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PANEL 1 AND 2

VELLIOK

HEH. SOMETIMES YOU REALLY COULD BE SUCH A CLEVER, LITTLE MONKEY.

PANEL 3

SPOOKY JONES

VELLIOK. OF COURSE.

VELLIOK

IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG, HUMAN CUB.

(cont)

SO, I MUST KNOW: WHAT GAVE ME AWAY?

PANEL 4

SPOOKY JONES

TO GO BACK TO EARTH WAS CERTAINLY SUSPICIOUS.

PANEL 5

SPOOKY JONES

YOU’VE HAD YEARS TO STUDY ANAADO. AND YOU WOULD’VE AT LEAST HEARD ABOUT KYLE, THE LOST DEMON PRINCE OF EARTH.

(cont)

BUT I BET YOU DIDN’T THINK YOU COULD PULL OFF APING THE REST OF MY FRIENDS, LET ALONE AN ENTIRE WORLD YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO. NOT FOR DAYS, YOU COULDN’T.

PANEL 6

VELLIOK

ALL TRUE. BUT I STILL HAD YOU THEN.

(cont)

SOMETHING ELSE TIPPED YOU OFF. SOMETHING… SPECIFIC.

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The Young Protectors—Spooky Jones: Past Sins—Page 54

November 20, 2018 Alex Woolfson 88 Comments

Enter Velliok!

(Please note: These are work-in-progress colors. I should have the final colors sometime tomorrow.)

Comixology has let me know that they have another one of my comics on sale: Artifice! The“Indie Sci Fi Sale” is already active and will run until Thursday, November 29th, and like their sale for The Young Protectors Volume One, it looks like they are discounting the book a whopping 33%. If you like taking advantage of all of Comixology’s special reading features, check it out!

ALSO, our Patreon has moved up $20/month over the last few days to $6164/month. We are now less than $850/month away from me breaking even again, and just $350 away from unlocking the sexy and fully nude pin-up of Kyle and Anaado by Travis Moore!

Without your support, this comic wouldn’t be here, and once we hit that break-even point, you’ll be able to ensure that it will be able to continue. So, it’s my great pleasure to send out a very special Patreon anniversary thank you to those who have been my Patrons for 12 months as of this week (Nov 18-24)!

Patrons for 12 months as of this week:

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Thank you all so, so much for your amazing, ongoing support! It’s the consistent support that makes Patreon so helpful to creators, and so essential to my ability to continue making this comic! You all are superheroes!

So! The mask is removed to reveal one of Spooky’s oldest enemies: Velliok, a King of Hell! (Please settle your wagers promptly with those who guessed correctly!) So, what does this mean for Spooky getting back home and to Kyle? What did tip Spooky off that this was all a lie? And what are these two going to do next?

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

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Well, he is not hot at all.

My compliments to the artist: Velliok looks (and dresses) a lot like actor Bernard Archard in the very spooky Dr. Who “Pyramids of Mars.”

Or a couple of Mark Sheppard characters mushed together – Bowler hat =and= black eyes! 🙂

Reminded me of a demonized John Steed.

I mentioned above … he looks like Mack the Knife. As played by Kurt Weil in the original film interpretation of Threepenny Opera.

Does he keep a knife out of sight, I wonder.

He surely will! The chains are there for good reasons!

I really like the lady mushroom. She seems like a fun gal.

I see what you did there.

Bahahaha.

Well.. hello there. I was very wrong about my PP guess, not that I mind one bit after this page, but at least my 3rd ‘suspect’ on my newest list was right LOL (l had Laampros as 2nd, a nose-hair before Velliok xD)
If *not* PP, I knew it had to be someone with powerful trickster skills, like a ruler of a hell dimension.

Spooky, being all cool, and getting served cocktails. Gotta love him (if I didn’t already). Now one of my favorite Spooky scenes, of the entire comic, despite the circumstances.

