The Young Protectors—Spooky Jones: Past Sins—Page 26

August 17, 2018 Alex Woolfson 97 Comments

One newly-shrunken hero, going down!

Wow! I love what Adam and Vero did with this page! I love the layout, and how the action is portrayed-I can just feel it all, and it feels real, epic and exciting. I hope you like it too!

So! Anaado has just thrown Spooky out of harm’s way. But will Anaado really be able to take those worms on all by himself? And this is Hell we’re in! Where’s our hero going to land?

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

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NO TOSSING SPOOKY!

Hey. U got the v! Now u have more than u had for typ ete. Congrats. U might catch up with Danish.

^_^ I can hope!

Nobody does drama like a demon does drama.

If throwing him saved him that’s OK….I just wish he would get over the “You owe me” routine.

Anaado, I 100% believe you that this was super awesome the first time you did it, and you deserve major props for it.

But this time? This time you’re saving Spooky from danger you purposely put him in. Not awesome, no props.

Ah, I think I see. I had interpretted Anaado’s statement on the previous page as being in a present-speculative tense in some sort of emotional manipulation: “I’ve just summoned worms, and I could walk away right now, but I won’t.” Instead he seems to be referring to Spooky’s arrival way-back-when and a hellish version of a meet-cute where Anaado saved Spooky.
What I’ve having trouble figuring out is whether the bit where he grabs Spooky and throws him out of the way is a flashback, or happening now as a rougher-than-the-previous-time reprise of Anaado saving Spooky.
And of course, can we trust the currently-cranky Anaado to not misrepresent what happened way-back-when?

re the first paragraph, I think it’s both.

Anaado? More like Anaad-NO

…Sorry, I’ll leave now

Not the first re-enactment overly burdened with retroactive interpretations…!

But I’d say it’s pretty much run its course, as far as it goes.

It’s a brilliant action page, indeed, and at the same time it shows Anaado angrily acting out from his own pain!

Yep. 🙂

Well my opinion on Anaado still has not changed. At first glance, this seems like a bad reaction from a spurned lover, but there is more to it then that. Based on his dialogue and actions, Anaado has several sociopathic tendencies. He enjoys Spooky weak and malleable and cant stop saying that he would never have survived without him. I do think Anaado loves Spooky, but in an extremely dominant way. There are several ways Anaado can find redemption by the end, although I really hope he doesn’t because he is a shining example of how lethal emotional abuse is. The human body can survive a beating, but a beatdown of the soul is something that can be much harder to come back from….

Yeah. Well put.

Yup, not love.

this is an amazing page! super well done
i kinda get what anaado is doing here, but he definitely misunderstands the situation. spooky didn’t “forget” anything, and anaado knows that years have passed but can’t grasp just how MUCH can happen in that time. and i don’t think putting spooky in danger only to “save him again” is truly going to win you any points, anaado. also, you just tossed him aside, i don’t know or trust just how safe he is now rolling away like that in the middle of HELL

I think we can bet on “Not very safe… ” 🙂

That also looks more like Anaado is tossing him away and not tossing him OUT of the way.

I don’t know whether this arc is intended to convince the reader that Spooky belongs with Kyle and not Anaado, but I think that point is made by now. #safetyforSpooky

This is a really great page layout. It gives a strong impression of speedy motion.

I think so too, Klaus. I really like what Adam did here.

Strangest dates ever! At least it’s not boring and they do got things to talk about… like safe word!

Ha! That’s awesome. Well played, Sapfo. 🙂

They should really think it over 😉

Boy, when Anaado wants to teach a lesson, give reminders, he sure go full out and hands on.

Spooky is lucky he heals fast, or he’d be seriously bruised the following day. I envy his ability to heal (I always have bruises somewhere), but not the situation he needs it now.

…and yes, Alex. Just when you think that Adam and Vero can’t possibly make a page more spectacular than what we have already seen, especially the last few pages, they go and make tjis one.

To quote a semi-famous Danish make-up artist, who always use these words: I LOVE IT.

Glad you love the page, Danish. 🙂

And yeah, no half measures for our demon boy here…

Anaado, you get NO POINTS for bailing Spooky out of a situation you created. And Spooky BETTER land in a safe place, or there will be a special kind of Helll to pay from the audience!

NICE art on those bottom two panels. It’s almost like those 3D GIFs.

Did you ever look at a page that wasn’t meant to bring you to tears and just burst into tears? That’s me and this page because I feel like Spooky right now in my life. Someone who used to know so much about something or some place and then it was ripped right away, leaving me powerless.

