Man, this is a real trip down memory lane. Longtime readers will recognize these scenes from throughout both SuperFogeys and SuperFogeys Origins. Newbies, don’t worry. Knowing all these references or not knowing them isn’t going to impact future reading. But, for those who want to know, I present to you: annotations!
Panel 1: This is a scene we haven’t quite seen before, but it stands to reason it happened just before this strip from Chapter 1o.
Panel 2: Also from Chapter 10–when Jerry met Jerry.
Panel 3: From Chapter 16, when Swifty’s time traveling, Bubbles of Light journey began.
Panel 4: Going waaaaaay back to 1955, Swifty’s time travel journey saddled him with an unexpected visitor in the form of Mega Matt.
Panel 5: …Which led directly to the death of Money Man. Now you know why.
All the other, smaller panels are other time travel events that happened along the way. Can you figure out where (or is it when?) they’re from?
See you next week!
Uh-oh, so it was due to Swifty’s usage of time travel into the past and a much evil Thrice evil that Money Man died back in the origin story for the team ?
Man, this is one twisted villain and I don’t know if he is beatable. 🙁
This strip raises the question if Money Man-Abadon’s death was planned or a (un-)fortunate side effect. Actually, it puts a big question mark behind Gina’s statement that she had trouble with Swifty because he’s a speedster.
And to hink this was all planed while writing this story back than…
Cudos
Afterthought: What is Mega Mat-Avalon like?
This question is going to start something. I don’t know what, bu it will start something.
I dont think mega matt or his brothers exist, or if they do, its for the lodge of doom. Understand, their mother was a ninja, i don’t see that changing (as Thrice Evil would not have needed to change any part of the mothers storyline.) In Earth Avalon, Tangarine works for the Lodge of Doom. I suspect IF the brothers did exist in earth avalon, they are not on the side of good.
The Healer- a punk kid who in our world treats his gift callously. Remember what can heal can also destroy… Earth Avalon version could be known as Plaugebringer (selectively healing viruses themselves to allow them to inflict more damage.
Emo- He (if I remember) uses power of music. Take that to the extreme, and he could use music to create fear, hostility, or depression. drain the fight out of our heros.
Mega Matt. Lets face it, he probably didnt survive past puberty
It is not outside the realm of possibility that Tangerine’s three sons exist on Earth-Avalon. In fact, it’s pretty much a certainty. Don’t know that we’ll get to them at this time (and if we did I imagine they’d be a bit different from what we know).
But it also started Soviet Sam down the road of goodness.
Indeed, though it may be too late to actually do anything good in Avalon.
On a meta-level, I think it will save the day, but this statement might just provoce Brock, so…
True, Sam did take a very long road to goodness as a result of killing Money Man, but as we’ve seen on Earth-Avalon, Sam ended up a good guy without killing Money Man as well.
I just realised we never saw Thrice Evil’s bubbles of light adventure.
??
I’m not aware of one.
I mean that in http://superfogeys.com/2010/09/30/278-the-others/ we see the younger Thrice Evil (and also the younger Soviet Sam, come to think of it), but don’t find out what he did when he met himself. Did young Thrice realize that his older self was being mentally suppressed?
I’m hoping that Thrice Evil’s plan backfires on him. Sure, he’s created a twisted world of broken heroes, he’s turned Jerry into an obsessive nutcase, but maybe the heroes of Earth Abbaddon are exactly what it takes to defeat Thrice Evil. It would certainly be ironic. I think.
That would be one way to wrap it up (and a good one), but is it the right way…?
Presumably we’ll find out at some point. I will eagerly await that time!
So how did the heroes of Earth Avalon learn of Thrice Evil’s plot with Earth Abbadon, particularly all the Gina and T-Mangus on Earth Abbadon parts?
It’s a great question, but a fairly minor point. However, I do plan to address it in story. Hopefully next chapter.
Now that i’ve begun putting together Money Man’s personality, the final panel in this comic is extremely depressing…