The Young Protectors: Double Cross Chapter Three—Page 55

December 18, 2020 Alex Woolfson 47 Comments

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So!

So! Not sure why Flyboy is telling himself to “be smart” in those first panels, but it doesn’t seem to have stopped him from starting their mission that morning. And look at abandoned amusement park! Wow!

Is it just me or does that place look… a bit scary? What do you think our heroes will find there?

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

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Ok, the barrel fires are for handicapped parking??
And that lipstick 💄/dildo/Watchtower edifice is the entrance to the upside down ziggurat sacrificial arena altar? And that ceremonial clown!!
Love this!!!

Everything okay?

Yep. These pages are just a bit more complicated to color. Sorry for the delay. 🙂

The new page is up:

https://staging.youngprotectors.com/typ3/doublecross-ch3-page-56/

And here at The Young Protectors Community Pages:

https://community.amwcomics.com/t/the-young-protectors-double-cross-chapter-three-page-56/579/3

Thank you

Before tonight’s update, y’all know that I get to see the uncolored line art. This page (55) and tonight’s page (56) thrilled me in just B&W. Adam Dekraker does a great job in creating meaningful detail.
This color page (55) by Veronica was overwhelming and breathtaking and I’m sure tonight’s page (56) is going to be the same. Her color details always enhance the page.
Both artists consistently step up to the plate and do excellent work.

Absolutely! The whole world but above all the characters really come to life!

They are amazing. I am very lucky to be able to work with them.

Oh look, we’re back in Dreamland. Or was that a different amusement park? At this rate, we’re going to need a map of every place in YP because my brain is now going in circles trying to keep all these worlds in order. A book of places that has a map in it, then chapters that are built like tour guides.

I could really use one of those. I know Spooky went to an amusement park, but I can’t remember if it was this one spruced up or not. XDDDD

The previous fun park was called “Winter Waterland” and was purely a creation of Spooky’s imagination. 🙂

https://staging.youngprotectors.com/typ2/spooky-jones-past-sins-page-52/

You’re going to have to make a map at this rate. HA HA HA HA HA

Just found you’re starting up this storyline again! So far, so good!

Glad you’re enjoying it, Mike!

That’s a lot of cars in the parking lot of a supposedly abandoned amusement park. Obviously they already have company. But I think we need a fence around the park. This seems really easy to get in and out of, even for someone without super powers.

There was a fence, but it has recently been removed…

I wonder if the cannon will make a return appearance?

Otherwise we will have to make do with fannon.

you know, I completely missed the candles until someone pointed them out?
They must be huge candles too from this perspective. The size of a compact car maybe?

Trash can fires maybe, set up in a circle?

That was my first impression as well: 44 gallon drums or the like. But now that other readers are focusing attention on them, the fires are leaping up quite high (giving a wick-like effect) and don’t seem to be producing smoke.
That may be simply the art: the result of unusual items in the far distance of the picture that need to stand out, but not too much.

On the other hand, if that’s not the case, then there’s two obvious implications. The first is that the fires in the drums are magical, have been burning all night, but haven’t dwindled in size yet; or the bad guys have used some type of divination and know the heroes are coming and have only just set them up within the last quarter hour or so. The second is particularly worrying.

They are indeed gallon drums. And it is strange that there isn’t much smoke coming from them…

I can’t help thinking of the Commander briefing Mitch before the mission: “When you fly me to the site, keep your hands on only one spot, buster.”

DREAMLAND: Subsidy of the Happyland family of amusement parks, a proud partner of Desaad Industries, Darkseid, Inc., and Apokolips, Co.

Signed: Bruno Mannheim, President of Amusements

Why do I get the image of the Joker talking with a short round man about buying the place before injecting him with Smylex toxin as seen in Batman: The Killing Joke?

I guess the camo is done well, because I didn’t realize that Commander was on this page until I read this XD

I think another reader mentioned that it was her and just went along with it.

I honestly have no idea if it’s her or not.

It is strange that she’s not listed in the tags for this page. Maybe the camo is so good that even Alex missed seeing her there!

Fixed! Thank you, David!

Voting links for The Young Protectors and Artifice!

Thank you, b3nc0!

Also, props for the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower tribute, but what sort of fiend would design a carousel with that kind of overhang? “No, Tommy, stay on the horse! Don’t get close to the edge! Noooo!” No wonder the place is abandoned; the safety inspectors shut it down fast.

Ha!

(And yes. There were more than a few accidental deaths before it was shut down.)

But someone likes amusement parks (at least compared to illusory hell). Maybe Spooky’s future preference for this setting is a good sign?

https://staging.youngprotectors.com/typ2/spooky-jones-past-sins-page-52/

If he remembered this adventure, I’d say yes. 🙂

Do you suppose putting out those fires would hamper their magic? Or is that just what they want our heroes to do?

Therein lies the dilemma. 🙂

That theme park splash? Damn, that’s well done.

Agreed, Steve. Adam and Vero totally knocked that out of the park. Stunning.

Dreamland? More like Nightmaria. That panel is a poster-print/issue cover if there ever was one. That much daylight creepiness is an artistic achievement!

We have a closed-down amusement park here in town. The picture captured the feel of sadness as well as the inherent fact that these places are a little creepy!

Adam and Vero truly outdid themselves with the art for that. I was over the moon when I first saw it. It’s a real tour de force. 🙂

So spooky is That friend, who showers with the door open even when you’re right there?

Actually I could see all the guys being that friend with each other

Except Gordon. He’s no fun.

And he’s their legal guardian. That could go very wrong.

Spooky is also that friend who has no problems walking around nude in front of you while he’s getting dressed. He has no self-consciousness like the rest of us mere mortals. 🙂

Well, since Alex seems unsure about it, I’ll vote for “Be smart” being an attempt to clear his head after having just woken up, so that he can produce a brilliant tactical plan for beating the bad guys on their home turf.

And, ooo, abandoned them park. Will we go all Golden Age Batman comics and end up fighting villains on top of giant appliances? Or at least a life-and-death battle on the top of a roller coaster?
(No, wait, I suddenly have this vignette in my mind’s eye of Spooky using his magic to conjure up a roller coaster car to make some sort of escape, but Flyboy spots a gap in the rails and at the last second he has to fly them both out of the car before it tumbles to the ground below, yelling “Dammit Spooky! Check that the tracks are all there, willya!?”)

On a slightly more serious note, my understanding is that there are lots of abandoned tourist attractions from the mid twentieth century in rural US and Europe as the populations moved (vaguely the same thing as with mining ghost towns and, in more recent decades, abandoned shopping malls). So an abandoned theme park isn’t quite as improbable and only-in-fiction as it might at first seem.

In fact, I was able to find a number of great photo-references to send to Adam.

P.S. I like your flash fan-fiction about the roller coaster. 🙂

There just HAD to be a creepy giant clown there, right? There was absolutely no way to do without it?

No. Creepy clown is absolutely mandatory! 😎

Sets just the right mood, doesn’t it? 😉

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