113: The Eyes of Kid Midas Neal Shusterman

Tags: The Year of Pain
Ultimate power has its costs

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Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Suck it Kevin.

Its lonely being God.

FancyShark

And now we're back to drug allegory

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

going cold turkey alone always works, so this should be fine

Brendan!™

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and Kevin is a teenager. Therefore: omnimasturbation.

Velo Martingale

"Valuable lessons learned" checked

gellaho

Kevin decides to go to sleep wearing the glasses

gellaho

What could go wrong

Brendan!™

The real hell was the Kevin we became along the way.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

we have confirmed that kevin is eleven

so please have a seat right over here

gellaho

Ah, visions of the kid he sent to Hell

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Kevin will trap himself in a realm of infinite jerking off.

Brendan!™

Oh, I'm sorry, did you wait till you were 18 to download your first StepsisterDidWhat.jpg?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

what did she do? I have no idea what this could mean

gellaho

Just some fun for the kids

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

"TURNS OUT HELL IS A STATE OF MIND"

FancyShark

Hey! He CAN hear the hear the thunder!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

there is more of gravy than of grave about you, Bertram!

Velo Martingale

Bertram, Currently:

gellaho

A goofy Hell for Bertram

FancyShark

"AND FIRE. SO MUCH FIRE."

GDC's Quivering Thews

Chekov's fish phobia

Brendan!™

Bertram has learned nothing in hell's bondage.

FancyShark

Not even sharks or barracuda or candiru. Bertram, you have shitty phobias.

gellaho

Eternal torture for the child

Velo Martingale

Oh hey he did make hell!

gellaho

Listen, his goldfish died when he was seven

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

Kevin has created his satan

gellaho

There's no coming back from that

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

ok confirmed Kevin invented hell

cool I guess

Velo Martingale

I love when a fan theory works out

FancyShark

Bertram still flinches whenever a toilet flushes

Velo Martingale

We've all been shipping Kevin x Hell, right?

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

The devil is a big ass catfish.

gellaho

This would have made a great children's film

Velo Martingale

Hellvin, as I like to call it

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

it makes sense, I think this story wants to exist in a state where it doesn't overtly interact with any Christian stuff while still having its obvious moral message

Velo Martingale

"You will be visited this night by three ghosts!" Bertram shouted

gellaho

Time to creepily stare at your sleeping sister

Velo Martingale

Is this what happened in Photon?

FancyShark

🚩

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

"No, I am covered in the blood of demons and angels, sister."

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"I have such sights to show you"

FancyShark

No. In PHOTON, an immortal cyborg wizard was turned into a human and fell in love with an underage girl

Velo Martingale

"Do you want to live deliciously?"

FancyShark

This is more Evangelion

gellaho

Yeah, I doubt that

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

"Remember that time you pantsed me in third grade in front of the whole choir at church?"

gellaho

Considering how much she was laughing at his getting assaulted with a pinecone

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh it's the sword of truth thing

Brendan!™

Smash cut to Atreyu drowning in mud forever.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

the confessor's power didn't change anything because he would already die for her

bla bla bla

Velo Martingale

To be fair that was pretty funny thought

Brendan!™

Just endless panicked horse

gellaho

Literally the last thing to happen in the series

Velo Martingale

What a note to end a series on

FancyShark

That's why it's in the tiny cage on Gellaho's Book Cage poster

GDC's Quivering Thews

It's in Book Solitary

gellaho

Strange

Velo Martingale

...

What

gellaho

I think I did that before

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

and her confidence made him sick with revulsion

FancyShark

Maybe it was one of the earlier books

gellaho

What with the Nazis and the cosmic horror of In Search of M.O.M.

FancyShark

ohhh, right

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I've missed so much lore

FancyShark

my bad

Brendan!™

Time to download the screenshot of this, @Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Oh Teri must also be insane.

Velo Martingale

I feel like Bertram right now

FancyShark

It's that Folgers ad, right?

Velo Martingale

Enjoying the beautiful paradise of Australia

gellaho

This is very strange

Velo Martingale

...

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

patrick thinks he caught them fucking and does not want to think about it

Velo Martingale

Patrick.

FancyShark

This is getting-

Yeah, basically what Tom said

Velo Martingale

Patrick you get back here right now.

You don't get to nope out of this, Patrick.

GDC's Quivering Thews

Patrick saw his son's soul and went mad

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hahahahahahh You dont love your children, Patrick!

Velo Martingale

This child is your fault.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

patrick decided that exact second that he's out of this family

Velo Martingale

Patrick left to get milk

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"my son and daughter are giving each other midnight foot rubs. I think I'm gonna become a golf guy"

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Look, if I saw that I would also assume it was none of my business and go about my day or they were fucking, and I'd leap out a window, hit the ground running, and never come back.

