Way to go Patrick. Corporate wise he can justify it by leveraging good PR for Templar.

WHAT’S IN THE FOLDER, AL?

What to do when a murderer supervillain gives you $25 million as a charitable donation to solve all your financial problems ….

These are good problems to have.

I guess that means that Patrick thinks it’s a pretty okay idea?

Some folks thought that the gift from the previous page was a power-play by Clevin… No, THIS is a power-play. With all of the tools at his disposal, he could have made the donation anonymous, but he chose to indirectly say “I know about your project. This is from me.”

Sure…and you respond with “And despite recieving those funds, we are still criticizing their behavior. That donation was not solicited, and has no bearing or influence on our activites or beliefs. Templar is free to choose to donate elsewhere in the future if they so desire.” As long as money comes with no strings attached, and you are willing to lose that money in the future if it becomes necessary, a charitable organization should never turn down funding.

How Patrick knows about Valkyrie project??? I know he’s a mind reader, but he seems like he knows everything, which is OP even for a mind reader. Maybe he developed a second superpower (like Alison with flight) and now he just know everything that happens with everyone. I’m not sure if she’ll need to accept or refuse those money but I’d agree definitely with her no matter what she’ll choice.

I think this comment and the comment by Zellgato below indicates a dramatis personae link is starting to become a “good thing to have”. Come on, Griffin, do us a solid. 😀

I’ve been thinking for a while that Patrick is way too much trouble to be left out of a high security prison. Two years is enough for him to cause a lot of trouble, especially if he progresses on the time travel stuff. This is a man who’s manipulative, telepathic, rich, politically connected, and by his own admission, completely ruthless and bent on conquering the world.

Hell, if you think about it, there’s zero evidence he hasn’t been bullshitting the entire time about the conspiracy. It’s the perfect excuse: It gets Allison out of his way by causing her existential crisis, it can only by researched by Patrick himself, and it’s so big in scope it make the risky decision to trust him seems worth it. There are the files about the dead children, but he could have made them up too. Pretty much the main reason to think he’s saying the truth is the meta reason that this conspiracy reflects so clearly the main theme of the story about how violent superheroes don’t change the world.

I should have expected that. Why didn’t I expect that?

Dick power move or gesture of apology?

Not signed?

Hard to cash.

Having been both ignored and harassed: harassment is worse.
As for Allison’s experience: it may be exaggerated by her fame, but yeah it rings true. Some gifts are just gifts, but many “gifts” are a way of trying to buy time, a sense of obligation, compliance. You learn to say no to certain offers.

Funny how everyone’s assuming it’s a power play. It’s not like a millionaire supervillain would decide to donate to a friend’s charity because he wanted to make a positive difference in the world—no, he must have an ulterior motive!

Remember, powers in SFP were all from one event, not Worm “triggers”.

If she even thinks about it, Paladin is fully within her rights to chuck Allison out a window.

Considering how Patrick appears to have made it his mission to lock down and exploit everything Paladin’s ever invented, that is very well *her* money that he is throwing around like pocket change.

In their defense, Supervillain is a key word there, and I doubt the creators were making the comic in direct response to the comments. These things take time, it’s very likely that they the whole issue’s script already finished.

In Patrick’s defense, he’s wonderful and fantastic and I very much doubt that this wasn’t at least partially just an apology for his little blowup. He genuinely cares about Al and he cares a lot about the black folder conspiracy, and he doesn’t seem to have the emotional stability necessary to deal with some things. This was a thoughtful gift he knew she needed, with no (as far as we know) strings attached, and which regards the only thing she seemed to think he was still good for at their last interaction. So I’ll just be happy he’s back.

Ugh. Why do people keep saying that? Max has not been shown to be amoral, and he’s certainly not worse than Patrick.

Patrick boasted about recently killing a bunch of people, including an old lady, to make a point to Allison (Issue 5, Page 117). His main reason for killing these people was, I quote, “it amused him”. Maybe he has some sense of morality, but it’s very, very loose, and not anywhere close to acceptable.

In comparison, what has Max been shown to do? He argued very poorly for positions that are opposed to what our protagonist believes in?

Followed by “It’s too late to apologize” by one republic.

Templar is owned by Patrick (the telepath, aka “Menace“), whom Alison is currently pissed at. Naturally, Patrick keeps tabs on Alison & co., so this donation is probably an olive branch (so to speak). Whether she takes it or not…I don’t know. It could go either way. Stay tuned. 😎

idk if it’d be appropriative or not but I really doubt wearing a burqa would decrease the amount of harassment suffered, overall.

Which is great for her, but I’m thinking it’s easier to correct for donation bias than it is to find another ten million dollars which could actually help all of the people she claims to actually care about in her program.

I’m pretty sure when you’re a mass-murdering terrorist with a huge bodycount, you’re rather immoral. The idea that Max, who’s main fault is he’s a douche, is less moral than Patrick, who is an unrepentent murderer who has tried to take over the country, is sort of shocking to hear someone espouse.