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PANEL 1

FLYBOY

ACTUALLY, UM, WITH US LIVING TOGETHER AND STUFF, WE DECIDED WE SHOULD JUST KEEP IT AS FRIENDS FOR NOW.

(cont)

BUT IT WOULD MEAN THE WORLD TO HIM TO MEET YOU. HE’S A HUGE FAN.

SPOOKY JONES

WHATEVER YOU GUYS ARE, IF HE’S YOUR FRIEND, THEN I’M HIS FAN, TOO.

(cont)

CALL YOUR HOUSE. WE’LL GRAB THE SPOOKYMOBILE AND PICK HIM UP ON THE WAY.

PANEL 3

SPOOKY JONES

CORY, I KNOW I’M AWFULLY PRETTY TO LOOK AT, BUT DID YOU WANT TO ASK ME SOMETHING?

CORY

WHAT? OH! NO! SORRY!

(cont)

I, UH, I DIDN’T MEAN TO STARE.

PANEL 4

SPOOKY JONES

NO WORRIES, DUDE.

(cont)

IT’S JUST THAT WE’VE BEEN IN THE AIR FOR ALMOST AN HOUR AND YOU HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING. I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE DOING OK OVER THERE.

CORY

HEH. I GUESS I AM A LITTLE STARSTRUCK.

PANEL 5

CORY

IT’S JUST… WHEN YOU THINK OF HEROES, YOU THINK OF GUYS LIKE SUNHAWK PRIME OR MITCHELL…

(cont)

NOT GUYS WHO ARE… Y’KNOW…

SPOOKY JONES

SHORT, DARK AND FLUFFY?

PANEL 6

CORY

HA! YEAH. I GUESS.

(cont)

GUYS… LIKE ME.

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The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 12

March 23, 2019 Alex Woolfson 96 Comments

Of course, he calls it the Spookymobile…

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out the new Patreon Rewards Index I just created. Over the past 4 years, I’ve made over 55 high-quality digital wallpapers with my characters and a bunch of other rewards available to our Patrons—so many that it can be hard to keep track of them all. But no longer! You can actually preview each pin-up in little galleries! Patrons and non-Patrons alike can know exactly what’s available and where to find it.

And speaking of our awesome Patrons, I want to to send out a very special thank you and welcome to our new Patrons this week!

Randy, Risa, An B., and Jeremy W.

(Thanks, y’all!)

And I’d also like to thank the totally awesome reader who was already a Patron, but who upped their pledge this week:

Lisa G.

(Thank you so much, Lisa!)

Thank you all so much for your amazing support! You and the other Patrons are all the real superheroes of this comic!

So! Hi, Cory! Good to see you. What do you think about a little ride-a-long with the infamous Spooky Jones? Where do you think this night will take you? And how do you feel about “just being friends” with Mitch?

Tune in this Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

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Hey! I _like_ short dark & fluffy! 😉

To the Spookymobile™!
Mystical batteries to power!
Flyboy to speed!

Hey! I _like_ short dark & fluffy! 😉

To the Spookymobile™!
Mystical batteries to power!
Flyboy to speed!

this page. 😀 😀 😀 The Spookymobile!! Spooky “I’m Pretty and I Know It” Jones! “Short dark and fluffy”!!!!!
and… “guys like me”. REPRESENTATION! FLIPPING! MATTERS!!!!

Ok, Cory is just adorbs.

Hey! I _like_ short dark & fluffy! 😉

To the Spookymobile™!
Mystical batteries to power!
Flyboy to speed!

Don’t recall the series, uhm, Atomic batteries to power, engines to full speed?

I do like the reference tho!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJZbef8eYO8

ROTFLMBAO! Bam! Biff! Pow!

I also find myself wondering if the fact that Cory’s outfit (black coat, light hoodie) inverts Spooky’s usual outfit (tan coat, dark hoodie) is a coincidence, an homage, or something more symbolic….

Hum. I am not that observant. I will admit, with flyboys outfit, tights, face mask ensemble, goggles, there is limited variations in what his chosen outfit combos would look like unless he goes “civilian”!

Thank you for that Index, Alex. Makes it much easier to find some art again, maybe things forgot about/missed somehow.

This page went straight to my Top5 of pages ever 😀 I love it.
So sweet, so funny, lots of friendly/brotherly support, yet still full of info. Also unspoken things like Spooky doing magic.

A little bit sad about the Mitch and Cory staying platonic friends. Let’s see how long that last, once things get more settled.

