841 – Better Than Strained Peas

There’s an interesting symmetry at play here. Both Thrice Evils have been trapped in a state where their every effort is futile. Avalon Thrice may have had more agency, but ultimately they were both characters whose every action had been rendered moot. But now both Thrices have been released into a world where they can do whatever they want.

What’s really interesting is that each Thrice does the same thing when it happens: he stops what he’s doing and takes a moment to indulge himself.

Don’t know what are those but I would like to try them

For me, it would probably be pizza. But DEEP DISH pizza. Or Italian Beef.

I wonder if Abaddon-Thrice is still the sort of evil being that he used to be these days. After all, even though Jerry kept him docillated, the others treated him just like one of the other residents of the Home for the Super-Tired. Probably played checkers with him, or whatever. He might well want to rip Jerry’s head off, but does he really still harbor hatred for, say, Soviet Sam? Or Swifty, who ALSO hates Jerry? I mean, Maxim #29 notwithstanding, has Avalon-Thrice read him correctly?

I don’t predict this comic…but I think about these things. If I were him, I’d be interested in getting ahold of the gadget Jerry used to keep him weak and docile…well, keep it in a box made from Jerry’s SKULL…but I’d probably also resent Avalon-Thrice a whole bunch. After all, Avalon-Thrice only enlarged him because it suited Avalon-Thrice’s purposes. Not because of any “brotherly” sentiment, or he would have done it a LOT SOONER. Abaddon-Thrice has more in common NOW with the other Fogeys than he does with his five-fingered counterpart.