And Velliok. Interesting to meet him. I can tell him where he went wrong. Love and sacrifices. He doesn’t seem to be able to grasp that concept. Definitely something he didn’t get from studying Anaado for years.
This must mean that Anaado could still be alive, and trapped in Velliok’s prison. Alive, that’s a good thing, right?

I love that he’s drawn outside of the panel, like he’s now controlling the entire comic too. (“I defy the laws the comics! I shall be drawn outside of the panels, not in them.”)

Interviewing villains while sipping on fungi cocktails? Just another day in the life of Spooky.

I wonder if this is taking place while he had all those souls in his body and thus this is his fight back to Kyle. – thinks –

Veliok, didn’t get the Calligraphy treatment of his first name/ appearance.

I wonder if this is an oversight ( rather large for the comic )
Or a clue its not Velok, and this is another disguise ?

Maybe the “speak in logo font” superpower is particular to Kyle? On a more serious note, on both those occasions it was a startled exclamation. Spooky is very calm here.

More than 2.

You are forgetting “Spooky Jones”

Yes, I don’t remember that.

A mushroom lady in a bikini, because fungus ladies have some modesty too.

That and there’s kids.

Called it! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Now, the real question is, what happened to Anaado? My guess is that he is long gone, but not forgotten. If that’s the case, at least his memory is not tarnished in Spooky’s heart by this douche imposter.

And I miscalled it! (No Sircea.) I am ashamed. Who the hell is Velliok?

Velliok is the king of Hell who, according to the false Anaado, was very angry that Spooky escaped, and who kept Anaado prisoner. So presumably the one they were running from when Spooky escaped.

Thanks for that. But, have we met him before? I am confused

No, we have not. Only by the info given throughout this arc. He’s been mentioned a couple times.

I assume the real Anaado is still being tortured in his prison in Hell.

Veliok is the Mobster demon?

Black and grey are the colors of the House of the Jhereg, you know.

Don’t answer these questions, silly. You don’t want him to ace this shit next time.

I doubt he’d be able to even if Spooky broke it all down. If you don’t understand love you can’t mimic it o matter how tricky and clever you are.

Oh, believe me, it’s entirely possible to do, just as it’s really easy to mimic competence and qualification for public office, as long as you say the right words at the right time and act in specific ways.

Of course it breaks down eventually, but mostly when you don’t do the things you should be doing based on it not being an act.

But those aren’t in the script. As long as the human doesn’t look for anything past the script, they’ll remain fooled.

Narcissists are very good at following the pattern and script without actually understanding what they’re faking, and humans are good at lying to ourselves to fit our own expectations.

These are demons, they don’t even know what they should be saying.

What makes you think they don’t? There’s been absolutely no hint that the creatures in hell are ignorant of what goes on Earthside of the wall. They just can’t GET here unless someone summons them.

Spooky and Not!Anaado had a discussion about their love being a new thing in Hell. While obviously that was just to manipulate Spooky Spooky also didn’t consider it a false statement. So evidence would suggest love is so foreign in Hell that they’d have nowhere to learn how to fake it. Even this King only managed for so long because he kept Spooky panicked the whole time.

Two things: 1) hell is a recent invention, timewise. It was sealed off during the Platinum Priestess’ lifetime. The resulting change broke “magic” for most people. Demons may or may not be as short-lived as humans but the suggestion is that they’re immortal, or VERY long-lived, and the demon lords and bosses (and this jerk is definitely one of those) had plenty of time to see human love, and possibly to experience it in the human world where it’s more possible than in hell. 2) Once again, we don’t know how these demons get their information about Earth, and thus we don’t know anything about how extensive it is. If they are harvesting human souls? They can EASILY rip that information out of them and learn how it works. If they are WATCHING? They can EASILY learn and follow the scripts the same way that people who have severe narcissistic personality disorder do the same thing.
The way Not!Andy did his manipulation reads a lot like the latter.