Speaking of spooky doing magic, that’s interesting. The spiky silver bowl and blue-white Light are a lot more Platinum Priestess aesthetic than the magic we usually see out of Spooks. Picking up some tricks from the Witch maybe? Or maybe a clue about the source of the shard…

To me both the bowl and the light effect look very similar to what he used to find the hell gate ritual:

https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ/ete-ch3-page-34/

It might actually be the same bowl.

According to the Script page, it is the same

Oooh, true.

And the Hell Gate *Was* PP

So I still think she’s involved

Spooky can work magic of both types.

CHECK!
It would make things awkward, live in teenage lovers under the parents roof? What to do if you have a blow-out? Even a minor one? Go to your room?

Just friends is a real likely story to keep their freedom in the relationship. I remember all the “friends” I had over for “sleepovers” in High School…

Hum. Does spark a memory or two. Shared sleep-overs and whatnot.

n’awww I mean I get it but I’d love to see Mitch and Cory find back to maybe a bit more than platonic friendship at a later point x3

When I read “Spookymobile” at first I was like “where to get his number???” x’D

also jeeeez I had to laugh so hard about Cory’s shyness then I was charmed as usual by Spooky’s confidence and completely done for by “short, dark and fluffy” this will be one of my all time favourite pages!!

Indeed. This may be one of the best non-combat pages ever made.

BTW, Alex… you a Gabriel Iglesias fan? 😉

The New Page is up:
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ3/doublecross-ch1-page-13/

Fluffy?

Nonpatreons have to wait 3 days to find out which conditioner Spooky uses.

Gabriel Iglasies? I can’t remember his name well but a comic that said ” I am not fat, I am fluffy”!

Yes……I recall he uses “fluffy” for an all “round” tag.

yup. lol. that too

Panel 3 is a callback to the panel in Engaging the Enemy ch3 p3:
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ/ete-ch3pt1-page-3/
where Flyboy is taking Spooky and Fluke to Kyle.

Callback? In what way sir? Two folks in the gnomemobile being flown by Mitch?

yes

To acknowledge the sheer power of the dark, short and fluffy, vote here:

http://topwebcomics.com/?searchterm=the+young+protectors

And don’t forget Artifice: http://topwebcomics.com/?searchterm=artifice

Fluffy…that’s what I’m calling my extra weight from now on. Fluffy! And Spooky is hot, especially with his fluffiness. I can’t imagine a non-fluffy Spooky!

I really like how down to earth Spooky is. & I like that Cory was star struck. Really like how realistic this conversation is. Nice writing Alex.

Panel 3, short flyaway hair, startled expression! Love it!

Hmmmm. The lights are on but the engines not home? LMBO. Just wondering why the lights on the “Spookymobile(?)” are drawn as on during the daytime? LMBO, maybe short, dark and fluffy hero’s like to highlight their entrances?

Daytime running lights. He probably has the tunes on.

hummmm. The car seems to be a model too old for that but. Ok. Magic realm rules.

VFR

Can anyone remind me how fast Flyboy can move? I know he can break the sound barrier, but is there any indication (either in-comic or from the powers trading card (which I have, but cannot recall where I stored just at the moment) if he can break Mach 2?

Why? Oh, I’m just trying to figure out how much of the Rule Of Cool needs to be used to justify him gearing up in an armoured spacesuit, flying into low Earth orbit, and catching satellites. Nothing important…

Fast enough to create booms:
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ/ete-flyboy-bonus-page-34/

Mitch in Space!!!

Not just Mitch in space. Mitch doing awesome things in space.

The problem is, the orders of magnitude are intimidatingly large. Low Earth orbit speeds are high teens of thousands of mph – and even using a handwavium combo of eagle vision to see incoming stuff, supersonic speed, and his new trick from the solo story of making anything that ‘hits’ him something that he automatically carries and bringing it into his own inertial frame of reference… Well, let’s just say it’s conceivable he could do it, but I’d want backup from the rule Rule Of Cool, plus Fluke’s luck to keep anything from tearing the spacesuit.

From his power card
Max speed: Mach 2
Time to Mach 1: 6.3 seconds
Max payload: No limit yet found

Hello Campers,
Page #13 tonight. Are we triskaidekaphobic? Will our boys discover something sinister? Or will the early spring bloom with March Hares, April showers, and the Lusty Month of May flowers?

I do hope this turns out good.

So do I

I wonder what this sphere celestiale is like. Is it portable? And related to that, is Velliok only after Spooky, or does he mean to get hold of the sphere?

Did anyone else get the Batman scene-cut sound effect in their heads between the first and second scenes?

edit: this one: youtube.com/watch?v=DKq4uoGdnFw

See you next week. Same Spooky time, same Spooky channel.

Sunhawk prime. That does not sound like one who suffers from low self esteem.

