Just be glad we still haven't developed a way to send smells over the internet. Yuck.
Some of you guessed where this was going when Bella mentioned the ball game in the last strip. Personally, I remember learning about the whole idea of the sacred ball game years ago, and being fascinated by the concept.
Like many elements of myth, the sacred ball game has many different variations in different cultures and time periods... the tradition may be more than 3000 years old, so that's a lot of time for people to come up with their own versions. As usual, the Thunderstruck version of the game, the city, the gods, etc. isn't meant to be definitive in any way, but rather is inspired by a mythological idea.
But I didn't make up the river of pus. I swear.
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I feel mildly puffed up about having (partially) called the ballgame in the last strip.
I've got nothing about the identity of Parrot-Head, but the attacker seems to be Camazotz (coincidentally, the place I recognize the name from is as the planet trapped into a rhythm by a tyrannical telepathic brain in A Wrinkle in Time.
Might they set the pus-river on fire? Dangerous, but a good distraction (if it's flammable at all).
I'm... not sure how flammable pus is.
I made the mistake of doing an internet search for pus to research this strip. I'm still having trouble keeping my meals down.
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