Guys who bulk up like this never think about that part. No wonder so many fall prey to ‘roid rage. If your franks and beans just shrank, you’d be furious, too.
3rd panel of the previous comic and the 4th of this one. Getting little dissonance from the writer here, not as bad as the body hair thing a ways back but still…
Is he Red Skull now or is he too daft to be Red Skull?
With no habit of the sort of bodybuilding needed to look like young Arnold Schwarzenegger he’ll be looking like old and pudgy Arnold Schwarzenegger real quick.
Uh-oh.
I think the title made me laugh more than anything else, and yes, dude, your skittles and trumpet got smaller.
“Wha?… They’re getting …smaller?” Hilarious! She didn’t think it was a good idea before he did it. Now she’s all the more certain of it.
Guys who bulk up like this never think about that part. No wonder so many fall prey to ‘roid rage. If your franks and beans just shrank, you’d be furious, too.
It got smaller because he lost his glasses.
3rd panel of the previous comic and the 4th of this one. Getting little dissonance from the writer here, not as bad as the body hair thing a ways back but still…
Wonder if the green glowing eyes are just for show.
Is he Red Skull now or is he too daft to be Red Skull?
With no habit of the sort of bodybuilding needed to look like young Arnold Schwarzenegger he’ll be looking like old and pudgy Arnold Schwarzenegger real quick.
The Incredulous Hulk? Dr. Jerkle & Mr. Snide?
Oh please, yes.
Oh yeah, this is fine.
Totally no way this could end up going badly.
Only an ideologically-opposite but equally hulking superheroine, who in no way violates any of Marvel’s trademarks, can stop him now!
Marvel? Wonder Woman is DC and this strip is more comparing this guy (Alpha Man) to Captain America not Gyno-Star.
Shrunken head syndrome! 😛
Looks like he got The Hulk’s Gamma Ray Sight Correction surgery.
Like laser eye surgery, but with more SCIENCE!
If next time the frame only shows him from the waist up, he won’t need Comics Code Compliant Miracle Stretch Pants. 🙂
Dude, that potion’s going straight to your eyes..,can you see in the dark now?
Old as I am, I learned a new usage rule when I questioned your use of “use,” Rebecca (you used “use” correctly, of course, although I didn’t use to).
Unrelated aside: another great strip!
Thank you. I had to look up the usage rule.
Am I the only person that gets creeped out by ultra sculpted abs? o.0
Now he is the iconic American male. All brawn and sex appeal and no conscience or empathy. The idealized male for the Holy American Empire! To come.
Speaking of Captain America… 🙂
Sooo… they invented steroids?