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scans_dailyGreetings True Believers!
The MU is a dangerous place and with mutants, aliens, gods, gamma monsters, vampires, robots and whatnot running around; the little social rules have extra layers of meaning.
This bartender is about to find that out.
Enjoy!
If you aren't reading Journey into Mystery, BEGIN SO NOW.
Mephisto walks into a bar, gets a drink and bitches about his day. Scares the bejesus out the barkeep and talks about gods, devils, Fear Itself and his schemes about Loki.
But it's time to hit that dusty trail...
Alas, scan limits but trust me. It ends like you think it will. Sunspot is right. Don't talk to him, don't even fucking look at him.
The MU is a dangerous place and with mutants, aliens, gods, gamma monsters, vampires, robots and whatnot running around; the little social rules have extra layers of meaning.
This bartender is about to find that out.
Enjoy!
If you aren't reading Journey into Mystery, BEGIN SO NOW.
Mephisto walks into a bar, gets a drink and bitches about his day. Scares the bejesus out the barkeep and talks about gods, devils, Fear Itself and his schemes about Loki.
But it's time to hit that dusty trail...
Alas, scan limits but trust me. It ends like you think it will. Sunspot is right. Don't talk to him, don't even fucking look at him.
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Date: 2011-09-16 07:54 am (UTC)Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I hear he gets eternity, but he's forced to have terrible relationships with mary sues or poorly written "feisty latinas" or just plain boring characters, and never with his true love . . .
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Date: 2011-09-16 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-09-17 01:47 am (UTC)God I love this book. I hop e it continues once FI is over.
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Date: 2011-09-16 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-16 10:02 am (UTC)Okay, this guy is a total brain donor. When the devil uses those words you know you should already be running. Preferably towards a church, but any which way that leads away is good.
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Date: 2011-09-16 10:06 am (UTC)YOU DO NOT ASK FOR A TIP. They breed them dumb in the Marvelverse it seems.
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Date: 2011-09-16 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-17 01:49 am (UTC)But our man here had to go and ask. It's bad form to ask for a tip. The devil does not like bad form.
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Date: 2011-09-16 10:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-16 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-16 12:03 pm (UTC)Everything about this -- the set-up, the delivery, the payoff, everything -- is from early high school creative writing 101 at best.
And that seems to be about the only level comics can manage these days.
Sigh.
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Date: 2011-09-16 12:11 pm (UTC)This isn't "check for the small print and make a rash-ballsy decision" time, it's "run like hell" time!
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Date: 2011-09-17 01:51 am (UTC)The thing is, the Devil never lies. But that doesn't prevent him from phrasing things in a misleading way. It's not his fault if you lack imagination, after all.
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Date: 2011-09-16 02:15 pm (UTC)"How do you feel about 15%?"
I actually liked the fact that the guy asked for a tip. Not really digging the level of stupid required to make him think immortality from the devil was a good idea, though.
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Date: 2011-09-16 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-16 06:55 pm (UTC)Like come on, The Devil. You are supposed to be evil, I know. But you are supposed to have MANNERS.
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Date: 2011-09-16 04:34 pm (UTC)Let's just say he'll be in the Devil's stories for eternity. At least the ones that get written down....
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Date: 2011-09-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-17 01:55 am (UTC)This is just a crappy bartender, so I have no sympathy. What do you want to bet this was revenge on one by Gillen? Reads like it.
Heh.
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Date: 2011-09-18 10:31 pm (UTC)There's a reason THIS remains the ONLY deal with the devil story I've ever had any time for....
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Date: 2011-09-19 03:21 am (UTC)