Or someone who does but tries to compensate

An undercompensated superioritity complex.

Indeed, he does not.

Off to a flying start! Spooky knows how to break the ice — ‘short, dark and fluffy’ — guys like us. The right words at the right time.

That’s our Spooky. 🙂

Flyboy is doing a lot of hard work before they even get to the scene. I hope he won’t be exhausted.

He normally flies their whole hover transport thing, this is probably easy

It is certainly no harder. 🙂

I think flyboy described it as pretty much anything he can touch and think he wants to lift, he can. That is in part how he tackled the tornado tower of magical meltdown from hell.

Mitchel is dark-haired, and shorter than Spooky.

For now. He is a growing super-hero after all!

I’m gonna guess wildly that Sunhawk Prime and Mitchell may be the Apollo and Midnighter of the TYP universe.

Also, it looks to me like Spooky’s using that eldritch bowl to do some sort of lodestone spell on the bone so the bone itself acts like a crude compass towards wherever it came from. Or maybe the bowl just helps to amplify the lodestone spell, since I imagine the affinities involved might be really weak over large distances.

I think it’s super cute that Cory thinks so high of Flyboy that he names him as one of the shining stars. Hope Mitch don’t blush too much under his mask to concentrate about flying 🙂

Oh dear, I totally didn’t connect “Mitchell” to Mitch. I’m an idiot.

Haha, well Cory is the only one to regularly call him Mitchell that we have seen yet. I think it’s cute that he does that (probably a lot).

Of course it wasn’t Adam & Steve in the Garden of Eden. It was Adam & Stephen!

Indeed. Myself as well. I may need a mask to go with my wizard outfit now!

I was about to maybe mention it x’D no worries it can happen ^^

Is this page about Corey seeing Spooky as racially representative ?
( POC …skin tone? )

…Or is it, not all Heroes have Capes and Fly?
( Supermanx stereotype, Flights N tights? )
Or is it something else…?

A dark or broken background ?
( Attitude, personality type, history ? Neuroticism ? )

Telekinesis ? ( Similar power class? )

Edit Spooky answer: ( Body Type, not being a Gym bunny? )

What about/ which about Spooky makes Corey see him as a closer role model ?

maybe it’s a bit of all of that ^^

My impression is that Flyboy does not have anything dark or broken in his past.

Curious. Have I missed something that talked about Flyboy’s past other than he has rich parents? Or rather, I think that’s all I read about him. How does he explain his excursions to them I wonder? As a toddler, did he fly to the top of the cupboard for the cookie jar?

They’re fully aware of his activities!

hum. I know they support him (condoms and towels on the bed when his friend moved in!)but! what about the hero stuff? Or were you just being noise shaper and poking fun at the old wizard?

I take it to mean that Corey thinks of super heroes as being larger than life: muscled, good looking, looking good in tights… everything better than the average person. While Spooky comes off (aside from the confidence) as… average. Having a role model who is a little closer to normal can do a lot to help combat the self-doubt I’m sure he’s feeling about the idea of using his power for good.

Indeed. Cultural stereo types. “Barbie and Ken” anyone?

Corey has not been raised in a shall we say, ideal environment and would have had his cultural references severely limited by it. So, having his mind figuratively blown by Spooky’s mere existence is not that big a leap. He would most likely have been raised in some fashion (in this tale) to somehow he was a lesser human being because of his skin tone or cultural background. The supreme overlord knows we have enough of that in real life. Not surprising to find socio-cultural references creeping into fantasy tales as well. Kudo’s Alex.

I love “short, dark and fluffy”! That describes me so I know how he feels! Representation matters!

But what Axis of representation is Corey reaching along?

I’m referring to the short, brown and fluffy sentiment. While I’m sure this entire conversation has many layers to it, personally I was drawn to the surface level aesthetic part of this page.

And from all of us short dark and fluffy, male and female, we like seeing ppl like us. 🙂 TY.

OMG! I’m cracking up! …..Spooky describing himself as “Short, dark and fluffy.” Sounds more like me describing my fat dog.

It’s not a REAL superhero comic until someone flies carrying a car.

Seriously, is Flyboy using some kind of field to make this happen?

Did Mythbusters do an episode about car-carrying by supers? Seems like the kind of thing they would do.

Was looking for this on TVTropes, but they let me down.

Flyboy’s powers instantly give anything he touches momentum and direction to match his, no matter how heavy it is. so he can pull a lot of normally impossible tricks like catching falling people without hurting them, or swooping someone off the ground at the speed of sound… or flying a car without it falling apart.

Or flying the YP aircraft to save on fuel