This might be the most Thrice Evil (whichever incarnation in whichever story you want to pick) has ever spoken at once. It’s… weird.
Marc did a bang-up job with the color orange here, and with the lighting in particular. I mean, look at panel four. Wow. That’s some solid villainy right there.
Next week: A whoooole bunch of characters you’re familiar with make their first Earth-Avalon appearances… and some you’re not. I’m very excited for this one. Wait until you see where this is all going.
Oh crap!
Look at panel 2. Look closely.
Actually, given the other panels, panel 2 is impossible, even if his knees had been blown off.
Why? I think panel 2 is telling us that Thrice has caused a hallucination.
I agree with the illusion theory. The way Thrice is speaking in panel two, it sounds like he’s trying to convince Swifty he’s in pain. It’s sort of how a hypnotist sounds.
Uh…. why does he have his legs back in the second frame? Illusion?
Thrice zapped his knees only.
I’m guessing Thrice burned off his knees… his lower legs and feet are still there, they just are no longer attached.
If you look at his left leg, there’s definitely a knee there. Certainly easier to bring them back if they were never really gone in the first place.
That’s not a knee, it’s his hand.
Oops, sorry, you said left.
Bravo, you did the impossible and knocked Swifty down a peg or two. And honestly, he deserved it given his attitude towards the others.
What if this chapter makes him out to be the traitor he feared all along and not Jerry ? 🙁
Wow, that would be grim! Although I’m sure Brock has at least considered it
More than meets the eye going on here. What can Swifty do that woul give Thrice a world?
OK, some have spotted the legs in the second panel.
Me, I’m reckoning they were never blown off. Thrice just made Speedy *think* it had happened – so when Speedy capitulates, it’s easy for Thrice to get the legs back, so to speak. Just cancel the illusion.
Thrice is finally getting some ‘screen’ time, and it’s great! Looks good, feels nasty. Brilliant stuff, guys!
Completely agree on this one. Especially if you give Swifty’s pose in panel two a closer look. For this posture, Swifty would need to either lift himself up using just his arms or to kneel just the way this panel looks in itself.
My money is on illusional capabilities of the trident.
That would make sense…
I’ve oft wondered what the trident can do. We’ve seen him with it several times (in flashback comics), but as yet, no explanation of it OR its origins. Not even in the Origin of Thrice Evil.
The initial plan was to disarm Swifty, but Avalon-Thrice wanted to give it a unique spin!
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I’ll go punish myself now…
He’s more…um…dislegged…than disarmed.
Let’s just say that if Swifty want’s to complain, then he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Of course, he knows exactly what he kneeds to do next.
Sorry, I’m just getting them out of my system! Don’t kick me!
I’m agreeing with the illusion theory. This Thrice seems to have aged a lot better than his counterpart. Must be clean living :). My curiosity is also piqued as to why Thrice said about wanting a world to rule. The original universe has other habitable planets so this one should as well. I imagine it would probably be easier to conquer another planet in the same universe than to conquer the same planet in a parallel universe that you have very limited access to. I have the sneaking suspicion that Thrice may not actually be in charge here or there might be a reason he needs a new world. We have all the references to the great menace that’s coming from the other dimension, then Muscles Thrice shows up. Given Brock’s propensity for brilliantly crafted plot twists it could turn out that he might be the one behind the invasion, but that he and the others are trying to escape something else. Obviously, there was a major difference somewhere in the timeline of this dimension, because a whole lot of folks who showed up in Strip 600 were dead in the main universe. If memory serves correct, Thrice’s Demon Mommy (Meredith Baxter, isn’t it?) got taken out by Mr Crook a very long time ago. Even before Master Masticate, Johnny Be Dead and Starbrighter.
The illusion is cool, the dialogue is not.
I’ve been enjoying the conversation enough to not get involved. Always fun to see what you guys pick up on and how you interpret it.
We gotta see the Thrices battle one another! Maybe jello wrestling! Yeah!
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