“hell is a recent invention, timewise. It was sealed off during the Platinum Priestess’ lifetime.” Where do you have that from? It is said somewhere that if the walls broke down, earth would go back to being just another circle of hell. But it does not say how far back it was that earth was seperated from hell. My impression is that it was a very long time ago indeed. The Grey Working that broke magic is much more recent than that. It may have been the cause of the weakening of the walls.

My impression was that the hell dimensions had always existed but connection between those and Earth did not at all times.

I think the Grey Working was an attempt to hijack the walls and get moar power for certain mages (and might’ve been Tina playing games back then) but I am vaguely recalling a mention that the walls were created and THEN human civilization could start, and that was over 10 thousand years ago. and Tina was around well before civilization.

Kyle was never Kyle?

(In this arc at least)

I may be wrong, but I don’t think Velliok made pasta dinner and talked about Duncan. I think Kyle really was there at the start. But I am looking forward to finding out exactly which bridge Velliok crossed from Hell to reach Spooky.

Yes , Veliok actually opened a can of ChefBoyRDee.

Spooky already told him what it was. It was Anaado who told Spooky to save himself.

I think it was more than that.

I’m really glad it wasn’t the real Anaado being a dick, but I want to meet the real Anaado now.

*Gasp!* Old Man Jenkins?! and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that meddling adult.

At an amusement park, no less.

Oh crap, you’re right. I had worried that the revelation would done with an overt Scooby-doo style, with a literal ‘unmasking’ to drag the disguise of Veliok’s face. I didn’t notice the covert reference.

there’s nothing wrong with homage! it’s a clever set up.

So…. The real Anaado is dead? Orrr?

My first thought in these encounters is always: “No. Don’t tell your opponent how to beat you.” Good people always want to believe that, although the devil can quote scripture for his own ends, he can’t fake true love. Sadly, this is not true. We expect to see—as with this fake Anaado—the façade slipping, the impatience of evil giving way. In truth, though, the experienced evil can maintain true love’s façade for months—even years—providing only the tiniest hint of warnings while building a one-way bond of loyalty. This is how abusers trap, torment, and ultimately destroy seemingly intelligent, well-meaning spouses.

So my position is, no, Spooky, don’t tell him. Lie if you must, but don’t give away your one real advantage over monsters like this one.

I’m confused. Was this creep immitating Kyle the whole time? That’s erm… Very, very uncomfortable.

He couldn’t have. He would not know how to cook, or what Kyle looks like.

Why do you think that?

We don’t know anything at all about how much access or information about humanity the hell-trapped demons have. For all you know, every cat could be hooked up to a scrying pool so demons could see everything the cats see.

Not that I truly believe that to be the case here.

But then again, it’s a hell. Perhaps the ghosts of sufficiently depraved humans get sucked over there or something. And if they had NO access then there’s no way that demonFaker would have known even how to TALK to Spooky. Language has CHANGED since the walls went up.

Why do you think that?

Well, the conversation in the last two frames effectively confirms that, doesn’t it…?

Does it? Demons lie. They can just as easily lie about what they don’t know as what they do.

But in this case, my reply was to “he would not know how to cook or what Kyle looks like” — they’re not supported by evidence, just by the supposition that the demons have no view of Earth.

Well it looked fairly comfortable in the beginning.

*scratches head*

If Vellok has never been to Earth, how does he know how to dress?

He learned it from his English teacher.

I suppose, over the years, various small contacts with Earth people add up. Perhaps someone in the 1920’s found their way to Hell, and dressing like the newcomer was probably a fun fad at parties amongst the demon aristocracy, at least for a while. And maybe some demons really like the look enough to adopt it permanently, like the gangster planet in the original Star Trek tv series.

Mindreading

I’m pretty sure his clothes are supplied by Spooky’s World™️ now that the gig is up.

Last Sunday I went to a “phantastic beasts” cinema double feature in 3D… Now I want to read this comic in 3D and oggle at all the awsome creatures Alex, Adam and Vero came up with x’D including this awesome Mushroom Maid!!

