The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 17

April 9, 2019 Alex Woolfson 50 Comments

I’m sure you guys won’t need back up or anything…

This comic is only possible because of the continuous support of our awesome Patrons, so it’s my great pleasure to send out a very special Patreon anniversary “thank you!” to the real superheroes who have been supporting our work month after month!

First let me thank our Patrons who have been supporting for the last 12 months as of this week (Apr 7 – 13):

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And a bit, lurking monster of a thank you as well as for a Patron who has been supporting for 36 months of this week (Apr 7 – 13):

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Here are all the awesome Patrons who have been supporting me and this comic for 48 months (4 years!) as of this week (Apr 7 – 13):

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So! Is this all just a wacky coincidence? If there are no evil magic users around, will they find something else on these church grounds? And if they don’t… will it find them instead?

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

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Comments From The Young Protectors Community

dave.fragments.dc says:
April 11, 2019
To my mind, the overhead view in panel 1 gives the entire page a sinister tone because it feels like someone or something is spying on Spooky and friends.
QueBijoux says:
April 12, 2019
That’s an interesting observation!
I also liked when someone pointed out the cross is upside down, which adds to the sinister feeling.
However, I still liked Flyboy’s panel best.
dave.fragments.dc says:
April 12, 2019
I just finished Neil Gaiman’s NORSE MYTHOLOGY and the two ravens - - Huginn and Muninn - who Odin uses as spies - - - - The question that came to my mind was why are we looking down on our trio? It is a POV thing. Whose eyes are we seeing this story through?
JujYFru1T says:
April 13, 2019
- A chill breeze rustles the treetops.
- You feel uneasy.
  *But…
  *Thinking of the person you’re trying to save feels you with Determination.
No I don’t know why my Undertale trash brain decided to pipe up on this page.
anyhow~ I do like our new forums and I’m happy to be here
alexwoolfson says:
April 13, 2019
Thank you, Julia! It’s great to see you here. I always love to see your comments.

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WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT, DO YOU GUYS SEE THAT??? There, in panel 1 and 4? Mitch is a toe-walker, just like I had suspected aaaaaall those chapters ago which is why he has those boots. MWA HA HA HA HA HA.

Now, many of you are probably thinking, “Why Kate, how do you get toe walker out of that?” Posture and foot placement. You cannot keep your balance well when you toe-walk, hence why Mitch would have his arms spread. It’s the good ol’ “keeping my balance” toe walkers move. (For those of you who don’t know, I spend two years in fiberglass casts as a child – casts that went from my knees to the balls of my feet on BOTH LEGS – to train me to walk heel-toe and I still slip up into the ol’ toe-heel habit every once in a while. My mom yells at me when I do.)

Equestrian boots are odd in that the weight is placed in the heel. I had suspected Mitch wore specialized boots, that were more equestrian in style, to remind him to walk on his heels. Flying all of the time would make him more apt to point his toes, land on his toes, and walk on his toes. The weights in his heels would remind him to walk on his heels.

That’s interesting.

I think you are right about landing and lifting from his toes.

Spooky s word balloon covers Mitch’s feet in panel 4.

Short of the script I have an alternate/additional possible explanation.

In panel 1Mitch is hovering /landing.
In panel 2 he is standing.

I think in panel 4 his outstretched arms indicate he’s started hovering again… to be onguard in case he needs to immediately fly or extend his pk field.

It might also be additional protection of being knocked down or hit. I’m thinking he’s like a Weeble in Hovermode, where he might feel more vulnerable standing… The opposite of the rest of us.

Come to think of it, he does a lot of casual hovering/ casual use of his powers. Probably the most (next to the Commander ).

Another possibility is you are correct, he’s standing on his toes/leaning forward. But for a certain purpose…if not as a visual aid he’s lifting off/extending his field, I think it’s to position his ears higher.

Spooky just said “keep eyes open” , Mitch could take that as signal to use super hearing. This seems likely as it’s been overtly mentioned this comic.

Script for panel 1 has “Flyboy stands where he was, scanning..for threats.”(emphasis added)

Adam does not always follow the instructions to the letter. He is the artist, and if he finds that something slightly different looks better, he draws that.

