A touching character development scene after ruthlessly killing three men.  That’s what we deliver to you here at Flying Sparks Central.

Next Week: Meta-Girl’s back in action!

We learn a little bit about Johnny’s past and how his powers came to be here.   When I wrote this – the Giants had won the World Series, which was pretty exciting.  I was at Game 2 where they blew out Texas, which was one of the most fun nights of my life.  So I took the opportunity to work baseball into the comic where I could. 

Oh, and Dodgers suck.   Just so you know.

Big time changes coming for Johnny.  And I’m not just talking about him putting on clothes!

Pew pew. 

Back to Final Fantasy XIII-2 now.

And finally, two weeks later, we have the continuation from the end of issue 3!  So pop quiz, hotshot.  You got a hostage situation, what do you do?

Well, I would have put some lettering on this page, but my computer’s dead.  So I thought, I’ll just post a day late, dollar short.  Then I looked at Jethro’s beautiful art (color by Jethro Morales on this page too) and I thought, you know what – this stands perfectly well on its own.  So, the naked image will stand as cover!

As is tradition at the end of a Flying Sparks issue, I present to you the Bus Tour parody!   Johnny, Chloe, Hannah and Paul all on a bus, what’s the worst that can happen?

This bus tour is brought to you by the wonderful art of George Ford over at Addanac City.  There are not many web comics I follow on a regular basis, and even fewer straight comedy strips, but I make sure to visit Addanac City every chance I get.  I love George’s zany art style and family of characters.  It provides for a lot of fun, and it’s really an honor to feature some of his work here.   Please check out Addanac City over at http://www.addanaccity.com/wordpress/

Lately I’ve been thinking that the internet really hasn’t had anything that’s just made me die laughing in years, repeating the video or meme for everyone I know.  It reminded me of Kelly’s Shoes.  For those of you that don’t remember the meme, as Chloe suggests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA  and thus the punchline of the strip.

See you all in issue 4!

Wow! It’s amazing how time flies.  Flying Sparks has reached the conclusion of it’s third issue, and the first full-length issue with the fantastic art team of Jethro Morales and Sanju Nivangune.  I, your humble writer and letterer, nominate both of them for best art team period!

For those who need a little refresher as to who all’s in this scene might want to refer back to our very first issue.    Yes, the story for issue 3 was planted there, and I’ll link you some of the highlights. The incident with Mr. Frank that’s referred to occurred right here: http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/page-22/ as Johnny committed his first killing.  If you look very closely at panel 1 http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/page-25/  here, you see a man in the window, established earlier in the issue as Mr. Frank’s Butler.  He’s a witness to Johnny’s sins, and as you can see in the new page, he was none too happy about it! I’ve been waiting to pay off that little tidbit for a year.

I’m also happy to say that with the posting of Issue 3 Page 21, we received our MOST HITS EVER in a day, by a wide margin.  Thank you thank you thank you for reading!  Can’t say that enough.  I really hope you like the story and will stick around.

And finally, for those who don’t really check the home page:  A contest to win a free print comic! http://flyingsparkscomic.com/2012/01/03/win-a-free-comic/

Back Row Presents: The Law!  A short story anthology written by Flying Sparks writer Jon Del Arroz and Brady Sullivan.  It features a short with Flying Sparks artist Jethro Morales as well, among other many talented artists!  48 pages of wholesome crime-comic goodness! 

Here’s how you enter to win your free copy:

1. Like Flying Sparks on Facebook!  http://www.facebook.com/#!/FlyingSparksComic

2. Leave a comment on the wall under the contest thread.

3. A winner will be randomly selected on update day, January 18th, a special day where we at Flying Sparks will be celebrating the beginning of our fourth issue!  

Thanks for reading, and good luck!

Heck, for those who are astute and clickin’…I’m giving you this page 4 hours early.  Merry Christmas.

Truth is, I have quite the day tomorrow.  There’s:

1.  Flying to San Diego for a Football Game (Go Bears)

2. Going to said Football Game (Beat the Longhorns)

3. Flying back home.

Whew!  Of course, I could just set the post to post at some random time tomorrow, but where would be the fun in that?

PS – I hope my boss doesn’t contemplate me in the shower.