*cough*

OK at least now we know (more or less) who we deal with… yet so many questions still unanswered >/////<

Spooky takes his interrogations seriously
by sipping on a nice cocktail
i love Velliok’s design, very simple and yet just screams “king of hell”
also i just love the background of everyone just having a good time while this is going on

Spooky, I know this is your parlor room scene, BUT DO NOT TELL HIM HOW YOU FIGURED IT OUT!

You might need to use that trick again, and it’s nice to see Velliok squirm wondering where he screwed up.

Seriously Spooks, don’t explain this for the audience’s benefit(unless you do it in a thought bubble, and only if he’s not telepathic).

Or in a flashback when you are explaining the interrupted sex to Kyle.

“You will never understand” will do nicely.

“Wouldn’t YOU like to know?” would also suffice.

Uh. Who or what is this?

What if this was Annado after all, just possessed by Velliok?

Anaado could have deliberately made errors to tip Spooky off.

I just realized…….Velioc calls Spooky “Human Cub” But I think he better respect “Human Cub” or Human Cub will kick his Demon @$$!

……what.
WHERE THE HELL IS KYLE. like ok did this Velliok guy take Anaado’s form from the beginning or was it really Anaado and he got grabbed?? eh, probably the first one but still, Possession-ception up in here @_@;;
and then there’s a mushroom maid. HOKEY DOKE. also I love panel 5??? Spooky: *angrily sips drink* hahahaha
probably while preparing to monologue which would be BAD, keep your deductions to yourself!! this douchenozzle needs to know precisely NOTHING.
PS: omg I just realized I can like Anaado now!! yay, I really wanted to~

OOOOOOK………I admit I don’t get out much…….but today I learned a new one……I’ve heard douche rag, he’s a douche, and douche canoe, but NEVER have I EVER heard ” douchenozzle” until today…..Thank you for making me smile.

ohoho, I forgot how much I love douche canoe~ yeah, I have no memory of where I picked up douchenozzle but it’s definitely a rare usage :B

New player enters the game!
Yes, what exactly was the big clue spooky… Tell us 😀

Velliok looks like some depictions of Mack the Knife (Mackie Messer, from Threepenny Opera.)

I feel like an impersonator’s symbol would definately have a hat in it.

So Spooky said they are not in Hell after all but the waitress suggests they are still not in Kansas, so where are they exactly?

Winter Waterland. A dreamscape created by Velliok as adjusted by Spooky.

Well isn’t that a dapper demon.

I love the way Spooky is casually enjoying his cocktail now that he has regained control of the situation.

How delightful is to watch the discussion of two intelligent peoples… well, one human and demon, actually.

Starfighter updated! http://starfightercomic.com/chapter_05_comments.php?page=Chapter_05_Page_71.jpg

This is the demon that Spooky had escaped?

At the very least they had had some encounter on Spooky’s previous visit to hell, given how familiar Spooky seems to be with him.

Hello Campers,
What bunch of lies will sprout from Velliok’s mouth today?

I washed too many dishes this week – I have dry, itchy hands from it.
I did eat very well on Thanksgiving.
Hope all you did too

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Love Velliok. Again, dapper serial killer, not what I expected.

No big giant ice demon or horned daddy demon, just a super creepy stalker serial killer type in a natty hat… Contrasts, love ’em.

He’s in chains. Spooky is sipping a really fruity drink. It even has a little umbrella.

But our Spooks isn’t taking his eyes off this creep for one second. Total laser focus. Spooky knows there’s an intricate plot here. It’s not about sheer power. It’s about creepy plans and he knows how careful he needs to be.

I love that Spooky has him talking. He’ll get the plan, even if Velliok seems like he’s in a bunch of green chains. Nope this isn’t about muscle, it’s about creepy brain cells and it shows on both their faces. A totally new demon. Love it.

Thank you three. It’s such good fun to see a battle of the brain cells between these two. Still (hee) Spooky IS the cute one. LOL.