What are you talking about? Blindness and lasers are a good combo in the leauge of super reduntant heroes 99% of the time (see superredundant com/?comic=076-same-but-different), its just that the story follows the 1% where they aren’t.
Ohh, right, that’s a good point!
You hear that, guys? You should totally go out shooting lasers blindly. It’ll make you the top hero in the multiverse.
So, is Legend the only good adult hero in Worm so far and do you think he is a better person than Taylor?
Battery was also pretty good.
I think Legend might be a slightly better person than Taylor, though Taylor herself would probably not agree with the “slightly”. I put a lot of stock on intentions, and Legend so far has only had pure intentions of wanting to make the world better with his presence and help people out. Meanwhile Taylor has had mostly good intentions but definitely had to make some shady decisions on her path.
Including the Decision – that was her deciding to go down a path of villainy for her own benefit (in the friendship department). The Decision was sympathetic and narratively satisfying, but I wouldn’t say it was morally good. But even so she did have some good intentions there too, what with Coil’s promises of a better Brockton Bay.
The “slightly” comes from our knowledge of the two. We know more about Taylor’s path, the decisions she’s had to make along the way, her intentions behind those decisions. Chances are Legend has had to make some of those himself, that we don’t know about yet, and maybe never will. So I think they probably come out as about even, short of some big secrets in Legend’s backstory.
Taylor, as mentioned, would probably disagree, because her philosophy is consequence-based. Failing to protect people, or causing unforeseen consequences that harm people, are morally bad in her eyes, and she’s done that a lot. I’m sure Legend too has had such days, but we don’t know about them yet, so it’d just be guesswork and extrapolation if I were to base this on that.
I was SO SURE the guy you linked a video of in your Stories of Norway post was some lost skit I missed from Joe Pera, one of the most unsettling and yet funny comedy character I know watch?v=Fm1RvzfPRh0
Hah, yeah, I can see the resemblance. Though the Ylvis brothers (the guys behind The Fox – through the miracles of styling, that’s Vegard Ylvisåker playing the man with the cup, architect Tor Kraft) are generally a bit more snappy with their humor than this guy.
Incidentally, the real Tor Kraft looks like this (on the right):
(Though this image was taken six years after the events of this scene from Stories From Norway.)
Hey remember when back in his interlude Kid Win was like “I suck, the only reason I’m good at guns is because they’re easy, I can jsut take three half finished projects and mash them together. Can even make multiple settings that way. Gosh if only I could figure out what my specialisation is” ? Gotta love that subtle foreshadowing.
Hah, nice!
I must admit, when I’m looking for a pun in “teaching llamas to spit fire” on a Worm blog, rap lyrics is not where my mind goes.
Where does it… oh!
“Pay attention now, Spitfire. This,” *points at a crude blackboard drawing using a stick* “is a llama.”
“It’s hard to stop doing things I enjoy, even in order to start doing other things I enjoy.” My heart jumped up in my throat because I thought you were about to say you’re ending the liveblog.
Ahaha, wow, sorry about that. In retrospect, I can absolutely see how that could sound like “it really pains me to do this but it is time to stop doing the blog because I’ve found something else I’d like to do” at first.
I think the quote at the beginning of the post with all the “both” gifs is the wrong one. Copy paste error?
Fuck, you’re right. Fixed, thanks!
As soon as Krix finishes Interlude 14.5, his readers would like to remind him of Gestation 1.3, where he said, “The Protectorate is a superhero team confirmed!…I probably sounded rather silly when I theorized about them being a sinister big brother type organization running a dystopian society or something, didn’t I. :P”
Hah! Yeah, that did actually come to my mind after I finished that session, though I forgot to mention it.
They’re not quite that, but their affiliation with Cauldron certainly brings related connotations to mind. 😛
‘Hmm. Maybe she got romantically involved with someone bad or something?’ I think you’re forgetting that she was rescued while ‘on display’ for Merchants. It’s highly likely that something awful happened before that point, or else she was traumatized by the experience regardless.
Hmm. I suppose there’s one more thing that could be next.
“(…) I’m thinking the biggest issue right now is the man at the top.”
Maybe Colony is about Taylor’s attempt to free Dinah the hard way?
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