Upgrading to new tech always comes with those unforeseen hiccups. This is canon, now, by the way. The moon will a always be missing that piece when it shows up in the background now.
Moon Over Boom
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By Ladon Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 12:42 am
How did these aliens lose again?
By Darius Drake Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 7:55 am
They came to conquer, not destroy. Additionally, they started the fight by sending in infantry, not destroying threats/cities from afar. So, basically, they didn’t fight like Earth was a potential threat, and opened themselves up to counter attack, which was taken advantage of.
By Ladon Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 12:45 am
also, they may have just destroyed numerous coastal towns
By Yalashanda Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 3:46 am
Well they are evil.
By CTNC Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 4:58 am
It was a crescent moon when I got here.
By Darius Drake Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 7:52 am
Will that peice of the moon always be in that position? Because I find it annoying when stories have something like the moon being damaged, but the damage never moves, despite the fact that the moon, like the planet, is supposed to constantly spin.
By Badtux Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 8:06 am
Err, the moon is tide-locked. From our perspective here on the planet, it always shows us the same face. Try looking at it with a pair of binoculars sometime and you’ll see the same features in the same place every time, even months apart.
By Darius Drake Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 9:50 am
If nothing happened to the moon and it remained as it was, sure, you might have a point, as the moon of Earth does spin so that the same face is constantly facing our planet. However, in this comic, the moon just had an explosion powerful enough to destroy a significant amount of it’s surface. If that doesn’t affect it’s spin, both around the Earth & on it’s axis, I would be greatly surprised. As such, the damaged bit should still move.
I would be amused, however, should this damage ended up affecting the world’s tides significantly due to changing the moon’s orbit around Earth. The greatest damage Claw has ever done, and it’s an accident made because someone ignorantly shot the moon while trying to correct the ship’s course.
By 7eggert Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 6:51 pm
A moon in tidal lock should behave like a ball swimming on the sea. (Or an iceberg). Chip off a part and it turns.
OTOH, maybe we’re just not patient enough if we expect immediate results.
By CosmoFan47 Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 1:12 pm
HA! The laser symbol was shaped like a rabbit!
For those who don’t know, in “Sailor Moon” the character who transforms into the said Guardian of Love and Justice is named Tsukino Usagi. Which means “rabbit of the moon.” Apparently there is a legend in Japan about a rabbit who lives on the moon, so Sailor Moon’s name actually makes sense.
Anyway, I don’t know if the creator of “Supervillainous” meant for this to be a reference, but if he did, it was really clever.
By Darius Drake Sat Sep 24th 2016 at 2:20 am
The Asian “Rabbit with a Pestle on the Moon” concept comes from the same place as the European “Man on the Moon”. Basically, Europeans see the Moon’s Crater’s making a human’s face, while Asians see a rabbit using a Pestle. Can’t remember if it’s supposed to be a Mortar & Pestle, or just the Pestle, but I do remember that the rabbit has a Pestle.
By Random Guy Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 3:15 pm
He is pounding out tofu.
By that_jedi_girl Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 2:12 pm
And up up up goes the evil street cred. And he didn’t have to (personally) do anything about it.
By Gianluca Burdon Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 2:27 pm
That only counts if someone saw it and could prove it was him, PLUS they’d have to be interested in doing it
By Towering Barbarian Sat Sep 24th 2016 at 12:51 am
After the things he’s done I think we can count on people watching him and documenting the details of their watch. Whether or not they’re interested in proving it depends on how alert the media types among the watchers were or what sort of agenda the other watchers had. The real question is how many of these watchers can tell when Claw does something on purpose and when it’s the usual Redshirt bungling. @_@
By Garitheous Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 7:52 pm
Reminds me of Omnipotus from The Tick. Now we just need to have someone write upon the moon!
By Darius Drake Sat Sep 24th 2016 at 2:24 am
“Buy Parts” *Moon writing device trying to write an advertisement on there is destroyed at this point*. “Men, we need someone to go up to the Moon and destroy that writing! We’ll give you explosives to do so!” Men go up, the ship crashes, and the explosives all go off at the same time. Only a small amount of the writing is actually destroyed, changing what it says. Now it says “Buy Farts”. :3