The Cape

[cyberghostface]

Eric ends up getting forty staples in his skull and a shunt in his brain. He still gets splitting headaches as a result. He eventually starts dating his brother's ex.



Angie mentions to Eric that his brother emailed her about visiting.



They eventually break up. Eric moves into his mother's basement where he discovers his old cape.



He flies outside and shows up outside Angie's window.

Comments

[mazway_75]

Six seasons and a movie!

[windleopard2]

Huh?

[cyberghostface]

It's a 'Community' reference. Abel was a fan of a show called 'The Cape' and said the line about it lasting six seasons and a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqLCM0d0Os

[remial]

so, this comic isn't tied to the show?

[spidermanwashere]

Literally my first thought as well.

[cyberghostface]

No he’s just making a reference because they share the same name.

[donnblake]

I did quite enjoy that show. Some delightful Silver Age comics wackiness.

[mastermahan]

The Cape can still get a second life on cable, and I'll tell you why.

[blues32]

The title reminded me of a creepypasta I once heard. A guy finds a cape that bonds to him and gives him incredible powers. He becomes a superhero, beloved by the world. What the world doesn't know is that the cape is forcing him to do it. That he isn't the first being in the universe it has bonded to. And that he is trying SO hard to resist the cape's compulsion to attack all the people throwing confetti during the parade being thrown for him. Littering is a crime, after all.

[numeronone]

...in retrospect it is odd that this came out around the same time as Marvel's "The Hood".

[cainofdreaming]

"No capes!"

[beyondthefringe]

Wow, the narrator is such charming fellow.

[mastermahan]

I see Joe Hill was in his edgelord phase here.

EDIT: Also, not exactly a perfect crime. He has an arrest record and his fingerprints are all over her.

[donnblake]

I mean, yeah, but I think there's a little bit of medium dissonance, too. Joe Hill wrote a short story for a book of horror stories, where an unpleasant narrator gets powers and does unpleasant things with them. I don't think it was Hill's finest work, but in the context of a horror anthology, it doesn't really stand out. But you put that as a standalone comic, a medium for better or worse pretty tightly tied to the superhero genre, and it kind of inevitably feels like a, somewhat meanspirited, commentary on that genre.

[cyberghostface]

It’s less of an edgelord thing and more of a horror twist ending thing.

The next comic deals with the evidence and murder investigation.

[blues32]

True, but how would they explain the injuries? It's pretty clear she fell from a great height, but there's no place for her to fall from.

[super_fly]

So how far do we get into this before we discover this is all a delusion stemming from ongoing brain damage?