[0279] Special Attack I
└ posted on Monday, 6 June 2011, by Novil
The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
- Larisa: We’re looking for a racccoon that–
- Lumberjack: If you want to see raccoons, go to the zoo. This is a restricted area!
- Sandra: Let me go!
- Lumberjack: You come along now! Your parents are already looking for you for sure.
- Cloud: You let her go right now, or…!
- Lumberjack: Or?
- Cloud: Or I’ll carry out one of Master Ye Thuza’s ten special attacks to cause surprisingly painful pain!
Go, Cloud, go!!!
…And LOLs for surprisingly painful pain.
i hope the one the next comic isn’t just a demonstration of one or ten of the moves
Surprisingly painful pain.
What a surprise.
Pain. That is painful.
Yup, nothing redundant there.
You’d think this guy would have enough sense not to grab a strange girl by the arm, especially when the lone guy in the trio might be her boyfriend
I wonder whether it’s going to be the well known ‘One thousand years of pain’ or is it just a diversion
OH COME ON! You didn’t title this comic “Limit break I”?!
I’ll carry out Master Ye Thuza’s special techniques for a suprisingly commenty comment!
In America’s sue-happy society, that lumberjack just scored himself a lawsuit and possible jail time, whether or not the three of them are in a “restricted area”.
I love how Cloud is totally channeling Scott Pilgrim in that last panel. ^.^
Hey now, I don’t care what the situation is, you don’t manhandle a child like that! Especially when you’re just a stranger to them!! This guy’s got some serious anger management issues! Or maybe he’s just a control freak. Whatever the case, I hope Cloud mollywhops him with a twig, or a pebble, or some other unlikely implement.
And that’s Cloud’s secret signal for Larisa to spray lighter fluid in his face and wave a flaming stick around.
Seriously though, who the heck just starts twisting a 12 year old’s arm without asking how they got there or how to get in touch with their guardian? He didn’t ask them to come with him for their safety, he just made like a thug with a ransom note to mail. The only time I can imagine somebody justifiably getting grabby is if the kid happens to be endangering themselves by poking deadly machines or standing under heavy loads.
The best threats are the short and sweet ones, though.
“Go ahead…make my day.”
“…or you’ll be wearing your rear end for a hat.”
Just like a “grown up” not to listen to what a kid’s trying to say.
Now, it can’t possibly be a real restricted area. Those have fences and guards.
And Cloud, don’t threaten to hurt him, just do it. With his “size advantage”, he’s not going to believe you can until you actually do.
@ Landbark:
They’re not trespassing. They’re lost. See the earlier reference to the lack of a fence or guards. Besides, if it’s a restricted area, who let the hunter in?
You hurt Sandra-sama-sensei-senpai-san-sama, and I don’t like that sorta thing
Cue an extended Predator parody where the lumberjacks try in vain to fight off the small, stealthy terror hunting them from the trees…
Cloud just pokes him, and the guy’s gonna fall onto the ground, writhing in pain!
furious cloud is now furious….
run lumber Jack!
3 things are now possible:
1- cloud will beat the lumberjack and the final fantasy Victory theme will play..
2- the lumberjack will Laugh really hard….and let the kids go…
3- the lumberjack will Laugh really hard….cloud won’t like it…he’s gonna beat the lumberack AND the final fantasy Victory Theme will play…
ha that’s probabily very obvious… but hey the kissing moment is about to start again (oh the bright side!)
I agree with moxie and wolfen. there is no reason for the lumberjack/construction worker to grab Sandra with that much force. The fact that there are female construction workers not withstanding, I would think that a male construction worker would be more genial towards children, and know better than to pick out the slowest/weakest member of a group to man handle… Additionally, I’m still trying to figure out how he picked her since she was sandwiched between Tweedle-dum and tweedle-firestarter in the previous panel and he was coming towards them from behind. If anything it’s more likely the trio would have escaped and he would have used is Cell/CB to let his co workers there were intruders before one of them would have been captured exiting the treeline.
