Starbolts #779: A Dangerous Encounter

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    Yeah, I'm beginning to think bringing Nara along for this trip was a bad idea. This scenario is akin to putting a fox in charge of a hen house. Nara's species can sense magic users. That means she can sense whatever Tanis, Crystal, Jack, Carter, Firaxil and Medea are up to. She knows Medea plans on asking where the Faeori are. I don't think she'll cooperate. You might be thinking it can't be that bad if she can detect a magic user. She can also manipulate them into doing bad things if they're under the influence of magi juice or have been under its influence before. Sufficed it to say Tanis and Heidi bad better watch out.

    Then again we can only hope that Shenra isn't going to their quarters. I hope not. It's getting to be a happen where his romantic encounters with Heidi are interrupted. Hopefully, she's on her way to see M'anta and ask him to drop this lady off at the closest inhabitable planet or moon. There she can find for herself. Though, I suspect Shenra would be okay with dropping her off into the heart of a collapsing star. She clearly has issues with that woman and it was probably a bad idea for her to visit her. Live and learn, I guess. At least she and Medea are close to being friends now that she saved her.

 See ya next time! 

Starbolts #778: Dance Revolution

 

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    It's amazing how once again Michael Jackson's music brought down a drug operation. For those who don't know check out the plot of "Moonwalker."  Is it a good movie? Your mileage might vary. My brother and I played the game it was based on many times growing up. Fun game. I think it's one of those cases where the game was better than the actual movie.

    Anyway! Our heroes leave Funkeezi with a musical database that contains Michael Jackson's greatest hits and who knows what other songs are on there. Sufficed it to say that the Funkeezi were impressed by Terran musical forms. It will take them some time for them to analyze everything from Abba to ZZ Top. In exchange, the Starbolts get Toejani's aid in their quest to find the Faeori.

    The question that should be on everyone's mind is what kind of state will the Funkeezi be in. They're addicted to magic. I wonder if Medea might be able to cure them like she cured Shenra. More on her next week. I figure she'll be coming down hard after drinking that magi juice. She'll be confronting the dealer for sure. 

    It was pretty cool to have Crystal and Carter enhance Jack's abilities like that. I have this idea that if Jack is in close proximity of his sisters he'll be able to perform magic. We've seen it once before when they went to visit the spirits of their grandfather. This time he was able to conduct a full concert complete with music and dancing. That wowed the audience and served to help end drug operation.

    Now our heroes are back on the road. What else will this quadrant throw at them? Time will tell. We already had to deal with a music crazed civilization and a bunch of bounty hunters. Let's see what's out there. Engage!

See ya next time! 

Starbolts #777: Funkeezi Dance Party

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    Ain't no party like a Funkeezi dance party because a Funkeezi dance party doesn't stop! It looks like the Funkeezi have turned dancing into an intergalactic sport. This one event was broadcasted all over the quadrant to billions and billions of people. It was also saved for posterity by our heroes. There's no way Jack is ever going to live this down especially since he dressed like Michael Jackson and performed his "Beat It".  Ahh, I wonder if this incident violated the Prime Directive. Probably not. They're all about music on Funkeezi and I think the quadrant could do with a little something from the King of Pop.

    Meanwhile, it looks like Nara is the magi juice dealer our heroes were looking for. Jack was right to be suspicious of her and so he called in his sisters to do a little bit of magical interference and assistance. There was no way he was going to impress the crowd by himself and he doesn't entirely trust Tanis. The question is did he earn their trust? What happens next? Will Nara help the Starbolts find the Faeori? We shall see. Right now she's out cold thanks to Heidi. Might be a good idea for Tanis to stay on her good side!

See ya next time! 