Recently, my first coach/mentor/founder and owner of my NFP unexpectantly died. The NFP was taken over by the directors, who turned out to be, well, Harpies to say the least. They fired my coach after my lesson apparently and they won’t give back two horses that belong to my coach’s barn – where I am now attending. One of those horses is the horse I have been rehabilitating personally the past eight months, Abby.

Nick (the coach that passed away), my other former coach, my current coach and numerous volunteers all jokingly refer to Abby as “my horse” as I’m the only person she will hug, kiss and lay her head into my shoulder for comfort. I know the minute I look at her how she is feeling. Abby knows the sound of my car’s engine. This horse is literally attached to me and I’m kind of attached to her. I was promised that I would continue to work with her if I went with my coach as she is a Galway horse. She is NOT there. My mom, my coach and I are all actually being frozen out by the director and anyone else when we call or e-mail trying to learn of her condition which is concerning as she doesn’t handle change well. The only way I’ve learned anything is through my former coach and “fine” can mean a whoooooole lot of things in Larry terms. I want to know if my horse is okay.

(This post not sponsored by ranting equestrians obsessed by their horses.)

Sorry to hear this, Kate. *Hugs*

Now that is really bad news.

It is, but none of us who care about her are going to give up until she’s where she belongs. I won’t give up. I care way too much about Abby. I will call every damn day if I have to.

Those worms look so sad. “B-b-but that was our prey! That was our food and we didn’t even have a chance to instagram it and you THREW IT AWAY!”

Once the worms get over the shock, you just know they’re gonna downvote the shit out of this restaurant.

Totally. 🙂

Being cast down into a pit, never a good sign in any relationship

another visuL PUN

This is not the Pit of Despair from The Princess Bride nor is it the Biblical casting out of Lucifer who fell for nine days. This is something in between those two extremes. . . Like Anaado’s pity party of rejection for having been left in the Hell dimension for many years.

Uh, Anaado? Maybe don’t toss aside the Spooky, you’re much stronger than you used to be, you’re gonna hurt him.

Yep.

Last shot of Anaado has him flame-prepping. Is giant hellworm on the menu now? They look mightily confused! (And those are Kyle’s flames! Give them back!)

I think Anaado might be having too much fun with them to give them back. 🙂

“DO YOU THINK I’D RISK MY LIFE FOR JUST ANYBODY IN SWEATPANTS, A SCHLUBBY BLUE SHIRT AND A BUZZ CUT? WELL, DO YOU?!!”

I am sorry. I am getting lost in the tale. Page at a time is getting to me I am afraid.

Um…what?

I really don’t like emotional blackmail ;____;

Me, neither.

I completely missed that Anaado literally shrunk Spooky, I just thought it was a costume change for nostalgia or something, oy #perspectivefail
this is terrible horrible no good very bad (my booyyyyy DDD: ) i am of course willing to believe Spooky has a can of badass/level-up around somewhere, but I ALSO know that would probably be too tidy…

Right now it’s more that Anaado is bad, and an ass!

What a dick; now he’s USING our poor Kyle’s power to make himself look cool. That’s KYLE’S demon prince power you’re abusing!!!!

Maybe he’s using Kyle’s power to make a point. You make a promise to somebody you keep it. You don’t shack up with a demon prince while your friend is tortured in Hell.

Go Anaado!!! Show the Spook that you don’t just break a promise just become some ginger bats his eyes at you!!

Im really sick of Fuck-naado

I wish Kyle would wake up and expel Anaado from his body or something! He’s a demon prince. They’re in HELL! Surely the worms/demons would listen to Kyle and just go away. I assume most demons are able to sense their own royalty, even if they look human. If I were a demon and sensed the son of Laampros hanging around, and then saw him and he ordered me to leave, I’d get the Hell (no pun intended) out of there. I wouldn’t want his daddy pissed at me for harming his ‘precious son’.

Yep. If only they knew whose body up there they were trying to eat…

if demon boy is using kyle’s powers – i’m guessing that kyle’s dad – the demon king- will sense it/kyle_ and since anaado de-aged and de-powered spooky_ i’m gonna guess that spooky may even ask or have 2 make a deal with the king in order 2 save his prince (& himself) _
_ and the demon king will b especially angry and vengeful 2 the common demon that dared 2 take the prince’s power & body. anaado will long 4 the days he was relatively safe in his crystal prison..
_ but when kyle does make an appearance- and having known anaado through their body sharing- i’m guessing kyle will be the noble hero that he always is and will plead mercy for anaado– after all, kyle knows through 1st hand experience that his demon daddy likes young- pretty, demon boys- maybe anaado’s ‘punishment’ will b 2 b the king’s new bed warmer-
__ good stuff-

Good speculations. Guess it depends on which hell dimension they’re in, as Laampros is one of the kings of hell. We only got a brief look, so this could be elsewhere in Laampros’ dimension, but this looks slightly different than what we saw in his.