All that being said, while panel 1 does appear to show Mitch touching down to join the group, he was definitely already on the ground prior to that scene. The entire previous page shows the three of them standing together, discussing Spooky’s memory (or lack thereof) about the church. So, landing is probably out. “Lifting off, to get a bird’s-eye view of the surroundings and scout for trouble”, maybe, if not for the script / panel 2 (as you point out).

(…Or, you know, Alex simply forgot what he drew on the previous page, and the first panel does show Mitch landing. These things happen!)

Yep, he was all ready on the ground. If he was hovering…there’d be a tiny shadow under him. He’s definitely standing. He’s like most flight birds…very awkward on the ground!

I think He was probably on the ground on the Previous page, but I went back to page 13 and before today we dont see his feet….for a while.

Cant really say whether he is hovering a few inches off the ground Arthur Dent style.

He could just be bouncing up and down like a low helium balloon

I dont have script reading powers. I defer to someone who does.

Its Adam that draws.

He does hover quite frequently, but if he’s hovering, there’s always a shadow under him. There’s no foot shadows or Mitch shadows, so he’s on the ground. Even when you look on the previous page, he’s not standing normally; the heels are slightly up which happens when the Achilles’ tendons are shortened from walking too much on your toes — your feet can no longer go into neutral. Neutral is 90 degrees with your leg. We’ve never seen Mitch do this. He’s always crouching, on his toes standing, hovering, or flying.

He’s very much like a wandering albatross, only he can’t figure out the human walking aspect. (To be fair, this took me six years. I still fail at the walking thing as I regularly trip over my own feet at 30 years old. Graceful on a horse; terrible on the ground.)

Its the lack of touching shadow touching his feet that makes it look like hes hovering.

but the shadows on this page are all weak ambiguous and inconsistent

I’m pretty sure he’s just hovering about a meter above ground – his feet aren’t actually touching his shadow below!

While I agree that it is not 100% clear (especially with how I placed Spooky’s word balloon in the last panel), the intention is that Flyboy is hovering, ready for action.

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How about monsters? Would he sense them?

Or, lions, tigers and bears! Oh, my!

The State of Pennsylvania has issued the “April Warning” of black Bears waking from winter’s hibernation. People are warned that real bears are not cuddly, cute, or in anyway adorable. They are hungry and you are food.

How to tell if a bear is a brown bear or grizzly: if it climbs the tree after you, it is a brown bear. If it topples the tree, it is a grizzly.

Only if they were using magic.

Suuure. Coincidence.

Y’know, there’s a real chance that the reason Spooky doesn’t remember what happened is because he didn’t want to remember something and cast a forgetting spell on himself and his assistant.

You’d think he’d leave himself a note. “We forgot on purpose, don’t go back there, you won’t like it” or something.

That does not seem like Spooky to me.

He’s sure he’ll sense a ‘crazy’ around a church/place where someone -or some thing- managed to delete whole blocks of memory? I would keep my eyes really open.

Or in Mitch’s case, every super-sense. Spooky SO jinxed this trip already.

Spooky has that habit, doesn’t he? It’s never a straightforward trip when Spooky is around.

That makes life interesting

Maybe not coincidence, but WACKY?

Mmmmmmaybe.

I particularly like the look on Flyboy’s face in panel.3. You just know he’s scanning the area with his eagle sight and owl hearing, and I’m guessing that he hasn’t actually landed yet because he’s on orange-alert-ready-for-action-mode.

Yeah, I like him in ‘hover mode’ – prepared, wary. Good qualities for a junior superhero.

Yes.

When do they start digging? the artifact can not be “seen” so it must be buried.

Or indoors. Or just inconspicous.

Lmao I’m waiting for everything to get worse and worse.

What could possibly go wrong?

It could start raining.

Hmm. There’s an idea. I’ll see what I can do.

Mitch might be doing the right call here x’D I love how it really seems he learned a big lesson from the happenings with Cory and Diego ^^
Yet Spooky is confident an open eye would be enough… Let’s just try and trust in his senses then, hope dies last, right? ;’D

Hope dies last. That’s an awesomely appropriate phrase. 🙂

I love this phrase ^^

And of course is has nothing to do with the fact that my first name Nadin means hope :p

The overhead view in panel 1 gives the entire page a sinister tone because it feels like someone or something is spying on Spooky and friends.

So Spooky does believe in wacky when it comes to magic?

Spooky definitely believes in wacky when it comes to magic.

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What’s going to happen to our trio tonight?

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