After several hours of applied mad sciences, Dr. Muskiday finally has a plan.
The macronanos have been feeding on Fairmount City’s emotions, growing stronger with every burst of anger, embarrassment, infatuation, and fear. Muskiday’s new device is designed to reverse the process — converting a macronano back into harmless micronanos while safely discharging all that stolen emotional energy.
There’s just one problem.
To test the thing, they need a macronano.
Fortunately, HoloClone Miss Match knows exactly how to bait the hook. A little romance. A little melodrama. And perhaps just a touch more enthusiasm than Dr. Muskiday was expecting.
Science demands sacrifice. Apparently, dignity is first on the list.
One Hot August
On Friday, I posted a wrap-up of all of the August exclusives — complete with previews of all the spicy selections. You can download all of them without becoming a Patreon backer here.
Transcript
Panel 1
Dr. Muskiday finishes tinkering on his device in front of a whiteboard that shows how the device works.
Macronano —> containment unit —> compression field emitter —> emotion output emitter
Muskiday: OK… I think we’re ready to test it out. Can you attract one of the macronanos?
Panel 2
HoloClone Miss Match: Musky, darling, this may be our last chance to consummate our love before the macronanos take over!
Panel 3
A macronano reacts as Holoclone Miss Match (continues off-panel): Take me, my love. I’m yours, body and soul!
Panel 4
The macronano enters the lab, and HoloClone Miss Match slams the door behind it.
HoloClone Miss Match: Ha-HA! You sure are gullible! I can’t believe you fell for that. GET ’IM MUSKY!
Panel 5
Dr. Muskiday is in the act of taking off his pants: …Huh??
So Trinity does it to me again. I had completely fallen away from the story. The blue villagers… the screwed up characters… the plot threads dropped never to be seen again… the discordant art styles…
I had finally made a note to pull the title from my reserve list. I mean, it’s a weekly buy for me. That’s a lot of money to be sinking into something I scan over without actually reading anymore.
Except when I gave issue 30 one, final scan, I came across my all-time favorite character in the DCU in one, single panel. There was the poster boy for under-used brilliance, Plastic Man himself, shown on Page 21 as part of some sort of Tarot-card-based version of the Justice Society that the reality-altered Hawkman is assembling.
Aside: I’ve never, ever found Tarot cards more annoying than I do after reading this series. Please. Dear God, let this Reality Shift thing change the concept to Gin Rummy or Euchre or Uno or anything!
And last week, there’s the preview of Trinity #34.
And there’s my man Eel O’Brien, right there on the cover. Looks like the DCU might just use him for a few panels after years of neglect.
Damn you, Trinity, just when I thought I was out… you keep pulling me back in…
