You’ve been had
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well, so long for recycling, I guess
Self-inflicted suffering bites like nothing else. Nate can’t even claim credit for these authorities.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Could be the one of Nate’s other helpers (assuming there’s more than the bat siblings) called them in, or maybe someone else nearby who witnessed what was going on called for security. Either way Larissa has been neutralized for now, we’ll see if she tries something else later on.
They could just be doing their job though were tipped of in advance that they might be needed there. Unlikely to be Nate helpers or likely even fully informed. They probably would have stopped them from stealing even if it was rotten fish heads and intercepted her while she was making false complaints if they knew.
The best part is that by smashing the jar and crumpling (and then letting go) of the paper, she has zero evidence of the “theft”. No outside party has any reason to believe that the plot was anything but Larissa’s fantasy. The only question is whether Larissa is dumb enough to report the “theft” and then have to explain why she had a jar of fishheads on her.
I would reckon security came because Larissa screamed like a banshee last two strips and they decided to intervene when they saw her smash the glass. Security’s job is to look for people that would cause trouble and someone that’s screaming threats is a good candidate. The jar-smashing was just an excuse they needed.
Good ol security there just in time again! I call that a win for Nate and his team! Hey look on the bright side Larissa, you’re not being arrested this time, just being removed from the festival.
Well until she does something stupid like assaulting security
That would be rather dumb of her, but hey she’s pretty upset right now so who knows?
As Daniel the Human keeps saying, “never underestimate the power of Human stupidity…”
Swinging at Security would be really stupid right now, all she’s getting is booted out & kept out, but she’s not the brightest globe in the pack, is she…
The last panel confirms what we’ve known since the 90’s: when you hear the glass break, you’re about to meet Stone Cold Steve Austin.
One word for this revenge attempt: DENIED!!!!!!
*Crash, Smash* Denied and removed! It’s a nice note, though.
I kinda like how Dinah is just smiling while holding a bag of churros and pointing to the bag.
Hey, Dinah’s got churros, that means they day is a good one even if watching a friend humiliate herself. Because churros! Mmm, churros.
Na na, na na, dearest Lala;
your plans have fallen down the tubes;
prevented effortlessly
by those you only saw as rubes.
Nate’s band of ‘batty’ bro’s expands
(Dragons, canines, Snakes included)
He’s the fulcrum that shifts the world?
Think he’s not? Well, you’re deluded.
The threat has ended just for now
and maybe even Lizzie’s safe.
Even with her dark history
I find I like that little waif.
(Waif. Orphaned/abandoned child. And I think she’s just been dumped by Larissa and Dinah.)
You may think that you are bad,
But believe you can be had
By the Spaceballs- err…
By McThunderpants!
Nate can be downright scary with how involved his plans can be. So I’m guessing even the kid colliding with Larissa was part of the plan? But was getting a face full of boob part of the plan or his own improvisation?
I’m starting to think Larissa needs counseling, psychology, or mood altering pills.
I don’t think the ‘pillowing’ was intentional. At least, I hope not. As I said before, sexual assault is a felony offense. If Batboi intended to impact where/how he did, it could land him in juvie, I think. (Though, I’m basing my thoughts and observations on US laws, which aren’t universal, so it’s okay to take what I say with a grain of salt.)
Also, though, I think Larissa would be so upset about the jar that she’d just sortof forget how the kid crashed into her. And even if his landing was intentional, Larissa might not even think about it long enough to do anything, especially since he apologized multiple times.
I think the plan called for Charon to crash into her. Was probably told to make it look like an accident and that’s as far as the instructions went.
To be honest, you’d need written proof to make that stick. Boys being boys, verbal confession might not stick. “He was lying to improve his street cred.”.
I sorta suspect aiming where you crash is not so easy, so it was mostly luck.
So did she empty the jar or is this just an empty jar that was put in place after stealing the fish jar?
2nd one. Nate must have had them prepare a second jar and bag to buy a little more time for himself, Trix, and Charon to get away.
