Rainy Days Are No Deterrent For Applause

I'm all wet! And cold! {Yeah, the puddle you've left on the floor is hard to miss. Here's a towel, and then toss this sweater on.} A sweater? I'll look silly! {Yes you will. That's the price you pay for not bringing an umbrella.} It wasn't raining at my house! {You have to learn to think ahead. See what may be coming down the pike, but is not yet in view. *adopts Foghorn Leghorn drawl*You should write that down, it's good stuff, I say, it's good stuff.} Yeah, yeah.

{Don't be so gloomy. At least the sweater doesn't have any silly designs on it.} I guess. {That's the spirit! Go Team Panda!} Well, Peter Parker needs a Hug, and Mr. Negative needs a Bonk. Aunt May is a good employee, he shouldn't use his powers on her. {So he should disembowel her to keep her quiet instead?} No, he should stop being a bad guy! {Well, yes, in a perfect world he'd do that, but the Marvel Universe is pretty far from a perfect world.} *grumbles* Fine, I'm also giving Bruno Karnelli a Bonk for being a dumb mob boss. {Wait, so you're hitting criminals for being unsuccessful and being successful?} Well, they are crooks! {So are you going to hit all those Maggia guys, and Negative's Inner-Demons?} No, they aren't worth it.

I'm giving the minke whales Applause because they convinced Namora to save those guys on the ships. {*snorts derisively*} What? {Yeah, like whales are really that nice.} Huh? {They're malicious killing machines! I've seen those killer whales, they torment their prey like giant cats! Cetaceans are pure evil I tell you!} O-kayyyy. I'm going to give Wolverine a Bonk for not telling the rest of the Avengers that Atlas are good guys. Spider-Man gets some Applause for being right about the Growing Man and Atlas.

I'm giving Power Girl a Hug for putting up with Vartox and some Applause for helping him save his people. I'm also giving Vartox a Hug for wanting to help his people, but he gets a Bonk for being a big dork. {See, I'd think him being a dork would make you want to hug him.} He's not a dork in a loveable way, but in an irritating way. {I thought he was both, depending on how much bravado he was putting forth.} Well, it doesn't matter, he's already getting hugged. {I suppose.} How did you not see the blurb for the next issue at the bottom of the last page? {Huh?} It tells you Dr. Sivana's going to be involved, and you said yesterday you didn't know who the old bald guy was! {It does? *looks at blurb* D'oh!} *laughs* Good job reading the whole page! {Well, I don't normally read those blurbs for the next issue! I guess I ought to start.} Yes you should. {Oh, don't try and play the solemn master with me!}

I'm giving Nova a Hug, because he can't tell Namorita what's going to happen to her. {He ought to.} Reed said not to! {Who cares what Reed Richards says? He built a Negative Zone Prison! He neglected and belittled Sue to the point she developed an evil split personality! He killed Ben Grimm once! He saved Galactus!} Hey, saving Galactus worked out, he stopped Annihilus! {Bull, he destroyed a lot of the Annihilation Wave, but Nova is the one who stopped Annihilus. With an assist from Phyla.} But Galactus helped make that happen! {That's not the point! The point is, Reed's judgment is suspect!} Not about science stuff! {This is a matter of the heart! Science is irrelevant!} But this may be a Reed that hasn't done all those things yet! {See, now you're moving the goalposts. That's cheap.}

Are you going to argue with me about everything today? {You're the one arguing with me!} Am not! {Are too! Give me back my sweater!} No, I need something to keep me warm for the trip home! {That isn't going to help! It'll soak the water up like a sponge, and smell like wet panda for a week!} Are you saying I smell? {If the Smelly Baby Panda shoe fits. . .} Why you!

*sounds of fighting and arguing*