The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 36

June 11, 2019 Alex Woolfson 33 Comments

I don’t usually go for physical humor, but when Adam sent me the thumbnail for this page, I must have cracked up for 3 minutes straight. WHACK! 😀

It’s my great pleasure to send out another, very special Woolfpack anniversary “thank you!” to the superheroes of this comic who have been supporting our work month after month!

First let me thank a pack member who has been supporting our work for the last 12 months as of this week (June 9-15):

Luke D.

(You totally rock, Luke!)

I’d like to send out a big thank you to members of the Woolfpack who have been supporting our work for 24 months of this week (June 9-15):

Cuarzo, Daniel, Ryan, Jeremy E., Liren F., Beldro M., Robert M., Dave N., Bjarte S., and Chris V.

(Two years of support! Thank you so much, Cuarzo, Daniel, Ryan, Jeremy, Liren, Beldro, Robert, Dave, Bjarte, and Chris!)

And a heroic thank you as well as for Woolfpack members who have been supporting our work for 36 months of this week (June 9-15):

Jonathan F., Eugene M., and W. M.

(Three years of support! Thank you so much, Jonathan, Eugene, and W.!)

And let me also send out my biggest howl to those members of the Woolfpack who have been supporting this comic and our work from the very beginning!

These are the awesome readers who have been supporting me and this comic for 48 months (4 years!) as of this week (June 9-15):

William L. and Alessandro R.

Thank you so much, William and Alessandro! Y’all are so awesome!

Thank you all so much for your amazing, ongoing support! It’s the consistent support that is what really allows me to continue making this comic. You all truly are superheroes!

(Want to make sure this comic continues? Would you like to have access to special benefits like extra-sexy pages with our characters, exclusive Young Protectors pin-ups, behind-the-scenes scripts and art, and sneak preview pages? Please take a look at my Patreon page and join me and your fellow awesome readers as part of The Woolfpack on Patreon!)

So! Seems like Spooky does have a few new tricks up his sleeve! And look at that smile on his face! Ah, it’s the simple things, right? The question is: will it be enough?

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:
June 7, 2019
The CURSE of high heels grabs the Platinum Priestess and has it way with her!
bronakopdin says:
June 8, 2019
I’m so glad that Spooky could avoid the void and was even able to strike back!
Yet it feels a bit like it’s going tooooo well? Aleeeeex? What is your mischievous brain planning here?
Klaus says:
June 8, 2019
She has very good conditional reflexes. Whatever happens, hold on to the staff.
alexwoolfson says:
June 8, 2019
dave.fragments.dc:
The CURSE of high heels grabs the Platinum Priestess and has it way with her!
Ha! But I suspect she would still be vulnerable to this attack even if she wore sneakers…
bronakopdin:
What is your mischievous brain planning here?
Puppies and rainbows. As always.
Klaus:
Whatever happens, hold on to the staff.
It’s just so gosh darn useful.
dave.fragments.dc says:
June 8, 2019
alexwoolfson:
Ha! But I suspect she would still be vulnerable to this attack even if she wore sneakers
I often times rate movies with a “High Heel” absurdity and anachronism count - for instance, Naomi Watts in King Kong 2005 running several blocks of NYC and climbing a ladder on the outside of the Empire State Building without breaking a heel.
Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World rivals Watts.
w_period_r_period_cl says:
June 10, 2019
LMBAO! You guys are a hoot! “Whatever happens hold on to the staff”! Great life advice if ever I have heard any! The Curse of high heels? Sounds like a 40’s horror flick! This place is a riot. I am very glad I am a patron.
JujYFru1T says:
June 12, 2019
A+ one-liner, Spooks mah boyyy
“Spooky used Vine Whip! It’s super-effective!” (surely u didn’t expect to stop with Poke-references wherever possible~?)
As for PP… oof, that’s gonna leave a bit of a mark, innit. Hopefully this will buy some time at the very le-- OH MY GOD IF SHE GETS KNOCKED OUT WHAT IF THE PORTAL STILL DOESN’T CLOSE??? Looks like the source of power got cut off, that better do the trick.
alexwoolfson says:
June 14, 2019
JujYFru1T:
Hopefully this will buy some time at the very le-- OH MY GOD IF SHE GETS KNOCKED OUT WHAT IF THE PORTAL STILL DOESN’T CLOSE???
Maybe we’re about to find out…

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Aaaand… there goes her dental work.

