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PANEL 2

CORY

WAIT — IS THAT THE PLATINUM PRIESTESS?!

(cont)

SHE LOOKS, UH… YOUNGER.

FLYBOY

YEAH. SHE AND THE ANNIHILATOR TRIED TO MAKE A DEAL WITH A DEVIL, AND THERE WERE SIDE EFFECTS.

PANEL 3

FLYBOY

FUNNY HOW SHE DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE LOST HER MEMORIES OR ANYTHING, THOUGH.

(cont)

WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE’S DOING HERE?

SPOOKY JONES

I DON’T KNOW.

(cont)

AFTER WE KICKED HER ASS, SHE DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING LEFT TO OFFER THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF HELL.

PANEL 5

SPOOKY JONES

MAYBE WITH THIS ARTIFACT… SHE FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO LET THEM TO INVADE EARTH.

FLYBOY

SO WHAT DO WE DO?

PANEL 6

SPOOKY JONES

PRESS THIS BUTTON. IT’LL CALL OUR TEAM.

(cont)

KEEP YOUR VOICE LOW AND TELL THEM EVERYTHING. THEY’LL BE ABLE TO HOME IN ON THE BEACON.

PANEL 7

FLYBOY

AND… WE’RE JUST SUPPOSED TO WAIT HERE?!

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The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter One—Page 22

April 26, 2019 Alex Woolfson 78 Comments

That would be the sensible thing to do, right, Mitch?

The only reason I’m able to keep making The Young Protectors is because of the very generous support of readers like you on Patreon. So, I want to to send out a very special thank you and welcome to the new member of the Woolfpack this week!

Ciara M.

And I’d also like to thank a totally awesome reader who was already a Patron, but who upped his pledge this week:

Ben A.

(Thank you so much, Ben!)

Thank you all so much for your amazing support! You and the other Patrons are all the real superheroes of this comic!

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So! What is The Platinum Priestess doing with that magical artifact and these kids? Is Spooky really just going to wait for backup? And, most importantly, has anyone reached out to @syllibub to let her know that her wife is back?!

Tune in this Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

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Just wow! The active comments and speculations. Alex, this is all source material, right? LMBO. Sure should be. Dave Framents? I too am in the gray (grey?) club. Trouble is I have developed quite a solar panel on top of my head as well. It is not a bald spot!

Hello Campers,
What is going to happen tonight? Is our trio going to CHARGE! into the fray like Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders? Will they plot and plan like John Le Carre’s Smiley searching for Tinkers and Tailors? Or does some loophole appear and change everything?

I’m kind of expecting at least half a page of Spooky explaining/ pulling rank of Flyboy that, yes, they need to just wait for more backup because the Priestess is a heavy hitter dangerous opponenent
And while I don’t expect it, I think it’s within character that as soon the kids start to be endangered with sacrificial stabby-stabby that Spooky will immediately ignore his own advice and launch himself into a fight.

Well, it’s a judgment call – in an emergency normal standards can get pushed aside, and sometimes need to be!

I don’t think our trio will let the human sacrifices take place. How they do that, though, is still a mystery to me.

The new page is up:
https://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ3/doublecross-ch1-page-23/

Patreon Rumbles

Might one ask why?

When I see the first evidence that Alex is posting the new page on Patreon, I saw “Patreon Rumbles.” This is a throwback to before Patreon times when people wanted to get the first post (AKA “the virgin”)

Ok. I remember that. Seemed to be popular to post “first!”. Never figured out why. Thanks for that

Happy Birthday Alex (even though I am a few days late)

Happy Birthday Alex!

Uh oh! This is bad. Very bad. Sircea is bad news. I hope the TYP team arrives in enough time to stop Sircea. And rescue all those children.

Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday Dear @alexwoolfson:disqus!
Happy Birthday to You!

And many more on Channel 4
Keep it alive on Channel 5

I woke up, and remembered what day it is… as of 30mins ago…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALEX.

:0 what?

Is true?

Happy Birthday Alex!

Well then, happy birthday and many returns of the day.

Yo, PP…you aren’t Platinum anymore. Maybe we should call you the Blonde Priestess now? I mean, unless you plan on bleaching those blonde locks platinum to match the name again??? She also looks less…evil with blonde hair.

(Why does she kind of remind me of Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials? – shivers – )

How does Cory know about the PP? Mitch…did you tell?

Never heard of platinum blonde? 😉

I assume as a big super villainess she’s pretty famous. Kyle also recognized her on sight way back in Engaging the Enemy.

According to one of he text stories, she is, or was, practically unknown. Spooky had come to realise that there was a sinister will behind much of the mnagical nastiness he fought.

I have heard of platinum blonde, but the color she is currently isn’t platinum blonde. It’s more medium blonde. LOL. Platinum blonde is nearly white. Here’s someone with natural platinum blonde hair:

https://www.hottesthaircuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Straight-Platinum.jpg

My brother was a platinum blonde until he was about 10 and then somehow it turned chocolate brown and it’s been brown ever since. LOL.

