POWER SCHOOL 2013!

Jenny Berry

That chessboard says, you could just push pawns up to become queens, and then swarm the Legion. So why is this climactic battle three on three?

Paulie Poderr

Not my decision, but I think I understand it. Dom felt that Wiki Boy's powers might somehow take multiple people out of the game at one time. Only one would be taken off the board, but others would be effectively out of game somehow. Hipolyta wasn't going to let that happen. So we didn't bring in more players, before we tested Wiki Boy. Or so went the plan.

Anyway... It's good to hear from a fellow chess fan!

Kenny Berry

huh huh, someone spanked the ninja.

Paulie Poderr

He sure did.

I don't know all the cool powers an Ultimate Ninja might have. But "Survive Getting Slapped Like a Mosquito" must be among them.

George Phillies

Perhaps the superhero teams should consider all attacking at the same time, not trying "After you, Alphonse. No, after you, Gaston." as a combat tactic.

Paulie Poderr

Not politeness, so much as reaction time. The whole battle took less than five minutes. Yes, we had a stadium full of superheroes vs. three supervillains. But the superheroes had never all worked together before. And most of them were busy getting people to safety. So it was really an even fight.

By the way, I love your stories about The Girl Who Saved The World! And I had no idea you had such a great amount of published work.

Ununnilium

I'm fascinated *and* confused! I think something cool happened maybe.

Paulie Poderr

I'll just say, it was weird but it might work out well. Maybe the next comic will explain.

Rafe S.

If Spanker 4 merged with someone before this, why isn't he still merged? And who's that guy in the merge picture?

Paulie Poderr

Spanker 4's merge partners broke up with him. So to say.

As for that guy in the picture... That's from before a reality shift which led to the formation of our universe. I had to look up the guy's name: "Wyatt Ferguson". He was working with Coach Powernaut. Somehow we still have that picture, and that history alongside our own. I think it's related to why the other Powernauts went on that space mission. It's as though the universes might be colliding again sometime.