2010-02-24: Hell, I Think I Even Killed Him.

[The Comment Golem]

Discussion thread for Hell, I Think I Even Killed Him.

[Rakshasa Taisab]

Finally Chris is getting to be angry. Yay!

[Forrest]

Ian looks surprisingly happy in these panels. Like, not crazy maniacal happy, but more... content. I guess it's probably one of those "once you've decided to kill yourself you stop being depressed" type of things? (Or so I hear at least... personal experience would beg to differ, but then maybe I never really 'decided' hard enough...).

Anyway. I can't wait to see Chris get all righteous on Ian and... you know I don't know what comes next. That's unusual for me. Good work Poe.

Also, Ian kinda looks like Disney's rendition of Aladdin right now, too...

[Viking-Sensei]

You have to feel sorry for poor Chris. After not being in the comic for so long, he makes a triumphant return... and in less than a day is inches away from becoming a fine pulpy jelly all across the back wall of Ian's Fortress of Sulkitude.

You have to respect his true, pure warrior heart though (and not just because Ian's possibly about to show it to us)... Chris has, throughout the entire comic, been well-characterized as an idealistic adventure-and-justice-seeking youth. Poe's good at subverting the form, but I think his real ability shines here when he *doesn't* subvert the form, and we see exactly how Chris' classic ideals are going to clash against a modern and more realistic "jaded" style character like Ian.

[Graybeard]

If Chris survives this (big if), he has suddenly become the most dangerous character type in the entire story: a disillusioned idealist.

[DatDude]

HAHAH yes chris i have in fact killed your god! Come to the dark side for we have muffins!

[pillar_of_hate]

Is Anita hoping Chris will be provoked into fighting Ian and get killed so she has an excuse to back out of their deal? If so, it might backfire should Chris decide Anita's deception has wronged him far more than Ian's deicide.

[Nell]

Ian looks jaded.... whore at dawn jaded, and exhausted.
Lets hope Chris isn't dumb enough to attack him / Ian has more composure about him than last time...
I don't know if the knot comment was meant to make him sound off or deranged, but it works

Anita's already had her ass handed to her by Ian. Excuse or not it's not her choice anymore.

[davester65]

If Chris survives this (big if), he has suddenly become the most dangerous character type in the entire story: a disillusioned idealist.

That and he'll have plot armor thicker than a Missouri class battleship.

[normalphil]

Well, I suppose it's useful to know that at this point the vanilla "decent human being" reaction to Ian is to want to stick a knife in him. Bodes well for future plot points.