Perhaps it’s just me…but I get the feeling that Mopey is enjoying that whole “Violence II” thing quite a lot…and I’m not sure whether that’s entirely appropriate, all told. The fate of existence is on the line, after all…and there are/were/will be all of those innocent victims presumably meeting a grisly fate off-screen. (If only the budget had allowed for more extras, we’d know for sure.) On the other hand…mindless enthusiasm is not the worst state to be in, and it’s also not the worst state for people around you to be in. I’ll let it slip…

Especially since Snuka joins the fray with an appropriate sense of seriousness. He’s the grandson of an Imperial Japanese admiral, after all, so something of the old samurai ideal of stern and frugal masculinity is alive in him – ready to come to the fore if he’s not preoccupied with something better.

I faced quite a challenge in coming up with something to draw out of his Tokyo Action Shonen Mysterious Long Bag. The battleship gun turret he drew from it the last time was already pretty excessive after all. But, apparently, he was still ‘holding back’ with that? He should have told me sooner. >_> But, what can I do? If that was ‘holding back’, and he’s not doing that any more now, I’ve got to crank it up a few notches. So…don’t ask me how, but Snuka draws the Death Star from his bag. ._. While that doesn’t seem anything like reasonable in any number of ways…it does seem to be something reasonably equivalent in terms of escalation to Mopey’s unnaturally chipper mood.

As for how realistic it is…well, as you can see, reality already failed in allowing Snuka to just open the zipper of the bag in an anatomically plausible way. Thank goodness for hand actors.

More on Thursday.