Cousins
Rex isn’t too fond of them, it seems :p
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Ahhhh, yes, the “Noodle incident”…
Apparently, a “noodle incident” is something that happened in the past and is mentioned but never explained. It says the incident doesn’t have to actually involve noodles, but I think it does this time…
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident
Thanks for pinting it out, i might have wondered why noodles otherwise.
Generally i don´t mind such TV tropes, they can be annoying when they get out of hand in numbers, but once or twice isn´t such a big deal.
Robin knows how to keep it in check, luckily.
Annoying can be when a story require some sort of McGuffin in order to function. Not many authors can make proper use of their own McGuffin and it becomes almost comical.
Chekov´s gun is quite infamous by now, but it´s not as egregious as others.
I for my part prefer being shown things rather than being told, but hinting at something like this can be a set-up for a later flashback, and with good story writing, those can be enjoyable.
McThunderpants, reporting in.
So the bats are related to Nate? An interesting piece of information.
Explains his hair color, he´s a bit batty too.
Ah so they are relatives of Nate, neat detail! Makes sense on how he was able to set things up so quickly. Guess Nate is treating them to a meal at Due Dragi as thanks for a job well done.
Wonder what Charon did to set off something that ate an entire year’s budget for the basketball club. Maybe something that accidentally ruined a whole bunch of merchandise the club was using to fund raise?
Maybe that’s where Batboi got his logo’d skateboard?
The truth about trouble revealed;
the trio are his family.
It seems when it comes to dark plans,
Nate’s lot believes in quality.
Cap’n Canid wants a quick break
but decides to just soldier on
whilst they’re there he’s staying away…
So he doesn’t get set upon?
Clem really does like her Zekey;
it’s one time she doesn’t pretend;
but, unfortunately for him,
it’s really just as her best friend.
I wonder if Miss Mini-oranges will cause a misunderstanding when she tries to translate what was said. I dunno if it would be funny to Zeke, but it might make decent content for a “behind-the-scenes” on her channel.
Interesting lore drop there. So now we have a post-hybrid human born who is related to hybrids.
How irresponsible do you have to be to spend a club’s entire budget in one go? I’m assuming the club’s resources are usually considerable
Sport Clubs really don’t get much from Fundraisers or School Budgets. So, if she somehow trashed a property, that’ll be enough to kill a Budget.
Must be a regional thing, cause the sports facilities were always the most up to date in every level of school that needed them. Then again I’m within an few hours drive of Texas, so…
The Indiana high school I went to definitely spent most of their money on the sports facilities. Our gym was so much bigger than that of the neighboring town that when the neighboring town’s team played a “home game” against one of the other schools with a rather large and zealous fan base, they’d play their home game in our gym rather than theirs.
Unless, of course, we were that other school, because our basketball team definitely had a rather large and zealous fan base, and it was trivial for us to go to the neighboring town, so even though some people would be vocal about not going to slight the other school, we still tended to sell out their capacity. But it was either that or have their home games in the opposing team’s gym, which would clearly make it an away game.
Even with this, the sport clubs didn’t get much from the school budget. What they got was permission to use one of the massive rooms behind where the massive upstairs bleachers collapsed and the ability to rent the weight training room. (The fee for this officially went directly to the coach who got the job of chaperoning the event, because nobody was going to trust the teenagers and their club sponsor who wasn’t a coach alone in the weight training room. But I’ve since heard about enough school finance shenanigans to suspect there was some skimming off the top.)
Note that there was certainly a lot of school sponsored sports training for the athletic teams outside of normal school hours that was certainly funded by the school budget. It just wasn’t considered an athletic club.
Athletic clubs differed in that they were run by the students, were not required to be the exact same set as the school’s team for that sport, had events that were not strictly training for their sport, were not sponsored by coaches, had some meetings not attended by any of the coaches, and, as mentioned, didn’t have much of a budget.
I’m not sure what not much of a budget looked like, because I wasn’t a jock and wasn’t a member of any athletic club. I only knew as much as I did about it because our basketball center was in one of the social circles with which I had limited engagement. Also, at one point, his girlfriend was in the basketball club, despite being one of the shortest girls in the school. There were enough people with feelings about that it was fairly well known as was the rule that allowed it.
Could easily be a skateboard accident.
That depends on the school. I lived a couple of counties away from a High School where the already-well-funded Football team basically stole the money that had been fund-raised by the school band through an accounting trick. Needless to say, not many people were happy with the coach who thought up the idea or the school board member who facilitated the swindle. But it was perfectly legal according to the state laws then (and maybe even still? This happened in the late 1970s.) in effect.
Seems that kid drives a lot of people batty
Nate: {goes to the counter to fetch an edible repayment}
Clementine: {accidentally bumps Nate with her chair} Oh, sorry!
Nate: It’s fi- {recognizes Clem} OHMYCODCLEMENTINELEBEAU!
Have Nate activate a “surprise fanboy attack” on Clementine? I don’t think she’ll like that. And I doubt he’ll ever live it down either…
The witches being neutralized ……… Only Larissa is : Dinah is still free
To be fair, she took their only shared braincell with her
And Dinah flat out admitted that she had no idea what was to do from there. LaLa never came up with a single contingency/backup plan in case something like this happened.
Me and Daniel the Human still think Dinah will grab the same food at the food truck that Clem did, Clem will interview someone who is obviously enjoying the same thing she did/is, Dinah will blankly answer that she hates it, Clem asks why when it’s so well made, then the 2 of them fangirl over how good it actually is…
That’s a possibility
This is interesting
Is it me or does it seem like that what type of hybrid a child is born as is heavily linked to genetics, because so far all related hybrids shown have been the same or similar species to their siblings
Makes more sense than them being random.
