If you want more information on Head Alien II, see the Joyce & Walky! subscription strips. If you don’t, I think I’ve explained all the pertinent stuff here. (He’s an alien. He travels between universes a lot. He’s a jerk.)
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Oldest gag in the book. She fell for the banana in the tailpipe.
Foolish lesbian, no one can defeat the mighty banana!
Especially it’s a wet banana.
Hey look!! Mom is on the wet banana!!
MOM! GET OFF MY WET BANANA!
What would dad say?
Earlier in his respective timeline then… I wonder what’d happen if you killed him. Would that negate all the shit he did, such as making Rachel disappear?
Only one way to find out…
Banana peels need to have being on the ground for a few doays for it to be rotten enough to be slippery.
Did you just try to use logic in comedy universe? SEIZE HIM!!!
ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!
Cant help it, I’m a troper at heart.
Then you should know that Rule of Funny is the only one that applies.
Until that Drama Tag gets pulled, anyway.
[fridge brilliance]NOTHING CHANGES SO NO ONE EVER PICKS UP BANANA PEEL [/fridge brilliance]
[voodoo shark]Wait then how did someone manage to drop the banana peel?[/voodoo shark]
Well, you just made me backtrack to make sure that the banana wasn’t seen earlier…so, how do we know it isn’t rotten? Oh crap, I’m using logic on the logic…
Not true, I have tried it. On a smooth floor (like a school hallway) if you place it with the inside on the floor a fresh banana peel can be very slippery. And slipping on it can be rather painful.
In some universes that would’ve been a land mine.
The Dead Like Me universe springs to mind.
I was thinking the looney tuniverse but whatever floats your cabbage.
Oh, Leslie, perhaps someday you’ll get the hang of hijinx.
Banana peels are square one. They’re practically a lowjink.
The hiarchy of Jinks. You can work your way up the ladder but you’ll need to be diligent.
Be careful not to confuse with the ladder of Jinx, which would be very unpleasant to climb.
Love how he manages to put on a facial expression in panel two despite the helmet. He had to install all sorts of little servos and sensors in that thing to allow him to do that, but what’s the point of being an evil ham if you can’t emote?
Yeah, just as Darth Vader.
He’s always managed to do that, but it’s never occurred to me just how much effort he’d have to put into that helmet to make that possible. The malleable materials for both the helmet and visor, getting them to move in conjunction with each other, making them line up with his emotions…
It works the same way Ultra Car’s headlights work or Batman’s eyes in his cowl work.
I know that, but you should know by now I have a bit of a tendency to overthink things.
He actually wired the helmet to his face for that exact purpose. It cost a lot of time, money, and hurt like hell, but it was worth it.
Why would it hurt like hell? It takes like two fiber optic cameras on the interior watching his eyes. That’s hardly any problem at all.
He’s also got a amazingly shitty dress sense.
And had the gall to call his alternate-universe self’s outfit absurd.
Some people would call it, INSPIRED.
Wait, this HA killed and conquered? Where’s his army then?
Good question. I was always under the impression that he just went around killing Joyces and the Walkertons. The conquering never really came up to the best of my memory.
When I was digging through the “Alternate Universe” storyline in Joyce and Walky! for a panel to grab for today’s strip, I came across some exposition HAII makes to Machete. He says that when he first learned he could travel between universes, he tried world domination (successfully) a few times, and then started just hopping around dimensions and killing people when that got too boring. I’d forgotten it, too. But it’s canon!
There are so many things he could do with this technology…
Find a world with faster than light travel and conquer the universe.
Transcend, become a god with near unlimited power!
A cancer on the multiverse!
Alien Head doing the same thing over and over again, expecting something different to happen sounds like he has gone a bit off the deep end.
No, no, it’s just a facet of his personality. He enjoys playing the role of the villain only insofar as it requires limited effort and lots of emotional damage. I expect he’d find running a planet tiring and impersonal.
I suspect, had Head Alien I survived and succeeded at flooding Earth with Martians, he would’ve gone the path of Head Alien II within a month. Hell, Head Alien II is probably just the result of that outcome in another reality.
A literal cancer on the universe with tentacles everywhere could be as personal as you like…
*sigh*
I’m wasted fighting those little blue idiots.
What, the Guardians of Oa?
I guessed the Smurfs.
No Blue Man group.
Of course it’s the f#$&%£g Smurfs!
Sorry, Sorry I’ve been told by my anger management coach to breath through my anger and hatred, it doesn’t work but at least I’m trying..
You know I once met Sinestro at a Super villain mixer.
I remember like it was yesterday. He was wearing a turtle neck sweater and golfing pants. I was the only one wearing my costume at the party (it just said ‘casual’ on the sign outside how was I to know that meant ‘no costumes’ this is what I wear casually).
Anyway it was near the buffet and he was adding another breaded shrimp to his perfectly lined up paper plate selection.
I stood there looked at him and smiled in a friendly sort of way but he just sort of started really concentrating on the shrimp.
*I take his hand and shake it*
Me: “Wow Sinestro I’ve heard you’ve done great work for a guy who’s younger than me and I’ve become a great fan. So-
*He looks up and stares at me like he is trying to scare me of or something then smiles*
Sinestro: “Excuse me, I have company.”
Me: “Where? I’d love to meet them too, is it someone else from the Yellow lantern corps?”
*Sinestro moves his head to one side as if trying to comprehend something, wide eyed, staring at me.*
*I amble off.*
What, a dick.
The only thing I got out of that was more guacamole than I could ever eat, which still sits in my chest freezer to this day.
It’d be personal, sure, but in the same way for everybody. Head Alien enjoys that specific brand of personal torment wherein he can turn your own actions and ideals against you, kill you with guilt and shame.
