Nah – not that dark. It’s just part of the standard origin story trope.
Trying to figure out where the rat came from initially bugged me, but I decided that he had it up one of his shirt sleeves – there’s plenty of room in there, what with his spindly little arms (I have spindly little arms too, so I can joke).
He really lived…long enough to pass his mutant genetically altered, highly defective genes on to other rats. Super! This boy just discovered a brand new rat poison!
Nuclear physics gives us power generation techniques which are actually much safer and cleaner than people give it credit for, especially in current tech generations. And chemical warfare was essentially a side product of boosting food production capacity such that it’s actually possible to feed everyone in the world with room for another couple of billion… if we ignore or somehow deal with the environmental effects and actually get that food to those people.
Aah, here we go. The “nice guy” decides to turn into the ‘Super-Asshole’ to get girls and later realizes that, really, he was just an asshole to begin with and that’s why the continued failure.
And then dies of organ failure…? That’s a new one…
Are the ads for “25 best butts on the internet” and “the hottest girl you’ll see today” ironic? These obtrusive margin ads for pseudo-porn are somehow way more distasteful than normal porn.
I think there’s a hidden message here about male expectations imposed by women and society and who has to struggle harder to succeed.
If “women and society” didn’t really mean, “women and men,” wouldn’t you have just said, “women?” If they’re already covered, who else is left?
But yes, when social psychologists have actually measured it, it turns out that women care just as much about attractiveness as men do.
o.0
Was he……carrying that dead rat around with him this whole time?
Massive organ failure?! Well this got rather dark…
Nah – not that dark. It’s just part of the standard origin story trope.
Trying to figure out where the rat came from initially bugged me, but I decided that he had it up one of his shirt sleeves – there’s plenty of room in there, what with his spindly little arms (I have spindly little arms too, so I can joke).
One lab accident away from becoming a super villain? Hmm. Could be.
Massive organ failure? Well, if that isn’t a sign that things are going to end badly for him.
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“…but I have pills for the death.”
thinking like Monsanto.
He really lived…long enough to pass his mutant genetically altered, highly defective genes on to other rats. Super! This boy just discovered a brand new rat poison!
Holy crap! Forget changing your appearance, junior. Market that shit! Let’s solve this rat problem once and for all!
Coolest…rat….ever…
It’s so cool that he carries it around as a fashion accessory.
I take it he’s going to try and get his life’s worth out of this.
“Everything special about you came out of a bottle.”
So much for the work out and educate yourself to become a better person thing…
ahh, nerds. They mean well, they really do. Then they come up with the atom bomb and genetic engineering and chemical warfare and…
There’s nothing wrong with genetic engineering.
Nuclear physics gives us power generation techniques which are actually much safer and cleaner than people give it credit for, especially in current tech generations. And chemical warfare was essentially a side product of boosting food production capacity such that it’s actually possible to feed everyone in the world with room for another couple of billion… if we ignore or somehow deal with the environmental effects and actually get that food to those people.
Just sayin’… even the bad comes with some good.
Aah, here we go. The “nice guy” decides to turn into the ‘Super-Asshole’ to get girls and later realizes that, really, he was just an asshole to begin with and that’s why the continued failure.
And then dies of organ failure…? That’s a new one…
So the kid takes the serum and it instantly transforms him into Alpha Rat! 😛 Who knew the serum was so specific!
My brain must be failing to metabolize iron correctly, because I could swear I’ve seen that dashing turbo-rat somewhere in a previous strip.
Are the ads for “25 best butts on the internet” and “the hottest girl you’ll see today” ironic? These obtrusive margin ads for pseudo-porn are somehow way more distasteful than normal porn.
Thanks for calling it to my attention!
He’d rather burn brightly for a short time than a long slow low burn.
He made such a handsome corpse.
Sounds like his “organ” has already failed massively
This is about PEDs, right? (If it isn’t, it should be.)