So the twins are going for it, after all.
Not that that’s too much of a surprise, if you think about it. Even recognized megafactors like hell and high water have a very, very poor record of stopping the twins from going for something they’ve set their minds* on. The Queen has an even slightly worse one and no one else is even in the competition.
But what was the main enabler of this turn of events was the fact that I thought of a way to visually represent this new level of (mis)behavior, and it was actually quite easy. There was no way of foregoing the use of censorship bars – I could never have exposed my audience to the sight of this, even leaving aside the question of whether I would have even be able to draw such a scene. So how to reflect the fact that these censorship bars would be covering something that’s categorically different from what censorship bars had covered before? Well, just switch to a different brand of censorship bar. Surprsingly simple, actually, but it still took me a while to realize.
Disclaimer: the BMC takes no position on matters of candy preference. The implied superiority of a Cadbury bar over a Snickers is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to candy bars living or deceased is coincidental. >_>
I drew this strip back in March, by the way, so the Barbie background doesn’t have anything to do with the Barbie movie…back then it just appeared to me as a particularly suitable background for this sort of discussion between these two guys…
More on Thursday.
*Or perhaps mind, singular. Sometimes I’m not sure…
… I hate that this makes sense, but it makes sense.
I feel like these guys need someone following them around with a hose, ready to douse their flames of passion with cold water. It’s be a comminity service, really Then again, if HIGH WATER won’t stop them, I don’t know if Hose Water would.
Maybe Ice Water?
But seriously, the one thing the Twin’s plan has in it’s FAVOR is that their… erm… “powers”… were the only thing that has historically seemed to bother Latho in the past, at least consistently. There’s something to be said for dealing Psychological Damage, and twice now we’ve seen Latho retreat rather than confront the Twin’s when they’re uh, “using their powers”. That’s better than anyone else’s track records against the agent of chaos, sad to say.
Still, unless they’re into the REALLY intense $#/%, I don’t forsee them doing any physical damage…
The funny thing being, the twins’ particular brand of super-power was basically the only thing that I could show affecting Latho before the finale, simply because the unseen/indescribed/indescribable nature of the twins’ performance doesn’t weaken Latho’s villain stature. As long as it only exists in the mind of the individual viewer, it’s not really limited in size and scope, while showing Latho being susceptible to any kind of reasonable and measurable effect would define a definite limit to Latho’s power, as well. Not that I really planned all of this out, it happened more by accident. >_>
And I don’t think that water would stop them, truthfully. Since they’re essentially the living avatars of fandom perversion/bizarrity, they would probably only switch to an ever-popular ‘mermen’ AU and carry on underwater…. >_>
I can’t believe that after all this time… the twins are going to pursue different sports. One in basketball, one in hockey. I’m not sure we’re ready for this!
That would be a nice bit of character development for them…and the kind of growing apart that the twins are long overdue for at their age. But! It would destroy their beautiful symmetry…which saves we such a lot of work when drawing them… XD