right on the cutoff, at least some people think that. Nobody really agrees and I honestly don’t care)
THis is basically what Daniel the Human did to me. Same model. Same results too…
https://youtu.be/aZSZB0z-Nt0
Rex’s phone may well be connected to the Internet instead of the landline phone network. In my corner of the globe, the telephony companies have been pushing customers over to mobile or IP telephony with the goal of shutting down the old phone network, replacing established technology with immensely more complicated and unstable equipment. They’ve even handed out adapter boxes for connecting old analog phones to IP telephony services.
In Australia, they still have landlines, but a few years ago they decided to set up the “National Broadband Network” or NBN to increase the internet speed Australia wide. A lot of controversy & problems later (overdue – still not everywhere, overbudget, not all of it is new technology, etc) and it’s basically up & running – fiber optic cables sending data across the country, but old fashioned copper cables from house to hub. And since Daniel the Human’s hub is 1 kilometre away, his internet speed is about half of what some other houses can do…