page 1084 – Action-Packed Flashbacks
A comic in which a character limps towards the finish line hours late… finally appearing online nearly a day after the scheduled update time. I really wish I could claim to be doing these things on purpose. Well, at least the TWC Voting Incentive was up at a reasonable time (and, ironically, turned out to be a lot more eye-catching than this page, I think). Also, I probably shouldn’t have decided to have the “flashback-vision” effect involve un-colored line art after the whole thing with Tuesday’s page. I REALLY need to realize these things sometime before I start writing the commentary to the finished pages…
(Historical Notes: Oh yeah, THAT’S the reason I’m having so much trouble remembering the comments for a lot of these comics. Past Me was so late on a lot of them that people didn’t have TIME to comment on them. Also, don’t count on seeing Hiro with wet hair very often, because WOW does it look a lot like Trigger hair when it’s not spiky.)
So, he totally did win – if all those other quitters dropped out, only finisher=first place.
Also, does Hiro realize that while the flood happened naturally, it was Avi who released the swarm of Lucha Hamsters because he thought the flood event just “wasn’t dramatic enough.”
It’s not clear whether he actually finished, but depending on circumstances, coming closest to finishing could still count as a win – I think the exception would be if the race was officially called off.
They probably did officially call it off, but that just makes the officials ‘quitters’ also!
The more important thing, though, is it gave him a good story to tell to the cute girl on the next page, so therefore 100% win 😉