Those aren’t terms, Gil; those are boasts. And ones you may not be able to accomplish.
(I’m not sure what’s going on in the last panel. Is that Gil’s Earth army? It’s just setting off now? If so, REALLY bad timing, guys, just after Merlin gained control of the Portal system!)
Now if Merlin were a touch angry at the nightmare beasts, he could rearrange the portal so it exits somewhere just above the sun.
They exit and, if they are not immediately incinerated, will die in a few minutes from lack of oxygen. With no ground to gain purchase on, they can’t go back. With no air, they can’t fly or even warn others behind them.
There comes a point when one has to realize that it is useless and inherently against one’s best interest to negotiate with evil or the sociopathic insane. We have prime examples of this over the last century within memory of the still living. Pol Pot and his Killing fields, the 80 million sacrificed to Mao’s collective Great Leap Forward, Stalin’s slaughter of 40 million of his own people to fertilize the fields of the USSR…Hitler was a piker with his 8 million Holocaust. Then there is the current fat fiend in N.Korea the latest little Kim. I guess being the good guys you gotta at least try to find a way but as I said, there comes a point….
That last panel is the group of Beasties in the Nightmare Realm that were hanging out with Dan and Gil’s “sleeping” body who are only just now deciding to go through the portal (which as you pointed out will not exactly work very well for them). So I don’t think they’re the “Earth Army” so much as “Nightmare Realm Beasties who are getting upset at Dan and deciding to do something about it, albeit a bit too late to be successful.” 🙂
I seem to recall seeing something that said you’d lose consciousness in about 15 seconds if left unexposed in the vacuum of space, so even if they did take a few minutes to actually die (and I halfway expect it wouldn’t take that long), they’d definitely be unable to do anything about their predicament…but the hive-mind thing makes warning their buddies really easy. It wouldn’t even take 15 seconds to mentally send a message of impending death.
I recall in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (obviously a very sound scientific journal) that you can live 30 seconds in a vacuum. However, you point about the hive mind is well made.
Especially when the portal goes dark tomorrow when Merlin shuts the system down.
Now Dan thinks Niviene is still guarding his earth body, but his lady fair will arrive in the nick of time and brain the Nightmare Beast again. The real question is which object she will use this time. I vote for a cast iron skillet, which is used so often in comics.
I also await Dan feeding the leaf he is holding to the mortally wounded dragon, who is then suddenly healed and free to take vengeance on the Nightmare Realm.
Gilgamesh is also ignoring the fact that there is nothing stopping Dan from just walking over to the tank, breaking it open, and dismembering Gilgamesh. (Other than the PG rating, of course.)
I rather think that if they appeared even miles from the sun they would be destroyed in microseconds by the incredible heat and saturated radiation. Indeed, the only thing the hive mind might pick up would be their sudden absence.
Even if they send the warning, the rest depends upon how exactly the hive mind thing works. And the portals, for that matter. If both use any material carrier, it would take about 16 minutes for them to reach the Sun and for their distress signal to travel back to Earth. Enough to trap a lot more beasties.
Looks like things aren’t good for Dan’s human form….! :O
Hey Gilgamesh, you’re monologuing. As soon as your minions hit that useless portal, you will have to eat your words.
The minions will invade. And at the nth hour, Nastaja’s crew will succeed in freeing the children.
Such is my guess.
Those aren’t terms, Gil; those are boasts. And ones you may not be able to accomplish.
(I’m not sure what’s going on in the last panel. Is that Gil’s Earth army? It’s just setting off now? If so, REALLY bad timing, guys, just after Merlin gained control of the Portal system!)
Now if Merlin were a touch angry at the nightmare beasts, he could rearrange the portal so it exits somewhere just above the sun.
They exit and, if they are not immediately incinerated, will die in a few minutes from lack of oxygen. With no ground to gain purchase on, they can’t go back. With no air, they can’t fly or even warn others behind them.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
There comes a point when one has to realize that it is useless and inherently against one’s best interest to negotiate with evil or the sociopathic insane. We have prime examples of this over the last century within memory of the still living. Pol Pot and his Killing fields, the 80 million sacrificed to Mao’s collective Great Leap Forward, Stalin’s slaughter of 40 million of his own people to fertilize the fields of the USSR…Hitler was a piker with his 8 million Holocaust. Then there is the current fat fiend in N.Korea the latest little Kim. I guess being the good guys you gotta at least try to find a way but as I said, there comes a point….
Now for Merlin to do his job and make the portals flicker out.
Supervillian plot derailment in 3… 2… 1.
That last panel is the group of Beasties in the Nightmare Realm that were hanging out with Dan and Gil’s “sleeping” body who are only just now deciding to go through the portal (which as you pointed out will not exactly work very well for them). So I don’t think they’re the “Earth Army” so much as “Nightmare Realm Beasties who are getting upset at Dan and deciding to do something about it, albeit a bit too late to be successful.” 🙂
I seem to recall seeing something that said you’d lose consciousness in about 15 seconds if left unexposed in the vacuum of space, so even if they did take a few minutes to actually die (and I halfway expect it wouldn’t take that long), they’d definitely be unable to do anything about their predicament…but the hive-mind thing makes warning their buddies really easy. It wouldn’t even take 15 seconds to mentally send a message of impending death.
I halfway wonder if Dan’s doing this only in part to be a good guy…but also to give Gil/Beastie Bunch time to realize they’ve been outmaneuvered. 🙂
I recall in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (obviously a very sound scientific journal) that you can live 30 seconds in a vacuum. However, you point about the hive mind is well made.
I think everyone is going to discover the problem with the portal very soon here.
Monologuing. That’s what I was thinking. With things like this I’m always reminded of The Incredibles.
“Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing!”
Exactly! 🙂
Now for Merlin to do his job and make the portals flicker out.
Super-villian plot derailment in 3… 2… 1…
Especially when the portal goes dark tomorrow when Merlin shuts the system down.
Now Dan thinks Niviene is still guarding his earth body, but his lady fair will arrive in the nick of time and brain the Nightmare Beast again. The real question is which object she will use this time. I vote for a cast iron skillet, which is used so often in comics.
I also await Dan feeding the leaf he is holding to the mortally wounded dragon, who is then suddenly healed and free to take vengeance on the Nightmare Realm.
Gilgamesh is also ignoring the fact that there is nothing stopping Dan from just walking over to the tank, breaking it open, and dismembering Gilgamesh. (Other than the PG rating, of course.)
I rather think that if they appeared even miles from the sun they would be destroyed in microseconds by the incredible heat and saturated radiation. Indeed, the only thing the hive mind might pick up would be their sudden absence.
By his words it makes it sound like he doesn’t know where the body is. odd.
Even if they send the warning, the rest depends upon how exactly the hive mind thing works. And the portals, for that matter. If both use any material carrier, it would take about 16 minutes for them to reach the Sun and for their distress signal to travel back to Earth. Enough to trap a lot more beasties.