Battle Balls

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Battle Balls

1EndofDiskOne
Jan 7, 2025, 12:31 pm

I've got $50 on the spikey-balled metal monster, based on this cover illustration.

2clamairy
Jan 7, 2025, 1:55 pm

>1 EndofDiskOne: That poor sucker bottom center looks like he might have just taken a Battle Ball to the nether regions...

3bam2001
Edited: Jan 7, 2025, 5:44 pm

That's just a lil' one.

Somewhat more story-accurate than the monsters in the edition I used to have, which look like goofy eyeless robots in turkish slippers 1:



1 Possibly someone's high school metal shop project

4GSSex-noob
Jan 7, 2025, 7:34 pm

Wow. The two without armor, especially the damsel, are really at a disadvantage, guns or not. I guess they have plot armor; otherwise I'm with @EndofDiskOne on who's going to win.

@bam2001: Woman in the second one: Levitating Queen of the Blind Bots? The building in the background also looks Turkish. You'd think the Ottomans would have cleared those out.

None of these people have thought of the method Luke Skywalker used to take out that AT-AT.

5paradoxosalpha
Edited: Jan 7, 2025, 9:01 pm

The monster is good at preserving her modesty.



But she is perhaps alarmed at the spiky balls.

6Hammy_JLK
Jan 7, 2025, 9:38 pm

#5

It's a virus-collecting robot, I reckon....

7bam2001
Jan 8, 2025, 1:48 pm

The girl was raised by robots, but wasn't nearly as metal as you'd think.

8GSSex-noob
Jan 8, 2025, 2:31 pm

>6 Hammy_JLK: It's collected her nipples already.

Anyone else get the feeling that version is WAY more than anyone ever needed to know about the artist's fantasies/kinks? Yikes.

9Hammy_JLK
Jan 20, 2025, 10:00 pm

>8 GSSex-noob: Well, I *could* tell you a story that was related to me by a friend in my youth, involving a young male swimmer preparing for the state championship meet and his first attempt at "shaving down", but I shan't.

10GSSex-noob
Jan 21, 2025, 1:45 am

>9 Hammy_JLK: Ouch.

I'd be screaming too if there were so many metal spikes near my naked self, but I'd have my arms down in front of me and be watching them.

11Hammy_JLK
Jan 23, 2025, 10:21 pm

I wonder what the woman on cover #1 is saying to the well-armed guy (rifle and pistol). She seems to be restraining him; maybe he's not bright enough to figure out that projectile weapons aren't going to be much help against metal-spiky-mace-creature....

12GSSex-noob
Jan 24, 2025, 12:44 am

>11 Hammy_JLK: He's saying "No, woman, must use BOOMSTICKS!"

Does she have a tail?