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"And if the answer is 'yes' do I kick more stuff at his head or at the rest of his body?"
Well, that was a decisive 5-second victory. IT rmeinds me of Mike Tyson in his prime. Although, in this case the one that is iron is apparently the loser.
Let me break down this page frame by frame, since in the action scenes there is very little dialog and I need to meet my quote of prose for today.
Frame 1 is the last few moments of the barrage from the trebuchets. I'm not sure if trebuchets were the best pick. I will let the comments section argue about its merits compared to a catapult or other low-tech siege weapon.
Frame 2 had a crap ton of layers and took longer than the rest of this page, and there are a lot of things happening here. If you look in the background, you can see that the streets are flooded, I even made a reflection of the buildings across the streets. It might not be noticeable because of everything going on in this page, but there is water dripping off the heroes as they breach the wall. So flooding the area may have been a way to contain collateral fire damage as I mentioned last page... but also, with green auras surrounding them to breathe, they could approach the capitol building under water. Hopefully undetected. No one expects the water approach, unless you are a Navy seal.
Frame 3, actually a lot going on here. First, Kickman is announcing his corner kick, because as we all know, Kickman was a world class high school soccer player as well as place kicker. Second, this lets the audience know that they breached the wall from the side of the throne near the back wall. Important to know this for the next panel. Third, we can see the strategy behind hitting the building with about 20 giant iron cannonballs. It litters the battlefield with plenty of ammunition for Kickman. And lastly, Kickman is using the Sophie Cunningham "point of doom." I don't watch any WNBA, but even I keep seeing clips from that game. Villains hate that.
Frame 4, a corner kick seems impossible to score on unassisted to me. I can't fathom kicking a ball and making it change direction somehow in mid-flight. But, kicking the goalie's head off? Totally doable.
Frame 5, fight's over, let's go home.
Awfully lot of red on this page, which is weird for a city capitol interior. But that's actually probably from back when Superior Man was in charge of the city. Red is his color. No way that any US government official would want to have such an ominous, dark-lit, red...
Oh, nevermind.
Enjoy the page. Today, I am leaving Clancy in Napa and heading back down south towards Laguna Niguel to take care of the two kitties again. But I have about a six day gap before I start, so I will be doing my Matt Foley routine living in my van for the next week. Which means I will be spending a lot of time in Paneras and libraries producing pages weeks in advance.
My homelessness benefits you all... as was foretold in the prophecy.
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KICKMAN, LLC is a weekly webcomic written, penciled, inked, colored, lettered, and produced by Matt S. Law. Matt lives in a van, traveling the United States as a full-time pet-sitter. His mobile art studio consists of a Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ and Clip Studio Paint Pro software.
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