A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
For once, I’d like an Evil being to not laugh and gloat about an evil plan. Why can’t they just go “And soon my plan will come to fruition!” and leave the protagonists guessing if it’s evil or not. Break the Cliche! XD
Speaking of which, he even had a couple of kids around to ask to spot the holes in his plan (rule 12) before he moved forward and he didn’t take advantage of that.
The Evil Overlord List is a must study, not matter which side you’re on.
See the talk about “monologging” in THE INCREDIBLES. Stopping to explain your plans to the hero (instead of killing him) seems to be a natural flaw in super-villains.
Are you kidding? Where’s the fun in being evil if you can’t gloat about it? The gloating is the best part. I became evil because heroic gloating is not a thing.
But definitely skip the maniacal laughter. While it may be cathartic, it can cause you to overlook some event that a more observant individual would be able to react to.
I’ll bet someone $5 this is secretly a Caley wish being acted out. I would actually think that’s kinda funny if at the end of this arc this turned out to be true.
This is going to date me but I loved yesterdays cliff hsnger and todays rescue. Took me back to the old Saturday matinee seriel movies. Each episode ended with a cliff hanger , like getting sacked, and you had to come back next week to see how the hero escaped. Thanks Robert and CD. Keep up the good work.
Yeh, the two I remember best are the original :Batman”, and the “Mark of Zorro (Z). There was also a western and everyone counted the number of shots you could get out of a six gun and how many time the posse rode past the same rock in pursuit of the bad guys.
Theatrical shorts, not full-length features. Before television, they would do 15-20 minute long short episodes that would show alongside a feature film. There was a “Batman” series in the 1940s, and the Flash Gordon series is also famous. If you want to go all the way back to the Silent Film era, there’s The Perils of Pauline.
The plots of the INDIANA JONES movies are based on the same notion as those one-reel adventures: danger, cliff-hanger, escape; new danger, next cliff-hanger, etc. until the escape from the last cliff-hanger than destroys the villain and ends the movie.
I have heard that a lot of those old cliff-hangers went into the original “Star Wars” movie. The scene where Luke takes Leia and swings across the hanger was supposed to come from a Tarzan movie.
I have to admit, my four favorite movies are “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, “Santa Claus conquers the Martians” ,The Presence staring kathy Ireland in a red bikini,” I could say “Fast times–“but lets keep it to CDs pg ratings last but my favorite, “The Return of the killer Tomatoes.”
In the novel that WIKED is based on, Elphebe, the girl who grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the East has a severe allergic reaction to water. Allergies are individual physical reactions, not everyone has them. Likewise, not all witches have the same allergy as Elphebe.
“We all know witches don’t like water”, you say? I’m hard pressed to think of any example of that besides the wicked witch from Wizard of Oz. (I’m not sure if it was ever revealed whether water would harm a good witch)
Medieval witch tests? Floating was supposedly the mark of a witch, meaning the water didn’t harm her.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch from Archie comics? I remember one comic where Salem (the cat) temporarily gained magic powers and turned a fire hydrant on head witch Della, and that didn’t really hurt her.
Witches from the Harry Potter series? Book 4 includes some swimming in the lake near Hogwarts, so they don’t have trouble with water.
TV series Bewitched? I haven’t watched much of that, so I’m not sure if that demonstrates either way, but the crossover storyline earlier in this comic included the witch in a swimsuit in the ocean.
I don’t remember any episodes in Bewitched where Samantha or Tabitha were shown in a swimming pool. I think there was at least one episode in the backyard that involved a bucket of water or perhaps a wading pool. No harm from water there. Of course, those scenes were filmed inside a soundstage, with lots of electric lights and other electrical equipment (microphones, cameras) so I wouldn’t expect more than a splash.
The only hydrophobic witch I am aware of, like you say, is the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz.
A little research (on Wikipedia) indicates that the WW of the W (in the book) was kinda dried out before the water was thrown on her, and she didn’t bleed when bitten (by Toto). So it may just have been her…though Baum (and other Oz writers) used the notion elsewhere in the series.
