The Young Protectors—Spooky Jones: Past Sins—Page 61

December 14, 2018 Alex Woolfson 55 Comments

Spooky, are you actually seriously considering agreeing to this?

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So! Why would Velliok be willing to agree to this pact? And once he knows Velliok’s true motivations, should Spooky agree to it?

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He probably kind of detached this bit of his essence to chuck it out into the mortal world and needs it back to learn what information it found. If it doesn’t come back at all he’s double screwed because he’s lost power and gotten nothing back. At least if this piece of him returns he will know what Spooky has told him so far.

For a demon lord of some hell dimension, Velliok certainly has no patience or perhaps he’s thinks his manner and demonly presence is so overwhelming to the poor dumb human apes that they can’t see his lies for the lies that they really are. Perhaps it’s the black fungus-insect-roach-fleas that seem to circle him… Maybe his brain is just another fly infestation?

I noticed something odd…….some sort of spikes protruding from Velliok’s back……..wonder what that is?

Those are the spikes Spooky skewered him with a few pages back. As you see in frame 2, they go all the way through him.

Ahh……spikes to keep him still…..and in pain!

Lol!!

Spooky can keep Ve lliok chained and channel his power.

All of Veliok risks contamination and possible subsumption.

Hey! Spooky is not a “Dumb Human Ape”……try his patience and he will stick you so hard Velliok, that you will scream as shrill as a little girl!

Dumb mostly numan ape, then. 😉

And once he knows Velliok’s true motivations, should Spooky agree to it?

Will he know Velliok’s true motivations?

Doubt it. Most profoundly!

*puts on comic geek hat*

I wonder if Vellok is something like Mephisto in the 1990’s BLACK PANTHER series, and loses power as long as part of him is trapped in the mortal realm.

*removes hat*

I also wonder if that text story is still canon, and part of Anaado is ALSO stuck in Spooky’s head, in which case Vellok would gain his freedom for simply saying “his spirit is over there, behind the cabana”.

Gahh! My head now hurts!! I never have that level of thought in comics! I like and enjoy the tale and the characters along with the many and diverse talent of the folks that produce it. However, philosophy 101 it is not. At least I thought so till I started reading comments on Alex’s comics. Wow. I truly feel like a lead head.

I have a strange mind. Things like this bubble up, and I forget where I put my glasses. 😀 But it’s all in service of the Woolfpack. 😉

Bubble up? Yep. That would explain my thought process!

I still think this is a bad idea, but Spooky has all this history with Anaado he can’t give up easily.

Don’t trust him, Spooks!

“Takwin” is an interesting word to use here. A quick Google implies that it’s an old word amongst Muslim alchemists that means “synthetic life”

Is Anaado some kind of magically created slave class of demon?

Some of us have had a theory-talk about this before, after also googling ‘takwin’.
I can’t remember everyones’ answers, but my theory is that maybe royals create many of their underlings magically, maybe especially ‘lower’ demons, as there seems to be ranks. Just look at all those flying little creatures that came out of the hell-stargate during the big battle. They could easily be magically created by Laampros – unless some demons gave birth to litters, and/or some of them were quite old 🙂

But given that Laampros said, a while back, that it was a long time since he had felt ‘earthly’ pleasures, at least he doesn’t have sex/reproduce often. Can’t say about other demons, and I’m sure sex occurs (since Spooky had sex in hell), but I’d like to act somewhat ignorant of the thought of loads of sex in hell between some of those demons … *lol*
Yup. That many demons are otherwise created sounds good 😉

The alternative, that Hell is some kind of nonstop demonic orgy, probably makes it too attractive to match the whole concept XD

So a takwin demon would be something like an infernal golem?

(ETA: A quick Google suggests “homunculus” would be a better word. FULL METAL ALCHEMIST fans may recognize the term)

That suggests that their bodies were manufactured.

Which also suggests that, if a takwin demon’s spirit happened to be extracted from its body (perhaps being preserved in the mind of a Chinese-American boy), it’s body could be REPLACED.

What if this piece has been stuck in Spooky much longer than we’re assuming? Maybe the thing with Kyle just gave him enough of a power boost to finally try escaping Spooky’s mind?

Hm. I can’t think of a good reason why Velliok would agree to his proposed pact, Would he somehow lose something more important to him then his shard-self if he wasn’t freed? Status with his fellow Royals, maybe?

Will he be tormented for millennia by Nelson saying, “HA HA! Velliok was beaten up by a boy!” Oh, the indignity.

