Joe vs. Doc!
Two shipmates — more importantly two FRIENDS — find themselves at odds, while (quite literally) LIFE and DEATH hang in the balance! It is a lamentable situation, brought on by the machinations of the most vile of villains, but all the same now Doc is no longer “Doc” and as much as it hurts Joe, the only way to save himself and perhaps the world is to defeat the man he once looked up to above all others. And, to do that he has to fight DIRTY.
But, as always, it’s not what you’d expect, right? Joe faces down Doc in a BATTLE of WITS? That doesn’t seem wise…I mean, what chance does a snot-nosed kid have against the World’s Greatest Man of Science in a war of words? A meeting of the minds? Well, surprisingly, a pretty good one, I guess.
This was another one of those instances where, while writing the page, a character really surprised me. Dan, Evin, and I had talked about this scene, and the fact that Joe would goad Doc into some sort of foolhardy action. However, I never imagined – until the words just started flowing – just how easily Joe could cut to the heart of Doc’s vampire-enhanced hubris. Apparently, the kid is smarter than he looks. Who knew?
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Well, just 8 weeks left of Pitch Black Day left, Daredevilers. Prepare yourselves because it gets REALLY bumpy from here on out. In the meantime though, test your mental fortitude by reading the Sunday Bonus Lunch. That is not a compliment, by the way.
Anyways, till next week!
-Matt-
I believe that I previously complained about the curtains.
Now I must once again call attention to the poor decorum the Prince of Darkness uses.
The Blonde and the Kid make a suitable pair of wall hangings, while the bones haphazardly littering the floor are a nice touch, but I must say the Red-head is hung out of kilter, and clashes horribly with both the carpet, and the paintings hanging nearby.
Evil and Macabre is one thing, but bad decorum, and improperly strung up Saxon Tarts can make you the laughing stock of the villain conventions…
Doesn’t Dracula have people for this?!
Hmm “improperly strung up saxon tarts”… I wonder if Martha Stewart has a magazine for the procedure on that.
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Way to go, Joe! Confusion to the enemy! Divide and conquer! Either leave ‘em laughing, or leave ‘em wondering what the hell you meant!
Yeah, I think sometimes we forget that Joe is REALLY good at adventuring.
And the kid throws what amounts to the mother of all hail mary passes…
Great analogy, tkg. You really captured the essence of the scene. This is Joe’s last ditch effort!
BTW That spear placement does not exactly look like a death blow to me, espacially considering that I seem to recall that she had a chainmail shirt in her Vampire Slaying Kit, when it was viewed on the Custor.
Hmmm… Vampire Slaying Kits, that is one item you can not just pick up ready made, off the shelf, from Walmart, she must know where there is a specialty shop.
http://vampireslayerkits.com/
among other sites.