I just remembered what is bad, even fatal, for evil witches is salt. As in seawater has a lot of salt in it. If anything is going to ‘melt’ a witch, that would.
For anyone wondering what I’m talking about, the hose Caley is wielding has to be pumping out seawater. Boats carry fresh water for one thing only, and that is for drinking. All other water utilisations use seawater.
If Caley’s trying to “waterboard” Natalie in the face with the water hose’s spray rather than to “melt” her with it, that would make more sense for a threat. Other than the witch lore from the Wizard of Oz universe, I don’t know of any other fictional references where water would kill witches, except maybe holy water.
Well Caley never trusted or liked Natalie and Rodges fake relationship.
to be fair Natalie doesn’t like her’s and Rodges fake relationship either XD
Typo in panel 5 – “so RELEAST us from your…” (should be “release” of course).
Fixed.
Releast should be a word: You were least before and are now least again. You are releast!
Time to reghost with the remost.
Natalie only had magic in the alternate timeline where she became a genie instead of Jean. So Caley, your both right and wrong at the same time.
For once, I’d like an Evil being to not laugh and gloat about an evil plan. Why can’t they just go “And soon my plan will come to fruition!” and leave the protagonists guessing if it’s evil or not. Break the Cliche! XD
Well, they can also study the Evil Overlord List and raise their chance to success even more. Or … they can go full “I did it 35 minutes ago”.
The storm clouds brewing up over the last three panels is a nice touch.
Speaking of which, he even had a couple of kids around to ask to spot the holes in his plan (rule 12) before he moved forward and he didn’t take advantage of that.
The Evil Overlord List is a must study, not matter which side you’re on.
Currently he is breaking rule 20.
Yes, you should never gloat until it is too late for them to stop you.
See the talk about “monologging” in THE INCREDIBLES. Stopping to explain your plans to the hero (instead of killing him) seems to be a natural flaw in super-villains.
Are you kidding? Where’s the fun in being evil if you can’t gloat about it? The gloating is the best part. I became evil because heroic gloating is not a thing.
But definitely skip the maniacal laughter. While it may be cathartic, it can cause you to overlook some event that a more observant individual would be able to react to.
Obviously, Caley forgot that Natalie was dunked in the ocean and didn’t melt.
He also never heard about sea witches.
Even as an adult, Caley gets confused by too much fictional story adaptions for actual facts.
Caley has an adult body and, perhaps, an adult mind, but her EXPERIENCE is still that of a small child.
I’ll bet someone $5 this is secretly a Caley wish being acted out. I would actually think that’s kinda funny if at the end of this arc this turned out to be true.
It’s an interesting idea, but I’m skeptical. Caley *likes* “Uncle Neil”, so why would she wish him into the villain role?
Maybe it’s her nightmare?
Possible but it still looks to me like the magic macguffin on the seabed is pulling things out of Aracelli’s subconcious.
Quite the blast of water to the face. It totally destroyed the sack. ;p
Well obviously, CD wasn’t happy with the way it was doing it’s job, and sacked it. 😉
The (il)logic displayed in panels 4 & 5 is reminiscent of that in the ‘burn the witch’ scene in “Monty Python & the Holy Grail”.
You shouldn’t gloat like that until your evil plan *has* come to fruition.
Yes. He who laughs last laughs best.
And if your evil plan falls through, you still have plausible deniability.
This is going to date me but I loved yesterdays cliff hsnger and todays rescue. Took me back to the old Saturday matinee seriel movies. Each episode ended with a cliff hanger , like getting sacked, and you had to come back next week to see how the hero escaped. Thanks Robert and CD. Keep up the good work.
Huh, I didn’t know they’d ever done movies like that. How fun!
Yeh, the two I remember best are the original :Batman”, and the “Mark of Zorro (Z). There was also a western and everyone counted the number of shots you could get out of a six gun and how many time the posse rode past the same rock in pursuit of the bad guys.
Theatrical shorts, not full-length features. Before television, they would do 15-20 minute long short episodes that would show alongside a feature film. There was a “Batman” series in the 1940s, and the Flash Gordon series is also famous. If you want to go all the way back to the Silent Film era, there’s The Perils of Pauline.