I’m so darn nervous! I don’t even know anymore which way I want this to go.

YOU DO NOT MAKE DEMON DEALS WITH ANYONE…except Crowley. He’s a good guy.

~~not related to this page but~~
I’m glad that even Artifice is back in top 100 on TWC‼ That’s something for a comic completed more than 5 years ago… ♥_♥

I was really scared that Spooky was going to be distressed and could make bad decision but he is just here being all “lmao Velliok what the hell”. I’m a bit less scared but still…. The title is the death of Spooky Jones so still a bit stressed.

Spooks does seem kind of dense. He gave Velliok some valuable details about himself and Anaado, and now doesn’t expect Velliok to want to return with that information?

aaaaaaaa the wait is interminable *bites nails*
I really like the script for this page, btw. and even though Velliok’s a @^#%&^ and I want him to be annihilated I’m still taking note of his insults. guess when you’ve been around for thousands of years you come up with quite a few ^3^

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. Don’t fall for tatt.

as I fear we won’t see Spooky DISAGREEING with whatever kind of pact I wonder “how save as possible” such a pact could look like… I mean he’d need to close any possible loophole that might be in any formulation… ;___; I don’t even wanna to think about it any further…

He’s agreeing to that because IT’S HIS BEST CHANCE OF CATCHING YOU.

Even if by some miracle Velliok is being honest, after finding and rescuing Anaado, how would Spooky get back to Earth?

He never left. This is Spooky’s mindscape.

Presumably he would need to go to Hell to retrieve Anaado.

Honest information of how to get to Anaado. Sounds like a trap to me. But Spooky would have to take the bait, wouldn’t he?

Okay, so, Velliok tells Spooky where Aando is and how Spooky can get to him, Spooky let’s Velliok go, Velliok goes back to hell and immediately moves Aando somewhere else and prepares a trap… yep that sounds like the sort of deal I would expect.

Hello Campers,
It seems to be a quiet Tuesday bursting with anticipation for Velliok’s proposal … (What is this, the third attempt to get deeper into Spooky’s consciousness?)

Given the nature of their discussion just at the moment, I’m suspecting a page of exposition explanation from Velliok, and for the purposes of maintaining reader interest it may even have a shocking revelation. The real question will be whether an of the information he gives is trustworthy.

I think Velliok will reveal some information (another half truth) that he hopes will convince Spooky.

Velliok could give “honest information” about Anaado’s whereabouts if Anaado was held under someone else’s control. Perhaps a more powerful someone else whom he believes could handle the “dumpling of an ape” and give him either Spooky or Anaado or both in return for having lured him to hell in the first place.

Could be part of an improvised revenge scenario by Velliok that he thinks would attract Laampros and give Velliok some help and status.

I think Velliok wants to possess Spooky’s body like in the horror movies.

It would give him access to the material world and probably be “less” strain than him trying to access the material world on his own, by himself.

At least that was what he clearly pursued with that entire fake-Anaado charade…!

What I want to know is…..is there a spell Spooky could use to “hobble” Velliok before releasing the restraints? For his own protection of course…..just in case he is stupid enough to release Velliok?

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The new page is online:
http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-62/

oh rats and oops, I forgot.
Sorry about that.
The last 10 minutes of “Sophie’s Choice” was on and I got emotionally involved.

The link to PAGE 62:
http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-62/

So presumably Spooky has just passed out on Kyle’s bed, but if everything that is taking place in Spooky’s head is in real time then I wonder what Kyle has been doing. Did he fall asleep? It was still pretty early in the evening and they hadn’t even had dinner.

Imma go ahead and steal “dumpling of an ape” for my own use, okay?

Incidentally, Takwin is a word.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Takwin

Thank you.

I liked this wikiwand write-up as associated to a “demon(?)” as curiously “un-demonic” as Anaado seems to be. Fun pondering.

I’m repeating myself I know, but OMG LOL “Dumpling of an ape!” Genius and so perfect for Velliok’s personality.

However I’m getting ahead of myself with needing to repeat — how great is Spooky’s expression in Panels #1&5. Incredulous much? Ahahaha… if Velliok wasn’t so arrogant and clueless about Spooky (and possibly humans in general) he’d be noticing how Spooky’s acting. Buttttt nooooooo. It’s great.

Thank you Alex, Adam and Vero. I just love watching Spooky reel all this information out of Velliok. It’s just good fun and all your separate and combined art-forms are really making this a fun story.

Thank you, Chris! 🙂