P340: Toastmaster's Revenge

"Well, this place looks safe."
"Yeah, where's an entire forest of wood to knock on?"

P339: Smoke and Fire

P338: -PLODE!!!

You know, the title of the previous page ended with "EX." That's why the title of this one is "PLODE." ...I felt the need to explain it. I don't like leaving things open to misinterpretation, I guess.

P337: Ready to Ex-

P336: Cadmus

Olivia: Isn't it a little late in the adventure to start introducing new allies?
Penguin: Who care's? This is gonna be AWESOME!

Holiday 2019

I took a break from the story to do this year's Holiday card. I've not posted it yet on Redbubble; I'm not sure I'm satisfied with it. I might add some improvements later.

P335: BADGER!?

P334: Coat?

Cos-Play Hero p332, 333: Stupid Robot

Cos-Play Hero p331: OW! The Edge!

Cos-Play Hero p330: Rocket Truck

Look at Top Hat. He's clearly done with all this.

Cos-Play Hero p329: Toast Master

Cos-Play Hero p328: NO MORE ROBOTS!

Cos-Play Hero, P327: We should have listened to Mario

Cos-Play Hero p326: Roadblock

Cos-Play Hero p325: Drained

...and they never did... probably.

Cos-Play Hero p224: Block the Door

Cos-Play Hero p323: Five to Fifteen Minutes

Cos-Play Hero p222: Some people have rigged the enemy base with explosives. Maskstaschen has.

Umm... This sabotage is a bit less subtle than he had earlier implied.
Don't try this at home, kids! The Professor is a trained professional.

Cos-Play Hero p320,321: New Target

How is this looking? I'm not sure what I'm doing with these colors.

Cos-Play Hero p319: Remorse?

Cos-Play Hero p317, 318: Shadow Boxing

Umm... This is weirder than I thought it would be. What am I trying to say with this? I'm not sure I... huh. I should probably go lie down now.

Cos-Play Hero p315, 316: Spectral Cyborg

Oooookaaaayyy... I think I may have made this "internal struggle against one's self" trope a liiiiiiiiiittle bit too obvious.

Cos-Play Hero p314: Infighting

Cos-Play Hero p213: Wheres the Reset Button!?

Cos-Play Hero p312: Negative Visual

Cos-Play Hero p311: WOOOOOOP!

Cos-Play Hero p310: Doing Our Worst

Cos-Play Hero p309: Charles Still Can't Draw Trucks

Cos-Play Hero p308: Life is Like a Video Game

Cos-Play Hero p307: Son of Maskstaschen

You didn't really expect to get through this book without a tragic villain backstory, did you?

Cos-Play Heor p205, p306: Maskstaschen's Secret

The wall made of talking robots were inspired by a snippet of the 1983 animated film "Unico and the Island of Magic," in which the villain uses a magic flute to turn people into creepy blocky dolls and forces them to stack together like living Lego bricks to form his castle.  (I saw this unsettling scene while channel surfing as a child without any context of what the holy heck was happening, and didn't even figure out what movie I was watching until almost thirty years later. It haunted me.)
The tank full of sinister orange fluid was from an entirely different anime film, but I'll let you figure that one out for yourself.

Cos-Play Hero p304: Creepy Robot Death Catacombs

Cos-Play Hero p303: Friendly Fire

Sorry, this one is kinda lame.

Cos-Play HEro p302: H4X0RED!!!

Cos-Play Hero p302: Olivia and Penguin talk about boring identity issues while Sunglasses has a power trip.

I kind of wanted to space this out over two pages, but I worry about this comic's pacing. I don't want to spend too much time talking about Sunglasses' issues when the other half of the cast is trying to escape a life and death situation.
Also, that's supposed to be Sunglasses staring maniacally into a computer in the first frame. I'm not sure it came out right. I should have drawn him from a different angle. I might have to redraw that frame.

Cos-Play Hero p300: Charles Has Fun with Transparency Affects

Cos-Play Hero p298, p299: Eli?

Cos-Play Hero p297: The fight is over?

!?
Wait, is the fight actually over!? After over four months of drawing this scene!?

Eyes

Brief Intermission:

Also, a cartoon:

Cos-Play Hero p296

Gosh, I'm tired.

Cos-Play Hero p295: A Grave Error

If I had all the time in the world, this tug of war would have gone on for several pages. What do you think of the colors? Could someone please give me some feedback? I have no idea what I'm doing.

Cos-Play Hero p294

He clearly isn't taking this seriously.