And we’re not just talking any old mustache. Its a handlebar, the king of mustaches. How Berten resists the urge to twirl it when he’s doing something particularly evil speaks volumes about his willpower.
As Xan devastates JJ’s sense of professionalism and destroys his self-confidence, his mustache will begin to droop. By the time the police come, he’s going to have a Fu-Manchu.
I really hope that this leads to JJ Berten being completely screwed over, without any actual hitch in that particular part of the plan.
It would be almost cathartic to see an old dude who does bad things get screwed over by the technology he doesn’t understand, even if it’s only fictional.
It was a question of which kind of battle they were going to fight. Of course Betrem’s going to win in a fight involving force and violence. But our gamers have shifted the contest to one of wits and technology.
As long as they keep the game there, then they’re going to win.
But that’s an iffy “as long”. :-/ Fight’s not over.
Possibly the bigger loss here for JJ isn’t that he was caught on tape killing someone, but that he was caught on tape killing someone _in order to cover something up_.
He may be skilled enough at staying off the grid that he’ll never be caught, but it might get the police interested enough that they won’t dismiss the possibility that Hurricane is covering something up out of hand… meaning that even if JJ gets away, he’s failed. And that failure being on his proverbial resume may make it harder for him to get jobs that require discretion in the future.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burten does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burten just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”
That youtube comments thread is going to be a riot.
Can you see an “old school”like him trying to hack YouTube?
HE-larious.
No country for old hitmen.
Dude, it’s not even a contest. I don’t care if goatee is packin’ a tactical nuke, moustache is ALWAYS gonna win that fight.
Even if its the goatee… CHOSEN BY TECTONICUS!?!
For some reason, I only now realized Penk looks like Xan and is thus likely his avatar…
Actually, I was thinking Goblaurence.
I was on board with him being Penk at first, given his attitude when we first met him- but dang. Xan does seem like a really effective Goblaurence.
Then again, Xans’ appearance in ‘ask an adventurer’ does open up the question of “Could he be both?”
Could he be all of them, could he be simultaneously playing as the entire group of champions?
He was just trying to run a gold farming business this entire time.
Trapping the Five in their tubes was Xan’s most lucrative scheme ever!
Until he trapped HR in a tube, that is. ;D
Xan has the difficult task of explaining to JJ that he just bought controlling interest in Hurricane Software, so JJ now works for him.
“So… you’re paying me to shoot you, now?”
And we’re not just talking any old mustache. Its a handlebar, the king of mustaches. How Berten resists the urge to twirl it when he’s doing something particularly evil speaks volumes about his willpower.
As Xan devastates JJ’s sense of professionalism and destroys his self-confidence, his mustache will begin to droop. By the time the police come, he’s going to have a Fu-Manchu.
It is a shame I cannot “like” this comment.
His moustache is so powerful, it twirls itself.
While that would be funny, I am under the impression that it’s the breeze that twirls his mustache while it flutters his black cape.
Live streaming.
Check it out. You have a YouTube channel. Well, it goes to Twitch first, because the live thing is their thing.
Youtube Poop: My friend’s murder
If the live thing is their thing, shouldn’t it not be on there since it’s dead?
…hey-o? I dunno, I’m trying to make a joke when it’s entirely too hot.
Just like the evidence!
Now, he should be streaming this and putting it on youtube as well.
He probably is.
Or at *least* screencapping it. Silly to rely on someone else trying to recover it from Skype.
Really hoping this is going where it sounds like it’s going. This was bugging me since our last time in Sepia world. :)
I really hope that this leads to JJ Berten being completely screwed over, without any actual hitch in that particular part of the plan.
It would be almost cathartic to see an old dude who does bad things get screwed over by the technology he doesn’t understand, even if it’s only fictional.
You and me both.
Skype and the cloud aren’t fictional, though. ;-)
Oh, the technology isn’t the fictional part. The old dude who does bad things and gets screwed is.
Not that it is that much fictional though.
“Youuuuu just don’t understaaand…. about the cloooooud.”
And… GOTCHA. :-)
It was a question of which kind of battle they were going to fight. Of course Betrem’s going to win in a fight involving force and violence. But our gamers have shifted the contest to one of wits and technology.
As long as they keep the game there, then they’re going to win.
But that’s an iffy “as long”. :-/ Fight’s not over.
Possibly the bigger loss here for JJ isn’t that he was caught on tape killing someone, but that he was caught on tape killing someone _in order to cover something up_.
He may be skilled enough at staying off the grid that he’ll never be caught, but it might get the police interested enough that they won’t dismiss the possibility that Hurricane is covering something up out of hand… meaning that even if JJ gets away, he’s failed. And that failure being on his proverbial resume may make it harder for him to get jobs that require discretion in the future.
Very nice. I’m glad they’re calling his bluff.
The right to be forgotten is a thing of the past. And it has its uses that it’s so.
Quite a bit of paperwork involved to have your records “expunged” from business records.
Quite a bit of paperwork.
This is actually pretty timely, isn’t it?
how so?
There are people being killed and their deaths caught on camera. It’s been in the news a lot lately.
The world is changing, and you, my mustachioed friend, have not changed with it.
The look in Xan’s eyes is pure ice cold “You are so dead”.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burten does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burten just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”
…I know it’s JJ, but it just doesn’t fit as well.
As Cusco said: “Bring it on”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOrxkGlLDM
(am I allowed to post https ref here? Sorry if not)
“Oh, hey. So it turns out I was wrong about the Skype thing but that’s okay since we just recorded all of this here.”
The Cloud wasn’t even a thing when this webcomic started, was it?