Larisa: We’re looking for a racccoon that–
1. Talks
2. Got lost
Think we will ever get to know what was gonna come next ?
“surprisingly painful pain”?
That “Special Attack” isn’t a kick in the crown jewels, is it?
It’s Clouds mom we are talking about…
PS: Yes, I’m still alive. I just didn’t feel like commenting for quite a while… dunno why…
Cue the battle music!
I’d rage at the lumberjack like everyone else, but instead I just pity him.
Melanie wrote:
As Batman changed back into Bruce Wayne.
A thousand internets if you get the reference. 🙂
I petition the powers that be that the tag “Cloud being a BAMF” be added to this comic.
Well. There goes reasonable discussion. And it was the adult’s fault. How quaint.
@ Eridger:
Ahahahahaha! Dude, YES!!!
@ Wolfen:
And he’ll crunch the lumberjack’s head, in between his thighs.
Then Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s Black Knight, and Benito Mussolini, and the Blue Meanie, Cowboy Curtis and Jambie the Genie, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader, Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan
All come out of nowhere lightning fast…
Well, Mr Lumberjack is quite right. The kids shouldn’t be here.
Painful pain is much pain, but surprisingly painful pain is much more pain, indeed…
Does it has sense?
Oh, I got to see this. *sits back with popcorn and waits for the inevitable ass-kicking*
@ Wolfen:
Hey, that’s from Ultimate showdown of Ultimate destiny, I just fav’d that on youtube then xD
Such an awesome song isn’t it? 😛
Not just regular pain, SURPRISINGLY PAINFUL pain.
‘Tis going to be awesome.
Grabbing a child’s arm like that even to pull them out of a dangerous area can get you put on the sex offenders list, I met someone who pulled a kid out of the road after she almost got hit and he ended up on it.
“Judge me by my size, do you?… and well you should not, for my ally is the Woo.” Besides where does that ignatz lumberjack think that raccoons come from anyway? Sandra should have soooooo chomped him on the arm or raked his shin with the side of her foot then stomped down on his instep above the steel toes of his boots. I keep thinking how one kid really stuck it to a pair of crooks in the Home Alone series and these three (plus Woo) are a good Mini-MacGuyver team in their own right. I’m beginning to pity the lumberjack for the ultimate can of whup@$$ that is going to be opened up on his rear end very shortly.
Im not Ok with seeing adults as “bad” and kids as “victims” (hell, sometimes a 12 year old is more dangerous than a 20yo) but no matter how old they are there is not reason to treat them like that, is just rude. Treating them as criminals just for the fact of standing there, bad lumberjack you are going downs.
Wait… is it me or are three of clouds fingers not shaded in… whatever, kick his !@&$%^#$$$%^@@!# cloud!
QUICK! Put on an epic boss theme!
Why was my first reaction to this saying “Your mom is a restricted area”, to my screen, aloud?
Headdesk.
@ Halconnen:
/deskface
Oh, Cloud. <3
A good old kick in the nuts is always surprising. And painful. And it doesn´t require you to have been raised up as a badass RPG warrior.
Why am I suddenly reminded of Hit Girl from the movie Kick Ass?
“This is a restricted area!”
I think he is right for the wrong reason.
What I don’t recall is if a forest location name was ever tossed out along the story arc. But, I just got the impression that we’ve found a trio of illegal fur trapper and deforestation lumberjacks inside a national park.
Which means that this is going to end with “…them meddling kids.” as a line, somewhere in the works. It’s like Scooby-Doo, only all grown up.
@ Wolfen:
“The fight raged on for a century. Many lives were lost. But, eventually. The winner rose up. The world saw the better…
…Mr. Rodgers in a blood stained sweater…”
(From memory. Might have errors.)
I want to make a shirt from that flash and those lyrics.
That sounds painful.
Its Time For some Mombo Kombo Foxtrot Martial Arts!