To be quieter and incase of other content the bag likely wasn’t touched, just the jar.
Just my opinion.
I think nobody would have missed the smell of opening a jar of semi-rotting fisheads.
That, and the Bat jar is smaller than the one containing the fish heads.
One question; is somebody going to stick around to sweep up the broken glass? I’ve had several jobs where it was official company policy that broken glass couldn’t be left unattended.
It’d be a good bit of world building (or just a neat thing) to have one of those Security agents radio in for someone to come with a broom and dustpan.
I’d like to see her being handed the broom and dustpan.
Another chance for her to scream.
Going to disagree here: now is not a good time to hand Larissa anything she could use as a weapon. Larissa is very upset and angry right now, she might just take a swing at security with that broom. Yes it would land her in more trouble but we’ve seen before that her temper is such that once it gets going it takes over and she doesn’t really think about the consequences of her actions. It would be far better for security to just escort her out of the festival and have a janitor come sweep up the broken glass.
Removing Larissa from the scene -immediately- is most likely standard procedure; part of said procedure being to minimize and smooth over any disruptions ASAP so the festival can go on with minimal disturbance.
Big international company I worked for; if you were fired, you were -immediately- escorted out by security. Your manager would clean out your desk -for- you.
Daniel here. Can’t give details of where I work, but I am a Cleaner at a location with Security, and in a situation like this Security would remove the person while radioing for one of us to clean the mess. If they have someone spare then they get to babysit the mess till our person gets there, otherwise they might get someone else to watch it or put a sign/barricade/marker over it to prevent random visitors walking over it & cutting their feet up…
I’m surprised she didn’t get cut or scratched by the shards of the glass jar as she shattered it… Having Lala clean up her mess before giving her the bum’s rush out of the food festival is a pretty good punishment and won’t get her into any more legal trouble. I mean, holy underwear! That girl’s got HUGE issues!
This is probably the best set of consequences for Larissa, and chances are her parents/guardians will get some kind of report about the events of this page
Maybe I dunno on this one. This is private event security, might be all they do so long as Larissa is compliant is just what they said: escort her off the festival grounds and maybe keep an eye out for her if she tries to sneak back in. About the only way Larissa’s parents/guardian would hear about this is if they also turned her over to the police for what would be minor charges so far (littering, disturbing the peace). Maybe one slightly more serious charge: the threat towards Nate she uttered before the security guy spoke up. However that could be easily dismissed as a heat of the moment thing.
Whoops, public event security not private. My bad! Still stand by the rest though.
I think Larissa will take the chance you suggested and -will- try to sneak back in…
Assuming she can find something as disgusting and nauseating as raw fish heads before trying to sneak in and potentially ruin a business.
Yeah, call it a hunch but I just don’t think her role here is done yet. Larissa was pretty determined to get some revenge at the festival. She gathered up those fish heads, kept them hidden from her uncle, traveled a considerable distance (think it was something like a two hour drive between Hybrid City and her uncle’s town), and now she’s just going to give up since her main scheme has been thwarted? Not likely!
Then there’s Jinn being here helping out. Earlier in the chapter there was the buildup when the twins and Cleo went to see him. They got to see him in action and it was impressive! So question: why have that included if it wasn’t setting up something for later? Robin could have just as easily have had them have a nice sit down meeting with Jinn and his grandfather and try to convince him to come help at the festival but instead we got the dojo scene. There’s a reason he went with that. There’s also what Jinn is to consider as well. Lion Dog: a guardian. So why not at some point have him protect his friends? And boy it’s something Larissa wouldn’t be expecting if that turns out to be the case!
Actually, this being not reported is what is best for Larissa. There is such a thing as too much punishment. If she gets punished even more, she’ll just get even more bitter.
If she can just walk away knowing how much she screwed up there is at least a chance to cool off and realize that things are not going to go back the way they did. She’ll still be bitter but at least she’ll won’t keep repeating this same thing again and again.
I’m not saying that’s likely though.
make her clean it up first, and video it for showing others of what happens.
