IT HURTS!! 417: Ally's Band

oh no, a musical performance!

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elvis is disappoint

>that drumset

>repeat of 100

hehehe

We saw this note before somewhere, right?

I'm not quite certain this is actually gonna kill everyone but holy fuck how did I not see it coming?

can't tell if people actually dying or this is just for jokes

Yeah I think there was a strip about the kid writing it on the drums.

the chapter title is "everyone dies"

I can't tell if this is serious or not. Everyone could just laugh it off as they wipe the blood off their faces, or they could be dead. I honestly can't tell.

Thus far, the tone seems a lot funnier and sillier than 100. Once shit started going down in 100, there were practically no jokes. People dying were for the most part treated as something horrifying and disturbing.

Oh man. I really should've saw that coming. I don't know what made me think they'd actually be good.

>inb4 it's a fakeout and nobody actually dies and the title is actually referring to accepting the fact that those close to you will one day die, much like the bestselling book Everybody Poops

I hope so or else I will be very upset if Eliza and Magma Spider die.

people have already died, though

it could be emphasizing how inhuman pasqualo is

It's the name of the band.

I mean the performance itself. Duh.

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LET THE CRAZY BUS WAKE ME UP

It keeps happening!

More like suddenly relieved he didn't get asked to join.

I missed this expression of his so much.

Where were you when Ally finished off the remaining human population?

I dunno, if I were the undead king of Rock and Roll, I'd be pretty pissed to see an act so terrible it killed everyone in the room.

No, not magma spider!

I instantly have page 100 PTSD.
I'm glad they lived.

Well, most everyone's deaf now, but that might not mean they'll all die at this time

This was pretty solid callback/ fake out.

Me too user, me too.

Also apparently Gob plays D&D now? This tickles the /tg/ in me.

I expected more panicking from your guys

We're veterans at this point - if no one has died in this strip, then that means we're all good.

We're monitoring the situation. No one is confirmed dead yet, plus this .

I think that's what's been going on. Pasqualo had simply ceased giving fucks at this point because giving fucks makes him sad, so now he's just an asshole. I mean, he hasn't even asked Ally to try to turn Marlon into a zombie presumably because then Katie would find out.

Iunno. I don't know what to expect yet. We haven't had a good page in a while, it's been meandering without really being funny. Something will eventually happen, but it's hard to know if and how it'll move the story forward. It seems likely that we won't go to hell (too predictable) but instead a bunch of unimportant characters with zero development are going to get killed off while (most of) the main cast continues on.

Personally I'm just liking Pasqualo less and less. His speech with Lodge really rubbed me the wrong way, she turned into a strawman and it seems like we were supposed to side with Pasqualo despite him acting like a complete sociopath recently. I don't know if Gob intended that or not, it wouldn't be outlandish for this unease to be deliberate for something coming up but it could just be shit writing too. I guess I want some explanation on why Pasqualo can get away with walking past a pile of corpses of the people he swore to protect to go tell Ally about his dumb dream and that's just so distracting that I can't really care about whether we'll be doing the exact same shit in Hell or not.

Pasqualo was never exactly a good person in the past, I have a difficult imagining Gob would be writing him as and unlikable person on accident

I think Pasq knows that Ally can't zombify people who have been dead - she tried on her sister, remember?

Ffffuuuuuuuuuuck

Not nose wife


Why did I think this was going to be okay why

I should have saw it coming

Agreed, I haven't liked post-timeskip Pasqualo at all. He's evil, but not in the innocent way that he used to be. Lodge was 100% in the right with her speech.

Pre-timeskip Pasq did some morally questionable shit, sure. Namely terrorizing Maddie's family and the High School incident. But in these cases he was just having fun, and nobody got (physically) hurt except for people even worse than him.

Post-timeskip Pasq seems to have no quarrel with killing. I don't know if killing his mom fucked him up or what, but nowadays he's just this lanky shit who doesn't care about anything unless it directly affects him. He only gave a shit that he killed Marlon because it meant that Katie might be mad at him. After he got back to school after Elvis, he literally shouted about how everyone in the room was his friend, and he would dedicate his strong cock to protecting his friends because they gave him a chance when he didn't deserve one.
That Pasq is my favorite Pasq. He knows he's not perfect but that's okay. He's gonna try his hardest to do his thing. And if it means scaring the piss out of some survivors, so be it.
Now he goes out on antics with no regard for anyone but himself, Ally, and Katie. Everyone else is a spectator to his emperorship. Instead of the pre-timeskip "DUDE WE'VE GOT A CHICKEN STORE NOW," it's become "DUDE WE'VE FORCIBLY CONQUERED EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TO A DEGREE THAT GUERRILLA FORCES ATTACK US DAILY." I don't know how I'm supposed to like this new Pasqualo. Besides brief moments where the old him shines through, he's a completely different character from the one that fucking carried the first few hundred strips on his glorious back.

I hope something snaps him back to his old self, because at this rate he'll remain like the 11th best character in this comic.

He wasn't a saint by any measure and was certainly self centered, but he didn't have this weird "I'm evil but not really" thing going on where he allows people to die so he can do dumb bullshit. He freaked out and broke down when people died, he was unable to forgive Aurora over killing all those people, and he's had these moments where he's learned to put others first. And he's always been sympathetic. But now he's a giant prick that seems to believe he's so much better now, even getting strangely sanctimonious about it as other characters fail to acknowledge it.

She zombified the baby after he got killed with the grenade.

>no quarrel with killing
By "killing" I assume you mean defending himself and his people from others who are LITERALLY TRYING TO KILL THEM. The jackasses from the start of the chapter who got shot were trying to raid his school with weapons and were fully prepared to murder, themselves. It's kill or be killed, Pasqualo is not "evil" for protecting what's his.

he needs a little time in hell to give him some perspective.
yeah, she's looking a little rough now that you mention it.

I just keep hoping Gob's going somewhere with this. Pasqualo was just too well developed before for him to devolve into Ethan from CAD for no reason.

who the hell is ethan?

Have they been raiding for supplies? They seem to be pretty clear about having a grudge against Pasqualo specifically. He's got a lot of schools piled up but not a corresponding increase in residents. Given that there's armed foot soldiers and armies, it seems awfully unlikely that people were never killed in these takeovers. And considering Pasqualo is effectively immune to mundane weaponry, there's really no reason anyone other than him should be fighting. He could single handedly subdue these people without hurting anyone if he actually gave a fuck. Aurora herself is capable of magically getting people to take a chill pill and she's done stuff like teleport all turtlenecks and turtles to another galaxy, why isn't she part of the defenses? Why are they suddenly reliant on lethal force now when they weren't back then?

The baby might have just been slowly dying. She could have brought them all back otherwise.

Yeah, I'd assume the baby was dying - you gotta be alive in order to be turned into a zombie

loss

You think It Hurts is gonna have a loss comic?

Officially, who knows. Gob did give Trisssh a Sonichu Medallion, so it's not inconceivable.

Unofficially, there's this.

Oh fuck I completely forget this was a thing. Man thats a classic.