V09 – Pg32
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MaXtreme is a total arsehole/scumbag. Will he get his come comeuppance for deplorable actions? I’m sure readers are hoping so.
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Dan
MrHades
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Gary Cohen
Oh Max. You’re all business.
MaX IS business – heh heh
Fucking awesome. Really digging the dramatic lighting here. Love how you put the camera right on the ground in panel 1.
Thanks Max! Being praised on the art-from means a lot coming from you, as the art on 3MM is amazing.
Does this guy die? ’cause he needs to die. (Don’t answer that)
By ‘this guy’ I mean Max.
Heh, I get what you mean 🙂
Wait till Wednesday’s page, that’s all I can say!
Not Kingsword. He really doesn’t need to die.
If your going to act, now would be the time
Indeed! If not now, never!
I take it as a sign of good writing when a villain ( cause thats what max is ) genuinely makes me want to see him get brutally murdered. Max is a total basterd, and I really hope he gets served some painfull retribution. Sooner rather than later.
Thanks Aprion. I have done a good job on MaX. I don’t like him much either!
Hate to be “that guy” but slight typo in panel four. It says they will package it “them” instead of “then”. Damn those two keys being so close together!
Thanks for the heads up! I foolishly uploaded the wrong page on Friday, then amended on Saturday with another version, but that had mistakes on it too! Doh!
Hi, Dan, I’ve been following Vanguard for over a year, and it is most definitely an extremely well crafted comic (I thought the time you showed us your coloring process was especially interesting.) Someone commented on the dramatic lighting on this page, and that fits well with the foreshadowing of that last panel…you just KNOW something is about to take Max totally off guard…I’m not sure if it’ll be Maxima, Spitfire, Godiva (boarding Maxima, maybe?), Pendragon arriving on the scene, or *what*, but I’m sure it’s going to be epic. (I also hope it’s everything that corporate jock-douche Maxtreme deserves!)
Three con-crits: in panel four, Max says “the them” instead of “them” or “both of them” of “the pair of them” or “them both”…it’s a fractured sentence. The next sentence reads “..package it them…”, which is also improper; I’m guessing you started with “it”, which is the way someone might speak (even if it’s grammatically incorrect,) then realized it would be clearer/more accurate to use the plural “them”, but didn’t remove the “it.” Finally, in panel five, Max uses the colloquialism “ten-a-penny” and Maxia is confused by it. I totally cannot blame her for that, since Max is American (I’m not sure if Maxia is or not; her speech patterns are too stilted, probably because she gets cut off by Max all the time!) and that has NEVER been a colloquialism here, or if it has, not in over a hundred years. I visit friends (from all over Europe) in England each year, we have lots of discussions on the English language and its regional differences, and I’ve never heard this phrase come up…I’ve seen it print, but thought it was considered relatively archaic. The American equivalent that Max would have used is “a dime a dozen,” which brings up more thoughts about inflation and dollars vs. pounds and predecimalisation, but those aren’t needed here. ;D
I have to say, Gradlon’s death took me by surprise…I find myself hoping for a “dream sequence” or “reality reset” save, since I know you won’t bring anyone “back from the dead”…but I have a nervous feeling such “saves” would qualify. Add me to the list of people wondering where our poor team is going to go when it has lost so many members!
Cheers on a good job, and I can’t wait to see where it goes next. Thanks for sharing Vanguard with us.
Thanks for taking the time to give such great feedback! I love to hear from more long-term readers.
I’ve amended the ‘ten-a-penny’ line. It’s very much an English colloquialism and neither MaX or MaXia would have any idea what it was supposed to mean. There will be a few more surprises coming up at the end of this issue/beginning of next. I very much look forward to seeing the reader’s reactions. It should be interesting, to say the least. I’m glad to see you are enjoying it thus far 🙂
Have to admit I also find myself wondering where the team Vanguard goes from here with so many of its members crippled, dying or dead (and it looks like Kingsword’s heading to the “dead” list real fast unless he gets some kind of last minute heroic wind or save). At this point the only directions I can see this going are either some kind of reality reset or All-New All-Different Vanguard team. Or its all been a dream/illusion/alternate reality (please don’t let it be this – too cheap!)
It’ll be interesting to see how all you readers react to the change.
Wow, Max is an asshole; a huge gaping asshole! I hope he dies in a suitably grisly way.
By the way, I love this comic; it is definitely one of the best super hero webcomics on the web; keep up the good work!
Wait till Tuesday’s page… That’s all I can say.
gory + ironic= goronic
Hm… From all we’ve seen I don’t see good chances for MaXia to take out Max in a fight. One thing she could do that would definitely hurt him though was to replace his medicine with a placebo.
That is all just in case she actually decides to act against him of course.
MaXia would flat-out lose in a struggle with the big guy, sadly.
if you weren’t the author I’d argue that max isn’t exactly at 100%. besides the obvious and very painful burns inflicted by spitfire, I find hard to believe that even in his weakened condition kingsword hasn’t inflicted a bit of damage. most importantly max is so arrogant in general and dismissive of maxia that she could probably inflict a bit of damage by catching him off guard. ohh she could poke an eye out.