The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 20

April 19, 2019 Alex Woolfson 74 Comments

If looks could kill…

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So… this looks disturbing. Who are those dudes around that altar? What is that thing on the altar? What have they done to those kids? And what are our heroes going to do about it?

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Spooky is not happy. 🍿🍿🍿

The New Page is up:
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ3/doublecross-ch1-page-21/

Patreon Rumbles

IT’S HER. IT’S HER! ! ! !

Yay for the villain – – IT’S HER!

Just as I suspected! It’s been far too long since we have heard from her.

You can’t keep a really, really, really nasty bad evil rotten despicable WITCH down!

Hello Campers,
I presume we all realize that whoever this group is, their extension cords do not reach the wall sockets. So the question in my mind is – – do our trio of good guys simply barge in and cause chaos complete with half-finished magic spell going bad in horrid ways? Or do they carefully plan for their next move?

Morning. I look forward to seeing the page later today. Yesterday Isaid yes to working this orning, at 5am, so leaving for work in 15mins… ugh, I questioned my sanity for saying yes, yesterday, but eben more now, as I was so worried about oversleeping that I barely slept at all.

Soooo tired. I’m getting atleast a 2-hour nap after work, since I’m going to see the new Avengers this evening. Need to be more awake for that (so excited to see). I’ll be back later.

oooh, got you covered.
There were some theaters in the USA that showed all 22 MARVEL movies for one ticket. – – think of spending 60 hours in a movie theater with die-hard fans… and I guarantee you won’t regret working this morning.

That’s even more than watching all the extended version of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I’m sure I’d be frazzled within an inch of my life by the end of Avengers Infinity War and probably unconscious through the last two hours of Endgame. Die-hard fans is right!

Make sure that nap works. I read the movie is 3 hours and one minute long! You can’t afford to snooze through a single second of it! Enjoy!!

They’re trying to summon the flying robot ninja pigs, right?

Well, let’s be fair to evil cultist dudes; it seems that this place is quite remote & rarely visited by anyone. Still, they clearly should think about at least elementary precautions.

Unless they’re getting interrupted on purpose…

“The sacrifice was preformed in peaceful, almost friendly atmosphere” (c)

The colors should lay the speculations about young Spooky to rest.

When is the colored version coming out? I for one have trouble seeing some details in this picture. Alex (I think) points out a ribcage and magic field on the alter? uh, Right, I see a sketchy blur.

Work-in-progress colors are now up. 🙂

These are just the work in progress colors? Wow, I was about to comment on how nice the page looks and that the extra time was worth it!

I’m so glad you like them, Madock!

It looks amazing. With the amount of work necessary and the different colors no wonder that this page takes more time to complete. Well done keep up the great work!

Thank you, Mark! I agree. Vero does such amazing work. 🙂

Thanks for the heads up Alex.

Are all the villains using the same demonic cookbook or something?

Typically, evil magic users in my world are very individualistic.

These are just the work in progress colors? Wow, I was about to comment on how nice the page looks and that the extra time was worth it.

Sooner or later Sorcerers Local and Chimneysweep shop #139 will be like “Alex, You got this perfectly nice world here, Be a real shame if something bad happened to it and you needed extra help. Scabs Arent Fab”

There are only so many things that work.

Just for once it would be fun to see a demon getting summoned by wallpaper

Reeks of death, must be a sacrificial rite. They’re trading the lives of children for SOMETHING…

Perhaps so… 🙂

Should’ve known, yet another eldritch abomination. Nyarlathotep would be so disappointed at the lack of chaos…

Lets not be Ageist .

“eldritch abomination” is so racist early 20th century. ( lookin at you Lovecraft )

I think the modern terminology is “Abominable Nightmares OF AGE” ( but spoken in the sub bass leaden tones of death , so the listener feels their bowels rumble just a little. Correct Pronunciation shows proper respect ) .

and when speaking of THE GREAT Crawling Chaos, one should make a High pitched scream right in the center. You are doing it right , if your listener feels their retina become itchy and you hear a succession of dogs howl 3 blocks away and beyond. But your probably knew that last one

Probably for High Fashion Accessories. Prices have gone insane

Is it me, or does the kid in the middle look a LOT like Young Spooky?

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Thank you, b3nc0!

Nice linework Adam DeKraker!

I asked for a lot on this page, and Adam just knocked it out of the park. (As always. 🙂 )

Hey, thanks, Jake! 🙂

Someone is going to die soon, from the look of Spooky. If not death, then a lot of hurt… and it ain’t gonna be the kids that’s going to scream.