I really hope we get to see the Bats later. Like during the C&D Chapter/Side-Comic. Maybe???????????????????????????
Not sure if anyone else has commented on it yet but I love the detail of the chairs in this location being design for tails! It makes sense that public seating in the most Hybrid dense location would be design for well… hybrids. It’s also neat that the design would work for back-mounted wings if such things were to exist (the bats had membrane on their arms, which makes sense for bats and birds, but some insects or even some mythical hybrids could have them)
That’s a real chair design.
…Hmm, now that you say that…
Charon killed the budget. That’s why you don’t pay the ferryman, don’t even fix a price.
Now there’s an old reference. It’s from a Chris De Burgh song if I remember correctly.
Yes, it is. And I love it~
Yeah, don’t pay the Ferryman, until he gets you to the other side…
https://youtu.be/lqZEp4Fb6qw
It looks like Zeke isn’t recording at the moment. (If he were, then he’d be filming mostly sky, plus a cameraman should never speak while recording.) So when he said “going live”, he didn’t mean that literally. They’re going to edit the video and then publish it.
I’ve known at least some people to mean “going live” meaning that they were not going to “edit”, except possibly to bleep stuff out. But things like subtitles were done in a post production stage and the actual videos tended to get posted hours later if there were no subtitles or days later if there were.
Although, since Youtube now allows closed captions to be added after the fact (and apparently even by people other than the original submitter), it would be possible to do the subtitles later.
Cute and honest Zeke is honest… And absolutely adorable. At least Zeke is completely honest about his inability to understand Clem’s conversation with Kai, though Clementine herself may not have fully understood it either, due to Kai’s immense fluency in Italian by learning from and speaking with native Italians.
Daniel here. I have a sneaking suspicion that it actually was live – as in direct to their platform of choice, with people watching in real-time – mainly because this is a promotional video for a food truck during a 1 day event. Editing and subtitles could be potentially done in the field on the actual mobile, but it would take time to do and the longer it takes to get the video out there, the less time it has to attract more people in and actually be effective.
If they are going to edit it there and then, then I suspect Clem and Cleo took that into consideration when choosing WHEN to record it, since both recognize that time is money here…
Panel 1: There should be a period or ellipsis at the end of “Zekey”.
Jesse’s Adventure, panel 3: Drop the comma from the end of “energy”.
Jesse’s Adventure: “You can do whatever you can imagine” … suddenly, spending 15 years there doesn’t seem that bad …
Maybe for you. For some people, it would be horrible. I’m not sure how well it would translate to generalized anxiety disorders, but people who were overly phobic of particular things… those things, all over.
Of course, it’s clear that isn’t a problem here, because that would’ve basically swarmed them more or less on arrival.
Also, the disconnection with ones friends and family would be rather painful, at least for those with positive connections with friends and family.
Even people with phobia are able to imagine something else. Although yes, with how easily she did it it IS possible person with phobia would be already swarmed by their own fear.
And yes, 15 years is still very long time, it wouldn’t be something I would choose, but there are lot of worse places to spend such time on than place which you can alter with your mind … and remember she’s there with her boyfriend.
Nate McThunderpants is the Brat Bats’s cousin?! I never saw that coming… Suddenly, this explains so much. Now we know how Nate predicted that Charon would crash into Larissa’s magumbos, he knows his baby cousin is a klutzy baby bat. Rex shouldn’t be grumpy towards all the Brat Bats, the grumpy wolf-dog boy should also go easy on the baby bat since Charon is only 9 years old even if the little guy did cause the vague incident. Also, the bats probably don’t mean to cause Rexie’s ears any pain with their high pitched screeching.
A normal Human character with Hybrid relatives that they’re not the parent or grandparent of? That’s a nice little milestone for this comic! I wonder if we’ll see this again in Kai and Kaya’s family…
Rex has “Vietnam flashbacks” of what Charon did to the Basketball team’s budget? Yikes, what did Charon destroy to cost the an entire year’s worth of funding? A little accident prone seems to be an understatement! Still, I hope Rexbo isn’t tempted to beat the stuffing out of little Char bat or wedgie him to the point puberty won’t start happening to him for another decade.
You know, assuming they are all this age at, say, the year the comic started (in an alternate history world, albeit, but assuming the history is pretty much the same until hybrids come around) it seems weird he’d reference Vietnam specifically, instead of PTSD generally. Though admittedly not impossible. But now it makes me think Rex’s hair has that post-Vietnam service look. Lt Dan from Forrest Gump comes to mind, but it was a bit of a thing, especially after years of crew cuts on top of more substantial suffering.
I was thinking something along the lines that Charon’s “incident” involved fire due to Rex’s mention of Vietnam and that war involved napalm and flamethrowers. Either way, it must not have been pretty!
Wasn’t there a third one? Who told them where they were?
The plot thickens.
I can see it. he’s kinda batty himself
And our comparisons of him to Batman are further justified.
Now why would Rex seem obligated to make an appearance? What would that do to repay the kids for their help? Especially if there was bad blood from a Noodle Incident?
My prediction is that they are a huge fan of Rex and just very unlucky in their previous efforts to show their love.
I dunno, Rex, Trixy’s kinda cute, and just your age…
You know, this actually makes me think about how odd it is to be a human with Hybrid relatives, that probably took some adjusting to… Then again kids are pretty good at that so maybe it’s not as weird as I’m thinking it is.