Annotated 32-3
So here’s Colonnus, Astoria Troy, Tobias Gnipgnop in panel 1 and Isidro again and Braggadocio soon after. So the team is really only 60% “Kick[starter]-backers[‘ creations],” but I think it sells these new guys better to integrate them with folks we’ve seen before, as well as answering the question of what sort of things Colonnus and Bragga have been up to lately. Byron’s Guild does confer benefits even when he’s not around personally, after all.
It feels vaguely off to me, thanks to mainstream superhero fare as part of my reading diet, that the Kickbackers are quite so blasé about killing folks, but we’ve certainly established that the Peacemakers would be just as merciless. Maybe it’s just that these particular Cultists felt like they were about to do something interesting.
Sorry for any glitches in tonight’s strip, this should be the final version. Another project’s been running me ragged, and I’ve still got months before it’ll be finished, but I try not to let you see past that part of the veil too often.
They are at war. So killing hostiles is a bit of a thing that you do.
Not killing them even netted us Hitler, they say. ^^”
But true. It has denied us many good people too. It’s just hard to go around asking about people’s motivations during active combat situations, so you just kill and hope you did more good than bad.
That’s one of the differences between the good guys and the bad guys. The good guys are hoping they did more good than bad. The bad guys are certain they’re doing only good, like Brother Markus.
They also just got finished killing a bunch of people, I think? And were actively (and happily) trying to kill more?
Not to mention that these are not superheroes. They’re more like military special forces. Prisoners are useful for information, or maybe bartering. Cultist prisoners are likely useless are a bartering chit and may have proven largely useless for information (after all, Gravedust had to find a disgruntled dead one to get some info).
They’re adventurers, not super heroes. Being a murder hobo is part of the job.
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