685 | Everything Was Beautiful

It seems Efrem was born with a pensive and worried look on his face.

Oh, Zap’s mommy. Sorry, but I’m crying.

Just like Disney, you can’t resist killing off the parents, break your audience’s little hearts );

Yes, at least with the elementals, the four who were captured WERE actively attacking the GPF. These three boys were just standing there, helplessly doing nothing while the GPF killed Zap’s mother and then showed up to take them.

I don’t know, it’s luck really. It could have been any group of kids, it just happened to be them.

I was really hoping for a Kurt Vonnegut quote, but ATLA is good too.

Like, a lot.

Random thoughts by kid Efrem:
“Sure hope I’m not laying on an ant-hill.”
“Will mom be mad if I get grass stains on my clothes again?”

In all seriousness — that panel with Zap’s mom protecting them…and they way Gunner’s holding Zap back…*sad-face thousand times over*

Ewoks are not cute. Also they are some of the most dangerous creatures out there with a taste for flesh of any sort not family. Remember they captured our heroes and were preparing a feast with them as the main course.

Maybe in the books. In the movie, they were so cute that I almost felt bad when the main characters didn’t get eaten. It’s like stealing food from a puppy. I half expected to see the Swedish Chef chopping up vegetables to add to the stew, and the rest of the Muppets singing with the Ewoks by the fire.
Now, if they had Animal helping them fight the storm troopers…

True enough, I suppose… Then again, if they hadn’t been saved, you couldn’t call the strip, “Zap!”… :P

Everyone has been telling me how sad this page makes them. I’m sorry everyone!! :(

Sure, why not. I’m kinda hot. lol?

We saw her before, a looooooong time ago:
http://www.zapcomic.com/2005/04/20090504/

Well it’s only making us sad because we care so much about your characters. If you hadn’t made us love Zap so much (and even Gunner and Efrem) we wouldn’t feel so sad about their painful past. So really don’t apologize. You guys have crafted good characters and an amazing story, that’s something to be proud about!

There’s something to be said about the psychology of someone willing to commit complete genocide of an intelligent species. If you spares a few kids you can always say “look we didn’t kill EVERYBODY”. Its a messed up scenario with little to grasp on for justification but people do it. humans suck even in the future it seems. Also, spare and capture a few kids with super powers maybe you can indoctrinate them to your side and you can work on that cool psychic army you’ve always wanted.

Archive binge complete! Holy crap this is good stuff.

BABY GUNNAH