The Return of....MAX POWERS!

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Hylian

Hylian

I wonder how Cole is going to handle this turn of events. He is used to Max always having the upper hand and always having success fall into his lap. But now if Cole hires Max Cole will have the power and will surely be tempted to abuse said power.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Hylian said:
I wonder how Cole is going to handle this turn of events. He is used to Max always having the upper hand and always having success fall into his lap. But now if Cole hires Max Cole will have the power and will surely be tempted to abuse said power.
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I think that would be out of character for Cole and I'd be incredibly disappointed. Cole and Max had quite the moment during the Thanksgiving arc in 2008. He came to terms with why he disliked Max (how Max was just a better person in general than he could ever be.) If Cole reverted back to the type of person who would give anything to be one step ahead of Max then I'd have to resort to calling Scott a hack.

Wait...
 
Gusto

Gusto

Shawnacy said:
I think that would be out of character for Cole and I'd be incredibly disappointed. Cole and Max had quite the moment during the Thanksgiving arc in 2008.
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I actually think it would be incredibly IN-character for Cole and thought that Thanksgiving arc was gonna be the arc that finally outed Cole as the series' true antagonist.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

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I first clicked on this thread thinking this was about Homer Simpson. And then I realized.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I wouldn't have recognized this new character as Max if the other characters hadn't called him Max. I probably won't recognize him as Max the next time he appears in the strip. He looks like Bearded Extra #1 to me, one of the random guys you might see in the background of a PvP strip. Or a throwaway character, like the guy who teaches Cole how to fight, or the ones who came across Francis handcuffed to a sewage pipe.

Nonetheless, if zaniness and hilarity ensue, all complaints shall be rendered irrelevant.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Raemon777 said:
I liked the meta-reference ("You can see his eyes. Shows more emotion!")
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I laughed at that comic, out loud. I wasn't expecting to like this story arc, but so far it's good.

... and out loud again at today's comic. I loves me some meta.
 
H

Hansagan



"Hey nursie, like the beard, gives me something to HOLD onto! WOOF! "
 
O

Overflight

OK, this last strip bugged me. "Do you really think he's changed?"

What do you mean CHANGED? There was nothing wrong with him in the first place! Cole admitted this himself! And now he can see Skull? They said that people who can't are extremely "self centered" but there was never any time where Max seemed self centered to me.

I'd like to think that this is all part of the plan but I keep having the nagging feeling that Kurtz decided to ditch the earlier interpretation and go back to the earlier Max pseudo mystery.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Psyclone said:
OK, this last strip bugged me. "Do you really think he's changed?"

What do you mean CHANGED? There was nothing wrong with him in the first place! Cole admitted this himself! And now he can see Skull? They said that people who can't are extremely "self centered" but there was never any time where Max seemed self centered to me.

I'd like to think that this is all part of the plan but I keep having the nagging feeling that Kurtz decided to ditch the earlier interpretation and go back to the earlier Max pseudo mystery.
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I agree. I was really put off by that "changed?" comment too. Max has never been a rotten person. Maybe he's come off as having an ego, but he's always been there whenever anyone has needed him. Sometimes I wonder if he even has that much of an Ego based on a few incidents such as when he fired Miranda for hitting on him in the work place. Regardless of whether he's gay or not he strikes me as someone who's polite, kind, helpful, and shows people respect. If he's "changed" at all he'd become a terrible person. Hell. He'd become Cole.
And if Cole "changed" at all he wouldn't make comments like that.
I really don't know if Scott just doesn't pay attention to his own characters, or if Cole really is, and always will be, a dick.

As far as who can or cannot see Skull I was under the impression that it had to be someone who could accept fantasy as a reality. If you didn't have your head in the clouds, or you didn't really consider "what ifs?" then you probably couldn't see Skull. Doesn't mean he's self centered. Just means he was more of a realist at the time.
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

It's a perfect comment for Cole. He has always held a grudge (if I recall, because Max went out with the girl he had a crush on in college). What I don't get is that Max owns PvP, so why does he need a job there?
 
Dave

Dave

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Using a Hook reference, to me Skull has always been someone that Peter Banning could not see but Peter Pan could. It's an inner innocence and sense of wonderment. Max has always been fun but very pragmatic, which is why he could never see Skull before.

Apparently Max went on a walkabout and discovered his inner child.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I hate that you can't search PvP.

The PvP crew is like a budget basement version of the Seinfeld cast. A bunch of mean losers that you love anyway. And Max was just a nice winner that wanted to fit in.
 
bigcountry23

bigcountry23

I don't like way Kurtz did the "hey, I can see you now". It just seems so in your face and assumes that anyone who reads his strip doesn't have the mental capacity to remember that he couldn't see Skull in the past. it would have been better for him to just pass skull in the skull and say "oh hi" and have Skull do like three pannels of reaction/realization shots.

Also, Kurtz is a HACK.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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How long has it been since there was a strip about Max not being able to see skull? It's not just a matter of how good memories are, what about new readers in the last several years? Not all readers go through the archives.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Dave said:
Using a Hook reference, to me Skull has always been someone that Peter Banning could not see but Peter Pan could. It's an inner innocence and sense of wonderment. Max has always been fun but very pragmatic, which is why he could never see Skull before.

Apparently Max went on a walkabout and discovered his inner child.
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I was thinking something similar.

Or maybe, since we know Skull was originally there because Brent needed him, Max's journey of self-discovery has resulted in his realization that his life is not complete somehow which would place him in the category of people who "need" to see Skull.
 
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