To be ruthlessly fair, there’s lots of characters in superhero comics generaly whose colour-themed names have more to do with the colour of their costumes (or in some few cases like Green Lantern, the colour of the energy weapons they use) than the colour of their hair or skin tone. I suspect the Priestess’ metallic and white costume will be more than enough to justify ‘platinum’ over ‘blond’.

I was being a prankster. I’m quite aware it’s more based on the costume. I was making fun of her hair and the fact it doesn’t quite go with her name. I think “Platinum Priestess” and think of someone whose outfit isn’t just all white, but so is her hair and eyes as I’m such a literal Autistic. Again, the joke…it falls on deaf ears. >.<

Holdup holdup holdup. -HOW- does Cory know to recognise the Platinum Priestess, let alone that she looks younger than normal? She doesn’t seem like the type of villain to have a high public profile like the way the Annihilator would. Annihilator started his criminal career as a standover man, but what we know about the Priestesses is that she prefers operating shadowy cabals behind the scenes.

I mean, this might be a bit of obscure knowledge because it comes from the Patreon only stories, but in the third text story, ‘Choices’, even Spooky didn’t know the Priestess’ specific identity, and he had to coerce the details from agent Hastings. I get the impression that she prefers flying-under-the-radar, and having her cultists do the dirty and potentially public hard work for her is more her style (and, yeah, sarcastic observation: that would include the Annihilator).

Hmm. And ‘Choices’ was set back when Spooky was 15-and-a-half. Far enough back that it could predate the Spooky Jones Adventures cartoon series.

Okay fellow Woolfpack members, try this idea on for size. When Spooky vowed to put a stop to the Platinum Priestess at the end of ‘Choices’, he didn’t just mean physically confronting her, having a magical fight scene with her, and sending her off to prison. It included publicly outing her and making it harder for her to operate. I propose that when the animated series was developed he deliberately included the Priestess and all the details he’d been able to ferret out about her up. This is why she’s so disdainful of him. He exposed her and her plans, and more generally exposed her to public ridicule by literally presenting her as a cartoon villain.

This is beautiful

The opening of the hellgate by PP was apparently a very much publicly noticeable event (with the sky cracking at least in the larger US region as we’ve seen in Cory’s side comic when he was in hospital with his brother).

With superheroes publicly known and registered, too, I would expect that there would have been press coverage in the aftermath and PP’s involvement would most likely be exposed to the public, too, not least because she was on the run, magically armed and dangerous (as we see confirmed right here!).

So even if Cory hadn’t received the information from Mitch directly, he’s most likely seen pictures of PP in the media, I would think!

On the other hand, Exsec may have played the cards close to their chest.

Sure, but there would be quite a bit of public pressure to divulge a bit more than just “Uh, something happened, but we’ve got it under control again now. Nothing to see here!”

This is probably true, although it kind of depends on whether part or all of the incident was classified (as per Klaus’ comment below). I was thinking on a longer time scale – that Spooky may have arranged for the Priestess identity to be public knowledge years ago.

But let’s run with the idea that the Priestess has become particularly notorious within the past few months as a result of the Laampros Hellgate incident. That suggests to me that Cory is probably taking seriously the possibility of becoming a superhero, even if he hasn’t made the final commitment yet, because it means he’s taken a good enough look at the photographs/artists impression drawings/text descriptions of the Priestsess to be able to recognise within seconds that she looks younger than normal. By comparison, if my idea that Spooky released her ID through the Spooky Jones Adventures cartoon held true, then Cory (who has already admitted that he’s a fan of Spooky) would have recognised her from that. And of course, the two possibilities aren’t mutually exclusive.

That is a theory I like.

Is Cory a native north american or native central american descendant?

Is he either? I thought he was Hispanic?

The only clue I’ve noticed is his brother’s name.

Yeah sorry thats what I meant. Most of the hispanic people are descendants of central american natives, thus the reason of their brown skin.

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will they really just wait? I highly doubt it……
I wish they would though x’D

They will if they can. But something is going to come up that needs stopping now.

So Spooky attempted to save a missing child from this area 10 or so years ago. Lost his memory but the child was saved. Now he’s back to the same spot and children are going missing again.
My guess is that Spooky and his younger self meet to save the day, and (following paradox theories from Doctor Who) the younger of the two can’t remember his own future, causing the memory blackout.
Doubles Cross.
We’ll see, we’ll see.

I wonder if she did lose her modern memory and is recreating a ritual she did in the past? Say, perhaps she was responsible for the botched ritual that weakened the walls in the first place? And now she’s going to try it again not knowing it failed and risk full demonic invasion right now.

So Sircea has been rejuvenated to an appearance of a young adult, and by the look of things has retained at least some of her memories. Also her smugness and probably an “I know best” attitude if she really did intend to protect the Earth (and install herself as God Empress).

I can believe that this could be another attempt to repair the walls, since I doubt she wants to rule as a god over an Earth that has been permanently wrecked by demons. If that really is what’s going on, no doubt it’s all The Young Protectors’ fault that this perfectly sincere plan to do things for people’s own good was disrupted…

There were hints from some of the Kickstarter material that when Sircea first discovered her powers she did initially use them to defend people. This scene does not look as if her memories have been rolled back that far.

