649 | Disarm

649 | Disarm

August 4, 2013 | 8:44 pm, by Pascalle Lepas

WAKE UP, WILLIAM! Good luck not dying, man.

(don’t forget there was an extra page last week, so click the previous comic button to see it if you missed it!)

Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday and also to those who came out to see us at Tokyo in Tulsa! You guys are so amazing and I appreciate each and every one of you!! You made the weekend so fun!



Comments

  • Andrew W

    Oh, so *that’s* why he’s called Zap.

  • *donks head* It’s so obvious now!

  • Anonymous

    Please William, unscrew the evil face thing from Zap’s face. In that place. In space!

  • Anonymous

    in our time of need he comes from the darkness to zap enemies with but a wave of his hand, he is…EL ZAPPO !!

  • Me-me

    And his surname, Zap. And middle name, Zap.

  • Anonymous

    …how is Zap’s hand blade rotated to the back in the last panel? It seems to have been following the path of his arm in previous panels, but following that logic means that his hand is currently pointing backwards…?

    Reality aside…my two favorite characters on one page??!?!?

    *dies*

  • Kryspix

    Looks like he’s been…disarmed *sunglasses*

  • Sleel

    Probably cause, being psionic, he can direct it whatever direction he feels like.

  • JUSTICE!!!!

  • safyrejet

    Rise and shine! Wakey wakey William. Come out of your mind control stupor just in time for the world as you knew it to go all kinds of wrong.

    I know the Major is kinda driven by rage and maybe testosterone here, but personally if someone with a lightsaber hand dropped down in front of me leaving a big hole across my chest the last thing I’d do is try to attack them more.

  • safyrejet

    Yeah, his parents were really uncreative so they just named him after the psychic noise that came from his lightsaber hand.

    Ponders what that could mean for Gunner….

  • Anonymous

    Zap Zap Zap would’ve also been a good title for this page.

  • safyrejet

    Reality? Really. At what point does a psychic hand lightsaber venture into reality? ;P

  • dUrr

    What is it with Jedi and their obsession with cutting limbs off?

  • Jordan Bryan

    Seems like Zap took the term “disarm” too seriously.

  • Jordan Bryan

    Seems like Zap took the term “disarm” too seriously.

  • Marduk

    Insult to injury to death

  • Anonymous

    Non-lethal takedown. Jedi prefer not to kill people unless absolutely necessary, but they are wielding something that can kill in an instant, so limb removal (or slashing right through the enemy’s weapon) is the best form of incapacitation they have.

  • Venture

    Those three slashes were Zap removing the general’s remaining limbs. In the next comic we see Maximus, reduced to little more than a torso and not knowing when to quit, scream, “Tis merely a flesh wound!”

  • kerrie

    happy belated birthday wishes :D sorry for the lateness

    hope William stays down :) be the safest place.

  • In my mind I treat it like a knife that he can hold differently, except it’s just a light blade around his arm. It makes sense to me.

  • Thanks for the birthday wishes!

    Poor William!

  • Anonymous

    Run away, William. RUN AWAY!
    Or shoot Gunner through the head. Either is a good option.

  • Crestlinger

    Gunner really put the screws to Zap, though keeping control of Zap is Taxing Gunner to the point that William is back. The question now becomes when he breaks free of the slave crown (via Reona or Kasey at a guess) is he going to have any memory of what he did while under its control?

  • William is free now because Maximus smacked him in the head, and also there’s no reason for Gunner to keep him under control anymore.

    Don’t assume that Zap was a nice guy before his memory wipe! All evidence points to the contrary, really!

  • He doesn’t have any weapons!!! D:

  • dUrr

    I like my julienne generals with ketchup.

  • Anonymous

    Well, we’re just itching to see what comes next…

  • A villain with a blade made of light threatens someone.
    What everyone except Han Solo does: Tries to punch the villain, and gets disarmed.
    What Han Solo does: draws a gun and shoots the villain.
    While Han Solo failed to land a shot, at least he never lost an appendage…

  • Ori

    General should’ve gone with “SONIC BOOM!” instead of “RAAAAH!”, it has a proven track record of 99% more chance of success.

  • Now here’s the real question. Is “ZAP” the sound of the lightsaber thing, or does Zap call out his own name whenever he executes an attack? I’d like to think it’s the latter.

  • keemew2

    Oh dear me. Oh me oh my. William. Run. As fast and far as you can. You are no match here.

  • keemew2

    A person can easily shift their wrist so the hand is pointed backward, I’ve done it myself, usually holding something.

  • keemew2

    Gunners name has already been explained. He likes his psychic gun, remember?

  • keemew2

    So then, I guess the question now is…is Zap really brainwashed or did he get his memory back and he’s reverted?

  • Gwen Olsen

    I feel like this is going to be one of those comics that attempts “tragic hero” and then just ends up being frustratingly ungratifying. Don’t let it be like that. :<

  • Well, I’m sorry you’re upset over proverbial plot points that you made up and haven’t happened? :/

  • *grossed out face*

  • Yeah, I know it’s possible. I don’t know why it’s confusing, but I thought I’d try to explain my thoughts behind it, I guess.

    I’m showing everyone how the psychic sword works! Roll with it!! He can have it on either hand too, BTW, EVERYONE!! So if he shows up with it on the other hand later IT’S OKAY.

  • Of all the characters, William has the worst time.

  • Anonymous

    “I’ll bite your legs off!”

  • Anonymous

    That’s cool then. I wasn’t trying to be nit-picky or anything…I’m just a little OCD about that stuff…

    BTW, this is my ghost posting this…cause I died earlier when this page was posted.

    (can ghosts type?)

  • Ghosts can type if they are having a solid day.

    You will be missed.

  • safyrejet

    Oh, so he’s a Pokemon.

  • Amafabee

    I give William a 100% chance of contributing something crucial here. Short green seers never make mistakes.

  • He’s kind of literal.

  • Psiberkiwi

    No, no, no – the sunglasses come first, -then- the punch line.

  • Ori

    I see. So it’s not that zap was a nice fellow and mem-wiped himself to save the universe from Gunner’s scheme rather it’s more of a Kzer-Za/Kohr-Ah argument; whereas Zap wishes to enslave the universe under his Grip and Gunner just wants to wipe everyone not “ancients” or whatever his race is and have them be the sole cultural organism to settle the universe.

    Kind of like Total Recall’s Quid. Implanted post-wipe personality was a nice-nice dude, whereas the original was a right-hand henchman with the moral sense of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

    It seems we’re albeit in a clusterfuck lose-lose situation here with the only alternative of Reona’s affect on his psyche destabilizing him sufficiently for him to turn on Gunner and then weakened sufficiently to be defeated.

  • Anonymous

    “well,…it looks like our faceless friend decided to…

    *puts on sunglasses*

    ….put the limb before the shades”

  • Anonymous

    All evidence?

    http://www.zapcomic.com/2011/12/561-kill-all-humans/

    http://www.zapcomic.com/2011/11/557-a-planned-delay/

    Hm… All evidence points to someone a bit nicer than we’re seeing…someone more like the Zap we’ve been shown up until now that had a rough sequence of events lead him down a bad path, to which he’d seen it and changed from it. Why else would he have hid the first ship and the second? Why else would he have tricked Naveed to wipe his memory? Why would Gunner be pissed off beyond words to have found his journal?

    There’s more to this than has met the eye to this point…but that’s the way you want it, now isn’t it? :-D

    Can’t wait to see the rest of this…

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