V10 – Pg05
Info graphic time! Who is the narrator? What bearing do they have on the VANGUARD/the rest of story?
Read on!
Dan
MrHades
Edited/Co-Written by
Gary Cohen
Info graphic time! Who is the narrator? What bearing do they have on the VANGUARD/the rest of story?
Read on!
Dan
MrHades
Edited/Co-Written by
Gary Cohen
Dammit Dan! Is this what the Vanguard fought for?!
no it’s what they fought too prevent. they just lost. the problem with fighting monsters is sometimes the monsters win
Lol – Nope. It didn’t work out too well, did it?!
The last part doesn’t bode well
Seems Woden found the child.
That or it’s Godiva’s niece.
(Of course they could be one and the same. I don’t think that possibility has ever been ruled out.)
Did he find the child? Is that Godiva’s niece? Read on 😉
Found your comic a while back but never got around to it. Did a full archive dive today and I rather enjoyed the read. The only thing that bothered me was the Vanguard team deaths; to be specific, *how* they died, not that they died in the first place.
For instance, nobody seems to be very surprised that Kingsword could move a battleship, so the Alpha’s strength is immeasurable (and that information being public-knowledge). Meanwhile Ophelia knows very well the limits of her power – several tons; not several *thousand* tons, just several tons. Being in espionage for the entirety of her adulthood, constantly dealing with threats from everyone she works with, it stupefied me that you had her go toe-to-toe- with MaxiDouche. It made no sense in any way I can think of whether that be tactically, strategically, emotionally… any way at all. Meanwhile I wonder if several tons’ worth of pressure directly into his eyes would have done the trick. Or, hell, just ruining his punches and causing them to miss (a very sound strategy that I think she was probably more than capable of both doing and coming up with), thus allowing Kingsword to deal proper damage. Clearly she’s capable of that, and she would know more so than I what she can do to the human body and in what ways. Telekinesis is one of the most overpowered abilities, and even more so in the hands of someone intelligent enough to know what to do with it. Ophelia was stated in-universe to be intelligent, but other than snooping around maybe twice, never showed it. Especially in combat.
The same goes for the other characters’ deaths. Kingsword for instance showed no military training in his fight with MaxiDouche who, himself, has had none (at least none shown or mentioned)… they just sorta brawled (unless I overlooked or missed something?). Yes, Kingsword is weak from the sickness and fatigued from, well, moving a battleship. But that doesn’t mean he suddenly loses his entire life’s worth of military training. A smaller, weaker man can fell a giant with training. That’s literally the tale of Dave and Goliath.
I could keep going but I think the point’s been made; you needed characters to die for the story, and damned be how that came to happen. Overall the story was still good, the read worth the time. It just irked me, and continues to do so.
Well, I’m glad you sort of enjoyed the story so far.
In regards to the final dust-up, the characters had been ‘on the go’ relentlessly for weeks, with everything going to pieces around them. The team probably could have dealt with MaXtreme and his buddies in a straight up fight, but they were caught unawares, then after dealing with Thade’s team, they fell fell to a superior force.
Not just tyranny, but sublime tyranny. The best sort!
Nothing like getting told what to do when you don’t realise you’re being told what to do!
In the first paragraph it should read “When I was a child” and not “When I was child).