Starbolts #776: Barroom Blitz

 

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    This mission to the seedy underbelly of Funkeezi culture has definitely taken a strange turn. In order to find out what exactly happened to Shenra, Jack and Tanis are going to have to dance and then meet with the dealer who supplied her with magi juice. After that? Who knows. All I know is that this unconventional pairing of Jack and Tanis has been seeing some hilarious moments. However, I suspect Heidi won't be too pleased that some alien lady was hitting on Tanis. Chances are she was listening to the whole thing. It's a good thing Jack saved his life or else he'd have been in big trouble.

    Speaking of that lady, there's more to her than meets the eye. I think we'll be seeing that lady again--especially next week. 

    I'm still trying to figure out why the bar has an underground dance arena. What's the purpose of it? Maybe Funkeezi takes underground dance clubs a little too literally? Who knows? One thing is for sure Jack can definitely call this adventure one of his strangest. His sisters are never going to let him live it down. The whole thing will be recorded and put on his file back at Agents Academy. The Whitefox sisters are definitely chaos goblins!

See ya next week as we dance the night away! They take their dancing seriously. Let's hope Jack can bust a move! 

Starbolts #775: Breaking Funkeezi

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    There's nothing quite like a trip into a city's seedy underbelly, huh? Looks like our heroes will be dealing with some nefarious types in this wretched hive of scum and villainy. Somehow I don't think there will be a cantina band playing as they entered. I did miss an opportunity to have the bouncer say "We don't serve their kind here!" Perhaps the bartender will say it instead next week. 

    It seems obvious that the Funkeezi in this part of the city don't like people with two legs. I guess they have a lot to learn. Then again they might have a good reason to not trust "bi-legs". After all they had to deal with the Valeen and everything. We'll just have to wait and see. 

    Poor Tanis may be in over his head but at least he'll have Jack watching over him and Jack has Crystal and Carter on standby in case things go south and they will. I don't think this place is going to be open much longer. But that's to be determined.

    Our heroes have been invited into the club and the manager knows one of them is a Faeori. This should get interesting very quickly. 

See ya next time! 

Starbolts #774: The Underfunk

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    It's so tragic to see a hidden race fall on such hard times. The Faeori successfully escaped Demonstorm's clutches and somehow found themselves unable to perform the simplest magic trick. Along come the Valeen and suddenly they're addicted to magic. It's going to take a lot of work to get the Faeori clean. If our heroes can, of course. First thing's first. Our heroes will have to find them and that may be a little tricky given how secretive they are. However, if they root out the dealers, the dealers could lead them right to them. Here's hoping M'anta's plan works!

    Poor Shenra. She fell victim to the drug. With a little luck perhaps Aquita will devise an antidote. The problem is we need to figure out what prevented the Faeori from using magic in the first place. I have a few ideas in mind. We'll see how they play out in the next few comics.

    I do like how Medea was talking up the Starbolts. I mean they DID defeat her ex husband many times in the past. It's only fair that she'd brag about it. It looks like it worked and now the Starbolts are on their way to finding the Faeori!

See ya next time! 

Starbolts #773: The Hyperfunk Zone

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    The good news is that our heroes are closer to finding out more about the mysterious Faeori. The bad news is that they might be addicted to magic. How is that possible? Well, I'm sure Medea will be asking that question next week when Tanis takes Shenra to his mother. Oh, Shenra. I'm not sure how she got the "magi juice" and now she might be hooked on magic. It's sad to see. However, she was the one who wanted to go "explore the culture". Something tells me she found more than she bargained for. She may have needed a chaperone. Or at least stayed in the compound.

    I had trouble coming up with funky backgrounds this week and thankfully Google had some free images I could use. Many thanks go out to the people who originally made them. I'm not sure what I would have made. But, they wouldn't be as funky as these images. For some reason I'm picturing them all animated. It'd definitely be a trip.

    I had to rewrite a couple bits here and there regarding the magi juice. I originally had Derek offer Medea some. But that didn't fly well with me after a second and third reading. It's better to let him be a leader who warned Medea about the criminal element in his society. Too bad Shenra found out a little too late. More on her next week. Poor Shenra. She has no idea what she's in for.

See ya next time!