*looks at the card* : long hairs and a brace . I was right in my comment of the previous strip : it was the girl ^_^
Larissa , you ‘ve been tricked by a bat-team ; and surely asked to clean before to be “kicked out”
Not just any “the girl,” It was… “the Batgirl!” 🙂
Panel 6: I’ve thought of doing the same to someone I know more than once.
Trix is now my new favorite batty bat.
I think the card with the jar was a bad idea, especially the picture. The jar with the Bat-symbol on it however is wonderful. Should’ve left it at that. 🙂 My only question is whether that is a different jar altogether, or whether the fish heads were dumped into another container for disposal and the sticker slapped onto the jar. Would’ve been very hard for (even) Nate to pre-plan to having that jar available on a moment’s notice.
The smell would have been … noticeable had the original jar been opened.
McThunderpants: Thanks for the info, Liz. Fish heads, you say? How big a jar is she using? Got it thanks. [ Hangs up & makes another call ] Hey, Trix. I need a bit of a favor. Can you come down to the food truck festival in the park and bring an empty peanut butter jar.
Trixie: Okay, Nate, but I need to know what is going on.
Got to admit, how did he manage to get that jar so quick is a puzzle. If painted on, there would be little left of it, not proof. The card is pushing it.
I clean and save empty jars, to fill them with homemade jam, use them as impromptu vases, or whatever else I might need a jar for. I can grab one in a minute when I’m home. I might not have an exact match for a specific model of jar, but there was no need for that in this case. The swap would be discovered anyway as soon as Larissa looked inside the bag, so a jar of similar size and shape was good enough.
I’m more surprised that they took the time to make the black-and-yellow label and the card with a photo on it. Perhaps they had the label and the card already printed, so they only needed to glue the label to the jar and write the message on the card?
It wasn’t all that quick anyway. It’s been hours since Liz called Nate.
Woah, the Brat-Bats were working with Nate all along! Well, that was a surprise! 😄
Irony is, if she just had brought that bottle to the recycling as asked, the security would have nothing to take her in for.
And i´m willing to bet they weren´t there purely coincidentally, McThunderpants MIGHT just have given them a hint.
So this was pretty much the perfect set-up, he knew her reaction would be to break the bottle, which counts as littering, getting her off the Festival grounds by the legal enforcers.
Perfect. Kinda evil, but perfect. At least this time she won´t have any legal issues, that is, unless she starts a fight with the security guys.
Prosecutor: Miss L, a minor female of 16 years of age, is charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault and 2 counts of assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and littering.
Judge: How does the defendant plead?
Larissa: On advise of council [ Evil eye to the guy in the expensive suit beside her ] I plead guilty, but Nate made me … [ Her council cuts her off ]
Judge: Oh, right. I recognize you now. You’re the girl who tried to throw the stone ball last time.
I’m curious as to what Larissa’s backstory is? Why is she the way she is? Do her parents enable her or act like her toward her? And what about Dinah? All she does is echo Larissa and and smile acting calm, at first I thought that Larissa was imagining her.
Yeah, it seems like Larissa is the only one with actual malice. Dinah comes across like she’s mildly retarded and just goes along with whatever the group does.
A well staged plan worthy of batman! I have to wonder if she’ll ever stop her wicked plans before she ends up staying in jail longer.
*flips a coin* this could go a few ways only ONE that ends well for the mad lass.