Which is personal in a way tentacle rape really isn’t.
Well it could be less direct like this great guy:
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_God
(Seriously he’s great, always forgets how many rounds he’s buying and gets way too many so it’s a really cheap night out)
It’s Head Alien! He’s evil and powerful… somehow.
God, I hated that character after his transition from jokey to competent. And not the intended way.
To be fair to him, he often had some very impressive equipment at his disposal. Being small and punchable matters a bit less when you are sitting in the pilot’s seat of a giant armed spaceship.
On the other hand, he did have a very unfortunate habit of meeting his nemeses face to face rather often. Often without strapping them down first. That little habit didn’t help him much.
Why? I feel like he was more interesting competent. And, in fact, he became so really early on.
In fact, I’m hard pressed to think of a moment where he wasn’t treated as a serious threat.
He wasn’t a serious threat at the beginning, when the joke was about Aliens from planet Alien.
i found him a boring villain that got super powerful without any rhyme of reason and whose sole role was forcing drama through false sense of danger, which IMO worked horribly.
Willis is much better at writing relationships than sci fi or action.
I am becoming more and more convinced that this is just a bizarro version of 2005, and they did manage to actually move back in time as well as space.
Who’s to say that they went back in time. Maybe this earth was created 7-8 years later than ours.
Yes, but Heady II is still up and kicking, so time-travel is at least somewhat involved.
You know… this isn’t just a comedy universe, it’s a really LAME comedy universe. Banana peels, jokes in rigidly defined genres (knock-knock, walks into a bar, light bulb). Forced ironic counterpoint. I mean, these bits are entertainingly written to us, but that’s partly because of novelty and partly because there are layers only we can appreciate.
(Ethan calling Amber a “fake geek girl” is a great example. He means it with affection and isn’t serious, but she’s seething inside because she DOESN’T like Batman THAT much and would probably love to spend more time on her own geeky interests, assuming she’s into Turtles and MLP on this world, too.)
Leslie, without even trying, is already the funniest person here. Could her path to her goal be to finally master the zen of the wacky hijink? Would that make her “the breakout character?” Would this universe then realign itself around her, similar to the way other universes did for Fonzie, Homer Simpson and Ron Swanson? And would THAT give her the power to be free?
Ultra-Car’s pies are probably A-List material here.
He’s, in fact, a jet-setter. Noone has even conceived something so funny yet.
I’m going to have to agree with you on this one. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but this seems like a commentary on traditional “status quo is GOD” sit coms or gag strips where nothing important changes. The jokes may be fresh at first, but then it always devolves into lame jokes or repetitive gags.
I mean, look at Peanuts. Most of the long runners in newspaper strips are this way. Their creators died long ago and now their maintained by other people who can’t ever write a new joke because it would offend their 90 year old readers. It’s been like this for decades, not after the Internet, but before too.
If we’re talking about newspaper strips, a great example of a comic that started out funny and fresh but very quickly started repeating its own material to death is Pearls Before Swine.
Wait…maybe I’m misreading this, but it sounds like HA is saying that the existence of the tag is what keeps him from pillaging and murdering multiple universes, and Leslie is getting ready to rip out the tag because she doesn’t like people keeping their emotions “too” under control.
I…I don’t understand how that’s not a moral event horizon for her. Can someone explain what I must be missing here?
She knows he dies later, so if she doesn’t pull the tag out it would cause a paradox, possibly destroying the Multiverse.
That’s my justification anyway.
On the one hand, I buy that that’s what she’s thinking (and I buy that she’s worked it out as fast as that, sci-fi fan that she is), but on the other hand that seems to be putting a lot of faith in the certainty that this is the guy they’ve encountered before. She doesn’t have the tags to consult; how does she know this isn’t Head Alien III? (Ultra-Car, yes, I know, but how does he know?)
Sensitive sensors?
Sensitive scanner. You can bet if it heard you making that mistake it’d shut down for a month.
well, she knows that in her dimension (and theoretically multiple others) HA can be defeated by Semme, probably just by UC alone at this close range.
and living in this universe is obviously hell, and even death would be a release.
so it’s an act of ultimate mercy if you look at it that way.
also, due to my avatar demianding this
SPOOOOOOOOOOON!
NOT IN THE FACE, NOT IN THE FACE!
Pearls Before Swine, in the begining reminded me of ‘Pogo’- “we have met the enemy, and he is us”. Great satiric(sp?) comic strip.
FOILED!
I must admit I’m little disappointed that this is the 2nd Head Alien that our heroes fought in the Pay to read Joyce and Walky comic in a time travel scenario.
I was hoping that this was a brand new 3rd version of the Head Alien that was going to cause grief for our heroes.
We have five of the guy already. I feel we’ve been spoiled as is.
I like that Leslie has gone all evil like. Disrespecting both Robin and Joe all to try and get her way. Her actions have even led her to be hanging out with “him”
And while I would like to see something really innovating here (and possibly dark), I expect Leslie to get her girl back, Joe will get his girl back and everyone live happily ever after, etc.
Sorry but to reference another comic, Ethen’s “the end” in CAD Comic was brilliant, tragic and quite fitting. So I’m feeling a little spoiled with good story lately and its been getting my hopes up in other comics…
Ethan’s death? Seriously? If you thought that was good storytelling, read Willis’s older comic, “It’s Walky”. It’ll blow the top of your head off and spill your brains out like Cap’n Crunch.
Especially if you think a happy ending is a given.
…
So… you don’t know Willis very well, do you? Your hopes are more realistic than your expectations, methinks.
Les, who died made you the chesse?
Seriouly you are mucking about wih omniverse!!
This is Doctor Doom type stuff you are doing!