And don’t forget “Zombies of the Stratophere” (1952), notable mainly for starring a (very young) Leonard Nimoy as, you guessed it,… an alien!
The plots of the INDIANA JONES movies are based on the same notion as those one-reel adventures: danger, cliff-hanger, escape; new danger, next cliff-hanger, etc. until the escape from the last cliff-hanger than destroys the villain and ends the movie.
I have heard that a lot of those old cliff-hangers went into the original “Star Wars” movie. The scene where Luke takes Leia and swings across the hanger was supposed to come from a Tarzan movie.
Arguably could have been an Errol Flynn film, as well. He did lots of that sort of thing.
the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
I was thinking “The Sea Hawk” or “Captain Blood”, but that works, too.
I have to admit, my four favorite movies are “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, “Santa Claus conquers the Martians” ,The Presence staring kathy Ireland in a red bikini,” I could say “Fast times–“but lets keep it to CDs pg ratings last but my favorite, “The Return of the killer Tomatoes.”
Apparently their witch knowledge comes from The Wizard of Oz. They’re aged up, but we have to remember they’re still kids.
In the novel that WIKED is based on, Elphebe, the girl who grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the East has a severe allergic reaction to water. Allergies are individual physical reactions, not everyone has them. Likewise, not all witches have the same allergy as Elphebe.
Panel 6… Caley, such language. Did you learn that from Uncle Rodge?
“We all know witches don’t like water”, you say? I’m hard pressed to think of any example of that besides the wicked witch from Wizard of Oz. (I’m not sure if it was ever revealed whether water would harm a good witch)
Medieval witch tests? Floating was supposedly the mark of a witch, meaning the water didn’t harm her.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch from Archie comics? I remember one comic where Salem (the cat) temporarily gained magic powers and turned a fire hydrant on head witch Della, and that didn’t really hurt her.
Witches from the Harry Potter series? Book 4 includes some swimming in the lake near Hogwarts, so they don’t have trouble with water.
TV series Bewitched? I haven’t watched much of that, so I’m not sure if that demonstrates either way, but the crossover storyline earlier in this comic included the witch in a swimsuit in the ocean.
I don’t remember any episodes in Bewitched where Samantha or Tabitha were shown in a swimming pool. I think there was at least one episode in the backyard that involved a bucket of water or perhaps a wading pool. No harm from water there. Of course, those scenes were filmed inside a soundstage, with lots of electric lights and other electrical equipment (microphones, cameras) so I wouldn’t expect more than a splash.
The only hydrophobic witch I am aware of, like you say, is the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz.
Far as I know, it’s original with L. Frank Baum.
A little research (on Wikipedia) indicates that the WW of the W (in the book) was kinda dried out before the water was thrown on her, and she didn’t bleed when bitten (by Toto). So it may just have been her…though Baum (and other Oz writers) used the notion elsewhere in the series.
It might be implied that WWW was using something like necromancy to prolong her life—she was already essentially an undead being
I just remembered what is bad, even fatal, for evil witches is salt. As in seawater has a lot of salt in it. If anything is going to ‘melt’ a witch, that would.
For anyone wondering what I’m talking about, the hose Caley is wielding has to be pumping out seawater. Boats carry fresh water for one thing only, and that is for drinking. All other water utilisations use seawater.
Again, Caley forgot that Natalie was dunked in the ocean (salt water) and didn’t melt.
If Caley’s trying to “waterboard” Natalie in the face with the water hose’s spray rather than to “melt” her with it, that would make more sense for a threat. Other than the witch lore from the Wizard of Oz universe, I don’t know of any other fictional references where water would kill witches, except maybe holy water.
Don’t forget: Caley and Dominic are actually 9-year-olds, at most. They run on child-logic.
And that made sense to you? Caley, just . . . no.
We know that is fake Neil, but will Caley now think real Neil is evil too
I wonder: If Caley believes that water will melt the wicked witch, what will happen if she squirts evil Neil?