Holy underwear! The note said to recycle the jar, you witch! You better do something about it immediately! Immediately! (Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!). After reading the title, I can’t help but remember a similar line from the cartoon “Rocko’s Modern Life” uttered by the character Mr. Bighead, both examples were in response to being tricked by someone else who was preventing something bad from happening (Larissa ruining the Romero family’s efforts and Mr. Bighead & co from eating a turkey that Rocko couldn’t bring himself to kill and cook, so he substituted the bird for a veggie based replacement). Now we know for certain that the Brat Bats/Bat Brats were working with Nate as his distraction, though I’m still unsure if Charon crashing into Larissa’s tracts of land/not-so fun bags and being subjected to marshmallow hell was intentional/planned. The bats better keep their distance from Lala for a while. I’d advise Larissa to be calm and not make it worse for herself with the security guards, but we all know she’d never listen to that and just dig herself deeper…
Looks like Larissa’s about to get the boot/the bum’s rush, appropriate since she’s at a food festival causing trouble. I’m a bit disappointed that we didn’t get to see her getting her butt handed to her by Jin aikido throwing her when she tries to make a last ditch attack on our favorite half Italian half dragon twins. Well, it’s not over til the fat lady sings (or til we see the end of chapter/to be continued narration box) *”Roundabout” by Yes starts playing.*
One more thought this evening. I’ve stated this before but I think it bears repeating now that Larissa and Dinah are being ejected from the festival: I really hope that Elizabeth has used this time to get to somewhere safe! Hopefully she went straight home after finishing that sundae after she called and warned Nate. Maybe told her parents too that it would be a good idea to not allow those two into either their home or their family business. I think her dad ran a boutique that catered to hybrids if I remember correctly. Anyways, Liz definitely needs to keep her distance from little Miss Psychopath for a long time!
Funny how security seems to pop up just when Nate needs them to…
Is it just luck?
…
Probably not in this case. Nate either tipped them off, or planned the confrontation there because he knew they would be passing.
Man’s giving Xanatos a run for his money.
Seeing as how neither of the bats had a bag or jar in their hands at the start of the encounter, that is some SERIOUS sleight of hand.
Oh, it gets better than that, Jack. Charon has no hair distinct from his hybrid fur. Trix has red/brown bangs. The bat on the note has black hair in a Cynthia face-half-hidden style. What does that tell you about who had the jar?
No, if you have a glass jar of that, you have what amounts to a bomb.
Who’s the bat on the card?
It isn’t one of the bats we just saw…
The preview art a few months ago showed THREE ‘Brat Bats’.
Plot twist: the jar wasn’t empty, it had some diethyl ether in it, so the guards are hallucinations. Larissa isn’t being escorted out, she’s just tripping balls.
be nice if this sight organsed your commics like book one book two things like that. Namly for when I have not been around for a good while to read your stuff. Also heh she had it coming. I would like to see her end up in big people jail.
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Sneaky little batsies :3
hmm…awfully convenient timing, but I seriously doubt that them merely requesting she leaves will stop Larissa. She’s either going to try sneaking back in or go into a rampage/flee “persecution”. Either way, this isn’t over by a long shot.
As to WHY she’s this way, I suspect either a less than ideal home situation, her being a plain old-fashioned spoiled-brat, or some kind of medical/personality issues (NPD, clinical Sociopathy, Bipolar, etc.)
They did that with the “Aha” kid in Simpsons. Turns out he has a poor family environment, basically raising himself.
Nate is an evil genius and I love them. She’s constantly trolling for revenge so she constantly gets her just desserts.
>> “…gets her just desserts.”
Mr. Romero could hire Nate as his dessert chef! 😉
And mostly leave Kaya (or Kai) out of a job?! Or at least part of their jobs… Something tells me Kaya is likely to specialize in desserts given her sweet tooth is more gluttonous than her twin’s, Kai has more self control with his sugar.
Plot twist: One of the guards is her dad, now disillusioned toward his daughter, whom he previously believed to be his little angel.
Plot twist 2: Larissa gets a redemption arc in the future, in which she slowly changes into one of the best friends a person could ask for. I really really hope this happens, there aren’t enough proper redemption arcs for antagonists in modern media and it’s time we showed that even the worst people can hope/strive for a better future.
You’re reaching, prince. In order for a person to be redeemed, THEY have to put in an EFFORT to be a nicer person. And people who are willing to be nice to other people generally don’t mistreat the people around them in the first place. At this point, expecting Larissa to get a redemption arc is a delusion.
She gets what she deserved
…again. 🙂
i take back my comment on cleaning her mess up. she should be made to clean the entire area up after it’s over.
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