[0740] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 18
└ posted on Monday, 30 November 2015, by Novil
I posted the first webcomic review, written by Elena Cordero, of the fantasy comic Fey Winds.
- Tommy: Would you please be so kind as to jump into the volcano crater, Roger?
- Roger Brown: No, I wouldn’t.
- Tommy: Rude!
- Tommy: Your unwillingness to cooperate is deeply hurting my religious feelings.
- Lloyd Parker: Hands up, Tommy! Or I’ll blow your head off!
- Tommy: Now, now! That’s not a nice thing to say!
- Tommy: As a punishment, you, naughty boy, will jump into the crater first!
- Lloyd Parker: Ha, that’s what you think!
- Tommy: Dear Huitzilopochtli! My brain wave manipulator doesn’t work!
- Lloyd Parker: Game over, Tommy, game over!
![[0740] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 18](/comics/2015-11-30-0740-under-a-killer-balloon-the-cereal-killer-page-18.png "[0740] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 18")
So, who’s the crazier one?
I really hope all this is happening in Sanda’s imagination.
If it’s happening in reality she’s in way over her head.
Of course, the whole point is NOT knowing where Sandy South and Qoo falls on the ‘is this the real life or fantasy’ scale.
So, who changed the cereal’s recipe ?
is no one going to ask how the kid with the hat and the shotgun knows the name of the aztec war god worshipper, when no one mentioned his name to him???
logan wrote:
Woo told him the name off-panel.
Turns out that lead hat payed off after all! Good thing he had one in Woo’s size.
@ LabRat:
Also convenient the brim had pre-cut slits for pointy ears.
BRAIN WAVE MANIPULATOR?! XD
@ logan:
Tommy has a brain wave manipulator, our unnamed hero has a lead hat built to defeat brain wave manipulators.
Therefore Tommy is a member of a large and powerful evil organization, and our unnamed hero is aware of this organization
redneck wrote:
His name is Lloyd Parker.
Biggest rule about mind control guns they never work on half insane weirdos.
What is HAPPENING!?!?!
Villain : “How dare my plans be interfered with by your timely arrival, as-yet unknown hero. Eat my Brainwave Manipulating Ray!”
Hero : “Ha! My brain doesn’t HAVE waves!”
Trusty impromptu Sidekick : “….”
This is what they say,’Dig the well before you are thirsty’.
Ya gotta love the crazy prepared ones. Parker is a true badass.
Okay, who’s fantasy is this?
I was hoping for laser cannon.
This may be getting into “someone’s having a dream/hallucination” territory
Wait, did we really start with raisins in cereal?
While I’m assuming the lack of functionality of the brain-wave manipulator is supposed to be because of the lead lining in the fedoras, I can’t help remembering the classic Dr Who episode, The Face of Evil.
In that episode, everyone except a tribal shaman is mind-controlled by an insane supercomputer. The only reason the shaman can’t be mind-controlled is because he’s also insane. He ends up semi-accidentally distracting the computer long enough for The Doctor to fix the problem (after which the computer becomes almost disturbingly sane and rational by contrast)
This is why we don’t give repressed 20 somethings with extremist believes and a superiority complex mind control guns. They inevitably screw up forcing people to kill themselves and turn into whimpering numbskulls.
Instead, evil corp. 13, unlike evil corp. 1-12, equips all our repressed 20 somethings with both mind control guns and suicide bombs linked to their emotions. That way, when it doesn’t work out, we still get to enjoy the fireworks!
@ logan:
Maybe they went to the same asylum as kids?
@ Novil:
But I’m not sure Tommy ever told Woo. Or that Roger told Tommy his name.
Also considering Roger and Lloyd have full names, and Tommy doesn’t, I can almost assume Roger and Lloyd might be regular characters, while Tommy ends up falling in the volcano. So far he’s the first real villain we got.
@ Shark: if so then i’m crude(i’m tommy in the real world)
LabRat wrote:
Hey! That’s what I was about to say.
Shark wrote:
His first words were “here is TOMMY”
@ Shark:
As for villains: how about that school ursurpator who ended up as a “Puff?
Robert wrote:
Gasp! How Devilish!
@ Kai:
I am starting to think there was more than raisins in the cereal.
OK that backfired oh well…Oh here’s an ideal why not just use the HAND GUN YOU HAD EARLIER!
@ Chris857:
I’m really not sure, they are both 1 banana short of a bunch !
After reading this comic I wondered whether the brainwave manipulator had been used on me or whether someone had slipped lsd into my dinner. 10/10 would question reality again.
Sandra and Woo is one of my mandatory webcomic readings because of its umpredictabilitty. This “anything goes” sure creates some ups and downs, but is also part of the charm of the strip.
Just a complaing, however: how did he missed the oportunity of saying “My name is Parker. Lloyd Parker”
Keep up the great creative work
Novil wrote:
A better/more cool explanation would have been that there is a long secret war going on and Tommy and Lloyd have a “history”.
Okay, this might be the most confusing story so far. How did we get from cereal to freaking human sacrifice??
Parker, last panel: “I love it when a plan comes together!”
Tommy was planning to name his brain wave manipulator weapon after himself, but the name “tommy gun” was taken.
Of course, the REAL funny part was that most of us thought Lloyd was crazy when he gave Woo the lead lined hat to prevent brain wave manipulation. The question is now, was he just lucky that his delusion provided him with the protection he needed, or was he aware of what Tommy and his group was up to?
Are these Larpers?
Because i feel like we found Larpers
This arc has the right for Its own game, The story great from start to finish. I’ll play it.
Y’know, I wouldn’t mind a spin-off between these two, given they seem to have some history together and both with peculiar weapons.
I have a feeling he’s not just some terrorist and Tommy isn’t just some conspiracy nut.
I’m starting to be more curious about who they are.
@ Chris857:
this battle shall decide
imagine starting off from part 3 and skipping to this part
Did the lead brimmed hat stop the brain wave manipulator or is the brain wave manipulator just bogus? I guess we’ll see. Either way, a normal gun would have made the whole deal obsolete. Also, assuming the brain wave manipulator works, just shooting Tommy instead of talking would also have made the lead brimmed hat a non issue. Regardless of what turns out to work, it’s a battle between two crazy people.
Thank Huitzilopochtli, the demand is for a virgin, not a surgeon.
No Betadine off MY shoe covers there!
Lead-ing the way.
This story arc was about Sandra complaining that they changed the ingredients of her favourite cereal to oats and raisins, right? I just feel this arc kind of went off track with religious nuts demanding a sacrifice and sci-fi weaponry.
Crestlinger wrote:
No amount of facepalm at that will cover it. That was a good bad pun.
It is sad when the paranoids are the only sane ones around!
I’m hoping that a fair amount of this will turn out to be a Calvin and Hobbes style fantasy based on reality. We’ve seen some pretty fantastic stuff in this comic, but this feels a little bit out of style. Not going to say this ridiculous nonsense isn’t fun, but I don’t know if I believe it for this world. Somehow raccoon gods are far more reasonable.