Also, I wanna know why The Annihilator is much younger than The Platinum Priestess. Also, The Annihilator has his memories wiped but not The Priestess? That sounds suspicious to me…

For one she was much older than him, and if memories are only wiped until the age they are then she’d still be functional.

Waiting for the team would be the only reasonable thing to do, but they are the “young” protectors, not the “mature and experienced” protectors. So, head-first and hoping for luck, while believing they’re invincible.

They have been behaving very responsibly, though.

You know, I always assumed “Double-Cross” referred to someone betraying the team (and I was afraid it might be Cory).

But what if that refers to Sircea? She strikes me as the sort to have played Lampy & Duncan against each other, after all…

(I also wonder if Dunkid will show up.)

Does Sircea want demons to invade Earth? She wanted her immortality back. That she got, as far as we know. She need access to more power in order to strengthen the Walls of Blood and Pain. She thinks that demons overrunning the Earth would do that. But is it the only way?

If the walls break down, Earth will go back to being just another circle of Hell. When was Earth a circle of Hell? How long have the Walls been in place? Who build them? How? Why?

From what I understand of the original plan, she never actually intended for demons to overrun the earth on a permanent basis. That was a lie they fed Laampros to get his cooperation. He was supposed to get banished back to hell after they fixed the walls… I think.

Not permanently, but for several years. I expect that this is still her plan, if indeed she does intend to release a demon host on Earth.

Cory asking relevant questions in the first two panels suggests that he’ll be coping just nicely with the being-dumped-in-the-deep-end-of-the-superhero-world-weirdness. I’m sure he’ll do Flyboy proud.

Well, yeah it’s surprising how she doesn’t look like she lost her memory, right Duncan????

If she only lost her memories until the age she was she’d still be fully functional and nasty. Or she was responsible for the memory loss.

Or Duncan is pretending :/

I don’t believe he is, he’s been too genuine, too consistent. I’ll buy he remembers more than he says he does, but nobody’s that good at faking, especially not with what we saw of Duncan’s personality as an adult, he would have definitely slipped up while talking to Kyle.

Actually, I was feeling that young Duncan was way too much. I want to explain it but I don’t know if I have enough vocabulary in English to make myself understandable. We know that young Duncan is around the age of flyboy, and still the way they were portraying was really different, Duncan was extremely childlike, it looks to me that he was trying too hard to look like a child, infantilizing his way of talking. It looks like the vision that a 60 years old man have on adolescent. XD I don’t know if what I’ve said is understandable I’m sorry for my shitty English.

I think there’s quite a difference between a frightened, amnesiac boy finding himself in a completely threatening situation and environment without having any idea how he got there and who he really is on the one hand and a well-adjusted son of wealthy parents with a stable and protective circle of friends on the other.

It remains to be seen whether Duncan was in fact just faking it, but I think the contrast is quite believable under those different circumstances!

(And I’m not to judge, but I see no problem with your english there! 🙂)

I get what you mean but I think it fits him given both the situation and just Duncan himself.

I’m surprised the Platinum Priestess is actually bothering with the twaddle used by the likes of a two-bit hack like John Dee. This is especially amusing given that Enochian doesn’t actually have consistent linguistic patterns or properties, and has far more in common with the psychiatric symptom of glossolalia, or “speaking in tongues”. In other words, you may as well have written that shit in GIant, pulled from a D&D 3.5 supplement.

This is not the real world. Maybe Dee was actually on to something in this fictional world. Or maybe Alex just used the well-known term Enochian for a type of magic, without intending any connection to Dee.

‘Napping kids right from their room, through magic portals.. they didn’t have a chance to flee. 13 kids as sacrificets… to create a circle of.. what? Energy, life.. a portal?

Guess that Sircea being 6000+ years old, may have helped her keep something that Duncan didn’t (or did he? Will it come back to him?). She doesn’t look quite as young as DunKid. Because of age-difference, or did she make sure to negotiate this for herself? Questions, questions.

Things certainly get interesting every time she’s around. Team YP to the rescue again.

That is no way to run a day care.

That poor kiddo. Scary stuff.

The stuff of nightmares.

Something that just jumped in my head: We’ve only seen Platinum Priestess on that particular costume. Does she ever do laundry? What kind of clothes does she wear in the meantime? Or does she have the same costume more than once, so she always has a clean one available?

Magic

“I don’t hold with wearing ironmongery, whether it wears well or no.”

Actually she’s naked, the clothes are just an illusion.

I totally didn’t once play a wizard who only wore his hat of disguise for all the early levels.

Or the clothes are real and she is an illusion.

Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee?

I had never heard of that film before.

and now I have that song stuck in my head

It could be made of magic.

All good questions. (And I like the answers given below. 🙂 )

And the waiting will be the hardest part…….

Good idea to wait for the team. Who knows what other surprises are in store for them.

Agreed. 🙂

Lovely pencils Adam!

Congrats on the v!

Thanks!

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