Telepath's Burden

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from IRREDEEMABLE 25...

Burrows and Thermo, two former small-time supervillains who are now in Survivor's pardon program, are hanging out at a bar.



Burrows relates an incident involving Survivor from earlier in the day:







While over on the asylum planet, Plutonian and Auroran are still making a break for it, trying to get past all the bizarre and varied security measures. When briefly knocked unconscious, Plutonian has a dream of his public debut, when he saved a pilot at an air show gone wrong.

Comments

[pyrotwilight]

Oh Survivor. Given they keep setting him up to go crazy/snap like Tony did I think they won't have him do so.

[cypherfdp]

The twist will be that Survivor is totally sane, just a huge, stressed-out douche.

[pyrotwilight]

;_; He's not a douche, he's just misunderstood...




...and has some anger issues...

[cainofdreaming]

There's something weird about Survivor's insignia on that cover... are they playing the Nazi card on themselves?

[pyrotwilight]

Maybe but it's really just supposed to be a vague military like symbol but I suppose they could twist it into being connotative of something bad much like how the Nazi's used the Swastika.

[starwolf_oakley]

Mark Waid once said (paraphrasing): "The series is called IRREDEEMABLE, not THE PLUTONIAN."

So it makes some sense that ALL the characters would be utter, utter dicks.

[pyrotwilight]

Thus far only Kaidan and Volt has been exempt from that (and Volt's dead now, I think).

[q99]

Hm, I suppose the same'd hold true of Incorruptible (I.e. it's Incorruptible, not Max Damage).

[blunderbuss]

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!


Sorry, had to do it.

[blackruzsa]

So who in this series is actually a good person and not under direct threat or scared beyond belief?

[pyrotwilight]

Kaidan seem to be all that's left so far (Volt was as well but now he's dead). Other Paradigm members like Fortress, Gazer and other nameless folks might've been but are dead so we don't know.

And I guess Scylla might be really good but he's a vegetable so who knows.

[blackruzsa]

Yeah, Kaidan's all that's left, and she's not even aware of the threats that are her teammates.

IDK about any of the others anymore, and as you said, they're mostly dead.

[lucky_gamble]

Oh the plot thickens....still odds are mr.bluesuperhero there is a construct built by Plutonian. Would go with the reality warping powers the plutonian has.

[thanekos]

Don't worry, Tony, when your friend with all the same powers as you plus telepathy and shapeshifting reveals his agenda, you can just light him on fire.

[pyrotwilight]

I'm going to guess he has an amusing weakness to water.

I'M MELTINNNNNNG.