Velo Martingale

"And when I found them, my son made unwavering eye contact with me. Maybe frisbee golf."

gellaho

Josh goes to Kirkpatrick, who tells him he made up the prophecy

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"International frisbee golf"

Brendan!™

Pro tip: hold your dad's gaze when he catches you in your sister's bed. This establishes dominance. "She's my property, now, old man," you glare defiantly, "Not yours. You have become too weak to protect your brood."

gellaho

Reminder of how this was written

Velo Martingale

"I hear there's great courses in a land far, far away from here. Where rivers flow, and men chowder."

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I think it's chunder

which is dumb aussie slang for throwing up

FancyShark

TIL

Brendan!™

I wonder if Neal ever figured out which of his friends was the incest feetishist

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Neal if you got "God magic and sibling footplay" from a campfire tale, you were obviously a Boy Scout.

gellaho

Dundundun

Velo Martingale

If you go camping

FancyShark

Not the best parlor game

Velo Martingale

and someone goes camping with you

And before bed you're all sat around the campfire for warmth, and they start telling you this story? Push them into the fire.

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Josh you need to end it. Kevin is too dangerous.

gellaho

Things are going great for Hal

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Hal needs to turn into the bully from It and start carving out Kevin's stomach

at this point there's no other way

FancyShark

This is doing a much better job as a story than most of the Year of Pain. It's definitely creepy

Velo Martingale

I'm not saying I'm pro-childmurder, I'm just saying sometimes there is a child that needs to be murdered before he sends everyone to Australia

gellaho

See, Hal, Bertram and Josh remember everything because they were also at the top of the mountain

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

2 + 2 = 3; was 4 redefined as 3, or is 4 still a thing and the universe is broken now?

FancyShark

Sure, why not

Velo Martingale

Sure is buddy

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

err: system crash

gellaho

"I'm just like that nameless diabetic"

FancyShark

The diabetic also sent someone to hell when he used his insulin wrong

Velo Martingale

Kevin if you eat the glasses no one will be able to take them from you

gellaho

Hal to the rescue

gellaho
Flippant Sausage, rebunned

And poor Bertram continues to languish in the Hell of Fish.

gellaho

Those are backwards, oops

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

"That diabetic got my glasses"

Velo Martingale

Hell yes Hal

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

OUR HERO!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"but something happened then, the glasses did not intend. They were picked up by the unlikeliest creature imaginable"

FancyShark

But the power is already in Kevin and no longer in the glasses

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"a bully"

Velo Martingale

Hal redemption ark

gellaho

Time to snack

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hopefully Hal can do something about that fucking hurricane the narrative forgot.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"Hal Hornbeck, of homeroom"

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

"You have my trapper-keeper"

gellaho

MUST CONSUME

gellaho

He's developed the metabolism of a Hardy Boy

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"it's taking hold of you, mr kevin. You gotta fight it!"

"I know what I have to do, Josh. They're my glasses! Mine! My own!"

I could literally do this all day

gellaho

Off to the dentist!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh right the dentist psychic investigator who was cleverly seeded earlier

FancyShark

And I already hate the show

Velo Martingale

Once again the hero of the story is Public Access Cable

gellaho

Sure, that old yarn

Velo Martingale

support your local affiliates or face the wrath of Kevins alone

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

NO PIE CAN FILL THE VOID THE POWER HAS LEFT!

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

MOAR PIZZA

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

since when do kids choose their dentist?

Velo Martingale

Fuck. Neal's right. I do want a paranormal dentist

gellaho

Meanwhile, Teri helps them sneak in

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

KEVIN NOW HUNGERS FOR DESTRUCTION AND ALSO CHINESE DEMOCRACY! GET OFF YOUR ASS AXL!

gellaho

I don't think Neal understands how television works

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Oh so when HAL does it its abuse, huh Kevin? Where did Bertram go, Kevin?

Brendan!™

These glasses are the One Ring.

Velo Martingale

Neal must have seen a tv show at some point, surely

gellaho

Force Nelson

FancyShark

Neal, they don't have the xray machines just sitting out in the waiting room

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh for a second I forgot hal was using the glasses

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Yes how dare he, Kevin?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I thought he just shouted the name of the attack he was doing like an anime character

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hey Kevin, remember that time you sent his best friend to the Hell of Upsetting Fish?

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

and that hge was full of food

gellaho

Josh's dead

FancyShark

NOOOO! HE WAS SO CONSISTENT!

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hahahha Hal isnt half as stupid as Kevin thought.

Velo Martingale

I had a box in the first draft for Josh dying

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh I thought Kevin had gone through the long dark night of the soul and was humbled by his past actions

but he's still a turd

gellaho

Hoisted by his own frog

Velo Martingale

I thought it was too far

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh no wait that was hal

Velo Martingale

EAT FROG, IDIOT

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Bullfrog? More like bullshit, theres no way a bullsfrog would fit in a childs throat and come out.

