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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3502219" data-attributes="member: 32536">I will throw in another vote that this is a "meh" strip at best.Sometimes Rich's idea of entertaining and/or humorous is just too morbid for me. This strip is asking the reader to cheer for Xykon, based on some premise that watching good people killing each other is fun, and is doing it in a rather silly and intended-to-be-humorous manner.Watching Xykon get the stuffing beaten out of him would be a lot funnier.This isn't even a terribly good way to make the villian seem all that evil or dangerous, because, well, that aspect of Xykon is irredeemable. There have been enough jokes at Xykon's expense through the comic that I will never take him seriously as a villain, and I will always think him being competent is out of character. He is a great villain when his plans are going awry, but when he is being successful he is just wierd and cliche at the same time.</blockquote>