Bruce Lee did it.
And then Doc jumped off.
Pretty sure Doc rocketed off, surfing on the back of a robo-Dracula. Plus the gravity of the moon is less than Earth's gravity.
But that first point, I'll grant you; I missed this page
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No, Doc grappled the robo-dracula and then jumped with it. Surfing was just the landing part.
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
Jumping from the moon to Earth is still a lesser achievement than the reverse.
Guess I'm 0 for 2, then, since yeah, he deffo jumped. Rockets didn't kick in until later.
Moon gravity being lesser than Earth's does make jumping off of it a lot easier, but looking into it, he'd still need to jump at 2.38km/s, a velocity topping the fastest bullets we have today (the .220 Swift at 4,000ft/s, or 1.2192km/s), so...
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He studied under Bruce Lee, the greatest badass the martial arts world has ever known. For about thirty seconds. That is all you need to know.
edited 13th Dec '16 12:51:33 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Does that Jonesy joke put Mcninja in the running as a contender for longest joke setup in a webcomic? (Eight Bit Theater was nine years if I recall correctly.)
So that's what this does
Still I'd say that jumping from the moon to Earth is a bigger deal than jumping up a tall building.
This still doesn't make jumping up a tall building unimpressive, you realize.
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It's a bit different from 8-Bit. 8-Bit's joke was a Brick Joke. The setup occurred nine years before the punchline.
This is more like a sly callback reference. It's referencing a gag that was, itself, a complete joke when it first occurred.
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Chekhov's Gag, rather than a Brick Joke.
Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
The 8-Bit was a Chekhov's Gag bit, too, is the thing.
The joke was complete- Black Mage was reading a Nintendo Power magazine, and commenting on a thing in it, written about the game he's ostensibly in. A simple gag.
Later it turned out to be a set-up for a joke whose punchline came way, way down the line, but it wasn't a "Wait, what's the joke?" [...] "Ohhh." Not really.
Addendum: Or something. I don't really know, the boundary between tropes as defined by the page is different than what I had originally thought, and I might be misinterpreting it, or it might just be poorly put or oversimplified, or any combination of the above.
This is tangential, anyways; actually on-topic, I am enjoying this latest stretch of the arc, so far.
edited 13th Dec '16 7:41:13 PM by RaichuKFM
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
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How did he... oh, never mind. Logic was out to lunch the minute Doc defeated Ronald McBonald with a mime-weapon.
I have to admit, that's a neat way to tie up the Dracula subplot.
edited 16th Dec '16 9:26:46 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Queen of Good Things, Honest
It's weirdly appropriate for DSP to kill Dracula, given that in the bad future, DSP was aping his style.
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Filthy casual
Having Dracula's final word be "bleh" in itself is kind of bleh, isn't it? Maybe it's just me.
edited 16th Dec '16 9:45:48 AM by TheUnsquished
(Annoyed grunt)
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
It's better if you imagine it as the cliche "Blegh" vampire sound.
Oh really when?
Wasn't DSP a Techno Wizard in the future? So I assume he knows enough about magic to reprogram magic things.
edited 16th Dec '16 10:05:14 AM by MilesDryden
I thought that Dracula wasn't deathly allergic to sunlight in the book; he just couldn't use all his cool vampire superpowers if it was sunny out (Shapeshifter Mode Lock, apparently). Heck, apparently his only real relationship between time-of-day and weakness was sunset and sunrise.
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This Dracula is clearly based off Movie Dracula though. It's easy enough to say that the book was not 100% accurate in-universe.
Always 3:00am in the Filth
Glad Sean actually did something in this story.
On the bright side, Dracula gets to experience something new.
"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
So that's what this does
I was waiting for Sean to make his next move. Too obviously set up to not have any further role in the story.
As for how he hacks magic? Magic.
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