This is a connection I am willing to approve

Delete me.

I don’t think it will be enough.

And someone needs to close up that rift in the sky. If we’re lucky, Spooky can send some disposable demon in there and hope that will automatically close it, assuming it’s a one-use portal. Otherwise, … how long will it take for Earth to lose all its atmosphere?

I’d expect that the rift needs to be kept open actively and without any more magical energy injected it snaps shut again.

Maybe. Maybe not. The portal that returned Spooky from Hell was made using his own blood, and if I understood it right, that portal would have stayed open indefinitely until Spooky went through. The bone circle portal that Laampros used to get to Earth also stayed open until he was pushed back through; only then did it close. The portal that the Priestess opened for the laser bear closed after the bear went through. And the portal that Priestess opened for herself closed after she went through, and probably not conscious either.

So, uh, I don’t fully understand the rules, and each portal can be made differently and be an exception, but so far as I can tell, the best way to close a portal is for someone to actually use it.

You’re right: It’s not just cut-and-dried like I proposed. But it feels somewhat logical that there would be some energy needed to keep it open. But whether that is actually true remains to be seen.

Assuming you’re right, though, like if the Priestess now takes a tree-side nap and stops expending keep-portal-open energy, it’s possible that the portal will close slowly, rather than instantly. Sort of like turning off a stove burner doesn’t make the burner immediately cool. There could be a little delay time while the forces of normal physics slowly assert themselves.

It would take a very long time. This portal tiny compared to the earth.

Maybe Cory can toss a bad guy in there? It could happen! 🙂

For speed of Earth losing its atmosphere: Will probably take a very long time. The XKCD webcomic episode had one of its “serious answers to absurd questions” series and tried to figure out what would happen if someone stuck a 10 metre portal gate at the bottom of the ocean: https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
Quick answer: it would take many thousands of years for the water to drain because of the sheer volume, but during that time the pressure would be enough that if an aircraft carrier sank and got stuck against the portal it would fold up and be sucked through.

Despite the differences between air and water, the volume involved is back-of-envelope kinda-sorta similar. I would certainly hope that the Priestess’ portal shrinks away to nothing in way less than that time (as per discussion below). A flow of air consistently rushing through at even a large fraction of the speed of sound (as in, several times faster than force 5 hurricane winds) would cause a lot of damage in the immediate area, and I would expect to strip the landscape down to bare bedrock comparatively quickly.

THE POOR TREES. The tree abuse continues.

Sircea, why must she be so resiliant that Spooky has to keep breaking trees, to knock her out?
Yup, not a speckle of me feeling sorry for her.

Since the Platinum Priestess was able to survive being blasted through those trees earlier, then I doubt being slammed against a single one will do much damage now. (Possible exception, if her magical defences are somehow ablative in nature, and Spooky hopes that eventually he’ll just wear them away with repeated beating.)

With that in mind, I really hope that Spooky is revealed to have a Cunning Plan ™ where all this physical fighting is just a distraction to keep the Priestess off balance while he implements his main game.

He’s pretty much destroyed her outfit, so I think that a whack against a tree is par for the course! “WHACK!” Bwahahaha!

Oh my god I laughed so hard. That must have hurted 😡

Reminds me of a Charles Simic poem they had on the NYC subways:

Every morning I forget how it is.
I watch the smoke mount
In great strides above the city.
I belong to no one.

Then, I remember my shoes,
How I have to put them on,
How bending over to tie them up
I will look into the earth.

PP had forgotten how it is; Spooks helped remind her. “Thinking of Jupiter? Here, focus on earthly things, like this tree!”

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Now, will he stop at just one tree or is PP going for an extended ride? XD

So far Spooky seems to b doing well in this fight with Sircea. I’ll feel better though when I see him safely on the ground & away from the portal.

Hello Campers,
Is there fight left in our evil wizardess or is she beaten?

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