Hung Out on the Clothesline
6 year old Charity needs a hug. Adult Charity could probably use one too.
-The Gneech
(From my notes: “Things Art School Doesn’t Teach You, No. 54,972: How to work a flashback showing the childhood traumas of a half-tiger half-cheetah woman wearing the roller derby uniform of her wolf employee into a wrestling match with a lesbian leopard seal.
What the hell am I writing??? XD”)
Are you crazy?
is that your problem?
(said both to charity and the artist. XP )
ooof… thaaaaat’s gonna hurt. Physically and psychologically.
Something tells me Charity’s going to get pummeled… and she won’t even try to stop it because she’ll feel like she deserved it.
Back in the days of the territories, a vet like Tsunami wouldn’t have even paused that much before the shoot beatdown began. And she would’ve deserved it: For the injury and the unprofessionalism. You agree to step into that ring, you agree to follow the rules. You step out line like that, you face the consequences.
I’m blaming Langley for this. First, she provokes Rufo and winds up hurt. Now, she’s provoked Charity and this is the result.
It’s also on Madam Henhouse’s head. She should have known better than to put amateurs in the ring. Especially an amateur with claws.
Neither Langley nor Henhouse would’ve known Charity had those kind of emotional landmines in her head. Charity should’ve known better than to get into that ring that angry, where she’d be likely to hurt someone and/or herself.
So much for being a professional. Methink both of them are going to get talkings to when this match is called.
OHHhhh, sucker punched/closelined…..it is ON now.
And I hope that rather than “take it because i deserve it”, Charity SHREDS Tsunami for that. Use your claws girl, that’s what you’ve got ’em for.
Never piss of a Sea Lion. That Last panel made me think of the K.O. scene from Street Fighter.
Also, is this the first time Comfort and Dover have appeared in Rough Housing?
Older (contemporary to the current story) versions of them appeared in an Ask the Cast segment. This is the first time they’ve appeared in the story itself.
-TG
Owie.
Bisexual leopard seal, but point made
Agreed. 🙂 “Lesbian leopard seal” has a better cadence. 😉
What I think is that Roxy is gonna jump in.
Either Roxy or Langley. Bad shoulder be damned, NOBODY sucker punches my boss. And while Roxy didn’t really want any part of the matches to begin with, Langley is just scrappy and hard headed enough to ignore the potential further damage she could do to her shoulder and go after Tsunami full bore.
Yes, Charity DID ‘break the rules’ pretty much out of instinct, but she was just standing there reconciling what just happened with her childhood, posing no threat whatsoever when she got laid out by a potentially crippling blow from a FAR MORE MUSCULAR Tsunami.
Tsunami is out of control and IMHO needs her ass kicked up between her shoulder blades for that sucker punch.
I’m hoping Tsunami gets her
I thought about maybe Langley doing something herself. Also maybe thought about Lady Hatcher getting between things. Also… who is it suppose to go up against Hatcher anyway? Oo..lol…But yes, Charity did break the rules but she was also regretful of it. Tsunami is suppose to be professional… but yeah pain can bring rage which is why I think maybe Hatcher will stop things… before it gets out of hand. Or who knows maybe this will all end up like the old school ways of the Rough House LOL! everyone ends in a brawl!
Tsunami should have been a wee bit more professional about what happened to her. After all, Charity isn’t a wrestler, pro or amateur. But, at the same time, pain can blind people and cause irrational rage. I can hardly wait for next week’s page to see what happens. (I’m not even going to guess because there’s so many possibilities from Roxy to Langley to even Lady Hatcher reacting to what Tsunami did here.
The fact that she used a wrestling move and didn’t simply put the boots to Charity shows loads of professionalism.
There was no ‘professionalism’ whatsoever in that move. Charity’s just gotten laid out flat on her back on the mat from a blow she never saw coming, probably semiconscious and FAIP defenseless. NOW I think Tsunami is gonna try to “put the boots” to her unless someone stops her. She’s enraged, totally out of control, and I’m not so sure that she’s not going to try an really injure, if not damn near kill charity.
Going strictly by the eyes, and the abrupt change from surprise to rage, I think Tsunami just might be a borderline psychopath. I only say that because in my line of work IRL, I’ve dealt with people like her, both male and female. They can be VERY dangerous and unpredictable.
And that didn’t look so much like a clothesline as a solid roundhouse punch.
Wonder if the level of Tsunami’s reaction hasn’t taken Lady Hatcher by surprise?
Charity has a brother?
A twin brother named Charlie and two little sisters, who are also twins named Faith and Hope. http://roughhouse.suburbanjungle.com/comic/ask-the-cast-january-2015/
I dunno. Thinking about it, that looks more like a roundhouse than a clothesline… 😀
Dang I forgot to the check the updates and missed this one. Oh well. Tsunami is totally out of line here, and in all rights should be fired.