Those motherfuckers are huge.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

have you tried with magic glasses though

gellaho

Teri threatens Hal with dental equipment

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Even a "good sized" one, if it got in there it would stay there.

GDC's Quivering Thews

wait, he films his show in his office?

FancyShark

Yeah, see, that's the reason they don't have those things just lying around, Neal

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Send Teri to Fish Hell to keep Bertram company!

Also it seems like Bertrams fish hell would be heaven for a shark or predatory fish..........

gellaho

Kevin runs straight into the dentist's... power plant?

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

Fueled by teeth

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Wait what?!

DO WHAT KEVIN?!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

EXTREMELY FULL NELSON

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

What are you doing NOOOOOOOO KEVIN! STOP! YOU CANT BECOME PURE GLASSES!

gellaho

"Charge the glasses" is an interesting euphemism

FancyShark

OSHA would shut this office down

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

why, Neal

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

"Awful, private thing"

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

why do that

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Um..........

Velo Martingale

OSHA wouldn't get the chance before it exploded

oh

GDC's Quivering Thews

This is going to end like Akira, isn't it?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

it's lightning zapping into a thing on his face

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hes dicking that fuse box.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

how is that like wanking

gellaho

Oh, just now something's going wrong?

Brendan!™

um

Velo Martingale

It's a metaphor Tom

Brendan!™

how

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Great job, Kevin, you broke them.

You fucking tool.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh now I feel foolish

Velo Martingale

Kevin broke the powers of god because he just sucks that much

FancyShark

I'm liking this idea.

"I'M GOING TO CHARGE THE GLASSES!"

[censored]

"THEY ARE NOW CHARGED!"

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

And with something normal like electricity.

gellaho

Then he sends Hal and the dentist to Siberia

Velo Martingale

Frankie did nothing to deserve this

Anyways they're both dead

gellaho

He is more glasses than boy

gellaho
Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

what

FancyShark

This is less "morality play" and more "origin story"

gellaho

Well, they're fused to his face now

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Well youve only murdered a denist and a second bully so youre almost up to one person.

gellaho

For kids!

gellaho

Body horror! For kids!

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Kevin I am warning you, you need to not think about holes, black holes, or really any kind of stellar phenomena.

FancyShark

Do it, Kevin

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

It would end him

FancyShark

End it all

Velo Martingale

Checking the box for 'Oh so I guess there isn't a moral to this'

FancyShark

Embrace the void

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

And definitely dont think about Black Hole Volume XXX.

Brendan!™

Stephole, rub my feet

My feet are cold in the vacuum of space. Let me into your singularity.

FancyShark

hahaha

You did it, @Brendan!™

I do not have an emoji for that

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

This got a lot more upsetting than I imagined, well done Neal.

gellaho

Time to cut off his eyes

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Man I want a pizza right now.

gellaho

These glasses are fun

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh I was right the food is eternal

Brendan!™

Now the feet thing has escalated to squashing food.

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Hell yeah, Root Beer.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

inflation fetish feels imminent

or vore

something weird

Brendan!™

You ever just know a Jhonen Vasquez gif on sight?

gellaho

I haven't been able to bring myself to tell the bees about Kevin

Brendan!™

or the removal thereof?

These glasses are incredibly dangerous.

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Giant beeees! KEVIN! GIANT RADIOACTIVE BEEES!

Brendan!™

Hey kevin, don't think about anythign bad like genocide.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Oh, I get it now! It's just like King Midas

that was subtle

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Kevin! CONTEMPLATE WORLD PEACE YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT!

gellaho

How were they planning on making this a movie

Velo Martingale

I feel like this counts as 'the glasses backwards burrowed into kevin's skull'

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGE MY GLASSES TEETHBONES!"\

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

give it 5 minutes

Velo Martingale

I could see Shudder taking this

The only difference between this and Psycho Goreman is the lore

FancyShark

Some of the glasses' acid blood hits the ground and eats through multiple levels of the ship

Brendan!™

and the vore!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I thought of that too earlier. He needed to turn one of his bullies into a gross brain slime tentacle abomination

gellaho

Oh, an iron maiden of the inquisition

gellaho

So Steve Harris didn't fall from the sky

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

what were you gonna do with the hammer idiot

Brendan!™

Kevin, just picture yourself unable to feel pain.

GDC's Quivering Thews

Whatever was necessary

gellaho

Suddenly: Ninja star

Velo Martingale

The fuck's a Chinese star?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

one could say it's the only considtency

FancyShark

If it has points, it's not a disc, is it?

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

Jackie Chan is a Chinese star

Flippant Sausage, rebunned

Its a tiny four pointed Michelle Yeoh balanced for throwing.

FancyShark

This is going to end with Josh telling Kevin about the rabbits

gellaho

Kevin done fucked up the house

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

now I wanna feed that into an ai image generator

PhysicsBoart vs PhysicsBoart

LOvecraft Approves