Since Spooky has been here before, he can’t be pleased to see new rituals with kids being hurt. He HATES kids being hurt… maybe especially by magic.

He hates kids being hurt in any way. But, yes, especially by magic and magic users.

A globular object on the alter. As far as I can see, it is a bit larger than the keys we saw in Enganging the Enemy. Could it be the Sphere Celestiale? Spooky does not believe in coincidences when it comes to magic, Did Veliok send out Spooky to disrupt this very ritual?

Hmm… Well, maybe this is the Sphere, and the reason that Spooky’s only getting a weak reading on it so far is because a lot of its magical ‘strength’ is being siphoned off?

The other obvious possibility is that it’s simply being magically sheilded from detection to some extent, but… I’m having a hard time trying to articulate my gut feeling is that average magic-using crazy cultist in this setting would be too arrogant-crazy to implement such a defence, even though their level of organisational ability seems to indicate that they could carry it out. What do the rest of you think?

Re. Veliok, could this be a trap? It’s full of triggers for Spooks.

And good point, Brian. 🙂

Good questions, Klaus. 🙂

Yep, that is most definitely not Gregorian Chant.

We can rule out the good chanting. It’s the bad chanting.

It is the bad chanting.

Its prob just wiccan Bar Mitzvah lessons. I had to learn a ton of chanting for mine.

Rope seems a little extreme, but I remember from mine , itsreally hard to get a group of 12 years old pay attention. Im not going to judge.

[Edit: Just read the script so there are 13 adults and 12 kids, perhaps one has been killed already.]

Looks as though there are 12 kids and 12 adults. Twelve has been long associated with the followers of a leader, Hercules, Odin, Osiris, Arthur, Quetzalcoatl, Buddha among others. It could be these adults are followers of someone they hope is a leader. Could it be ol’ Velliok? Or another of his kind?

The symbols drawn on the arm of the boy we can see look a lot like those that Laampros drew on Duncan. Going to take some doing for our heroes to rescue these kids, fight off the adults and whoever they’re trying to summon. Of course, they arrived in the nick of time.

Yes, the empty tree, whether it had a child that is now… elsewhere or is waiting for its captive, is very ominous.

Empty tree? Now I got to go look again!
arrrffh. have bifocals, still can’t see!

Once again, we so often miss that which is before us. Again Alex, great pic, nice layout and tale. Spooks nearly looks evil in his stare. I missed the “upside down” cross, at least it appeared to be and I missed the empty tree. I still cannot discern the ribcage. Much is lost in the perspective. I would think that with the layout, the ring of assumed sacrificial children, the missing child (assumed), the rib cage surrounded by the magic glow (the missing child ?) is being used as a vessel to re-birth a particular demon or spirit worshipped by that group. Others have pointed out some similarities on the symbols on the children’s arms to earlier stories so this could well be related to the hellish spawn as well, just one not quite so high in the hierarchy as Kyle’s “dad”. No overwhelming hell-gate yet in evidence to allow a large demon to appear, just a small glow and an alter. Maybe a lessor lord but still loads of trouble.

Either way, it’s really fun speculation, Ulysses. 🙂

Blood of children……incantations……some one trying to summon the dark spirits?

At the very least.

Right, and the trees just *happened* to be planted in a circle?

Longterm planning? Or they scouted worldwide for a circle of trees?

When it comes to magic, Spooky Jones does not believe in coincidence.

Oh man I actually LOVE the way this page looks without color, for some reason? Kinda pleased we got a chance to see it.

Patrons get to see every page this way.

Another subscription, even a small one, isn’t really in my budget… so this was a unique treat for me! But’s it’s super cool that’s included for patrons.

Next to the finished page, Alex posts the lineart and script for every page on Patreon.

I’m not a patron! Can’t really afford another subscription, even a small one, so this was a unique treat for me!

Really glad you like seeing this, Laur! 🙂

Oh, do NOT fuck with children when Spooky is around. That is a death glare if I ever saw one.

Spooky has only a few red lines. Someone messing with kids is one of them.

Blood Sacrifice, that’s what this is…
The Young Protectors – Engaging The Enemy – chapter 3 page 67 shows that the way the Platinum Princess and Duncan the Annihilator opened the portal to Laampros with blood sacrifice.
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ/ete-ch3-page-67/
This magic must require the blood of children
ghastly

Agreed.

Aw, now I’m all sad.

Help is on the way.

Ah, I see. Cory was distracted by the gravestones on the last page, while Flyboy and Spooky were focused on the main game up ahead.

Exactly.

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