I just remembered that Laampros didn’t know of Spooky until he arrived to earth. Maybe Spooky didn’t register as ‘an abomination’, until he got back to earth and much more powerful, or he could have been elsewhere in hell and/or Laampros’ dimension.
The factor would likely be, as you suggested, whether or not Laampros will notice Anaado/Kyle’s new energy in hell.

Laampros only noticed that ‘maggot’ when he became aware of his son’s feelings for Spooky.

I’m still thinking it’s a living memory they visit, much like the Ghost of Christmas passed showing Skrooge how he was. It can get very vivid and real, but it’s not actually happening now.

If the walls of blood and pain break down, Earth will go back to being just another circle of Hell. I take this to mean that Hell is several times larger than Earth, at the very least. Laampros is one of the more powerful kings of Hell. So one of many. It is likely that the parts where he has power are far away.

Interesting speculation, Ant-Man.

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Thank you for the heads up, Ant-Man. I don’t see myself setting up an alternative payment site, but there’s always my store if folks want to support in a different way. And they get something cool sent to them in return. 🙂

I might be the only one, but I feel for Annan.

He feels wronged and betrayed. We can all relate to that.

No, you’re not the only one, but he’s really pushing it!

I really don’t feel for him, and I feel like I’m the only one too xD…

Come on Anaado, stop flexing!

Roller coaster of emotions here.

I hope Spooky is okay. He got thrown pretty hard. Maybe Anaado will use Kyle’s fire against the worms. That would work. Not a good situation for Spooky.

We shall soon see. 🙂

I had the chance to see this page (And several others) on the new, new, MacBook Pro with the higher quality 15 inch monitor. It’s stunning. The colors are more vivid, the linework pops out, and the dimensionality of the work shows through. Now this (my current) MacBook has a “Retina” monitor but that new monitor puts this to shame when it shows off these pages.

If you get a chance to see the new MacBook in a store, surf up The Young Protectors – Legendary and scroll through the pages. It will be a treat. Adam and Vero’s work stands out wondrously.
Just don’t look at the price.

So jealous and happy for you Dave.

Hello Campers,
What fate awaits tiny spooky and giant snakes?

Hopefully a good one for Spooky and a bad one for Hell Worms.

I don’t think anyone would cheer for the worms.

Sometimes, in the dark of the night, I find myself cheering for the worms.

Alex? They have counseling for that I think.

LMBO!

Heya Doki. I agree with u.

Evening!

Good evening to u 2!

If Anaado is trying to instill some type of Stockholm Syndrome (by getting Spooky to be grateful to Anaado for resolving a situation that Anaado set up) then Spooky will roll to the bottom of the incline with only a few minor cuts and bruises. There Spooky will be expected to wait and watch Anaado deal with the worms, but in practice he won’t because he’s Spooky effing Jones.
If Anaado has another motive, or if he’s simply being careless, then I have no idea.

I think Anaado is trying to hard to give Spooky a guilt trip “just because!”

I hope Spooky can somehow befriend a giant demon bird and get it to eat the worms.

Or… Maybe we find out where not-a-bear and PP went

You just now that If Spooky was wearing his trenchcoat, that he’d have a bottle containing a giant demon bird that he had pokemonified for just such an emergency 🙂

I know! *Sigh* from now on he has to either wear it at all times or find some other storage solution. A necklace maybe?

Page up:
http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-27/

This whole “Spooky getting rolled down a hill” thing would never have happened if Anaado hadn’t sent him back to pre puberty…… Hello everyone!

Hi Wayne

Hi Wayne!

*Note to self: must be careful when thinking and typing out loud the weird thoughts that go through your mind!

How much longer……or should I just give up and check in later in the day?

no clue

Sorry, I have no E.T.A.

10 til 1 AM here and I have some stuff to do upstairs……finger dance and what not (Polka finger and see what my blood sugar is doing).

few years

Script and pencil pages have just been posted to patreon emails. Presumably the webpage post will be Real Soon Now.